[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 200 Voting/WEEK 201 Nominating

Again, 200 weeks? Really? Man, I tell you what.

Visionnerz is pretty much everything I could hope for in Week 200 so I'm satisfied.

• Album: Blaze & Blade ~Eternal Quest~ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
• Artist: Ken Kojima
• Disc #: 1 (of 1)
• Track #: 20
• Track Title: Mine Cart
• Catalogue Number:
• Year: WSCA-00014
• Additional Info: Ken Kojima 3/3
• Source: WSCA-00014 | Blaze & Blade ~Eternal Quest~ ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - VGMdb

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I guess since it's week 200 I'll throw out full comments. Also because this week isn't too shabby, I suppose.

All Sounds of Burai - Peace
Pretty slick, and far from what I was expecting. Short, but not too short to get its business done with a little flair.

Cu-On-Pa SFC (Game Rip) - Alien Planet
I'm still unsure whether Ken Kojima actually knows how to write music, or if he's just some insane man that T&E Soft hired off the street one day to fill a sudden staff vacancy. Cu-On-Pa is his magnum opus in a career somehow comprised solely of magnum opuses: a bizarre combination of looping textures and meandering melodies that last twice as long as they deserve to. I can't really express a single reason that I should like this soundtrack, and yet I do, a lot. It fascinates me. Alien Planet fascinates me. I love the wonderful urgent build into... absolutely nothing at all.

Darius Premium Box -Rebirth- - VISIONNERZ
There is nothing I can say.

Futari no FantaVision Original Soundtrack - expositor [advanced] ~ single replay
Reminds me that I have a Futari no FantaVision track that I've been meaning to nominate for forever. I ought to relisten to the soundtrack to see if I've changed my mind. expositor has a pretty sweet groove. Nothing much else of note besides the groove, but as I mentioned, that groove is pretty sweet.

Jet Moto 3 (Game Rip) - Khumbu Ice Falls
Pretty solid RACING GAME MUSIC. I didn't really think any part of it was spectacular, but it's definitely put together well. I was grooving the heck along with it.

Sonic Shuffle (Game Rip) - With go V-Train
I have no idea what the Sacnoth sound team was on when they cranked out Sonic Shuffle, but damned if it didn't help them produce one of the best Sonic soundtracks, easily. Absolutely criminal that no one talks about its music. With go V-Train is a superb choice, one of my favorites, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a sucker for 7/4. Love the mad beats.

World of Goo Soundtrack - Red Carpet Extend-o-matic
The Red Carpet is such a silly stage. Heaven knows why the full version of this piece doesn't play in that level, because it's silly enough to go with it. Although I do like the intro more than the main portion of the track anyway.

Yu-Suzuki produce Power Drift - Side Street
Hiro is one of my favorite VGM composers of all time. He defined for me the early SEGA arcade sound, to which other composers like Koichi Namiki and Tohru Nakabayashi contributed admirably, but never to the same extent. Power Drift is one of Hiro's works that's overshadowed by behemoths like After Burner and Outrun, and rightfully so, but it's no less a fun, enjoyable soundtrack as any of his others. I have a soft spot for Like the Wind in particular. This arrangement doesn't stray too far from the original Side Street, which never caught my ear as much as other tunes from the game, but the extended solo section is very nice.

I am completely unsatisfied with this point distribution, but every other one is somehow even worse.

3 points: Darius Premium Box -Rebirth- - VISIONNERZ
2 points: Sonic Shuffle (Game Rip) - With go V-Train
1 point: Cu-On-Pa SFC (Game Rip) - Alien Planet
4th: Futari no FantaVision Original Soundtrack - expositor [advanced] ~ single replay
5th: Yu-Suzuki produce Power Drift - Side Street
6th: All Sounds of Burai - Peace
7th: Jet Moto 3 (Game Rip) - Khumbu Ice Falls
8th: World of Goo Soundtrack - Red Carpet Extend-o-matic

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Voting is closed! Next up is battle 25 so feel free to keep those noms rolling in.

1). [22] Darius Premium Box -Rebirth- - VISIONNERZ
2). [15] World of Goo Soundtrack - Red Carpet Extend-o-matic
3). [14] Jet Moto 3 (Game Rip) - Khumbu Ice Falls
4). [8] Futari no FantaVision Original Soundtrack - expositor [advanced] ~ single replay
5). [7] Yu-Suzuki produce Power Drift - Side Street
6). [6/5] Cu-On-Pa SFC (Game Rip) - Alien Planet
7). [6/3.5] Sonic Shuffle (Game Rip) - With go V-Train
8). [0] All Sounds of Burai - Peace

Thanks to all the dudesters who keep or have kept this running over the years (orion, Kaleb, Mo0, TCK, Drakken, _DH_, etc.), everyone who's nominated stuff I've never heard before (and, in cases like this week, awesome stuff I have heard before and always love listening to), and, most importantly, all of you voters for putting up with the total crap music I subject you guys to.

How ya doing, buddy?