[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 110 Voting/WEEK 111 Nominating

Dragon God's next pick:

• Artist: Toshikazu Tanaka
• Album/Game Title: KOF MAXIMUM IMPACT REGULATION "A" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
• Track Title: Unbreakable Stained Glass
• Disc Number: 2 (of 2)
• Track Number: 6
• Year: 2007
• Sources: #gamemp3s

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Drakken

I don't have a particular song in mind right now, but I'm curious - what do people think about the eligibility of the Mario Party games? I don't really recall ever hearing much talk about the music, other than the fact that Yasunori Mitsuda worked on the first one.

Obviously, the games themselves are pretty popular, but iirc, eligibility isn't determined by game popularity (though that may affect the decisions). It's more a matter of whether or not the music is popular / known / talked about.

Well, I've played every single one (yes every single one good Lord), so I'm going to know any piece of music you throw out, but yeah, music discussion of the series pretty much never comes up ever. There might be a reason for that, but I'd think anything you'd pick would probably be okay.

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even Mario Party Advance

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Originally Posted by Dhsu

Also, I realize this might be a bit late, but I was just wondering if anybody else thinks Liontamer's nom might be pushing it a little bit. I mean, IIRC we've had a ruling regarding new games before (i.e. not allowed), not to mention that pretty much every single person who's played Portal at this point knows and loves this song already. I call "not obscure."

Oh man, wish I'd read this/thought of it sooner.

Yeah, so I've played Portal, and anyone who has not yet played Portal is hereby banned from SotW until they play Portal, so now every active SotW member has played Portal and therefore has very likely heard this song.

Seriously though, does no one else have an issue with this?

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

Voting is closed and nominations are restricted and Still Alive is questionable so let's have more passioned defenses or lynch mobs and so on!

1). [31] Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
2). [27] Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel
3). [23] dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - DEFENSIVE LINE - Lurking in the Darkness (Stage4)
4). [22] Spyro the Dragon (Game Rip) - Dark Hollow
5). [12/10] Climax Landers Original Soundtrack - Lao's Theme
6). [12/8] Umihara Kawase (Game Rip) - Kawanabe Theme
7). [11] Ar tonelico II ~Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujotachi no Metafalica~ Original Soundtrack – Agni
8). [0] Giftpia Title Music + Nanashi-FM - The Grown-Up Game

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

I'm going to call this one in favor of Still Alive being disqualified for now. There are enough heards/haven't-heards to put it to an eligibility vote, but that combined with the fact that the game was released less than three weeks ago puts this over the edge as far as novelty-is-not-obscurity goes. Bring it back in a few months (how many??? ) and see what it looks like then.

Seriously though, everyone needs to play Portal.

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Originally Posted by orion_mk3

Well, Dr. Uzuki tabled his Odin Sphere nom indefinitely after the same arguments were invoked, so there's no real precedent that I can recall.

We have one more incident that I can recall: "Zero" from Ace Combat Zero. That led to a decision of table the nomination until the soundtrack comes out. I don't necessarily agree to applying that to all cases, but it seemed reasonable to me for ACZ because of the combination of the series being rather popular here in terms of gameplay and music (disproportionately so compared to elsewhere, which is another interesting discussion topic) a soundtrack already being announced at the time of nomination.

But David Deluxe ended up pulling that one too after the soundtrack came out, so we still have no real precedent determining when a track becomes "not too new."

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?