Song of the Week - WEEK 77 Voting/WEEK 78 Nominating

Week 77 Voting is closed.
Week 78 Nominating is restricted.

Week 77 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Tracks:
Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner Soundtrack CD - Muladhara
Gate of Thunder (Red Book Audio) - Dark City
Granado Espada Soundtrack CD - Supercooled Girl
GRANDIA III ~original sound tracks~ - Sabatal
Phantasy Star Online Songs of RAGOL Odyssey -Soundtrack EPISODE1&2- - 'IDOLA' have the divine blade
Space Station Silicon Valley (Game Rip) - Fun in the Sun
Tokimeki Memorial 2 ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK vol. 1 - Meeting With You ~ Happy Ending (Instrumental)
www.ssh.ne.jp - Ultimate Destroyer

Notes:
A .miniusf (N64) version of the Space Station Silicon Valley song is available in the Extras folder.

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 78 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.

Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner Soundtrack CD - Muahaha Tunefully done techno-rock. If there were a little more variation, I'd be loving this; as is, a nice melody and restrained performance make the song enjoyable if unspectacular.

Gate of Thunder (Red Book Audio) - Dark City You have the power! ...to spurt generic 80's hair metal rock without lyrics. A bit of a melody creeps in eventually, but it's buried under layers of sound design. Frankly, this sort of thing could have been written by a computer program using library loops.

Granado Espada Soundtrack CD - Supercooled Girl Super cool track name. Falters a bit in execution, since it's essentially a trance song, which means endless repetition and buildup with no payoff. Maybe if a melody was thrown in there somewhere...

GRANDIA III ~original sound tracks~ - Sabatal My opinion of Iwadare has improved since people stopped nominated his godawful "battle" themes; much like Sakuraba, he's far more listenable when composing field themes. This is a pleasant little confection, decent all around but not exactly spellbinding.

Phantasy Star Online Songs of RAGOL Odyssey -Soundtrack EPISODE1&2- - 'IDOLA' have the divine blade I hate to compare contestants to tracks that aren't nominated, but the IDOLA name compels me. I expect "Strange Fruits" or "Cry For," or "Pray For" quality from my Phantasy Star. A bland and underachieving tune is doubly so because of the expectations involved; while there are some good parts where the synth lead and percussion interact, the entire undertaking seems curiously limp.

Space Station Silicon Valley (Game Rip) - Fun in the Sun A slight Eastern lit to this one, which isn't entirely unwelcome. The melody is quite nice, though the supporting instruments are a little dull, and when they take over, the song is a snoozefest. Not perfect, but not without its merits.

Tokimeki Memorial 2 ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK vol. 1 - Meeting With You ~ Happy Ending (Instrumental) Mmm, not bad, but I couldn't remember a note of it two minutes later. This kind of music just drifts right by me without leaving much of an impression.

www. ssh. ne. jp - Ultimate Destroyer Definitely has Dark City beaten in the techno-rock area. I foud it a little annoying, as I do with all songs in its genre, but not as bad as it could have been.

I wasn't feeling this bunch for whatever reason. Guess it's time to bust out the 12-gauge again...

The Shotgun Blast
1 point to everything except "Dark City" and "Supercooled Girl"

There's nowhere I can't reach.