Song of the Week - WEEK 74 Voting/WEEK 75 Nominating

Okay, someone must have left me out of the loop. I didn't get a PM saying that the tracks were up, and they weren't in the directory when I went to bed.

What gives?

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Originally Posted by Drakken

When'd you go to bed? I sent you a pm notifying you they were ready at 11:24 PM (Eastern).

I went to bed around quarter after--I must have just missed it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet (Red Book Audio) - Track 5 Interesting melding of electronics and orchestra here, with an omnipresent pulse over synth instruments. At times, the pulse and the rest of the song seem out of synch--they're not, though poor musical choices in the orchestral section still make it seem like they are. The instruments sound a little tinny at times, too. Still, the piece is interesting and rather unique, and definitely more good than bad.

an cinniùint - Battle with the Devil This OST was about as Celtic as Mitsuda has ever gotten, as the Irish pipes forefronted here demonstrate. As a Celt myself, I tend to like 'em, and the wordless vocals and slight electronic acoutrements accentuate this. Then again, I'd expect nothing less from the master.

Dark Chronicle (Game Rip) - Rainbow Butterfly Wood This is a terrific ethereal piece, the kind of thing that melts me like butter whenever I hear it. The instruments are a little tinny/synthy at times, true, but the melody is divine, and the leading woodwind part...damn. Bonus points for frequent and excellent harp usage.

SEGA Touring Car Championship - Sonic Drive A definite change from the tracks before it, this is pretty much your standard hyper-repetitive techno trance piece. It's not as bad as it could be, and there's a modicum of variation, but I found myself bored before it was half over.

Serious Sam II (PC Game Rip) - Continuous Sounds vaguely piratey, with a bit of a lit to it, but it's far too long before the brass come in, and when it arrives, it doesn't do too much. It's not until the strings come in that the track livens up into a decent shanty. It's quite a nice bit of swashbucklery when it's at full steam though.

Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - Wish English singing! How I've missed you. Infinitely better than the yowlery that a Japanese version would have delivered, but more than a little blasé until more instruments and singers get added at the end.

The King of Fighters '96 Arrange Sound Trax - Saxophone Storm 2 (Yagami Team Theme) Another sea change, this time in the form of guitar and sax funk. A bit 1985 for my taste, but good enough for what it is.

Wild Arms Music the Best -rocking heart- - Battle Force Synthy, synthy, synthy. Not bad, if more than a little cheesy at times. This sounds kind of familiar--is it an arrangement?

Excellent week all around. More than makes up for the horror that was Week 73 (*that* should have been our Halloween lineup).

The Point Spread
Dark Chronicle - 3 pts.
An Cinnamon Bun - 2 pts.
Serious Sailor Sam - 1 pt.
AEGIS - Just missed

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

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Although this track's never been heard in SotW, I'm positive that it's been in previous BSCs and that it did moderately well. I don't know what everyone's feelings on this are, but I'm under the impression that we try to avoid repeating BSC noms.

That was my impression as well. It's a great song, and would probably clean up here at SoTW, but ICO has very strong community support here at GFF (remember the "ICO Appriciation Club?"), and the same holds for its soundtrack.

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

Originally Posted by arch_slayer

Vexxon: correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gungrave O.S.T. an anime soundtrack, not a game soundtrack?

There is a Gungrave game as well as an anime, though I suppose we'd best be sure that the music is original and not recycled from the anime.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Seems like the rule of thumb on MM music has been to only accept tracks from little-known side games in the franchise. If ZX Tunes is going to accompany a major new release and will likely be featured in an av/sig week, I'd oppose it. I'd also be against it if the music in any way remixes previous MM tunes.

But if you're confident the game is and will remain obscure in the series along with its music, I see no problem.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by AWACS Eagle Eye

I don't think we've had any rule like that before, but it might've been discussed at some point. I remember a while back David Deluxe wanted to nominate Zero from the Ace Combat Zero game rip, but Kaleb put a hold on it until the soundtrack came out in order to gauge popularity, so maybe you were thinking about that too.

Seems like a waiting period would be a good rule of thumb in many cases, if not an "official" rule. After all, look what happened to Zero in the BSC--it was in the top 16.

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