[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 165 Voting/WEEK 166 Nominating

Streetwize should be download-only, as it streams slower than its actual speed (and thus lower as well).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I say definitely not, but then I seem to have a much stricter idea of what SotW should be than most people do. It's my understanding that SotW is meant to highlight more obscure vgm that most people probably haven't heard, and I don't think Lost Odyssey falls into that category.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Why's that? If someone nominates something of his from an obscure older game or a Flash game or something else that not many people know about, that could be fine. You just happened to pick a current major title of his; of course that's going to be too well known.

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

3 pts. - Streetwize
2 pts. - WAR OH! (Boss Scene 1)
1 pt. - [UK PROGRESSIVE] mind the gap

A decently enjoyable week, with WAR OH! the only real standout aside from my nom. I love Mothersbaugh's Sims work, and Blocks Up Hoe Down is a well constructed piece, but hoedown type music isn't my thing. I'll have to check out the rest of the Boom Blox soundtrack, though. Flying is very solid for what it is, but it didn't jump out at me as this amazing song like I would have expected based on all the comments. Subway and Till the crack of doom didn't do anything for me. Geryon Hill was close to getting a point.


Also, Paper Mario? C'mon, now.

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

From the Wiki:

"The purpose of this event is to promote the proliferation of quality video game music that is seldom heard amongst the society of VGM fans."

Besides a good amount of people hearing it in-game (as Paper Mario was a popular game and one of the only good RPGs on the N64), I'm pretty sure the soundtrack itself is really well known among vgm fans. Thus, not "seldom heard" by any stretch.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yay! I'm glad people enjoyed Streetwize. I encourage those who liked this and Pull Back the Bass (took 2nd in week 62) to check out the rest of the JJ2 soundtrack, it's fantastic.

I was just looking at my SotW history - it took me till week 83 to get my first gold, and now 82 weeks later I get my second. That's consistency (or ineptitude).

Originally Posted by Chuckster

I feel like I've heard versions of the Brandon "sound" in this track as well as others, but I'm not going to hold it against him.

He definitely has a signature sound, and that sound is what I love.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?