Song of the Week - Chocobo's Happy Christmas precedent debate

As I said in the other thread, we all sometime get lax in watching nominations; some may wind up slipping through. For instance, when "Chocobo's Happy Christmas" was first nominated, I wasn't sure if it contained the Chocobo theme or not, and was also something of a n00b, so I kept my mouth shut.

Keeping the precedent opens up a huge can of worms that can, among other things, result in mild arrangements of non-obscure songs in SoTW, non-VGM arrangements from people who have arranged VGM in the past, and perhaps most terrifyingly of all, licenced tracks.

If someone feels that their arrangement is an exception, they can of course make their case to the rest of us. But allowing them without question because of a single long-ago nom is ludicrous.

No

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'd say 3.

We allowed an actual Suikoden track into the contest after debate; an arrangement of that song or one of similar obscurity should be fine as a result.

The thing we really want to avoid, as Crash mentioned, is hearing the same old usual suspects in slightly revised form, and most arrangements are going to sound something like their source (otherwise, they wouldn't be arrangements!). Requiring the source itself to be at least semi-obscure is, in my view, the best way to do this.

There's nowhere I can't reach.