[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 107 Voting/WEEK 108 Nominating

Astal (Game Rip) - Glacial Rift: Starts off well, then goes absolutely nowhere.

Bugs Bunny - Rabbit Rampage (Game Rip) - Things That Go Bugs in the Night: Seven minutes and forty-one seconds of tinny discombobulation is about seven minutes too much.

Freedom Fighters Original Soundtrack - The Battle for Freedom: The beginning held promise but the rest failed to deliver.

Garakuta Masterpiece Theater Rakugaki Kingdom - The City at the Ends of the World ~ La città delle estremità del mondo: Too simplistic and meandering to hold any lasting effect. "The Sea", this is not.

Raiden III Perfect Sound Track - Dawn of sorrow (Level3): Not entirely original but energetic and mildly catchy. The sample choices work well together.

Space Cowboy Online (Game Rip) - Bygeniou City: This track should've been twice as long to allow for better progression and variety. It's still the most interesting piece this week, however.

The Ninja Warriors Again (Game Rip) - Stage-8: Before this was ever nominated, I knew that I don't care much for the entire gamerip. So I can't say this impressed me.

Venus & Braves - The Witch Goddess and the Alchemist of Destruction (Game Rip) - Cup of Story: As far as big band music goes, it's average, but against much of this week's competition, it stands head and shoulders above the pack.


2 Points: Raiden III Perfect Sound Track - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
2 Points: Space Cowboy Online (Game Rip) - Bygeniou City
2 Points: Venus & Braves - The Witch Goddess and the Alchemist of Destruction (Game Rip) - Cup of Story

This week disappointed me. Many songs began well but failed to follow through and keep the momentum alive. Here's hoping next week is better.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Dammit Rimo, I was going to nominate something off that same album very soon. (And I found it via the same source too.) I was planning on a different track but still, it seems like I'll have to move it down the priority list to keep Liljehdal from getting too overexposed in a short time.

GRRRRR.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No, I was mostly venting in good humor. Nominations are first come, first serve. I've songjacked others unintentionally, and it's only fair that I get albumjacked now and then. But it's like thinking you're the only person who knows about a buried treasure and when you arrive at the location, there's already someone there with a shovel, up to his knees in dirt. I'm not mad, it just means that the song is no longer as unpolished a diamond in the rough as I'd once considered. Most of my dismay is over not nominating the track I liked sooner.

I do take it as a competition, because who doesn't like winning things? But I also take the "quality" mantra seriously; if a song is to be nominated, it had better be representative of the best that's out there. That's what this is about, right? I sometimes wonder if anonymous internet people randomly stumble upon the SotW mainsite. If they do, I like to think that what they're hearing is worth their time. If I come off as aggressive, it's unintentional. I think I just have high standards.

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