Song of the Week - WEEK 63 Voting/WEEK 64 Nominating

I'm almost fine with a BoT nomination...Source material aside, 8/10 songs from that album would fill out my #8/Song of the Weak slot very nicely. One of only a handful of albums I legitimately love to hate.

I love 3rd Gig myself...Only a couple tracks that are kind of "eh" (the two piano ones), but the rest is pure Mintjam fun in "mainstream" format, since a number of featured tracks are VERY well-known (Chrono Corridor, FF7 Main Battle, Theme of Love, Coin of Fate). I'm not at all familiar with FFA/SD1, but the arrangement on there is one of the best tracks, no doubt...Just a notch below the FF7 Main Battle arrange.

Let it in...I'm almost tempted to say as long as it's not FF1-11, Xeno-something or Chrono-something or a big-time individual classic (I think we refused Ducktales "The Moon" for submission before) or something that has gotten massive exposure in a previous contest here (Moon Over the Castle would be an example), it's fine...In fact, I'm pretty sure I DID say that many moons ago. In any case, if something is too well-known, the voters generally let it be known anyway. As long as we don't have a line of drooling fanboys slobbering over everything and skewing the voting, I'm generally fine with most anything.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

[opinions=GoldfishX]Sound Alive-No problems with...We've allowed Guilty Gear tracks before. You wouldn't know it, since they never won anything, but they have showed up before. I'm not sure how much penetration the music has, outside of its' direct fans... Its' popularity seems to have hit something of a slump overall.

The 3rd Gig Nom-No problem...I'm unfamiliar with SD1/FFA music and it's from a doujin album, which needs exposure as is. However, I would agree some of the more known tracks from this album (FF7 Battle, Chrono Corridor) should not be eligible, as I know both have their individual following. And remember that Square basically wanted to improve sales in the US of the game, so they mislabeled their Game Boy games with the Final Fantasy name (sort of like how FF: Crystal Chronicles would be better off as a Mana game, but the 'Mana' name wouldn't sell as many copies...For that reason, I wouldn't oppose a CC nom either, as unlikely as I'd be to vote for one).

BoT-I, personally, don't have a problem with this one (for reasons stated before). But this is the official arrange album for one of the most famous (and somewhat overrated) game soundtracks in existence...It's downright easy to find its' existence and buy/download it (most people I talked to said this was among the first VGM CD's they've actually bought). I would probably vote 'No', were this to come to a poll.

FF arranges-vocal, Black Mages, etc: Same deal...Most people familiar with the games who have heard the original soundtracks should take a good healthy look on Game Music Revolution and more than likely, they'd be out to get these on their own. Again, vote of 'No'.

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