[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 205 Voting/WEEK 206 Nominating

2 points: Inugami Village
2 points: Cursed Shinshu Plains
1 point: TokyoChatRoom_v1
1 point: Caravan for 2 Pianos
Just missed: ---

Who is this Mitsuda guy, I need to check out more of his works.

I’m incredibly critical when it comes to piano music, having heard too much of it outside the realm of VGM. Inside VGM, apart from some incredibly lazy piano ballads that people can’t seem to get enough of, and the occasional awesome tune (that Lost Passage tune way back when, the Bionic Commando tune more recently in the last BSC), I really don’t know anything about piano music (except that Hamauzu is apparently some kind of piano wizard), and I was hoping that this week would help rectify that. Uhh…. Well I wouldn’t say I fully enjoyed this week, but the two pointers were definite highlights, especially the Okami arrange tune, that was just surprisingly good. I wouldn’t mind having a sequel.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

My next nomination:

Album: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
Composers: Masahiko Hataya, Masaki Kase
Track: Promise of 505 (Stage 5)
Track #: 10
Catalog #: PCCB-00355
Year: 1999
Source: PCCB-00355 | Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - VGMdb
Additional Info: Man I cannot get over the fact that there is Final Mission sheet music. This track is from the 2nd game, not the first like my previous nomination from this soundtrack. Will upload shortly.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Dinosaurs

I've been rather loath about doing anything about when we start and close voting, because I'm pretty sure that people will still wait until the last minute no matter what, but six people this week voted after I normally would have closed voting on Sunday. Does Monday really work better for you guys? Would moving to Tuesday–Monday or maybe even more in the middle of the week work out better?

If you asked me this 6 months ago, the result of my tardiness is purely 100% laziness on my part, even when I download and listen to the tracks early in the week. I'm back in college now, so that number has been reduced to like 75%, which is still terrible, but less so. That said, my current schedule has me with lots of stuff due Mondays so yeah, Sunday voting is trickier that other days, so moving the due date would work better for me.

Though all of this wouldn't even be a problem if I voted Saturday, so your call.

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