[SotW] Song of the Week - Original Piece Time Restriction

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

Well, I can't think of anything off the top of my head where the "standalone" clause could be abused...

Well, technically any kind of pop song or single or album is "original work." Therefore, if someone is considered a VGM composer, any songs/singles/albums they have previously done would technically be elligible. I can think of a few off the top of my head:

Paul Haslinger and Chris Franke have both written VGM, so the songs they co-wrote and performed with Tangerine Dream in the 1980's could technically be elligible.

Danny Elfman wrote the theme for "Fable," so his original classical compositions and Oingo Boingo music could technically be elligible.

I would personally prefer to restrict nominations to VGM only (including rips, unused tracks, alternates, etc.) but I'm not sure that's a good ironclad rule to lay down. I think that limiting "original works" to those after the first VGM credit (and, of course, subjecting them to community approval) is more practical, since most of the examples that I've cited would therefore be excluded.

Technically, Elfman's "Serenada Schizophrana" would be elligible still, but I'm guessing that the community would react negatively to the nomination of a classical work written by someone with only a single VGM track to their credit (or so I would hope ).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wait, why is Gechmir's vote no good?

There's nowhere I can't reach.