Song of the Week - WEEK 82 Voting/WEEK 83 Nominating

Week 82 Voting is closed.
Week 83 Nominating is restricted.

Week 82 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Results:
1). [26] Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
2). [19] Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (Game Rip) - Unknown 14
3). [18] Mushihimesama Original Sound Track - Shinju Heading to the Forest - Stage 1 <Arranged>
4). [14] Rudra no Hihou (Game Rip) - Strange Encounter
5). [11] Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~GYAKUTEN MEETS ORCHESTRA~ - Oo-edo Soldier Tonosaman
6). [10] The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (PC Game Rip) - Winter 1
7). [9] Space Invaders '91 (Game Rip) - Rounds 2, 11, 14
8). [7] Ape Escape 3 (Game Rip) - Wintersville[/QUOTE]

Tracks:
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows - Unknown 14
Rudra no Hihou (Game Rip) - Strange Encounter
The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (PC Game Rip) - Winter 1
Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~GYAKUTEN MEETS ORCHESTRA~ - Oo-edo Soldier Tonosaman
Ape Escape 3 (Game Rip) - Wintersville
Space Invaders '91 (Game Rip) - Rounds 2, 11, 14
Mushihimesama Original Sound Track - Shinju Heading to the Forest - Stage 1

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums which this event is being held at, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.

Week 83 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.
A list of previous nominations can be found here.

Here is the link to the corresponding thread at the other forum:
- Soundtrack Central

Pimpage
The "Best Chiptune Contest" is starting! Round one coming soon!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows - Unknown 14 Mmm, this sort of choral music melts me like butter every single time. Nothing like a moody piano solo or melancholy child soprano, and combining them makes an intoxicating brew. The bell part that appears halfway in is enchanting too.

Rudra no Hihou (Game Rip) - Strange Encounter My nom. I'm a big Ryuji Sasai fan, and I feel that the criminally underappriciated Rudra OST shows him at his best--a superior melodist who's adept at producing high-energy rock tracks that don't give themselves over to mindless repetition or noodling. Every character in Rudra gets a theme, and an uptempo rock version of their theme accompanies the toughest boss battles. In this case, Sion's grand, martial theme gets the treatment, and the result is one of my personal Sasai favorites.

The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (PC Game Rip) - Winter 1 There's a certain period in PC gaming when MIDI ruled the roost, and songs from that era tend to sound much cheaper and tinnier than their console counterparts. I was surprised to find that Winter was so full as a result; it's got a good melody and good "seasonal" development. It ends like a locomotive hitting a brick wall, though--would a looped version have been too much to ask?

Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished? DH unveils his 9th SoTW winner. I enjoy the saxaphone that gets a prominent part in the song, and it has a pleasing big band sound all around.

Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~GYAKUTEN MEETS ORCHESTRA~ - Oo-edo Soldier Tonosaman I've been nothing if not harsh to every Phoenix Wright track that's popped up in SoTW or the BSC, mostly because they were by and large vaulted onto the stage on the back of the incredibly popular game. This track, however, has more substance and variation than the others. It is jam-packed with the orientalisms and iffy orchestration that infest so much Japanese orchestrated VGM, but that's to be expected.

Ape Escape 3 (Game Rip) - Wintersville Definitely has the "winter" sound down with the airy instrument set and twinkling chimes. It's too bad the sound design is so poor, putting the dull techno loops front and center while almost burying the attractive woodwind melody.

Space Invaders '91 (Game Rip) - Rounds 2, 11, 14 Chiptunage. So, did anybody know about the Best Chiptune Contest, despite the prominently-displayed pimpage at the top of the last few threads? Anybody? Anyway, this track does quite a bit with its limited soundset--I shudder to think what it would have been like if Iwadare had been able to cheese it up like he wanted to. Still, pleasing and satisfying, and probably would have done well in the BCC.

Mushihimesama Original Sound Track - Shinju Heading to the Forest - Stage 1 And now we've got the intentionally synthy as a counterpoint. Reminds me a bit of Phantasy Star, particularly in the woodwind-ish samples, though not nearly as strong as the best tracks of those ilk. The melodies are pretty good, though, and the track has lots of spunk.

This will be a very interesting round--since the shuffle, a bunch of SoTW's most frequent posters and participants have been thrown together. Will everyone pimp their nomination, with first place being a function of who comes in second the most? Either way, I don't think I'll be looking at another SoTW gold medal until the next shuffle

The Point Spread
Rudra - 3 pts.
Seven Sorrows - 1 pt.
Daggerfall - 1 pt.
Mushihimshihihihimshihimshimimishiesama - 1 pt.
Just missed: Spaced Invaders

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Hmm...actually, I don't. It seems Inon Zur also worked on Seven Sorrows. So, that was silly of me to assume Alex composed this song. Could've been either of them.

From what I know of their respective styles, I'd say it's more likely Zur wrote Unknown--it's got a definite classical bent to it, like a lot of the composer's work does. Brandon always struck me as being more melodic and contemporary. I could be wrong, of course.

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

I think that we should ban DH from further competition. There's just no way to beat him

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

Hm, sort of like when I found that mistake in Week 03, eh?

Incidentally, why aren't you in the current SoTW thread voting it up? I'm afraid this latest week will be our most sparse ever, despite GFF's return.

I was speaking idiomatically.