Song of the Week - WEEK 87 Voting/WEEK 88 Nominating

3pt: Project Sylpheed Original Soundtrack - Operation Nebula Blaze (8.5)
I absolutely love this theme, because of the amount of energy placed in the melody and the notes. The song reaches a complete climax and continues to build over and over. It sounds like a sort of energetic departure or passage from some sort of town or facility.

2pt: Kameo: Elements of Power (Game Rip) - Trainer Cave (8)
The melody is done extremely well, with the simplicity of the string plucks making the instrumentation close to perfection. The only part I'm slightly peeved by is the voice in the background that never changes, which keeps going like HEEEYYYAAA.

1pt: Nekketsu Oyako (Sega Saturn Red Book Audio) - Mega Tokyo 2064 - Outer City Road (7.5)
This song seems like an interesting mix of the old Megaman type themes with different instruments by itself. Throughout the theme, I'm left thinking that the melody could just go further. The song keeps bridging to new sections, but doesn't reach a that last amazing end that I absolutely have to listen to. However, the melody by itself is already pretty strong, so it's still a high vote.

Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control (7)
This song has some really sweet ambience compared to a lot of the other ambient songs I've heard in the past. The notes and the phrases continue to slightly change, enticing me towards this song.

Sega Simulation Best ~Advanced Daisenryaku Original Soundtrack~ - Opening (7)
The song initially starts off kind of boring, but slowly builds up to something that's suitable for me. It's also this weeks jazz theme, and it's the type of jazz that I personally like.

Madara Mouryousenki - Ones of Serenity (Town Theme) (6.5)
This song seems like it's trying to achieve a type of peaceful song that has some Asian influences in it, but the melody itself isn't amazing enough to really entice me, because after I listen to this song, the theme really isn't that stuck in my head. I will say, however, that the instrumentation is something that I do like.

Namco Game Sound Express 2 - Burning Force - Sarinuka Sands (2nd Day) (6)
I do feel that the instrument used to create the melody is really distinct and original, but when the song is really note bashing for a majority of the song, I don't feel that this is a right pick for me.

Out Run Europa - Main Theme (6)
First of all, this song is recorded in mono, which suggests that there's an issue with the rip, since this type of theme doesn't deserve mono. However, besides that, the shouts and noises at the beginning before the actual theme absolutely bug me.
*EDIT: ok, I was mistaken about the fact that the song could have been in stereo, but in truth, I still don't like the melody that much.

NOMINATION!

I'm surprised that no ones actually nominated any of the songs from either the asian or celtic albums from Genso Suikoden. They're some amazing themes that I've enjoyed for a long time:

Artist: Dif-Ref
Album: Genso Suikoden Music Collection ~Celtic Collection 2~
Title: Touching Theme
Disc number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 09
Catalog Number: KOLA-036
Year: 2003
Source: http://www.gamingforce.com/audio/gfa-albums.php?id=897



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Comments: Not sure if this could take first, but I absolutely love the mallet percussion in it.

Depending on the other entries, for me that has a high chance of doing well

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Darkcomet72

I have to agree with you here, I think Operation Nebula Blaze is nothing special, at least compared to the rest of the soundtrack. NATF-4 would've gotten instant 3 points, and there's like 8 other tracks that would've gotten some support from me, but not this one.

I honestly can't see much of a difference between Operation Nebula Blaze and NATF-4 in terms of instrumentation. Both have a synth-beat followed with an upbeat tempo.

By the way, I'm not a complete supporter of Fukui; I'm just open to different types of instrumentation and make my nominations based on what I feel sounds interesting.

Interesting final results though... a string of 6 voters moved my nomination to 6th place =)

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Drakken

Ugh. Most boring SotW winner in a long time. Gave me a "WHAT THE HECK THAT WON?" feeling.

Yes.

Originally Posted by Drakken

Ones of Serenity and Mega Tokyo 2004 are at least decent, though still nothing really special.

Yes. Although I do have to say that Ones of Serenity somewhat vexed me because of the Gold Saucer (FF7) type instruments, if you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Drakken

I'm disappointed that more people didn't like Out Run Europa's Theme. I genuinely thought it had a good chance of taking 1st, as I think it's the coolest song to grace SotW in quite some time.

Now that I think of it, I kind of like this song a lot more than I did a week ago. I just personally prefer pure instrumentals myself. At least you're not the one who has first place up until the last second when 6 people backlash against your song. I also personally really like the songs I nominate, so its a shame when they don't end up doing well.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

I thought the same thing about my last two nominations, and they got back-to-back 5th places. So while I didn't like Out Run Europa, I see where you're coming from. SoTW, she is a harsh mistress.

That's really a shame, I liked the Kameo song a lot.

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