[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 207 Voting/WEEK 208 Nominating

Song of the Week. 200 Weeks and counting.
Week 207 Voting is debuffed.
Week 208 Nominating is weakened.

Results:
1). [21] beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Mind Mapping
2). [20] The Blithe, the Blend & the Bizarre - Mutants
3). [12] Microsoft Puzzle Collection (GBC Game Rip) - Rat Poker
4). [10] Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World (Game Rip) - Albrassia Field
5). [8] ROCKMAN X ALPH-LYLA with Toshiaki Otsubo - Epilogue - The Transient Silence ~ENDING STAGE~
6). [7] Devil's Crush (Game Rip) - Main Theme
7). [3/3] Lux-Pain (Game Rip) - Fate
8). [3/2] Tempest 2000 The Soundtrack - Future Tense

Tracks
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Mind Mapping
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Devil's Crush (Game Rip) - Main Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Lux-Pain (Game Rip) - Fate
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Microsoft Puzzle Collection (GBC Game Rip) - Rat Poker
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ragnarok Online 2 - The Gate of the World (Game Rip) - Albrassia Field
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: ROCKMAN X ALPH-LYLA with Toshiaki Otsubo - Epilogue - The Transient Silence ~ENDING STAGE~
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Tempest 2000 The Soundtrack - Future Tense
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: The Blithe, the Blend and the Bizarre - Mutants


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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Mind Mapping These Beatmania tracks crop up like a bad rash every few weeks, and they don't generally make much of an impression on me. This week's selection is a little better than usual thanks to the chippy samples it uses and a slightly greater emphasis on melody and development over mindless trance.

Devil's Crush (Game Rip) - Main Theme In my opinion, all songs should be looped always with only a few obvious exceptions (like cutscene music). It should be as law. The music itself isn't bad, with some nice bits interspersed with some fairly long dry stretches and a few cringeworthy instrument selections.

Lux-Pain (Game Rip) - Fate I knew from the first few notes that this was an Ito piece; his fingerprints are all over it. As far as hist stuff goes, this is middling but at least upper middling, like a reject from Romancing SaGa 3.

Microsoft Puzzle Collection (GBC Game Rip) - Rat Poker Not sure I want to know what "rat poker" involves. According to Mobygames, pink rodents and balls are heavily involved (!). At leas the music doesn't have any bizarre sexual overtones, being as it is competent C64-style bleepiness.

Ragnarok Online 2 - The Gate of the World (Game Rip) - Albrassia Field There's a melody here, but the song is really all about a peaceful, pastoral atmosphere (I thought about it for Piano Week, but there was too much else going on). I especially like the bits of jazzy color that get thrown in here and there to liven up the cyclical music; it's like Gershwin meets Glass.

ROCKMAN X ALPH-LYLA with Toshiaki Otsubo - Epilogue - The Transient Silence ~ENDING STAGE~ With a name like that, I certainly didn't expect smooth 80's jazz. And, to be fair, as 80's jazz goes it's not bad.

Tempest 2000 The Soundtrack - Future Tense Random dialigue quotes = instant fail. This sounds like what I expected from Beatmania: mindless, disorganized, trancey noise.

The Blithe, the Blend and the Bizarre - Mutants I was a bit troubled about this one before CHz cleared it up, but can now approach it from a neutral POV. It's an okay funk cocktail, but its best part (the ballad guitar near the loop) isn't built upon enough to make up for the longer, duller music that precedes it.

The Point Spread
Albrassia Field - 3 pts.
Mind Mapping - 1 pt.
Fate - 1 pt.
Rat Poker - 1 pt.

Nommon
* Album Title: Riz-Zoawd
* Composers: Hitoshi Sakimoto
* Track Title: Sandy Beach of Star Fragments
* Source: VGMdb
* Disc Number: 1
* Track Number: 20
* Catalogue Number: KDSD-00264~5
* Release date: Feb 25, 2009

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by CHz

Alright, so.

I've got a trip coming up, and I'm going to be gone for more than two weeks. Kaleb will NOT be able to cover for me, so the choices are either one or more people take up voting management, track research, etc. while I'm gone, or we put this sucker on hiatus. I'll be gone from April 21 to May 7, so that affects the end of Battle 26, all of Week 209, and the start of Week 210.

Anyone interested? If not, Kaleb suggests checking out Rimo's new site Lost VGM in the interim.

I can do it, as long as I get permission/username/whatever to move songs around on the server.

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