[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 202 Voting/WEEK 203 Nominating

Song of the Week. 200 Weeks and counting.
Week 202 Voting is phlegmatic.
Week 203 Nominating is choleric.

Results:
1). [17] Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.5 ~ Thunder Force IV - Stand Up Against Myself - Staff Roll Arrange
2). [14] Silver Surfer (NSF Rip) - The Super Surfers (High Scores)
3). [13] Shinsekai Kivandelyan - Batsu Monster's Carnival
4). [12] Winter Gold (Game Rip) - Medals
5). [11] Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack 'Zero Gravity Tracks' - Blast Town
6). [7] Blaze and Blade ~Eternal Quest~ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Mine Cart
7). [5/3] Million KNights Vermilion Original Soundtrack - Cheerful Party
8). [5/2.5] Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 5 - Playground

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Blaze and Blade ~Eternal Quest~ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Mine Cart
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 5 - Playground
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Million KNights Vermilion Original Soundtrack - Cheerful Party
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shinsekai Kivandelyan - Batsu Monster's Carnival
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Silver Surfer (NSF Rip) - The Super Surfers (High Scores)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack 'Zero Gravity Tracks' - Blast Town
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.5 ~ Thunder Force IV - Stand Up Against Myself - Staff Roll Arrange
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Winter Gold (Game Rip) - Medals

Notes:
Silver Surfer (NSF Rip) - The Super Surfers (High Scores) is extracted from emulated audio. A version of the piece recorded directly from NES hardware can be found in the extras directory.

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I've uploaded Drakken's preferred version to the FTP, though only CHz has the authority to move it into the voting folder. As for which version we should use, my instinct says to go with what the nominator wants.

On another note, here are the theme week proposals we have so far. Let's get to choosin'!

Famous Game, Obscure Name: Take well-known games (that wouldn't cut the mustard otherwise) and open them up with one caveat, that people nominate one of the most obscure tracks from the album.

March of the Intros: Intro/main menu themes can be important for setting the mood of a game, regardless of genre. And they tend to be very short affairs, with some exceptions, so such a week could be an extended 60s week of sorts.

Whimsical Wonderland Week: With Alice in Wonderland hitting screens next week, perhaps we could do a whimsical week with numbers like slapstick songs and tunes that don't take themselves too seriously.

SyFyLis Channel Original Musics: Nominate your most out of this world game tracks with a sci-fi connection. Maybe tie-in with some major sci-fi game/TV series/movie launch.

Epic Proportions: Minimum song length of somewhere between 7-10 minutes, unlooped. And no maximum.

SotW Unplugged: An acoustic (or faux-acoustic) instrumentation week.

Instrument Discussion International of the Season (IDIotS): A week built around a specific instrument, like violin or piano.

Jap Bitch Can't Sing Weak: VGM with vocals, whether good, bad or plain ugly.

The Anti-Battle: Take the eight lowest scoring tracks in SotW history; Vote on Worst of the Worst with negative points given out.

.38 Doujin Special: Temporarily remove the rule against doujin (fanmade remixes) for a week of OCR-inspired madness.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Blaze and Blade ~Eternal Quest~ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Mine Cart Sounds like Uematsu's "Devil's Lab" on acid, which is not entirely a bad thing though I can't see myself listening to it too often.

Flyff (Game Rip) - Theme 5 - Playground Pure kooky fun. SoundTEMP can be tiresome at times, but few peeps do exuberent or kooky as well. The faux sax on this one gets me every time.

Million KNights Vermilion Original Soundtrack - Cheerful Party I thought that was a typo but apparently they're not knights by KNights, which brings a certain herpetological comedy troupe to mind. The song itself is a pretty standard rock tune, without much flair aside from a rather misleading pening and loop.

Shinsekai Kivandelyan - Batsu Monster's Carnival The word "carnival" creates certain expectations, which aren't really fulfilled here. Instead, there's bizarre off-kilter jazz and whispers that sound right out of a porno (and, for all I know about this game, they are!).

Silver Surfer (NSF Rip) - The Super Surfers (High Scores) I'm an apostate of the Church of the Brothers Follin, generally neutral or negative on most of their stuff, which I know puts me pretty far outside of the VGM mainstream. This is one of the better tracks I've heard from them, with a genuinely catchy level of funk and some of the more annoying (to me) tendencies reined in.

Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack 'Zero Gravity Tracks' - Blast Town Decent jazzy stuff, but not a whole lot of meat.

Technosoft GAME MUSIC COLLECTION VOL.5 ~ Thunder Force IV - Stand Up Against Myself - Staff Roll Arrange Your basic synth rock song. It's got more flair than Cheerful Party, but not a whole lot that moved me.

Winter Gold (Game Rip) - Medals Doesn't sound like any Olympic fanfare I've ever heard, but has its moments.

The Point Spread
Playground - 3 pts.
Super Surfers - 2 pts.
Mine Cart - 1 pt.

And, as if this post wasn't gargantuan enough...
Special Week Preferences
1. Instrument Discussion International of the Season (IDIotS) (specifically, a piano week)
2. Epic Proportions (no ideas for noms yet, but would like to see what people come up with)
3. Jap Bitch Can't Sing Weak (I have a great song for this from YDKJ4).

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

Bah, ignominious defeat once again. At least my idea for a piano week seems to have caught on.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Muzza

Hey! I thought it was my idea! I hardly ever win SotW so I at least want this victory under my belt!

I think I can match you blow for blow in the SotW failure arena, friend

Whoever had the idea, it looks to be the winner of our theme week contest anyhow. I counted up the votes from this week using a simple point system not unlike SotW itself (first choices got three points, last choices got one, people who had no order gave 2 points to everything):

01. IDIotS Piano - 15
02. (tie) Famous Game, Obscure Name - 12
02. (tie) Jap Bitch Can't Sing Weak - 12
04. Epic Proportions - 10
05. Whimsical Wonderland Week - 9
06. March of the Intros - 4
07. IDIotS Any - 3
08. IDIotS Saxophone - 2
09. SotW Unplugged - 2
10. SyFyLis Channel Original Musics - 2
11. .38 Doujin Special - 1

The second place tie is a super-tie in that they both have the same number of bonus points. I say we take the top 4 or 5, anoint them the Theme Weeks of the Future, and run them in order a few weeks apart.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Sorry, I thought we were going to talk about theme weeks first. My bad.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?