[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 170 Voting/WEEK 171 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 170 Voting is closed.
Week 171 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [26] L'esprit de l'exil - Canary Creeper
2). [16] Castle Crashers (Game Rip) - Jumper
3). [15/11.5] Street Fighter EX2 - SPINNING BIRD (Chun-Li)
4). [15/8.5] Bermuda Syndrome The Symphonic Soundtrack - The Coral Sea
5). [10/8] Rush 2 Extreme Racing USA (Game Rip) - Introduction Movie
6). [10/7] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 PS2 Game Rip) - Streets
7). [9] Music From Yaksa & Arcus - Origin of the Master's Roots
8). [7] The Sword of Xuan Yuan Side Story Clouds of the Han Dynasty (Game Rip) - Clip82

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Bermuda Syndrome The Symphonic Soundtrack - The Coral Sea
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Castle Crashers (Game Rip) - Jumper
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: L'esprit de l'exil - Canary Creeper
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Music From Yaksa & Arcus - Origin of the Master's Roots
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Rush 2 Extreme Racing USA (Game Rip) - Introduction Movie
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Street Fighter EX2 - SPINNING BIRD (Chun-Li)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 PS2 Game Rip) - Streets
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: The Sword of Xuan Yuan Side Story Clouds of the Han Dynasty (Game Rip) - Clip82

Notes:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 PS2 Game Rip) - Streets was originally in WMA format. A copy has been placed in the extras folder for those demanding original encoding quality.
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Week 171 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

With BSC '09 starting up, it's time to start thinking about the traditional SotW Summer Hiatus. I forget what we did last year--did we quit during round one voting or just go to a two-week format during the whole thing? Since Tails promises a compressed timetable, we'd best sort this out soon. Anyway:

Bermuda Syndrome The Symphonic Soundtrack - The Coral Sea Really interesting; it's very sedate, but not at all the calypso kind of sedate you'd expect. More a neoclassical sort of easy-listening NPR music. The melody could be stronger, and there are some dull spots, but a pleasant surprise overall.

Castle Crashers (Game Rip) - Jumper Like most of this OST, original and non-original, this is pure unadulterated bleepy fun. A little on the short side, but what's there is gold.

L'esprit de l'exil - Canary Creeper This is what I ws epecting the Bermuda song to sound like. There's nothing wrong with this sort of lazy lounge music, it's just not my bag.

Music From Yaksa & Arcus - Origin of the Master's Roots Decent chiptune-style music, but nothing that really made an impression.

Rush 2 Extreme Racing USA (Game Rip) - Introduction Movie Some okay synth licks here and there, but nothing that really gets the blood pumping. At least it sounds fairly original for a racing track.

Street Fighter EX2 - SPINNING BIRD (Chun-Li) I feel like I could say all the things for this song that I could for the last one, replacing "racing" with "fighting." There's a subtle Asian lit to the music, but still not enough to make it really stand out.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 PS2 Game Rip) - Streets I had high hopes for this one, since NES and SNES Turtles music was generally really good. Sadly, while energetic, the music isn't much to write home about--not much melody, just atmosphere generated by en endless stream of funky chords.

The Sword of Xuan Yuan Side Story Clouds of the Han Dynasty (Game Rip) - Clip82 Raises a good synth-orchestra ruckus, but in the end it sort of uses volume as a way of overcoming compositional flaws. Still some good parts, though.

Ugh, what people said about last week (which I liked) describes this week. I guess we're all saving our A-Game for the BSC.

The Point Spread
Jumper - 3 pts.
The Coral Sea - 2 pts.
Clip82 - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So are we going into 2-week SotW's starting this week, or next?

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

Okay, then, by the power vested in me by the state of CHz, I declare that this will be a two-week SotW. We're already halfway there, why not make it official.Unless he decides to override me and end voting. Which he can do.

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