Song of the Week - WEEK 92 Voting/WEEK 93 Nominating

Week 92 Voting is closed.
Week 93 Nominating is restricted.

I'll be damned if I get beaten to the punch this week

Week 92 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Results:
1). [25] Immortal 3 - Ork
2). [20] THE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK ALBUM OF GIANT EGG ~ MUSIC POPPED OUT OF THE EGG - BANG! BANG! BIG HORNES EXPLOSION
3). [19] Albert Odyssey Gaiden ~ Legend of Eldean - Main Theme 1
4). [16] Total Annihilation (Red Book Audio) - Brutal Battle
5). [10] Gore Screaming Show Complete Sound Archives - SADISTIC SEXART 2006
6). [7] Ganbare Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku (N64 Game Rip) - Deepsea Shrine
7). [6] Icewind Dale II Soundtrack - Heart of Winter Theme
8). [5] Fuujin Ryouiki Eretzvaju Original Soundtrack - A vision [Al]

Tracks (links):
Albert Odyssey Gaiden ~ Legend of Eldean - Main Theme 1
Fuujin Ryouiki Eretzvaju Original Soundtrack - A vision [Al]
Ganbare Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku (N64 Game Rip) - Deepsea Shrine
Gore Screaming Show Complete Sound Archives - SADISTIC SEXART 2006
Icewind Dale II Soundtrack - Heart of Winter Theme
Immortal 3 - Ork
THE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK ALBUM OF GIANT EGG ~ MUSIC POPPED OUT OF THE EGG - BANG! BANG! BIG HORNES EXPLOSION
Total Annihilation (Red Book Audio) - Brutal Battle

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 92 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.

Pasting in my comments from STC; until Gamingforce's future is secure, I will be posting my comments there and mirroring them here. Also, I hereby dub this Week of the Silly Names.

Albert Odyssey Gaiden ~ Legend of Eldean - Main Theme 1 We've had Albert Odyssey tracks in SoTW before, and I remember being impressed by a track some time ago. I don't really like the oriental trappings in this track (esp. the violin), though the melody would probably be nice played on another instrument, and the lounge-ish background doesn't mesh with the main sound for me.

Fuujin Ryouiki Eretzvaju Original Soundtrack - A vision [Al] This piece had a vaguely familiar sound to it (Wild Arms, maybe?). It was decent all around, is flightly vanilla in all departments (Ministry of Melody, Bureaucracy of Beat, etc.).

Ganbare Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku (N64 Game Rip) - Deepsea Shrine We've had our share of Goemon tracks here at SoTW, that's for sure. This is pretty good for having N64 synth, though it does butcher one of the main instruments so badly it winds up sounding like a kazoo. The melody's okay, but the oriental touches again don't sit too well with me.

Gore Screaming Show Complete Sound Archives - SADISTIC SEXART 2006 I'm guessing this is a hentai title, though I can't imagine what would give me such a notion. Reminds me very much of the Perfect Cherry Blossom school of hyperactive composition, which is to say a lot of sound and fury with comparatively little content, melodic or otherwise.

Icewind Dale II Soundtrack - Heart of Winter Theme The first Soule we've had in SoTW for a while. I'm a well-known Soule Slut, of course, so I'm immidiately predisposed to like the tracks. I enjoy its interpolation of the original theme into a slower, more sweeping form, along with a nice performance of the main HoW theme (which, for my money, gets its best performance as a battle theme). It pales a bit in comparison to the superlative original Icewind theme, but is solid and enjoyable nonetheless.

Immortal 3 - Ork Color me surprised to hear the piano at the beginning, but the track shows its true colors soon enough, moving abruptly to a hard loop-based techno piece. It has too much melody to be properly trance, though I think it could have used more in that area for sure.

THE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK ALBUM OF GIANT EGG ~ MUSIC POPPED OUT OF THE EGG - BANG! BANG! BIG HORNES EXPLOSION End the contest, close the polls. This is, bar none, the silliest track name ever to come up during SoTW's storied history. So silly, in fact, that it set up an unreasonable expectation in my mind for the track to come. It's really just a mundane big-band style piece with nothing but an energetic performance to distinguish it (though I will admit that the big band genre is somewhat overlooked here at SoTW).

Total Annihilation (Red Book Audio) - Brutal Battle This week's second helping of Soule. I'm far more familiar with this piece than the other this week, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't one of my all-time favorites. Energetic performance, terrific melody, piano interludes. I would never have nominated this (I'd have thought it was too popular), but since it's here I guess I'm wrong.

Not a bad week, though there are certainly some apples-to-oranges comparisons and rough spots.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Elorin

I'm sure it will receive a cold welcome! I'd be disappointed if it didn't. I might have gone with "Curtains" by Peter Gabriel from the game rip until I found out it was a highly obscure commercial single.

I do have a friend that's a Myst fanatic; maybe I can cajole him into voting for you. Then again, the last time I cajoled him into doing anything, he nominated "Aeris' Theme" in the BSC

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

'grats! Better update the long-neglected Stats Thread with the tale of your triumph

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