Song of the Week - WEEK 86 Voting/WEEK 87 Nominating

There's been many a good group of nominations in SotW these past weeks. I regret not getting around to voting, but I guess part of the reason for that was the difficulty of assigning points in those weeks. The fact that I'm actually getting around to it this week might just mean it's a slightly weaker batch to me, but it's still far from terrible. On to the comments and voting...

I don't typically enjoy vocal tracks very much, but What My World Is Wishing For is an interesting exception. I love the African style of the track, and the vocals add to it in a nice way (as orion mentioned, they're hardly J-Pop-esque, which is probably a plus). It helps that the melody is pretty catchy, and the short duration keeps me from getting sick of it too quickly.

Title Screen has a nifty melody, but is infected with the terrible unmemorable melody virus. Then again, other songs this week have more acute conditions of the same disease, so it's excusable. The melody is a pretty fun one, so it's hard to say no to this track.

The first half of BURNING ROAD is more of a miss than a hit for me, although it has its good parts. It's good, but nothing special. The latter part of the track, however, is another story. After the TARGETS APPROACH around 3:00, the melody takes a turn for the awesome. You could say that I only really like half of this track.

THUNDER STORM strangely reminds me of a Follin track, but I'm not sure why. However, I guess the resemblance isn't strong enough, because I don't like it all that much. It also suffers from the unmemorable melody disease, coupled with a composition that's difficult for me to get into. It's just too haphazard, for lack of a better term.

Fierce God suffers the most acute manifestation of the melody disease this week. I actually like that I can follow the melody quite easily, but the tune itself doesn't do all that much for me.

I like the slow, gradual progression of Tokyo Conception. It's just a shame that once it seems to start developing into something awesome, the ending approaches rather swiftly. I wonder if it's the first part of two connected tracks that were separated on a soundtrack, or something. Anyway, it certainly kept my attention, but I was expecting a lot more from it.

Dreams Come True Someday is good. Like... Really good. It develops smoothly into a very powerful track. Orchestrated tracks like this are sometimes hard for me to get into, but this one grabbed me rather quickly. I have no complaints.

A Bird Crossing the Desert features a light, upbeat, catchy melody that's also very enjoyable. In that way, it's like the ATP Tour Championship Tennis track: not the most memorable, but impossible to pass up. The duration is also rather long for this type of track, but I never grow tired of listening to the song while it plays. The melody develops gradually, although it never reaches something vastly different from its original form. I love it, in any case.

2 Points ~ Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
2 Points ~ The Legend of Xanadu SUPER ARRANGE VERSION - A Bird Crossing the Desert
1 Point ~ Ar tonelico ~The Girl Who Sings at the End of the World~ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - What My World Is Wishing For
1 Point ~ ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Game Rip) - Title Screen

Jam it back in, in the dark.