[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 165 Voting/WEEK 166 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 165 Voting is closed.
Week 166 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [21] Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Streetwize
2). [17] Darius Remix - WAR OH! (Boss Scene 1)
3). [15] Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 6 - Flying
4). [11] Cybernator (Game Rip) - Till the crack of doom (Final Stage)
5). [8] beatmaniaIIDX12 HAPPY SKY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - [UK PROGRESSIVE] mind the gap
6). [7] Boom Blox Original Music - Blocks Up Hoe Down
7). [3] Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - Geryon Hill
8). [2] TimeSplitters Future Perfect (Game Rip) - Subway

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: beatmaniaIIDX12 HAPPY SKY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - [UK PROGRESSIVE] mind the gap
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Boom Blox Original Music - Blocks Up Hoe Down
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Cybernator (Game Rip) - Till the crack of doom (Final Stage)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Darius Remix - WAR OH! (Boss Scene 1)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 6 - Flying
Please use the download link: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Streetwize
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - Geryon Hill
Please use the download link: TimeSplitters Future Perfect (Game Rip) - Subway

Notes:
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Week 166 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Streetwize should be download-only, as it streams slower than its actual speed (and thus lower as well).

All done. If you listened to the weird version of the song, be sure to listen again.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

beatmaniaIIDX12 HAPPY SKY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - [UK PROGRESSIVE] mind the gapThis one's all over the place. Some parts are all Kikuta-esque fusion, whikle others pour on the synths and still others go full-on 80's techno. The individual parts are quite good, but slapped together they just don't mesh.

Boom Blox Original Music - Blocks Up Hoe Down Mark Mothersbaugh is always good in a pinch, though I had no idea he was behind Boom Blox 'til now. He whips up a catchy and infectious country western stomp here, and what it lacks in originality it makes up for with goofy fun. I'll have to check out the rest of this OST.

Cybernator (Game Rip) - Till the crack of doom (Final Stage) Pretty good chiptuney synth stylings here. It's maybe not the most remarkable song on the planet, but what it does it does well.

Darius Remix - WAR OH! (Boss Scene 1) The gimmicks at the beginning are kind of annoying, but once things even out this should fulfil our voting member's daily requirement for funky Latin fusion.

Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 6 - Flying Exactly what a flying theme calls for: a good, fast-paced melody that soars right along. The piano and synths are especially nice touches.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Streetwize Alex Brandon is another composer who usually comes through, and sure enough he delivers a delicious tracker-influenced song here. The synth lead is excellent, and the rhythm keeps things moving at a jaunty pace.

Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - Geryon Hill Not bad as Japanese symphonic arrangements go, without the usual thin performances or questionable orchestration in evidence.

TimeSplitters Future Perfect (Game Rip) - Subway The opening is pretty bad, sounding more like a real subway than anything with a mass of noise (which returns sporadically to interrupt things). The beats that later come in are promising until they're repeated without much alteration 2000 times.

Good week, with only one real dud in the lot.

The Point Spread
Flying - 3 pts.
Streetwize - 2 pts.
Blocks Up Hoe Down - 1 pt.

Nomination
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Album Title: Lost Odyssey
Track Title: Theme of Pirates
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: 30
Catalog Number: SVWC-7514~5
Year: 2008

EDIT: Good God, Crash and I have the same point distribution, posted within twenty minutes of each other. Surely a sign of the coming apocalypse

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

Doesn't seem like Lost Odyssey is going to fly. No big; I'll change it:

Composer: Winifred Phillips
Album Title: SimAnimals
Track Title: Forest Song (End Credits)
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: 19

I suppose this also has the effect of banning Uematsu from SotW completely; maybe we should write that into the rules.

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

Originally Posted by Drakken

Why's that? If someone nominates something of his from an obscure older game or a Flash game or something else that not many people know about, that could be fine. You just happened to pick a current major title of his; of course that's going to be too well known.

I don't think any such titles exist, frankly. And I consider Lost Odyssey a minor title at best; it doesn't get discussed much around here.

But it doesn't matter. I'll just save that song for the BSC, if we have one this year.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by CHz

I was just looking up info now: that soundtrack was released on January 19 of this year, so it's not going to be three months by the time it comes up (next week, man we need nominations).

I swear I'm not targeting your nominations.

Oh, I see how it is. You're afraid that the raw, animal power my nominations will unleash will sweep me to victory, and you can't handle it! So you've all conspired to keep me in my place--fifth place. Very well, but my vengeance will be slow in the making and swift in the unleashing!

Seriously, though, just bank SimAnimals for later.

Nomination #3
Album Title: Mass Effect
Artist: Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Richard Jaques, David Kates
Track Title: Virmire Ride
Source: Kataah's rip
Year: 2007

Incidentally, I don't have a problem with Paper Mario. This week has given me a much more laissez-faire attitude on that point.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?