[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 205 Voting/WEEK 206 Nominating

Song of the Week. 200 Weeks and counting.
Week 205 Voting is discombobulated.
Week 206 Nominating is rejected.

THEME WEEK
We have a theme week this week: Instrument Discussion International of the Season (IDIotS) - piano aka Piano Theme Week, where all nominated tracks must either be solely piano tracks or at least feature the piano as the lead instrument!

Results:
1). [24] Flyable Sound! -Flyable Heart Original Sound Tracks- - Caravan for 2 Pianos
2). [18] SHADOW HEARTS II Original Soundtracks - Inugami Village
3). [14] Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Game Rip) - The Secret Passage
4). [13] Okami Piano Arrange - Cursed Shinshu Plains
5). [10] Hello Kitty Online (Game Rip) - TokyoChatRoom_v1
6). [8] Beyond Good & Evil - Thoughtful reflections
7). [5] Friends ~The Radiance of Youth~ Acoustic Arrange Version - Momoko's Theme
8). [4] Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos (Game Rip) - Special Ending Theme

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Beyond Good and Evil - Thoughtful reflections
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Flyable Sound! -Flyable Heart Original Sound Tracks- - Caravan for 2 Pianos
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Friends ~The Radiance of Youth~ Acoustic Arrange Version - Momoko's Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Gabriel Knight 3 - Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Game Rip) - The Secret Passage
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Hello Kitty Online (Game Rip) - TokyoChatRoom_v1
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Okami Piano Arrange - Cursed Shinshu Plains
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Queen's Blade - Spiral Chaos (Game Rip) - Special Ending Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: SHADOW HEARTS II Original Soundtracks - Inugami Village

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

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Originally Posted by ZiggyGo

Sorry for my seeming lack of participation in the past few weeks. I've been extremely busy/sick so I am not always motivated to visit every site I normally frequent. That should change this week though!

I know exactly how you feel, man. Good to see you around again!

Beyond Good and Evil - Thoughtful reflections There's a bit of synth padding here, but it's 97% piano by volume. BG&E excels musically in every area, and piano is no exception. This is one of the relatively few suites from the official soundtrack where the edits make sense, too.

Flyable Sound! -Flyable Heart Original Sound Tracks- - Caravan for 2 Pianos Starts off soft before mutating into an enjoyable gypsy dance with nice drive and melody.

Friends ~The Radiance of Youth~ Acoustic Arrange Version - Momoko's Theme A little more minimalist than the last selection. Good as atmosphere but not cohesive enough.

Gabriel Knight 3 - Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Game Rip) - The Secret Passage Nice classical feel; the ascending runs are particularly neat.

Hello Kitty Online (Game Rip) - TokyoChatRoom_v1 Belies its franchise's cutesy reputation with a very nice atmospheric tune.

Okami Piano Arrange - Cursed Shinshu Plains Not being a big fan of the original Okami musics, I didn't expect to like this either. I guess the piano arrangement stripped away a lot of the things I didn't like about it, though, since it's not bad (if a bit restrained).

Queen's Blade - Spiral Chaos (Game Rip) - Special Ending Theme The first thing this week to have actual supporting instruments. Frankly I think they detract from it (especially the 1970's strings); a solo piano version would have been something to cherish.

SHADOW HEARTS II Original Soundtracks - Inugami Village I generally like Mitsuda's sparse contributions to SH better than Hirota's weird-ass ones. As you might expect from someone who learned to play on the piano (and as you might expect from someone whose name is Mitsuda) it's lovely, and has a lot more depth than most of the other selections.

Point allocation was tough; Piano Week was everything I hoped it would be. Let's have another one real soon, okay?

The Point Spread
Thoughtful Reflections - 3 pts.
Caravan 2 - 1 pt.
Secret Passage - 1 pt.
Inugami Village - 1 pt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I usually vote as soon as somebody else posts so that my voting won't be auto-merged into the first post, mostly cuz I tend to vote over my lunch break at work. So moving voting won't really affect me one way or the other.

It may be that this week was a bit of a fluke, since a lot of people didn't like the theme and therefore put voting off (I'd like to see anyone pull that when we get to Jap Bitch Can't Sing Weak, though).

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

Originally Posted by Muzza

I see what you did there, sadly.

It's been like that from the beginning, honestly!

How ya doing, buddy?