[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 261 Voting/WEEK 262 Nominating

2 points: Crepuscular
1 point: Rock Solid
1 point: Humpty Dumpty
1 point: Everyone Loves Active 2
1 point: A Distant Arena

To me, Crepuscular was the strongest of the bunch. It started off with some awesome atmospheric instrumentation and transitioned into a very groovy, catchy melody. The 1-pointers also had some strong points to them, but weren't as solid as Crepuscular.

Let's Do It Now! and Twoside were right on the edge of receiving points, but they just weren't quite strong enough to stand up to the 1-pointers. Boardwalk Cup Final was just sort of "meh". =/

(I have a hard time describing my subjective dis/enjoyment of music, so my apologies to the nominators who are looking for a better description of what I liked/didn't like about their nominations.)

My nomination:

• Album: Hoshi no Kirby 64 Original Soundtrack
• Artist: Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando
• Disc #: 1 (of 1)
• Track #: 27
• Track Title: Factory Investigation
• Catalogue Number: TECD-27457
• Year: 2000
• Source: VGMDB - Hoshi no Kirby 64 Original Soundtrack
• Additional Info: Looking back through my collection, I obtained FOUR different compilations of Kirby 64's music. One was the rip of this official soundtrack, one was a rip of some other mysterious Kirby 64 "soundtrack," and the other two were game rips. While I have posted the official information here, I will upload one of the game rip's version of the above track instead of the soundtrack's rip. The reason for this is that I believe the sound quality and volume are better and that it provides the proper number of loops. (2 loops + fadeout.) However, for the purposes of this contest, I will rename the track so that it matches the official soundtrack's information. If there is a problem with doing this, please let me know and I will upload the official soundtrack's version instead.
  
  On a less important note, I've seen this track's title translated as "Factory Investigation" and "Studying the Factory". The original title is ?????????. The dictionary translation of this would be "factory inspection" or "factory observation".

Edit: Apparently the board converts hiragana into ?'s.

Jam it back in, in the dark.