[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 269 Voting/WEEK 270 Nominating

Song of the Week. 250 Weeks and counting.
Week 269 Voting is 69, hehe.
Week 270 Nominating is can you dig it.

Results:
1). [15] INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
2). [14/8.5] FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
3). [14/7.5] Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
4). [8/5.5] Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert
5). [8/5] Waker - The Earth's Restoration
6). [6] Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
7). [4] Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress
8). [3] Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Waker - The Earth's Restoration

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 nominees, giving points to at least 3 songs, giving no song more than 3 points, and giving no more than one of their choices 3 points. Possible ways of voting include:

Spoiler:

"Traditional"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.

"Even Stevens"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 2 pts.

"Tough Decision"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Nomination Bias"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Indecisive"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.

"Shotgun Spread"
Song1 - 1 pt.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.
Song6 - 1 pt.

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Server information:

Spoiler:

* Host: ftp.sotw.info
* Username: nominations@sotw.info (that is the actual username; not an e-mail address)
* Password: gff
* Port: 21

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

• Album: Saint Dragon
• Artist: Sizlla (Shizuyoshi Okamura), Tecchan
• Disc #: 1 (of 1)
• Track #: 4
• Track Title: Dark Subterranean Cave (Area 2)
• Catalogue Number: PCCB-00003
• Year: 1989
• Source: PCCB-00003 | Saint Dragon - VGMdb

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Nomination #88

Composer: Jim Guthrie
Album: The Scythian Steppes: Seven #Sworcery Songs Localized for Japan
Track Title: Little Furnace (Mitsuto Suzuki - Post-Production Mix)
Track Number: 1
Year: 2012
Catalog Number: N/A
Additional Information: Finally I've found a track which I feel excited about nominating.

Crossing the FTPian steppes. (Seven, but hopefully Eight, #VGM Songs Localized for SotF)

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

*tumbleweed*

Guess someone ought to vote, huh? I guess you're all busy with NaNoWriMo novels but I'm ahead in my word count.

Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress This has got that busy and untimately kind of vanilla feel that I'll, for lack of a better term, call "the Mega Man X sound." Perfectly middle-of-the road, with no characteristics.

FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators Interesting quasi-badass, quasi-prog sound. Really long; if it got to the good stuff sooner and dispatched with some of the lame bits it could be a contender.

INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective I guess this does have kind of a gritty urban "detective" sound, doesn't it? It's missing the all-essential sax but is quite good at nailing a kind of future-noir otherwise.

Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme Nekketsu KKK, huh? That acronym didn't transliterate well. It's a decent lil chipper though, around the level of the weaker NES stuff like Mega Man 4.

Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link Ugh more Pokemon. It's not my fault that I left 6th grade a year before the damn things were introduced and have therefore never played a game and was never Stockholm Syndromed into liking its music.

Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory Dammit, why do people keep trying to make me hate on Virt by nominating his worst stuff?

Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert Ooh, saxy. It's got gratuitous 80's cheese to spare, dripping with the stuff like football nachos at a Wisconsin game.

Waker - The Earth's Restoration Disasterpeace is a whiz at 8-bit and synths, but he's pretty damn good at other sounds too. Case in point. The piano melody is especially world-shattering.

The Point Spread
Waker - 3 pts.
INSTANT BRAIN JUST ADD WATER (The brains for zombies on the go!) - 2 pts.
Sega saxophone whatever - 1 pt.

Vietnom
In a quagmire. Stay tuned!

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

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

Dammit, why do people keep trying to make me hate on Virt by nominating his worst stuff?

Because I gauge all my nominations by how angry they're going to make you. It's working!

This game does have some real music by the way

I was speaking idiomatically.

Not overly thrilled with this week. But it will do.

(3 points) Waker - The Earth's Restoration: Piano? Check. That pretty much carries the week for me. But the tune is lovely enough in total to merit the top spot.

(1 point) INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective: It fits in decently enough with a "Dectective" theme, though I spaced out for a minute and thought I was listening to some overworld music from Grandia.

(1 point) Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress: Agreed, it's meat and potatoes SNES-era rock, but sometimes you just want to stuff your face with a fistful of tots. Does its job well enough.

(1 point) Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme: So are we just myopically limited in our chiptune knowledge that we compare everything to Mega Man, or did everyone really copy Capcom?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

<<3 Points>> Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert
<<2 Points>> FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
<<1 Point>> Waker - The Earth's Restoration

FELIPE NO

This week was pretty good, I thought. :P Had some trouble allocating points and all, but here goes:

(2 points) Dragon Valor - Border Fortress
What really sold me on the track was the synth strings and the great second half. It's gritty with purpose.

(2 points) Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
Actually, this doesn't sound like the usual PokeTunes I've been hearing here. The track has SNES RPG leanings, which means it's quite epic and winning me over.

(1 point) FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
I agree, it's a tad long, but mainly because some sections don't do enough for me. Still, there are others that are brimming with brilliance.

(1 point) Waker - The Earth's Restoration
Pleasant piano offerings with a hint of oriental stylings win it for me. Did wish it could develop a bit more.

And here's a new nom:

* Album Title: Attack Rate
* Artist: Ryu Umemoto
* Track Title: The FM
* Source: http://vgmdb.net/album/8031
* File Location: Nomination folder
* Disc Number: 1
* Track Number: 14
* Catalogue Number: RISQ-0001
* Year: 2007

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

Vietnom War Escalated
Album Title: Puzzlejuice
Artist: Big Giant Circles
Track Title: Over-Juiced! (alternate version)
Source: Bringing bounteous Bandcamp bombshells, biatch!
Track Number: 7
Release Date: January 19, 2012[/QUOTE]

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Nomination time!

Artist: SLAKE
Album: THE INVISIBLE FORCE
Track title: Piano to Your Head
Track #: 9
Year: 2012
Source: SLAKE new album "THE INVISIBLE FORCE" | FLASH CUBE
Additional info: Slake is an alias of Takehiko Fujii, guy who made a bunch of music for a bunch of Bemani games. This album is fantastic and everyone should love him. For some reason this album isn't on vgmdb.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Quick votes:

3 Points: Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
2 Points: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
1 Point: Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress

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

Wow this is an insanely awesome week to my tastes. Maybe even my favorite one I've been in??? MAYBE? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?

I feel like I say that too often but that's just because I love the taste of this place.

2 Points - FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
2 Points - Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
1 Point - Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
1 Point - Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert

Honorable mentions to "Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress" and "INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective"

Forest Field Research Laboratory is my favorite thing I've heard from Virt so far, wow. Super TIME SIGNATUREy, polymetric even and just rhythmically intriguing in general. Crazy awesome weird sound effects too, really awesome overall AAAjollllllllLLLLLLLLLLT THANK YOU Red Vadge of Courage and VIRT for existing.

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

3 points: 4operators
2 points: Forest Field Research Laboratory
1 points: Detective
Just Missed: Soul on Desert, Border Fortress

Oh man that general MIDI soundfont in Border Fortress. I played so many freeware shootemups with midi soundtracks back in the day I used to live off this stuff. My first SOTW gold was one of them! Border Fortress is alright.

Yesssssss 4operators. My 2nd favorite track from the album, even surpassing TripleVOPM and Tulip. Not being too familiar with Koshiro at the time outside of SoR, this track was a real eye opener in getting me to realize, holy crap, this guy can actually do everything.

Great week, mostly. Pokemon track did let me down a bit, especially considering the amount of good Pokemon music I came across in the previous BSCs.

Nom coming up later today, hopefully!

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Originally Posted by Darkcomet72

Yesssssss 4operators. My 2nd favorite track from the album

Me too (well actually at the moment it's kind of just barely my favorite out of my two favorites, but normally it's my 2nd favorite)! Which track is your favorite from the album?!?!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Over the Rainbow is my favorite!

....

.... what? Why are you looking at me like that?

FELIPE NO

New Nomination:

Game: Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (Gamerip)
Composer: David Bergeaud
Track: Outpost Ruins
Track #: 2.05 from the rip hosted by Kaleb
Catalog #: n/a
Year: 2007
Source(s): Ratchet &#x26; Clank: Size Matters (2008) PlayStation 2 credits - MobyGames, host.kg13.com/music/rc05_size_matters/
Additional Info: Gotten back into the series' music. There's tons of tracks I want to nominate.

Will upload in a minute.

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

2 points - FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
2 points - INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
2 points - Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory

When I got to the Scurge song, about 20 seconds in I just said "whoa" and stopped what I was doing to pay more attention to the song. All three I gave points to were really good stuff though, it was tough not to give any more points and I couldn't give less than 2 to any. A couple other good songs missed. "sorry kunio"

Jam it back in, in the dark.

3 points: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
2 points: Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme
1 points: Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory

I love that "Detective" track. I get a Front Mission vibe from it. It's also one of Umemoto's last commercially released compositions.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Only 7 noms so far btw


2 points: FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
2 points: Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
1 point: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
1 point: Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert

Well I'm glad Forest Field Research Laboratory is getting support from electric-type Pokemon and human beings, because glib prodding of orion aside it really is my favorite from the game. So spooky, so rhythmy, so cool.

Speaking of things that are my favorite: 4operators. This is my favorite.

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

3 points: Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
2 points: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
1 point: FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators

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

2 points: Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
2 points: Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert
1 point: FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
1 point: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
Just missed: Border Fortress, Vs Riddle, Team Theme

Oh shit I forgot to cl

1). [15] INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - Detective
2). [14/8.5] FM Sound Module Maniax - 4operators
3). [14/7.5] Scurge: Hive (Game Rip) - Forest Field Research Laboratory
4). [8/5.5] Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries - Soul On Desert
5). [8/5] Waker - The Earth's Restoration
6). [6] Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - High Link
7). [4] Dragon Valor (Game Rip) - Border Fortress
8). [3] Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection - Vs Riddle, Team Theme

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So we're going with only 7 noms then?

FELIPE NO

Yuppers.

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