Song of the Week - WEEK 92 Voting/WEEK 93 Nominating

Actually being technical, ST ~ Dancing on a Cape of Good Hope was from the Unchart Waters 1 CD (tracks from that arranged disc were included on the UW2 Special Edition, which came out later on). Olive Wind or Wind Ahead has always crossed my mind as a potential nomination, but I figure that would make winning a gold TOO easy...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Albert Odyssey MT1 - Pretty, but boring.

A Vision - One of the tamer Eretzvaju tracks and not one I would have chosen, but the melody is still expressive and the background guitar/drums make up for the weak synth leads.

Sadistic Sexart - Mmm, I like this. Killer melody (for the most part), blazing harmonies, weak synth, but oh well. First track so far to make me take notice.

Deepsea Shrine - Take out the backbeat and this sounds like a Uematsu dungeon theme. At least until :52 anyway. Nothing too special here, really.

Ork - I stopped noticing this until about 1:40 in, at which point, I lost interst again about 10 seconds later. Why have such a great hook in the middle of the second instead of at the start, where this piece desperately needs it most?

Bang! Bang! - Thank you...You may have saved this week from being one of the blandest in recent memory. Sugar-based hyperactivity, but the great basslines and hummable jazzin' is downright refreshing. The length is more than justified.

Heart of Winter - Go to hell and melt.

Brutal Battle - One of the more expressive Soule pieces I've heard and one of the few that isn't his dreaded ambient theme. Nice brass lines here mostly and an occasional nice harmony, even if the whole is pretty random. I wouldn't vote for this over anything I really liked, but a surprising standout among this field.

3 pts - Bang! Bang!
1 pts - A Vision
1 pts - Brutal Battle
1 pts - Sexart

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Elorin

I'm sure it will receive a cold welcome! I'd be disappointed if it didn't. I might have gone with "Curtains" by Peter Gabriel from the game rip until I found out it was a highly obscure commercial single.

As long as it sounds like typical Myst music, I promise I won't let you down.

Then again, if I can actually give Soule a point...You never know.

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

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

I do have a friend that's a Myst fanatic; maybe I can cajole him into voting for you. Then again, the last time I cajoled him into doing anything, he nominated "Aeris' Theme" in the BSC

Just tell him anything I said about anything he may have nominated wasn't personal...Just business-as-usual.

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

Originally Posted by arch_slayer

Ganbare Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku (N64 Game Rip) - Deepsea Shrine (6.5/10)
Honestly, I really don't think that this song sounds like something from Uematsu. Instead, I think it really sounds like some of Mitsuda's old compositions such as Chrono Trigger. Uematsu's old "classics" simply bore me to death. Instead, this song at least makes me listen to the whole song. Quite impressive for an N64's synth.

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Listen to "Home Sweet Home" from FFV, along with one with one of Uematsu's older "underground" dungeon themes...To me, it's a perfect mixture of the two. The second part does sound a little like the end-of-game CT dungeons, but I wouldn't have readily made that connection at all. And again, that's ignoring the backbeat and the Asian influences.

And yeah...It's impressive the N64 can almost sound as good as an SNES.

I was speaking idiomatically.