[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 173 Voting/WEEK 174 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 173 Voting is closed.
Week 174 Nominating is restricted.

Results
1). [17] ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo! (arranged by Raito)
2). [15] Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
3). [13] Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
4). [11/7.5] Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
5). [11/6] Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
6). [10] www.richardjacques.com - Starship Troopers Suite
7). [7] Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
8). [6] Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: www.richardjacques.com - Starship Troopers Suite


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Week 173 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Major props to ikkei and Klondike; I had those Fantasy Earth and Danny Baranowsky titles in my nom queue. I have to say that I'm not sure about Crash's nom, though; much as I like Cyndi Lauper, the fact that it's an adaptation of a movie song makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm the only one. Anyhoo:

Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu Not as fast-paced as the "accele" would suggest, it's nevertheless a solid bit of SNESin'.

Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire This has all the Gothic chops I'd expect for bloodsucker music, and if it's not the strongest such music ever it at least acquits itself admirably.

Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards Well at least no one can accuse this of being the same old Motoi. Sadly, it's pretty dull in spite of using some interesting instruments--probably another song that works better in the game than as a standalone listen.

Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron Not at all what I expected; not very fond of the vox (no, I don't want to play a game) but the 80's style electronics are excellent. Kind of long though; could easily be cut in half without sacrificing any content.

Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4 Hard to believe that this is the only other VGM credit of Steve Burke, who wrote Kameo. It's a nice punchy bit of synth that, while not spectacular, is nevertheless pretty fun.

Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A) The third synthy track in a row is also the weakest--there are some neat rhythmic tricks but otherwise it's a wasteland.

ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo! This takes the sound of Immortal and does it one better by presenting an excellent melody. Quite good, and the likely winner this week.

www. richardjacques. com - Starship Troopers Suite While this does contain the standard drum beats you'd expect from a wargame track, it's also got a strongly triumphant feel and a few sections of contemplative sci-fi beauty reminiscent of Basil Poledouris.

The Point Spread
Starship Troopers Suite - 3 pts.
PitytheFoo - 1 pt.
Alternate Theme 4 - 1 pt.
Battle Squad - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Muzza

Edit: What is this Richard Jacques propaganda

GFF is automatically parsing his website in the track title. Either that or CHz is a huge Jacques fan and is painstakingly editing each entry to link to the site so that all may prostrate themselves before his altar.

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

I totally called this one for perhaps the first time ever! If it hadn't been for nombias my point spread would totally have mirrored the result.

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