[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 237 Voting/WEEK 238 Nominating

BORDER DOWN -Sound Tracks- - Snow Fox (stage 5) Very smooth synth with a decent melody and a nice overall sound.

Brandish 2: The Planet Buster (SNES Game Rip) - Nucleus It's definitely got a nice jazzy swagger to it, but the melody lacks the chops to bust an asteroid, let alone a planet.

Galactic Pinball (Game Rip) - Lucky Star Is that title an Alien reference? That would make it a whole lot cooler than a mere atmospheric and passable chiptune.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (Game Rip) - Selection It's sad, but is it sad seven times over?

GUARDIAN HEROES - FIGHTERS OF PAIN Some nice parts, but it seels kind of disjointed at times.

Jade Empire (Game Rip) - Dawn Star Theme It may be super-Asian, but all in the service of a really fabulous melody.

Toki Tori (WiiWare Game Rip) - Bubble Barrage I really enjoyed the Toki Tori chiptunes that cropped up in the BCC or some such, so this had a high bar. The song definitely has a nice vein of quirk going on, but it lacks the pure melodic awesomeness I was hoping for.

Wacky Races (PSX Game Rip) - Chilly Thrills 5 Jazzy, but it doesn't linger long afterwards.

The Point Spread
Dawn Star Theme - 3 pts.
Snow Fox - 1 pt.
Selection - 1 pt.
Bubble Barrage - 1 pt.

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Nomination
Album: A Boy and His Blob
Artist: Daniel Sadowski
Track: Shaded Plains
Track #: 6
Release: October 5 2010
Notes: There is a low-quality looped version and a high-quality unlooped version (which can't be looped due to the way it was produced). I'm providing both to let the consumer choose.

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Originally Posted by Elorin

Despite the use of oriental instruments and some musical elements, I keep getting bugged by how it doesn't seem very Chinese to me. More so since the setting of the game is oriental.

Ironically, that's the very thing that makes me like it more than the rest of the OST, which seems *too* Chinese for my taste. The incongruity isn't unexpected as it's a western game, though to be fair it's not set in the Middle Kingdom but rather a mythical land inspired by wuxia films (which are themselves usually only loosely inspired by the real Middle Kingdom).

On another note, I think I'll make the good sounding and short version of my nom the main one, with the crappier sounding but longer version going in the extras folder.

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

So are we doing the two-week thing again?

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