[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 157 Voting/WEEK 158 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 157 Voting is closed.
Week 158 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [18] Ecco - Songs of Time - st. gabriel's mask
2). [16] Technictix Remix Vol. 1 - Cell-Phone Boom
3). [14] Garden Original Soundtrack - Courage
4-t). [12/8.5] RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Game Rip) - Galaxy Trooper
4-t). [12/8.5] STAR SOLDIER [Vanishing Earth] ORIGINAL & ARRANGED SOUNDTRACK - SHIVER (MISSION5)
6). [8] Shining Wind Music Collection - Five Beast Generals
7). [7] Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Game Rip) - Cruise Control
8). [3] S4 League Original Sound Track - Vivace - SuperSonic

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ecco - Songs of Time - st. gabriel's mask
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Garden Original Soundtrack - Courage
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Game Rip) - Galaxy Trooper
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: S4 League Original Sound Track - Vivace - SuperSonic
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shining Wind Music Collection - Five Beast Generals
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: STAR SOLDIER [Vanishing Earth] ORIGINAL & ARRANGED SOUNDTRACK - SHIVER (MISSION5)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Technictix Remix Vol. 1 - Cell-Phone Boom
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Game Rip) - Cruise Control

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.

Week 158 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.

Ecco - Songs of Time - st. gabriel's mask This is just the sort of new agey, underwatery song I'd expect from Ecco. Not the strongest track in the world, but it has solid atmosphere.

Garden Original Soundtrack - Courage Violins and marimbas galore--must be a different kind of courage! The courage to take another martini at the bar, perhaps. Snarkiness aside, it's a very attractive song with some great keyboard work to accompany the fiddling.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Game Rip) - Galaxy Trooper The first entrant in this week's Tycoon-Off is a BSC refugee, where it narrowly lost. I haven't listened to it much since then, so this is a rediscovery of sorts--it's quite good, with some real drive, decent guitar work, and a spacey melody that's pitch-perfect. Not a big fan of the moments where things verge close to disco or trance, but otherwise it's got a lot going for it.

S4 League Original Sound Track - Vivace - SuperSonic The MC and rapper in this song are utterly hilarious. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not. A curiosity.

Shining Wind Music Collection - Five Beast Generals A big bombastic track with little flashes of Asian color to it. It's got a pleasing sound overall and moves at a decent clip.

STAR SOLDIER [Vanishing Earth] ORIGINAL & ARRANGED SOUNDTRACK - SHIVER (MISSION5) Mission 5, eh? I wonder who could have nominated that The instrumentation made me think this'd be a standard rock number, but the electronics and construction move it in a rather pleasing direction.

Technictix Remix Vol. 1 - Cell-Phone Boom Sounds like someone decided to do the phone-noise-song from a few weeks ago one better. And one better they did! The phone noises and operator are annoyances, but they're absent for most of the loop, leaving listeners with some excellent synthy fireworks. I'd pay good money to hear this with the phones ditched entirely.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Game Rip) - Cruise Control Entrant #2 in the Tycoon-Off is more jazzy and swaggery than its fellow mogul--more like a real tycoon. It's definitely got a catchy beat. But it felt like it was building to something but never quite made it, making the song something of a tease.

Another top-notch week. Keep 'em comin', fellas!

The Point Spread
Courage the Cowardly Song - 2 pts.
Galaxy Trooper (Tycoon-Off '09 WINNER)- 1 pt.
Five Best Generals - 1 pt.
Shiver Mission 5 - 1 pt.
Cell Phone Boom - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Epsilon

Hopefully, no objection on my nom this time?

Artist: Chris Hülsbeck
Album Title: RAINBOWS Chris Hülsbeck Vol.3
Track Title: Super Turrican II (Preview)
Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 7
Catalog Number: HCD-5
Year: 1994
Source: Rainbows: Chris Hülsbeck Vol.3

Not an objection per se, but we've had an awful lot of Hülsbeck lately and two of his Turritunes have placed already. If this flies I'm definitely rethinking my Nobuo Uematsu nomination.

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

Just a note: all Week 158 songs are uploaded except Djinova's hyper-obscure doujin track. Once that shows up we can get some templinks and start the ball rolling.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Djinova

lolwut? Didn't I already provide a download link for that? Besides, I think you should say "get the ball rolling".

I totally missed that! Thanks for pointing out the obvious

We'll get the start roll balling at once!

I was speaking idiomatically.