Song of the Week - WEEK 62 Voting/WEEK 63 Nominating

You know, my nom would've placed last week if I actually got off my rump and voted, maybe I should just vote every week

3 points: Wild Arms 4 (I'd have rather seen the actual opening nominated, rather than this remix, but it's such a good song, this gets my points anyway.)

2 points: Chaos Seed

1 point: Mother

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, with all this talk of my nom, I'll weigh in:

I love the Suikoden 1 OST, and perhaps some songs on it ARE too popular, but that song, I didn't remember before hearing it on the OST, so it becomes a matter of do we blanket ban certain OSTs or just the most popular tracks from them. If someone nominates "Distortions in the Void of Despair" from Valkyrie Profile, do we disallow it because "Fighting the Shadowy Gods" is super-popular, or do we allow single songs on their own popularity? If I nominated "Beautiful Golden City," "Tiny Characters in a Huge World," or "Confrontation with Monsters," then I can see it being too popular, but my nom is probably one of the OST's lesser known tracks.

And the game's popularity has never really been the deciding factor on SotW. I remember Week 23 all too well, where my Tengai Makyou 2 nom was beaten at the very end by a track from The Sims 2, the most popular computer game of all time. So it's more the popularity of either the OST or song itself.

There's nowhere I can't reach.