[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 152 Voting/WEEK 153 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 152 Voting is closed.
Week 153 Nominating is open.

Results:
1). [19] GALAXY FORCE II & Thunder Blade ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Beyond The Galaxy -[H.] Arrange Ver.-
2). [18] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis Game Rip) - April O'Neil's Stage
3). [15] Age Of Empires Compilation Soundtrack - Gamelan
4). [13] [-Aka-] Complete Edition Original Soundtrack - Primitive - Old castle
5). [12] STORM! - SHOOTING GAME SOUND OMNIBUS Vol.2 - SOUND 02 ~ ZERO GUNNER II
6). [11] MegaRace (PC Game Rip) - Maeva
7). [9] OverClocked ReMix - Video Game Music Community - Memory Leak Suite
8). [5] BioShock (Game Rip) - Fight for Family

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: [-Aka-] Complete Edition Original Soundtrack - Primitive - Old castle
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Age Of Empires Compilation Soundtrack - Gamelan
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: BioShock (Game Rip) - Fight for Family
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: GALAXY FORCE II & Thunder Blade ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Beyond The Galaxy -[H.] Arrange Ver.-
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: MegaRace (PC Game Rip) - Maeva
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: STORM! - SHOOTING GAME SOUND OMNIBUS Vol.2 - SOUND 02 ~ ZERO GUNNER II
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis Game Rip) - April O'Neil's Stage
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: www.ocremix.org - Memory Leak Suite

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums in which this event is being held, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.
~~~~~~~~~~
MegaRace (PC Game Rip) - Maeva was originally in OGG format. This file has been used to make a LAME MP3 version for greater compatibility. The original OGG version is uploaded to the Extras directory for those demanding original encoding quality.

Week 153 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.

Originally Posted by Epsilon

Lol, you might want to change it to the following.

Yes, yes. Like you've never made a copypaste error

Additional Spam:
Well, I finally tracked down the missing songs and added them to the nominations directory myself, so we can get at least *temporary* links up and start the voting Thursday evening

Sorry for the delay, folks.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

[-Aka-] Complete Edition Original Soundtrack - Primitive - Old castle Interesting that it's taken this long for another track from our very fist battle winner to surface; it goes without saying that expectations are rather high. I shouldn't be surprised that the song is impressive; I'm a fan of piano tunes after all. Very nice.

Age Of Empires Compilation Soundtrack - Gamelan Considering a song from this series won the "percussion week" we had some time ago, I'm not surprised to find that the song is, well, percussive. It's also rather minimalistic, and the music doesn't resolve itself into a coherent form until the song is almost half over. But it does--as advertised--heavily feature a gamelan.

BioShock (Game Rip) - Fight for Family BioShock featured a very dense, very modern score, especially for battle sequences, but that aspect was hardly represented in the official release. So here's a rip that presents the game's action music at its best: brash, chaotic, and percussive. At times it's almost like musique concrete, and I recognize it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea because of that, though there is a mournful, melodic stinger that's more traditional.

GALAXY FORCE II & Thunder Blade ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Beyond The Galaxy -[H.] Arrange Ver.- For some reason, a lot of these songs with names like "galaxy" and "outer space" wind up being easy funk instead of the action tracks I expect. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not in the target audience for this genre, though some of the synth figures are nice.

MegaRace (PC Game Rip) - Maeva PC Game Rip? This sounds more like it came from the Sega Genesis. It's got some charm and bounc eto it, even if it's not the most memorable.

STORM! - SHOOTING GAME SOUND OMNIBUS Vol.2 - SOUND 02 ~ ZERO GUNNER II Neat little shmup(?) track with a definite flying sound to it. The Top Gun-style guitars are quite nice.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis Game Rip) - April O'Neil's Stage I remember this one well from the Best Chiptune Contest. It was a favorite then--definitely in my Companion 16--and it's a favorite now. Great beat, a catchy melody, plenty of development, and charm to spare. Classic.

www dot ocremix dot org - Flashback Memory Leak Suite I was a bit apprehensive about this song's eligibility, but reading the description over at OCR made me a bit less so. It certainly has some nice moments, and is free of the preponderance of backbeats that occasionally mar fan mixes. However, the whole is a bit disjointed (as befits a suite, I suppose) and doesn't quite gel into a cohesive whole.

Interesting week.

The Point Spread
Fight for Family - 3 pts.
April O'Neil's Stage - 2 pts.
Oldcastle - 1 pt.

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

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Just a note, the title of the album is "[-Aka-] Complete Edition Original Soundtrack - Primitive" and the composer is feel.

My fault; a bit of the tag from the nomination queue got left in.

You guys are really piling on the formatting errors this week! Well, if that's what it takes to keep me honest...

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

Perhaps we should extend voting this week, what with last week's ultra-late start and the holiday that may leave our American participants incommunicado? Just a thought.

Nomination
Album: Mother 3 ~ Earthbound 2 Gamerip
Artist: Shogo Sakai
Track Title: VS Natural Killer Cyborg! (Boss Battle, VS The NKC!)
Track #: 236
Source: Dubble's rip
Notes: Title is from in-game sound test. This particular song doesn't feature any of Keiichi Suzuki's themes from the previous game in the series. And, unlike some of the tracks I was considering, this title isn't much of a spoiler.

I was speaking idiomatically.