[SotW] Song of the Fortnight - FORTNIGHT 251 Voting/FORTNIGHT 252 Nominating

Song of the Fortnight. 125 Fortnights and counting.
Fortnight 251 Voting is red.
Fortnight 252 Nominating is red.

Theme Week Nominations
Somebody thought October would be a good time for Halloween music for some reason. If we get enough spookytunes we'll make a week of it.

Results:
1). [10/6.5] Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack "Routine" - Nagi's Theme
2). [10/5.5] Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
3). [8/5] Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle
4). [8/4] Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1: In Seattle
5). [7] Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2
6). [5] www.newgrounds.com - Final Encounter
7). [3/3] Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1
8). [3/2] starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1 - In Seattle
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: www dot newgrounds dot com - Final Encounter

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 SotF server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotFexperience 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

Fortnight 252 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

• Album: Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip)
• Artist: HIYA (Takushi Hiyamuta)
• Track #: 8
• Track Title: Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
• Year: 1996
• Additional Info: _DH_ time.
• Source: Neo Turf Masters Release Information for NeoGeo - GameFAQs, credits

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Wiki upgrade is complete. CHz, I PM'ed you details.

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

Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme Fun and quirky Kikuta-esque funk.

Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1 Uh oh. Nuh uh. Uh oh. Nuh uh. Uh oh. Nuh uh. Uh oh.

Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle Create might be a lame and shameless attempt to cash in on LBP, but the music's great. This one especially has a lot of movement, melody, and funk to spare.

Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt It has all the ingredients for an epic SRPG sound, but the overall result lis less than the sum of its parts.

Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1 - In Seattle Hit me. Whoo. Whoo. Oh yeah. Whoo. Whoo. Oh yeah.

Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2 Nothing says "anime fighting game" quite like laid-back jazz muzak.

starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix- Sorry, nominator, but this hyper-repetitive house/trance/same two notes for 20 minutes music is like watching linoleum curl unless you're on uppers and surrounded by neon laser beams.

www dot newgrounds dot com - Final Encounter Aims high, but is kinds tinny and anemic.

The Point Spread
Skate Park Shuffle - 3 pts.
Nagi's Theme - 2 pts.
Battle in the Royal Crypt - 1 pt.

Noms to come.

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

My Nomination:

"Swan Lake" from Zool 2 for the Amiga CD32, which you can grab and get all the info for here...
Zool 2 (Amiga CD32) | Lost VGM

I will upload the file to the FTP.

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Hi guys. I'm new here so I'm not familiar with the nomination process. I'd like to nominate the following tracks:

• Game: The Battle for Wesnoth
• Artist: Doug Kaufmann
• Title: The City Falls
• Year: 2007
• Additional Information: The game is open-source so you can download it with all the music files from the website: Battle for Wesnoth.
• Source: Game file music tags

• Game: Divine Divinity
• Artist: ?????? ?????????? [Kirill Pokrovsky]
• Track Number: 21
• Title: A Wind of Aleroth
• Year: 2002
• Additional Information: The soundtrack can be downloaded for free from the composer's website: kirill pokrovsky's dream-age page
• Source: Divine Divinity - VGMdb

• Game: Terranigma
• Artist: Masanori Hikichi and/or Miyoko Kobayashi [I don't know exactly]
• Title: Elle's Theme
• Year: 1995
• Additional Information: I don't think this track was ever officially released outside the game but it is commonly referred to as Elle's Theme. You can listen to it on YouTube: Terranigma OST - Elle's Theme - YouTube

Do I have to upload the tracks now? I don't know how to get hold of the Terranigma one.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by manwesulimo2004

Hi guys. I'm new here so I'm not familiar with the nomination process.

Welcome! Always good to see new participants.

You have got the nomination thing down pretty good. Normally we only nominate one song at a time, so you might want to re-post those other two when their time comes.

Originally Posted by manwesulimo2004

Do I have to upload the tracks now? I don't know how to get hold of the Terranigma one.

You can if you want. I wouldn't worry about Terranigma though; if CHz doesn't have a copy he can find one from such a well-liked game with his mad leet VGM hunting skillz.

FELIPE NO

3 points: Stage 1 - In Seattle
2 points: Extra Stage 2
1 point: Skate Park Shuffle
just missed: Steam 1, 0:52-1:26 of Final Encounter (I really didn't like the rest of it)

This Ninja Baseball Bat Man track is AMAZING. My favorite this about this is that behind the... whatever the hell is going on, there's a pretty real bass groove and a solo at 1:06 that's legit. Where do you find this stuff, Draconis?

Noms coming soon hopefully

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

I'd love to be able to close voting in the next couple of days if possible, so if you would vote that'd be great. I'm looking at the calendar to schedule a possible Halloween theme week and we can fit in another batch between now and then.


3 points: Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1: In Seattle
2 points: Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2
1 point: Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1
f yeah: bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-, Skate Park Shuffle

Originally Posted by Darkcomet72

Where do you find this stuff, Draconis?

23:58 <@CHz> Anyway this is the true BSC '012 winner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI6eXEgZXdg
00:02 <&Tails> lol I hate you
00:02 <&Tails> a lot
00:02 <@CHz> looooooooooooooooooooooool
00:03 <@CHz> I just nominated this to SotW. 8)
00:04 <&Tails> You are awful

I love this thing because even if you strip away the voice clips, sound effects, and orchestra hit abuse, you still have pure beat 'em up kickassery. Also the final "awww yeah" is for some reason either an aroused female or an infant.

A point for Herbie Hancock 1 was an inevitability.

Additional Spam:
ALSO some nominations would be cool too, as neat as it would be for me and Kaleb to duel next week.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

2 points: Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1 - In Seattle
2 points: starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-
1 point: Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1
1 point: Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2

This week was pretty epic!


Nomination:

• Album: Epic Pinball (Game Rip)
• Artist: Robert A. Allen, Joshua Jensen
• Track #: 16
• Track Title: Android
• Year: 1993
• Additional Info: Track is only available in the shareware version. Full version has a different track titled Super Android.
• Source: Epic Pinball for DOS (1993) - MobyGames, http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/my...nversions.html

Okay, here you go. We'll see if the bitter taste of defeat has a unique aftertaste this time around:

Album: Ten Plants
Artist: Ymoh. S
Track #: 4
Track Title: Kurolera the Production Plant Chief
Year: 1998
Additional Info: Original concept album featuring VGM composers.
Source: VGMDB

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

Here's a normal week nomination:

* Album Title: Heavy Rain (Game Rip)
* Artist: Normand Corbeil
* Track Title: Opening movie
* Source: Heavy Rain - Opening movie - PS3 - YouTube ; Heavy Rain Original Videogame Score - VGMdb
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: NA
* Track Number: NA
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2010
* Note: I recorded this from a YouTube upload of the opening movie from the game. The opening theme has elements of the Ethan Mars' main theme from the soundtrack and a piano variation of it.

Here's a Halloween/spooky theme week nomination (er, hope it qualifies since this is a theme for a nightmarish character and has some kind of spooky sections):

* Album Title: NiGHTS ~Journey of Dreams~ Original Soundtrack
* Artist: Hideaki Kobayashi
* Composer: Tomoko Sasaki
* Track Title:
* Source: WWCE-31153~5 | NiGHTS ~Journey of Dreams~ Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 3)
* Track Number: 22
* Catalogue Number: WWCE-31153~5
* Year: 2008

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

This week's bunch is nothing to write about.

<<3 Points>> Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle
<<2 Points>> Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2
<<1 Point>> Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme

If I have time later, I may nominate something.

I was speaking idiomatically.

SotW website/wiki is down currently while I fix a botched MySQL upgrade.

In the meantime, votes:
3 pts - Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
2 pts - Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme
1 pt - Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

3 points: Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme
2 points: Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
1 point: starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-
: Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1

"Nagi's Theme" makes me wanna dance and makes me feel so nostlagic for the 90's. dat cheeseguitar+synth combo. The piano in "Battle in the Royal Crypt" took me by surprise, in a good way I think. The steam track was bitchin'. AW YEAH needed more AW YEAH. also I just in general approve of the starmine track. The last track was terrible, needed more chipmunk vocals or something.

Cool week. Sloppy comments.

Halloween nom coming soon! I gotta listen to the American McGee's Alice OST for starters...

FELIPE NO

Short on comments, maybe I get to a Halloween nom. Feeling much better about participation in a week or two when life calms down slightly.

(3 points) www dot newgrounds dot com - Final Encounter
(2 points) Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
(1 point) Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme

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

Originally Posted by Elorin

Here's a normal week nomination:

* Album Title: Heavy Rain (Game Rip)
* Artist: Normand Corbeil
* Track Title: Opening movie
* Source: Heavy Rain - Opening movie - PS3 - YouTube ; Heavy Rain Original Videogame Score - VGMdb
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: NA
* Track Number: NA
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2010
* Note: I recorded this from a YouTube upload of the opening movie from the game. The opening theme has elements of the Ethan Mars' main theme from the soundtrack and a piano variation of it.

Here's a Halloween/spooky theme week nomination (er, hope it qualifies since this is a theme for a nightmarish character and has some kind of spooky sections):

* Album Title: NiGHTS ~Journey of Dreams~ Original Soundtrack
* Artist: Hideaki Kobayashi
* Composer: Tomoko Sasaki
* Track Title:
* Source: WWCE-31153~5 | NiGHTS ~Journey of Dreams~ Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 3)
* Track Number: 22
* Catalogue Number: WWCE-31153~5
* Year: 2008

So the brutal serial killer music is normal, and the colorful G-rated Saturn game is spooky? Just making sure I have this straight

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yes, orion. :P The Heavy Rain nom is more sad drama music than spooky scarefest music. And the NiiGHTs nom is kind of a creepy yet awesome Phantasy Star Online rip off track.

Okay, quick votes:

(2 points) Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt

(2 points) www.newgrounds.com - Final Encounter

(1 point) Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack 'Routine' - Nagi's Theme

(1 point) Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So heads up: my modem exploded Tuesday night, which kind of fouled up plans on my end as you may be able to imagine. Replacement should be coming on Tuesday.

It appears I didn't miss much, which I guess is simultaneously good and bad.

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Doesn't look like the Halloween theme week is gonna fly, huh. one of these years it will happen

In any case, I've got a nom which can fly as a theme week nom or regular week nom.

Nomination #71

Composer: Prophecy
Game: Escape from the Underworld
Track Title: Back To The Place I Once Knew
Track Number: 4
Year: 2010
Catalog Number: N/A

ravin' at the spooky castle in the FTP

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

New Nom!

• Album: Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~
• Track Title: Olivie
• Track Number: 8
• Disc: 1 (of 1)
• Composer: Masaki Sekijima
• Arranger: Masaaki Sugiyama
• Year: 1997
• Catalog Number: KECH-1115

I was speaking idiomatically.

Welllllll so technically the modem did arrive on Tuesday, but due to hilarity I can't really get into without raging furiously we were only able to get shit activated and such at midnight. But now I'm back!

Originally Posted by Muzza

Doesn't look like the Halloween theme week is gonna fly, huh.

I was kind of hoping that no one was nominating anything because I never officially said we were doing it! I was planning on closing this "fortnight" on Sunday and then getting things going in the next thread, but due to AAAAAAAARGH that plan went right out the window.

So the options for getting some Halloween action on seem to be:

• Extend this "fortnight" until Sunday while we try to drum up some Halloween noms, and then run a fortnight theme batch from the 24th to Nov. 6.
• End this "fortnight" ASAP, have a batch that lasts less than a fortnight start tomorrowish and end on the 30th in which we gather Halloween noms, and then promptly start the theme batch on Halloween.

I am kind of leaning toward the latter because it gives more time to put together Halloween tracks, but then I'd have to be really strict on when we close voting and knowing us we'd probably end up with like three votes. I won't end up doing anything about this until tomorrow evening, so if you're reading this between now and then, your input is appreciated!

Originally Posted by Muzza

Composer: Prophecy
Game: Escape from the Underworld
Track Title: Back To The Place I Once Knew

Hahaha wow, this was used in a game?

You didn't specifically mention it so I'm not sure if you're really unaware or are just being coy, but this is an arrangement of the first Maridia theme ("Rocky Underground Water Area") from Super Metroid. It used to be on VGMix and definitely was not made for this game.

It is my favorite arrangement by Prophecy though so .

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Man I knew none of that. Such a shame, it is a kickass track. So ignore that nom post; I'll nom something else for Halloween soon.

As for which option, I also think the second one is probably better. I would make sure I voted within the week, personally, so there's one vote already! Anyway umm ok here's a normal nom:

Nomination #71

Composer: Wilbert Roget, II
Album: Songs for the Cure '11: Esuna
Track Title: Ebenebe Ga Egbu
Track Number: 01
Year: 2011
Catalog Number: JWMUSIC.ORG RFL11-B
Additional Information: This should be eligible, shouldn't it? I mean, this man has composed music for games, he's not just an OCRemixer.

I bought the album the other week but it's on a computer to which I don't have access at the moment, so I am cheating and uploading a 128CBR track ripped from the bandcamp page. so yes, TO THE FTP (again)

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Muzza

This should be eligible, shouldn't it? I mean, this man has composed music for games, he's not just an OCRemixer.

YES

Originally Posted by Muzza

I bought the album the other week but it's on a computer to which I don't have access at the moment, so I am cheating and uploading a 128CBR track ripped from the bandcamp page. so yes, TO THE FTP (again)

Okay but in the next thread I'm going to make fun of you until you fix that.

Also we are going with option #2, so LET THE GREAT EXPERIMENT BEGIN

1). [10/6.5] Aekanaru Sekai no Owari ni Original Soundtrack "Routine" - Nagi's Theme
2). [10/5.5] Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection - Battle in the Royal Crypt
3). [8/5] Create Original Videogame Score - Skate Park Shuffle
4). [8/4] Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Game Rip) - Stage 1: In Seattle
5). [7] Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast Game Rip) - Extra Stage 2
6). [5] www.newgrounds.com - Final Encounter
7). [3/3] Assault Rigs (PSX Red Book Audio) - Steam 1
8). [3/2] starmine - bass 2 bass -Remo-con Tech Dance Remix-

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

! "Nagi's Theme" won?! Is this the first time one nominator has single-handedly retired a soundtrack? "afternoon theme" was one of my first noms and got 2nd; "fun time" got 1st in that whimsical week; and now this one somehow scored first. yay doors!

Also you bully OK it's now in the FTP with delicious beat-thumping sound quality.

4 posts in a SotF thread in 2 days, brb entering bomb shelter in anticipation of impending apocalypse

Jam it back in, in the dark.