Song of the Week - Chocobo's Happy Christmas precedent debate

I voted no only to prevent the Chocobo's Christmas clause from being invoked in some unforeseen fashion, down the road.

However, I will say that I would allow doujin arrangements of popular tracks, composed by established professionals, IF the arrangement itself has maintained an apparent level of quietude in the VGM community.

It shouldn't have been the subject of much fanfare at a widely recognized remix/doujin site.

This is the apparent difference between Soule's SV and Chocobo Christmas. Hamazau's piece wasn't nearly as celebrated upon its release in the VGM community, ostensibly meeting the "relative obscurity" requirement.

I'll also throw a nod of support for Dr. Uzuki's motion that future nominations of this sort be evaluated individually and not made subject to a blanket clause. Doing otherwise is cutting off one's nose to spite the face.

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I like option 2.

The way I see it, an arrangement of One-Winged Angel, no matter how obscure, is still going to sound like One-Winged Angel. And I'm pretty damned sick of that song.

A good example would be this: Kid Icarus (Partena no Kagami) & Metroid ~ Arranged Cassete - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka <05> bgm medley (Metroid)

It's definitely an arrangement and it's probably known but not immensely so. And it's by a reasonably popular composer. Just the same, it's the freaking music from Brinstar! We all know this melody. We've heard it umpteen times. Aside from some more resonant synths and background fx, it's nothing new.

Just because it isn't the original track doesn't mean it's relatively unknown.

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