Song of the Week - WEEK 73 Voting/WEEK 74 Nominating

Week 73 Voting is closed.
Week 74 Nominating is restricted.

Week 73 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Tracks:
Arcanum - Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Soundtrack - Tulla
Armored Core 3 Silent Line Original Soundtrack - Artificial Line
Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~GYAKUTEN MEETS ORCHESTRA~ - Gyakuten Saiban 3 Courtroom Suite
Jet Force Gemini (Game Rip) - Water Ruins
Psychonauts Original Soundtrack - Stay Out of the Moonlight
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike 'Fight for the Future' Original Soundtrack (JPN) - Alex & Ken Stage -JAZZY NYC '99-
The Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (SNES Game Rip) - Bathroom ~ Ending
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED Original Soundtrack - Fake Time


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

Here are the links to the corresponding threads at the other forums:
- Soundtrack Central
- Chudah's Corner

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Arcanum - Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Soundtrack - Tulla The music gets props for being period-specific (i.e. Victorian), but like virtually all Arcanum tracks, it's dull as ditchwater.

Armored Core 3 Silent Line Original Soundtrack - Artificial Line The rhythm line here sounds like a washing machine that's trying to choke down a jumbo load of laundry. And the rhythm line's virtually all the song's got--the first stirrings of real music are almost two thirds in, and don't amount to much.

Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~GYAKUTEN MEETS ORCHESTRA~ - Gyakuten Saiban 3 Courtroom Suite We're going to have to listen to these subpar Phoenix Wright tracks for months, if not years, because the game was so popular. And while this orchestrated song is lightyears better than the repetitive crud that was trotted out during the BSC or previous SoTW's, it's still dull and undercooked by any stretch of the imagination.

Jet Force Gemini (Game Rip) - Water Ruins The metal hits are part of the "ruins," I suppose, but is it too much to ask that they be in synch with the rest of the music? The harp and string bits are nice, but it's hard not to be distracted by the random metal clangs before the song hits its stride.

Psychonauts Original Soundtrack - Stay Out of the Moonlight From the artist who brought you Grim Fandango! Definitely on the jazzy noir side of things, and pretty average in that regard, save a few neat effects here and there and some harmonica solos. I hope the game had more to offer than this, since Grim Fandango had such a cool soundtrack.

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike 'Fight for the Future' Original Soundtrack (JPN) - Alex & Ken Stage -JAZZY NYC '99- Another Street Fighter song that sounds nothing like Street Fighter! I have to say I'm getting mighty sick of these. Decent jazzy synth, nothing more, and repetitive as snot.

The Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (SNES Game Rip) - Bathroom ~ Ending A cute little bouncyfun tune that's about as out of place in the Addams family milieu as Bozo the Clown, but works well enough as a standalone piece.

beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED Original Soundtrack - Fake Time I was just saying how we needed more mindless, repetitive attention deficit rock around here.

Man, what a stinker of a week.

The Point Spread
Psychonauts - 3 pts.
Addams Family - 2 pts.
Jet Force Gemini - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by EliJaH

I'm new to this, so if I do anything wrong let me know.

Looks good to me. 6 points, clearly distributed, with comments! The only thing I can think of is that someone might object that your nomination is "too popular," but I'd say that's a slim possibility at best.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Considering some of the stuff we've allowed, despite a mantra of obscurity, I doubt anything from the Lunar series would be turned away.

It seems like our obscurity mantra has pretty much been reduced to:

-No hyper-popular Squeenix (Final Fantasy, Chrono, Kingdom Hearts)
-No hyper popular Nintendo (Mario, Zelda, Metroid)
-No series that have been extensively whored throughout the site (Ace Combat)

Pretty much everything else seems like a go.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Wow, the first time in living memory when my personal top three are the SoTW top three!

As far as tinkering with the rules goes, I'd prefer to leave them as they are, since the system's working well enough without too much input from on high. But if we start getting a torrent of unacceptable nominations, there might be a case for codification.

I was speaking idiomatically.