Song of the Week - WEEK 95 Voting/WEEK 96 Nominating

Week 95 Voting is closed.
Week 96 Nominating is closed.

Week 95 Voting
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Results
1). [17/10] Gokinjo Bouken Tai (Game Rip) - Battle
2). [17/9] Touhou Kaikidan ~Mystic Square~ (Game Rip) - Peaceful Romancer
3). [16] pop'n music 10 AC & CS pop'n music 8 - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
4). [12] Contact (Game Rip) - Ft. Eagle Forest
5). [11] Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (SNES Game Rip) - City
6). [10] Rage of the Dragons Original Arrange Album - Cheer Up!
7). [7] FRONT MISSION ONLINE Original Soundtrack - Arena
8). [6] "Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon" ~ Coi Vanni Gialli - Wodan

Tracks (links):
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (SNES Game Rip) - City
"Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon" ~ Coi Vanni Gialli - Wodan
Contact (Game Rip) - Ft. Eagle Forest
FRONT MISSION ONLINE Original Soundtrack - Arena
Gokinjo Bouken Tai (Game Rip) - Battle
Rage of the Dragons Original Arrange Album - Cheer Up!
Touhou Kaikidan ~Mystic Square~ (Game Rip) - Peaceful Romancer
pop'n music 10 AC & CS pop'n music 8 - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin

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 96 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.

We were waiting for this week's tracks to be uploaded to the server. So I guess you could say it was both.

Everything's ready now, though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Nomination time!

• Artist: Kohei Tanaka
• Album/Game Title: Lennus ~ Memory of the Ancient Machine Original Album
• Track Title: Chezni and Midia
• Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
• Track Number: 7
• Catalog Number: TYCY-5270
• Year: 1992

I'll put in my votes later.

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

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (SNES Game Rip) - City Meh. It's nothing I haven't heard before, and better. This kind of bland stuff all sort of blends together after a while.

"Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon" ~ Coi Vanni Gialli - Wodan As usual, Hamauzu apparently thinks he's writing for the concert hall in Munich rather than a video game. Still, the orchestral textures are nice, even if there is no melody to speak of. Still, I wish he'd buckle down and write one just to remind us that he can.

Contact (Game Rip) - Ft. Eagle Forest A more atmospheric-style track. It sets a mood well, but was a bit too laid back and diffuse for my taste.

FRONT MISSION ONLINE Original Soundtrack - Arena Intriguing electronica-style track. It's got some nice militaristic touches, though it seemed like the tune could really have burst into something better but was holding back. Definitely got better as it went along, though. Also: two loops, please.

Gokinjo Bouken Tai (Game Rip) - Battle Definitely energetic, with a slight swing style to it. Piano's nice, melody's okay--pretty good all around.

Rage of the Dragons Original Arrange Album - Cheer Up! The crowd noises are horrible, but the track is decent salsa once it gets going. Salsa isn't my genre, but the tune's not bad for what it is.

Touhou Kaikidan ~Mystic Square~ (Game Rip) - Peaceful Romancer Now that the BCC is all but over, I guess I can stop giving chiptunes a hard time about not being entered. I like the melody here very much, even if it's firmly in "Perfect Cherry Blossom" mode (which seems to happen a lot; must have been a very influential track). Chip nazis won't like it, but oh well.

pop'n music 10 AC & CS pop'n music 8 - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin More jazz with some electronics thrown in for good measure. Pretty good.

Not terribly excited about this week. What can I say--jazz and salsa are things I can only stand in small doses.

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

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Okay, I have a question about eligibility.

Let's say that there's a rather popular NES game, one whose music is fairly known. For argument's sake, let's use Kirby's Adventure.

Now let's say there was an unused track in Kirby's Adventure. You could play though the game 1,000 times and never hear it once.

Furthermore, let's say there was an official arranged album for Kirby's Adventure that contained an arrangement of the unused track.

Now, after all that, would the obscurity requirements be met? Yes, the source material is well-recognized, but the track wouldn't be immediately recognized, and even less so here for being an arrangement. Surely that would be obscure enough, right?

Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Opinions?

I've been toying with the same idea, though I think that the track I've got in mind, which is from the PSF2 set from FFX, has too much of a stigma attached to it; nevermind that the song can never be heard in the game, is on no OST, and doesn't share any themes or instrumentation with the rest of the score. C'est la vie, I suppose.

Up until the point you mentioned that the track had been arranged and placed on an official OST I was ready to say that it would be fine by me. I'm not so sure now, though--I suppose it would depend of the series, and how much that arranged album's made the rounds.

I was speaking idiomatically.