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Today's broadcast is C1E90 for Theme Thursday, November 21st  2024. Today's Broadcast is part 2 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turning 50 – The B-Sides"    Tracklist!     Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp     A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00     A2) Intro - 00:01:35     01) Overworld - Legend of Zelda - NES - Koji Kondo - 00:03:37     02) Forest of Elrond - Wizards and Warriors - NES - David Wise - 00:04:19     03) Swimming - Alex Kidd in Miracle World - Master System - 00:05:40     04) Track 2-3 - Super Mario Bros - NES - Koji Kondo - 00:08:10     05) Chill - Dr. Mario - NES - Koji Kondo - 00:08:10     06) Town - Phantasy Star - Master System - Tokuhiko Uwabo - 00:12:30     07) Passing Breeze - Outrun - Arcade - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - 00:13:50     08) Theme - Space Harrier - Arcade - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - 00:19:30     09) Green Hill Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - 00:27:00     10) Field of Gale - Ys V - Super Famicom - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Atsushi Shirakawa) - 00:29:19     11) Library of Ancients - Final Fantasy V - Super Famicom - Nobuo Uematsu - 00:32:23     12) Behind the Circuit - Phantasy Star IV - Genesis - Izuho Takeuchi and/or Masaki Nakagaki - 00:34:53     13) Tenth Street - Shadownrun - SNES - Marshall Parker - 00:37:15     14) Wilderness - Golden Axe - Genesis - Tōru Nakabayashi - 00:41:10     15) Vega's Theme - Street Fighter II - Arcade - Yoko Shimomura - 00:46:07     16) In the Bar - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 00:48:42     17) China Town - Revenge of Shinobi - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 00:50:03     18) Onett - Earthbound - SNES - Keiichi Suzuki and/or Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka - 00:52:40     19) Kakariko Village - LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo - 00:53:51     20) Town - Legend of Heroes - TG16 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Meiko Ishikawa) - 00:55:53     21) Track 8 - Dungeon Explorer II - TG16 - Tsukasak Masuko - 01:00:02     22) Track 3 - Splash Lake - TG16 - T's Music - 01:01:59     23) Celceta: The Sea of Trees - Ys IV - PC Engine - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Atsushi Shirakawa) - 01:05:01     24) Vampire Killer - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - PC Engine - Akira Sōji, Keizō Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, and/or Mikio Saitou - 01:06:59     25) Collision Chaos (Present) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, David Young, Mark Crew and/or Pastiche - 01:08:35     26) Ending - Popful Mail - Sega CD - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Atsushi Shirakawa) - 01:10:14     27) DK's Island Theme - Donkey Kong 64 - N64 - Grant Kirkhope - 01:12:10     28) Frontier Village Dali - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 01:15:56     29) Safe in Beregost - Baldur's Gate - PC - John Winski - 01:18:16     30) Stone Tower Temple - LoZ: Majora's Mask - N64 - Koji Kondo - 01:19:37     31) Cosmo Canyon - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 01:21:29     32) Crossing3084 - Phantasy Star Online - Dreamcast - Hideaki Kobayash and/or Fumie Kumatani - 01:24:59     33) Area 1: Mother Nature - Dig Dug Arrangement - Arcade - c: Yuriko Keino / a: Unknown - 01:28:59     34) Not Mega… - Retro City Rampage - Vita - Jake Kaufman - 01:31:02     35) Commercial City of Liligue ~ Pretense of Prosperity - Grandia II - PS2 - Noriyuki Iwadare - 01:32:51     36) The Byway of Departure - Trails in the Sky - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Wataru Ishibashi) - 01:35:34     37) Lonely Rolling Star - Katamari Damacy - PS2 - Yoshihito Yano - 01:37:35     38) Comic Klepto - Bully - PS2 - Shawn Lee - 01:43:14     39) Traces of D - Trails to Azure - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Saki Momiyama) - 01:45:54     40) Beautiful Morning - Danganronpa 2 - PSP - Masafumi Takada - 01:47:55     41) Lanayru Mining Facility - LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii - Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yokota, Takeshi Hama, Kōji Kondō - 01:50:51     42) The Island Left Behind - Legend of Nayuta - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Saki Momiyama) - 01:53:59     43) Flower Fields - Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii - Tomoya Tomita - 01:56:19     44) Anya by the Stars - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - 01:59:48     45) Genial and Balmy - Trails of Cold Steel III - PS4 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Takahiro Unisuga) - 02:01:57     46) AfroCuban-Taco Restaurant - Save the Date - PC - Francisco Cerda - 02:04:28    47) Tokyo Daylight - Persona 5 - PS4 - Shōji Meguro - 02:07:55     48) Hammerhead - Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - Yoko Shimomura - 02:09:54     49) Gentle Tiny Sleep - Trails of Cold Steel IV - PS4 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Hayato Sonoda) - 02:14:01     50) Flamesgrace, Guiding Light - Octopath Traveler - Multiplatform - Yasunori Nishiki - 02:16:14    Music Block Runtime: 02:16:46, Total Episode Runtime: 02:20:23    Hugues' blog can be found here:      https://huguesjohnson.com/    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com    You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!    Thanks for listening! Join us again in Later this month or early December for C2R4 (Channel 2, Retrospective 4): "The Best of Season 4" and in December for C2F (Channel 2 Finale): "Finally our Final Finale", the series retrospctive and final broadcast of Channel 2 as well as for C1R7 (Channel 1, Retrospective 7) - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", and for the the last times, Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club. And wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

Today's broadcast is  C1E72 for Mishmash Monday, February 13th, 2023. Today's episode will be Mishmash Monday – vol 13. Dedicated to my friend Harrison Frost, who celebrates his 44th birthday today, and with whom I only very recently reconnected after a nearly 20yr hiatus.    A1 – Intro – 00:00:00    01 - Wrecking Crew - NES - Stage Theme – Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka – 00:04:00    02 - 3D Pinball Space Cadet - PC - Table - Mat Ridgeway – 00:05:57    03 - The Simpsons – Arcade – Springfield Butte - Norio Hanzawa – 00:08:04    04 - Sonic 3D Blast – Saturn – Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 – Richard Jacques – 00:10:11    05 - Aoi Blink – PC Engine - Stage Theme 2 - Shinichi Sakamoto and/or Souichirou Harada – 00:13:32    06 - Pebble Beach Golf Links - 3DO - Main Menu - Yumi Kinoshita – 00:16:48    07 - Manhattan Requiem – LaserActive (LD-Rom2) - Blue Soul –   Daisuke Oda – 00:19:30    08 - Tetris – Arcade (Sega) - Tetremix A – Esco Boueki Sound Team - 00:22:21    09 - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine – Genesis – Level 1-4 – Masanori Hikichi and/or Masayuki Nagao – 00:24:13    10 - N++ - multi - Ghost Coil – Avatism – 00:25:57    11 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl – Wii – Norfair – c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro – 00:28:37    12 - Waverace: Blue Storm - GameCube - Arctic Bay (Sunny) - Lawrence Schwedler and/or James Phillipsen – 00:31:12    13 - Comix Zone - Genesis - Episode 1, Page 1-1 - Howard Drossin – 00:34:39    14 - Ultra Vortek - Atari Jaguar - Mockery – Dale Meier – 00:38:37    15 - Body Blows Galactic – Amiga – Menu – Allister Brimble – 00:41:31    16 - Mega Turrican - Genesis - Stage 3-1 – Chris Hülsbeck - 00:43:32    17 - The Ninja – Mastersystem – Grassy Field – Unknown – 00:45:22    18 - Tintin in Tibet – GameBoy Color  - Swimming – Alberto Jose Gonzales – 00:47:11    19 - Cybernoid2 - C64 - Title - Jeroen Tel – 00:49:01    20 - LoZ: Link's Awakening – SWITCH – Boss Room Calm – Ryo Nagamatsu – 00:51:17    21 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - Into Space – Ashif Hakik – 00:52:35    22 - Diver's Dream - PS1 – Air! - Takayuki Ishikawa and Shinya Watanabe – 00:57:33    23 - Burn: Cycle – CD-I – Kris VR – Simon Boswell – 00:59:31    24 - Final Fantasy XII - PS2 - Eruyt Village - Hiroshi Sakimoto – 01:03:52    25 - No Man's Sky – Multi – Pacify – 65daysofstatic, Earcom, and/or Paul Weir – 01:07:58    26 - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Barthes Island - Tatsuhiko Asano – 01:12:09    27 - Light Plane - Pilot wings – SNES – Soya Oka and/or Kōji Kondō - 01:15:30    28 - Makai Hakken Den Shada – PC Engine – Title – Shogo Sakai, Masaaki Iwasaki, Takafumi Miura, Seiichi Hamada, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuki Takahama – 01:17:20    29 - Mappy - Arcade - Main Theme - Nobuyuki Oonogi – 01:18:19    30 - Motocross Maniacs - Gameboy - Courses 3 / 7 - Michiru Yamane – 01:21:16    31 - Metroid Prime - GameCube - Phendrana Drifts Depths – Kenji Yamamoto – 01:23:10    B1 – Outro – 01:26:50    B2 – Outtakes – 01:38:54    Music Block Runtime: 01:23:00, Total Episode Runtime: 01:40:44    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Produced using Ardour 7.x / Audacity 3.x in Linux (either Ubuntu Studio, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora, or SteamOS on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, or one of three Linux laptops). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com    You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!    Thanks for listening! Join us again Feb 23rd, 2023 for C2E11 (Channel 2, Episode 11): "It's Space Time", and again in March for C1E73 (Channel 1, Episode 73) - featuring a special guest – Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club, as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

Today's broadcast is  C1E65A for Wayback Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 Today's episode is part one of two in our "Best of 2020 / 2021" celebration – featuring St. John's picks, and unimaginitavely called "The Best of 2020 / 2021 – part 1: St. John's picks".    Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Original Episode – Originally selected by    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Funky Radio [In-Game vers] - Jet Grind Radio – Dreamcast – B.B. Rights – C1E51 – St. John – 00:09:44  03) Title – TMNT – NES – Jun Funahashi – C1E60 – Phillip Vaughn – 00:13:07  04) [REVERSE] Options – Daffy Duck in Hollywood – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Ch F: Backtracks: the OTHER 50 – St. John – 00:14:51  05) Roller Mobster – Hotline Miami – Multiplatform – Carpenter Brut – C1E60 – Adam Huisman – 00:17:10  06) Got Well Soon – Life is Strange – Multiplatform – Breton – C1E60 – Amber Pearey – 00:20:37  07) Signs of Love – Persona IV – PS2 – Shoji Meguro – C1E60 – Trey Johnson – 00:25:22  08) [SLOW] Can you Feel the Sunshine – Sonic R – Saturn – C1E57 - Richard Jacques – St. John – 00:28:16  09) [REVERSE] Mirage – Gran Turismo 5 – PS3 – Kemmei Adachi – C1E52 – St. John – 00:35:19  10) Star Guitar – Lumines II – PSP – The Chemical Bros – C1E51 – St. John – 00:39:24  11) Overworld Theme – Zelda II: Adventure of Link – NES – Akito Nakatsuka – C1E53/C1E58 - St. Jesse / St. John – 00:45:44  12) World D – Art of Balance – Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - Ch F: C2S1 Complete – St. John – 00:47:13  13) Afternoon in Crossbell – Zero no Kiseki – PC / PSP – Takahiro Unisuga – C1E59 – Hugues Johnson – 00:49:32  14) [REVERSE] Cylic – Heavily Armored – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – C1E52 – St. John – 00:51:51  15) Stage 02 – Contra III: The Alien Wars – SNES – Konami Kukeiha Club – C1E53 – St. John – 00:54:04  16) Illusion – Ys IV – PC Engine – Atsushi Shiakawa – C1E59 – Hugues Johnson – 00:56:55  17) Norfair – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Switch – c: Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro – Ch F: C2S1 Complete – St. John – 00:58:58  18) Mystic Woods (aka Forest 2) - Grounseed (OPN vers) - PC98 – Daisuke Takahashi – C2E3 – St. John – 01:01:27  19) [REVERSE] Stage 4-3 – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – C1E52 – St. John – 01:05:03  20) [REVERSE] The Reverse Will – Silent Hill 2 – PS2 – Akira Yamaoka – C1E52 – St. John – 01:08:17  21) Voices of Urdak – DOOM Eternal – Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – C1E56 – St. John – 01:11:38  22) Anxious Heart – Final Fantasy VII – PS1 – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E58 – St. Jesse – 01:17:44  23) If you Open your Heart – Final Fantasy VII – PS1 – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E58 – St. Jesse – 01:21:37  24) Everything's Going to be Okay – Prey – Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – C1E51 – St. John – 01:24:31  25) [REVERSE] Process Control – Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Yasuhisa Inoue – C1E52 – St. John – 01:27:11  26) BGM 3 – Mario Paint – SNES – Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, Ryouji Yoshitomi, and/or Kazumi Totaka – C1E54 – St. John – 01:30:37  27) [SLOW] Fonction – n++ - Multiplatform – Broca – C1E57 – St. John – 01:33:57  28) Fonction – n++ - Multiplatform – Broca – Ch F: C2S1 Complete – St John – 01:43:31  29) Kara Kara Bazaar – LoZ: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / Switch – Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – C1E60 – St. John – 01:50:26  30) Space – Yoshi's Crafted World – Switch – Kazufumi Umeda – C1E54 – St. John – 01:52:32  31) Footlight Lane – Super Mario 3D World – WiiU / Switch – Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – C1E54 – St. John – 01:55:38  32) Course World – Super Mario Maker 2 – Switch – Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi, and/or Sayoka Doi – C1E54 – St. John – 01:57:38  33) Gomoku, Shogi, Mini-Shogi, Hanafuda – Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – Switch – Chamy Ishi, and/or Toshiki Aida – C1E56 – St. John – 01:59:52  34) Prime #5 – Echochrome - PSP / PS3 – Hideki Sakamoto – C1E60 – Electric Boogaloo – 02:01:53  35)  Skytown – Metroid Prime 3 – Wii – Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano, and/or Masaru Tajima – C1E51 – St. John – 02:05:06  36) [REVERSE] The Blazing Sands – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E52 – St. John – 02:08:28  37) [REVERSE] Stage 4 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Yoshio Furukawa, Masahara Iwata, and/or Hitoshi Sakamoto – C1E52 – St. John – 02:11:26  38) Division – BrandishVT – PC – Naoki Kaneda – C1E59 – Hugues Johnson – 02:13:25  39) Snif City – Paper Mario: The Origami King – Switch – Shoh Marakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Moishita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe – C1E54 / C2E4 – St. John – 02:15:24  40) Marionette, Marionette – Ys IX – PS4 – Mitsuo Singa – C1E59 – Hugues Johnson – 02:18:19  41) Toad's Turnpike – Mario Kart 64 – N64 – Kenta Nagata, Taroh Bandoh, and/or Yoji Inagaki – C1E54 – St. John – 02:20:34  42) Guruguru Majin De Pon – Gurumin – PC / PSP / 3DS – Takahide Murayama – C1E59 – Hugues Johnson – 02:23:28  43) Results Theme (aka Record of Samus) - Metroid Prime – Gamecube / Wiii – Kenji Yamamoto (inspired by "Brinstar" from Metroid – NES –  Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka) - C1E60 – St. John – 02:27:08  44) Results Parade – Check Mii Out Channel – Wii – Kazumi Totaka – C1E56 – St. John –02:30:05  45) A Battle's Conclusion – Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – Switch – Kumi Tanioka, Reo Uratai, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Haruki Yamada – C1E56 – St. John – 02:32:09  46) Tear-Stained Eyes – Snatcher – Sega CD / PC Engine CD – Konami Kukeiha Club – C1E51 – St. John – 02:34:18  47) Inn / Game Over – Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II – NES – David Wise – C1E53 – St. John – 02:39:09  48) [REVERSE] The Serpent Trench – Final Fantasy VI – SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E52 – St. John – 02:39:59  49) [REVERSE] What Can you Do? - Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Lenny Ibizarre – C1E52 – St. John – 02:41:56  50) [SLOW] Jump Up Super Star – Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – Shiho Fujii, and/or Koji Kondo – C1E57 – St. John – 02:46:54  51) [REVERSE] Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo – Ch F: Backtracks – The OTHER 50 – St. John – 02:52:41  52) Outro – 02:57:55    Music Block Runtime: 02:48:26, Total Episode Runtime: 03:17:52    Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Results Parade from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.    Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04    A few important milestones in 2020 / 2021 that I had failed to mention in the intro, but which deserve mentioning:    A) we had our first Ch 1 episode by Hugues (which was also the first Ch 1 in the entire show's history that St. John had absolutely no hand whatsoever in producing. It was a focus on music fromFalcomgames, and was quite succinctly named "The Falcom Episode"    B) We made the migration from producing Nerd Noise Radio in GarageBand via MacOS on a mac mini (and using primarily MP3s in production – mostly through YouTube-to-MP3 websites) to producing NNR in a mix of Audacity andArdourvia Ubuntu Studio (Linux) on a mix of a Dell Latitude Laptop and my custom-built gaming PC (and using primarily WAVs in production – mostly through the youtube-dl command in the Linux terminal). The last episode to be produced in Mac was C1E52: Backtracks (April 1st 2020) and the first episode to be produced in Linux was Channel F: Backtracks – the OTHER 50 (April or May 2020). I feel like the production value on balance is noticeably and appreciably better after the change. And since Hugues is also a Linux user, that means that both sides of our Channel 2 episodes are Linux productions.    You can find the Google Sheets spreadsheet showing St. John's work in arriving at his tracklist for this episode here (WARNING: MILD SPOILERS! Contains track lists for potential future Archive-exclusive SUPER BONUS supplemental music collections:    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X6JpkqiGADAF9sHAsSpgyImjvimVWJv2mOATf5_ZZGc/edit?usp=sharing    You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Our episodes (and occasionally, other content, including expanded show notes) can be found on our blog here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl.    Thanks for listening! Join us again in August (dates TBD) for a special guest on Channel 1, and our desert biome focus, "Just Deserts" on Channel 2. Delicious VGM, as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Radio...and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!      Cheers! 

selections from the Video Game cover band, the One Ups on a program we called "Keeping up with The OneUps - vol. 1". Amended 02/06/22 to include an all call for tracks for our upcoming "Best of 2020 / 2021" feature. The track list below has been updated to include amended timestamps and track numbers that account for the addition of the 2022 add-on.    Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher. I didn't have access to the studio and "the good mic" at the time, so I just did the best I could with my built-in laptop mic.    Track Number / Original Track Name (OneUps-specific track name - where applicable) / OneUps Album / Original Version Composer / Timestamp    01) Best of 2020 / 2021 Earcatcher: 00:00:00  02) Intro 00:01:34  03) Super Mario Kart - Title Theme - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka – 00:03:27  04) Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone - Volume 2 - Masato Nakamura – 00:05:10  05) Tetris - Theme A - Korobeinki (Space Bloq Soviet Fun Time Puzzle Song) - Intergalactic Redux - (trad) Nikolay Nekrasov – 00:09:17  06) Mario Paint - Monkeys - Volume 1 - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka – 00:13:31  07) Legend of Zelda - Dungeon (λαβύρινθος - Labyrinthos) - Songs for the Recently Deceased - Koji Kondo – 00:16:26  08) Super Mario 2 - Underground BGM - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo – 00:20:28  09) Contra - Stage 1 (Bill and Lance - Soldier Trance) - Intergalactic Redux - Kazuki Muraoka – 00:24:13  10) Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience - Volume 1 - David Wise – 00:29:54  11) LoZ: LttP - Time of the Falling Rain (Intro) - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo – 00:34:12  12) F-Zero - Port Town (Port Authority) - Part Seven - Yumiko Kanki – 00:39:17  13) TMNT II: The Arcade Game - Stage 3 (Super Solar Sewer System) - Intergalactic Continuum - Kozo Nakamura – 00:43:55  14) Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka  - 00:48:44  15) Outro 00:54:13    Music Block Runtime: 00:50:54, Original Total Episode Runtime: 00:59:09, 2022 Amended Total Episode Runtime: 01:00:40    Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing 

Today's “F-isode” is the complete collection of all music from season 1 of Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 (Sept 2020 - Sept 2021) ***PLUS***, the music from Hugues and I's December 2019 Channel F “one-off” that would go on to retroactively become the template, and “unofficial ‘beta'” for Channel 2. Though much longer, and a bit more clunky and unpolished, it is otherwise identical in format and fundamentally similar in delivery to what would go on to become the later Channel 2 “official episodes”.    Now, this collection is JUST the music from these episodes, with all the conversation between Hugues and I scrubbed. However, I will provide iTunes links to each of the full episodes (plus the full beta) so that you can listen to these tracks IN CONTEXT if you wish, and can hear everything we had to say about them.   Part of the reason I had included the tracks from the 2019 beta is to show where we've come from. Part of it is to show where we're going. Part of it is simply because it's full of really, really great music that you may have otherwise missed. And lastly, since starting with the “Best of 2020 / 2021” episodes in 2022, music from Channel F “F-isodes” will be eligible, unlike they were in 2020 for “Best of 2019”, I wanted to include them here now so that they'd finally be available to you or I for inclusion in our respective “best ofs”.   But the single biggest reason for my sharing these with you now, in November of 2021 is simply to hopefully build some excitement for and engagement with December's “Best of Channel 2 - Season 1” episode, which Hugues and I will meet to produce, and will feature a grand total of 26 tracks, ***ALL OF WHICH*** pulled from today's collection of 92 - two tracks per host per episode, plus one “wild card”  track pick per host. So, which 26 will we pull, and which 66 will we leave behind? And how well or poorly will our 26 align with the 26 that you, the listener, may have theoretically picked for yourself and/or predicted that we might pull?   In December, we'll all find out together. And afterwards, you'll have to be sure to reach out to us to let us know! In the meanwhile, here's the source material we'll be pulling from: first, the 70 tracks from “Season 1 proper”, plus the 22 from 2019 in our beta afterwards. I hope you'll enjoy! Please get a hold of us on FB, or Twitter, or through e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com with what your picks, and/or your guess of what our picks will be, and if we get them in time, we may even mention them, and engage with them during the episode! If you DO decide to play along, pick one “Hugues track”, one “St. John track”, and one wildcard, so we're dealing with the same number of tracks (as well as what your guesses are for our picks).   Cheers!   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   C2E1: “Songs of the Pandemic” (Orig. Released: 09/17/20) - 00:00:00 - 00:35:18   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio-channel-2-episode-1-c2e1-songs-of/id1191401173?i=1000491590205   Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Selected By – Timestamp  01) The Runaway (City on the Horizon – Instrumental) - 198X – Multi – Daniel Rosenqvist      and/or Anton Dromberg (UFD?) - St. John – 00:00:00    02) Overdrive – Saturday Morning RPG – Multi – Vince DiCola and/or Kenny Merideth – Hugues – 00:03:34   03) Unholy Impact – Mother Russia Bleeds – Multi – Fixions – St. John – 00:05:34   04) The Abyss – Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PC / PSP – Hayoto Sonoda – Hugues – 00:10:34   05) They're Back – Streets of Rage 4 – Multi – Yuzo Koshiro – St. John – 00:13:03   06) Power or Technique – Trails of Cold Steel III – PC / PS4 / Switch – Hayato Sonoda – Hugues – 00:16:07   07) Friend Select – Air Zonk – Turbografx16 – Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita – St. John – 00:17:54   08) Bar – Dungeon Explorer – Turborafx16 – Tsukasa Masuko – Hugues – 00:18:23   09) Demons Undulate – Alien Crush – Turbografx16 – St. John – 00:19:32   10) Mako Reactor – Final Fantasy VII Remake – PS4 – c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Masashi Hamauzu – Hugues – 00:20:25   11) Behind the Cosmic Curtain – Samarost 3 – iOS / Android – Floex – St. John – 00:23:58   12) Beneath the Mask (Rain – Instrumental) - Persona 5 – PS3 / PS4 - Shōji Meguro – Hugues – 00:26:17   13) 10pm – Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi – St. John – 00:30:43   14)  Results (Golf) - Wii Sports – Wii – Kazumi Totaka – Hugues – 00:33:03 C2E2: “Deck the Halls” (Orig. Released: 12/24/20) - 00:35:15 - 01:11:23   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio-c2e2-deck-the-halls/id1191401173?i=1000503406254   Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected By - Timestamp 01) Intro + Menu - Hyper Catalog 4 - PC Engine - Unknown - Hugues - 00:35:15   02) December 2015 - Nintendo eShop - WiiU / 3DS - Kazumi Totaka - St. John - 00:36:04   03) Christmas - Phantasy Star Universe - Multiplatform - Seirou Okamoto - Hugues - 00:39:11   04) Diamond Dust Zone (Act 1) - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - St. John - 00:42:44   05) Christmas on Dobuita St. - Shenmue - Dreamcast - Ryuji Iuchi - Hugues - 00:45:32   06) The Frostlands - Octopath Traveler - Switch / PC - Yasunori Nishiki - St. John - 00:47:55   07) Uwa!! So Holiday!! - Undertale - Multiplatform - Toby Fox - Hugues - 00:51:46   08) Limestone Cave - Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - Jun Senoue - St. John - 00:52:38   09) Winter Festival - Stardew Valley - Multiplatform - ConcernedApe - Hugues - 00:55:41   10) Boss Battle - Daze before Christmas - Mega Drive - Kim M. Jensen and/or Geir Tjelta - St. John - 00:58:13   11) Merry X-Mas & Funky 1999! - BreakQuest - Multiplatform  - Jeroen "WAVE" Tel - Hugues - 01:00:45   12) Ice Cavern - LoZ: Ocarina of Time - N64 - Koji Kondo - St. John - 01:03:27   13) Toy Day - Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 3DS - Manaka Kataoka and/or Atsuko Asahi - Hugues - 01:05:14   14) Outside - Home Alone - Genesis - Clifford Falls - St. John - 01:07:40 C2E3: “Mishmash Monday - vol. 1” (Orig. Released: 03/15/21) - 01:11:16 - 01:48:44   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio-channel-2-c2e3-mishmash-monday-vol-1/id1191401173?i=1000513086071   Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp 01) Track 4 - Starsky and Hutch - Multiplatform - Tim Follin - St. John - 01:11:16   02) Trickster for Mayor - The Flash - Mastersystem - Jeroen Tel - Hugues - 01:14:03   03) Boss - Blackbelt - Mastersystem - Katsuhiro Hayashi - St. John - 01:16:05   04) Sunset Park Zone Train - Sonic Triple Trouble - Game Gear - Yayoi Wachi - Hugues - 01:18:23   05) Nortinka - Link: The Faces of Evil - CD-i - Tony Trippi - St. John - 01:20:02   06) Stage 2 - TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan - GameBoy - Tomoko Nishikawa and/or Michiru Yamane - Hugues - 01:22:15   07) Winter's Here - TMNT 2: The Arcade Game - NES - Yasuhiko Manno - St. John - 01:25:11   08) High Color Evolution - Splatoon - WiiU - Shiho Fujii - Hugues - 01:26:45   09) Cyclic (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto - St. John - 01:28:40   10) Synchronicity #23 - Trails of Cold Steel IV - PS4 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (likely Mitsuo Singa) - Hugues - 01:30:47   11) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - St. John - 01:33:55   12) Pennington's Mystery - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - GameCube - Yoshihito Hirano and/or Yuka Tsujiyoko - Hugues - 01:38:15   13) Mystic Woods (aka Forest 2) - Grounseed (OPN vers.) - PC98 - Daisuke Takahashi - St. John - 01:41:04   14)  Birdman - Pilotwings 64 -N64 - Dan Hess - Hugues - 01:44:40 C2E4: “Summer Jams” (Orig. Released: 06/24/21) - 01:48:34 - 02:31:34   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c2e2-summerjams/id1191401173?i=1000526727040   (note: iTunes incorrectly lists this one as “C2E2”, when it is, in fact, “C2E4”)   Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp 01) In-Game Theme - T&C Surf Designs - NES - Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues - 01:48:34   02) Passing Breeze - Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast - Multiplatform - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi a: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Yasuhiro Takagi, and/or Fumio Ito - St. John - 01:50:26   03) Costa Del Sol - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - Hugues - 01:55:58   04) Sirena Beach - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Koji Kondo and/or Shinobu Tanaka - St. John - 01:58:19   05) DK Isle - Donkey Kong 64 - N64 - Grant Kirkhope - Hugues - 02:00:37   06) Ayane - Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 - PS4 / Vita - Masayoshi Sasaki, Mari Yoshida, and/or Kosuke Mizukami - St. John - 02:04:23   07) Outset Island - Legend of Zelda: Windwaker - GameCube - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and/or Koji Kondo - Hugues - 02:08:01   08) In-Game Theme - Pink - iOS / Android - Bart Bonte - St. John - 02:11:49   09) Mishelam Wonderland - Ao no Kiseki - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (probably Saki Momiyama) - Hugues - 02:15:26   10) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morshita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe - St. John - 02:19:02   11) Side Crawler's Dance (Beach) - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap - Mastersystem (PSG) - Shinchi Sakamoto - Hugues - 02:21:53   12) Door into Summer - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu and/or Mariko Nanba - St. John - 02:24:14   13) School's Out - Bully - Multiplatform - Shawn Lee - Hugues - 02:26:39   14) Castle City - Waverace 64 - N64 - Kazumi Totaka - St. John - 02:29:20 C2E5: “Nihon Dake De” (Orig. Released 09/23/21) - 02:31:27 - 03:05:42   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/channel-2-c2e5-nihon-dake-de/id1191401173?i=1000536349764   Track Number - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp     01) Saturn - Star Cruizer - Sharp X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John - 02:31:27   02) Stage 1 - Madō King Granzort - SuperGrafx - Norihiko Yamanuki - Hugues - 02:34:11   03) Torrid City - Metal Stoker - PC Engine - Hiroto Saitō, and/or Nozomu Takahashi - St. John - 02:36:30   04) Knock You Down - Live-A-Live - Super Famicom - Yoko Shimomura - Hugues - 02:38:48   05) I'll Introduce - Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen - Mega Drive - St. John - 02:41:05   06) I Wanna Close to You - Misty Blue - PC88 (OPNA) - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues - 02:43:27   07) Fu-Ten / Mojibri Unkorashu - Mojib-Ribbon - PS2 - Masaya Matsuura* - St. John - 02:46:13   08) Title - Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School - Famicom Disk System - Nobuo Uematsu* - Hugues - 02:49:22   09) Level 1 Warning - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) - Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, Yuji Takenouchi, and/or Tsuyoshi Sekito - St. John - 02:50:51   10) Springdale 2040 Night - Yo-Kai Watch 4 - Nintendo Switch - Kenchiro Saigo - Hugues - 02:52:58   11) Stage 4 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - St. John - 02:55:59   12) Remain - Psychic Detective Series vol. 3: Aya - FM Towns / Mega CD - Yasuhito Saito - Hugues - 02:57:51   13) A Refined Enchanted Cave - Chaos Seed: Fusui Kairoki - Saturn - Yasunori Shiono, Katsuhiro Hayashi, and/or Yukio Nakajima * - St. John - 03:00:52   14) Track 11 - Zero4 Champ II - PC Engine (CD) - Takeshi Ijima and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi - Hugues - 03:03:42 Channel F: “Nerd Noise Game Club” (Orig. Released: 12/19/19) - 03:05:37 - 04:16:24   Full episode can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/channel-f-nerd-noise-game-club/id1191401173?i=1000460021607   Track# – Game – System – Track – Composer(s) – Year of Release – Selected By – Timestamp  01) Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues – 03:05:37   02) Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John – 03:08:19   03) Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues – 03:11:57   04) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John – 03:14:49   05) Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues – 03:17:20   06) Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John – 03:19:36   07) L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues – 03:21:51   08) Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John – 03:25:35   09) Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - What Lies Within - Yoko Shimomura - 2016 - Hugues – 03:29:04   10) n++ - Multiplatform - Fonction - Broca - 2015 - St. John – 03:31:41   11) Ys VIII : Lacrimosa of Dana - Multiplatform - One Dream, One Reality - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayoto Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Mitsuo Singa) - 2016- Hugues – 03:38:26   12) Monument Valley - iOS / Android - The Garden - Stafford Bawler - 2014 - St. John – 03:42:03   13) To the Moon - Multiplatform - Having Lived - Ken Gao - 2011 - Hugues – 03:45:34   14) Prune - iOS / Android / Windows UWP - To The Stars - Kyle Preston - 2015 - St. John – 03:48:07   15) Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Mipha's Touch - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 2017 - Hugues – 03:51:49   16) So Many Me - Multiplatform - Outskirts - Christopher Geehan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough (HyperDuck Soundworks) - 2014 - St. John – 03:55:29   17) The Last Story - Wii - Theme of Last Story - c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Yoshitaka Suzuki - 2011 - Hugues – 03:58:32   18) ARMS - Switch - Get ARMS - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 2017 - St. John – 04:03:18   19) The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Multiplatform - Heated Mind - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Toshiharu Okajima) - 2014 - Hugues – 04:05:23   20) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kemmei Adachi - 2010 - St. John – 04:08:00   21) Bravely Default - 3DS - Land of Light and Shadow - Revo - 2012 - Hugues – 04:12:07   22) Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi  Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 2016 - St. John - 04:14:36 Total Episode Runtime: 04:16:24

Today's rerun was a VERY special occasion that I'm very excited to get to share anew. It was a Channel F "F-isode", originally broadcast December 19th, 2019 that at the time was intended to be nothing more than just a fun "one off" between two friends and fellow podcasters. And yet, it ended up becoming something so much more than that. Though not intended to be at the time, and though it will probably never "officially" be classified as such, it has retroactively become something of a "beta", or a "pilot", or maybe an "Episode Zero" for what would go onto become "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2". Though this trial run is much longer than a standard Channel 2 episode - because it contains nearly twice as many tracks, and though the conversation and production are clunkier, the basic formatting is fundamentally the same, and thus, this really can be retroactively considered to "the birth of Channel 2". Enjoy!   Nerd Noise Game Club    Tracklist with timestamps    Game - System - Track - Composer - Year - Selected By - Timestamp     - Earcatcher: 00:00:00     - Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues  Music: 00:00:03  Intro / Discussion: 00:00:39     - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John  Music: 00:04:25  Discussion: 00:08:07     - Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues  Music: 00:12:45  Discussion: 00:16:07     - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John  Music: 00:19:32  Discussion: 00:22:06     - Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues  Music: 00:26:35  Discussion: 00:28:57     - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John  Music: 00:32:17  Discussion: 00:34:41     - L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues  Music: 00:39:17  Discussion: 00:43:49     - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John  Music: 00:46:40  Discussion: 00:50:18     - Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - What Lies Within - Yoko Shimomura - 2016 - Hugues  Music: 00:55:55  Discussion: 01:01:04     - n++ - Multiplatform - Fonction - Broca - 2015 - St. John  Music: 01:04:15  Discussion: 01:11:21     - Ys VIII : Lacrimosa of Dana - Multiplatform - One Dream, One Reality - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayoto Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Mitsuo Singa) - 2016- Hugues  Music: 01:15:28  Discussion: 01:19:09     - Monument Valley - iOS / Android - The Garden - Stafford Bawler - 2014 - St. John  Music: 01:23:45  Discussion: 01:28:34     - To the Moon - Multiplatform - Having Lived - Ken Gao - 2011 - Hugues  Music: 01:31:33  Discussion: 01:34:10     - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows UWP - To The Stars - Kyle Preston - 2015 - St. John  Music: 01:39:01  Discussion: 01:46:41     - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Mipha's Touch - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 2017 - Hugues  Music: 01:50:11  Discussion: 01:53:42     - So Many Me - Multiplatform - Outskirts - Christopher Geehan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough (HyperDuck Soundworks) - 2014 - St. John  Music: 01:59:47  Discussion: 02:05:52     - The Last Story - Wii - Theme of Last Story - c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Yoshitaka Suzuki - 2011 - Hugues  Music: 02:09:10  Discussion: 02:14:10     - ARMS - Switch - Get ARMS - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 2017 - St. John  Music: 02:18:22  Discussion: 02:21:22     - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Multiplatform - Heated Mind - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Toshiharu Okajima) - 2014 - Hugues  Music: 02:24:26  Discussion: 02:27:02     - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kemmei Adachi - 2010 - St. John  Music: 02:28:52  Discussion: 02:33:04     - Bravely Default - 3DS - Land of Light and Shadow - Revo - 2012 - Hugues  Music: 02:35:37  Discussion / MiiTopia Discussion / Outro: 02:38:05     - Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi   Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 2016 - St. John  Music: 02:44:56    Total Episode Runtime: 02:46:43    LINKS:    retrogameclub.net    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2 

Editor's Note: There's a very special reason why chose today's episode for this month's rerun. And it's not just because it originally released one year ago today....   ....it's that because of a technical glitch on the podcast feed....you never got to hear it in its entirety.   Here's the story: originally a Channel F "F-isode", and originally released 04/28/2020, it was meant to supplement C1E52: "Backtracks", a focus on VGM that we played in reverse, ostensibly as last year's April Fool's gag. Only, as the intro to today's rerun reveals, it wasn't a gag after all, but instead, we were simply using the occasion of the gag as a cover for a subject too weird for many - if presented as the serious study that it was.   It also had the distinction of being the very first episode I had ever produced in Linux. Other than for the recordings of my voice in the end of 2019 "looking back" pair that we collectively referred to as "The Golden Episode", and most of the voices of my family in C1E51, "the birthday episode", which were all done in the Audio Evolution studio [Android] app in ChromeOS on a cheap old Chromebook, everything I had done up to this point had been done in GarageBand on macOS. I had been wanting to make the jump for some time, and with "The Other 50", I finally took the plunge, using a mix of Audacity, and at that time, Ardour 5 in Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (I've since upgraded to Ardour 6 and Ubuntu Studio 20.04).   I am convinced that Ardour and Audacity allow for better production, by way of cleaner, louder, fuller productions. And I'm much happier working under them than I was using the old methods. But if there's one thing they lack, it's the user-friendliness of GarageBand. And so, little things like start and end timers don't automatically move as you add files sometimes, and I have to remember to manually move them, lest some of the beginning or the end get cut off of the final production.   And that's exactly what happened here. The original draft of the file was missing the final, well, approx 30 minutes of the show. The trouble is, I didn't realize it until AFTER I had already uploaded it to podbean. SO, I went back in, deleted the bad file, and replaced it with the good one. But since the file names were the same, it doesn't appear to have made the swap up on the server, and if you go back to the original episode today, it still cuts off early. At least it does on the iTunes website.    So, the most significant reason for today's rerun is to finally allow you to hear the entire production. If the backwards music drove you nuts, fear not: after today, I don't plan to rerun them again until we get close to April Fool's 2026, which will be a Backtracks sequel. However, if this is the first you're hearing of the Backtracks series, and you like it, definitely scroll back on the feed through the back catalog of episodes, find C1E52 "Backtracks", and give it a listen. On balance, after a year to reflect on it, I really do think the original was better than this supplement. And besides, that outro! Oh my goodness, that Outro!!! Tracklist with timestamps below. Also, here's a link to the an Blogspot post which links to several of the Backtracks series Archive.org-exclusive SUPER BONUSES with additional content:   http://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/04/track-lists-for-backtracks-and-other-50.html?m=1   I hope you will enjoy today's rerun, at long last, presented in its entirety!   Cheers! -----------------------------------------------------------------   Track# – Track Name – Game – System – Composer – From Collection – Original Episode – Timestamp    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Options – Daffy Duck in Hollywood – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 00:12:13  03) September 2015 – N/A (eShop) - 3DS / WiiU – Kazumi Totaka – Golden Personal – Ep 6 – 00:16:33  04) The Mall – Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 00:19:44  05) Evil Dante – Cratermaze – TG16 - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:21:21  06) Character Select – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 00:23:01  07) Ethnic Cave and Flame – X-Men – Arcade – Konami Kukeiha Club – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:25:06  08) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2018 – Ep 35 – 00:27:36  09) Reckless Running – Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya – Best of 2018 – Ep 24 – 00:32:38  10) Collision Chaos Zone (Present) – Sonic CD (US) – Sega CD – Spencer Nilsen w/ David Young and Mark Crew – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 00:36:45  11) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – Multiplatform – Tee Lopes – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 00:40:02  12) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Koji Hayama – Golden Popular – Ep 11 – 00:41:10  13) Brinstar (Red Soil) – Super Metroid – SNES – Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano – Miscellaneous – Ep 18 – 00:42:56  14) Stage 3-3 – Ai Chou Aniki – PC Engine – Iwasaki Taku – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:46:40  15) Options – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 00:50:00  16) The Vile Peaks – Final Fantasy XIII – PS3 – Masashi Hamauzu – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:51:26  17) Twilight Palace (Outside) – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ota – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:54:49  18) Outside Ref, The Pyramid of Ice – Dungeon Explorer 2 – PC Engine – Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma – Golden Personal – Ep 47b – 00:58:00  19) After the Battle – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Golden Personal – Ep 4 –01:00:05  20) The Vertical – Ghost in the Shell – PS1 – Joey Beltram – Best of 2017 – Ep 16 – 01:02:23  21) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – Best of 2018 – Ep 31 – 01:08:44  22) Cycle 1 – Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis – Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 01:13:03  23) Track 11 – Illusion Blaze – PC (AdLib) - D.A.C. – Golden Personal – Ep 2 – 01:16:12  24) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Popular – Ep 13 –  01:18:45  25) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka / a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada – Best of 2018 – Ep 34 – 01:20:31  26) Imperial Death March – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams / a: Paul Webb – Golden Popular – Ep 9 – 01:22:05  27) Fly Like a Butterfly – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Hideki Naganuma – Golden Personal – Ep 20 – 01:22:43  28) At Doom’s Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince – Golden Popular – Ep 35 – 01:25:59  29) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi – Golden Popular – Ep 24 – 01:29:13  30) Naja – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 01:31:26 31) Swamp – Samurai Ghost – TG16 – Gappy, Miyoshi Okuyama, and/or Hiroyon – Best of 2017 – Ep 20 – 01:33:36  32) Segadore Genesid 64 – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (Genesis) – MrSonic699 – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 01:34:43  33) Stage Theme 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami – Golden Popular – Ep 2 – 01:36:48  34) Title Theme – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane – Golden Popular – Ep 1 – 01:38:24  35) Field 3 – J.J. and Jeff – TG16 – Takeaki Kunimoto – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 01:40:05  36) Zena Lan (Light Armor) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:42:07  37) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – Multiplatform – Brendan Ratliff – Best of 2018 – Ep 30 – 01:44:22  38) Map – Wolfchild – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 01:47:47  39) Tyr (Heavily Armored) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:49:03  40) Level 1 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Yoshio Furakawa, Masahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:50:46  41) Stage Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker – Golden Popular – Ep 18 – 01:55:13  42) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage vers.) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiko Kawashima – Golden Popular – Ep 31 – 01:58:37  43) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC2: Diddy Kong’s Quest – SNES – David Wise – Golden Popular – Ep 49 (originally selected by Mario Mendez) – 02:04:06  44) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-i – Jim Andron – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 02:06:22  45) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) – PS4 – Daniel Capo – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 02:08:51  46) Microsoft Interactive Sampler – N/A (Non-VGM) – PC – Unknown – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 02:10:06  47) Althena’s Shrine – Lunar: The Silver Star – Sega CD - Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, and/or Isao Mizoguchi – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 02:11:09  48) Zora’s Domain (Day) L.o.Z.: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / SWITCH – c: Koji Kondo / a: Yasuaki Iwata – Best of 2017 – Ep 18 – 02:12:12  49) Martinis for Two – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 02:15:24  50) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo – Best of 2018 – Ep 37 – 02:21:46  51) Ending – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A – c: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka / a:  Luminist – Golden Popular – Ep 29 – 02:25:58    Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:13 

Today’s broadcast is C1E54 for Theme Thursday, November 19th, 2020. Today’s theme is one of the most special we've ever had on the show – a celebration of 35 years of the most famous, iconic, and ubiquitous franchise in all of video game history – Super Mario Bros. To commemorate the occasion, we present you with a 35-track collection of music from Mario and extended universe games – including what is undoubtedly the most famous piece of video game music ever to be written, a piece that after nearly 4yrs and 2000 tracks, we have up til now never featured before. The name of today's celebration: "Do the Mario".       Track # - Track - Game - System - Composer - Timestamp     01) Intro - 00:00:00   02) Overworld Theme - Super Mario Bros. - NES - Kōji Kondō - 00:02:50   03) Athletic Theme - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES - Kōji Kondō - 00:05:52   04) Athletic Theme - New Super Mario Bros. - DS - Asuka Ohta, and/or Hajime Wakai – 00:08:04   05) Delfino Plaza - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Kōji Kondō and/or Shinobu Tanaka – 00:10:34   06) Vibe Island - Super Princess Peach - DS - Akira Fujiwara – 00:13:28   07) Minigame Theme 5 - Mario Party Advance - GBA - Ichirō Shimakura and/or Yoshimasa Ikeda – 00:14:16   08) Bowling - Game & Wario - WiiU - Masanobu Matsunaga, Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Shoh Murakami, and/or Yoshito Sekigawa – 00:16:24    09) Toad's Turnpike - Mario Kart 64 - N64 - Kenta Nagata, Tarō Bandō, and/or Yoji Inagaki – 00:19:13   10) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morishita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe – 00:22:08   11) Discus Throw - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 - Switch - Kenichi Tokoi, Tomoya Ohtani, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Satoshi Okamura, DÉ DÉ MOUSE, Jimanica , Chroma, Tomonori Sawada, and/or YMCK – 00:24:57   12) Starring Wario - Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix - GameCube - Osamu Narita, Katsunori Takahashi, Ichirō Shimakura, Hideko Oka, and/or Kenichi Yoshimoto – 00:28:26   13) Bowser's Castle (Kingdom) - Super Mario Odyssey - Switch - Shiho Fujii and/or Kōji Kondō - 00:30:01   14) Bowser Road - Super Mario 64 - N64 - Kōji Kondō - 00:33:11   15) Airship - Super Mario 3D Land - 3DS - c: Kōji Kondō a: Asuka Hayazaki, Takeshi Hama, and/or Mahito Yokota – 00:35:23   16) Floor 5 (variation 1) - Hotel Mario - CD-i - Jack Levy – 00:37:45   17) A Stroll in the Cemetery - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle - Switch - Grant Kirkhope – 00:39:10   18) 9F Unnatural History Museum - Luigi's Mansion 3 - Switch - Chad York and/or Darren Radtke – 00:41:43   19) Nightmare Lullaby - Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - 3DS - Yoko Shimomura – 00:42:55   20) Evil King Bowser - Super Mario World - SNES - Kōji Kondō - 00:44:13   21) Rainbow Road - Super Mario Kart - SNES - Soyo Oka, and/or Tarō Bandō - 00:45:52   22) Overture - Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Wii - Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, and/or Kōji Kondō - 00:47:38   23) Intro - Super Smash Bros.: Melee - GameCube - Tadashi Ikegami, Shogo Sakai, and/or Takuto Kitsuta – 00:48:57   24) Course World - Super Mario Maker 2 - Switch - Atsuko Asahi, Tōru Minegishi, and/or Sayako Doi – 00:50:25   25) Footlight Lane - Super Mario 3D World - WiiU / Switch - Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Kōji Kondō, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – 00:51:58   26) Space - Yoshi's Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda – 00:54:00   27) BGM 3 - Mario Paint - SNES - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, Ryōji Yoshitomi, and/or Kazumi Totaka – 00:57:06   28) Mario Zone Map - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - GameBoy - Kazumi Totaka – 01:00:35   29) Design Theme - I am a Teacher: Super Mario no Sweater - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka – 01:01:25   30) San Francisco / New York - Mario is Missing - PC (AdLib) - Rob Wallace – 01:03:05   31) Fever - Dr Mario - NES - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka – 01:06:15   32) Underground - New Super Mario U - WiiU / Switch - c: Kōji Kondō a: Shiho Fujii and/or Mahito Yokota – 01:08:32   33) Underground - Yoshi's Island - SNES - Kōji Kondō - 01:10:32   34) Course Select - Mario Galaxy - Wii - Mahito Yokota and/or Kōji Kondō - 01:12:51   35) Final Boss Defeated - Captain Toad - WiiU / Switch - Naoto Kubo – 01:13:44   36) Ending Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2 - NES - Kōji Kondō - 01:15:17   37) Outro - 01:17:38    Music Block Runtime: 01:14:51, Total Episode Runtime: 01:29:23    Special intro / outro music for this episode:    Intro: Land 1 - Super Mario Land - GameBoy - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka    Outro: The End - Super Mario RPG - SNES - c: Kōji Kondō a: Yoko Shimomura    Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity in Ubuntu Studio 20.04    The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:     https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/    or here    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767    You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org    Our YouTube Channel can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.    Thanks for listening! Join us again Wednesday, Dec 2nd for C1E55a: "The Best of 2019 – pt 1: Listener Picks". Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds....and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!      Cheers! 

Episode 18 made LMH history by featuring the first interview with a legendary VGM composer.  The focus was on none other than Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, who had graciously agreed to answer questions by... The Legacy Music Hour was created by Brent Weinbach and Rob F. specifically for the purpose of talking about video game music from the golden age of gaming (16-bit and earlier).

Another extended play, very non-standard format, very talk-heavy retrospective of the first 49 episodes and three years of the show - in the style of an old W.A.R.T. Radio episode meets The Diad Presents meets Sound Test Roulette meets VGM Jukebox – multiple short micro-music-blocks with talking between.   Part 2 is "personal picks" - picks that I really like myself, most of which were near picks from my previous two "Best of 20XX – John's Picks" episodes - 1 track from each previous episode (minus best-of episodes), tracks chosen by either John or the listeners in any "Best of 20XX" installment are ineligible for The Golden Episode (and if a track that appeared in say, Episode 2, was chosen, but it also appears in Episode 17, 36, and 48, it is stricken from the eligible pool all the same. Each track must be totally unique to a "Wayback Wednesday" episode of NNR, which narrows the playing field, both in terms of tracks I can pick for myself as well as tracks I can pick for the listeners (part 1).   Each micro-music-block will be five tracks long, and each will represent the episode which it comes from. Rather than the usual NNR practice of focusing on the music block creating a logical, pleasing "flow", the Golden Episode (both parts one and two) will focus  instead on playing the tracks in episode order. So they won't flow nearly as well (unless by happy accident). But they will run in the order in which they appeared in the history of the show. Differing priorities this time. A typical NNR episode is all about a "journey through sound", and of course, this episode is that as well to some extent, but the real priority here is not about being a "journey through sound", but instead, is about being a "journey through time".   Here are the tracklists for the micro-music blocks for part 2, the "personal picks" installment:   Show Intro Music: somer assault (episode 1) - 00:00:00   Block 1 – Episodes 1-5 (2017 – part 1)   BGM Block 1 Music: yuukai douchuuki arcade (Episode 2)   Spoken Introduction - 00:05:04   01) Title – Spider-Man / X-Men – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 00:13:06 02) Track 11 – Illusion Blaze – DOS – D.AC. - 00:14:07 03) Aitos – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro - 00:16:41 04) After the Battle – Loz: TP – Gamecube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - 00:19:24 05) The Mechanic – Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake – MSX (SCC) - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:21:40   Block 2 – Episodes 6-10 (2017 – part 2)   BGM Block 2 Music: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (episode 10)   Spoken Introduction - 00:23:42   06) September 2015 - N/A (System Music) - 3DS / WiiU – Kazumi Totaka - 00:30:22 07) Jiji Theme – Sword of Vermilion – Genesis – Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Yasuhiro Takagi - 00:33:33 08) Citizens of Luala - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (TG16) - Strobe - 00:34:18 09) Juno Unleashed – The Force Unleashed – Multi – Mark Griskey - 00:37:19 10) Space Opera – Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose – SNES – Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Yukie Morimoto - 00:38:23   Block 3 – Episodes 11-15 (2017 – part 3)   BGM Block 3 Music: Tyr (Heavy Armor) - Cosmic Carnage (Episode 13)   Spoken Introduction - 00:41:06   11) Enemy Turn (Stages 6-10) - Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Masaya Sound Team - 00:53:06 12) Stage 1 – Alien 3 – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 00:54:28 13) Zena Lan (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage  - 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto - 00:56:59 14) Lazarus (feat. Rudy Escobar) - N/A (Neon Dreams Album) - N/A - DYA - 00:59:13 15) West Side Andore Cage Match – Final Fight CD – Sega CD – c: Harumi Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, Junko Tamiya, Manami Matsumae, Yasuaki Fujita, Yoko Shimomura and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi / a: T's Music - 01:02:53   Block 4 – Episodes 16-20 (2017 – part 4 of 4)   BGM  for intro to Block 4 Music: Kage Theme Genesis (Episode 18)   Spoken Introduction -  01:05:59   16) A Cool Reception – Shovel Knight – Multi – Jake Kaufman - 01:13:24 17) Vampyre Book – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 01:16:06 18) Stage 3 – Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu – TG16 – Masakatsu Maekawa - 01:19:11 19) Rainbow Road - N/A (Super Mario Kart) - N/A - c: Soya Oka a: The OneUps - 01:21:01 20) Fly Like a Butterfly – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Hideki Naganuma - 01:26:28   Block 5 – Episodes 21-26a (2018 – part 1 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 5 Music: Take Back – Fighting Run (episode 22)   Spoken Introduction - 01:29:44   21) Whisper and a Mantra – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - 01:37:18 22) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura - 01:38:23 23) Superleggera – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - 01:41:28 24) Inside Vah Naboris (1 Terminal) - LoZ: BoTW – WiiU / SWITCH! - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 01:46:55 26a) Music to Watch Girls By - N/A - N/A - c: Andy William a: RushJet1 - 01:48:46   Block 6 – Episodes 26-30 (2018 – part 2 of 4)   BGM  for intro to Block 6 Music: Ranquest (episode 30)   Spoken Introduction - 01:51:10   26) Boomer Kuwanger – Mega Man X – SNES – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, and Toshihiko Horiyama  - 01:58:54 27) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket – Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani - 02:01:14 28) Coldman (Rockman and Fortissimo) (VGM Karaoke - originally "Coldman" from Mega Man and Bass (GBA) - original c: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta and/or Akari Kaida, Karaoke written and performed by Pieness 64 - 02:04:08 29) Brinstar - N/A (Metroid) - N/A - c: Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka a: Luminist - 02:06:15 30) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac: Rebirth – Multi – Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans - 02:07:59   Block 7 – Episodes 31-35 (2018 – part 3 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 7 Music: Shinobi – theme 3 (episode 33)   Spoken Introduction - 02:11:57   31) Jungle Base – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 02:25:50 32) Meteor – StarFox – SNES – Hajime Hirasawa - 02:29:24 33) Slammin' Sea – Bomberman '94 – PC Engine – Jun Chikuma - 02:32:25 34) Under the Feet – Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Muoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - 02:35:29 35) Lagoon - Fury of the Furries - PC (OPL2) - Frederic Motte - 02:36:39   Block 8 – Episodes 36-40 (2018 – part 4 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 8 Music: BGM 12  - Cross Wiber (Episode 38)   Spoken Introduction - 02:39:36   36) New Donk City – Super Mario Odyssey  - SWITCH! - Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and/or Koji Kondo - 02:49:05 37)  The Torture Chamber – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - 02:52:03 38) Chapter 5 - Cross Wiber - PC Engine - Hiroto Saito - 02:56:05 39) Planet 3 – Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, Junko Yokiyama - 02:57:11 40) Seven O'Clock – Crackin' DJ Pt. 2 – Arcade – c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi a: Mitsuhru Fukuyama - 02:58:17   Block 9 – Episodes 41-46 (2019 – part 1 of 2)   BGM for intro to Block 9 Music: What Can You Do (Episode 44)   Spoken Introduction - 03:00:25   41) Process Control – GT Sport – PS4 – Yasuhisa Inoue - 03:19:33 42) My Dear D – Shinobi 3 – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - 03:23:05 43) Subtune 1 – Flash Gordon – C64 – Rob Hubbard - 03:24:57 44) The Blazing Sands – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 03:31:17 46) Trance Parlient in Blue – Night Striker – Sega CD – c: Masahiko Takaki a: Shuichiro Nakazawa - 03:34:16   Block 10 – Episodes 47a-49 (2019 – part 2 of 2)   BGM for intro to Block 10 Music: Gulliver Boy (episode 47b)   Spoken Introduction - 03:37:35   47a) Stage 1-3 – Ai Chou Aniki – PC Engine – Iwasaki Taku - 03:57:14 47b) Outside Ref, the Pyramid of Ice – Dungeon Explorer 2 – TurbografxCD – Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma - 04:00:50 47c) Tengai Makyou 3 – Reminiscence: Daimonkyou - Kohei Tanaka and/or Keita Hoshi - 04:02:55 48) I Came, I Saw, N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (SNES) - Kung Fu Firby - 04:05:43 49) Your Sunset - Tekken Tag Tournament - multi - Taku Inoue - 04:11:12   Show Outro Music: ESPIRIT.wav -  ESPRIT 空想 (episode 44) - 04:16:01   Bonus: Key - by Chris Chandler - 04:48:12   Total Episode Runtime: 04:52:57   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:   https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/   or here   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767   You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at   https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/   Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:   Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.   Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! Join us again on Monday, February 3rd 2020 for C1E51 (Channel 1, Episode 51): Mishmash Monday - vol. 9 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

St. John of "Nerd Noise Radio" and Hugues Johnson of "Retro Game Club" (and "The Retro League" alum) join forces to cover and discuss some of their favorite pieces of VGM from the 2010's.It's about what you'd expect if you put Retro Game Club / The Retro League, Nerd Noise Radio, Legacy Music Hour, and an entire decade of VGM in a blender....ooh, or maybe the hadron collider! For the time-being, this is just a one-time "one-off" special, but if there is enough demand from either, or especially both of our respective listener pools, then we're open to making this an ongoing (albeit occasional, and likely irregular) thing. "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2", maybe? ;-)Anyway, the power is yours, listeners! Make your voices heard! In the meanwhile? Enjoy!   Game - System - Track - Composer - Year - Selected By - Timestamp    - Earcatcher: 00:00:00    - Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues Music: 00:00:03 Intro / Discussion: 00:00:39    - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John Music: 00:04:25 Discussion: 00:08:07    - Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues Music: 00:12:45 Discussion: 00:16:07    - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John Music: 00:19:32 Discussion: 00:22:06    - Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues Music: 00:26:35 Discussion: 00:28:57    - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John Music: 00:32:17 Discussion: 00:34:41    - L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues Music: 00:39:17 Discussion: 00:43:49    - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John Music: 00:46:40 Discussion: 00:50:18    - Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - What Lies Within - Yoko Shimomura - 2016 - Hugues Music: 00:55:55 Discussion: 01:01:04    - n++ - Multiplatform - Fonction - Broca - 2015 - St. John Music: 01:04:15 Discussion: 01:11:21    - Ys VIII : Lacrimosa of Dana - Multiplatform - One Dream, One Reality - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayoto Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Mitsuo Singa) - 2016- Hugues Music: 01:15:28 Discussion: 01:19:09    - Monument Valley - iOS / Android - The Garden - Stafford Bawler - 2014 - St. John Music: 01:23:45 Discussion: 01:28:34    - To the Moon - Multiplatform - Having Lived - Ken Gao - 2011 - Hugues Music: 01:31:33 Discussion: 01:34:10    - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows UWP - To The Stars - Kyle Preston - 2015 - St. John Music: 01:39:01 Discussion: 01:46:41    - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Mipha's Touch - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 2017 - Hugues Music: 01:50:11 Discussion: 01:53:42    - So Many Me - Multiplatform - Outskirts - Christopher Geehan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough (HyperDuck Soundworks) - 2014 - St. John Music: 01:59:47 Discussion: 02:05:52    - The Last Story - Wii - Theme of Last Story - c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Yoshitaka Suzuki - 2011 - Hugues Music: 02:09:10 Discussion: 02:14:10    - ARMS - Switch - Get ARMS - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 2017 - St. John Music: 02:18:22 Discussion: 02:21:22    - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Multiplatform - Heated Mind - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Toshiharu Okajima) - 2014 - Hugues Music: 02:24:26 Discussion: 02:27:02    - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kemmei Adachi - 2010 - St. John Music: 02:28:52 Discussion: 02:33:04    - Bravely Default - 3DS - Land of Light and Shadow - Revo - 2012 - Hugues Music: 02:35:37 Discussion / MiiTopia Discussion / Outro: 02:38:05    - Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 2016 - St. John Music: 02:44:56   Total Episode Runtime: 02:46:43   LINKS to our respective shows:   Retro Game Club:   retrogameclub.net   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2   Nerd Noise Radio:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173   Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio   Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/   e-mail: nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com   Merry Christmas, and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate, and a happy new year, from Nerd Noise Radio, and Retro Game Club!   Cheers!

An extended play, very non-standard format, very talk-heavy retrospective of the first 49 episodes and three years of the show - in the style of an old W.A.R.T. Radio episode meets The Diad Presents meets Sound Test Roulette meets VGM Jukebox – multiple short micro-music-blocks with talking between.   Part 1 is "popular picks" - picks that I thought would be picks likely to be chosen by the listeners (a "John's Best Guess on Listener Picks" episode) - 1 track from each previous episode (minus best-of episodes), tracks chosen by either John or the listeners in any "Best of 20XX" installment are ineligible for The Golden Episode (and if a track that appeared in say, Episode 2, was chosen, but it also appears in Episode 17, 36, and 48, it is stricken from the eligible pool all the same. Each track must be totally unique to a "Wayback Wednesday" episode of NNR, which narrows the playing field, both in terms of tracks I can pick for the listeners, as well as tracks I can pick for myself (part 2)).   Each micro-music-block will be five tracks long, and each will represent the episode which it comes from. Rather than the usual NNR practice of focusing on the music block creating a logical, pleasing "flow", the Golden Episode (both parts one and two) will focus  instead on playing the tracks in episode order. So they won't flow nearly as well (unless by happy accident). But they will run in the order in which they appeared in the history of the show. Differing priorities this time. A typical NNR episode is all about a "journey through sound", and of course, this episode is that as well to some extent, but the real priority here is not about being a "journey through sound", but instead, is about being a "journey through time".   Here are the tracklists for the micro-music blocks for part 1, the "popular picks" installment:   Show Intro Music: Rapmaster Rocket Racket (episode 40) - 00:00:00   Block 1 – Episodes 1-5 (2017 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 1 Music: Super Mario World Theme (Episode 1)   Spoken Introduction - 00:07:29   01) Title – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane - 00:20:57 02) Stage 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami - 00:22:36 03) Bloodpool – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro - 00:24:12 04) Castle of Devils (Stage 4) – Magician Lord – Neo Geo MVS/AES - Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yuka Watanabe and/or Hideki Yamamoto - 00:25:33 05) Zanzibar Breeze – Metal Gear 2 – MSX (SCC) - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:27:20   Block 2 – Episodes 6-10 (2017 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 2 Music: The Pancake Department (ep 8)   Spoken Introduction - 00:30:10   06) Shop - N/A (System Music) - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 00:39:10 07) Title Theme – Sword of Vermilion – Genesis – Hiroshi Kawaguchi - 00:41:05 08) Double Jump Moon Casino (feat Jredd) - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (on Genesis hardware) - DYA - 00:41:54 09) Imperial Death March – Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams a: Paul Webb - 00:44:21 10) Forest Funk – Super Meat Boy – Multi – Danny Baronowsky - 00:44:56   Block 3 – Episodes 11-15 (2017 – part 3)   BGM for intro to Block 3 Music: Sega CD Model 1 BIOS (ep 15)   Spoken Introduction - 00:47:41   11) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Masaya Sound Team - 00:59:46 12) The Neverglades – Bubble and Squeak – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 01:01:32 13) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto - 01:04:48 14) Bad Dudes (Stage 2 cover – feat Rudy Escobar) - N/A (Neon Dreams album) - N/A - DYA - 01:06:33 15) Swing Time – Spider-Man vs The Kingpin – Sega CD – Mr. Big - 01:08:34   Block 4 – Episodes 16-20 (2017 – part 4)   BGM for intro to Block 4 Music: OneUps Mario Kart Title (episode 19)   Spoken Introduction - 01:12:33   16) Title Theme – ARMS – SWITCH – Atsuko Asahi - 01:17:10 17) Opening Theme – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss -  01:19:58 18) Game Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker - 01:21:56 19) Aquatic Ambience - N/A (Vol. 1) - N/A - c: David Wise a: The OneUps - 01:25:19 20) Anything but Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – SNES – Tommy Tallarico - 01:29:34   Block 5 – Episodes 21-26a (2018 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 5 Music: Did you See the Ocean? (episode 21)   Spoken Introduction - 01:33:35   21) Meridian Dance – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - 01:45:28 22) Titan's Realm – DOOM (2016) - Multi – Mick Gordon - 01:47:37 23) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - 01:56:04 24) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi - 02:01:08 26a) Fly Me to the Moon - N/A - N/A - c: Frank Sinatra a: Stuffy DJ - 02:03:18   Block 6 – Episodes 26-30 (2018 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 6 Music: Sigma Stage 1 (episode 26)   Spoken Introduction - 02:05:45   26) Title – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - 02:15:04 27) Mystic Cave Zone (2 player) - Sonic 2 – Genesis – Masato Nakamura - 02:15:28 28) Stage 1 - N/A (Golden Axe) - N/A - c: You Takada a: David KBD - 02:17:17 29) Ending - N/A (Metroid) - N/A - c: Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - 02:20:10 30) Daisuke – Hotline Miami – Multi – El Huervo (aka Shelby Cinca) - 02:22:23   Block 7 – Episodes 31-35 (2018 – part 3)   BGM for intro to Block 7 Music: stage 1 super c (episode 34)   Spoken Introduction - 02:24:46   31) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage Vers) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 02:30:18 32) Main Theme – RC Pro-AM – NES – David Wise - 02:35:49 33) Title Theme – Street Fighter II – SNES – Yoko Shimomura - 02:36:22 34) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - 02:36:50 35) At Doom's Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - 02:38:35   Block 8 – Episodes 36-40 (2018 – part 4)   BGM for intro to Block 8 Music: stage 1 astyanax (episode 38)   Spoken Introduction - 02:41:47   36) BFG Division - DOOM (2016) - Multi - Mick Gordon - 02:54:15 37) Bloody Tears (Stage A) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - 03:03:04 38) Vortex – Vortex - SNES –  Justin Sharvona - 03:04:57 39) Title – Cyber Knight – SFC – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai and/or Junko Yokoyama - 03:08:37 40) Lifelight (English Vocals) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – SWITCH! - Hideki Sakamoto - 03:09:53   Block 9 – Episodes 41-46 (2019 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 9 Music: solitary (episode 42)   Spoken Introduction - 03:13:34   41) Studiopolis Zone – Sonic Mania – Multi – Tee Lopes - 03:28:13 42) Whirlwind – Shinobi 3 – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - 03:30:41 43) Subtune 1 – International Karate – C64 – Rob Hubbard - 03:32:39 44) King of Speed – Daytona USA – Saturn – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze -  03:43:16 46) Area 1 – Blaster Master – NES – Naoki Kodaka - 03:48:00   Block 10 – Episodes 47a-49 (2019 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 10 Music: guile sf2 arcade (episode 49)   Spoken Introduction - 03:50:10   47a) Bloodlines – Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – PC Engine – ikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe   - 03:58:54 47b) Max Power – After Burner II – PC Engine – Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 04:02:06 47c) Stage 1 – Dragon Spirit – Turbografx16 – Shinji Hosoe - 04:02:55 48) Another Adventure -- Part 1 - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (SNES) - Mega9man -  04:08:03 49) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC 2: Diddy Kong's Quest – SNES – David Wise - 04:12:33   Show Outro Music: Shower Fresh (episode 48) - 04:14:49   Total Episode Runtime: 04:21:49   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:   https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/   or here   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767   You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at   https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/   Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:   Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.   Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month [edit: UPDATE: 12/30/2019] for C1E50b (Channel 1, Episode 50b): The Golden Episode pt 2 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 2] for Wayback Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 2 - St. John's Picks (an ULTRA MEGA KING KONG-sized episode)   Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Episode - Timestamp   (NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were backup tracks I pulled to fill in the gaps left by the tracks on my list that the listeners claimed for their episode. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks).   01) Intro - 00:00:00 02) A Strange New World – Papa y Yo – multi – Brian D'Oliveira - C1E30 - 00:00:59 03) Mirage – Gran Turismo 5 – PS3 – Kimmei - C1E27 - 00:03:18 04) Track 2 - Operation Wolf – FM Towns (CD) - Unknown - C1E35 - 00:07:25 05) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya - C1E24 - 00:11:26 06) Japanese Four Star - Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 00:15:30 07) Colour - N/A ("OM Lounge 6") - N/A (Music CD c 2004) - c: Soulstice a: Atjazz- C1E28 - 00:20:09 08) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – multi – Tee Lopes - C1E36 - 00:26:23 09) Beach – Plok – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1E27 - 00:27:54 10) Beach - N/A - Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Savaged Regime - C1E28 - 00:32:50 11) Milky Lake – Wave Race 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka - C1E24 - 00:37:54 12) Smog City Sewers - Spark the Electric Jester – PC – Michael Staple – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by The Diad) - 00:40:04 13) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC (CD) - Jerry Martin - C1E35 - 00:44:09 14) Adult Talk – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Ultra Kitsune - C1E30 - 00:49:11 15) Bulberry Hill – Zool 2 – Amiga – Neil Biggin - C1E24 - 00:51:02 16) Too Deep - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 00:53:58 17) Level 1-2 – Turrican 3 – C64 – Soren Lund - C1E35 - 00:57:28 18) Terminal Technicality – Ultrartron – multi – Allicorn - C1E30 - 01:01:00 19) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 01:05:35 20) Dialed-In – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:09:55 21) Dual Moon – Metal Black – Arcade – Yasuhisa Watanabe – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 01:15:30 22) Prophet Fire – Salamander – MSX (SCC) - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E35 - 01:18:09 23) The Rotating Dungeon (4-2) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:19:31 24) Unit - N/A ("Logic") - N/A (Music CD c 1981) - Logic System - C1E28 - 01:20:53 25) Level 4 – Wolfchild – Amiga – Martin Iveson - C1E35 - 01:25:38 26) Visual Installation – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:28:38 27) Process of Elimination – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Blue Wolfie - C1E27 - 01:34:11 28) Arkham Asylum – Batman Forever – Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Unknown - C1E33 - 01:38:08 29) The Room of Close Associates – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:42:21 30) Mystic Invasion - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 01:44:56 31) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - 01:46:06 32) Aisuru Hito Yo - N/A ("Ai Ga Nakucha Ne") - N/A  (Music CD c 1982) - Akiko Yano - C1E28 - 01:47:40 33) City of Flickering Destruction – Legend of Mana – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Amber Peary) - 01:52:05 34) Razor Girl – Downwell – multi – Eirik Suhrke - C1E30 - 01:55:21 35) A Wish - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 02:00:47 36) Level 0 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E32 - 02:01:43 37) Dark Forest 1 – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 02:03:59 38) Norfair – N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:08:37 39) The Tundra Beast – Chakan – Genesis - Mark Steven Miller and/or Jason Scher - C1E38  - 02:09:59 40) Final Mission – Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and/or Junko Yokoyama – C1E39 - 02:11:32 41) Kraid's Lair - N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:12:27 42) Rikuo – Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge – multi – Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida, and/or Hideki Okugawa - C1E27 - 02:14:18 43) Stage 2 – Double Dragon 2 – Mega Drive – Kazunaka Yamane - C1E33 - 02:16:08 44) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard - C1E22 - 02:18:36 45) BGM# 20 – Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by KeyGlyph) - 02:21:41 46) Copacabana '93 – N/A - SNES – c: Barry Manilow a: Machine Gaming - C1E26a - 02:23:08 47) Pleadians – N/A - Amiga – Beek - C1E28 - 02:27:09 48) Believe in Motivation – Advanced Power Dolls 2 – PC98 (OPN) - Hiroto Saitoh - C1E35 - 02:29:14 49) Little Money Ave – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:31:39 50) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – multi – Brendan Ratliff - C1E30 - 02:34:35 51) Segadore Genesid 64 - N/A - Genesis – Mr Sonic699 - C1E28 - 02:38:00 52) Squash - N/A - Famicom (w/ VRC7 + N163) - TQ_Jam - C1E28 - 02:40:03 53) Dreamer - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:43:05 54) Chill Penguin – Mega Man X – SNES – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - 02:45:09 55) Elapsed Time – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 02:46:36 56) Uranus – Spindizzy II – X68000 – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E35 - 02:51:53 57) I Cannot Trust Any of Them – Star Cruiser II – PC98 (OPN) - Kenichi Yaguhi - C1E35 - 02:53:48 58) Federal Patrol Office – Star Cruiser – Mega Drive – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E24 - 02:55:53 59) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E36 - 02:57:06 60) Old Man's Prayer – Ogre Battle – SNES – Masahru Iwata, Hiroshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo - C1E22 - 02:59:33 61) Phantom and a Rose – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:00:48 62) Chrono Castle - So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 03:02:11 63) Main Theme – Microsoft Interactive Sampler 1996 – Windows 95 - Unknown - C1E28 - 03:06:18 64) That Bit of Hope – Prune – iOS/Android/Windows - Kyle Preston - C1E30 - 03:07:19 65) Macalania Woods – Final Fantasy  X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu - C1E36 - 03:10:06 66) Northwall - N/A ("Symphonic Actraiser") - N/A (Music CD c 1991) - c: Yuzo Koshiro a: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra - C1E28 - 03:12:40 67) The Descent – Monument Valley - iOS/Android - Stafford Bawler - C1E30 - 03:15:43 68) Ceremony – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:18:34 69) Different World 1 – Yu-No – PC98 (OPNA) - Ryu Umemoto - C1E35 - 03:19:54 70) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) - PS4 – Daniel Capo – C1E22 - 03:25:07 71) Hanging Waters – Ecco: Defender of the Future – Dreamcast – Tim Follin – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 03:26:15 72) Outskirts – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E30 - 03:28:41 73) Lullaby - N/A - Genesis – Freezedream - C1E28 - 03:34:29 74) Menu 2 – Shenmue – Dreamcast – Ryuiji Iuchi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsutoshi, Osamu Murata, and/or Takeshi Yanagawa - C1E38 - 03:36:39 75) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 03:38:03 76) One More Dash – One More Dash - iOS/Android/Windows -  Batterie - C1E30 - 03:42:15 77) Outro - 03:45:46   Music Block Runtime: 03:45:00, Total Episode Runtime: 03:46:28   SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (this is a near exact repeat of the notes from part 1 if you read those): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: a listener-picked part 1, which is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. You heard that episode last week. This one, part 2, is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D   One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.   Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…   ...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.   Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of backups to the backups, so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!   One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):   While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.   A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).   I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!   But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.   As a bonus, for the curious, here is the list of backup tracks from my list that were not picked, and appear in neither episode (some of them I REALLY wanted, though):   Track, Game, System, Composer, Episode (spaces placed between episodes to better highlight)   1) Whisper and Mantra – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 2) Take Back – Fighting Run – PCE – Unknown -  C1E22 3) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 - Yoko Shimomura - C1E22 4) Vs Mode – Fantavision (US) - PS2 – Ashif Hakik - C1E22 5) Superleggera – Forza 3 - XB360 - Lance Hayes - C1E23 6) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 7) Inside Vah Naboris – LoZ: BotW - WiiU/SWITCH - Manaka Kataoka and/or Yasuaki Iwata C1E24 8) Copacabana - N/A - NES – c: Frank Sinatra a: NES Music - C1E26a 9) Music to Watch Girls By - N/A - NES – c: Andy Williams a: RushJet1 - C1E26a 10) It's Not Unusual - N/A - N/A - c: Tom Jones a: Lullabyte - C1E26a 11) My Way - N/A - N/A - Frank Sinatra a: JackyBoy - C1E26a 12) Sigma Stage 4 – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 13) Password - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 14) Vile - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 15) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani - C1E27 16) Ice Pyramid – Final Fantasy Mystic Quest – SNES – Ryuji Sasai and/or Yasuhiro Kawakami - C1E27 17) Brinstar -  N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 18) Ridley's Lair - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 19) Ending - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 20) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Multi  Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans - C1E30 21) Hypertension – Super Meat Boy - PS4/Vita (these versions specifically) - Scattle - C1E30 22) Meteor – StarFox - SNES – Hajime Hirasawa - C1E32 23) Load BGM - Wolfchild – Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E33 24) Slammin' Sea – Bomberman '94 – PC Engine – Jun Chikuma - C1E33 25) Seaside Front – Aero Blaster – PC Engine – Kunio Komatsu and/or Tsutomu Okuma – C1E33 26) Game Over – Juouuki – PC Engine – Tohru Nakabayashi 27) Under the Feet – Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 28) Steel Spider - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 29) Mechanic Factory - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 30) Military Fortress - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 31) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada 32) Surface of SR388 – Metroid: Samus Returns – 3DS – c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Daisuke Matsuoka - C1E36 33) Faron Woods – Loz: TP - GameCube/Wii - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - C1E36 34) New Donk City – Super Mario Odyssey – SWITCH – Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, and/or Koji Kondo - C1E36 35) The Cave - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 36) The Library - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 37) Prologue - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 38) Menu - Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38 39) Chapter 5 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou 40) Chapter 12 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou 41) Vortex – Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38 42) Red Road – Astyanax – NES – Kiyoshi Yokoyama - C1E38 43) Space Battle - Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 44) Planet 3 – Cyber Knight – PC Engine - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 45) Mentana – Cyber Knight – Super Famicom -Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 46) Ending 2 – Cyber Knight - PC Engine - 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Peter raves about a legendary RPG's opera that is compressed onto a Super Famicom sound chip in Final Fantasy VI and Joe pushes the boundaries of Game Boy launch title music in Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka's work in Super Mario Land.

It's the most wonderful time of the year….for Nerd Noise Radio! :-) Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 1] for Wayback Wednesday, June 26th, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 1 - Listener Picks"   Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Episode(s) - Listener(s) - Timestamp   (NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were tracks that I had on my list for my episode (part 2) that the listeners claimed for theirs. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks).   01) Intro - 00:00:00 02) Go Straight - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Rebecca - 00:02:26 03) Central Park - Last Ninja 2 - C64 - Matt Gray - C1E35 - Rebecca - 00:05:28 04) Prairie - Devilish - Genesis - Hitoshi Sakimoto - C1E36 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:10:58 05) Sting Chameleon - Mega Man X - SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:13:44 06) Metal Crusher - Undertale - Multi - Toby Fox - C1E40 - Jeshua & Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Jeshua Lack) - 00:14:56 07) Simon's Theme - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Hugues - 00:17:00 08) Strike the Earth - Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufmann - C1E30 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:20:02 09) Flame Mammoth - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:23:40 10) Wily's Castle 1 - Mega Man 2 - Takashi Tateishi - NES - C1E32 - Jeshua & Phillip - 00:25:37 11) Energy Zone - Contra - NES - c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - Purnell - 00:28:14 12) Do or Die - Retro City Rampage - Multi - Norrin Radd - C1E30 - Hugues - 00:29:22 13) Stage Select (Mavericks) - Mega Man X - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Phillip - 00:30:08 14) The Tunnel - Metroid Metal - N/A - c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Stemage - C1E28 - Phillip - 00:31:07 15) Surface of SR388 - Metroid 2 - GameBoy - Ryoji Yoshitomi - C1E32 - Purnell - 00:35:13 16) Wicked Child - Castlevania - NES - Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - C1E33 - Purnell- 00:37:23 17) Into the Thick of It - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Hugues - 00:40:13 18) Map Screen - Wolfchild - SNES - Martin Iveson - C1E27/C1E33 - Rebecca - 00:42:02 19) People of the Far North - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:43:44 20) Title Theme - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - Phillip - 00:45:56 21) Action Screen - Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Sachio Ogawa - C1E27 - Hugues - 00:48:19 22) Shadow Man - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita - C1E22 - Phillip- 00:51:11 23) Woods Test - Whomp 'Em - NES - Tsukasa Tawada - C1E24 - Purnell - 00:53:16 24) Castle Lololo - Kirby's Dreamland - GameBoy - Jun Ishikawa - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Brian Peterson) - 00:55:20 25) Black Mage Village - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:57:17 26) Onett - Earthbound - SNES - Keiichi Suzuki and/or Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka - C1E40 - Purnell & Hugues (originally contributed to C1E40 by Phillip Vaughn)- 01:00:31 27) A Curious Tale - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Purnell - 01:02:52 28) Elm Street - Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - David Wise - C1E27 - Purnell - 01:04:16 29) Underhalls - DOOM II - PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - C1E27 - Hugues - 01:07:09 30) Resurrections - Celeste - multi - Lena Raine - C1E40 - Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Chris Murray) - 01:11:55 31) Stage 4-3 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C1E32 - Rebecca - 01:21:28 32) Dance of the Pales - Castlevania: SOTN - PS1 - Michiru Yamane - C1E36 - Phillip - 01:24:19 33) The Chandeliers - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Phillip - 01:26:52 34) Riddle - Castlevania III - NES - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Valerie Wedgeworth) - 01:29:27 35) Boss 1 - So Many Me - multi - Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E38 - Phillip - 01:30:30 36) Back to the Industry - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima -C1E31 - Purnell - 01:32:53 37) Spirit of Night - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Phillip - 01:36:29 38) Race Results (Track 4) - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E24 - Hugues - 01:38:07 39) Current of the Times - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Yudai Satoh - C1E22 - Rebecca - 01:40:53 40) In the Bar - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Purnell & Hugues - 01:46:00 41) Submerged City - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Purnell - 01:47:50 42) Dire Dire Docks - Super Mario 64 - N64 - Koji Kondo - C1E32 - Purnell - 01:52:15 43) End Credits - Resident Evil - PS1 - Makoto Tomozawa, Akira Kaida, and/or Masami Ueda - C1E40 - Jeshua (originally contributed to C1E40 by John Jekel) - 01:55:16 44) Outro - 01:58:16   Music Block Runtime: 01:55:52, Total Episode Runtime: 02:15:10   Meet the contributors and support their projects:   Contributing Listeners (listed in order of first to last to submit tracks):   Rebecca Gruber (aka Zinn) - Jinxed Thoughts (blog) – Sweden Phillip Vaughn - Phoxmonkey ("Let's Play" and Artwork livestream on Mixer) - USA (Sylva, NC) Jeshua Lack - USA (Des Moines, IA) Pernell [Thrillho] Vaughn - Rhythm and Pixels (VGM podcast) - USA (Willmington, DE) Hugues Johnson - Retro Game Club  (VG podcast) [and former co-host of The Retro League (VG podcast)] - USA (Chicago, IL)   Jinxed Thoughts: http://jinxedthought.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter @JinxedThoughts   Phoxmonkey: https://mixer.com/Phoxmonkey Also, a HUGE special thanks to Phil for having now appeared in EVERY SINGLE listener-based NNR outing to date! He's the only one to have that distinction!   Rhythm and Pixels: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rhythm-and-pixels-video-game-music-podcast/id1061486328, on Twitter @Rhythm_n_Pixels and on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/rhythmandpixels/   Retro Game Club: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680   Also, should you ever find yourself in Des Moines on the last Wednesday of the month, join Jeshua and I for board game night at the Des Moines Social Club (Adam Huisman from C1E40 can be found there as well)!   https://www.facebook.com/desmoinessocialclub/   https://www.facebook.com/events/216681785791722/     SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (these will also be repeated near-verbatim in the show notes for part 2): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: today's installment, a listener-picked part 1, is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. Next week, you will hear part 2, which is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D   One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.   Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…   ...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.   Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of "backups to the backups", so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!   One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):   While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.   A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).   I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!   But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.   …..alright, and now, for all the regular "housekeeping" stuff. :-)   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:   https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/   or here   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767   You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at   https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/   Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:   Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.   Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! Join us again this same bat time next week for C1E45 [PART 2] (Channel 1, Episode 45 [PART 2]): The Best of 2018 - pt 2: St. John's Picks (ULTRA MEGA KING KONG SIZED)” - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

On today’s episode, we’ll be taking a Deep Dive into another composer with a spotlight on a man that literally changed the chiptune industry, Hirokazu ‘Hip’ Tanaka, now modernly known as Chip Tanaka. We have an excellent assortment of tracks from his illustrious catalog of music. Enjoy the show. Please send all track requests for future episodes of Radio Hour and possibly more to bgmania@leveldowngames.com The tracklist for today’s episode is as follows: Bonus Round (Balloon Fight) [1984] Game A BGM (Gyromite) [1985] Brinstar Theme (Metroid) [1986] Kraid’s Hideout (Metroid) [1986] Underworld Theme (Kid Icarus) [1986] Mission BGM Type A (Famicom Wars) [1988] Overworld Theme (Super Mario Land) [1989] B-Type (Tetris) [1989] Mother Earth (Mother/Earthbound Beginnings) [1989] Fever (Dr. Mario) [1990] Title Theme (Fire Emblem) [1990] Music Maker Medley (Mario Paint) [1992] Snowman (Earthbound) [1994] Squeak Squad Theme (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) [2008] Donkey Kong (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) [2008] Seaskape (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) [2018] ~~AFFILIATE LINKS~~Please consider supporting Level Down Games and all of our content by using the following affiliate links. Thanks so much! ◘ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=levdowgam-20◘ TechniSport Gaming Chairs: http://technisportusa.com/?afmc=ldg◘ Audible: https://amzn.to/2uGf6Rm◘ Green Man Gaming: http://bit.ly/2mwcnpd◘ Fanatical: http://bit.ly/2MGOFFF◘ ORIGIN PC: http://www.originpc.com/?aid=5118◘ RAZER: http://leveldowngames.com/razer~~AFFILIATE LINKS~~

Today’s broadcast is C1E29 for Scene Sunday, May 27th 2018. Today’s Episode will feature the Metroid soundtrack for NES performed entirely on 70's era analog synthesizers by Chiptune and remix scenester "Luminist" on a program we're calling "VCO Metroid" - a Fun-Sized episode. Original compositions by Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka.   01: Intro - 00:00 02: Title Theme - 02:24 03: Samus Fanfare - 04:49 04: Brinstar - 04:59 05: Item Room - 06:47 06: Item Fanfare - 07:48 07: Kraid's Lair - 07:56 08: Norfair - 09:50 09: Ridley's Lair - 11:15 10: Tourian - 12:47 11: Mother Brain - 13:49 12: Escape - 14:25 13: Ending - 16:14 14: Outro - 18:30   Music Block Runtime: 16:08, Total Episode Runtime: 23:10   Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights   If you wish to subscribe to the "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" podcast - audio-only, there are two options:   Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. Feed will include Channels 1, 2, 3, and any future channels not yet planned. Feed will also include podcasts in high quality, stereo where applicable, and episodes will never expire off the feed. Therefore it is STRONGLY recommended that you subscribe to this Nerd Noise Radio feed and bypass all others. This one will contain all their content anyway.   Option 2: If you're ONLY interested in Channel 1 ("Noise from the Hearts of Nerds") episodes, and not in any of the other content that is or will be offered by Nerd Noise Radio, there is a Channel 1-specific feed. But it's hosted on a free account, rather than an upgraded account like the "All Channels Feed" with lower quality sound (mono, I believe), a maximum 2hrs per month of content (so if the month's episodes run longer than that, they may need to be trimmed), and episodes expire off the feed forever after 90 days. It is STRONGLY recommended for most listeners to subscribe to the All-Channels feed instead. However, if you really are only interested in Channel 1 content, here's the RSS:    http://www.buzzsprout.com/77944.rss   Our episodes will also appear on our Nerd Noise Radio YouTube Channel - just search for Nerd Noise Radio, you'll find us! Here's today's episode:   https://youtu.be/VI6w0U117Ik   Additionally, there are YouTube Playlists you can follow, both an "All Channels" Feed (recommended), as well as channel-specific feeds. You can find them here:   Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels Podcast Feed   Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 podcast   Nerd Noise Radio is now available on Twitch as well! Episodes 21 and forward will be uploaded as they're released, with the backlog of earlier episodes to follow. You can find us here:   https://www.twitch.tv/nerdnoiseradio   The specific episode can be found here:   https://www.twitch.tv/videos/251351577   You can also find us on The Retro Junkies Network:   www.retrojunkies.com   You can find us (and all of our episodes) as "Nerd Noise Radio" on Archive.org and can also find us and join the conversation on both our Nerd Noise Radio Network Facebook, Google+, and Twitter pages, as well as our Facebook and Google+ "Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode" and "Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode" groups.    https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio https://www.facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadioNetwork/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116712079232328588606 https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115513825710696980758/116712079232328588606?pageId=115513825710696980758   Lastly, we share our episodes as well on our blog at nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. This specific episode can be found here:   https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2018/05/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-noise-from_27.html   As always, your feedback and input is DEEPLY appreciated, so we cheerfully invite you to "blow up the comments section", or you can always reach us by e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.comas well as all the aforementioned social media outlets.   Thanks for listening! Join us again Thursday, June 14th for C1E30 (Channel 1, Episode 30): "The Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 1 (A SUPER-SIZED Episode) - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

Today’s broadcast is Episode 19 for Scene Sunday, December 3rd, 2017. Today’s Episode features selections from the Video Game cover band, the One Ups on a program we're calling "Keeping up with The OneUps - vol. 1"   Track Number / Original Track Name (OneUps-specific track name - where applicable) / OneUps Album / Original Version Composer / Timestamp   01: Intro 00:00 02: Super Mario Kart - Title Theme - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka - 01:53 03: Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone - Volume 2 - Masato Nakamura - 03:36 04: Tetris - Theme A - Korobeinki (Space Bloq Soviet Fun Time Puzzle Song) - Intergalactic Redux - (trad) Nikolay Nekrasov - 07:43 05: Mario Paint - Monkeys - Volume 1 - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - 11:57 06: Legend of Zelda - Dungeon (λαβύρινθος - Labyrinthos) - Songs for the Recently Deceased - Koji Kondo - 14:52 07: Super Mario 2 - Underground BGM - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo - 18:55 08: Contra - Stage 1 (Bill and Lance - Soldier Trance) - Intergalactic Redux - Kazuki Muraoka - 22:39 09: Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience - Volume 1 - David Wise - 28:20 10: LoZ: LttP - Time of the Falling Rain (Intro) - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo - 32:38 11: F-Zero - Port Town (Port Authority) - Part Seven - Yumiko Kanki - 37:43 12: TMNT II: The Arcade Game - Stage 3 (Super Solar Sewer System) - Intergalactic Continuum - Kozo Nakamura - 42:21 13: Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka  - 47:10 14: Outro 52:39   Music Block Runtime: 50:54, Total Episode Runtime: 59:09   Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights   If you wish to subscribe to the Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 Music block podcast, there are two options:   Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. Feed will include Channels 1, 2, 3, and any future channels not yet planned. Feed will also include podcasts in high quality, stereo where applicable, and episodes will never expire off the feed.   Option 2: If you're ONLY interested in Channel 1 episodes, and not in any of the other channels, there is a Channel 1-specific feed. But it's hosted on a free account, rather than an upgraded account like the "All Channels Feed" with lower quality sound (mono, I believe), a maximum 2hrs per month of content (so if the month's episodes run longer than that, they may need to be trimmed), and episodes expire off the feed forever after 90 days. If this is what you want instead, here's the RSS:    http://www.buzzsprout.com/77944.rss   Our episodes will also appear on our Nerd Noise Radio YouTube Channel - just search for Nerd Noise Radio, you'll find us! Here's today's episode:   https://youtu.be/tRlGe1cNm_Q   You can also find us on The Retro Junkies Network:   www.retrojunkies.com   You can find us (and all of our episodes) as "Nerd Noise Radio" on Archive.org and can also find us and join the conversation on both our Nerd Noise Radio Network Facebook, Google+, and Twitter pages, as well as our Facebook and Google+ "Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode" and "Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode" groups.    https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio https://www.facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadioNetwork/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116712079232328588606 https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115513825710696980758/116712079232328588606?pageId=115513825710696980758   Lastly, we share our episodes as well on our blog at nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. This specific episode can be found here:   https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2017/12/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-podcast.html   As always, your feedback and input is DEEPLY appreciated, so we cheerfully invite you to "blow up the comments section", or you can always reach us by e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com as well as all the aforementioned social media outlets.   Hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again Tuesday, December 19th for C1E20 (Channel 1, Episode 20): TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 2, and wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

Episode 031! I played a bunch of old stuff this week. Download MP3 Song 1 Welcome To The Swindle by Tobey Evans from the game The Swindle. http://tobeyevans.bandcamp.com/album/the-swindle-ost-extended Song 2 Egg by Rob Hubbard from the game The Immortal (NES). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(video_game) Song 3 Patient Zero by Ben Crossbones from the game Organ Trail: Director’s Cut. https://bencrossbones.bandcamp.com/album/organ-trail-directors-cut-original-soundtrack Song 4 as requested by listener @gtvrhs (Garret) T-Grey by Neil Voss from the game Tetrisphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrisphere Song 5 Title by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka from the game Metroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_(video_game) Song 6 Stage 1 by Michiru Yamane from the game Castlevania: Bloodlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Bloodlines Song 7 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes by Videri String Quartet from the game Monaco. https://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/monaco-gentlemans-private-collection-bundle Subscribe via RSS  or  Subscribe via ITUNESFollow me on Twitter, I'm @EricsVGMixtape.Or check out my personal webpage, Frumpous!

In this legendary episode, the guys close out Nintendo Month '14 in style, by dedicating an entire episode to the career of Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka! From his early days on NES launch games, to pushing the boundaries of 8-bit music, to his innovations on the Game Boy, and continuing his ingenuity on the SNES; this man has left a giant mark on the world of video games, music and culture. Long live Nintendo!  11/23/14

Jonny welcomes Michael "TYP" Cole of Radio Trivia: Podcast Edition to showcase video game music in quite a different way. For this episode of DMP, we focus on the quirky output of electronic composer Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, the man behind many familiar Nintendo songs from the 80s and early 90s. Anyone could recognize at least a few of these songs, but we tried to set the context of Tanaka's work for gamers and non-gamers alike. You couldn't ask for a much better expert than Mike, and Jonny knows a little about this stuff as well. Listing every single song would be overkill, but here are the classic games we cover on the show, plus a couple of odd non-game singles at the end. 1. Wild Gunman (NES) 2. Urban Champion (NES) 3. Gyromite (NES) 4. Stack-Up (NES) 5. Balloon Fight (Arcade/NES) 6. Gumshoe (NES) 7. Kid Icarus (NES) 8. Metroid (NES) 9. Mother (NES) 10. Earthbound a.k.a. Mother 2 (SNES) 11. Super Mario Land (GB) 12. Tetris (GB) 13. Game Boy Camera (GB) 14. The Hirokazu Tanaka Song 15. HVC-1384 (Play for Japan) Encore: Tim and Geoff Follin -- Silver Surfer (NES) If you enjoyed this show, be sure to look for Radio Trivia: Podcast Edition on iTunes and at NintendoWorldReport.com to hear much more excellent video game music. You can also send us an email: crosstawk@gmail.com

This week, we see a special downside to posting a couple days after recording - much of this episode was spent on predictions for E3, and Microsoft had a pre-E3 press event where many predictions CAME TRUE! Thanks for waiting up. Boter touched on a couple points very fast after the episode proper - don't want any of you wiseasses thinking we're unprofessional.After last week's recording ran into technical difficulties, Boter and FearTheClaw decide to do those topics over again this week - namely, that they've been playing Snoopy Flying Ace and Red Dead Redemption, respectively. They then talk about Mocrosoft's and Sony's motion controllers and predictions about E3 press for them - Natal's official name, price points, and release dates. They discuss Rock Band 3 and give a few more rapid-fire predictions for E3.Check out last week's recording here: Episode 43.Stay tuned next week for an hour-long E3 roundup episode.Subscribe and listen (or just listen) to the podcast over at our FeedBurner page. You can also subscribe to use using iTunes.Music is "Linus & Lucy", ©1964 Vince Guaraldi. Arr. ©1995 Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka (from Snoopy Concert on SNES). Man, I want to use this every week now...