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Mega Microdome$: Nominations

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
In Mega Microdome$, four smaller-scale music thunderdomes will be run concurrently. From my own suggestions and others', I have selected four that might not have the bench depth to support a full event.

Here are the four categories:
  • North Division: The Coverdome! Every song nominated in this category must be a cover of a previous song by a different artist, and you must sincerely prefer it over the original version.
  • South Division: The Indiedome! Songs from indie video games. Please argue with each other about what counts an indie game. I want to see some real acrimony here, people.
  • East Division: The Smashdome! Pick a song from the soundtrack of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Shouldn't be hard, there's over a thousand songs in that game. Lordy.
  • West Division: The Very Short Dome! Every song in this category must end or loop within 30 seconds. It does not have to be from a video game.
Song nomination will work differently in this event than in previous ones, so be sure to read carefully:
  1. Group your nominations clearly and explicitly into the four different categories.
  2. You can nominate as many songs as you want. Really! Just go nuts. However, you must sort them in priority order. I'll assume that songs that are closer to the start of the post are ones you want more. In order to make the domes sufficiently micro (i.e. a convenient power of 2), I'll exclude songs starting from the low-priority ones.
  3. Don't worry about nominating songs that someone else nominated. I'll skip ones that someone else already posted with a higher rank. In the event of a tie, I'll use the one in the earlier post as a tie-breaker.
  4. If a song qualifies for multiple categories, you can nominate it in multiple categories. I'll leave it up to you to decide if that's a good idea.
I'll leave this thread open for at least a week.
 
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spines

cyber true color
(she/her, or something)
cover: dang, sincere beliefs really doing some thinning of the pack here

ben folds five - she don't use jelly

indie: yeah alright i'm going full recency bias, you know what time it is

eero lahtinen - lax lullaby
matthew seiji burns - exa power
brenton kossak and blaine mcgurty - the crowd goes wild

smash: would not have guessed how much i was waiting for this moment

akira nishizaki (arr. ACE) - landscape under the ghost-kaminano

jingle: this is an idea for a dome i actually had before, but if i truly have to name a number one

manabu namiki - superb
takehiko fujii - beatmania iidx 8th style opening
manabu namiki - rebellion

i'll figure out at least a two and three i think. i love this stuff
 
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Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
North Division "Coverdome":
  1. Breadfan - Metallica (originally by Budgie)
  2. Shadows of the Night - Pat Benatar (originally by Helen Schneider)
  3. Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley (written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman, first recorded by Charles Hart)
South Division "Indiedome":
  1. Surpassing Authority from Timespinner (music by Jeff Ball)
  2. Blasphemous Shackles from Timespinner (music by Jeff Ball)
East Division "Smashdome":
  1. Vampire Killer (Remix) (arranged by Shinji Ushiroda)
  2. Ken Stage (arranged by Rio Hamamoto)
West Division "Very Short Dome":
  1. Bloody Tears from Castlevania 2 (music by Kenichi Matsubara)
  2. Vampire Killer from Castlevania (music by Kinuyo Yamashita)
 
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WildcatJF

The Season, It's Here
(he / his / him)
 

WildcatJF

The Season, It's Here
(he / his / him)
Well, I have them in my iTunes for the soundtrack, but you can find them in the game for all the remixes in the Music section, or on SmashWiki.
 

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
North Division "Coverdome"
  1. Johnny Cash- Hurt
  2. Muse - Feeling Good - mashed up this version (my favourite) and the Aretha Franklin version (my husband's favourite) for the first dance at our wedding
  3. Soul to Squeeze (acapella) - UPenn Off the Beat, this takes me back to the Napster days...
  4. Disturbed - Sound of Silence - there are some days I prefer Simon and Garfunkel, some I prefer this
South Division "Indiedome"
  1. Spatula by Girlfriend Material from Desert Child (I can't seem to find a video specifically using game footage right now but will keep looking)
  2. Cave Story Balcony
  3. Cave Story Moonsong
East Division "Smashdome"
  1. Gerudo Valley Zelda
  2. Calamari Inkantation Splatoon
  3. Lost in Thoughts All Alone Fire Emblem
  4. KK Condor Animal Crossing
  5. Wii Shop Channel
  6. Athletic Theme Super Mario World
  7. Story 5 Meeting Fire Emblem
  8. Ground Theme (Band) Super Mario
West Division "Very Short Dome"
  1. Secret of Mana I Closed My Eyes
  2. Persona 3 The Path Was Closed
  3. Persona 3 The Beginning
  4. Persona 5 Suspicious Person
 
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SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Will update this as I have time.

Covers:
Florence and the Machine - Stand By Me
TMBG - New York City (original by cub)
TMBG - Tubthumping (Chumbawumba) [timestamp for song, back up if you want context]

Indies:

Smash:
Tal Tal Heights (arr Yusuke Takahama)
Kass's Theme (arr Yoko Shimomura)

GoneIn30Seconds:
TMBG - What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?
TMBG - Wreck My Car
FF1 - Victory Fanfare - Nobuo Uematsu (couldn't find a YT cut under 30s, but the song loops at 16s)
Also, somehow on my phone I have a cut of "Nananan Katamari" that's like 29s, but I can't find it on YT either.
 
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Exposition Owl

Happy Owlidays!
(he/him/his)
Coverdome!
-Angélique Kidjo, “Born Under Punches” (covering Talking Heads)
-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “I’m Your Man” (covering Leonard Cohen)
-Tori Amos, “Raining Blood” (covering Slayer)
-Cat Power, “New York” (covering Liza Minelli or Frank Sinatra, as you prefer)
-The Bangles, “Hazy Shade of Winter” (covering Simon & Garfunkel)

Indiedome!
-“In Circles,” from Transistor, by Darren Korb feat. Ashley Barrett
-“Glider,” from Sable, by Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast)
-“Apotheosis,” from Journey, by Austin Wintory
-“Otherworld,” from Axiom Verge, by Thomas Happ
-“Adventure,” from Fez, by Disasterpeace

Smashdome!
-“Vega’s Theme” from Street Fighter II (comp. & arr. Yoko Shimamura)
-“Opening Stage” from Mega Man X (by Setsuo Yamamoto, arr. Yusuke Takahama)
-“Brinstar Depths,” from Metroid (by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka, arr. Yasushi Asada)
-“Termina Field,” from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (by Koji Kondo, arr. Shota Kageyama)
-“Beginning,” from Castlevania III (by Jun Funahashi, arr. Yoshito Sekigawa)


VeryShortdome!
-“Secret Sound,” from The Legend of Zelda
-“Everything is Catching on Fire,” They Might Be Giants [There’s a lot of love for Fingertips in this dome, isn’t there?]
-“Dream Shrine,” from Link’s Awakening [loops at 20s]
-“Journey to the Future,” from Final Fantasy Legend III [loops at 28s]
-“The Queen’s Approach,” The Decemberists
 
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Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
I'll whip up a bracket in the next day or two and we'll get this train wreck a-rollin'.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
Did you know: I didn't specify which planet's days I would be taking one or two of in order to get started?

To get the North Division (Coverdome) down to 32 entries, I cut everybody's number 4 and up, and the number 3 entries from SpoonyBard, Kirin, and Exposition Owl, as they were the last to post.

To get the South Division (Indiedome) down to 32 entries, I cut everybody's number 4 and up, but didn't have to cut any number 3s.

To get the East Division (Smashdome) down to 32 entries, I cut everybody's number 5 and up, but didn't have to cut any number 4s.

To get the West Division (Very Short Dome) down to 32 entries, I cut everybody's number 5 and up, and the number 4 entries from Exposition Owl and Violentvixen.

Condolences to the pre-eliminated. The voting thread will go up soon.
 
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