[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 185 Voting/WEEK 186 Nominating

Song of the Week. 175 Weeks and counting.
Week 185 Voting is on full permanent lockdown.
Week 186 Nominating is banned for life.

Results:
1). [23] Cloud OST - Fluffy Sweet
2). [18] WOLF FANG - TUMBLE POP - MIDNIGHT CHASER - 'Breakthrough'
3). [12/8] First Samurai (Amiga Game Rip) – Intro
4). [12/7] Ray'z PREMIUM BOX -BEYOND- - PENETRATION
5). [10] POPOROGUE Original Soundtrack - Pietro's Journey (instrumental)
6). [6/6] Hurrican (Game Rip) - Flugsack Ritt
7). [6/4.5] MediEvil - Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Hilltop Mausoleum (Hilltop Mausoleum suite)
8). [3] Silpheed - The Lost Planet (Game Rip) – Ranking

Tracks:
Permanent links
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Cloud OST - Fluffy Sweet
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: First Samurai (Amiga Game Rip) – Intro
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Hurrican (Game Rip) - Flugsack Ritt
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: MediEvil - Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Hilltop Mausoleum (Hilltop Mausoleum suite)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: POPOROGUE Original Soundtrack - Pietro's Journey (instrumental)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ray'z PREMIUM BOX -BEYOND- - PENETRATION
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Silpheed - The Lost Planet (Game Rip) – Ranking
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: WOLF FANG - TUMBLE POP - MIDNIGHT CHASER - 'Breakthrough'

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 nominees, giving points to at least 3 songs, giving no song more than 3 points, and giving no more than one of their choices 3 points. Possible ways of voting include:

Spoiler:

"Traditional"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.

"Even Stevens"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 2 pts.

"Tough Decision"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Nomination Bias"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Indecisive"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.

"Shotgun Spread"
Song1 - 1 pt.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.
Song6 - 1 pt.

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Server information:

Spoiler:

* Host: ftp.sotw.info
* Username: nominations@sotw.info (that is the actual username; not an e-mail address)
* Password: gff
* Port: 21

Week 186 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

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Cloud OST - Fluffy Sweet Very light and airy, as you'd expect from a game about clouds, with an energy and slightly melancholy tone that I really like. I wholeheartedly recommend the whole OST, and hopefully "Flower" by the same composer gets a release someday.

First Samurai (Amiga Game Rip) – Intro Not very ninja-y…sounds more like something from an old school urban beat 'em up. It's got rhythm but not a whole lot else.

Hurrican (Game Rip) - Flugsack Ritt Is Hurrican related to Turrican? The music is in that same hyper shmup style, though this lacks the flair I've come to associate with the latter. The title "Flugsack Ritt" sounds like a comic relief alien from the new Star Wars.

MediEvil - Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Hilltop Mausoleum (Hilltop Mausoleum suite) I think the new version of MediEvil has a much better sound than its predecessors, though I'm not sure if this kind of dark and heavy choral work will resonate with SotW voters at large.

POPOROGUE Original Soundtrack - Pietro's Journey (instrumental) I'm always up for a good acoustic guitar piece, and this one's a treat. Not the most complex song in the world, but satisfying.

Ray'z PREMIUM BOX -BEYOND- - PENETRATION The title had me thinking this would be porno music (come on, you were thinking that too!), but it's really closer to Sonic in style by my estimation. Decent if unspectacular.

Silpheed - The Lost Planet (Game Rip) – Ranking Decent shmup stylings with a few parts that stand out above the norm, though the comm noises at the beginning are annoying and a little amateurish.

WOLF FANG - TUMBLE POP - MIDNIGHT CHASER - 'Breakthrough' Energetic and pleasant but not especially memorable.

The Point Spread
Fluffy Sweet – 3 pts.
Pietro's Journey – 2 pts.
Hilltop Mausoleum – 1 pt.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Muzza

Can anyone translate the track title from Gaelic to English? I'm curious to see what it means.

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Originally Posted by Stalky

Translated from German that title would be "Flying-bag Ride" by the way. I suspect that "Flugsack" is a bad attempt at translating "Jetpack" to German.

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

I think that reducing the number of tracks per week might be a good experiment to improve nomination turnover. Cutting it to 5 or 6 seems about right, which would fit better with a pool of 14-16 regular participants than 8. I'd also consider a little inter-forum advertising--maybe a nice modpost/modpimp--and possibly PMing some lapsed members to see if they're interested in coming back to the True Faith.

Also, nomination:
Album: Magna Carta
Artist: Sung-Woon Jang
Disc: 2 (of 2)
Track: 06
Track Title: Town of Notia
Catalog Number: FCCT-0026
Year: 2004
Source: VGMdb
Notes: Looped for your pleasure.

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Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Would it cause any problem for me to nominate right now even though one of my tracks is currently up for voting?

I did just that a few days ago and no one seemed to have a problem with it.

Also, I think we may want to close voting this week--discussion can and should continue, but the vote well seems to have run dry.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by CHz

I was planning on it! I figured we could get the next week's tracks up too because it's not like anyone votes before the weekend. We can cover a batch of eight (thanks d00ds) and then figure out where to go from there.

Actually, I was anxious to close because it looked like I might win for the first time since 2007 We all know you were trying to stave off that grim outcome by keeping things open as long as possible, ADMIT IT!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?