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

The popularity of the source material shouldn't matter one bit. However, there has to be significant distinguishing features of the arrangement for the nomination to be justified, else all we're doing is letting in what's more or less the popular track into SotW, which is the complete opposite to what SotW is about.

Any arrangement of a popular track should individually be held to a voting poll, to see if members feel that the track works in the spirit of SotW or not.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

I guess one thing I'd like to know is why the "professional" fan-arrangements exception clause exists in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I'm as big a doujin fan as the next guy, and I'm all for getting them some extra exposure. But to me the clause seems like a fairly arbitrary loophole, designed to allow a few favorites from select arrangers like S.S.H. and MintJam to slip in.

I dunno, it just seems like roundabout way of nominating popular Square/Nintendo/etc. tracks, since the actual originals would never be eligible otherwise. I mean, is there any other real rationale behind saying that as long as somebody happened to work on a few commercial H-games later on, all their previous arrangements suddenly retroactively become fair game?

I agree with you whole heartedly.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

As an aside note, let me just add for what it's worth that the Dragon Roost Island track that slipped in awhile back was SotW's greatest accident. Although I was familiar with the original, that arrangement's heavenly and I'm glad I got a chance to hear it.

There was arrangement?

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