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orion_mk3 · 06:36 PM

Song of the Week. 250 Weeks and counting.
Week 266 Voting is HI CHZ.
Week 267 Nominating is I'M DOING GREAT HOW ABOUT YOU.

THEME WEEK: SotW Unplugged
An acoustic (or faux-acoustic) instrumentation week, acoustic guitar being the obvious example.

Results:
1). [11] echochrome Original Sound Track - prime #59
2). [9/6.5] Rayman Origins Original Soundtrack - Shooter - Kazoo
3). [9/5] LAST RANKER Original Soundtrack - The Flower Blooms on That Shore
4). [7] Horse Isle 2 Original Soundtrack Volume I - Welcome to Horse Isle
5). [6/5] Imaginarium: songs from the Neverhood - The Battle Of Robot Bil
6). [6/4] The Best of LucasArts Original Soundtracks - Scumm Bar
7). [6/3] Granado Espada (Game Rip) - Umbrio
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Jam it back in, in the dark.

orion_mk3 · Sep 3, 2012, 05:15 PM

Thank god, someone else posted. Now I can vote without getting it automerged into the bloody threadstart post!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

orion_mk3 · 03:23 PM

You and I both know that you or Tails would have merged it anyway out of sheer cussedness.

EDIT: I guess I could vote too, while whining.

echochrome Original Sound Track - prime #59 I'll be honest: this sounds like a classical music string quartet. It may be a very good classical music string quartet, perhaps the best classical music string quartet of all time. But the fact of the matter is I find string quartet stuff terminally boring no matter how well it's done.

Gran Turismo 5 (Game Rip) - Second Driver Well, it's not the usual unchanging techno loops, that's for sure. Light loungy jazz is not at all the racing norm, but the thing about light loungy jazz is a lot like the thing about classical music string quartets. I just find the form kinda boring most of the time as anything but muzak, no matter how well it's done.

Granado Espada (Game Rip) - Umbrio I keep thinking that the Spanish name of this game will deliver a Spanish sound, but so far all the nominations have tended to be just the opposite with like a Balinese sound or something. This definitely has that laid-back Spanish sound about it, and while it could use a bit more variation as an overall sound it's not bad.

Horse Isle 2 Original Soundtrack Volume I - Welcome to Horse Isle I'll be honest, I saw the name of the game and immidiately thought of a certain Penny Arcade. But looking at industrial solvents makes me think of Penny Arcade, so whatever. It does the relaxing kinda ambient thing really well; if there's a hint of Mitsuda about it it's in the woodwinds, but there's a long way to go before matching the Mitsdude's melodic chops. Excellent Bandcamp find though; all future SotW noms should be required to come from Bandcamp forever.

Imaginarium: songs from the Neverhood - The Battle Of Robot Bil I thought someone might Neverhood us this week, if only to match Rayman quirk for quirk. It's 1000% original, of course, and features Bear Retrieval Units and Me Bil. The acapella is, as always, TST's major strong suit.

LAST RANKER Original Soundtrack - The Flower Blooms on That Shore I'll be honest: I nominated this solely on the basis of that solo acoustic guitar. But with melody to spare and that Spanish flair, it's easily the best song from LR (a strong crop to begin with).

Rayman Origins Original Soundtrack - Shooter - Kazoo I beleive that this is one of the Rayman songs by Billy Martin rather than Christophe Heral. Luckily, Martin is able to match Heral in the quirk department with a heroic melody and kazoo out the wazoo. If I had known that it was kazoos that would be the magic bullet this year, instead of squaky vocals as in years past, this would have been my BSC pick (it was on the shortlist so screw all you haters). It also continues the bizarre emergent Spanish theme this week, as the hot spice world has crazy mariachi music.

The Best of LucasArts Original Soundtracks - Scumm Bar Arr, there be piratey musics aplenty in this here song. I guess it's from Escape from Monkey Island or whatnot? Either way, it be a winnin' combination of tharr piratey and ye Caribbean the likes o' which be a Monkey Island tradition.

The Point Spread
Flower - 3 pts.
Hoarse Isle - 1 pt.
Me Bil - 1 pt.
Kazoooooooooooooooooooooooo - 1 pt.

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

orion_mk3 · Sep 6, 2012, 12:39 PM

If you are an anti-kazoo activist, a kazoo-free version of Shooter exists. Though why would you hate kazoos after all they are life and anti-kazoo bias is ruthlessly stamped out around here.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

orion_mk3 · Sep 8, 2012, 04:06 PM

Oh, and a nomination:

Album: Globulous Original Soundtrack
Artist: zircon, Jeff Ball
Song: Dawn Oblique
Track#: 1
Release Date: 6/10/12
Source: Bandcamp, bitches
Notes: This song's gonna zirc you up and kick you in the Jeff Balls

I was speaking idiomatically.