Song of the Week - WEEK 98 Voting/WEEK 99 Nominating

Didn't listen to the songs enough this week in order to vote. Choppastyle probably deserved the gold. Not sure about #2 and 3.

I have to say I really enjoyed Wanlong Mamoth. Sometimes tracks made up of a bunch of samples like this can be really enjoyable.

I also want to say that Grand Fantasm has much better tracks; it's kind of odd that this one got nominated. Nothing against whoever nominated it, of course, we all have our own tastes.

Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

Nomination:

* Artist: (Assumed to be) Hitoshi Sakimoto (the composer credits for this game seem to also include Masaharu Iwata, Kimihiro Abe, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, and Manabu Namiki)
* Album: Odin Sphere (game rip)
* Title: Winterhorn Mountain - At War
* Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
* Track Number: N/A
* Year: 2007

Linky.

I don't think there's an official rule about nominating songs from newly released games, but I think the unofficial majority stance was to give games some time to see if their music (and the game itself) becomes popular. Iirc, someone nominated Zero from Ace Combat 5 when it was only out in Japan, but people said since there was a good chance its music would be popular / it was a high-profile title, it shouldn't be allowed.

Obviously, if you're nominating something from some no-name game that just came out, it would be a different matter. But considering Odin Sphere's received a lot of attention and features music by Sakimoto (mainly due to the latter), I'd say hold off on that, at least for now. If a few months go by and no one seems to care / talk about the music, then maybe it would be fine.

At least, that's my take on the matter. Other thoughts?

Jam it back in, in the dark.