[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 168 Voting/WEEK 169 Nominating

battle 01 is my nomination, and I feel it's easily the best track this week. Not Ito's best work, and a bit short compared to other tracks, but has a good style and melody. The track has a lot of emotion and gets to the point in presenting it.

Floor 1, 2 doesn't impress me with the instrument usage, but it has some good melodic segments that caught my ear. I like it.

Rochester Base Bar Music is a few bars of notes repeated over and over with slight instrument variations. What else can I say?

Center of the Earth is not bad at all. It has cool instruments and a driving beat, but unfortunately, it doesn't leave an impression on me.

Before I even saw the title, I could tell that Zetsubo to Kibo (Original Karaoke) was in fact a karaoke version of a song. It's incomplete music; there's no lead instrument. I don't like listening to karaoke versions of songs for this simple reason. If the vocals were replaced with an instrument playing the full melody front and center, that would be perfectly fine, but karaoke versions are meant as backing tracks for karaoke singing, not as something to listen to. I'm passing on this.

Mercenary-X (Main Theme)... again, not bad, but just didn't capture my interest. I don't think this one had enough melody to it.

ESAKA (Kyo Kusanagi) is lacking in melody, but it has a really interesting build-up, and I have to give it a point just for that.

Warfare on a Constructions has a nice lively feel to it, but it just doesn't hold my attention.

3 points - battle 01
2 points - Floor 1, 2
1 point - ESAKA (Kyo Kusanagi)

I'll tally up votes in like 10 hours or so.

Additional Spam:
Voting is closed. Here are the results:
1). [20] Namco Game Sound Express VOL.04 Dragon Saber - Center of the Earth
2). [18] Concerto Gate Closed Beta BGM - battle 01
3). [17] Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite Original Soundtracks - Floor 1, 2
4). [11/8.5] Vandal Hearts II ~Heaven's Gate~ Original Soundtrack - Warfare on a Constructions
5). [11/8] The King of Fighters '98 Arrange Sound Trax - ESAKA (Kyo Kusanagi)
6). [7] Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer Original Video Game Soundtrack - Mercenary-X (Main Theme)
7). [5] Shining Force Neo ~Zetsubo to Kibo - Zetsubo to Kibo (Original Karaoke)
8). [1] Ioncross Freelancer: Total War (Game Audio) - Rochester Base Bar Music

Nominations are still open since this coming week is a BATTLE week.

Additional Spam:
Also, refresh my memory on this... Didn't we have some policy about nominating a track that was released within the past X months?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

In answer to your question, Kaleb, something has to be at least 3 months old before it can be nominated--long enough to make sure it's not the next big thing.

Thanks. Do you know if this on the Voting Phase rules page? If not, I'll need to add it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

You know, I could have sworn it was, but now that I look it's nowhere to be found. I remember us discussing it and coming to a decision, but I guess it never got written down!

It's added and I clarified/rearranged a couple other things.

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