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

Week 62 Voting is closed.
Week 63 Nominating is restricted.

Week 62 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Final Result:
1st: Tobi Tsukihime Soundtrack - Stage 5 - amVirus : Avatar of Nightmare -
2nd: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Pull Back the Bass
3rd: Mother 1+2 Original Soundtrack - Eight Melodies

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums which this event is being held at, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.


Week 63 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Here are the links to the corresponding threads at the other forums:
- Chudah's Corner
- Soundtrack Central

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ikkei

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I'm not very sure about accepting the Tobal track. I think that it's maybe too well known.

I let this go through because we accepted a Tobal No. 1 track in the past, but if anyone else feels Toridon!! should be ineligible, please have out with it. SonicPanda admitted it might not be obscure enough, so you won't be seen as a big meanie or anything.

Also, while I'm on the subject of nomination obscurity, how about KyleDunamis's Suikoden I track? (forgot to say anything last week ) I'd say that, if Tobal No. 1 is out, that definitely should be.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

Let's not forget that there have been several Suikoden nominations in the past too.

Yes, but none from the Suikoden I soundtrack. Is this distinction important? Maybe, maybe not.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

If prior nominations equal grandfather clauses, both should be allowed.

There's currently no explicit grandfather clause in the rules, so we can choose to make an official policy on the subject if you guys want.

I personally don't think we should have one, since the obscurity of an album can change over time. As an example, we had an Ace Combat 5 track quite a while ago, but I think the soundtrack is now well known enough that we shouldn't allow any more tracks from the OST.

But if enough people want a track's eligibility to establish that soundtrack's eligibility in perpetuity, that's perfectly fine too.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Hold on a sec, though. Is eligibility supposed to be based on the popularity of the game the song's from or the popularity of the game's music?

Popularity of the game's music, definitely.

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

Originally Posted by KyleDunamis

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.

This is a valid point, although Fighting the Shadowy Gods did appear in SotW in the past, so that wasn't entirely the best example.

I have a better one for you.

I think it's safe to say that Tomorrow of Promise (Last Battle) from Neorude 2 (Technosoft Game Music Collection Volume 12 ~ Discovery) is far too popular for Song of the Week, since it's appeared in several best song contests here, as well as this year's Sony Scape OST. However, another track from the soundtrack, What a Good Atmosphere ~ Main Theme Bossa Nova Version (Unused), was successfully nominated for SotW.

So, a soundtrack's having one or two well-known songs doesn't immediately mean that the whole soundtrack is ineligible.

I think there's been enough debate on the Suikoden I track that I'll create a poll, hopefully within the next day or so.

Also, how about Tobal No. 1? We have one yea and one nay on that so far. Should the lack of debate be taken to mean that no one else really feels it should be ineligible?

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

Okay, I'm just going to assume that Tobal No. 1 is good to go.

SUIKODEN POLL

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by ikkei

Wasn't Running to Horizon in the past Best Song Contest?

Maybe in the preliminaries, but it wasn't in the round of 256.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I didn't know you had a brother.

Yeah. Snowdjinn used to be Snowman, who also participated in Follin Week.

In fact, Kaleb's one of the reasons he participated in the first place. <3

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Voting is closed!

1). [34] Tobi Tsukihime Soundtrack - Stage 5 - amVirus : Avatar of Nightmare -
2). [29] Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Game Rip) - Pull Back the Bass
3). [22] Mother 1+2 Original Soundtrack - Eight Melodies
4). [16] CHAOS SEED ~Fuusui Kairouki~ GM-PROGRESS 6 - Alex's Theme
5). [14] Tyrian (Game Rip) - Tyrian, The Song
6). [12] Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei (Game Rip) - Descendants from Elthlead
7). [8] WILD ARMS the 4th Detonator Original Score - Yet Another Ex. File
8). [3] Lagoon - Moonchild

Congrats to Kaleb for the perfect point spread.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Mmmmm, I though Jazz Jackrabbit had this thing sewn up. Everyone was handing it points for the first three or four days.

Must've been a come from behind victory.

Yeah, it was. Pull Back the Bass was leading in the first few tallies, although amVirus was always close behind in second.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?