[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 215 Voting/WEEK 216 Nominating

Song of the Week. 200 Weeks and counting.
Week 215 Voting is only one week long this time.
Week 216 Nominating is seriously one week long only, hope you didn't put off voting.

Single Week Voting
Now that Round 1 of the BSC is over, we are back to 1-week votes.

Results:
1). [19] Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
2). [14] Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
3). [13] Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
4-t). [11/7.5] BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
4-t). [11/7.5] Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope
6). [10] Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1
7). [6/5] Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
8). [6/4.5] Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti

Tracks
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 nominees, giving points to at least 3 songs, giving no song more than 3 points, and giving no more than one of their choices 3 points. Possible ways of voting include:

Spoiler:

"Traditional"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.

"Even Stevens"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 2 pts.

"Tough Decision"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Nomination Bias"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Indecisive"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.

"Shotgun Spread"
Song1 - 1 pt.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.
Song6 - 1 pt.

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Server information:

Spoiler:

* Host: ftp.sotw.info
* Username: nominations@sotw.info (that is the actual username; not an e-mail address)
* Password: gff
* Port: 21

Week 216 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was looking through the list of past nominations, and I noticed that nothing from any of the Nanosweep albums has ever been nominated. And I thought to myself, "how is this possible?"

And then I tried to figure out which single track to nominate, and I thought, "ah, well maybe that has something to do with it." So I agonized for a while and bashed my head against a wall a few times and long story short let's just go with this one:

• Album: NANOSWEEP 6
• Artist: Keiki Kobayashi
• Disc #: 1 (of 1)
• Track #: 3
• Track Title: 4:00pm
• Catalogue Number: NS-006
• Year: 2008
• Additional Info: Lest anyone forgets that Keiki Kobayashi is totally the man (he's totally the man by the way).
• Source: NS-006 | NANOSWEEP 6 - VGMdb

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hope isn't working for me.

Here a youtube version just in case:
YouTube - Umineko no naku koro ni BGM - hope(Ver1.00)


Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
This is quite good, I like it. Catchy I wish it could have done more, though, some parts just feel a bit empty.

BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
Eh, I feel like I've heard this song a million times before and done better before. Not bad, just average.

Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
I like the beginning, but it didn't really go anywhere and the melody wasn't strong enough on its own to stay the same.

Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1
Now this is nice! Love the dark understone throughout the entire song, and the intruments used.

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
Not my thing.

Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
Same thing with Lost Timbre. It's nice, but it doesn't go anywhere and the melody isn't strong enough to stay the same.

Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
Kind of bland.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope
I love Hope. This is an example of a slow song that doesn't really change its melody being a good thing, because the melody is fantastic. Instruments are great as well.


Hope - 3 Points
In-Game 1 - 2 Points
seb7 (Opening Credits) - 1 Point

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Originally Posted by KamikazePotato

Hope isn't working for me.

I fixed the player in the opening post. Thanks for noticing!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by KamikazePotato

Hope isn't working for me.

Try anger or despair. That usually does it for me

I was speaking idiomatically.

Nom time:

=== Kaleb.G ===
* Album: Alcahest (Game Rip)
* Artist: Jun Ishikawa
* Track #: 14 (on SPC set)
* Track Title: Free Space
* Year: 1993
* Additional Info: Can't believe nothing from this game has been nominated yet.
* Source: Game profile: Alcahest ~ SNESmusic.org
* File Location: nom folder

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Nomination #43

Composer: BACO [Composer: Pixel]
Album: Come on! Cave Story
Track Title: Toroko forever
Track Number: 13
Year: 2008
Catalog Number: RSPC-0012
Additional Information: <3 BACO

Come on! FTP

FELIPE NO

Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits) This is the kind of long, C64-style chiptune that is inexplicably popular. The rhythm's decent enough, but there's not nearly enough going on to justify its bloated length.

BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce Bounces all over the place, but isn't really all that cohesive or memorable.

Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre Nice, gentle piece with a definite hint of Earthbound's "love theme" in its melody.

Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1 They nail the dark part of the title pretty well. The Bond-style strings beneath everything are nice, but a lot of the music is just electronic muck and stock effects.

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby! Garry Schyman's definitely and up and comer in my book, mixing deadly serious stuff like Bioshock with affable silliness like this. Unlike a lot of stuff that's funk for funk's sake, this uses a gret melody and lots of little nice touches to set an atmosphere and be interesting to hear.

Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation The live instruments are nice, and there are parts of the piano and guitar meanderings that are quite nice, but overall the piece is too laid-back and sedate for its own good.

Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti Knight's description had me thinking this would be something really zany or creative. Sadly, aside from some nifty synth xylophone, it's pretty much vanilla shmuppery.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope More decent piano music to close out the week. Like the others, it seems a little thin, albeit with nice parts and ambient qualities.

The Point Spread
Vegas Baby - 3 pts.
Lost Timber - 1 pt.
Jungle Navigation - 1 pt.
Hope - 1 pt.

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Originally Posted by Muzza

Nomination #43

Composer: BACO [Composer: Pixel]
Album: Come on! Cave Story
Track Title: Toroko forever
Track Number: 13
Year: 2008
Catalog Number: RSPC-0012
Additional Information: <3 BACO

Come on! FTP

I know we've been pretty loose with the ol' eligibility guidelines in recent times, but I don't think this guy has any original VGM compositions at all. Definitely none on VGMdb, and I didn't see any info on his homepage mentioning any. (There's one reference to a "BEATMIAMI ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK," but that appears to be a fictional soundtrack concept album.)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh =/ OK then, no worries here's another:

Composer: Yuke's Sound Team
Game Title: The Dog Island [Wii]
Track Title: Credits
Track Number: N/A
Year: 2007
Additional Information: Can't find any composer information for this game anywhere, and the youtube videos featuring the credits are all terrible (main demographic for this game is little girls and they can't hold cameras properly by the looks)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

1 point for all of these.

Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits) establishes a nice tone of grunge and emptiness with accents of uplifting melody. It's a shame it doesn't do more than what it does, because the direction was really strong with all the different albeit wholly underwhelming sections.

I bought the Bangai sound collection on a whim a couple of years back, and it's always proven to be an entertaining romp whenever I give it a listen. While not a patch on the greats such as SotW veteran "Bangai-O GO!", BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce still manages to be a typically fun and engaging NON tune, with its chaos adding charm and energy more than any real drawback.

I love the Impressionistic patterns of Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre, which express a magnificent lead melody. The sub-sections are all beautiful in their own way too, with a nice new-agey break at 2:05 with flighty piano being a definite highlight. Subdued, but with enough emotional and musical intricacy to keep one interested! I'm positive this won't be everyone's cup of tea though, especially after being spoilt by "Waterfall" last week. (and orion, I can't say I pick up on any "Love Theme" influences like you did :/)

Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1 tries to accomplish a whole bunch of stuff and succeed in delivering a range of musical ideas, but the end end product falls a bit flat. The disjointedness of the structure is a turn-off for me, as is the awkward mesh between epic orchestral and electronic bleeps that wasn't woven together by any strong beat, rhythm or melody.

Oww yeah, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby! is totally groovin' and fun. The jazz flute is awesome and while there's not a great melody anywhere, it's too enjoyable to not save and consider for points.

The original "Jungle Navigation" is one of my favourite tracks from 7th dragon, and Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation does an OK job of updating the tone and feel of it while retaining the core melody. My problem with it is that's it's too sparse and the background effects (including guitar) are somewhat passive, not really adding much to the atmosphere and distracting from the lead instruments more than anything. Still, that melody's too great to ignore.

I'm kinda struggling to write anything about Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti since it's disappointingly nondescript and entirely fleeting. It doesn't do anything that offend more or anything, but it absolutely doesn't do anything noteworthy either.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope is a cut above the millions of sentimental sounding VGM tunes called 'Hope', but still isn't too flash, particularly in contrast to the competition this week. It's pleasant though, and hearing the seagulls actually cry at the end was a nice touch!

what's the POINT of such a mammoth wall of text? D: i don't know

3 points: Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
2 points: Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
1 point: BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
4th: Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope
5th: Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
6th: Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
7th: Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
8th: Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1

A decent week, with the common divide between the top three and the rest.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

3 points: BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
1 point: Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
1 point: Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
1 point: Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!

Exploding Bounce is my favorite track from Bangai-O Spirits because of the DRUMKIT EXPLOSION. Seriously some of the most ridiculous programming I have ever heard in VGM, I thrash my ahead along with it every time. Plus there's a NON Melody™ that comes completely out of nowhere at 0:45 and kicks you in the teeth. Man I love this tune.

Garry Schyman is one of the coolest dudes in VGM these days. His Bioshock and Dante's Inferno scores are fabulous. I haven't heard any of his Destroy All Humans music, but it's nice to hear him dropping some cheese with this old-school sci-fi tune.

I was speaking idiomatically.

(3 points) Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
(1 point) Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
(1 point) BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
(1 point) Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1

Nomination:

Album: Muppet Monster Adventure (Game Rip)
Artist: Michael Giacchino
Track Title: The Muck Monster Slimeth
Year: 2000

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Quick votes. Live Music was surprisingly nice.

(2 points) Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1

(2 points) Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation

(1 point) Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre

(1 point) Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope

Special mentions to Super Valis IV.

FELIPE NO

2 points: Alien Carnage (Game Rip) - seb7 (opening credits)
2 points: BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
1 point: Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
1 point: Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
Just missed: Lost Timbre

I feel like I'm robbing Exploding Bounce of one more point, but this week was just that good.


Nomination:

• Album: Cosmic Carnage (Game Rip)
• Artist: Hikoshi Hashimoto
• Track #: 5
• Track Title: Zena-Lan's Stage
• Year: 1994
• Additional Info: 32X \o/
• Source: Project 2612 - The Sega Genesis/Sega Mega Drive Music Archive

2 points: hope
2 points: Lost Timbre
2 points: Labyrinth IV - Jungle Navigation

I wasn't too impressed with the more exuberant choices this week.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

<<2 points>> Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
<<2 points>> Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
<<2 points>> Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation

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Jesus christ, so much piano music. Are you guys getting old or what?

2 Geezers - Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1
2 Panty-Stealers - Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
1 Alzheimer - Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
1 Youkai - Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope

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Next nomination:

Nomination:
Album: Tobal 2
Artist: Takayuki Nakamura
Track #: 2
Track Title: Checkered career (Album original mix)
Source: SSCX-10007 | Tobal 2 Original Sound Track - VGMdb

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I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Good week here. Quick points:

(3 points) Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
(2 points) Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
(1 point) Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1

I was speaking idiomatically.

Game: Mickey's Speedway USA (gamerip)
Composer: Rareware
Track: Oregon
Track #: 23 on Killy's gamerip
Catalog #: n/a
Year: 2000
Source: Mickey's Speedway USA for Nintendo 64 - MobyGames
Additional Info: I AM GOING TO NOMINATE EVERY TUNE FROM THIS SOUNDTRACK UNTIL ONE OF THEM WINS

Uploading to FTP shortly. Will get to voting as well.

Additional Spam:
Not fond of this week.

2 points: Exploding Bounce
2 points: Vegas Baby!
1 point: In-Game 1
1 point: Lost Timbre
Missed: Vecanti

Hibino is an acoustic genius, as I've said in the BSC. But uhhhhh it's difficult to note that in Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation, though, hearing the copius amounts of Touhou bass in the guitar part. The piano was fine, though the soloing got kinda hackneyed around the end. Wonder how much the source played a part in this. 1:45 - 2:20 was great, though.

Well I've come to associate Umineko no Nako whatev with brilliant soundscapes, but hope was just dull piano work. Everything is done better in the above tune, and I don't even like that song much.

Lost Timbre is part 3 of team melancholic chamber work this week, and a lot better than the above two works. Some really corny flute and piano solo work in some places, but aside from that it's fine.

Glad I can always count on some NON to spice things up. Exploding Bounce is pretty low-tier for him, but not bad at all. Love the ridiculous fake percussion, especially during the intro, though NON's always been good with the fake drums.

As for the rest, In-Game 1 does the orchestral-electronic hybrid thing pretty nicely, though the orchestral part was really weird, and not in a good way. seb7 and Vecanti are pretty insignificant, though I did like the latter a bit, particularly when it "looped" and added an extra accompaniment line for some reason.

lol did Garry Schyman really do Vegas Baby? Because holy crap

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Going off memory for now. May need to update this later.

3 points - Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti
1 point - BANGAI-O SPIRITS Audio Collection Plus - Exploding Bounce
1 point - Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
1 point - Dark Reign 2 (Red Book Audio) - In-Game 1

Vecanti is the shit though. No forgetting that.

EDIT: Vote has been fixed.

FELIPE NO

Thanks for tying it up, jerk.

Yeah so anyway can't close it up right now because we have a tie for third place. I don't feel entirely comfortable breaking it myself because my own nomination is one of the tracks involved, so let's give it another day to see if anyone else shows up (IF YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU HAVE NOT VOTED, THEN VOTE), and if not, I'll uh figure something out.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Very good week overall.

2 points ~ Concerto ~ Mitsumete Knight - Lost Timbre
1 point ~ Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (Game Rip) - Vegas Baby!
1 point ~ Live Music by Piano and Strings - 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version - Labyrinth - Jungle Navigation
2 points ~ Umineko no Naku Koro ni musicbox Blue - hope

Runner up ~ Super Valis IV (Game Rip) - Vecanti

Jam it back in, in the dark.