Song of the Week - WEEK 89 Voting/WEEK 90 Nominating

Excellent week, although point distributions aren't terribly difficult...

Front Line Base - VERY familiar feeling here. This is definitely that Capcom synth rock sound I've come to associate with them. Killer melody that feeds off the underlying harmony, plus great programmed drums...Exactly what I wanted to hear and exactly what is missing from so much modern VGM.

Visitors from Dreams - Mmm...Kinda loud. The trills actually do suck in this one for a change, although I find the bass and poor melody far worse offenders here. This would have been 1st round fishfood in the chiptune contest.

Lunatea - I've learned one thing from playing Klonoa 2 extensively: The music is just not that good. I'm not sure what it is...The synth annoys me all around, but the tune contributes little overall as well. This has a couple parts that reach "decent", but completely subpar overall. Bad synth.

Route 99 - Runaway winner? I can see why...It's one of the more varied and interesting pieces this week. Is it better than some of the nonvaried and less-interesting-but-still-awesome pieces...Well, maybe. It's got still competition. Not a shame at all if it were to win in a landslide...Metal Saga music isn't exactly the most overbearing spectacle of fanboyism around and is well worthy of the attention. Onward.

Downtown - Teeters between good and not-so-interesting. I'm willing to try the gamerip out at least, based on this. Pleasant surprise, but is probably ranked out.

Common Battle - Yum! Too good...One of Meguro's best rock melodies set to a killer electronic pulse beat. One of the highlights of the SMT3 OST. I knew this was getting points as soon as I saw the name.

Sound Locomotive - Again...Jazz-fusion has completely lost it's allure to me for some reason. I can't really listen to this style of music all that much anymore, although the melody is quite nice in some spots. This is pretty typical Furukawa-sounding here.

Seoul Road - BEAST!

Points:

3 - Seoul Road
2 - Common Battle
1 - Front Line Base (could go either way between this and Route 99, but FLB is getting hosed at the moment and is refreshing despite being so familiar-sounding)

Support Korea! Vote Seoul!

Excellent week.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Sweet...The BEAST!! takes second place. Considering the massive lead Route 99 jumped out to, that wasn't too bad at all.

There's nowhere I can't reach.