[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 216 Voting/WEEK 217 Nominating

2 points: Oregon
1 point: Zena-Lan's Stage
1 point: Free Space
1 point: The Muck Monster Slimeth
1 point: Binary Game
Just Missed: [Checkered Career], Struggle I, Credits

Very good week.

Loving the old school reps here. Have yet to fully listen to Ishikawa's non-Kirby works, though I'm aware of the dude's mad talent. Free Space is a super solid tune with a great melody (that reminds me of that snowfield music in Secret of Mana for some reason), and nice development, a rarity in VGM. Equally solid is Zena-Lan's Stage, 0:53-loop was awesome.

Binary Game was a wonderful psuedo-oldschool tune with those FM synth like samples. Piano sample was the only oddball - it was too high quality compared to the rest of the track and sounded a bit jarring. A lower quality sample would've done wonders.

Best part of [Checkered Career] is the groovy bass line at the beginning, but jeez if that doesn't clash oddly with the rest of the tune. Not bad though; it had some YACK-style synth'n, and a guitar solo that seems to have only been added because sure why not.

I think I enjoy Struggle I more than the other Radiata Stories noms I've heard, but to be honest I don't even remember anything about them so uhh... well this is actually pretty cool, especially the 5 seconds right before the loop.

Credits has a real generic melody which makes it difficult to like, but the guitar performances were pretty nice. Probably my least favorite this week, but still decent.

I'm more aware about Giacchino's ability to control a jazz ensemble, so The Muck Monster Slimeth isn't half as surprising as that Schyman tune last week. Who is/are the drummer(s), I need to give them a congratulatory hand touch.

Jam it back in, in the dark.