Song of the Week - WEEK 62 Voting/WEEK 63 Nominating

This week was pretty cool. It wasn't a "blow me out of the water with awesome" sort of grouping but the odd coincidence that all the tracks were synthy and/or rockin' in a retro way was pretty sweet. I can always get down with retro sound.

2 Points - Mother 1+2 Original Soundtrack - Eight Melodies - This one is too dreamy and sweet to pass up. I love the delicate synths and sweeping effects used throughout. Parts of it remind me of background tracks from the Willy Wonka remake, but I'm a die-hard fan of all things Wonka, so this only makes Eight Melodies even cooler.

2 Points - Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei (Game Rip) - Descendants from Elthlead - The best of this week's rockin' tracks. Admittedly, a fair portion of it is what I'd consider standard for the genre - nothing of particular note. Then 1:35 came around and I was thrown for a pleasant loop with the fucking awesome acid-rock synth solo. As someone who's always appreciated the work of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's synthesized overtures, that section of Descendants from Elthlead sold me. I've never heard acid-synth in VGM before and that was just too cool.

2 Points - Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Pull Back the Bass - Totally digging the retro feel and the funky bass groove. Alexander Brandon's a great synth composer and it shows here.

So close - Tobi Tsukihime Soundtrack - Stage 5 - amVirus : Avatar of Nightmare - I thought the intro was very strong but it eventually wandered into a more generic style of guitar and drums. The entire piece had potential throughout - don't get me wrong, it's still solid - but I felt like I wanted just a little more originality.

CHAOS SEED ~Fuusui Kairouki~ GM-PROGRESS 6 - Alex's Theme - Not bad, just a little uneventful for my tastes.

Lagoon - Moonchild - This felt a little ordinary to me also.

Tyrian (Game Rip) - Tyrian, The Song - I won't deny that the composition is good. Brandon doesn't fail. But the mood just doesn't work for me.

WILD ARMS the 4th Detonator Original Score - Yet Another Ex. File - After "Time & Rocks Piled Up", which was good enough to go onto my iPod, I guess I was expecting something more compelling this time around.

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Personally, I feel that if any corresponding game is selling for upwards of $75 on Ebay and has a chronically humongous thread dedicated to it in the video game forums, it's not obscure at all.

After 5 incarnations, 2 spinoff adventures and a "tactics" game, how can anyone say Suikoden isn't well-known?

A shame too, since I'd actually enjoy nominating Suikoden II - <Miki Higashino> 1-19 - Beautiful Morning if I felt the game were at all obscure enough.

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orion does have a point with the grandfather clause issue. It's hardly fair to dismiss a standing nomination when history shows that it's been acceptable in the past.

However, we can then agree that any further nominations from the series might be pushing the envelope on mainstream recognition. Sort of how we generally agree that the Eternal Arcadia OST has received adequate representation at this point.

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

Well, here's the thing. How do you guage the popularity of a soundtrack versus the game itself?

Last week, I played a Suikoden II song on my iPod for my brother, who is a die-hard obsessed Suikoden fan. He's got over 10,000 posts on some Suikoden message board.

He didn't recognize the track. He thought it was from Mario RPG.

So if a Suikoden fanatic doesn't recognize the music, maybe it's not that well-known?

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Originally Posted by Snowdjinn

Enthusia - Running To Horizon

like sonic had a child with himself...

What?

Is this a track nomination? Could you please be more specific as to what you mean?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

That's his nominaton. I already let CHz know he'd be picking it beforehand.

I didn't know you had a brother.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Mmmmm, I though Jazz Jackrabbit had this thing sewn up. Everyone was handing it points for the first three or four days.

Must've been a come from behind victory.

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