[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 159 Voting/WEEK 160 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 159 Voting is closed.
Week 160 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [17] Instant Remedy - Commando
2). [14] Super Robot Wars MX Original Soundtrack - Dancing Blue
3). [11/7] You Have To Burn The Rope (Game Rip) - Now You're a Hero
4). [11/6.5] Technictix Remix Vol. 2 - shake marinade dance
5). [11/6] Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Game Rip) - Main Theme
6). [10] RAINBOWS: Chris Hülsbeck Vol. 3 - Super Turrican II (Preview)
7). [8/6.5] Genso Sangokushi II Super Arrange Version - Continental Highway
8). [8/5.5] The New Tetris (Game Rip) - Africa

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Genso Sangokushi II Super Arrange Version - Continental Highway
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Instant Remedy - Commando
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: RAINBOWS: Chris Hülsbeck Vol. 3 - Super Turrican II (Preview)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Super Robot Wars MX Original Soundtrack - Dancing Blue
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Technictix Remix Vol. 2 - shake marinade dance
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: The New Tetris (Game Rip) - Africa
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Game Rip) - Main Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: You Have To Burn The Rope (Game Rip) - Now You're A Hero

Notes:
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Week 160 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

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Originally Posted by CHz

Those didn't have to be temporary links, I uploaded the tracks to the voting directory yesterday afternoon/night/well it was some time yesterday anyway.

Whoops! Force of habit, sorry.

Additional Spam:
Genso Sangokushi II Super Arrange Version - Continental Highway Really enjoyed the pastoral beginning to this song, and I wish it had continued in that vein; what comes after is fine, but a lot less sweeping and more standard. Still quite good all in all.

Instant Remedy - Commando Interesting combo of SID-style effects and more modern synths. It gets high marks for creativity, but since I don't really like SIDtunes, that's about all it gets.

RAINBOWS: Chris Hülsbeck Vol. 3 - Super Turrican II (Preview) The Jack Nicklaus
of the SotW circuit returns with a typically above-par offering. Nice drive, good melody, and some endearingly old-fashioned synths make this a keeper and a strong contender to add another trophy to Huelsbeck's bulging SotW case.

Super Robot Wars MX Original Soundtrack - Dancing Blue A nice combination of jazzy and synthy, this. Reminds me of some old, beloved original MIDIs that came with a Macworld CD; quite good.

Technictix Remix Vol. 2 - shake marinade dance A pretty standard piece of electronica. The bleepy Mega Man inserts are nice at first, but they eventually wear out their welcome, as does the unintelligible vocalist.

The New Tetris (Game Rip) - Africa Yikes, this sounds really awful, like it was recorded on cassette from the computer speakers and then transcoded to a 16kbps mp3. I was hoping for some great world music a la Baba Yetu to offset this, but there's only an annoyingly repetitive drum loop and rather poor vocals instead.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Game Rip) - Main Theme Not the biggest fan of the Splinter Gear Solid songs that cropped up in the last BSC, so expectations were low. This song rises to the challenge, delivering a neat and intricate techno-thriller sound that's straight out of John Powell's Borne scores.

You Have To Burn The Rope (Game Rip) - Now You're A Hero Seems like the entire game was an excuse to write this song! It's cute, I laughed, but I can't see myself ever listening to it again.

Decent week.

The Point Spread
Dancing Blue - 2 pts.
Main Theme - 2 pts.
Continental Highway - 1 pt.
Super Turrican II Preview - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I think this might have been the first Hülstune not to place in living memory! But these folks like their SIDs, no doubt about it.

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