[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 114 Voting/WEEK 115 Nominating

(3 points) Double Dragon (Neo Geo CD Red Book Audio) - Kochinda (Rebecca's Theme)
(2 points) Savage (Commodore 64 Game Rip) - Intro
(1 point) Phantasy Star Collection — Sound Collection I - Field Medley

Good week, although some songs were not exciting from my point of view.

"Kochinda (Rebecca's Theme)" is my nomination, and like the majority of people do with theirs, I assigned 3 points to it. Not without reasons; I love the sound, its upbeat joyful nature, and the melodies, while simple, are quite neat, especially the catchy flute lines. Plus, I have a soft spot for traditional Asian elements. Slightly repetitive though, but the variations help cover this.

"Gaia" is underdeveloped. It started to get interesting at some point, but then it ended. Too bad...

"Akachochin Shiraishi ~Burn With Passion~" caught my attention from the start. Good sound, tight mixing, and latin nature. But, what turned me off was the guitar, which I found was not well performed and mixed in perfectly. The player sure wasn't burning with passion, in my opinion. The melodic elements as a whole were, while decent, not exceptionnal and thrilling. Still a good song, but the flaws I see ranked it lower than other entries this week.

"Field Medley" is a good arranged track, mixing synth and guitar quite well. However, I found the tune to be slightly cheesy (mainly the first half), but since it was created in 1993, this is somewhat an excuse.

"Jungle" is a bit too synthetic for me. I'm aware that all electronic music is actually synthetic, but I consider this kind of sound to be even more. The heavy low frequencies are actually making me feel unstable physically, which I also felt while listening to the Internal Section soundtrack. I can however recognize the qualities of "Jungle", yet I won't be its biggest fan.

"Intro" is wacky and catchy, like almost all of Jeroen Tel's work. Very Art-of-Noise-ish, which is a style I dig. It indeed might not be his best composition, but it sure is far from being the worse.

"Merveilleux ~ Setting Out (Bonus Track)" brings a softer side to this week. Merveilleux? Je ne crois pas que cette pièce soit assez belle pour être digne de cet adjectif, mais elle détient quand même une certaine qualité allant dans cette direction. All in all, good theme as far as evoking a sense of splendor is concerned, but not among the greatest creations in this category.

"KISS ME SUNLIGHTS - Opening Theme" is unfortunately venturing in a corner of my tastes where a huge bias exists against sweet Asian songs. Every time I hear a song of this kind, I can't help but think about all those people obsessed with Japan or other Asian countries that base a rather important part of their personalities on anime (or games with a similar style) elements and, while being in exaltation in front of videos, pictures and music that are reminiscent of child attributes, they feel the whole world gravitates around this geographic region. I'm generalizing and even exaggerating a bit, but this is not completely out of nowhere and when it comes to this subject, I'm sadly not into it. By contrast, "KISS ME SUNLIGHTS" is actually not a song I'd consider to be among what I despise the most, as described above. It's in fact a nice song, with excellent backing music. Still being an Asian song and not as captivating as other nominations this week, I couldn't give it any point.

Jam it back in, in the dark.