[SotW] Song of the Week - Original Piece Time Restriction

Restricting nominations based upon career is the most sensible option.

If a composer cuts an original album in 1995, then he/she is simply a composer. There is no connection between the work and the VGM industry.

If that composer is later credited on VGM albums, that material and any subsequent original works would be fair game because, by that time, the composer has added the title of "VGM Composer" to his/her resume.

I don't really see any more practical perspective here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

If we go by the middle option, nearly all of Yoko Kanno's anime work becomes eligible. If, god forbid, Jeremy Soule goes onto scoring movies full-time, all of that would be available.

Licensed work is still ineligible. This matter solves itself.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Your idea, aviness, is interesting but it's really secondary to the particular issue being asked here. We're just trying to establish whether an artist's status as a VGM composer is acceptably retroactive.

Your proposal has more to do with how often their independent work may be nominated. We're talking about backwards eligibility here, not frequency thereof.

I responded to your idea in the other poll thread.

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