[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 193 Voting/WEEK 194 Nominating

Aion (Game Rip) - The Still, Sad World Anybody who's read even a handful of my SotW posts shoudl know that this is the sort of thing that does it for me every time. Piano, ghostly vocals, great melody--it's all there. I can't beleive they left this off the official OST, but it was worth combing through all 4GB of the game rip to find.

Choukou Gasshin Xardion - Ending Nicely dark and textured music, even if the melody leaves a little to be desired.

dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU [arrange album] - Mixed Melody (Stage 4) Mixed melody is right. I was really digging the piano intro, but the song becomes a lot more conventional after that. It does pick up after a bit, though it never really finds an equilibrium.

Iji soundtrack - Organ Smash Eh.Grungy guitar and electro-organ don't really do much for me. Even the cowbell can't add a lot of interest.

#ModArchive Story (Game Rip) - Music Madness - Part 1 I like the melody and structure, but this chiptune sounds seriously out of tune, like the recording was screwed up or something. It's also not looped with a hard cutoff, and I think I noticed some volume artifacts too.

Neotokyo - Annul Interesting, with trance-style electronics set against slightly bizarre children chanting and vaguely operatic moaning. The vocal effects are neat, but I'm not sure how much they can carry the rest of the song.

Scarlett Reservation Special CD - -United States 70's- I didn't experience the United States 70's, but this sounds close enough I guess.

Sing!! Street Fighter II Instrumental Version - masked narcissist [BALROG] Never really cared for the whole Street Fighter thing. This vaguely latin piece does at least have a good beat and keyboarding, though.

Good week. There was something to like about almost all the music.

The Point Spread
Aion - 3 pts.
Xardion - 1 pt.
DAI-OU-JOU - 1 pt.
Neotokyo - 1 pt.

Om Nom Nom
* Album Title: EA Playground Game Soundtrack
* Artist: Darrell Brown
* Track Title: Buggin' NB
* Source: EA Playground - VGMdb
* Disc Number: 1
* Track Number: 1
* Year: 2008

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ooh, so close! Ah well. Anything with "Tokyo" in the name is pretty much guaranteed to win on the internet anymore, amirite?

There's nowhere I can't reach.