[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 101 Voting/WEEK 102 Nominating

Song of the Week. 100 Weeks and counting.
Week 101 Voting is closed.
Week 102 Nominating is restricted.

Week 101 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Results
1). [25] Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune
2). [19] Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler
3). [16] Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix)
4). [12] FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear
5). [9] The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest
6). [8] Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL
7). [4] "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight
8). [3] Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2

Tracks (links):
FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear
"GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight
Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2
Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler
Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL
Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune
Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums which this event is being held at, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.

Week 102 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Here is the link to the corresponding thread in the other forum:
- Soundtrack Central

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The tracks are now linked and ready for voting.

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FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear The pulsing percussion of this track is its great strength, at the beginning especially and in the middle. There's not much melody to speak of, and the middle part of the loop is a tad mushy, but the drums help keep it in the black.

"GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight A heavy dose of quirk and funk, this. The lyrics are completely garbled (it actually sounded like Simmish to me) but it was fun in a cheesy, over-the-top way.

Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 Definitely an Ito piece, as his stylistc trademarks are all over it. It could easily be slotted into any of his other SNES-era projects, with nothing to distinguish it save a nice melodic twist near the loop. I find Ito to be at his best when he goes over the top or quirky, rather than going for peaceful.

Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler I like the synthy edge this song displays, although it winds up sounding more like a late-90's end credits song than anything.

Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL Very different than the gaggle of PS tracks that preceded it. For this same reason, it struck me as rather bland, though that's as much a function of the genre as anything.

Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune Some terrific piano work here, combined with a small supporting ensemble to create some fine, dark music. Not as compelling as I hoped it would be given its potential, but good nonetheless.

Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) The voices at the beginning had me fearing for the worst. Luckily, the song turns out to be a spiritual cousin to GURUMIN; I couldn't understand a word of the lyrics, but the instrumentals had energy.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest Michael Giacchino is often at his best when he's imitating John Williams; in this case, he's adopted Williams' sound for Hook and Home Alone into a nice comic piece. The melody's good and the pizzicato strings are terrific.

A fine week, with nothing unlistenable.

The Point Spread
3 pts. - Primordial Forest
2 pts. - Skilled Spear
1 pt. - Larmes de la lune

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Originally Posted by katchum

I think arrangements of Chrono Trigger are allowed here?

No. Fan arrangements and doujin are generally not allowed, and Chrono anything is far, far too popular even if they were. Sorry.

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IMDB and Mobygames confirm that Richard Jacques is primarily a VGM composer; all his listed credits are for VGM. While I repeat my wish that people would nominate more actual music found in video games, "Children's Suite" looks fully eligible under the current rules, so upload away

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Let's get some opinions, though.

Are we sure it's an actual Suikotune, and not a pseudo-Suikotune of the sort Crash nominated some time back?

Incidentally, Drakken, would it kill you to vote while you're commenting on eligibility

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So are we making this another 2-weeker? It seems like the inertia is pointing that way, anyway.

As for a definitive answer re: Suikotunes, I think that the series can remain eligible until it racks up a few more nominations, and then should be retired. That's what happened with Phantasy Star tracks, and it seemed to work well enough.

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Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

A 2-weeker sounds good. Will allow me to toss in my next nomination. =}

Then, by the power vested in me by, uh, you...I declare it to be thus.

Two week SoTW! Get those votes and noms in!

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Originally Posted by ikkei

Onoz! I was going to nominate Reflection Into Eden but I couldn't find the mp3. That song will win its week

You know, you can nominate songs that you don't have a copy of. Our crack research team will do their best to hunt one down!

How ya doing, buddy?