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Today’s broadcast is C2R4 for Wayback Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. Today’s Episode, our 2nd-to-last Ch 2 episode ever (or at least, 2nd-to-last one we PLAN to ever do) is our annual retrospective of the previous year of Channel 2 - in this case, of our Season 4. Today’s broadcast, therefore, is “C2R4 - The Best of Season 4” containing our customary two passes through history (by host), and bookended by wildcards!
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Opening Wildcards:
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally from Episode / Originally Selected by / Selected by for this episode
A01) Bonus Room - Wolverine - NES - Geoff Follin - C2E19 - St. John - St. John
Earcatcher - 00:00:00Music - 00:00:04Introduction - 00:01:59Top of Show Business - 00:04:15Opening Track Discussion - 00:08:18A02) Music 3 - LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin - C2E17 - St. John - Hugues
Music - 00:10:39Discussion - 00:13:12-----
First Pass Through History - “St. John tracks” (tracks brought to original episode by St. John)
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s)
01) C2E16 - “Songs with Words” - VGM with vocals
B01) Hugues’ Pick: Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (Music) and David R. Leytze (Lyrics) / Vocals: Takenoby Mitsuyoshi
Music - 00:21:43Discussion - 00:26:28B02) St. John’s Pick: Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic / Vocals: Kate Brady
Music - 00:33:22Discussion - 00:37:4302) C2E17 - “20th Century Floppies” - pre-2000 music from computer system games
B03) Hugues’ Pick: Zanzibar Breeze - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) Konami Kukeiha Club
Music - 00:43:56Discussion - 00:46:55B04) St. John’s Pick: Jazz 3 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin
Music - 00:51:30Discussion - 00:56:4503) C2E18 - “It Never Happened” - music from unreleased games
B05) Hugues’ Pick: Level 2 Music (50Hz) - Time Trax - Genesis (unreleased) - Tim Follin
Music - 00:59:32Discussion - 01:02:12B06) St. John’s Pick: Unknown City - Doxa - PS4 (unreleased) - Daniel Capo
Music - 01:05:45Discussion - 01:07:0704) C2E19 - “Mystery Flavors” - mystery theme(s)
B07) Hugues’ Pick: Martinis for Two - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo
Music - 01:09:01Discussion - 01:15:36B08) St. John’s Pick: I Can’t Believe You - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN)
Music - 01:20:45Discussion - 01:23:2305) C2E20 - “...all good things…” - ending and credits and post-game music for our final [regular] episode
B09) Hugues’ Pick: Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and/or Masayuki Nagao
Music - 01:28:53Discussion - 01:31:10B10) St. John’s Pick: Triforce Chamber - LoZ: A Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo
Music - 01:35:00Discussion - 01:36:27-----
Second Pass Through History - “Hugues tracks” (tracks brought to original episode by Hugues)
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s)
01) C2E16 - “Songs with Words” - VGM with vocals
C01) St. John’s Pick: Everything’s Alright - To the Moon - Multiplatform - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara / Vocal: Laura Shigihara
Music - 01:42:40Discussion - 01:46:13C02) Hugues’ Pick: A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy - PS2 - Asuka Sakai / Vocals: Ado Mizumori
Music - 01:48:45Discussion - 01:53:2002) C2E17 - “20th Century Floppies” - pre-2000 music from computer system games
C03) St. John’s Pick: Crystal Garden - King’s Quest V - PC - Ken Allen and/or Mark Seibert
Music - 01:56:09Discussion - 01:57:39C04) Hugues’ Pick: Meadow’s Edge 2 - Apidya - Amiga - Chris Hulsbeck
Music - 02:01:47Discussion - 02:04:2703) C2E18 - “It Never Happened” - music from unreleased games
C05) St. John’s Pick: Tatsumarii Village - Earthbound 64 - N64 (unreleased) - Shogo Sakai
Music - 02:06:20Discussion - 02:08:33C06) Hugues’ Pick: Ending Theme - Fido Dido - Genesis (unreleased) - Matt Furniss
Music - 02:12:31Discussion - 02:14:4904) C2E19 - “Mystery Flavors” - mystery theme(s)
C07) St. John’s Pick: Title Screen - Wario’s Woods - NES - Shinobu Amayake and/or Soyo Oka
Music - 02:16:13Discussion - 02:18:09C08) Hugues’ Pick: Bridge Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Master System - Yuzo Koshiro
Music - 02:23:08Discussion - 02:24:5705) C2E20 - “...all good things…” - ending and credits and post-game music for our final [regular] episode
C09) St. John’s Pick: Good End - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima
Music - 02:29:22Discussion - 02:31:46C10) Hugues’ Pick: Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xanadu - PS4 / Switch - Takahiro Unisuga
Music - 02:34:32Discussion - 02:39:46-----
Closing Wildcards:
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally from Episode / Originally Selected by / Selected by for this episode
D01) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C2E20 - St. John - St. John
Music - 02:43:19Discussion 1 - 02:45:47End of Show Business 1 - 02:46:13Discussion 2 - 02:48:46End of Show Business 2 - 02:53:08Closing Track Discussion - 02:54:41Wrap-up - 02:57:57Sign-off - 02:58:16D02) Ending - Another World - Amiga - Jean-François Freitas - C2E20 - Hugues - Hugues
Music - 02:58:18Outtakes - 03:02:07BONUS: The last few seconds of the Katamari Damacy track both forwards and backwards - 03:09:32-----
Total Episode Runtime: 03:09:45
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month (or perhaps very early next month) for the C2F: “Finally our Final Finale” - the very last broadcast from Channel 2, and also C1R7: “The Best of 2024”, our look back on the past year in the style of a Channel 1. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, as well as one last hoorah for Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club…and wherever you are….Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Season 4 (2024) - The Final Season of Channel 2!
70 Tracks
Season Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) - 03:27:17
Complete Season (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) Release Date: 12/08/2024
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Episode: C2E16: "Songs with Words"
Original release date: 03/07/2024
Episode Theme: Game Music with Vocals
Theme Elaboration: N/A
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Collaborative
Opening Track: Hugues
Closing Track: St. John
Full Episode Link (Podbean):
https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2e16-songs-with-words/
Music-Only SUPER BONUS Link (Archive dot org):
https://archive.org/details/super-bonus-c-2-e-16-music-only
Episode Timestamps (this playlist): 00:00:00 - 00:59:57
Episode Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.): 00:59:57
End of Show (post-outtakes) Bonus Tracks (not included in this mixtape):
The debut episode of “Oddie HD” (St. John’s neurodivergence vlog - which has since not gotten a lot of legs under it - but you do get to see what St. John looks like…even if the camera angles and lighting are TERRIBLE!) :-Dhttps://youtu.be/XTk9z9e8ezc?si=HcIXRhxweGuH6UISSpecial Notes: The Episode where we announced that this would be the final season of Channel 2. Also, the episode where St. John announced his recent ethnic discoveries (trace amounts of Dutch, Finnish, Spanish / Portuguese, West African, North African, Coptic Egyptian, and Ashkenazi Jewish).
Tracklist
Track# (season) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Vocalist(s) - Selected By - Timestamp
01 / 01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues - 00:00:00
02 / 02) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John - 00:03:46
03 / 03) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues - 00:09:04
04 / 04) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (music) and David R. Leytze (lyrics) - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi - St. John - 00:14:42
05 / 05) Instructor Mooselini's Rap - PaRappa the Rapper - PS1 - Izumi Amano and/or Ryu Watanabe - John Simpson III and Saundra Williams - Hugues - 00:19:18
06 / 06) My Intellivision - Intellivision Lives - Multiplatform - Tom Kahelin and/or Michael Schwartz - Michael Schwartz (?) - St. John - 00:21:17
07 / 07) Sea of Love - It Came from the Desert - TG16 - Kenneth Melville - Terence Kirby - Hugues - 00:25:51
08 / 08) Volver a Comenzar - Little Big Planet - PS3 - Cafe Tabvca - Cafe Tabvca - St. John - 00:28:03
09 / 09) A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy PS2 - Asuka Sakai - Ado Mizumori - Hugues - 00:35:42
10 / 10) Sonic Boom (Ending Version) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, Mark Young, and/or Pastiche - Pastiche - St. John - 00:40:10
11 / 11) Sora wo Miagete (Ending Version) - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PSP - c: Takahiro Unisuga / a: Yukihiro Jindo - Kanako Kotera - Hugues - 00:43:45
12 / 12) Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John - 00:49:33
13 / 13) Everything's Alright - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - Laura Shigihara - Hugues - 00:53:42
14 / 14) Still Alive - Portal - Multiplatform - Jonathan Coulton - Ellen McClain (as GLaDOS) - St. John - 00:57:01
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Episode: C2E17: "20th Century Floppies"
Original release date: 04/10/2024
Episode Theme: Pre-2000 music from computer games.
Theme Elaboration: N/A
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Opening Track: St. John
Closing Track: Hugues
Full Episode Link (Podbean):
https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2e17-20th-century-floppies/
Music-Only SUPER BONUS Link (Archive dot org):
https://archive.org/details/super-bonus-c-2-e-17-music-only
Episode Timestamps (this playlist): 00:59:58 - 01:34:26
Episode Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.): 00:34:32
End of Show (post-outtakes) Bonus Tracks (not included in this mixtape):
Knight Arms - Traveller’s Tales [SLOWED DOWN]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1THb85EfAaWyyYY6zoZfXIcuR90nSNylc/view?usp=drive_linkSim Copter - Jazz 3 [SLOWED DOWN]https://drive.google.com/file/d/13DZv0fZDtLXhtezUlOIbX5VwRSIKy3sx/view?usp=drive_linkSpecial Notes: N/A
Tracklist
Track# (season) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By - Timestamp
15 / 01) Bootup Sequence - N/A (System Music) - FM Towns Marty - Unknown - St. John - 00:59:58
16 / 02) Meadow's Edge 2 - Apidya - Amiga - Chris Hulsbeck - Hugues - 01:01:30
17 / 03) Traveller's Tales (Stage 4-2) - Knight Arms - X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John - 01:04:10
18 / 04) Title - Jaguar XJ220 - Amiga - Martin Iveson - Hugues - 01:06:32
19 / 05) Music #3 - LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin - St. John - 01:09:18
20 / 06) High Score - Hawkeye - C64 - Jeroen Tel - Hugues - 01:11:43
21 / 07) Zanzibar Breeze - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) - Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John - 01:13:42
22 / 08) Britannic Lands - Ultima V - Atari ST - c: Kenneth W. Arnold / a: Wally Beben - Hugues - 01:16:42
23 / 09) The Demon's from Adrian's Pen - DOOM - PC (OPL3) - Bobby Prince - St. John - 01:17:57
24 / 10) Wondering About my Loved Ones - Wolfenstein 3D - PC DOS - Robert Prince - Hugues - 01:20:33
25 / 11) Swirls - Marathon - Mac (MIDI) - Alex Seropian - St. John - 01:22:55
26 / 12) Crystal Garden - King's Quest V - PC DOS - Ken Allen and/or Mark Seibert - Hugues - 01:25:09
27 / 13) Jazz 3 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin - St. John - 01:26:31
28 / 14) Angel Dust - Star Trader - PC88 - Mieko Ishikawa - Hugues - 01:31:32
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Episode: C2E18: "It Never Happened"
Original release date: 07/04/2024
Episode Theme: Music from unfinished and unreleased games.
Theme Elaboration: N/A
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Collaborative
Opening Track: Hugues
Closing Track: St. John
Full Episode Link (Podbean):
https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2e18-it-never-happened/
Music-Only SUPER BONUS Link (Archive dot org):
https://archive.org/details/super-bonus-c-2-e-18-music-only
Episode Timestamps (this playlist): 01:34:29 - 02:10:22
Episode Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.): 00:35:55
End of Show (post-outtakes) Bonus Tracks (not included in this mixtape):
Time Trax - Stage 2 (theoretical 55Hz vers - this was the composer’s intended speed - would not actually sound this way on any region Genesis / Mega Drive - composer was aiming for the middle between fast 60Hz NTSC units and slow 50Hz PAL units)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g_ehacCSGjyPOCUocsSwoOYdhLbvMSZ4/view?usp=drive_linkTime Trax - Stage 2 (60Hz - NTSC speed. This is how the track would’ve sounded on NA or JP Genesis / Mega Drive - remember that the 50Hz version is included in the episode - and in today’s playlist, and is how the track would’ve sounded on a PAL (EU) Mega Drive)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XSG18lskUGGzyXPe51-UZAIG5S_6d0KC/view?usp=drive_linkSpecial Notes: N/A
Tracklist
Track# (season) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By - Timestamp
29 / 01) Ending Theme - Fido Dido - Genesis - Matt Furniss - Hugues - 01:34:29
30 / 02) Options - Sonic X-treme - Saturn - Howard Drossin - St. John - 01:36:47
31 / 03) Levels 1, 2, 3 - X-Men Mind Games - 32X - Jesper Kyd - Hugues - 01:37:59
32 / 04) Lab Theme - Ninja Gaiden - Genesis - Unknown - St. John - 01:45:46
33 / 05) River Level - The A-Team - Master System - Jeroen Tel - Hugues - 01:47:29
34 / 06) Stage 2 (50Hz) - Time Trax - Genesis - Tim Follin - St. John - 01:49:17
35 / 07) The End of Worlds - Shadow of the Beast - SNES - c: David Whittaker / a: Unknown - Hugues - 01:51:53
36 / 08) Astral Race - Marble Madness II - Arcade - Brad Fuller and/or John Paul - St. John - 01:55:22
37 / 09) Tatsumarii Village - Earthbound 64 - N64 - Shogo Sakai - Hugues - 01:58:09
38 / 10) Peaceful Future 2052 - Time Diver Eon Man - NES - Tsukasa Masuko - St. John - 02:00:22
39 / 11) Menu - Sim City - NES - c: Soyo Oka and/or Koji Kondo / a: Unknown - Hugues - 02:01:57
40 / 12) Unknown City - Doxa - PS4 - Daniel Capo - St. John - 02:03:32
41 / 13) The Original Spelunkers - Bonk: Brink of Extinction - Multiplatform - Disasterpeace - Hugues - 02:04:41
42 / 14) Ending and Staff Roll - The Shadow - SNES - Jonathan Dunn - St. John - 02:07:31
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Episode: C2E19: "Mystery Flavors"
Original release date: TBD
Episode Theme: Mystery Themes!
Theme Elaboration: St. John has a mystery theme, Hugues has his own mystery theme, and the listeners have to guess / figure out what those themes are!
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Opening Track: St. John
Closing Track: Hugues
Full Episode Link (Podbean):
TBD
Music-Only SUPER BONUS Link (Archive dot org):
TBD
Episode Timestamps (this playlist): 02:10:24 - 02:50:00
Episode Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.): 00:39:39
End of Show (post-outtakes) Bonus Tracks (not included in this mixtape): TBD
Special Notes: As of the time of recording of the main episode, St. John still didn't know what Hugues' theme was. Hugues hasn’t told him, and St. John hasn’t been able to figure it out on his own (so far). Hugues knew what St. John's was, though....because he told him. ;-)
Tracklist
Track# (season) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By - Timestamp
281 / 43 / 01) "I can't believe you" (aka "Betrayal") - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN version) - Daisuke Takahashi - St. John - 02:10:24
44 / 02) Bridge - Spider-Man: Web of Fire - 32X - Sam Powell and/or Brian Schmidt - Hugues - 02:12:59
45 / 03) Bulberry Hill - Zool 2 - Amiga - Neil Biggin - St. John - 02:14:50
46 / 04) Site-B Area - The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Game Gear - Kōjirō Mikusa - Hugues - 02:17:54
47 / 05) Passage - Destiny - Multiplatform - C. Paul Johnson - St. John - 02:19:18
48 / 06) Knockturn Alley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Game Boy Color - Ian Stocker - Hugues - 02:22:27
49 / 07) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - St. John - 02:24:58
50 / 08) Puzzle - 3D Tetris - Virtual Boy - Ken Kojima - Hugues - 02:27:21
51 / 09) Bonus Room - Wolverine - NES - Geoff Follin - St. John - 02:30:00
52 / 10) Title Screen - Wario's Woods - NES - Shinobu Amayake and/or Soyo Oka - Hugues - 02:31:51
53 / 11) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Naofumi Hataya - St. John - 02:33:44
54 / 12) Bridge Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Mastersystem - c: Masato Nakamura / a: Yuzo Koshiro - Hugues - 02:37:47
55 / 13) Martinis for 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John - 02:39:33
56 / 14) The Old Man's Rainbow Shop - Magic Knight Rayearth - Saturn - Yayoi Wachi and/or Sumio Okamoto - Hugues - 02:45:50
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Episode: C2E20: "...all good things…"
Original release date: TBD
Episode Theme: Music from end credits and ending sequences
Theme Elaboration: N/A
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: St. John
Opening Track: Hugues
Closing Track: St. John
Full Episode Link (Podbean):
TBD
Music-Only SUPER BONUS Link (Archive dot org):
TBD
Episode Timestamps (this playlist): 02:50:04 - 03:27:17
Episode Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.): 00:37:13
End of Show (post-outtakes) Bonus Tracks (not included in this mixtape): TBD
Special Notes: The final "regular" episode of Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2! :-( There will still be the C2R4 Season 4 retrospective, and almost certainly a one-off “Series Finale” in early 2025. But of “plain Jane, run of the mill, ordinary episodes”....yeah, this is the very last one - which makes it really sad for St. John, and also very heavily influenced the selection of his tracks, which bias very heavily towards emotional, sentimental, heart-tugging pieces, and also bias very heavily towards tracks from games he actually beat growing up back in the day. :-(
Tracklist
Track# (season) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By - Timestamp
57 / 01) Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xanadu - Multiplatform - Takahiro Unisuga (Falcom Sound Team jdk) - Hugues - 02:50:04
58 / 02) Credits - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - St. John - 02:55:11
59 / 03) Staff Roll - Phantasy Star III - Genesis - Ippo Takeuchi - Hugues - 02:57:48
60 / 04) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - St. John - 02:59:28
61 / 05) Ending - Another World - Amiga - Jean-François Freitas - Hugues - 03:01:51
62 / 06) Triforce Chamber - LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo - 03:03:23
63 / 07) The Credits Concerto - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise and/or Eveline Fischer - Hugues - 03:04:50
64 / 08) Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and/or Masayuki Nagao - St. John - 03:06:36
65 / 09) Good End - Streets of Rage II - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - Hugues - 03:08:51
66 / 10) End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita and/or Harumi Fujita - St. John - 03:11:10
67 / 11) Farewell and a Decision - Grandia II - PS2 / Dreamcast - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues - 03:13:29
68 / 12) Ending - Stray - Multiplatform - Jan van der Cruyssen - St. John - 03:18:06
69 / 13) 16th Floor - Speedrun Tower - Genesis - c: JAM / a: Hugues Johnson - Hugues - 03:21:23
70 / 14) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - St. John - 03:23:09
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Total Episode Runtime: 03:27:17
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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 [email protected]
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!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E89 for Theme Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 1 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 A-Sides"
Tracklist!
Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp
A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
A2) Intro - 00:01:37
01) Entrance - Shadowgate - NES - Hiroyuki Masuno - 00:03:45
02) The Moon - Duck Tales - NES - Hiroshige Tonomura - 00:04:56
03) Level Theme 1 - TMNT - NES - Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:05:44
04) Brinstar - Metroid - NES - Hirokazu Tanaka - 00:07:27
05) Map 3 - Super Mario Bros 3 - NES - Hirokazu Tanaka - 00:09:09
06) I wanna Close to You - Misty Blue - PC88 - Yuzo Koshiro - 00:11:10
07) Casino Night Zone - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - 00:13:52
08) Planet Dezoris - Phantasy Star 2 - Genesis - Tokuhiko Uwabo - 00:16:02
09) Robo’s Theme - Chrono Trigger - Super Nintendo - Yasunori Mitsuda - 00:16:55
10) Fight 2 - Final Fantasy IV - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu - 00:18:22
11) MEGALOMANIA - Live-A-Live - Super Famicom - Yoko Shimomura - 00:20:38
12) Beatnik on the Ship - Streets of Rage - Genesis - 00:22:07
13) A Breach of Contract - Herzog Zwei - Genesis - 00:26:29
14) Terra - Final Fantasy VI - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu - 00:33:07
15) Into the Thick of It - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - 00:33:07
16) The Road is Full of Dangers - Super Mario RPG - SNES - Yoko Shimomura - 00:37:12
17) Aquatic Ambiance - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise - 00:38:42
18) Town - Phantasy Star III - Genesis - Izuho Numata - 00:42:01
19) Normal Game - Puzzle Bobble - Arcade - Kazuko Umino and/or Yasuko Yamada - 00:44:34
20) The Girl who Stole the Stars - Radical Dreamers - Satellaview - Yasunori Mitsuda - 00:47:34
21) Last Moment of the Dark - Ys Book I & II - TG16 - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Yuzo Koshiro) - 00:50:46
22) Track 3.5 - Cosmic Fantasy 2 - TG16 - Shingo Murakami and/or Hisao Inoue - 00:53:06
23) BGM 3 - Graduation II: Neo Generation - PC Engine - NEC Avenue - 00:54:07
24) Crowded Street Corner - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue - Sega CD - Noriyuki Iwadare - 00:56:12
25) Country Selection - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson - 00:59:08
26) Thermal Resolution - Tempest 2000 - Jaguar - Ian Howe, Alistair Lindsay, Kevin Saville, and/or Julian Hodgson - 01:01:32
27) Time’s Scar - Chrono Cross - PS1 - Yasunori Mitsuda - 01:05:26
28) The Man with the Machine Gun - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 01:07:47
29) Forest Temple - LoZ: Ocarina of Time - N64 - Koji Kondo - 01:10:33
30) Nozomi and Ryo - Shenmue - Dreamcast - Osamu Murata - 01:12:26
31) Eternity ~Memory of Lightwaves~ - Final Fantasy X-2 - PS2 - Noriko Matsueda and/or Takhito Eguchi - 01:16:17
32) Midna’s Lament - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta, Koji Kondo, and/or Mahito Yokota - 01:18:45
33) Rokka - Grandia Xtreme - PS2 - Noriyuki Iwadare - 01:21:49
34) Windfall Island - LoZ: Wind Waker - GameCube - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Atsuko Asahi - 01:25:56
35) Golf Select - Wii Sports - Wii - Kazumi Totaka - 01:27:07
36) Crazy Dave (Intro Theme) - Plants vs Zombies - iOS / Android - Laura Shigihara - 01:28:02
37) Land of Light and Shadow - Bravely Default - DS - Revo - 01:30:41
38) Founding Anniversary - Trails from Zero - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Hatato Sonoda) - 01:32:13
39) Color Your Night - Persona 3 - PSP - Atsushi Kitajoh - 01:35:12
40) Sudden Beautiful Lie - Danganrompa V3 - Vita - Masafumi Takada - 01:38:52
41) Wintry Arrival - Trails of Cold Steel II - Vita - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Takahiro Unisuga) - 01:42:47
42) Town Where the Sunlight Doesn’t Reach - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - PSP - Takeharu Ishimoto - 01:45:47
43) X.R.C. - Tokyo Xanadu - Vita - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Takahiro Unisuga) - 01:48:57
44) Sunshine Coastline - Ys VIII - Vita - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Takahiro Unisuga) - 01:51:25
45) Freeway Escape - Shakedown Hawaii - PS4 - Matt Creamer - 01:54:31
46) Rave in the Grave - Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse - WiiU - Jake Kaufman - 01:55:58
47) Spiral of Erebos - Trails of Cold Steel III - PS4 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Takahiro Unisuga) - 01:59: 23
48) Reverse Babel - Trails into Reverie - PS4 - Falcom Sound Team JDK (Yukihiro Jindo) - 02:04:12
49) Peachy Pie - Doki Doki Literature Club Plus - Switch - Nikki Kaelar - 02:07:18
50) Hateno Village - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Yasuaki Iwata - 02:09:23
Music Block Runtime: 02:11:26, Total Episode Runtime: 02:15:12
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 [email protected]
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 this time next week for C1E90 (Channel 1, Episode 90): "Turning 50 – The B-Sides", and later this month or early December for C2R4 (Channel 2, Retrospective 4): "The Best of 2024" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s Broadcast is C2E20, for Theme Thursday, Oct 24th, 2024. All good things must come to an end. Today is the final “regular” (as in, “final non-retrospective” episode - and as opposed to “final all time” episode). This will be the final episode where we bring new tracks to the show, though. So it is still an ending. The theme, therefore, is ending music, on a program we’re calling “...all good things…”
Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By
01) Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xanadu - Multiplatform - Takahiro Unisuga (Falcom Sound Team jdk) - Hugues
Earcatcher - 00:00:00Music - 00:00:03Introduction - 00:05:23Top of Show Business - 00:06:14The Reveal of last episode’s mystery themes - 00:09:44Discussion - 00:24:3802) Credits - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - St. John
Music - 00:30:16Discussion - 00:33:0103) Staff Roll - Phantasy Star III - Genesis - Ippo Takeuchi - Hugues
Music - 00:35:17Discussion - 00:37:1504) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - St. John
Music - 00:42:07Discussion - 00:44:4605) Ending - Another World - Amiga - Jean-François Freitas - Hugues
Music - 00:54:53Discussion - 00:56:2706) Triforce Chamber - LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo
Music - 01:00:40Discussion - 01:02:0907) The Credits Concerto - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise and/or Eveline Fischer - Hugues
Music - 01:08:45Discussion - 01:10:43[EDITOR’s NOTE: I partially confused Vangelis with fellow Greek musician, Iasos. My bad! -St. J]
08) Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and/or Masayuki Nagao - St. John
Music - 01:16:19Discussion - 01:18:3809) Good End - Streets of Rage II - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - Hugues
Music - 01:34:07Discussion - 01:36:3010) End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita and/or Harumi Fujita - St. John
Music - 01:43:56Discussion - 01:46:1411) Farewell and a Decision - Grandia II - PS2 / Dreamcast - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
Music - 01:49:38Discussion - 01:54:2612) Ending - Stray - Multiplatform - Jan van der Cruyssen - St. John
Music - 02:01:40Discussion - 02:05:1213) 16th Floor - Speedrun Tower - Genesis - c: JAM / a: Hugues Johnson - Hugues
Music - 02:10:48Discussion - 02:12:38End of Show Business - 02:22:27Closing track Discussion - 02:29:49Sign-off - 02:30:4414) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - St. John
Music - 02:30:51Outtakes - 02:34:52BONUS - the “Composed by St. John / arranged by Jay Cook” collection“Floor It!” from the Game “X-Racer” (Hydra Development System) - 02:39:52“In-Game Theme” from the Game “Ranquest” (Hydra Development System) - 02:41:07Total Episode Runtime: 02:44:07Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
St. John’s Mom’s flute business can be found here:Website:
www.valwedgeworth.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/UxpsjWw3Js5uUtLf/
Valerie's Flute Entertainment, LLC (Playing the Decades)
Email: [email protected]
Note: St. John called it “Val’s Flute Entertainment”, instead of “Valerie’s Flute Entertainment”, but it used to be called “Val’s Flute”.
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for a very special Channel 1 (subject a surprise for now), and then again in November for a sequel Ch 1 and for our Ch 2 “Best of Season 4 retrospective” - which will be our second-to-last ever installment of Ch 2…..Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club…and wherever you are….Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E88 for FaceOff Friday, Sept 27th, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 7 – very likely to be our final FaceOff Friday episode!
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Double Dragon - Mission 2 - Kazunaka Yamane
A) Arcade – 00:03:39B) Genesis – 00:05:19C)MastersystemFM – 00:06:59 D)MastersystemPSG – 00:09:06 E) NES – 00:11:15F) Gameboy – 00:12:43G) GBA – 00:15:55H) Double Dragon Trilogy – 00:17:4002) Mortal Kombat – The Courtyard – Dan Forden
A) Arcade – 00:19:16B) DOS (arr. Allister Brimble) – 00:20:46C) Genesis (arr. Matt Furniss) – 00:22:51D) SNES – 00:24:31E) Mortal Kombat Deception (arr.Chase Ashbaker, Richard Carle, Brian Chard, and/or Vincent Pontarelli)– 00:26:16 F) Mortal Kombat (2011) (arr.DeanGrinsfelder) - 00:28:5003) Gorgon Theme (aka Venus Fire) - Toshiharu Yamanishi and/or Tomomi Ōtani
A) Thunder Spirits – SNES – 00:31:56B) Thunder Force 3 – Genesis – 00:34:4604) Fatal Fury 2 / Fatal Fury Special – Andy Bogard Theme (aka Pasta) - Toshio Shimizu, Yoko Osaka, Yoshihiko Kitamura, YLF.Communicate, Paciorek, and/or Masahiko Hataya
A) Neo Geo AES / MVS – 00:37:33B) Genesis (arr. Kazuyuki Oikawa and/or TomohiroIshigai) – 00:39:22C) SNES (arr.SeisukeIto) – 00:42:38 D) PC Engine (arr. Yasuo Yamate) – 00:45:23E) Neo Geo CD / Sega CD (arr. Kim Jensen) – 00:48:5705) Theme of Tara (aka Theme of Metal Gear) - Iku Mizutani, Shigehiro Takenouchi, and/or Motoaki Furukawa
A) Metal Gear – MSX – 00:51:55B) Metal Gear Solid – GBA (VR Sneaking) (arr.Norihiko Hibino, and/or Kazuki Muraoka)- 00:55:08 C) Snatcher – PC Engine (arr.Kazuki Muraoka, MasahiroIkariko, Seiichi Fukami, and/or Mutsuhiko Izumi – 00:57:11 D) Snatcher – MSX (SCC) (arr.MasahiroIkariko) - 00:57:55 E) Snatcher – Sega CD – 00:58:33F) Snatcher – PC88 (OPN)(arr.Masahiro Ikariko) - 00:59:17 G) Metal Gear Mobile – iOS/Android (Ending) (arr.Eriko Kawamura, and/or Masaki Takeuchi)- 01:00:12 H) Metal Gear Solid – PS1 (VR Training) (arr. Kazuki Muraoka, HiroyukiTōgo,Takanari Ishiyama, Lee Jeon Myung, and/or Gigi Meroni) - 01:02:34 I) Super Smash Bros Ultimate – Switch (arr. Takahiro Nishi)– 01:05:02J) Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (VR Sneaking) (arr. Norihiko Hibino)- 01:07:1206) Mr. Nutz – Woody Land 1 & 2 – Matt Furniss
A) SNES (arr. RaphaëlGesqua)– 01:09:55 B) Genesis – 01:12:5307) Outrun – Passing Breeze – Hiroshi Kawaguchi
A) Arcade – 01:16:51B) Genesis (arr. T's Music) – 01:22:31C) PC Engine (arr. ShigeharuIsoda )– 01:28:17 D) Game Gear – 01:33:42E)MastersystemPSG – 01:38:47 F)MastersystemFM – 01:43:24 G) Outrun 2006 (arr. Hiro, Yasuhiro Takagi, and/or Fumio Ito)– 01:48:01B1) Outro – 01:53:39
Music Block Runtime: 01:50:03 Total Episode Runtime: 02:01:58
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). 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 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 [email protected]
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 October (or November) for C1E89 (Channel 1, Episode 89): The Arzette Soundtrack, as well as for C2E20 (Channel 2, Episode 20): "...all good things..." - our final NORMAL episode of Channel 2 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as "Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”.
[Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening track sounds a little more halting or broken up than usual, as if it were broken up into small chunks spaced apart. Also, this episode has an unusually long post-episode bonus reel. Everything that gets mentioned as “maybe I’ll add that to the back of the episode” gets added! :-D ]
Track# (total ) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By
01) "I can't believe you" (aka "Betrayal") - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN version) - Daisuke Takahashi - St. John
Earcatcher - 00:00:00Music - 00:00:02Introduction - 00:02:39Top of Show Business (losing ourselves in the weeds) - 00:03:51Discussion - 00:13:1302) Bridge - Spider-Man: Web of Fire - 32X - Sam Powell and/or Brian Schmidt - Hugues
Music - 00:19:21Discussion - 00:21:1403) Bulberry Hill - Zool 2 - Amiga - Neil Biggin - St. John
Music - 00:27:14Discussion - 00:30:0904) Site-B Area - The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Game Gear - Kōjirō Mikusa - Hugues
Music - 00:36:09Discussion - 00:37:4205) Passage - Destiny - Multiplatform - C. Paul Johnson - St. John
Music - 00:41:38Discussion - 00:45:0306) Knockturn Alley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Game Boy Color - Ian Stocker - Hugues
Music - 00:50:03Discussion - 00:52:3507) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - St. John
Music - 00:56:37Discussion - 00:59:0208) Puzzle - 3D Tetris - Virtual Boy - Ken Kojima - Hugues
Music - 01:03:27Discussion - 01:06:0609) Bonus Room - Wolverine - NES - Geoff Follin - St. John
Music - 01:13:12Discussion - 01:15:0710) Title Screen - Wario's Woods - NES - Shinobu Amayake and/or Soyo Oka - Hugues
Music - 01:20:35Discussion - 01:22:0211) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Naofumi Hataya - St. John
Music - 01:25:54Discussion - 01:30:0412) Bridge Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Mastersystem - c: Masato Nakamura / a: Yuzo Koshiro - Hugues
Music - 01:34:33Discussion - 01:36:2213) Martinis for 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John
Music - 01:40:14Discussion - 01:46:49End of Show Business - 01:54:19Closing Track Discussion - 02:01:53Sign-Off - 02:02:5014) The Old Man's Rainbow Shop - Magic Knight Rayearth - Saturn - Yayoi Wachi and/or Sumio Okamoto - Hugues
Music - 02:03:19Outtakes - 02:05:34BONUS 1: John’s first [successful Paulstretch]Paulstretch - 02:08:27The Source Material (“You Lose” sound from Price is Right) - 02:13:16BONUS 2: John’s Deflemask noodlings - [All circa 2016 - VERY LOW AUDIO QUALITY!!]Riff 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:13:20Algorithm Play 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:15:09Riff 2 (Sega Arcade - YM2151) - 02:17:23Riff 3 (Turbografx16) - 02:18:53“Take My Breath Away” (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:19:10My First Try with FM (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:19:31Decay to Sine (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:20:06 Riff 4 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:10Riff 4 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:33Algorithm Play 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:54Riff 5 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:11Riff 5 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:20 Ur-Quan Victory (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:29BONUS 3: [REVERSE] Edge - Quiet - 02:23:36Total Episode Runtime: 02:27:59
Supplemental content:
Portal - Taste of Blood (for cross-reference to the track from Destiny - and Paulstretched tracks):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMp-lW6mfdI
Two more examples of Paulstretch - neither of which were made by St. John:https://youtu.be/BnoX3E2WFcc?si=beUzqdiOQsM4q5Uwhttps://youtu.be/Aa5yZz2Xvhk?si=oh0p4XKora5-3J58
A primer on FM (so you understand what’s happening with the “Algorithm Play” Deflemask sound files):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4g1Y3HNPF8
The non-VGM piece St. John’s dad mistakenly guessed was VGM in lieu of correctly guessing the track from the Sims: “Sweet Summer Nights” by Najee:
https://youtu.be/kFJGC3kPGr8?si=mWI6BPq0K8RwjcyT
More detailed production note: so, re: the haltingness of the conversation on the opening track: I had to sync the opening conversation up with a particular moment in the track, and doing that would’ve caused the conversation to come in half a loop too late, and with it being the opening track, I didn’t like that idea either. So, the only solution available to achieve BOTH starting at the right time, AND syncing to the right moment was to break the opening conversation into several small chunks and then create a little space between all of the chunks. So, that’s why the opening conversation sounds the way it does. I actually had to break up the conversations on one or two other tracks too - but to so much less extreme of a degree that it’s not noticeable other than on the opening conversation.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again TOMMOROW for C1E88: “FaceOff Friday - vol. 7, and in October or November (probably October) for C2E20: “....all good things” - our final “regular” episode of Channel 2. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club - and wherever you are….Fly the N!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E87 for TwoFer Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10. This episode is dedicated to my lovely wife, Jodee, on the occasion of releasing on our 25th wedding anniversary!
A) Intro – 00:00:0001) Fantavision 202X – Multi – Soichi Terada
A)Fantavision202X – 00:03:57 B) Expositor 2 – 00:04:5602) Futuri no Fantavision (JP) - PS2 – Soichi Terada
A) Portal – 00:08:10B)Starshell– 00:12:1903) Fantavision (JP) - PS2 – Soichi Terada
A) Infinite – 00:14:14B)Starmine– 00:18:2304) Fantavision (EU) - PS2 – Jim Croft
A)Starmine(Track 08) - 00:22:28 B) Night on South Island (Track 04) - 00:26:2505) Fantavision (NA) - PS2 – Ashif Hakik
A) Replay Mode – 00:30:27B) Snow on the Moon – 00:32:2106) Metroid Prime - GameCube – Kenji Yamamoto
A)ChozoRuins Plaza – 00:37:20 B)ChozoRuins Depths – 00:40:3507) N/A - System Music – PS5 - Unknown
A) Login Screen – 00:45:07B) Menu Screen – 00:47:4408) Zenses Ocean – 3DS – Martin Schjoler
A) Shell Twirl – 00:51:05B) Wave Breaker – 00:53:1309) Portal – Multiplatform - Kelly Bailey and/or Mike Morasky
A) Taste of Blood – 00:55:48B) Subject Name Here – 00:58:4310) Twilight – X68000 – Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami, and/or Hiroaki Sano
A) Dupa Masa (Daytime) - 01:01:58B) Seara (Night) - 01:05:0011) Gran Turismo 5 – PS3
A) The Power of GT – YudaiSaitoh– 01:08:56 B) Love and Peace –KemmeiAdachi – 01:13:0012) Final Vendetta – Multiplatform – Futurecast and/or Utah Saints
A) Luiza and Luana – 01:17:16B) Club Tigre – 01:19:2813) NCAA Basketball – SNES - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, and/or Mark Ganus
A) Title Screen – 01:22:49B) Championship Win – 01:24:44B) Outro – 01:26:02Music Block Runtime: 01:22:07, Total Episode Runtime: 01:34:33
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). 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 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 [email protected]
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 in August for C2E19 - “Mystery Flavors”, a mystery-themed episode, and later that month for C1E88, Face-off Friday - vol. 7. 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!
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Today’s broadcast is C2E18 for Theme Thursday, July 4th, 2024 (the holiday connection was a pure coincidence - but happy holidays to everyone who celebrates it!). Today’s theme is music from unreleased (and usually unfinished) games - on a program we’re calling “It Never Happened” - subject selected by Hugues, and episode title by St. John!
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected By
01) Ending Theme - Fido Dido - Genesis - Matt Furniss - Hugues
Earcatcher - 00:00:00Music - 00:00:03Introductions - 00:02:27Top of Show Business - 00:06:08Discussion - 00:11:5702) Options - Sonic X-treme - Saturn - Howard Drossin - St. John
Music - 00:16:19Discussion - 00:17:3503) Levels 1, 2, 3 - X-Men Mind Games - 32X - Jesper Kyd - Hugues
Music - 00:26: 33Discussion - 00:34:2604) Lab Theme - Ninja Gaiden - Genesis - Unknown - St. John
Music - 00:38:43Discussion - 00:40:3005) River Level - The A-Team - Master System - Jeroen Tel - Hugues
Music - 00:50:56Discussion - 00:52:4606) Stage 2 (50Hz) - Time Trax - Genesis - Tim Follin - St. John (how it would sound on a PAL Mega Drive)
Music - 00:57:08Discussion - 00:59:5007) The End of Worlds - Shadow of the Beast - SNES - c: David Whittaker / a: Unknown - Hugues
Music - 01:27:30Discussion - 01:16:1008) Astral Race - Marble Madness II - Arcade - Brad Fuller and/or John Paul - St. John
Music - 01:20:12Discussion - 01:23:0709) Tatsumarii Village - Earthbound 64 - N64 - Shogo Sakai - Hugues
Music - 01:28:14Discussion - 01:30:3210) Peaceful Future 2052 - Time Diver Eon Man - NES - Tsukasa Masuko - St. John
Music - 01:37:41Discussion - 01:39:1711) Menu - Sim City - NES - c: Soyo Oka and/or Koji Kondo / a: Unknown - Hugues
Music - 01:45:07Discussion - 01:46:4312) Unknown City - Doxa - PS4 - Daniel Capo - St. John
Music - 01:50:07Discussion - 01:51:3013) The Original Spelunkers - Bonk - Brink of Extinction - Multiplatform - Disasterpeace - Hugues
Music - 01:56:11Discussion - 01:59:05End of Show Business - 02:02:12A major shout-out to Majors! - 02:08:07Final Track Discussion - 02:10:11Sign-off - 02:13:2114) Ending and Staff Roll - The Shadow - SNES - Jonathan Dunn - St. John
Music - 02:13:30Outtakes - 02:16:27BONUS 1: Time Trax “55Hz” (how Tim would’ve intended it to sound) - 02:21:06BONUS 2: Time Trax 60Hz (how it would sound on an NTSC Genesis / Mega Drive) - 02:23:32Total Episode Runtime: 02:26:09
Retro Game Club can be found here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month on Ch 1 for C1E87: TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 10 - Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds - and wherever you are….Fly the N!
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[RE-UPLOAD NOTE: When I had previously uploaded this episode, I had accidentally included the sound file to the previous episode instead. So I deleted that upload and am uploading the correct sound file now. My apologies for the mix-up! Original show notes (which were correct) are below - St. John]
Today’s broadcast is C1E86 for Soundtrack Saturday, June 15th, 2024. Today’s episode is our contributions to the annual VGM podcast scene group project, Masters of VGM (https://www.mastersofvgm.com/). Today's broadcast is the soundtrack to the game Celeste (Mutliplatform) - composed by Lena Raine!
Tracklist: Track# / Track / Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Prologue - 00:03:52
02) First Steps - 00:04:57
03) Resurrections - 00:08:31
04) Awake - 00:18:09
05) Postcard from Celeste Mountain - 00:20:34
06) Checking In - 00:22:02
07) Spirit of Hospitality - 00:29:05
08) Scattered and Lost - 00:30:45
09) Golden - 00:36:36
10) Anxiety - 00:45:00
11) Quiet and Falling - 00:46:50
12) In the Mirror - 00:54:13
13) Madeline and Theo - 01:03:43
14) Starjump - 01:06:50
15) Reflection - 01:08:59
16) Confronting Myself - 01:14:48
17) Little Goth - 01:18:50
18) Reach for the Summit - 01:21:46
19) Exhale - 01:32:48
20) Heart of the Mountain - 01:35:08
21) My Dearest Friends- 01:41:02
B1) Outro - 01:43:10
Music Block Runtime: 01:39:23, Total Episode Runtime: 01:49:48
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). 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 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 [email protected]
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 June (date TBD) for C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18) for a TBD-titled fous on music from Unreleased Games and in July for C1E87 (Channel 1, Episode 87): TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10 – Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd n Noise Game Club", as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E85 for FaceOff Friday, May 31st, 2024 Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol 6, a collection of "this version vs that version" of various pieces of Delicious VGM!
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Super Mario Bros. - Overworld Theme - Koji Kondo
- SNES [Super Mario All Stars] (a: N/A) - 00:02:35
- NES (a: N/A) - 00:05:26
- PC 88 [Super Mario Bros. Special] (a: Fumihiko Itagaki and/or Megumi Kawamata) - 00:09:48
02) Fatal Fury – Howard Arena (Tung Fu Rue) - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree
- Neo Geo AES / MVS (a: N/A) - 00:11:59
- Genesis (a: Kazuyuki Oikawa and/or Kōjirō Mikusa) - 00:14:56
- SNES (a: Hiroshi Ebihara) - 00:17:40
- Neo Geo CD (a: Unknown) - 00:21:02
03) Shinobi - Yasuhiro Kawakami
- Arcade (BGM 2) (a: N/A) - 00:26:03
- PC Engine (BGM 2) (a: Unknown) - 00:27:28
- Mastersystem FM [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:28:55
- Mastersystem PSG [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:30:18
- NES [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:31:03
04) Double Dragon V – Character Select - Robert Atesalp
- Jaguar (a: Byron Parks) - 00:33:05
- SNES (a: N/A) - 00:34:48
- Genesis (a: N/A) - 00:36:35
05) Ninja Warriors – Daddy Mulk - Hisayoshi Ogura
- Arcade (a: N/A) - 00:38:27
- Amiga (a: Ronald Pieket-Weeserik) - 00:42:46
- C64 (a: Tony Williams) - 00:46:54
- PC Engine (a: Unknown) - 00:51:02
- Mega CD (a: Junichi Kawaguchi) - 00:55:15
06) Tetris (SEGA) Tetramix A - Yasuhiro Kawakami
- Arcade (a: N/A) - 01:00:10
- Genesis (a: N/A) - 01:01:56
07) Ninja Gaiden Series Boss Music - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa
- Ninja Gaiden 1 (NES) (a: N/A) - 01:03:55
- Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) (a: Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura) - 01:05:42
- Ninja Gaiden 3 (NES) (a: Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno) - 01:07:28
- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) (a: Unknown) - 01:09:14
08) Streets of Rage 1 vs Streets of Rage 2 (Boss Music 1) - Yuzu Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawasshima
- SoR 1 (Attack the Barbarian) (a: N/A) - 01:11:06
- SoR 2 (Never Return Alive) (a: N/A) - 01:13:51
09) Y's III: Wanderers from Ys – The Winged Boy (aka “The Boy’s got Wings” or “Winged Boy”) - Mieko Ishikawa
- PC98 (OPN) (a: N/A) - 01:17:24
- X68000 (a: Masaki Kawai) - 01:19:27
- Famicom (a: Osamu Kasai, Masaaki Harada, and/or Michiharu Hasuya) - 01:22:04
- MSX2 (a: Unknown) - 01:23:56
- SNES (a: Michiharu Hayusa, Masaaki Harada, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 01:26:00
- Genesis (a: Yoshiaki Kubotera and/or Noriyuki Iwadare) - 01:27:32
- PC Engine (a: Masaaki Inoue) - 01:29:35
- PS2 (a: Unknown) - 01:31:37
- Oath in Felghana (a: Yukihiro Jindo) - 01:34:18
10) Metroid - Norfair - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka
- Wii [Super Smash Bros. Brawl] (a: Yuzo Koshiro) - 01:37:29
- GBA (a: Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano) - 01:39:50
- NES (a: N/A) - 01:43:40
B1) Outro - 01:45:51
Music Block Runtime: 01:33:13, Total Episode Runtime: 01:54:12
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux* on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). 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!
*=or Windows 11 since the transition back to Fedora on the Zephyrus happened midway through this episode's production
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 [email protected]
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 June (dates TBD) for C1E86 (Channel 1, Episode 86): our 2024 contribution to Masters of VGM – featuring the soundtrack to Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, and C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18): a thus far untitled focus on music from unreleased games - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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A promised update on the status and future of the show!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E84 for TwoFer Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Today’s episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 9.
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto
A) Planet Tallon IV - 00:02:29B) Crashed Frigate - 00:06:3602) Diver's Dream – PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa and/or Shinya Watanabe
A) Paradise - 00:11:30B) Big Pudding - 00:13:3603) Shenmue – Dreamcast - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Hideaki Miyamoto, Akiko Hashimoto, Ryoko Okada, Shingo Murakami, Tadahiro Nitta, Yayoi Okumura, Nao to Nagai, Fumio Ito, Shinichiro Miki, Yasuhide Takeuchi, and/or Yuzo Koshiro
A) Secret of a Warehouse - 00:16:25B) Antiquity Tree - 00:18:3504) Art of Balance - Multi - Martin Schjøler
A) World F - 00:20:01B) World B - 00:23:2405) Summoner – PS2 - Walter Shaw, Dan Wentz, and/or Scott Lee
A) Iona Island - 00:25:44B) Lenele Marketplace 1 - 00:30:4506) Castlevania: Lament of Innocence – PS2 - Michiru Yamane
A) Young Nobleman of the Water Prison - 00:24:43B) Garden Forgotten by Time - 00:38:2307) Batman Returns – SNES - Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, and/or Kazuhiko Uehara
A) Scene 1-1 - 00:42:06B) Scene 3-1 - 00:44:3008) Maldita Castilla (Cursed Castilla) - Multi - Javier Garcia (aka Gryzor87)
A) Stage 5-1: El Bosque Encantado - 00:47:23B) Stage 5-2: Donde Habita la Bruja - 00:50:5609) Trojan – NES - Ayako Mori and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
A) Sewers - 00:53:52B) Stage 1 - 00:55:0010) Captain Planet and the Planeteers – NES - Peter Stone
A) Africa - 00:56:23B) Cutscene Theme 01 - 00:58:5111) Streets of Rage – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro
A) Stage 05 - 01:01:02B) Stage 08 - 01:03:1412) n++ - Multiplatform
A) Home – Marcel Dettmann - 01:06:36B) Kraft und Licht – Len Faki - 01:11:3513) TMNT – NES - Jun Funahashi and/or Hidenori Maezawa
A) Underwater - 01:18:30B) Overworld 1 - 01:20:20B1) Outro - 01:21:35
Music Block Runtime: 01:19:07, Total Episode Runtime: 01:29:58
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Windows 11 on an Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop. 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 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 [email protected]
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 May for C1E85 (Channel 1, Episode 85):FaceOff Friday – vol. 6 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s Broadcast is C2E17 for Theme Thursday, April 11th 2024. Today’s broadcast is a focus on pre-turn of the century music from computer systems (as opposed to consoles) - on a program we’re calling “20th Century Floppies”.
Tracklist
Track Number / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected by
01) Bootup Sequence - N/A (System Music) - FM Towns Marty - Unknown - St. John
a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
b) Music - 00:00:02
c) Intro - 00:01:35
d) Opening Track Discussion - 00:02:30
e) Top of Show Business - 00:06:04
02) Meadow's Edge 2 - Apidya - Amiga - Chris Hulsbeck - Hugues
a) Music - 00:18:30
b) Discussion - 00:21:16
03) Traveller's Tales (Stage 4-2) - Knight Arms - X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John
a) Music - 00:25:34
b) Discussion - 00:28:03
04) Title - Jaguar XJ220 - Amiga - Martin Iveson - Hugues
a) Music - 00:32:47
b) Discussion - 00:35:32
05) Music #3 - LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin - St. John
a) Music - 00:40:07
b) Discussion - 00:42:41
06) High Score - Hawkeye - C64 - Jeroen Tel - Hugues
a) Music - 00:51:47
b) Discussion - 00:53:51
07) Zanzibar Breeze - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) - Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John
a) Music - 00:56:05
b) Discussion - 00:59:05
08) Britannic Lands - Ultima V - Atari ST - c: Kenneth W. Arnold / a: Wally Beben - Hugues
a) Music - 01:02:49
b) Discussion - 01:05:28
09) The Demon's from Adrian's Pen - DOOM - PC (OPL3) - Bobby Prince - St. John
a) Music - 01:09:57
b) Discussion - 01:12:39
10) Wondering About my Loved Ones - Wolfenstein 3D - PC DOS - Robert Prince - Hugues
a) Music - 01:17:12
b) Discussion - 01:19:40
11) Swirls - Marathon - Mac (MIDI) - Alex Seropian - St. John
a) Music - 01:22:11
b) Discussion - 01:24:54
12) Crystal Garden - King's Quest V - PC DOS - Ken Allen and/or Mark Seibert - Hugues
a) Music - 01:27:59
b) Discussion - 01:30:53
13) Jazz 3 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin - St. John
a) Music - 01:34:07
b) Discussion - 01:39:25
c) End of Show Business - 01:45:36
d) A sorta kinda semi-announcement [unofficial] - 01:48:55
d) Closing Track Discussion - 01:54:19
e) Sign Off - 01:55:14
14) Angel Dust - Star Trader - PC88 - Mieko Ishikawa - Hugues
a) Music - 01:55:25
b) Outtakes - 01:58:12
c) BONUS: [SLOW] Traveller's Tales - 02:01:28
d) BONUS: [SLOW] Jazz 3 - 02:04:54
Total Episode Runtime: 02:12:14
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month on Ch 1 for C1E84: TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 9, and sometime next month for C1E85 - FaceOff Friday - vol. 6. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds - and wherever you are….Fly the N! -
Today’s broadcast is C1E83 for Mishmash Monday, April 1st, 2024. Today’s episode helps all of us who struggle so mightily with multitasking to enjoy an entire 27 track music block and an entire intro and outro without feeling like it, and without the guilt of tying up the time and resources so many of us generally require as serial monotaskers – on a program called "Parallels". Nerd Noise Radio is always here to help!
Tracklist! Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s)
01) Kraft und Licht - n++ - Mutliplatform - Len Faki
02) Planet Talon IV - Metroid Prime - GameCube / Wii / Switch - Kenji Yamamoto
03) Jazz 2 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin
04) World B - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler
05) Silly Science A - Snipperclips - Switch - Calem Bowen
06) Never 4ever - Hover - Multiplatform - Hideki Nagamuma
07) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Andreas Waldertoft
08) Portal - Futuri no Fantatvision - PS2 - Soichi Terada
09) Track 4 - Fantavision (PAL) - PS2 - Jim Croft
10) Lenele Market 1 - Summoner - PS2 - Walter Shaw / Dan Wentz / Scott Lee
11) Parcul Trandafirilor - Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Takami,Ryu Umemoto, and/or Hiroaki Sano
12) Young Nobleman of the Water Prison - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - PS2 - Michiru Yamane
13) Little Cave - Diver’s Dream - PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa, Shinya Watanabe
14) El Bosque Encantado - Cursed Castilla - Multiplatform - Javier Garcia (Gryzor87)
15) The Last Soul - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro
16) Track 2 - Impact Racing - PS1 / Saturn - Martin Schjoler
17) Free Programming - Game Builder Garage - Switch - Kazumi Totaka
18) Scene 3 - Batman Returns - SNES - Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, and/or Kazuhiko Uehara
19) Underwater - TMNT - NES - Jun Funahashi
20) Africa - Captain Planet and the Planeteers - NES - Peter Stone
21) April Village - Lovely Planet 2: April Skies - PC - Calem Bowen
22) Reply Mode - Fantavision (N/A) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik
23) Stage 01 - Trojan - NES - Ayako Mori
24) Antiquity Tree - Shenmue - Dreamcast - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
25) City of the Future - Rocket Coaster - LaserActive - Unknown
26) Title - Adventures of Rad Gravity - NES - David Worhol
27) Round 4 - Cyber Shinobi - Mastersystem - Keisuke Tsukahara
B1) Outro
Music Block Runtime: 00:07:10, Total Episode Runtime: 00:15:06
Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Malo Mart, from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Game Cube and Wii, composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō.
Our final (of three – plus two Archive Super Bonuses) to be produced [at least partially] in Microsoft Windows – on the new Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 gaming laptop [shipped with Windows]. Also partially produced in Fedora Linux – on "Stickers" (the old primary laptop). Now that I've completed these productions on the ROG, I can finally flash it with Linux (probably also Fedora, or else possibly the Fedora-based Nobara, since this is a gaming laptop after all) and resume my life as a Linux-Exclusive user and producer. 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 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 [email protected]
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 later in April for C1E84 (Channel 1, Episode 84): TwoFer Tuesday - vol 9, and C2E17 (Channel 2, Episode 17), a "Title TBD" focus on old computer music - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E82 for Theme Thursday, March 21st, 2024. Today’s theme is music from Run and Gun games (as best as I can define them), on a program we're quite hedgingly calling "Run and/or Gun"!
Tracklist!
Track# - Track Name – Game – System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Dice Dance Days – Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Norio Hanzawa – 00:03:45
02) Garden – Die Hard – PC Engine – Kenji Yoshida – 00:05:55
03) Stage Theme 1 – Rush'n Attack – NES – Kiyohiro Sada – 00:07:51
04) Bad Fairy – Rolling Thunder 3 – Genesis – Masakatsu Maekawa – 00:09:58
05) The Hard Corps Blues – Contra: Hard Corps – Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi – 00:13:06
06) River – Bloody Wolf – TG16 - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama – 00:15:17
07) Level 4-1 – Blazing Chrome – Multiplatform - Dominic Ninmark, Tiago Santos, and/or Kristine – 00:16:16:47
08) Hoodlum Dolls – Huntdown – Multiplatform – Tommy Gustafsson – 00:19:19
09) Drifter – Ruiner – Multiplatform - Piotr Niedzielski – 00:22:07
10) It Will All Come Together – Neon Abyss – Multiplatform – Min He – 00:25:32
11) Future World 1 – The Chaos Engine 2 – Amiga – Richard Joseph – 00:28:41
12) Infested Living Quarters – Cyber Lip – Neo Geo AES / MVS – Yasuo Yamate – 00:31:00
13) Himitsu Factory – Metal Slug 3 – Neo Geo AES / MVS - Takushi Hiyamuta, Yoshihiko Wada, Hori_Hori, Q_Jirou, and/or Maitaro – 00:32:55
14) Sunset Strip – NARC – Arcade - Eugene P. Jarvis, George N. Petro, Todd Allen, Jack E. Haeger, Mark Loffredo, John Newcomer, Larry DeMar, Brian Schmidt, Mark Locasio, Glenn Shipp, Lin Young, and/or Al Lasko – 00:35:04
15) Venus – Doom Troopers – Genesis – Fletcher Beasley – 00:36:45
16) Neo City – Gunstar Super Heroes – GBA – Norio Hanzawa – 00:39:56
17) Mountains – Super Cyborg – Multiplatform - Vladimir Tugay (aka Darkman007) - 00:42:26
18) Stages 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8 – Sly Spy – Arcade – Azusa Hara, and/or Hiroaki Yoshida – 00:44:25
19) City (Low Intensity) - Broforce – Multiplatform - Deon van Heerden – 00:47:03
20) High Tech Level 1 – B.O.B. - Genesis – Alex Rudis – 00:48:52
21) Farmtown Theme – Guerrilla War – NES - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, and/or Toshikazu Tanaka – 00:50:36
22) Cobra Main Base – G.I. Joe – NES - Yusuke Takahama, and/or Nobuyuki Shioda – 00:52:28
23) What the Heck? - Earthworm Jim – Genesis – Tommy Tallarico – 00:54:09
24) Clip Joint Calamity – Cuphead – Multiplatform – Luke Hatton, Michael Benzie, Chris Sweetman, Jack Raeburn, Samuel Justice, Joe Hudson, and/or Hannah Marsh, Luke De Ayora, and/or Denise Hatton – 00:56:30
25) Alley / Sewer – Dick Tracy – Genesis - STI Sound Team – 01:00:20
26) Neo Kobe Steel Factory – Contra III: The Alien Wars – SNES - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase, and/or Aki Hata – 01:02:10
27) Gate to Hell – Super Ghouls and Ghosts – SNES – Mari Yamaguchi – 01:05:56
28) Anything But Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – Saturn – Tommy Tallarico – 01:07:58
29) Missions 2-2 and 4 – Rambo III – Genesis – Kazuhiko Nagai – 01:12:05
30) Kessilag – Super Time Force Ultra – Multiplatform – Jason DeGroot – 01:14:20
31) Red Afterimage – Elevator Action Returns – Saturn – Yasuhisa Watanabe – 01:17:16
32) Joule's Wish – Azure Striker Gunvolt – Multiplatform – Ippo Yamada, Ryou Kawakami, Katsunori Yoshino, Mina Hatazoe, and/or Kotaro Yamada – 01:21:32
B1) Outro – 01:25:56
Music Block Runtime: 01:22:14, Total Episode Runtime: 01:39:46
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in [just this once] a mix of Fedora Linux (on the old lapop) and Windows 11 (on the "soon to be 'Linux'd'" new laptop). 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 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 [email protected]
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 April 1st for C1E83 (Channel 1, Episode 83):A very unique look at 27 tracks! - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today’s Broadcast is C2E16 for Theme Thursday, March 7th, 2024. Today’s theme is vocal music from video games, on a program we’re calling “Songs with Words”. BE SURE TO CATCH OUR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOWARDS THE END OF THE EPISODE!! (It’s highlighted in the show notes!)
Tracklist
Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Vocalist / Selected by
01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues
a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00b) Music - 00:00:08c) Introduction - 00:04:12d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:39e) Discussion - 00:14:5602) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
a) Music - 00:18:28b) Discussion - 00:24:0303) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues
a) Music - 00:28:34b) Discussion - 00:34:3004) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (music) and David R. Leytze (lyrics) - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi - St. John
a) Music - 00:40:45b) Discussion - 00:45:3305) Instructor Mooselini's Rap - PaRappa the Rapper - PS1 - Izumi Amano and/or Ryu Watanabe - John Simpson III and Saundra Williams - Hugues
a) Music - 00:50:35b) Discussion - 00:52:4306) My Intellivision - Intellivision Lives - Multiplatform - Tom Kahelin and/or Michael Schwartz - Michael Schwartz (?) - St. John
a) Music - 00:56:50b) Discussion - 01:01:3307) Sea of Love - It Came from the Desert - TG16 - Kenneth Melville - Terence Kirby - Hugues
a) Music - 01:05:28b) Discussion - 01:07:5108) Volver a Comenzar - Little Big Planet - PS3 - Cafe Tabvca - Cafe Tabvca - St. John
[NOTE: I failed to sync this track up to the vocal portion where we do the "this part right here" thing. My apologies! - St. John]
a) Music - 01:14:01b) Discussion - 01:22:1809) A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy PS2 - Asuka Sakai - Ado Mizumori - Hugues
[NOTE: Same as the above track - missed the "this part right here" thing. - St. John]
a) Music - 01:25:23b) Discussion - 01:30:0110) Sonic Boom (Ending Version) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, Mark Young, and/or Pastiche - Pastiche - St. John
a) Music - 01:33:16b) Discussion - 01:37:0211) Sora wo Miagete (Ending Version) - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PSP - c: Takahiro Unisuga / a: Yukihiro Jindo - Kanako Kotera - Hugues
a) Music - 01:41:18b) Discussion - 01:47:2612) Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
[NOTE: This time I caught the "this moment right here" thing. Hooray! - St. John]
a) Music - 01:51:04b) Discussion - 01:55:3813) Everything's Alright - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - Laura Shigihara - Hugues
a) Music - 02:01:12b) Discussion - 02:04:46c) End of Show Business - 02:14:40d) Oddie HD Updates - 02:19:42e) MOAR End of Show Business - 02:20:37f) *****OUR BIG CH 2 ANNOUNCEMENT***** - 02:22:36g) EVEN MORE End of Show Banter - 02:26:12h) Closing Track Discussion - 02:30:35i) Sign-Off - 02:32:1214) Still Alive - Portal - Multiplatform - Jonathan Coulton - Ellen McClain (as GLaDOS) - St. John
a) Music - 02:32:42b) Outtakes - 02:35:35c) [Audio-Only] The Debut YouTube Video of Oddie HD (the complete, unabridged audio) - 02:43:51Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:34
Retro Game Club can be found here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
Referenced Article about “Sea of Love”: https://www.tg-16.com/Lyrics_for_It_Came_From_the_Desert.htm
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C1E82: “Run and/or Gun”! Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E81 for Mishmash Monday, . Today’s episode is Mishmash Monday – vol 15, and the inaugural episode of 2024's "Season 7" (and the start of St. John's 8th year in podcasting). Tracklist: Track Number - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1 Season 7 Earcatcher - 00:00:00
A2) Intro - 00:00:03
01) Spirit Hymn - Dinosaur - FM Towns (YM2612) - Masaki Kawai - 00:03:04
02) White Summit Probe Naberius - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Multiplatform - Hideaki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Kenichi Tokoi, Tadashi Kinukawa, and/or Chihiro Aoki - 00:05:38
03) The Hanging Edge - Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 / XB360 - Masashi Hamauzu - 00:13:03
04) Down the Rabbit Hole - Deathloop - Multiplatform - Tom Salta - 00:16:21
05) Streets of Bronx - Three Dirty Dwarves - Saturn - Attila Héger, and/or Attila Dobos - 00:19:33
06) Title Theme - Two Crude Dudes - Genesis - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, and or Tatsuya Kiuichi - 00:22:52
07) As Vrea - Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Umemoto, and/or Hiroaki Sano - 00:24:02
08) Wayland's Watch - Bard's Tale - Apple IIGS (ProDOS 8) - Lawrence Holland - 00:26:32
09) The Silence of Daylight - Castlevania II - NES - Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and/or Kouji Murata - 00:27:59
10) Super Shop Theme - Clash at Demonhead - NES - Michiharu Hasuya - 00:29:27
11) Yoru No Nikusyokujyu - Contra: Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - 00:30:31
12) Ginza - Shin Megami Tensei - PC Engine - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:33:06
13) Pao Pao Cafe - Fatal Fury - SNES - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree - 00:34:55
14) Title Theme - Supremacy - C64 - Jeroen Tel - 00:37:18
15) Level 2 - Jurassic Park - Gameboy - Jonathan Dunn - 00:41:07
16) The House of Wax Dolls - Vampire: Master of Darkness - Master System - Takashi Horiguchi - 00:45:43
17) Fight Theme - Mortal Kombat - Amiga - Allister Brimble - 00:47:25
18) Chicago Rooftop - Killer Instinct - Arcade - Robin Beanland, and/or Graeme Norgate - 00:49:16
[SENSORY WARNING: Next track opens very abrasively!]
19) Last Battle - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda - 00:51:37
20) Death Adder - Golden Axe - Genesis - Tōru Nakabayashi - 00:55:07
21) Munari City - Summoner 2 - PS2 - Franky Vivid - 00:57:33
22) Cave Dweller Concert - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise, Eveline Fischer (Novakovic), and/or Robin Beanland - 01:02:43
23) Poisonous Swamp / Ghost House - Super Mario Wonder - Switch - Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, and/or Chisaki Shimazu - 01:05:33
24) Outside NIWA - The Medium - Multiplatform - Arkadiusz Reikowski, and/or Akira Yamaoka - 01:07:42
25) Hot Spot - Zenses Ocean - DS - Martin Schjøler - 01:11:15
26) Little Cave - Diver's Dream - PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa, and//or Shinya Watabe - 01:14:31
27) 10pm - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Tanaka, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:16:55
28) Select Screen - StarFox 64 - N64 - Kōji Kondō, and/or Hajime Wakai - 01:19:10
29) The Corridors of Time - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda - 01:20:56
30) Supplement - Bomberman Hero - N64 - Jun Chikuma - 01:23:38
31) World E - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - 01:25:57
32) Forest - Miitopia - 3DS / Switch - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 01:28:11
33) Floor 2-2 - Wolfenstein 3D - 3DO - Todd Dennis - 01:30:08
B1) Outro - 01:33:30
B2) Outtakes - 01:45:12
Music Block Runtime: 01:30:30, Total Episode Runtime: 01:46:23
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Linux (either Fedora Linux (Gnome), Nobara (Gnome), SteamOS 3 (KDE), Manjaro (MATE), Ubuntu DDE, Ultramarine (Pantheon), Ubuntu Unity, Sparky Linux (NsCDE), or on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Fedora on Laptop and/or Nobara on Big Rig being the most likely and most common). 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 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:
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Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
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Thanks for listening! Join us again in February (dates TBD) for C1E82 (Channel 1, Episode 82) [SUBJECT TBD], as well as C2E16 – working title "Songs with Words" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club". And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:08:52 Today’s broadcast is C1R6a for Wayback Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. Today’s episode is our first of two Channel 1 retrospectives of Calendar 2023. Taking a page from Channel 2's retrospective scheme, today's episode is numbered "C1R6a" (Channel 1 – Retrospective 6a), and will be titled, simply, "The Best of 2023 – pt. 1: St John's picks". Be on the lookout for a second retrospective from Hugues!
Tracklist!
Track Number / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally From [Episode] / Originally Selected By / Timestamp
A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
A2) Intro - 00:00:30
01) Inside the Wall - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:08:52
02) Space Walk - Lightening Force - Genesis - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai - C1E71 - St. John - 00:12:05
03) Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Stsumaru - C1E77 - St. John - 00:15:02
04) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors - Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro - C1E76 - St. John - 00:19:05
05) Swampy’s Course 1 - Where’s my Water - iOS / Android - Unknown - C1E76 - St. John - 00:21:41
06) Velocity Regression - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:23:51
07) Woody Land 1 & 2 - Mr. Nutz - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C2E15 - St. John - 00:26:12
08) Trouble Town Tunnels - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - C1E76 - St. John - 00:30:10
09) Busy Flare - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1E71 - St. John - 00:32:18
10) JaHamitUp - N/A (Original Chiptune - N/A (Genesis[sound hardware]) - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 00:34:55
11) Suitcase - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:35:57
12) Industrious - Jazz Jackrabbit - Amiga - Robert A. Allen and/or Joshua Jensen - C2E15 - St. John - 00:38:03
13) Coach’s Menu - NCAA Basketball - SNES - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, and/or Mark Ganus - C1E71 - St. John - 00:41:52
14) Tengu Man - Rockman and Forte - Super Famicom - Kirikiri-chan, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida - C1E71 - St. John - 00:43:38
15) Write Theme 2 - Drawful 2 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1E76 - St. John - 00:45:19
16) Main Menu - Pebble Beach Golf Links - 3DO - Yumi Kinoshita - C1E72 - St. John - 00:48:23
17) Secret of the Forest - N/A (originally from Chrono Trigger) - N/A (originally on SNES) - c: Yasunori Mitsuda / a: Guido (The Brink of Time: Chrono Trigger Arranged) - C1E80 - Hugues - 00:51:00
18) Airport Counter - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - C2E14 - St. John - 00:56:57
19) Uwazumosurikae - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:59:48
20) Alone in the Town - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka - C2E12 - St. John - 01:02:27
21) Bando alle Seghe - N/A (originally from Human Race) - N/A (originally on C64) - c: Rob Hubbard / a: DHS (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 01:04:40
22) Aqua Cavern - Andarnov - Unreleased (or Unknown) - rayjkayj - Ch F: Composer mini-focus: rayjkayj - rayjkayj - 01:10:09
23) Valor - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:12:14
24) Jurassic Dope - Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - C1E78 - St. John - 01:15:38
25) Firestarter (Instrumental) WipEout XL - PS1 - The Prodigy - C1E77 - St. John - 01:18:42
26) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - C1E72 - St. John - 01:23:20
27) Zen Stories - Zenses Ocean - DS - Martin Schjoler - C1E76 - St. John - 01:27:39
28) Dragon Head Island - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:29:51
29) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Gustav Landerholm - C2E11 - St. John - 01:33:08
30) Heleosphere (Menu Music) - N/A (System Music) - A500 Mini - Chris Smith - C1E76 - St. John - 01:37:09
31) Construct Factory 4 - Loz: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:40:50
32) World G - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E78 - St. John - 01:42:42
33) Waiting… - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:46:39
34) Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - C1E72 - St. John - 01:47:59
35) Baby Download - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 01:51:13
36) Defeat - Galaxy Force II - Arcade - Katsuhiro Hayashi and/or Koichi Namiki - C1E71 - St. John - 01:54:32
37) Thin Holidays - Rage in Peace - PC / Switch - Peonies - C1E76 - St. John - 01:57:17
38) World C - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E77 - St. John - 01:59:58
39) Binary Sunset - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 02:02:18
40) Quiet - EDGE - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - C1E78 - St. John - 02:04:18
41) Continue - TMNT: Tournament Fighters - Genesis - Miki Higashino - C1E77 - St. John - 02:06:48
42) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) Super Bomberman 3 - SNES - c: Jun Chikuma / a: Keita Hoshi - C1E75 - St. John - 02:08:37
43) Titan - Hyper Light Drifter - Multiplatform - disasterpeace - C1E78 - St. John - 02:14:26
44) The Hunter’s Repose - Moryou Senki Madara 2 - Super Famicom - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E71 - St. John - 02:16:49
45) Beautiful Lie Requiem - N/A (originally from Dangonranpa) - N/A (originally on PSP) - c: Masafumi Takeda / a: Masafumi Takeda (Danganronpa Decadence REMIX) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:19:02
46) The Magical Box - World of Illusion - Genesis - Haruyo Oguro and/or Tomoko Sasaki - C2E15 - St. John - 02:25:11
47) Jookbi - N/A (Original Chiptune) - N/A (Masterststem PSG=FM [sound hardware]) - rayjkayj - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 02:26:45
48) Continue - Shadow Blasters - Genesis - Kim Songdong - C1E79 - “Kitty” - 02:29:34
49) Goodnight Moon - N/A (originally from Duck Tales) - N/A (originally on NES) - c: Hiroshige Tonomura / a: E-Bison (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:31:06
50) Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform - C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld) - C2E13 - St. John - 02:32:50
B1) Outro: 02:40:41
Music Block Runtime: 02:32:00 / Total Episode Runtime: 03:00:00 - EXACT!
Our customary Channel 1 intro and outro music, which did not appear today is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio, on the Sega Dreamcast - composed by BB Rights. Our special year-in-review intro and outro music are, respectively, Results Theme from Metroid Prime on the GameCube, composed by Kenji Yamamoto, and Results Parade, from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Linux (either Fedora Linux (Gnome), Nobara (Gnome), SteamOS 3 (KDE), Manjaro (MATE), Ubuntu DDE, Ultramarine (Pantheon), Ubuntu Unity, Sparky Linux (NsCDE), or on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Fedora on Laptop and/or Nobara on Big Rig being the most likely and most common). 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 [email protected]
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! Links to Oddie HD (as of this writing, Oddie HD is really only any kind of active on Threads): YouTube (have literally done nothing with this as of this writing):
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"Autistic Spreadsheets" to see St. John's work:1) Spreadsheet which lists every single track featured on NNR in 2023 - I am withholding this one until Hugues' C1R6b releases, because this will contain spoilers for that episode otherwise. I'll put this spreadsheet in the show notes of that episode instead (as well as putting a burst up about it otherwise).2) Spreadsheet showing John's work narrowing down from the year's total of 466 tracks to a meager 50 for this best of (if you read all the title bars, then the document will become self-explanatory):https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16JF-JjsMiwy9ZxcnVsaouhXkFDT4pgdRBzpMWeWSmtk/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C1ER6b (Channel 1, Retrospective 6b): "The Best of 2023 – pt. 2: Hugues' Picks" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Today's Broadcast is C2R3 for Wayback Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. Today's episode is our highlights from Season 3 of Nerd Noise Game Club (Channel 2) - our look back at calendar 2023. If you listened to the Channel F which shared every single track featured on Channel 2 this year, and started making some guesses / wishes on what we'd pick, you'll have to let us know how close or far off you were! :-D
Tracklist:
Track number / Track Name / Game Name / System(s) / Composer(s)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Episode Opener! Hugues' "Wild Card" track - from C2E12: "House Music" (originally selected by Hugues)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01) My Quiet Forest Home - Octopath Traveller - Switch / PC - Yasunori Nishiki
a) Earcatcher: 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:03 c) Intro - 00:03:26 d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:15 e) Mic talk / "The Boys from Ames" / Oddie HD (AuDHD stuff) - 00:08:07 f) More Neurodivergent Shout-Outs - 00:12:50 g) Doom @ 30 / Googling Yourself / One last thing about the mics - 00:14:17 h) How this Retrospective is going to go - 00:18:22 i) Opening Track Discussion - 00:19:30
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------First Trip through 2023 - "Hugues Tracks" (tracks which Hugues picked for the original episodes)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Episode: C2E11 - "It's SPACETIME"Originally released: 03/03/2023Episode Theme: Space MusicEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNmE2MmZjZjctYjAyMS0zZGM4LTgzY2ItMTc1ODcwMzQxMzli?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
02) Asteroid Core - The Dig - PC - Michael Z. Land a) Music - 00:22:17 b) Discussion - 00:26:20 Hugues' "Hugues Track":
03) Track 4 - Alien 3 - Master System - Matt Furniss a) Music - 00:27:48 b) Discussion - 00:31:11
Episode: C2E12 - "House Music"Originally released: 04/27/2023Episode Theme: Music from Houses and Towns and Inns and Shops etcEpisode Theme by: HuguesEpisode Title by: HuguesEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjcxYjljNjctNDkyMS0zYzJiLThhZjQtMTdlMjU5NTNiMDlh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
04) Shenhua's House - Shenmue II - Dreamcast / XBox - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi,
Yuzo Koshiro, Ryuji Iuchi, Takeshi Yanagawa, Satoshi Miyashita, Koji Sakurai,
Masataka Nitta,Shinji Otsuka, Fumio Ito, Megumi Takano, Osamu Murata,
and/or Shinichi Goto a) Music - 00:34:38 b) Discussion - 00:38:25 Hugues' "Hugues Track":
05) Dezolis Town 2 - Phantasy Star IV - Genesis - Izuho Numata, and/or
Masaki Nakagaki a) Music - 00:41:34 b) Discussion - 00:43:17
Episode: C2E13 - "Songs of the Unsung" [our "Masters of VGM" episode - www.mastersofvgm.com]Originally released: 07/06/2023Episode Theme: Music by unsung and undersung composersEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjA5MDlkMTYtNzlkNy0zMzkxLTlhYWMtYmYyZmZjMDBiMjcw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
06) Search Break - J.B. Harold Murder Club - TG16 [editor's note: may actually be
PC88 instead] - Yoshihiko Miyazaki a) Music - 00:46:33 b) Discussion - 00:48:26 Hugues' "Hugues Track":
07) Templo del Sol - Asteka II - PC88 - Takahiko Abe a) Music - 00:51:03 b) Discussion - 00:52:46
Episode: C2E14 - "Escape Artists"Originally released: 10/12/2023Episode Theme: Music from Escape SequencesEpisode Theme by: HuguesEpisode Title by: HuguesEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vODRlOWI3M2ItMWRhZC0zMzI2LTkwOWUtZDNhODZjNTMxZWJh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
08) Recollection - 999 - Nintendo DS - Shinji Hosoe a) Music - 00:56:02 b) Discussion - 00:59:54 Hugues' "Hugues Track":
09) Distrust - Dangonronpa - Multiplatform - Masafumi Takada a) Music - 01:02:22 b) Discussion - 01:05:47
Episode: C2E15 - "Animal Planet"Originally released: 11/23/2023Episode Theme: Music from games with Animal ProtagonistsEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vYTMxOTIwMjctMjRjMy0zOTU0LWE2MzYtYWU3MTAxZjUyYjA1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
10) Carnival of the Penguins - Thin Ice - Intellivision - George Sanger a) Music - 01:08:04 b) Discussion - 01:09:11 Hugues' "Hugues Track":
11) Cell - Bucky O'Hare - NES - Tomoko Sumiyama a) Music - 01:10:55 b) Discussion - 01:13:14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Second Trip through 2023 - "St. John Tracks" (tracks which St. John picked for the original episodes) - episode info included again ..... because the redundancy this creates bothers my autism a whole lot less than the asymmetry we'd have doing it the other way!! - St. John :-D----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Episode: C2E11 - "It's SPACETIME"Originally released: 03/03/2023Episode Theme: Space MusicEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNmE2MmZjZjctYjAyMS0zZGM4LTgzY2ItMTc1ODcwMzQxMzli?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
12) Snow on the Moon - Fantavision (N.A. vers) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik a) Music - 01:16:20 b) Discussion - 01:21:43 St. John's "St. John Track":
13) Space - Yoshi's Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda a) Music - 01:23:44 b) Discussion - 01:26:57 Episode: C2E12 - "House Music"Originally released: 04/27/2023Episode Theme: Music from Houses and Towns and Inns and Shops etcEpisode Theme by: HuguesEpisode Title by: HuguesEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjcxYjljNjctNDkyMS0zYzJiLThhZjQtMTdlMjU5NTNiMDlh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
14) Town 2 - RPG Maker VX Ace - PC - Unknown a) Music - 01:28:37 b) Discussion - 01:31:25 St. John's "St. John Track":
15) Build Mode 4 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo a) Music - 01:32:37 b) Discussion - 01:36:37
Episode: C2E13 - "Songs of the Unsung" [our "Masters of VGM" episode - www.mastersofvgm.com]Originally released: 07/06/2023Episode Theme: Music by unsung and undersung composersEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjA5MDlkMTYtNzlkNy0zMzkxLTlhYWMtYmYyZmZjMDBiMjcw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
16) Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto a) Music - 01:39:30 b) Discussion - 01:41:25 St. John's "St. John Track":
17) Login Screen - N/A (System Music) - PS5 - Unknown a) Music - 01:46:22 b) Discussion - 01:49:03
Episode: C2E14 - "Escape Artists"Originally released: 10/12/2023Episode Theme: Music from Escape SequencesEpisode Theme by: HuguesEpisode Title by: HuguesEpisode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vODRlOWI3M2ItMWRhZC0zMzI2LTkwOWUtZDNhODZjNTMxZWJh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
18) Act 2 Part 1 - Ninja Gaiden - NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or
Ichiro Nakagawa a) Music - 01:52:02 b) Discussion - 01:54:12 St. John's "St. John Track":
19) Escape Theme - Metroid - NES - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka a) Music - 01:56:16 b) Discussion - 01:58:34
Episode: C2E15 - "Animal Planet"Originally released: 11/23/2023Episode Theme: Music from games with Animal ProtagonistsEpisode Theme by: St. JohnEpisode Title by: St. JohnEpiside Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vYTMxOTIwMjctMjRjMy0zOTU0LWE2MzYtYWU3MTAxZjUyYjA1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
20) Fishing for Seema - Tsuri Tarou - Super Famicom - Katsuhiro Hayashi a) Music - 02:02:52 b) Discussion - 02:05:12 St. John's "St. John Track":
21) Hanging Waters - Ecco: Defender of the Future - Dreamcast - Tim Follin a) Music - 02:09:21 b) Discussion - 02:12:05 c) End of Show Discussion - 02:12:03 d) Closing Track Discussion / Sign-Off - 02:20:28
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Episode Closer! St. John's "Wild Card" track - from C2E15: "Animal Planet" (originally selected by St. John)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
22) Spring Yard Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis - Masato Nakamura a) Music - 02:21:38 b) Outtakes - 02:23:57 Total Episode Runtime: 02:31:58
Retro Game Club can be found here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
Hugues' Christmas features:
https://huguesjohnson.com/scans/EBNovember03/
https://huguesjohnson.com/scans/EBDecember94/
https://huguesjohnson.com/random/xmas2023/
Dr. Alondra Rogers:
www.divergentautismservices.com
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dr_alondra_rogers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_alondra_rogers/
Her Book: "Meeting Myself in the Dark: Guided Shadow Work Journal for Neurodivergent Souls" - (editor's note: Gaahhh, I said "Meeting Yourself in the Dark" instead! I'm so sorry, Alondra!!!!)
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Meeting-Myself-Dark-Journal-Neurodivergent-ebook/dp/B0CLH6B5MP
Brooke Schnittman, MA, PCC, BCC:
https://www.youtube.com/@CoachingWithBrooke
https://www.coachingwithbrooke.com/
https://www.facebook.com/coachingwithbrooke/
https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithbrooke/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachingwithbrooke/
https://twitter.com/BSchnittman
https://www.threads.net/@coachingwithbrooke
"Nucleus" - Alan Parson's Project - I Robot - 1977 - compare this piece to the PS5 Menu music! It's not 1-for-1, but the similarities are unmistakable!....and yes, yes, I chickened out of just putting it in the episode. Figured it wouldn't do to have our year-in-review episode taken off Spotify, right? Anyway, give this track til about the 01:30 mark and then the similarities to the PS5 track will just leap off the page to you - I promise!
https://youtu.be/HuhDSkJH9cc?si=PyVGgO4vd7LfNyzT
"The Ames Episodes" - also: "The RE20 Episodes!"
(1 of 2) Spotlight Episode 77 - featuring St. John of Nerd Noise Radio*
Spotify (Audio-only):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EDF0u5Q9LRF5pCMNqrYjN?si=0cn3oX_2RtGKuOJirGtg7A
YouTube (Audio AND Video - so you can see all the silly faces and hand/arm gestures I make when I talk!) [EDIT: Original link defective - replaced with good link!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRBvl0X8eA
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