Song of the Week - WEEK 74 Voting/WEEK 75 Nominating

AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet (Red Book Audio) - Track 5 Bah, terrible. The weak point in an otherwise fantastic week. Does anyone else feel like the composer just decided to grab a bunch of random instruments, compose four different songs, and then overlay them on top of each other?

an cinniùint - Battle with the Devil - The clear winner of this week, imho. Interesting from start to end. The Celtic vibes are reminiscent of Xenogears: Creid... not that this track needs that as a crutch. Far from it - its a gem of a unique color. I'm having a hard time finding something to criticize...

Dark Chronicle (Game Rip) - Rainbow Butterfly Wood - Decent, but not something I'd notice in game, or listen to out of game. The... viola? violin? whatever the non-harp string instrument is does an excellent job, but the flute and clarinet could use more variation.

SEGA Touring Car Championship - Sonic Drive - Got bored 2 minutes in on the first listen, and repeated attempts have only worsened the effect. Just not my type of song, I guess.

Serious Sam II (PC Game Rip) - Continuous - Pretty enjoyable, overall, though the sound of the trumpets almost ruined it for me. However, I decided not to count that against the song because I tend to be oversensitive where trumpets are concerned. A bit of a late bloomer (it doesn't reach its climax until 2:35, more than 3/4 of the way in), but its not bad while it lasts.

Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - Wish - A very good song; held my interest the whole way through, and I was a bit disappointed when it ended, despite the four-and-a-half minute length. The background complements the vocalist extremely well. The only complaint I have (and it's pretty minor) is that I wish the background vocalists were easier to hear.

The King of Fighters '96 Arrange Sound Trax - Saxophone Storm 2 (Yagami Team Theme) - The sax is really carrying this song... well, the bass guitar isn't bad, either, but everything else is sub par. This doesn't stop the melody from shining through, though, and all in all, it was a fun listen.

Wild Arms Music the Best -rocking heart- - Battle Force - Not the song I would have chosen from rocking heart, but good, nonetheless. My favorite part was the little piano solo near the halfway mark; I wish it was longer. Also, the percussion/bass line are pretty repetitive, but since everything else changes so rapidly, I didn't notice that until a few listens.

*~Point Distribution~*
3 points - Battle with the Devil
2 points - Wish
1 point - Saxophone Storm 2

-Nomination-
Artist: Michiru Oshima, pentagon
Album: ICO ~Melody in the Mist~
Track Title: ICO -You Were There-
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: 16
Catalog Number: SVWC-7117
Year: 2002
Source: chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/index.php?catalog=SVWC-7117

Seems like there have been plenty of Shadow of the Collossus nominations, but almost nothing on ICO. If this song was featured before the forums wipe, I apologize.

Also, my username is mispelled in the nominations queue... nothing urgent, but I dislike the connection with the detestable Kingdom Hearts character.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by AWACS Eagle Eye

Sorry. That's not the first time I've done that, and I haven't even played Kingdom Hearts.

Oh, yeah, no problem. I've just had a few people make the mistake before... probably wouldn't even have brought it up if you hadn't misspelled it in that particular way.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The only good track? I'd personally rank Leave it to Me, and This Burden is the Weight of Life, This Meaning is the Reason to Live, above Battle Force. Then again, I'm not a very good judge of rock...

As for my nomination, I wondered if it might have been on the BSC before, but I thought I might as well try it. I didn't find anything after a search of the site for ICO, but that's not surprising with the forums wipe less than a year ago.

I'll change my nomination as soon as I find a suitable replacement... the only other song I'd consider from ICO is Castle in the Mist, but I'm not sure I want to attempt it.

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Okay, let's try this again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Nomination-
Artist: Tsuneo Imahori
Album: Gungrave O.S.T.
Track Title: an ulterior motive
Disc Number: 1/1
Track Number: 16
Catalog Number: VICL-60845
Year: 2002
Source: chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/index.php?catalog=VICL-60845

How ya doing, buddy?

The game actually spawned the anime.

From the the wikipedia article on the gungrave anime:

Quote:

Gungrave is an anime adaption of the third-person shooter video game created by Sega with original characters designed by Yasuhiro Nightow.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gungrave_%28anime%29

Here are links to the soundtracks for the anime:
answers.com/topic/gungrave-uno-righthead
answers.com/topic/gungrave-o-s-t-2-lefthead

And here is the link to the video game soundtrack:
chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/index.php?catalog=VICL-60845

(you'll have to copy and paste them into your browser since I still can't post links)

As you can see, though all three soundtracks are composed by Tsuneo Imahori, each song is mutually exclusive, and indeed, the video game came first, so there is no chance of the songs from the game even being based on the songs from the anime.

I was speaking idiomatically.