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And here, in the spirit of the season, is the second of the two “lost” Patreon episodes. Unfortunately, while I was able to find the file, I was not able to find the description or tracklist, so this one will have to be a bit of a mystery. I can tell you this much: It is definitely a Halloween episode. It is two and a half hours long. And I think it’s all scary, Halloween-appropriate music from 16-bit titles. It’s “all music, no talk,” and it may be a “best of” of all the Halloween episodes I ever did on this podcast. Of course, I really can’t be sure.

What do you make of it?

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Way back in the distant past, there existed a Singing Mountain Patreon, where I managed to toss up four Patreon-exclusive tracks. Then, I closed the Patreon, thinking the content would still be accessible. It wasn’! Horror of horrors! However, as time passed, I realized that I’d actually downloaded these episodes onto my desktop computer, and could still share them on the Singing Mountain account. And I did that! Specifically for two of them. But the other two were Halloween-themed episodes, and it just didn’t make much sense to me to drop them in a month that wasn’t October.

But guess what? It is October. And now you’re getting both. This first one is an “all music, no talk” version of Episode 110, which went live October 29, 2020, plus some extra tracks that didn’t make the cut.

Hally Happoween!

Track listing:

0:09 Haunted Halls / Addams Family Values (Sega Genesis) / Keith Tinman
6:01 Dungeons and Caves / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya
8:55 Subterranean Sphere / Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16) / Keita Hoshi
11:31 Mysterious Green / Beyond Oasis (Sega Genesis) / Yuzu Koshiro
14:44 Level 3 / Stormlord (Sega Genesis) / Jeroen Tel
18:30 Dark Cave / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura
21:43 Caves / Go! Go! Ackman (Super Famicom) / Kajima Shitamachi
24:04 Reasoning 2 / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Super Famicom) / Kenji Yamamoto
26:57 BGM 8 / Tsukikomori (Super Famicom) / Horiguchi Takashi
29:40 Haunted Mansion / Mystic Ark (Super Famicom) / Akihiko Mori
32:28 Evil Cross Battle / Splatterhouse (Turbografx-16) / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto
35:24 Treasure in a Hollow Tree / Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer
26:23 Ancient Ruins / Romancing Saga 2 (Super Famicom) / Kenji Ito
38:38 Lava / Hamelin no Violin Hiki (Super Famicom) / Yoshiyuki Mori
40:23 Deep Sea Ruins / Magic Knight Rayearth (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura
43:13 Unknown Song / Dracula (Super NES) / Matt Furniss
46:23 Sadness / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada
48:41 Thick Fog / Pocky & Rocky (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
50:37 Troubled Town / Ranma 1/2: Akanekodan no Hihou (Super Famicom) / Toshio Okamoto
53:34 Bad Omen 2 / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Super Famicom) / Kenji Yamamoto
55:35 Shrine for the Worship of Chaos / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando
57:19 Sleepless Night / Anubis of the Moon’s Surface (Super Famicom) / Hiroshi Iizuka
59:46 Different Dimension / Laplace no Ma (Super Famicom) / Akiko Kosaka
1:01:13 Theme of Satan / Puyo Puyo (Sega Genesis) / Masanobu Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Nagao, Toshiaki Sakoda and Masaaki Harada
1:03:09 Museum 3 / Aero the Acro-Bat (Sega Genesis) / Rick Fox
1:05:07 Ruined CIty / King of Demons (Super Famicom) / Hiroshi Iizuka and Tomohiro Endo
1:06:18 Never Ending Rain / Addams Family Values (Sega Genesis) / Keith Tinman

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I know I said in the previous episode that there would not be another Singing Mountain winter VGM episode. I lied. This episode — a two-hour, ”all music, no talk” collection of 16-bit winter VGM — originally went live December 21, 2020 on the Singing Mountain Patreon. It has not been available since I took down the Patreon page, but now it’s posted for the public to enjoy.

Now this is the finale installment of the winter VGM series.

As a thank you for everyone who has continued to support Singing Mountain in 2020, despite its lengthy hiatus, here is a special holiday gift: a two-hour "all music, no talk" megamix of every 16-bit example of winter VGM that I've ever played on the show.
Track listing:
0:00 Vanilla Dome / Super Mario World (Super NES) / Koji Kondo
0:29 Arctic Caverns / Battletoads (Sega Genesis) / David Wise
2:26 Winters White / Earthbound (Super NES) / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka
4:46 Ice Cap Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Sega Genesis) / It’s complicated
8:03 North Wall / Actraiser (Super NES) / Yuzo Koshiro
11:12 Ice Zone / Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Genesis) / Spencer Nilsen, Brian Coburn and András Magyari
14:05 Freesia Castle / Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis) / Motokazu Shinoda
17:23 Ice Cave Chant / Donkey Kong Country (Super NES)
20:42 Neverland Tundra / Hook (Super NES) / Matt Furniss
22:36 Diamonds on Home Planet / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse
25:48 Freeze Man / Mega Man VII (Super NES) / Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama and Makoto Tomozawa
28:08 Ice Lake / Romancing Saga 3 (Super Famicom) / Kenji Ito
29:50 Glacier / Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Mega Drive) / Aki Hata
32:07 Snow Valley / The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse (Super NES) / Mari Yamaguchi
34:02 Snow and the Stars / Devil Hunter Yohko: The Seven Bells (Mega Drive) / Keiichi Yamamoto
36:34 Heart of Icegrave / Monster World IV (Mega Drive) / Jin Watanabe
39:30 Hero in Ice / Elfaria II (Super Famicom) / Yukihide Takekawa
40:56 Ice Forest / Super Ghouls ’N Ghosts (Super NES) / Mari Yamaguchi
43:40 Snow Sled / Silva Saga II: The Legend of Light and Darkness (Super Famicom) / Katsuhisa Ishida, Masanao Akahori and Jun Enoki
45:40 Iceberg / Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa
48:27 Tigne / Princess Minerva (Super Famicom) / Hiroaki Iwatani
50:25 The Mines of Narshe / Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) / Nobuo Uematsu
53:11 Snow and Icy Place / Eternal Filena (Super Famicom) / Hideaki Kumagai
54:51 Manor of Frozen Monsters / Far East of Eden (Super Famicom) / Toshiyuki Sasagawa, Kohei Tanaka and Aya Tanaka
57:36 Snowy Mountain / Traverse: Starlight and Prairie (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura
1:01:16 Podul / Romancing Saga 3 (Super Famicom) / Kenji Ito
1:03:39 Ice Caverns / Demon’s Crest (Super NES) / Toshihiko Horiyama
1:05:44 Freezekill Village / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba
1:08:41 Ice Cave / Lagoon (Super Famicom) / Hideki Suzuki
1:10:28 A Wish / Secret of Mana (Super NES) / Hiroki Kikuta
1:13:06 Ice Mine / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando
1:16:01 Hiya-Hiya Island / Super Adventure Island 2 (Super NES) / Akihiro Akamatsu, Sachiko Oita and Shinji Nakaya
1:19:44 Crystal Mountain / Mickey to Donald Magical Adventure 3 (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer
1:22:40 Indoors / 3x3 Eyes: Jūma Hōkan (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer
1:25:05 Frosty Frolics / Donkey Kong Country 3 (Super NES) / Eveline Fischer
1:27:25 Snowt / Monstania (Super Famicom) / Noriyuki Iwadare
1:29:22 Ice World / Jelly Boy (Super NES) / Steve Collett and Nick Stroud
1:30:47 Song of Tundra / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Super NES) / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata
1:33:44 Options / Batman Returns (Sega Genesis) / Paul Gadbois
1:36:13 Another Winter / Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) / Hiroki Kikuta
1:39:56 Freezing Ice Plains / DoReMi Fantasy (Super Famicom) / Jun Chikuma
1:42:03 Frost Walrus / Mega Man X4 (Super NES) / Toshihiko Horiyama
1:45:21 Crystal So Long / Aretha II: Ariel’s Mysterious Journey / CHACKey, Futoshi Shimodaira, Hiroe Kazuyasu
1:47:24 Northern Hemispheres / Donkey Kong Country (Super NES) / David Wise
1:49:49 Iceberg Ocean / Kirby’s Dream Course (Super NES) / Hirokazu Ando
1:51:24 A Bell Is Tolling / Secret of Mana (Super NES) / Hiroki Kikuta
1:59:09 Land of Frozen Forest / Albert Odyssey 2: Sign of the Devil (Super Famicom) / Naoki Kodaka
1:56:33 Sherbet’s Theme (Ice World) / Panel de Pon (Super Famicom) / Masaya Kuzume
1:59:23 Wind Scene / Chrono Trigger (Super NES) / Yasunori Mitsuda
2:02:23 Winter / Harvest Moon (Super NES) / Tsuyoshi Tanaka
2:03:40 Lake / Hamelin no Violin Hiki (Super Famicom) / Yoshiyuki Mori
2:06:11 In a Snowbound Land / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (Super NES) / David Wise

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Given that Christmas is upon us, you might be expecting a 2021 edition of Singing Mountain’s ice music episode. Unfortunately, it turns out I used all the tracks I collected in last year’s winter episode and so I decided to lean in a different direction. This is the third in a different series I’ve been calling Save Point — all atmospheric, calming music that to me makes me think of a safe place to be, in video games but also IRL, because this one is inspired by taking a shower on a cold winter day.

Save Point, previously:

The first one
Save Point: Sixteen Bits

Ice level music, previously:

Christmas Eve in an Ice Cavern
All I Want for Christmas in a Frost Dragon
Diamond Dust
Another Winter
Slip Off a Ledge and Die in a Hole

Track listing:

3:03 Field Theme I / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada

5:36 The Farthest Reaches / The 7th Saga (Super NES) / Norihiko Yamanuki

Silver Age of Peace / Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story (Super Famicom) / Takanori Arisawa

8:15 Staff Roll / Panel de Pon (Super Famicom) / Masaya Kuzume

13:20 Silver Peace (Tokyo) / Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story (Super Famicom) Takanori Arisawa

15:45 Salmon’s House / Princess Minerva (Super Famicom) / Hiroaki Iwatani

17:15 Magical Land of Shelldorado / Dai Kaiju Monogatari (Super Famicom) / Haruyoshi Rokudo

19:23 Morning of Departure / Ys III: Wanderers From Ys (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare 24:43 Nizetti / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami

27:48 Land of Stillness / Albert Odyssey 2 (Super Famicom) / Naoki Kodaka

30:46 Shop / Waterworld (Super NES) / Dean Evans

32:18 Ohly / Blue Almanac (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare and Masaru Suzuki

34:45 Biting Cold / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

37:41 Higan's Sadness / Tengai Makyou Zero (Super Famicom) / Toshiyuki Sasagawa and Kōhei Tanaka

39:17 Ruins / Brandish (Super NES) / Falcom Sound Team JDK

44:53 Star Night Festival / Harvest Moon / Tsuyoshi Tanaka

47:55 Lucina / Popful Mail (Super Famicom) / Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.

51:14 Map / Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba

53:37 Creatures of the Silent Sea / Treasures of the Rudra (Super Famicom) / Ryuji Sasi

55:44 The Abysmal Depths of the Ocean / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (Super NES) / Yasunori Shiono

57:41 An Offering to the Holy King Gort / Albert Odyssey (Super Famicom) / Naoki Kodaka

59:48 Sentimental Twilight / Ys III: Wanderers From Ys (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare

61:24 Ending / Phalanx (Super NES) / S. Yamaguchi

63:35 Staff Roll / Hyper Iria (Super Famicom) / Kiyotaka Sato, Shintaro Hirakawa and Nobuhiro Makino

66:57 Staff Roll / Biker Mice From Mars (Super NES) / Keroppi Inoue and Nobuyuki Akena

69:52 Voltage Algorism / Pulseman (Sega Genesis) / Junichi Masuda

73:27 BGM 3 / Mario Paint (Super NES) / Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kazumi Totaka

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Here it is: my last effort at celebrating the spooky season with VGM. I don’t have much to say other than that that this is a mix of new stuff and stuff I’ve played on previous episodes. I couldn’t think of a better way to say goodbye to Halloween episodes.

Previous Halloween episodes:

My 16-Bit Horror Movie
The Dark Side of Nintendo
16 Bits From Beyond the Grave
Street Fighter But With Vampires and Werewolves
16 Bits of Terror
Cursed Spinach (a Game Boy Halloween)
An 8-Bit Halloween, Part 2: The Sequel
Legend of the Haunted Arcade
A 8-Bit Halloween
The Vengeful Ghost of Super Mario

Track listing:

2:15 BGM 1 / Tsukikomori (Super Famicom) / Horiguchi Takashi

3:24 Stage 5 / Alisia Dragoon (Sega Genesis) / Fumihito Kasatani, Nobuyuki Aoshima, Mamoru Ishimoda, Yoko Sonoda and Mariko Sato

5:31 Chainsaw Hedge Maze Mayhem / Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Joe McDermott

8:34 Prologue / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo

10:37 Underground / Addams Family Values (Sega Genesis) / Keith Tinman

13:11 Crazy Woods / Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body / Inuyo Yamashita and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki

15:29 Circus (Act 2) / Aero the AcroBat (Sega Genesis) / Rick Fox

17:16 Reasoning 2 / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Super Famicom) / Kenji Yamamoto

19:55 Level 2 / Decap Attack (Sega Genesis) / Fumito Tamayama

22:15 Haunted House / Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose / Kazuhiko Uehara and Yukie Morimoto

23:55 Strains of Insanity / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda

25:31 Mysterious Happening / Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story (Super Famicom) / Takanori Arisawa

27:39 Depths of the Forest / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki

29:21 Jakyou 2 / Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko and Hitoshi Sakimoto

32:32 Old Mansion / Gokinjo Boukentai (Super Famicom) / Akihiko Mori

35:52 The Nightmare Is Finally Over / Clock Tower (Super Famicom) / Kōji Niikura

38:48 Prairie / Devilish: The Next Possession / Hitoshi Sakimoto

41:28 Nightmare Castle / Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba

44:45 Witch’s Theme / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi

46:22 Haunted House / Pocky & Rocky (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki

49:20 Underwater / Mighty Max (Sega Genesis) / Matt Furniss

54:48 Terror of the Glacier / Elemental Master / Toshiharu Yamanishi

56:40 Mountain Petrified / Addams Family Values (Super NES) / Keith Tinman

60:40 Restless Spirits / Laplace no Ma (Super Famicom) / Akiko Kosaka

62:02 In the Darkness / Mystic Ark (Super Famicom) / Akihiko Mori

65:10 The Enchanted Forest / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama

67:20 The Nightbreed / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai

70:28 Outside / Addams Family Values (Sega Genesis) / Keith Tinman

72:46 Level 4 / Decap Attack (Sega Genesis) / Fumito Tamayama

75:47 Evil Cross Battle / Splatterhouse (Turbografx-16) / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto

78:43 Glittering Night Sky / Do Re Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma

80:11 LaPlace Castle / LaPlace No Ma / Akiko Kosaka

81:43 Shrine for the Worship of Chaos / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando

83:38 Threed, Zombie Central / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka

85:51 Misty Menace / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise

88:14 Fog of Phantom / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi and Sakimoto Masaharu

90:19 Night Gallery / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai

91:58 Strange Forest / Shin Onigashima Zenpen / Koji Kondo

94:02 Sunken Ship / Super Mario RPG / Yoko Shimomura

97:00 Fillmore / Actraiser / Yuzo Koshiro

99:58 Dancing Calcobrena / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu

100:27 Haunted Graveyard / Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Mari Yamaguchi

103:00 The Demon King Odio / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura

105:28 Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta

108:42 Phantom Train / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu

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Some of you bemoaned the loss of the Singing Mountain Patreon because it also meant the loss of the ”all music, no talk” versions of episodes that I sometimes posted there. Never fear: the files have been recovered, and I will be posting them on the main feed.

First up, the ”all music, no talk” version of episode 105, “The End... as a Beginning.”

Track listing:

0:00 Donkey Kong Rescued (Credits Roll) / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong-Quest (Super NES) / David Wise

2:57 Credit Roll / Space Harrier II (Genesis) / Tokuhiko Uwabo and Matt Furniss

7:12 End Title / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura

9:12 Ending Theme / Shadow Blasters (Genesis) / Kim Songdong

11:17 Ending (Next Time) / Shockman (TurboGrafx-16) / K. Hayama

16:51 Finale / Wild Guns (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi

23:15 Staff Roll / Cyber Knight (PC Engine) / Unknown Composer

26:03 Ending / Dino Land (Genesis) / Ichiro Hada

31:43 After the War (Ending) / Final Zone (Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba and Masaaki Uno

37:07 BGM 3 / True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Genesis) / Yumi Kinoshita

43:10 Returned Soldier’s Rest / Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16) / Dr. Nakahashi and Mr. Hoshi

48:38 Ending / Mighty Max (Genesis) / Krisalis (a.k.a. Matt Furniss)

52:02 Ending (Next Time) / Shockman (TurboGrafx-16) / K. Hayama

53:47 Ending / Magical Chase (TurboGrafx-16) Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata

55:39 Sunset of Puyo Puyo / Puyo Puyo (Mega Drive) / Masanobu Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Nagao, Toshiaki Sakoda and Masaaki Harada

59:16 Setting Out (Staff Roll) / Elemental Master (Genesis) / Toshiharu Yamanishi

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You’re still driving. It still doesn’t have to be a race.

Listed to KVGM, “The Last Wave,” a podcast full of low-key, chilled VGM that you’ll like if you like this episode.

Also listen to my previous driving music episodes: Afternoon Drive 1, Moonlight Drive, Sunset Drive, Drive Into the City

Track listing:

0:07 On the Rainy Street / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse

7:05 Menu / Pebble Beach Golf Links (Super Nintendo) / Yumi Kinoshita

10:30 Coast / First Queen (Super Famicom) / Masaki Sasaki and Hiroshi Ootake

12:52 Shark Ship / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada

15:28 BGM 5 / Power League 5 (Turbografx-16) / Unknown Composer

17:55 Stage 4: Aquese / Zero Wing (Sega Genesis) / Masahiro Yuge, Tatsuya Uemura and Toshiaki Tomizawa

21:29 Club Mediterrania / European League Soccer (Sega Genesis) / Matt Furniss

24:07 Karudo / Darius Twin (Super Nintendo) / Kazuyuki Ōnui and Norihiro Furukawa

26:20 Jigsaw Fields / Kirby Dream Course (Super Nintendo) / Hirokazu Ando

29:12 BGM 17 / Super Black Bass 3 (Super NES) / Michiya Hirasawa, Tukushi Sasaki, Akihiko Mori

32:23 Forest / Bomberman B-Daman (Super Famicom) / Kenyuu Nukita

38:25 Overworld / Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis) / Motokazu Shinoda and Noriyuki Iwadare

40:38 Air Battle 3 / 1943 Kai (PC Engine) / Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi, Junko Tamiya, Hiroshige Tonomura, Tamayo Kawamoto and Harumi Fujita

42:41 Password / Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba

45:16 Wild Life / Pop’n Twin Bee (Super Famicom) / Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Hideto Inoue, Tomoya Tomita, Nobuyuki Akena, Masae Nakashima, Saiko Miki and Michiru Yamane

47:44 Credits / Magic Knight Rayearth (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura

54:04 Hilltop Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Genesis) / Masato Nakamura

55:52 Staff Roll / Drift King Shutokou Battle '94 (Super Famicom) / Tsuchiya Keiichi and Bandou Masaaki (KVGM)

58:37 Popful Mail World / Popful Mail (Super Famicom) / Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.

62:08 Ripple’s Theme / Magical Chase (PC Engine) / Hitoshi Sakimoto

64:24 Running Pleasure / Outrun 2019 (Mega Drive) / Shigeki Sako

70:45 Grand Bridge / Yoshi’s Safari (Super NES) / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga

72:51 Sound Test No. 10 / ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Sega Genesis) / Hikoshi Hashimoto

74:58 Wall Tune / Cool Spot (Sega Genesis) / Tommy Tallarico

77:49 Imbalanced Kiss / Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Touitsusen / Hiro Takahashi

80:25 Tengu Man / Mega Man & Bass (Super Famicom) / Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta and Akari Kaida

85:58 Fire World (Flare’s Theme) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume

90:00 Staff Roll / Super Final Match Tennis (Super Famicom) / Takamitsu Kajikawa

92:57 Magical Sound Shower / Out Run (Sega Genesis) / Hiroshi Kawaguchi

98:17 Far Far Away, Take Me / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse

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The good news: Singing Mountain is back. The bad news: It’s only coming back for a few more episodes before ending. Due to reasons I explain in the episode, I’ve decided to end this podcast. However, before I do that, I’ll be clearing out the odds and ends that are remaining in the shambles of the planning doc I’ve been making episodes from all this time. First up: a grab bag episode.

Track listing:

0:19 Caverns / Risky Woods (Amiga) / José Antonio Martin Tello

6:06 Until the End of the Earth / Elemental Master (Sega Genesis) / Toshiharu Yamanishi

10:11 End of the Modern Century / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse

13:58 Pints and Punks / Final Fight 3 (Super NES) / Katsunari Kitajima

15:52 My Dear D / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Sega Genesis) / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao

20:29 Brave of Puyo Puyo / Puyo Puyo (Mega Drive) / Masanobu Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Nagao, Toshiaki Sakoda and Masaaki Harada

23:40 The Sky / Hyper Iria (Super Famicom) / Kiyotaka Sato, Shintaro Hirakawa and Nobuhiro Makino

25:03 Bar / El Viento (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba

27:54 City / McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (Sega Genesis) / Katsuhiko Suzuki

32:37 Woods Area / Kid Chameleon (Sega Genesis) / Mark Miller

34:30 Alcaino Ruins / Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare

36:25 Darwin, Treasure Hunter / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando

37:51 House of Particular Interest / Akazukin Cha Cha (Super Famicom) / Kazuya Suyama

44:13 Suspense & Illusion / Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story (Super Famicom) Takanori Arisawa

46:17 King Drool III (The Size of Things to Come) / Bonk 3: Bonk’s Big Adventure (Turbografx-16) / Taro Hara and Kunio Komatsu

48:32 Barlizer / Princess Minerva (Super Famicom) / Hiroaki Iwatani

50:33 Pascal’s Theme / Shin Megami Tensei (Super Famicom) / Tsukasa Masuko

55:03 Mountains / Risky Woods (Amiga) / José Antonio Martin Tello

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This is an experiment. What you have here is ninety minutes of 16-bit forest music, drawn from all four forest episodes of Singing Mountain, only slowed down, pitched down, muted and muffled in various ways and played over the sound of some royalty-free rain noise I found on YouTube. I initially made this for Patreon, and a few people noted how much they liked it, so I thought I’d put it on the main feed in case any of you needed some extra tranquility in your life. This is a slightly different mix tham what went on Patreon initially. Do what you will with it.

Track listing:

0:11 Elven Town ~ Water Goddess Mitula / Shining Force II (Sega Genesis) / Motoaki Takenouchi

7:19 Secret of the Forest / Chrono Trigger (Super NES) / Yasunori Mitsua

12:24 The Phantom Forest / Final Fantasy VII (Super Nintendo) / Nobuo Uematsu

15:52 Forest Interlude / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Super NES) / David Wise

19:05 Treant Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

22:22 Silent Forest of Doubt / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando Temple

25:22 Forest of Spirits / Chou Mahou Tairiku Wozz (Magical Land of Wozz) (Super Famicom) / Tomoyuki Hamada, Takeshi Sato and Seiichi Tokunaga

28:58 Forest of Mythrandir / Stone Protectors (Super NES) / Steve Duckworth

34:05 Great Forest of Moore / Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) / Nobuo Uematsu

37:18 The Maze-Like Forest / Traverse: Starlight and Prairie (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura

41:16 Quiet Forest Trail / King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (Super NES) / Robert Ridihalgh

43:52 Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

47:02 Haunted Forest / Down the World: Mervil’s Ambition (Super Famicom) / Jeff Pfeifer and Rob Pfeifer

49:34 Beautiful Forest / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (Super NES) / Ryuji Sasai

52:05 Underworld Forest / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada

55:02 Temple Forest / Dark Law: Meaning of Death (Super Famicom) / Yusuke Takahama

58:00 Phantom Forest / Kishin Korinden Oni (Super Famicom) / Yoko Watanabe

61:55 Unicorn Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

65:10 Surrounded by Forest / Treasure Hunter G (Super Famicom) / John Pee

69:00 Powell, the Moonlight Forest / Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) / Hiroki Kikuta

73:46 Misty Forest / Breath of Fire (Super NES) / Yasuaki Fujita, Mari Yamaguchi, Minae Fuji, Yoko Shimomura and Tatsuya Nishimura

76:31: Lost in the Forest / Romancing Saga 3 (Super Famicom) / Kenji ito

79:29 Fields of Gothica / Secret of Evermore (Super Nintendo) / Jeremy Soule

80:48 Ymir Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

84:05 Still of the Night / Secret of Mana (Super NES) / Hiroki Kikuta

87:02 Windy Cliffs / Do-Re-Mi Fantasy (Super Famicom) / Jun Chikuma

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I’m going back to my roots, and no, that is not a pun about trees. I decided to revisit the “relaxing forest music” theme that I first did back in the fifth episode of this show.

If you’re into it, there’s also an ”all music, no talk’ version of this episode on Patreon, with some rain effects tossed in. You tell me if it works or not.

Track listing:

0:13 Great Forest of Moore / Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) / Nobuo Uematsu

3:05 Forest Stage / Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Super NES) / Jeroen Tel, Nick Stroud and Alan Menken

5:45 The Maze-Like Forest / Traverse: Starlight and Prairie (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura

9:27 Forest / Hyper Iria (Super Famicom) / Kiyotaka Sato, Shintaro Hirakawa and Nobuhiro Makino

12:06 Forest of Spirits / Chou Mahou Tairiku Wozz (Magical Land of Wozz) (Super Famicom) / Tomoyuki Hamada, Takeshi Sato and Seiichi Tokunaga

15:22 Underworld Forest / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada

18:00 Ruin in the Jungle / Hourai Gakuen no Bouken (Super Famicom) / Hitoshi Sakimoto

19:38 Beautiful Forest / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (Super NES) / Ryuji Sasai

21:55 Quiet Forest Trail / King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (Super NES) / Robert Ridihalgh

24:08 Fairy’s Forest / Dual Orb (Super Famicom) / Lucky-7

25:40 Phantom Forest / Kishin Korinden Oni (Super Famicom) / Yoko Watanabe

29:20 Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

32:20 Treant Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

35:18 Ymir Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

38:14 Unicorn Forest / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

41:05 Rain Forest / Jelly Boy (Super NES) / Steve Collet and Nick Stroud

42:45 Silent Forest of Doubt / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando Temple

45:31 Forest / Dark Law: Meaning of Death (Super Famicom) / Yusuke Takahama

48:16 Lumberjack Forest / Ardy Lightfoot (Super NES) / Katsuhiro Hatano and Akiko Hashimoto

49:54 Haunted Forest / Down the World: Mervil’s Ambition (Super Famicom) / Jeff Pfeifer and Rob Pfeifer

52:11 Mutant Forest / Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D (Sega Genesis) / Chris Huelsbeck

54:39 Forest of Mythrandir / Stone Protectors (Super NES) / Steve Duckworth

56:32 Elven Forest / Shining Force II (Sega Genesis) / Motoaki Takenouchi

58:10 The Phantom Forest / Final Fantasy VII (Super Nintendo) / Nobuo Uematsu

61:21 Forest Interlude / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / David Wise

64:18 Secret of the Forest / Chrono Trigger (Super NES) / Yasunori Mitsua

69:54 Still of the Night / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta

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Yes, it’s the annual Singing Mountain episode about chilly winter music. The big difference is that this year I’m actually allowing a few tracks that have sleigh bells jingling. Don’t worry — they’re still moody, but this is a less melancholy collection of ice level VGM than I’ve put together in recent years.

And if this isn’t enough for you, an “all music, no talk” supermix of all the 16-bit winter VGM I’ve featured so far will be going up later today on the Singing Mountain Patreon feed.

Listen to previous winter VGM episodes:

Episode 12: Diamond Dust
Episode 53: Another Winter
Episode 54: A Harvest Moon Winter
Episode 55: Slip Off a Ledge and Die in a Hole
Episode 103: All I Want for Christmas in a Frost Dragon

Track listing:

0:07 Snow and Icy Place / Eternal Filena (Super Famicom) / Hideaki Kumagai

2:04 Indoors / 3x3 Eyes: Jūma Hōkan (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer

4:35 Diamonds on Home Planet / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse

7:47 Snowy Mountain / Traverse: Starlight and Prairie (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura

11:25 Snow and the Stars / Devil Hunter Yohko: The Seven Bells (Mega Drive) / Keiichi Yamamoto

13:57 BGM 11 / Benkei Gaiden (Turbografx-16) / Masashi Kageyama

16:43 Glacier / Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Mega Drive) / Aki Hata

19:43 Freezing Ice Plains / DoReMi Fantasy (Super Famicom) / Jun Chikuma

22:02 Crystal Mountain / Mickey to Donald Magical Adventure 3 (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer

24:27 Options / Batman Returns (Sega Genesis) / Paul Gadbois

26:56 Manor of Frozen Monsters / Far East of Eden (Super Famicom) / Toshiyuki Sasagawa, Kohei Tanaka and Aya Tanaka

28:40 Freesia Castle / Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis) / Motokazu Shinoda

31:58 Neverland Tundra / Hook (Super NES) / Matt Furniss

33:54 Ice Caverns / Demon’s Crest (Super NES) / Toshihiko Horiyama

36:00 Hero in Ice / Elfaria II (Super Famicom) / Yukihide Takekawa

38:11 Snow Sled / Silva Saga II: The Legend of Light and Darkness (Super Famicom) / Katsuhisa Ishida, Masanao Akahori and Jun Enoki

40:22 Tigne / Princess Minerva (Super Famicom) / Hiroaki Iwatani

42:20 Iceberg Ocean / Kirby’s Dream Course (Super NES) / Hirokazu Ando

44:39 Freezekill Village / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba

47:35 Crystal So Long / Aretha II: Ariel’s Mysterious Journey / CHACKey, Futoshi Shimodaira, Hiroe Kazuyasu

50:36 Lake / Hamelin no Violin Hiki (Super Famicom) / Yoshiyuki Mori

54:17 Ice World / Jelly Boy (Super NES) / Steve Collett and Nick Stroud

56:35 Arctic Caverns / Battletoads (Sega Genesis) / David Wise

58:32 A Wish / Secret of Mana (Super NES) / Hiroki Kikuta

61:17 Another Winter / Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) / Hiroki Kikuta

64:58 Ice Lake / Romancing Saga 3 (Super Famicom) / Kenji Ito

67:43 Winter / Harvest Moon (Super NES) / Tsuyoshi Tanaka

70:05: In a Snowbound Land / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (Super NES) / David Wise

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A sequel of sorts to the “Lonesome Journeys” episode I did way back when, this episode is all about “sad travel music” — the kind of stuff you might associate with an RPG overworld, where the world is big and open and mysterious and you have to venture forth anyway. It’s a little somber, it’s a little hopeful, and it seems perfect for a late autumn day.

And if you haven’t yet, also give a listen to my episode “The Overworld Mixtape,” which is nothing but RPG overworld themes — no talking!

Track listing:

0:09 Character Selection / Golden Axe II (Sega Genesis) / Naofumi Hataya

1:52 Harvest November / Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) / Hiroki Kikuta

6:49 The Journey / Arcana (Super Nintendo) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando

9:11 Sword of Vermillion / Last City (Sega Genesis) / Yasunori Shiono

11:46 Tower / Brandish (Super Nintendo) / Falcom Sound Team

15:57 Bipartite Planet Sharil Daril / Blue Almanac (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare and Masaru Suzuki

17:32 Just Like the Mountain, He Will Not Move / Treasure Hunter G (Super Famicom) / John Pee

20:36 Walking in Peace / Bounty Sword (Super Famicom) / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori

21:41 Planet 1 / Cyber Knight (PC Engine) / Unknown Composer

23:17 Ending Theme / Cadash (Turbografx-16) / Toshiko Tasaki

25:38 Field 1 / Double Dungeons (Turbografx-16) / Unknown Composer

27:27 Map Theme / Benkei Gaiden (Turbografx-16) / Masashi Kageyama

30:15 King of Berserker / Bahamut Senki (Sega Genesis) / Keisuke Tsukahara

32:39 Exotic Country Road / Pocky & Rocky 2 (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kinuyo Yamashita, Haruo Ohashi and Asuka Yamao

35:09 Field 1 / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura

38:29 Early Operation / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse

40:33 Mountain Road / Hamelin no Violin Hiki (Super Famicom) / Yoshiyuki Mori

42:50 Track 6 / Monster Maker III (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer

45:24 Opening Theme / 3x3 Eyes: Jūma Hōkan (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer

47:26 Overworld / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi

48:54 Between Two Worlds / Treasure of the Rudras (Super Famicom) / Ryuji Sasai

51:40 Long Valley / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya

54:37 Breath of the Earth / Tactics Ogre (Super Famicom) / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata

58:07 Final Battle / Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals (Super NES) / Yasunori Shiono

60:37 Road Walked By Heroes / Albert Odyssey (Super Famicom) / Naoki Kodaka

63:11 Underworld / Final Fantasy IV (Super NES) / Nobuo Uematsu

64:45 Ruins / Golden Axe II (Sega Genesis) / Naofumi Hataya

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The episode I intended to put out this week isn’t done yet, but I decided to toss you guys an episode that was previously a Patreon-exclusive. Last year, around the time Singing Mountain hit one hundred episodes, I did a bonus that was just all the VGM tracks I’d encountered just through doing research for this podcast. You know, as opposed to hearing them while actually playing video games, like normal people.

Also, if you’re seeing this episode, that means Singing Mountain has successfully transferred over from SoundCloud, which sucks, to Libsyn, which does not. Yay! \

Track listing:

0:56: Gorgonzola Goblins / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki

3:12: Volcanic Zone (Exploration) / Popful Mail / Atsushi Shirakawa and Mieko Ishikawa

6:33: Track 1 / Top Gear / Barry Leitch

9:30: The Birds Fly in the Sky, the Fish Swim in the Rivers / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura

11:25: Queen Serenity / Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon / Takanori Arisawa

15:18: Sentimental Soldier / Valis II (PC-88) / Masahiro Kajihara

18:21: Midnight Dancer / Thunder Zone / Gamadelic

20:35: Ice Caverns / David Wise / Battletoads

20:42: Sherbet Land / Mario Hoops 3 on 3 / Masayoshi Soken

25:57: Heart of Icegrave / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe

28:53: Devilotte’s Theme / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Tatsuro Suzuki, Isao Ave, Yuko Kadota, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto and Anarchy Takapon

31:31: Master of Water / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki

34:28: Central Park / Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance / Matt Gray

40:04: Koopa Beach / Mario Sports Mix / Masayoshi Soken

43:01: Burning Heart / Battle Mania Daiginjou / Junichi Masuda

45:17: Amazon / Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix / Isao Abe, Yuki Iwai and Setsuo Yamamoto

48:25: Ice Place / King of Fighters 2000 / SNK Sound Team

52:57: Migratory Birds ~ Wandering Bird ~ Scoundrels / Wild Arms 3 / Michiko Naruke

58:05: Theme of Poison / Hideyuki Fukasawa / Ultra Street Fighter IV

61:57: Love Will Never Die / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima

67:09: Happy Birthday / Gimmick! / Masashi Kageyama

69:21: Credits Theme / SonSon II / Manami Matsumae

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This year, I tried to pick tracks that sound like they could be from a horror movie — and not just any horror movie, but a solid B horror flick, watched on VHS, with a synthy score that’s way better that it should be given the quality of the movie. There is also an "all music, no talk" version of this episode up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43338773 BTW, if you dig this, then check out VGM101’s 16-bit horror episode from this week: https://prolefeed101.com/vgm-101-episode-43-16-bit-horror/ And its Splatterhouse episode from the week before: https://prolefeed101.com/vgm-101-episode-42-splatterhouse/ Also have a listen to all my previous Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-halloween Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Track listing: 0:17 Ruined City / King of Demons (Super Famicom) / Hiroshi Iizuka and Tomohiro Endo 3:28 Caves / Go! Go! Ackman (Super Famicom) / Kajima Shitamachi 5:53 Reasoning 2 / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Super Famicom) / Kenji Yamamoto 8:49 Sleepless Night / Anubis of the Moon’s Surface (Super Famicom) / Hiroshi Iizuka 11:15 Ancient Ruins / Romancing Saga 2 (Super Famicom) / Kenji Ito 13:29 BGM 8 / Tsukikomori (Super Famicom) / Horiguchi Takashi 16:11 Troubled Town / Ranma 1/2: Akanekodan no Hihou (Super Famicom) / Toshio Okamoto 17:16 Evil Cross Battle / Splatterhouse (Turbografx-16) / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 20:13 Level 3 / Stormlord (Sega Genesis) / Jeroen Tel 26:31 Museum 3 / Aero the Acro-Bat (Sega Genesis) / Rick Fox 28:29 Never Ending Rain / Addams Family Values (Sega Genesis) / Keith Tinman 32:43 Sadness / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada 35:08 Treasure in a Hollow Tree / Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen (Super Famicom) / Unknown Composer 38:03 Deep Sea Ruins / Magic Knight Rayearth (Super Famicom) / Daisuke Tamura 40:54 Shrine for the Worship of Chaos / Arcana (Super NES) / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 42:37 Dark Cave / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura 46:04 Bad Omen 2 / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind (Super Famicom) / Kenji Yamamoto 48:10 Different Dimension / Laplace no Ma (Super Famicom) / Akiko Kosaka 49:36 Thick Fog / Pocky & Rocky (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 51:33 Lava / Hamelin no Violin Hiki (Super Famicom) / Yoshiyuki Mori 53:19 Haunted Mansion / Mystic Ark (Super Famicom) / Akihiko Mori 56:12 Theme of Satan / Puyo Puyo (Sega Genesis) / Masanobu Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Nagao, Toshiaki Sakoda and Masaaki Harada 58:58 Unknown Song / Dracula (Super NES) / Matt Furniss Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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It’s a Halloween miracle! As Singing Mountain preps to transfer over to a new hosting site, some of the Patreon-only bonuses from back in the pre-16 bit days are getting folded into the main feed mix. Since this was in the process anyway, I decided that listeners might enjoy this all-music, no-talk Halloween episode. It’s all creepy Nintendo music! Track listing: 0:10: Joke’s End / Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimomura 2:01: Haunted Enigmansion / Paper Mario: Sticker Star / Masanobu Matsunaga, Saki Kurata, Shoh Murakami, Yoshito Sakigawa, Yasuhisa Baba, Hiroki Morishita, Masanori Adachi, Kiyoshi Hazemoto, Tomoko Sano, Kosei Muraki, Hiroaki Hanaoka, Yasumasa Yamada and Koji Kondo 5:34: It’s Chimera Research / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 7:20: Ripple Star Catacombs / Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 8:48: Palace of Twilight / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess / Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta 12:20: Bad Manor / Wario Land: Shake It! / / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 17:02: Hypno K.K. (Aircheck) / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 20:21: Ghoulish Galleon / Mario Sports Mix / Masayoshi Soken and Kumi Tanioka 23:17: Valhalla / Metroid Prime 3: Corruption / Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima 26:00: Misty Menace / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 28:22: Dark Manor / Kirby’s Epic Yarn / Tomoya Tomita 30:17: Thieves’ Hideout / Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Ryo Nagamatsu 32:20: Spooky Ambiance / StarFox Adventures / David Wise and Ben Cullum 34:51: Shriek Mansion 2 / Super Princess Peach / Akira Fujiwara 36:16: Depths of the Forest / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 37:56: Bionis’ Interior / Xenoblade Chronicles / ACE+ 41:05: Shadow Temple / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 44:04: Horror Land / Mario Party 2 / Hironao Yamamoto, Shohei Bando and Kazuhiko Sawaguchi 45:52: Ghostly Encounter / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano, Yuka Tsujiyoko and Saki Haruyama 48:04: Horror / Yoshi’s Crafted World / Kazufumi Umeda 50:57: Lost Woods / Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks / Toru Minegishi, Manaka Tominaga, Asuka Ota and Koji Kondo 51:56: Boo Lake / Mario Kart: Super Circuit / Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunaga and Minako Hamano 53:49: Strange Forest / Shin Onigashima Zenpen / Koji Kondo 55:27: Happy Happy Is Blue / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 58:20: Snake Princess / Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem / Steve Henefin 62:42: Hel’s Theme / Fire Emblem Heroes / Hiroki Morishita 66:22: Kappa Cove / A Kappa’s Trail / Unknown Composer Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The sun has gone down and the moon has come up, and it’s not a good time to be in the city. This is part three of a three-part series that began with a drive into the city and led to a fight through the city. Now you’re in a neon metropolis at night and you’re on your way to the big boss fight. Drive Into the City: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/16bit-driving-music Gritty City Sounds: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/gritty-city-sounds Also have a listen to the spotlight on Masahi Kagayama’s soundtrack to the later NES game Gimmick!: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/gimmick-sunsoft-vgm Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Track listing: 0:17: Enemy Fighting Worker / Out Live (PC Engine) / Masashi Kagayama 4:01: Could That Person Be Our Child? / Art of Fighting (Sega Genesis) / Masahiko Hataya, Toshio Shimizu and Yasumasa Yamada 5:47: Neo Tokyo / Pulseman (Mega Drive) / Junichi Masuda 7:49: BGM E / Atomic Robo-Kid (Sega Genesis) / Mecano Associates 10:23: Stage 5 / Gunstar Heroes (Sega Genesis) / Norio Hanzawa 11:40: Another World 1 (Fifth Day) / Burning Force (Sega Genesis) / Yoshinori Kawamoto 14:17: BGM 4 / Barunba (PC Engine) / Makiko Itou and Hiroshi Nishikawa 15:43: Inner Darkside / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 18:34: Tokyo / Saturday Night Slam Masters (Sega Genesis) / Masaki Izutani and Setsuo Yamamoto 22:17: Factory / Ranger X (Sega Genesis) / Yoshinobu Hiraiwa 25:05: Overworld 3 / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya 28:02: Empire State Building / El Viento (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba 29:21: Final Battle / El Viento (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba 32:08: Boomer Kuwanger / Mega Man X (Super NES) / Yuko Takehara 34:45: Mission 2 / Terminator 2: The Arcade Game (Sega Genesis) / Allister Brimble 36:42: Technology / Pulseman (Mega Drive) / Junichi Masuda 39:41: Round 1-2 / Gynoug (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare 42:24: Fisherman of the Seven Seas (Jeffrey’s Theme) / Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Genesis) / Composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Takayuki Nakamura and Akiko Hashimoto, arranged by Shogo Sakai 44:37: Dilapidated Zone / Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16) / Dr. Nakahashi and Mr. Hoshi 46:17: Dark City / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura 49:08: Mars / Dangerous Seed (Mega Drive) / Yoshinori Nagumo 50:49: Track 2 / Bubblegum Crash: Knight Sabers 2034 (PC Engine) / Makiko Itoh 53:35: Devil Dance / Majin Tensei (Super Famicom) / Hidehito Aoki 55:36: Title Theme / Devil’s Crash (Turbografx-16) / Toshiaki Sakoda 61:36: Leave Time for Love / Secret of Mana (Super NES) / Hiroki Kikuta 63:21: Devil’s Lab / Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) / Nobuo Uetmatsu Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Back in the 16-bit era, urban streets were littered with no-good punks who would attack in wave after wave, leaving a group of musclebound heroes no choice but to keep on punching — and hope there is a whole roast chicken hidden in a garbage can somewhere. This episode is a celebration of those gritty city environments, the music heard in them and the music from other genres of game that nonetheless get at this same vibe. And if you want to check out my other podcast — my new music podcast, which is why this one was off last week, do so here: https://deepcutssuperficialwounds.libsyn.com/ Track listing: 0:18: Shinobi Walk / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Mater / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 3:29: Introduction / Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (Sega Genesis) / Rick Fox 6:12: Level 5 / Bloody Wolf (TurboGrafx-16) / Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida. Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Shuji Segawa 7:44: The Streets / Predator 2 (Sega Genesis) / Matt Furniss 9:37: Theme of Struggle / Benkei Gaiden: Suna no Shou (Super Famicom) / Masashi Kageyama 11:01: Things Are Looking Up / Rival Turf (Super NES) / Yasuhiko Takashiba and Atsuyoshi Isemura 13:54: Army’s Song / Final Zone (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba and Masaaki Uno 15:43: Akira / Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Genesis) / Composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Takayuki Nakamura and Akiko Hashimoto, arranged by Shogo Sakai 18:48: Enemy Reinforcements / Langrisser II (Sega Genesis) / Noriyuki Iwadare and Isao Mizoguchi 21:02: BGM 12 / Bubblegum Crash: Knight Sabers 2034 (PC Engine) / Makiko Itoh 21:49: Sea Boss / Dinoland / Dino Land (Genesis) / Ichiro Hada 25:54: Pirate Island / Dragon Slayer (Super NES) / Falcom Sound Team JDK 27:22: Downtown / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: The Girl Who Stands Behind / Kenji Yamamoto 33:09: Stage Clear / Brandish (Super NES) / Falcom Sound Team JDK 36:13: Credits / Golden Axe II (Sega Genesis) / Naofumi Hataya 38:50: Lunatic Dance / Getsumen no Anubis (Super Famicom) / Noboru Iwata, Hiroshi Fujioka, Hiroshi Iizuka, Yoshiaki Kubotera, Hiroaki Shibata and Kaori Ohshima 40:14: Water Lily / Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis) / Motokazu Shinoda 42:28: Dungeon 3 / Princess Minerva (Super Famicom) / Hiroaki Iwatani 43:45: Blue Moon Factory / Art of Fighting (Sega Genesis) / Masahiko Hataya, Toshio Shimizu and Yasumasa Yamada 45:34: Character Select / Final Fight (Super NES) / Manani Matsumae and Yoko Shimomoura 46:15: Bay Area / Final Fight (Super NES) / Manani Matsumae and Yoko Shimomoura 48:17: Bust Up the Railway / Final FIght 2 (Super NES) / Yasuaki Fujita (a.k.a. Bun Bun), Mari Yamaguchi, Yuki Satomura, Setsuo Yamamoto, Yuko Kadota, and Tatsuya Nishimura 51:24: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 (Super NES) / Katsunari Kitajima 55:22: Capital Theme / Sim City (Super NES) / Soyo Oka 58:15: Dilapidated Town / Streets of Rage (Sega Genesis) / Yuzo Koshiro Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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In the grand tradition of Singing Mountain episodes that make driving music of VGM that’s not from driving games, here’s a new one: the soundtrack for a drive into the city that starts out laidback but gets a little tense as you get toward the big city. This is actually a part one to a part two that you’ll get next that’s all gritty city music — basically what you here when you finally arrive at those scary skyscrapers on the horizon. Listen to my previous driving music episodes: Sunset Drive https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/sunset-drive-vgm Afternoon Drive https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/afternoon-drive-vgm-mixtape Moonlight Drive https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/moonlight-drive Also listen to the all-Valis III episode, because no one else did: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/valis-3-vgm Track listing: 0:08: BGM 9 / Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) / Tsukushi Sasaki and Michiya Hirasawa 2:06: BGM B / Tommy Lasorda Baseball (Sega Genesis) / Unknown Composer 3:58: Title Theme / Cosmic Fantasy 2 (TurboGrafx-16) / Hisao Inoue and Junta 8:29: Flight of the Birds / Last Bible III (Super Famicom) / Hiroyuki Yanada 10:18: Alien Ship / McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (Sega Genesis) / Katsuhiko Suzuki and Aki Hata 14:19: Far Far Away, Take Me / Dyna Brothers 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse 17:44: Woods Area / Kid Chameleon (Sega Genesis) / Mark Miller 20:12: Industrial District / Columns III (Sega Genesis) / Morihiko Akiyama 21:40: Seaside Front / Aero Blasters (TurboGrafx-16) / Tatsuya Watanabe and Tsutomu Ookuma 24:14: Pirate Man / Rockman & Forte (Super Famicom) / Akari Kaida 27:10: Kakumen Boss no Theme / Valis III (Sega Genesis) / Jun Hasabe 28:52: F1 Triumph / Super Momotarou Dentetsu DX (Super Famicom) / Kazuyuki Sekiguchi 30:00: Menu / True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Genesis) / Yumi Kinoshita 33:03: Twinbee to the Rescue / Pop'n Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventures (Super NES) / Ken-ichi Matsubara, Yukie Morimoto and Saiko Miki 34:41: Sky Sphere / Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16) / Keita Hoshi 36:27: Grass Land / Burning Force (Sega Genesis) / Yoshinori Kawamoto 38:27: Crystal Road / Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16) / Dr. Nakahashi and Mr. Hosh 39:49: BGM 5 / Barunba (PC Engine) / Makiko Itou and Hiroshi Nishikawa 41:45: The World’s Cavern / Treasure Hunter G (Super Famicom) / John Pee 43:14: Character Selection / Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba 44:52: Underground Traps / Go! Go! Ackman (Super Famicom) / Kajima Shitamachi Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Singing Mountain is back. I said it would be back and I meant it. And to contrast this new run of the show from what I left you all on months ago, I decided to put out something a little more hopeful. Do you know that particular kind of video game ending where you see your character cruising toward the horizon, bad guys vanquished in their wake, and there’s maybe a sunset or something, and the music sounds like the end of an 80s movie? Yeah, this episode is all about that. Track listing: 0:09: Sunset of Puyo Puyo / Puyo Puyo (Mega Drive) / Masanobu Tsukamoto, Akiyoshi Nagao, Toshiaki Sakoda and Masaaki Harada 5:24: Credit Roll / Space Harrier II (Genesis) / Tokuhiko Uwabo and Matt Furniss 7:52: Setting Out (Staff Roll) / Elemental Master (Genesis) / Toshiharu Yamanishi 11:44: Ending / Dino Land (Genesis) / Ichiro Hada 16:55: Several Years After / Dyna Bros 2 (Mega Drive) / Masami Yitsuse 20:16: Sun Rise Purple / Battle Mania: Daiginjō (Mega Drive) / Shigenori Masuko, Yoko Suzuki and Fumito Tamayama 23:45: End Title / Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Super Famicom) / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura 27:01: Credit Roll / Dungeon Explorer (TurboGrafx-16) / Tsukasa Masuko 30:02: Ending (Next Time) / Shockman (TurboGrafx-16) / K. Hayama 32:20: Staff Roll / Cyber Knight (PC Engine) / Unknown Composer 36:12: Ending / Magical Chase (TurboGrafx-16) Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata 39:13: Return to Mother / Axelay (Super NES) / Taei Kudo 41:53: After the War (Ending) / Final Zone (Genesis) / Motoi Sakuraba and Masaaki Uno 46:03: BGM 3 / True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Genesis) / Yumi Kinoshita 48:50: Ending / Mighty Max (Genesis) / Krisalis (a.k.a. Matt Furniss) 52:12: Returned Soldier’s Rest / Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16) / Dr. Nakahashi and Mr. Hoshi 54:44: Ending Theme / Shadow Blasters (Genesis) / Kim Songdong 56:32: Donkey Kong Rescued (Credits Roll) / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong-Quest (Super NES) / David Wise 58:39: Finale / Wild Guns (Super NES) / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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A disclaimer: This episode won’t be for everyone. It’s been an odd few weeks, and for some reason I’ve been finding comfort in sad stuff rather than just trying to flood my brain with relentlessly happy things. As a result of this special mix of factors, the episode you’re getting from me is all about sad music — specifically sad music from 16-bit RPGs. While Singing Mountain is not yet back, when it returns it will be with a slightly different format that in this episode. I hope this is something we can both look forward to. Special thanks to Sampson, host of VGM101, who accepted my invitation to talk about sad non-RPG music, just for a little variety: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vgm101/id1473369972 And while we’re at it, the most recent episode of his show actually has a little guest appearance by me: https://prolefeed101.com/vgm-101-episode-29-street-fighting-fighting-street/ Track listing: 0:15: At the Bottom of the Night / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 3:01: Voice of Awakening / Energy Breaker / Yukio Nakajima, Yasunori Shiono and Yuusei Yamamoto 4:31: Sad Freedom / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 8:35: Jojo (Yoyo) / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 10:30: Reminiscence / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi Sakimoto 12:33: Legend / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 16:18: Game Over / Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko and Hitoshi Sakimoto 18:29: Sigh and Tear / Sorcerian (Mega Drive) / Mieko Ishikawa 21:00: Dying World / Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom / Izuho Numata 21:53: Game Over / Dragon Slayer II: The Legend of Heroes / Mieko Ishikawa and Atsushi Shirakawa 24:12: Last Moments / Shining Force II: The Ancient Seal / Motoaki Takenouchi 27:22: Ruins / Surging Aura / Kamo 28:50: Barlizer / Princess Minerva / Hiroaki Iwatani 30:26: Makai / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 32:35: Parting / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 34:39: Begging One’s Life / Brandish II: The Planet Buster / Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. 36:42: Silence / Chaos Seed / Yasunori Shiono, Katsuhiro Hayashi and Yukio Nakajima 39:44: Emeraude’s Theme / Magic Knight Rayearth (Super NES) / Unknown Composer 41:44: In the Darkness / Mystic Ark / Akihiko Mori 44:44: Dark Night / Crusader of Centy / Motokazu Shinoda 47:23: A Premonition =Styx= / Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Genesis) 49:16: An Old Sad Dance / King Colossus / Kenichiro Isoda 52:40: Reminicenses / Traysia / Minoru Yuasa 53:50: Underground Ruined Town / Dragon Slayer II: The Legend of Heroes / Mieko Ishikawa and Atsushi Shirakawa 55:58: Misty Lake / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Naoki Kaneda 58:54: Ruins / Blue Almanac / Noriyuki Iwadare and Masaru Suzuki 61:07: Ebon Keep / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 63:39: Offering to King Gort / Albert Odyssey / Naoki Kodaka 66:08: Intro / Devilish / Hitoshi Sakimoto 69:09: Aquatic Ambiance / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 72:27: Niena’s Melody / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Naoki Kaneda 74:09: Sad Song / Farland Story II / Masakata Kitaura, Atsuyoshi Isemura, Rikei Hirashima, Music Worx 77:36: Field / Sansara Naga 2 / Kenji Kawai 80:09: Farewell, My Friends / Bounty Sword / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori 82:52: Wind that Whips the World / Energy Breaker / Yukio Nakajima, Yasunori Shiono and Yuusei Yamamoto 86:42: Pathos / Elfaria / Shigeaki Saegusa 88:27: Aroma of Stew / Energy Breaker / Yukio Nakajima, Yasunori Shiono and Yuusei Yamamoto 91:15: Sacrifices / ActRaiser / Yuzo Koshiro 92:31: Phantom and a Rose / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 94:52: Crime of the Heart / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 98:01: My Home, Sweet Home / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie

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Welcome to this year’s installment of my “Christmas Eve in an ice cavern” series. Do you think winter music could do with fewer jingle bells and more cool, clear chimes that call to mind a lonely, cold night? Then you’re in luck! Also listen to the other ice and snow VGM episodes! Diamond Dust: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/diamond-dust-ice-music Another Winter: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/53-another-winter Slip Off a Ledge and Die in a Hole: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/55-ice-stage-vgm-3 A Harvest Moon Winter: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/54-harvest-moon-winter-music Track listing: 0:07: The Wind Can Be Still (Winter) / Stardew Valley / Eric Barone (a.k.a. ConcernedApe) 6:06: Ice Cave / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki 7:46: Wep’keer / Okami / Masami Ueda 13:08: Snow Labyrinth / Brave Fencer Musashi / Koji Matsuoka and Tetsuya Nomura 17:01: Ice Mine / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 19:47: Frozen Hillside / Kirby’s Air Ride / Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, Tadashi Ikegami and Jun Ishikawa 23:15: Land of Frozen Forest / Albert Odyssey 2: Sign of the Devil / Naoki Kodaka 26:22: Omen (Awakening Segment) / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 29:34: Iceberg (Exploration) / Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure / Atsushi Shirakawa and Mieko Ishikawa 32:39: Ice Forest / Super Ghouls ’N Ghosts / Mari Yamaguchi 35:51: Ice Ruins / A Link Between Worlds / Ryo Nagamatsu 40:26: Christmas on Dobuita Street / Shenmue / Ryuji Iuchi 43:53: Snow Island / Moryo Senki MADARA / Atsushi Fujio and Katsuhiro Suzuki 46:06: Snow Island 3 / Croco: Legend of the Gobbos / Justin Scharvona, Karin Griffin and Martin Gwynn Jones 48:43: Frosty Fruits ~ In a Snowbound Land / Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze / David Wise and Kenji Yamamoto 53:44: White Land / Nintendo Land / Composed by Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida, arranged by Ryo Nagamatsu 57:05: Song of Tundra / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata 60:23: Hiya-Hiya Island / Super Adventure Island 2 / Akihiro Akamatsu, Sachiko Oita and Shinji Nakaya 64:59: Land of Immortality / Bravely Default: Flying Fairy / REVO 69:31: Ice Cavern / Battletoads (Genesis) / David Wise 71:33: Buried in Snow / Final Fantasy VII 74:20: In a Snowbound Land / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise Support Singing Mountain on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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This is just a quick post to inform you that Singing Mounatin is going on hiatus for the rest of November — and beyond that too, despite some episodes in December. But no worries — I’ll be back. And if you miss my stupid voice in the meantime, listen to my other podcast, Gayest Episode Ever: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gayest-episode-ever/id1357463744 Website: https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/ Track listing: 0:13: Title Theme / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 3:54: First Chapter: Road Through the Mountain / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 5:49: Staff Roll / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 8:13: Title Theme / Yuyuki / Soyo Oka Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod Facebook page: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod Facebook group: https://facebook.com/groups/singingmountain On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Nintendo may have a reputation as being family-friendly, but even its sunniest franchises have their dark moments. The second Halloween episode of 2019 looks at some of Nintendo’s more sinister musical moments. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween BTW, Singing Mountain now has a Patreon, and patrons can access to an hourlong bonus episode featuring even more spooky Nintendo music: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Ashley Halloween BGM for Nintendo 3DS posted by Supper Mario Broth: https://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/188372895610/background-music-for-the-ashleys-halloween The VGM Podcast Fans group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans Track listing: 0:12: Planet Zebes ~ Arrival on Crateria / Super Metroid / Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano 2:36: Suspicions / Hotel Dusk: Room 215 / Satoshi Okubo 3:48: Shriek Mansion 1 / Super Princess Peach / Akira Fujiwara 5:19: Dungeon Theme / Kid Icarus / Hirokazu Tanaka 5:52: At the Seafloor Palace / Kid Icarus: Uprising / Motoi Sakuraba 9:03: Submerged Castle / Pikmin 2 / Hajime Wakai 11:47: Paranormal Accomodations / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe 15:57: Lair of the Smooch Spiders / Yoshi’s Wooly World / Tomoya Tomita, Misaki Asada and Kazumi Totaka 19:31: Strange Forest / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 22:29: K.K. Dirge (Aircheck) / Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City / Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi and Shinobu Tanaka 25:25: Abandoned Memories / Chibi-Robo! / Hirofumi Taniguchi 27:35: Bonneton / Super Mario Odyssey / Shiho Fujii 30:45: Snow Mountain / Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask / Koji Kondo 32:24: Marsh Land / Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask / Koji Kondo 34:03: Great Bay Beach / Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask / Koji Kondo 36:19: Forest of Wandering / Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia / Takeru Kanazaki, Yasuhisa Baba, Takafumi Wada and Sho Murakami 39:55: Creepy Castle / Donkey Kong 64 / Grant Kirkhope 47:14: Fortress / Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters / Unknown Composer 50:11: Old Chateau / Pokemon Diamond and Pearl / Go Ichinose, Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato and Morikazu Aoki 56:19: Transylvania / Zoda’s Revenge: Startropics II / Yoshio Hirai and Takashi Kumegawa 59:04: Gritty Maison de Whoops / Tomato Adventure / Yoko Sakai 60:58: Evershade Valley / Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon / Chad York, Darren Radtke and Mike Peacock 63:56: Halloween Fantasy (Ashley Halloween Theme) / Nintendo 3DS / Unknown Composer 65:57: Ghost House (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker / Koji Kondo, Naoto Kubo and Asuka Hayazaki 68:05: Castle Bleck / Super Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod Facebook page: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod Facebook group: https://facebook.com/groups/singingmountain On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Because horror always begets sequels, I’m giving your a follow-up to last year’s creepy 16-bit music episode. It’s all Hallloween-appropriate VGM from the Super Nintendo, Super Famicom, Sega Genesis and Mega Drive. Boo. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween BTW, Singing Mountain now has a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Track listing: 0:09: Omen / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 0:55: Maridia Rocky Underwater Area / Super Metroid / Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano 2:52: October Fields / Pocky & Rocky 2 / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kinuyo Yamashita, Haruo Ohashi and Asuka Yamao 4:44: Strains of Insanity / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 6:19: Cursed Towers / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 9:08: Kerosene / Clock Tower / Kōji Niikura 10:47: Medieval World / Ghoul Patrol / Eric Swanson and David Warhol 12:48: Prairie / Devilish: The Next Possession / Hitoshi Sakimoto 16:56: Level 5 / Decap Attack / Fumito Tamayama 18:31: Glittering Night Sky / Do Re Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma 19:56: Transylvania / QuackShot Starring Donald Duck / Shigenori Kamiya 20:51: Creepy Forest / Plok / Tim Follin 24:25: Ending Theme / Nosferatu / Masanao Akahori 27:34: Where Am I? / The Immortal / Rob Hubbard 30:01: Final Case: Deep Hole / Ghostbusters (Genesis) / Kazuhiko Nagai 32:00: Creepy Creatures / Addams Family (Genesis) / Jonathan Dunn 34:34: Ocean of Origin / E.V.O. — The Search for Eden / Koichi Sugiyama 37:28: Terror of the Glacier / Elemental Master / Toshiharu Yamanishi 39:18: Wispy / King Arthur’s World / Martin Simpson and Justin Scharvona 41:53: The Demon’s From Adrian’s Pen / Doom / Robert Prince 45:30: Reminiscence / Yuu Yuu Hakusho / Yoshinori Kawamoto and Kouji Nakagawa 46:16: Jakyou 2 / Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko and Hitoshi Sakimoto 48:53: Itchy Dream Castle / Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body / Inuyo Yamashita and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 50:21: Night Gallery / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 51:58: LaPlace Castle / LaPlace No Ma / Akiko Kosaka 54:56: Witch’s Theme / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 56:02: Base of the Baobab / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 57:58: Suspicion / Phantasy Star IV / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 59:33: Dancing Calcobrena / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 62:09: Chainsaw Hedge Maze Mayhem / Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Joe McDermott 64:12: Icebox / The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt / Jonathan Dunn 67:14: Stage Four / Alien 3 (Genesis) / Andrew Rodger 70:26: Stage 1-1 / Splatterhouse 2 / Eiko Kaneda 72:06: Cavern / Front Mission: Gun Hazard / Yasunori Mitsuda 73:26: Misty Menace / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 75:14: Haunted Graveyard / Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Mari Yamaguchi 76:33: Shade Man (Alternate) / Mega Man VII / Composed by Ayako Mori, arranged by Toshihiko Horiyama Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Against all odds, this podcast persisted and endured, and now we’re at the one-hundredth episode. The best idea I had to celebrate this milestone was sharing all the lesser-known VGM tracks I came to love since I began Singing Mountain — the VGM gems that I would have never unearthed if I hadn’t been doing research for this show. Enjoy. Please! Partake in the brand new Singing Mountain Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain Track listing: 0:13: Baby Bird / Bravely Default / Revo 3:00: Hole Overview / Pebble Beach Golf Links / Shigekazu Kamaki 5:12: Ending Theme / Panorama Cotton / Kenichi Hirata 7:20: Essential Vitamins (Blue Blue Moon) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 12:39: Like the Wind / Elemental Master / Toshiharu Yamanishi 17:25: Field Theme / Mysterious Castle Murasame / Koji Kondo 21:25: Sunset Town / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 26:03: Theme of Adol / Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished (PC88) / Yuzo Koshiro 29:39: Cascade Capers / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 33:18: Blue Resort / Bomberman 64 / Akifumi Tada 39:30: Night Shift / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 42:02: Levels 5 & 6 / Dance Aerobics / Unknown Composer 44:50: Title Screen / Clown-o-Mania / Roman Werner 49:41: Warth (Rune’s Theme) / Ippo Takeuchi and M. "Gaki-Chan" Nakagaki / Phantasy Star IV 52:58: The Sun Also Sets / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa 58:00: Title Theme / Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition / David Wise 60:57: Beyond the Colosseum / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 65:07: Like Sisters / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima 68:59: Eagle's Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 72:50: Daddy Mulk / NInja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 77:41: Death by Glamour / Undertale / Toby Fox 82:45: The Hunt / River City Girls / Megan McDuffee Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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We’re ninety-nine episodes in, and I’m taking the moment to share some tracks I haven’t yet featured on the show. Some got nixed from the final cuts of previous episodes, and others haven’t even gotten that far. Either way, I thought you might enjoy an eclectic mix of VGM you maybe haven’t yet heard or haven’t yet heard enough. Take a survey and tell me about your hopes and dreams: https://singingmountainpod.com/survey Do you regularly eat food? You may enjoy Singing Mountain’s sister podcast, Smart Mouth: http://www.smartmouthpodcast.com/ There is even an episode featuring me: http://www.smartmouthpodcast.com/home/2019/6/11/episode-134-tv-dinners-with-drew-mackie Listen to VGM 101, a podcast that does not suck: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vgm-101/id1473369972 Track listing: 1:17: Overworld Theme / Super Mario Bros. 2 / Koji Kondo 2:46: Quina’s Theme / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 4:30: Departure / Lufia & the Fortress of Doom / Yasunori Shiono 7:26: Scala (Rose’s Theme) / Street Fighter Alpha 3 / Yuki Iwai 10:40: Tessie! / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 15:34: Matoya’s Cave / Final Fantasy / Nobuo Uematsu 16:45: Matoya’s Cave (SFC Version) / Final Fantasy V 5+1 / Nobuo Uematsu 19:37: Episode 02, Page 2-1 / Comix Zone / Howard Drossin 23:16: Another World (Mysterious Planet) / The Smurfs’ Nightmare / Alberto Gonzales 28:47: Yuki Gassen / Columns III / Morihiko Akiyama 31:18: Battle of Eight Generals / Moryo Senki Madara / Atsushi Fujio and Katsuhiro Suzuki 35:03: Shop 2 / Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko and Hitoshi Sakimoto 38:04: Jewel World (Ruby’s Theme) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 41:19: Old Map / Golden Axe / You Takada 42:48: Cherry Tree Bridge / Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard / Yuzo Koshiro 48:37: Title Theme / Journey to Silius / Naoki Kodaka 52:02: Infinity Mijinion / Mega Man X6 / Naoto Tanaka 56:06: Walking the Snowy Mountains / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 60:17: Side Crawler’s Dance / Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap / Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap / Composed by Shinichi Sakamoto, arranged by Michael Geyre 62:42: Side Crawler’s Dance / Wonder Boy III / Shinichi Sakamoto 65:49: Meyna’s Theme / Legazy of the WIzard / Yuzo Koshiro 67:34: Winter Wonderland / Pocky & Rocky 2 / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 69:53: Milk Bar / Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask / Koji Kondo 73:18: Top Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita (a.k.a. Bun Bun) Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Lifelong gamers might like to reminisce about video game consoles past, but just by the numbers, system that got the most play back in the ’90s was the Game Boy. It outsold every console in its day, which means that a lot of players would have played famous video game franchises on the Game Boy before they played it on a standard system. This episode is all about those versions of famous series, and how the composers tasked with translating iconic VGM themes often worked wonders with the Game Boy’s more limited sound technology. Track listing: 0:31: Overworld / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Composed by Koji Kondo, arranged by Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa 1:46: The Prince’s Adventure / The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls / Kazumi Totaka 3:06: Title Theme / Final Fantasy Legend III / Ryuji Sasai and Chihiro Fujioka 4:18: C-Type / Tetris (Game Boy) / Hirokazu Ando 5:42: Darkness / The Castlevania Adventure / Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima 7:01: Bloody Tears / Castlevania: Legends / Composed by Kenichi Matsubaba, arranged by Kaoru Okada and Youichi Iwata 10:52: Ryu’s Theme / Street Fighter II (Game Boy) / Yoko Shimomura 12:26: Guile’s Theme / Street Fighter II (Game Boy) / Yoko Shimomura 14:41: Chun-Li’s Theme / Street Fighter II (Game Boy) / Yoko Shimomura 17:19: Stage 2 (Waterfall) / Operation C / Composed by Kazuki Muraoka, arranged by Hidehiro Funauchi 19:17: Winter / Harvest Moon GB / Composed by Tsuyoshi Tanaka, arranged by Yōjirō Okino 25:18: Banquet of Nature (Nakoruru’s Theme) / Samurai Shodown (Game Boy) / Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate 28:13: Comma-Shaped Jewels (Kyoshiro’s Theme) / Samurai Shodown (Game Boy) / Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate 31:14: A Foreign Girl (Charlotte’s Theme) / Samurai Shodown (Game Boy) / Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate 34:41: Area 1 (Bionic Commando Theme) / Composed by Harumi Fujita, arranged by Kouji Murata 38:06: Dark Queen Battle / Battletoads (Game Boy) / David Wise 41:14: Napalm Man / Mega Man IV / Composed by Mari Yamaguchi, arranged by Kouji Murata 44:09: Toad Man / Mega Man IV / Composed by Minae Fujii, arranged by Kouji Murata 47:05: Dust Man / Mega Man III / Composed by Minae Fujii, arranged by Kouji Murata 50:41: Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast) / Donkey Kong Land II / Composed by David Wise, arranged by Grant Kirkhope 55:02: Duke’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden (Game Boy) / Yasuhiro Nakano 57:57: Ellis’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden (Game Boy) / Yasuhiro Nakano 60:52: Kayin’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden (Game Boy) / Yasuhiro Nakano 63:51: Blue Mary’s Blues / Nettou Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special / SNK Sound Team 65:19: Bermuda / DuckTales 2 / Yoshihiru Sakaguchi 66:54: Ending Theme / Kirby’s Dream Land / Masahiro Sakurai and Jun Ishikawa 68:29: Main Theme / Bubble Bobble (Game Boy) / Tadashi Kimijima VGMpire’s five-part Street Fighter series: http://www.vgmpire.com/2019/09/16/vgmpire-151-street-fighter-saga-vol-1/ The episode all about Harvest Moon’s winter themes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/54-harvest-moon-winter-music The Samurai Shodown episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/samurai-shodown-vgm The episode about the Donkey Kong Land games: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/34-big-ape-mountain Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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If I made the things you know to suddenly seem different, would that be good? Think about that while you listen to this episode of celebrated 16 bit-era VGM made to sound weird, dark and maybe a little drunk. I promise this will not become a habit. Track listing: 0:10: Revenge of the Kraken / Singing Mountain 4:58: I Want You / Gary Low 6:12: Feel It All Around / Washed Out 7:03: Casual Friday at Booster Tower / Singing Mountain 9:15: Disco Train / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 10:00: Disco Death Train / Singing Mountain 15:51: Village / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takanuchi 16:46: Medicated Village / Singing Mountain 20:42: Schala / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 21:40: Schala Is Sad Forever / Singing Mountain 26:41: Sky Chase Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 27:38: Sky Chase Zone at Sunset / Singing Mountain 31:33: The Little Sprite / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 32:22: This Must Be the Sprite / Singing Mountain 35:54: The Underground / Yoshi’s Island / Koji Kondo 36:35: The Cave of Chomps Rock / Singing Mountain 39:40: Drunk Fortune Teller / Singing Mountain 43:08: Idaten / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 43:43: Horse Tranquilizers / Singing Mountain 47:10: Silent Zone / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo 47:53: It Is Readily Apparent That This Zone Isn’t Silent / Singing Mountain 49:40: Water World (Critical) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 50:29: The Water Fairy Gets Sad Sometimes / Singing Mountain 52:56: Spacewalk / Thunderforce IV / Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida and Tomomi Ootani 53:34: Spacewalk at Sunset / Singing Mountain 59:38: King Dedede’s Theme / Kirby Super Star / Jun Ishikawa 60:02: King Dedede Is Drunk / Singing Mountain 64:14: Fighting in the Streets / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 64:43: Cruising in the Streets / Singing Mountain 68:49: Bedtime in SimCity / Singing Mountain 70:51: Splash Wave But You Drive Into the Ocean / Singing Mountain Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/singingmountain The episode about italo disco in video games: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/29-italo-disco-video-games Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is the game that ultimately ended up leading to Bravely Default in 2012. And while Bravely Default improved upon the core mechanics in almost every way, there’s a certain charm to 4 Heroes of Light — and that includes a soundtrack by Naoshi Mizuta. The music mixes the best of what the Nintendo DS could do at the time along with a nifty, chipune-y throwback style. And that makes all the sense in the world, because this game is in many ways a throwback to the early days of the Square RPG. Track listing: 0:16: The Four Heroes of Light / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 2:29: Royal Palace Melody / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 5:02: Magic Kingdom Gula / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 8:07: The Legendary Whale / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 10:33: Horne, the Home of the Wind / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 12:10 Horne, the Home of the Wind (Night) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 14:25: Walking the Ground / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 17:04: Walking the Ground / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 19:25: Battle WIth Demons / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 21:48: The Witch’s Mansion / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 25:00: Trading City Vulpes (Urbeth) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 26:26: Trading City Vulpes (Night) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 28:32: Closed-Off Invidia / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 33:47: Riding the Dragon / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 37:32: Elva, the Forbidden Land (Arbol) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 41:05: Heavenly Supervia (Spelvia) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 43:15: Heavenly Supervia (Night)) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 46:15: The Demon King’s Servants / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 48:35: The Demon King’s Heartbeat / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 51:41: The Final Battle / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 53:43: Liberte, the Capital of Art (Night) / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 56:27: The End of the Journey / Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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What does a sunset sound like? This episode may well fail to answer that question, but what you might get anyway is the third installment in the (so far) trilogy of Singing Mountain episodes about driving music but drawn entirely from non-racing, non-driving games. This one follows the narrative from bustling freeways to that perfect moment of sunset to early evening in the city. Track listing: 0:10: Silent Gravity / Bloody Roar (Arcade) / Atsuhiro Motoyama and Kenichi Koyano 2:08: Sunset Bridge / Persona 5 / Shoji Meguro 5:05: Grope After the Truth / Tobal 2 / Takayuki Nakamura 8:35: Wormland / Super Turrican II / Chris Huelsbeck 11:18: Seeking the Holy Sword / Sword of Mana / Kenji Ito 13:09: Cursed City / Golden Axe III / Naofumi Hataya and Tatsuyuki Maeda 15:00: City / Sonic Blast Man II / Naoto Yagashita 19:00: Thundercloud / U.N. Squadron / Manami Matsumae 25:19: BGM 4 / Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf / Tokuhiko Uwabo 28:39: Staff Roll / Super Final Match Tennis / Takamitsu Kajikawa 31:23: Beach Sunset / Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (Super NES) / Rick Fox 34:10: Credits Theme / Fatal Fury 2 (PC Engine) / SNK Sound Team 35:58: Sound Test No. 10 / ATP Tour Championship Tennis / Hikoshi Hashimoto 38:05: Your Sunset / Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2 / Taku Inoe 42:10: Isolation / Zero Divide 2 / Hideyuki Shimono and Akihito Ohkawa 46:05: Midnight Greenhouse (Bonatic Base) / Knuckles’ Chaotix / Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba 48:52: Heavy Hitters / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 51:09: Imbalanced Kiss / Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Touitsusen / Hiro Takahashi 54:19: Heliport / Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Arcade) / Kazunaka Yamane 57:04: End Credits / Sega Bass Fishing / Sachio Ogawa 58:49: Mirthless / King of Fighters ’97 / SNK Sound Team 60:28: European Stars / European Club Soccer / Matt Furniss Afternoon Drive: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/afternoon-drive-vgm-mixtape Moonlight Drive: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/moonlight-drive Race to Your Death! Or Don’t!: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/race-to-your-death Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Hey, who likes trains? Because I do, and this episode is all about how different VGM composers interpret the sound of the train into actual music. Track listing: 0:25: Charge Man Theme / Mega Man 5 / Mari Yamaguchi 2:05: Train Ride / Animal Crossing (Gamecube) / Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi and Shinobu Tanaka 3:34: Excess Express at Night / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano, Yuka Tsujiyoko and Saki Haruyama 4:45: Railroad Wrath / Cuphead / Kristofer Maddigan 9:36: The Long Train (Act II, Part I) / Nina Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos / Ryuichi Nitta and Mayuko Okamura 12:51: Living on the Deck / Metal Slug X / Takushi Hiyamuta and Yoshihiko Wada 17:46: Flash Train / Street Fighter EX 2 / Takayuki Aihara, Shinji Hosoe and Ayako Saso 22:05: Bullet Bill Express / Super Mario 3D World / Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo and Yasuaki Iwata 25:45: Molentary Express / Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box / Tomohito Nishiura 30:38: Metro City Subway / Final Fight (Arcade) / Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yasuaki Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, Yoko Shimomura, Junko Tamiya, Harumi Fujita 33:28: Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time / Mutsuhiko Izumi and Kozo Nakamura 36:08: Wreck Train / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 40:25: Armored Train / Wild Guns Reloaded / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki‎ and Haruo Ohashi 44:44: Overworld Adventure / Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks / Toru Minegishi, Manaka Tominaga, Asuka Ota and Koji Kondo 48:55: The Mission / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 51:31: Get on the Train (Necro’s Theme) / Street Fighter III / Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai 54:09: Phantom Train / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Three hours of classic RPG town music. Enjoy. Track listing: 2:13: Town / Final Fantasy (PSP) / Nobuo Uematsu 3:59: Village / Dragon Quest III (Super NES) / Koichi Sugiyama 5:35: Birth of the People / ActRaiser / Yuzo Koshiro 7:45: One Day for Sure (Threed) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki 10:57: A Curious Tale / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 13:25: Village / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takenouchi 18:14: Home Arni / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 21:28: The Mines of Narshe / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 24:12: Ebon Keep Town / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 26:19: Village / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 29:15: My Home, Sweet Home / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 31:50: Undella Town (Autumn, Winter and Spring) / Pokemon Black & White / Hitomi Sato 34:09: Town / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 35:37: Evening Star / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 39:06: MerIbia / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 42:10: Under Her Control / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu / 45:31: Thousand Wings / Breath of Fire V / Hitoshi Sakimoto 48:17: Podul / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 50:39: The City on the Deep Blue Sea / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 55:00: Hometown Domina / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 57:38: Foresta / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Yasuhiro Kawakami 59:57: Summers, Eternal Tourist Trap / Earthbound / Hiroshi Kanazu 1:01:55: Troian Beauty / Final Fantasy IV (NIntendo DS) / Nobuo Uennatsu 1:05:21: Dezoris Town / Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 1:07:11: Besaid / Final Fantasy X / Masashi Hamauzu 1:10:30: Witchmakers / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 1:13:11: Dasil, City of Burning Sands / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:16:32: Town / Dragon Quest XI / Koicihi Sugiyama 1:21:12: Closed-Off Invidia / Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 1:25:41: Village of Luc / Grandia / Noriyuke Iwadare 1:30:11: Hometown / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 1:33:30: Harvest November / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 1:37:51: Town / Emerald Dragon / Yasuhiko Fukuda 1:41:34: Vane / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 1:44:05: Mechanical Kingdom / Radiant Historia / Yoko Shimomura 1:47:05: Lefthanded Wolf / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 1:50:03: Village of Elw / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 1:51:30: Ivor Tower Town / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 1:54:41: Come to Our Town / Dragon Quest IX / Koichi Sugiyama 1:58:38: The Village of Inoa / Alundra / Kohei Tanaka 2:00:54: Yewbell ~ Balmy Breeze / Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits / Koji Sakurai, Takayuki Hattori, Yuko Fukushima, Masahiro Andoh and Takashi Harada 2:02:52: Horn, the Home of the Wind / Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 2:04:28: My Village Is Number One / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 2:06:23: Saith / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 2:08:42: Another Arni / Chrono Chross / Yasunori Mitsuda 2:12:09: Female Turbulence / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 2:16:23: Happy Town? / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 2:18:53: Desert Flower (Treit, the Desert Oasis) / Tales of Symphonia / Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Takeshi Arai 2:22:42: Shevat ~The Wind is Calling / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 2:26:12: Atelier City Zeiss / Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC / Hayato Sonoda, Wataru Ishibashi and Takahide Murayama 2:28:41: Town / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 2:32:01: Little Sweet Cafe / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 2:35:13: Fisherman’s Horizon / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 2:38:44: Boy Meets Girl / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki 2:40:56: Vale / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 2:44:01: Trade City / Breath of Fire / Yoko Shimomura 2:46:09: Heavenly Village / Dragon Quest VII (3DS) / Koichi Sugiyama 2:48:52: Kids Run Through the City / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 2:51:30: Night Shift / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 2:52:44: Moonlit City Roa / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura

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This is not a definitive list of the best-ever RPG town themes. This is the first in what will be a regular feature on Singing Mountain in which I look at various town themes and talk about what I think the composers were trying to tell us about the fictional cities these songs are attached to. It’ll be good, I swear. Track listing: 0:09: Village / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takenouchi 3:04: Village / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 6:20: Hometown / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 10:16: Village of Luc / Grandia / Noriyuke Iwadare 15:39: Another Arni / Chrono Chross / Yasunori Mitsuda 19:44: The Village of Inoa / Alundra / Kohei Tanaka 22:36: Thousand Wings / Breath of Fire V / Hitoshi Sakimoto 26:18: Village of Elw / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 28:48: Town / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 30:55: Fisherman’s Horizon / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 35:07: Saith / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 38:16: Town / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 42:23: Dezoris Town / Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 45:01: Shevat ~ The Wind is Calling / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 49:11: Town / Emerald Dragon / Yasuhiko Fukuda 53:19: The City on the Deep Blue Sea / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 58:15: Happy Town? / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 61:22: Mechanical Kingdom / Radiant Historia / Yoko Shimomura 65:00: Atelier City Zeiss / Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC / Hayato Sonoda, Wataru Ishibashi and Takahide Murayama 68:05: Going Shopping in Ripple Town / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 72:08: My Home, Sweet Home / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Do video game composers speak a language that video game players understand? I’d like to think so, and maybe there’s some small proof in the way they score forest scenes. In this episodes, I talk about four different styles of forest VGM that might be particular to this genre of music but also happen to be pretty sweet to listen to. Track listing: 0:13: Lost Forest / Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box / Tomohito Nishiura 2:59: Boggly Woods / Thousand Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 5:01: Great Forest of Moore / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 6:51: Wood Man / Mega Man II / Takashi Tateishi 8:24: Kolima Forest / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 9:34: Agata Forest / Okami / Masami Ueda 13:01: Forest of Confusion / Monstania / Noriyuke Iwadare 16:34: Cerulean Woodlands / Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan / Yuzo Koshiro 23:03: To Sunshine Forest / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 26:13: Silent Forest of Doubt / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 28:03: The Forested Temple / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VII 32:55: Forest of the Treant / Tales of Phantasia / Motoi Sakuraba 35:51: Lost in the Forest / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 37:22: Surrounded by Forest / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 40:50: Passing Through the Forest / Threads of Fate / Junya Nakano 46:36: Dark Forest / Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse / Mari Yamaguchi 48:28: Enchanted Forest / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 50:04: Scarlet Forest / Deltarune / Toby Fox 52:07: Forest of Monsters / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 56:55: Silence of the Forest / Bravely Default / REVO 61:01: Fangle Forest / Trine / Ari Pulkkinen 65:15: Cedar Forest (Falling Green) / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 68:57: Forbidden Forest / Etrian Odysse II: Heroes of Lagard / Yuzo Koshiro 74:24: Whisker Woods / Boot Hill Heroes / Jake Kaufman 78:19: Woodlands / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nashiki 86:11: Windy Cliffs / Do-Re-Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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An hour of relaxing video game music — a pixelated hideout from the world. For this go-around, all tracks are taken from the Super NES and Sega Genesis. The original Save Point episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/40-save-point More of the episodes where I shut up and just play music: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-chill-vgm Track listing: 0:19: Beginning / Monster World III: Wonder Boy in Monster World / Shinichi Sakamoto 2:24: Water Goddess / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 4:03: Seven Wise People / Pocky & Rocky 2 / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kinuyo Yamashita, Haruo Ohashi and Asuka Yamao 5:40: The Legend / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 8:04: Overworld / Equinox / Tim Follin and Geoff Follin 12:34: Star Night Festival / Harvest Moon / Tsuyoshi Tanaka 13:45: Calm Time / Star Ocean / Motoi Sakuraba 16:43: Into the Dream / Soul Blazer / Yukihide Takekawa 19:07: Lux Tizer / The 7th Saga / Norihiko Yamanuki 21:35: Dungeon and Waterfall / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Ryuji Sasai and Yasuhiro Kawakami 23:47: Elle’s Theme / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka Masanori Hikichi 26:05: Friendship / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 28:47: The Quieting World / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 30:48: Submerged / Super Turrican II / Chris Huelsbeck 33:16: Earth Area (Night) / Drakkhen / Hiroyuki Masuno 36:42: Remains / Front Mission: Gun Hazard / Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Junya Nakano and Masashi Hamauzu 38:32: Master of the Flying Ship / Far East of Eden Zero / Toshiyuki Sasagawa, Kohei Tanaka and Aya Tanaka 40:20: Voice of Awakening / Energy Breaker / Yukio Nakajima 42:33: Reinoll, Generous Hermit / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa Hirokazu Ando 45:09: Jiji’s Theme / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 45:57: Sakura / Shinobi III: Return of the Master Ninja / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 48:43: Walk on a Rainbow / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 54:01: Ending / Phalanx / S. Yamaguchi 58:18: Ending / Panorama Cotton / Kenichi Hirata 59:45: Good Night, See You Soon / Sim City (Super NES) / Soyo Oka 62:41: Game Over (The Water Fairy) / Lufia & The Fortress of Doom / Yasunori Shiono Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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In a departure from the typical Singing Mountain episode, this one isn’t focused on video game music. There still is VGM, it’s just that the episode is more of a deep dive into a very niche subject: the popularity of Twin Peaks in Japan and its subsequent impact on two major Nintendo franchises. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of David Lynch. I will explain it all out for you. See links to all articles mentioned here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/twin-peaks-nintendo Track listing: 0:12: Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) / Composed by Angelo Badalamenti, performed by SomethingHolden 3:10: Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) / Angelo Badalamenti 7:54: The Bookhouse Boys / Angelo Badalamenti 10:16: Mysterious Forest / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano 11:40: House by the Bay / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano 12:32: Link and Marin Talk / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano 14:19: Onett Night 1 / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 15:36: Giygas Intro / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 16:26: Peaceful Rest Valley / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 18:51: Dance of the Dream Man / Angelo Badalamenti 20:46: Beachcombing / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 21:46: Sorrowful Tazmily / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 22:42: Audrey’s Dance / Angelo Badalamenti 23:55: Laura Palmer’s Theme / Angelo Badalamenti 26:15: Nightlife in Twin Peaks / Angelo Badalamenti 27:31: Hard Rain / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 29:34: Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) / Composed by Angelo Badalamenti, performed by Nantco Bakker Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Every version of the stage themes in Super Mario Maker 2 has both a regular, in-stage version and then a sort of remix you here when you’re in edit mode, building the stage. They’re cool, and they make for good thinky music. This episode is all them. Get to work! Listen to the other episode about Super Mario Maker 2: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/super-mario-maker-2-retro-vgm Track listing: 0:18: Sky (Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 3:03: Forest (Super Mario 3D World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 5:37: Desert (Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 7:48: Underground (New Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 9:58: Snow (Super Mario World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 12:16: Forest (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 13:56: Underground (Super Mario World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 16:23: Underwater (Super Mario 3D World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 18:27: Snow (Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 20:13: Desert (New Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 22:14: Forest (Super Mario Bros.) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 24:24: Snow (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 26:33: Sky (Super Mario 3D World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 29:06: Desert (Super Mario World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 31:16: Snow (Super Mario 3D World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 32:59: Desert (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 34:56: Forest (Super Mario World) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 36:55: Underwater (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 39:09: Underground (Super Mario Bros. 3) [EDIT] / Super Mario Maker 2 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi Check out my Mario Maker 2 stages and tell me if they suck? Codes: XVW-WTW-6GF J6B-B3M-6HF MKH-N65-BVG Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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One of the not-so-obvious functions of the Mario Maker games is as history archive for the Super Mario series. The newly released Super Mario Maker 2 boasts a whole lot of music, much of which looks to the past for inspiration. This episode looks how the composers used music to bring Mario’s history into the present. Track listing: 0:10: Underwater (Super Mario 3D World) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 1:52: Course World (Version Two) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 2:06: Special World / Super Mario World / Koji Kondo 2:29: Endless Challenge (Easy) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 2:43: Endless Challenge (Hard) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 2:59: Story Mode 1 / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 3:28: Inside Peach’s Castle / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 5:45: Sky (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker 2 / Koji Kondo 7:21: Name Registration / Vs. Super Mario Bros. / Koji Kondo 8:03: Snow (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker 2 / Koji Kondo 10:18: Forest (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker 2 / Koji Kondo 12:28: Desert (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker 2 / Koji Kondo 14:18: Desert (Super Mario Bros.) Edit / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 15:32: Underwater Night (Super Mario Bros.) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 16:38: Snow (Super Mario Bros. 3) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 19:30: Oceanside / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Koji Kondo 20:21: Ground Theme / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Koji Kondo 21:25: Desert (Super Mario Bros. 3) Edit / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 21:53: Forest (Super Mario Bros. 3) Edit / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 23:09: Forest (Super Mario World) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 25:11: Snow (Super Mario World) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 27:22: Snow Mountain / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 27:59: Desert (Super Mario World) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 31:20: Yamamura’s Dojo / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 32:51: Course World (Network Play) / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 34:07: Underground (Night) / Super Mario Bros. / Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi 34:52: Ground Theme (Super Mario Land) / Super Mario Maker 2 / Composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, arranged by Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi and Sayako Doi Check out my Mario Maker 2 stages and tell me if they suck? Codes: XVW-WTW-6GF J6B-B3M-6HF MKH-N65-BVG Drew on Twittxer: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Video games allow American gamers to see depictions of America that don’t always line up with how they might see themselves. But how do VGM composers shorthand the U.S.A.? I listened to some of the more notable examples of themes for American characters in games around the Street Fighter II era to see what version of America they’re trying to communicate to us. Track listing: 0:09: Charlie’s Theme / Street Fighter Alpha 2 / Setsuo Yamamoto, Syun Nishigaki and Tatsuro Suzuki 2:04: Jazzy NYC ’99 / Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike / Hideki Okugawa 5:01: Plight (Guile’s Theme) / Street Fighter Alpha 3 / Takayuki Iwai, Yuki Iwai, Isao Abe, Hideki Okugawa and Tetsuya Shibata 6:08: Violent Emotion (Guile’s Theme) / Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition / Composed by Yoko Shimomura, arranged by Isao Abe and Syun Nishigaki 8:31: Travelers / T-Square 9:24: Q’s Theme / Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike / Hideki Okugawa 11:28: Battle Harbor (Ken’s Theme) / Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition / Composed by Yoko Shimomura, arranged by Isao Abe and Syun Nishigaki 15:02: Mighty Wings / Cheap Trick 15:28: Stripes (Cody’s Theme) / Street Fighter Alpha 2 / Setsuo Yamamoto, Syun Nishigaki and Tatsuro Suzuki 16:45: Balrog’s Theme / Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition / Composed by Yoko Shimomura, arranged by Isao Abe and Syun Nishigaki 19:29: Kiss Me (Blue Mary’s Theme) / Fatal Fury 3 / SNK Sound Team 20:40: Slum No. 5 / King of Fighters ’94 / Masahiko Hataya 22:48: Kurikinton (Terry’s Theme) / Fatal Fury 2 / Masahiko Hataya, Toshio Shimizu and Yoshihiko Kitamura 25:53: Long Horned Beetle / King of Fighters ’96 / Masahiko Hataya 27:52: Hurry Up! (Ray’s Theme) / Fighter’s History / Gamedelic 31:32: Sarah’s Theme / Virtua Fighter / Takayuki Nakamura 33:44: Haggar’s Theme / Saturday Night Slam Masters / Masaki Izutani and Setsuo Yamamoto 35:52: Gunloc’s Theme / Saturday Night Slam Masters / Masaki Izutani and Setsuo Yamamoto 39:29: Wilderness Policeman (Kevin’s Theme) / Garou: Mark of the Wolves / SNK Sound Team 41:14: Poison’s Theme / Ultra Street Fighter IV / Hideyuki Fukasawa 42:14: Joe’s Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi If you like this episode, you might like a series I’m doing on the connections between VGM and pop music: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Drew on Twittxer: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Released late in Nintendo’s 8-bit run — and even then, only in Japan and Scandinavia — the Sunsoft platforming game known either as Gimmick! or Mr. Gimmick has one of the best soundtracks of that era. In fact you might be surprised just how beautiful Masashi Kageyama could make the system sound, even when most eyes (and ears) were focused on the brand new Super Famicom. Track listing: 0:07: Good Morning / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 2:23: No Limits / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 4:47: Happy Birthday / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 6:41: Good Weather / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 8:38: Slow Illusion / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 10:30: Paradox / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 11:06: Paradigm / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 12:24: Lion Heart / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 14:38: Innocent / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 15:19: Cadbury / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 17:03: Strange Memories of Death / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 19:21: Just Friends / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 21:09: Aporia / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 22:54: Identity Believer / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 24:09: Untitled (Final Boss) / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 24:35: Siesta / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 25:19: Good Night (Take Two) / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama 28:53: Sophia (Take Two) / Gimmick! / Masahi Kageyama Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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It’s the sound of summer.... specifically for people who’d rather not put on sunscreen or deal with beach traffic. Everything in this episode reads as summery to me, and I will try my best to justify my picks. Listen to last year’s summer episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/28-summer-vgm-mix Track listing: 0:09: Flashback / Akumajou Densetsu / Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto 1:35: Noki Bay / Super Mario Sunshine / Shinobu Tanaka 3:20: The Dim Light of Dusk / Star Ocean: The Second Story / Motoi Sakuraba 5:29: Summer / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 7:33: The City Liked by the Wind / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 10:29: Hole Overview / Pebble Beach Golf Links / Shigekazu Kamaki 13:14: Neris’s Theme (Sea World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kasume 15:54: Undella Town (Spring, Autumn and Winter) / Pokemon Black & White / Junichi Masuda 19:39: Happy Birthday! (Stage One) / Gimmick! / Masashi Kageyama 22:20: Breezy / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 25:43: Sky Chase Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 28:17: Call at a Port / Terranigma / Miyoko Kobayashi 31:36: Overworld Theme / Crusader of Centy / Motokazu Shinoda 35:20: Flying Power Disc (Beach Court) / WIndjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 37:46: Village / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takenouchi 40:32: Country Living / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 44:41: Into the Thick of It / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 46:53: Dezolis Field 2 / Phantasy Star IV / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 52:09: High Scores / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 54:59: Proto Man’s Theme / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita (a.k.a. Bun Bun) 57:56: What You’re Looking for Is a Calm Beach / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 59:37: Chateau Chanterelle / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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So there is the Wonder Boy series, the Adventure Island series and finally the Monster World series, which are all related but separate. But in 1994, Sega released Monster Hunter IV for the Mega Drive, and while it didn’t make it out of Japan for a very long time, it did sport a catchy soundtrack that you wouldn’t expect from an action platformer. Happy Friday! The Retronauts episode explaining Wonder Boy, Adventure Island and Monster World: https://retronauts.com/article/188/retronauts-episode-72-wonder-boy-vs-adventure-island Track listing: 0:09: Heart of Icegrave / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 3:05: Lamp de Godjarre / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 4:45: Overture / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 5:28: Tales from Monster World / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 6:29: Arabesque Court in a Dream / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 8:40: Over the Clouds / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 10:28: Stream Sanctuary / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 12:07: Labyrinth on the Sky / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 14:10: Long Distance / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 16:29: Volcanic Cave / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 18:28: Try the Trial / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 20:01: Kingdom of Rapadagna / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 22:40: Kool Dude / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 25:12: Malevolent Deity / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 28:09: Cathedral / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 29:19: Finale (Part One) / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 30:42: Finale (Part Two) / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 31:19: Finale (Part Three) / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Did you know that Japan got a spiritual sequel to Mario Paint in 1999? An entire suite of programs released under the name Mario Artist, it was released for the 64DD peripheral, which never made it to the U.S., and it features a lot of the calm, creativity-inspiring music heard in Mario Paint. This episode is all about that. Whee. Listen to the Super Mario B-sides episode that inspired this one: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/minus-world-super-mario-b-sides Track listing: 0:13: Title Theme / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 1:31: Space Base / Mario Artist: Talent Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata and Toru Minegishi 2:00: Po Pi Pa Pi / Mario Artist: Talent Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata and Toru Minegishi 3:20: Drawing Track 1 (Jellyfish) / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 9:08: Drawing Track 4 (Hot Air Balloons) / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 11:57: Ocean Floor 1 / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 15:46: The Triassic Era 1 / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 19:33: Digital Diamonds / Mario Artist: Polygon Studio / Kazumi Totaka 24:10: Cyberspace / Mario Artist: Polygon Studio / Kazumi Totaka 28:25: The Triassic Era 2 / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 30:37: Ocean Floor 2 / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 35:07: Saving, Loading and Inventory Boxes / Mario Artist: Polygon Studio / Kazumi Totaka 36:11: Texture Editor / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 37:31: Drawing Track 2 (Cats) / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Because console video games hit mainstream around the same time that America was watching a lot of B-grade action movies, there’s a more-than-occasional similarity between the way ’80s video games sound and the way those movies sound. It’s a good thing, and this episode is all about VGM that sounds like those movies. Track listing: 0:16: Title Theme / Final Fight (Amiga) / Jolyon Meyers (a.k.a. The Judge) 6:12: Pints and Punks / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 8:16: Fight to Survive / Stan Bush 9:58 Dare / Stan Bush 11:26: She’s Got the Power / Stan Bush 12:32: Robot Factory / Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies / Noriyuki Iwadare 14:39: Motherless Children / Ninja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 20:02: Like the Wind / Like the Wind / Elemental Master / Toshiharu Yamanishi 22:09: Forest Fortress / U.N. Squadron / Manami Matsumae 26:01: Volcanic Zone (Exploration) / Popful Mail / Atsushi Shirakawa and Mieko Ishikawa 28:56: Stage 1A / Thunder Force II / Tomomi Ootani 33:19: Joe’s Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 35:26: Devilish Influence / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 36:33: Deep Friendship / Thunder Zone / Gamadelic 38:51: Staff Roll / Phantasy Star IV / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 42:48: Whirlwind / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 46:21: Stage One Theme / Rambo (NES) / Tohru Hasebe and Minki Motoyama 49:14: Knight (Neinhalt’sTheme) / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Team 51:49: A Battle WIth Destiny / Trouble Outsiders / Shiori Ueno 54:55: Pleasure of Tension / Snatcher / Konami Kukeiha Club 56:46: Jungle Juncture / Super Contra (NES) / Composed by Kazuki Muraoka and Motoaki Furukawa, arranged by Hidenori Maezawa 59:00: Japan / Aero Fighters / Naoki Itamura 61:05: Midnight Dancer / Thunder Zone / Gamadelic 63:33: Iron Lips' Theme / Toukon Club / Iku Mizutani 65:22: Kinryuu-Kan (Stage 1) / Tiger Road (Arcade) / Harumi Fujita and Tamayo Kawamoto 66:40: Jangle Bells / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 70:33: You Became the Bad Guy! / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 73:32: Martha Splatterhead / Combatribes / Kazunaka Yamane 74:55: Return of Fox Hounder / Metal Gear (MSX2) / Iku Mizutani Shigehiro Takenouchi Motoaki Furukawa 76;33: Staff Roll / Street Smart /Toshikazu Tanaka Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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It’s not a rerun; it’s a special edition. This is redo of the fourth episode I ever did on this podcast. I thought that original was good. but being relatively ignorant about podcast-making back in the day, there are a few things, content-wise and production-wise, that I always wanted to change about the original version. Now I’ve done it: For your enjoyment and entertainment, a better-sounding and deeper-diving episode about the use of pop music in EarthBound, all tied together with a personal story about the persistence of memory. Weird! All installments of the VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain A video guide to EarthBound’s hpop music inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_oc9Ypcb2Q All 173 samples used in EarthBound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYojhTpOuvQ The Retronauts episode about EarthBound: https://retronauts.com/article/181/retronauts-episode-69-earthbound Twin Peaks, David Lynch and Link’s Awakening: https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2010/02/david-lynch-meets-legend-of-zelda.html Track listing: 0:08: Battle With Kraken / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 2:31: Your Name, Please / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 4:03: One Day for Sure (Threed, Free at Last) / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 5:08: Battle With an Unsettling Opponent / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 6:51: Onett's Arcade / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 7:32: Get on the Bus (City Bus Ride) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 9:23: Dead End Chaos Theater / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 11:18: Alien Invasion 1 / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 13:01: Boris' Cocktail / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 14:44: Moonside Swing / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 16:00: Keep on Laughin' / Ric Ocasek 18:15: Magicant / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 20:02: Crossing Over Space and Time (The Cliff That Time Forgot) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 20:57: The Place (The Cave of the Past) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 22:15: Deirdre / The Beach Boys 22:58: Battle Against a Weird Opponent / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 23:53: Mother / Plastic Ono Band 24:37: Megaton Walk / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 25:17: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / The Beatles 26:13: Eight Melodies / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 26:52: Give Peace a Chance / Plastic Ono Band 27:46: The Skyrunner / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 28:15: Won’t Get Fooled Again / The Who 28:53: Dr. Andonuts' Lab / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 30:01: Peaceful Rest Valley / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 31:13: Apple Kid’s Theme / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 32:30: Hospital (Call the Doctor) / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Samurai Shodown has a lot to offer… just not that one missing W. SNK’s fighter had samurai and non-samurai alike swinging weapons in one-on-one combat, and though it once appeared to be a moribund franchise, it’s actually being revived later this year with a brand-new entry later this year. This means more fighting game action but also more amazing music that draws on traditional Japanese compositions. This episode offers an overview of music from the series’ six main installments. Track listing: 0:16: Song of Men (Sun) / Samurai Shodown / Yasuo Yamate 3:11: Fifteen Warriors / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Team 3:53: The Old Temple / Samurai Shodown VI / Kennosuke Suemura and Mitsuo Miyamoto 4:36: Portrait / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Team 7:10: Way of a Man / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Soundteam / Yasumasa Yamada 10:43: Comma Shaped Jewels / Samurai Shodown / Masahiko Hataya 13:16: Oni / Samurai Shodown II / Yasuo Yamate 17:06: Tuna Incarnation / Samurai Shodown V / Kennosuke Suemura and Haruhiko Kuroiwa 20:14: Evil Ways / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Tean 23:20: Water Incarnation (Nizuno Incarnation) / Samurai Shodown IV / SNK Sound Team 26:12: Ceremony (Cloud Kill Rock) / Samurai Shodown V / Kennosuke Suemura and Haruhiko Kuroiwa 29:47: Successively Foreign Girl / Samurai Shodown IV / SNK Sound Team 33:26: Oni Song Revision / Samurai Shodown IV / SNK Sound Team 37:33: Bamboo Thicket / Samurai Shodown / SNK Soundteam 40:41: Hesitation Mist / Samurai Shodown II / Yasumasa Yamada 44:31: River / Samurai Shodown III / SNK Sound Team 49:19: Dinner on a Moonlit Night / Samurai Shodown V / SNK Sound Team 53:02: Nature Breath / Samurai Shodown III / SNK Sound Team 57:55: Destinies of Lamentation (Lament of the River Styx) / Samurai Shodown III / SNK Sound 61:30: Team Original Underground Spring (Yumeji’s Dream) Samurai Shodown V / Kennosuke Suemura and Haruhiko Kuroiwa 64:29: Brutal Woman / Samurai Shodown II / Yasumasa Yamada 67:13: The Two Guardians (Old Temple Stage 2) / Samurai Shodown VI / SNK Sound Team 68:32: Smell the Breeze (Bloody Rain) / Samurai Shodown III / SNK Sound Team 71:09: Evening Crane / Samurai Shown VI / Composed by Kennosuke Suemura and Mitsuo Miyamoto, vocals by Maho Kayuri The weird history behind Gottfried “Götz” von Berlichingen, the real-life Neinhalt Seiger: https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2011/07/ass-licking-iron-fisting-history-lesson_18.html Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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An early Super NES title, Lagoon is a Zelda-ish adventure that is today most remembered for its soundtrack. But here’s the thing: That music was initially composed for the game’s first incarnation on the Sharp X68000, which is both maybe the best version of its music and also a version you probably haven’t heard before. Happy discotastic Friday. Track listing: 0:13: Moonchild / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 2:34: Keep the Faith / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 3:22: Voice of the Spirits / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 4:31: Premonition / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 8:07: Castle Mark Philips / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 10:00: Senegul / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 11:22: Voloh / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 12:59: Run to the Hills / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 14:39: Castle Siegfried / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 17:02: Valley / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 19:40: Reach for the Sky / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 21:53: Unusable 1 / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 25:20: Desert Plains / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 26:18: Prince of Darkness / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 29:15: Master of Water / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 31:09: Shop / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 31:59: Game Over / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team 33:05: Tales from the Peaceful World / Lagoon / Zoom Sound Team If you liked this episode, then here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/29-italo-disco-video-games Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Back before mainstream pop started sampling video game music willy-nilly, The Pixies went a step further and wholesale covered a VGM composition: the theme from NARC, a 1988 arcade game. This says as much about The Pixies as it does Brian Schmidt’s great soundtrack for this game, and in the scope of Singing Mountain’s series looking into the intersection of VGM and mainstream pop music, it’s an outlier in that the latter isn’t screwing over the former. This episode’s show notes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/winners-dont-use-drugs-podcast Listen to all VGM+POP episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Track listing: 0:07: Krak Street (Main Theme) / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 2:09: The Bridge / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 4:12: The Junkyard / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 6:04 The Pipeline / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 8:53: Sunset Strip / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 9:41: Where Is My Mind? / The Pixies 10:08: Velouria / The Pixies 11:01: Sunset Strip / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 11:38: Theme From NARC / The Pixies 13:23: Skyhich’s Nursery / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 16:32: The Nursery / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 17:30: The Inner Sanctum / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 20:10: Title Theme / Black Knight 2000 / Brian Schmidt, Dan Forden and Steve Ritchie Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Not every desert sounds the same. The sitar and tabla are Indian instruments that, in video game music, are almost always used to signify the desert. Not every composer buys into this trend, however, and this episode focuses on desert themes that suggest a different kind of adventure. Track listing: 0:14: Tostarena Ruins / Super Mario Odyssey / Naoto Kubo 3:42: Lethal Lava Land / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 4:07: Through the Desert / Castle Crashers / Matthew Harwood 4:31: Drums of Dalia / Golden Sun: The Lost Age / Motoi Sakuraba 4:53: Kingdom of Nasrad / Skies of Arcadia / Yutaka Minobe and Tatsuyuki Maeda 5:15: Gritzy Desert / Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time / Yoko Shimomura 5:34: Addashi Desert / Okage: Shadow King / Jun-Ichi Doi, Takamitsu Kajikawa, Yoshikazu Kawatani, Toda Kazuhide and Toshiaki Murata 5:55: Dasil, City of Burning Sands / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 6:16: Desert Ruins (Zone 1) / Sonic: Lost World / Tomoya Ohtani and Takahito Eguchi 6:37: Slipsand Galaxy / Super Mario Galaxy 2 / Mahito Yokota 7:46: The Burning Sands / Final Fantasy X / Masahi Hamazu 9:30: Dhalsim’s Theme / Street Fighter IV / Composed by Yoko Shimomura, arranged by Hideyuki Fukasawa 9:55: Desert Hill / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Koji Kondo 10:17: Sandopolis / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Various Composers 10:47: Desert Palace / Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Ryo Nagamatsu 11:59: The Sunlands / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nishiki 15:31: The Withered Forest / Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl / Yuzo Koshiro 20:36: Kalamari Desert / Mario Kart 64 / Kenta Nagata 23:40: Desert Zone / Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap / Composed by Shinichi Sakamoto, arranged by Michael Geyre 29:36: Yucca Desert / Mother / Hirokazu Tanaka 30:29: Super Dry Dance (Dry Dunes Desert) / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 33:14: Secret of the Arid Sands / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 35:19: Harvest November / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 40:43: The Rosy Setting Sun (El Sol Rosado Del Sol) / Sunset Riders / Motoaki Furukawa 43:06: Advanced Wind (Whistle Version) / Wild Arms 3 / Michiko Naruke 46:06: Teehee Valley / Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimomura 48:18: Desert Flower (Treit, the Desert Oasis) / Tales of Symphonia / Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Takeshi Arai 52:57: Gerudo Valley / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 55:43: Gerudo Town (Night) / Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild / Yasuaki Iwata 59:49: Oblivia Field (Night) / Xenoblade Chronicles X / Hiroyuki Sawano 63:07: Marmalade Valley / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto, and Fumihiro Isobe 66:29: Scorching Dunes (Sunburn Island) / Shantae and the Pirate's Curse / Jake Kaufman 70:58: Sky Sands / Kirby’s Air RIde / Shogo Sakai, Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando and Tadashi Ikegami 73:34: Sand Ocean / F-Zero / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida 74:50: The Sandy Badlands / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 75:59: Land of Sand and Time / Bravely Default / REVO Along similar lines, listen to the episode about the phony pan-Asian motif in video game music: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/37-chai-kingdom-asian-cliche Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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A big hit in Japan during the PlayStation’s early days, the Arc the Lad series hasn’t endured quite as well as other JPRGs. However, the soundtrack to the first three games — masterminded by Masahiro Andoh — has a style all its own. In fact, these games’ battle themes sound nothing like most other battle themes you’ll here in any era RPG. Yep, that’s what this episode is about: 30 minutes of battle music that doesn’t sound anything like battle music. Track listing: 0:11: Arc / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 0:52: Save and Loud / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 2:54: Seirya / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 4:54: Battle 1 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 7:14: Battle 2 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 9:41: Battle 7 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 12:03: Battle 8 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 14:37: Battle 1 / Arc the Lad II / Masahiro Andoh 16:43 Battle 7 / Arc the Lad II / Masahiro Andoh 18:58: Battle 8 / Arc the Lad II / Masahiro Andoh 21:00: Battle 1 / Arc the Lad III / Masahiro Andoh 24:09: Battle 2 / Arc the Lad III / Masahiro Andoh 27:09: Battle 3 / Arc the Lad III / Masahiro Andoh 30:11: Battle 7 / Arc the Lad III / Masahiro Andoh 33:18: Last Battle / Arc the Lad II / Masahiro Andoh 34:28: Battle 9 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 35:51: Congara / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 36:51: Separation / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh 37:58: Cheryl’s Theme / Arc the Lad III / Masahiro Andoh Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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This is the sound of low-key, 16-bit JRPG, before Enix got all involved. This is for when it’s time to check into the village inn. Track listing: 0:12: Epitaph / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 2:28: Select a Live / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 4:52: Melody of Lute / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 5:40: Underwater City / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 8:19: Innocent Water / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 11:54: Summer Day / Radical Dreamers / Yasunori Mitsuda 14:45: Katrina’s Theme / Romancing Saga III / Kenji Ito 16:26: Ebon Keep Castle / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 19:12: Green Continent Campbell / Noriko Matsueda 21:58: Surrounded by Forest / Treasure Hunter G / Hitoshi Sakimoto 25:27: Beautiful Forest / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Ryuji Sasai 27:41: A Curious Tale / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 30:10: As I Feel, You Feel / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 32:37: Mermaid Legend / Romancing Saga II / Kenji Ito 34:06: Forever Rachel / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 36:50: Fire Eyes / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 38:55: Shrine of Light / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Ryuji Sasai 40:30: Waiting for the Moon / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 42:05: The Girl Who Stole the Stars / Radical Dreamers / Yasunori Mitsuda 45:16: Decision Bell / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 49:03: Desert Daphira / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 50:51: Holy King Temple / Romancing Saga 3 / Ryuji Sasai 52:46: Ivor Tower / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 55:39: Take the Gold and Run! (Night) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 57:12: Lenna’s Theme / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 59:35: Corridors of Time / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 62:29: Innocent Sea / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 65:16: Land of Dwarves / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 67:32: The Serpent Trench / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 71:07: The Long Goodbye / Seiken Densetsu / Hiroki Kikuta Listen to the Naptime With Nintendo episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/nintendo-naptime All the “more music, less talk” episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-chill-vgm All the Square-Enix episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-squaresoft Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Who likes pipe organs? This episode offers up some of the best pipe organ (or pipe organ-like) music in the history of video games. In almost every instance, this instrument is used to signify the sacred, the profane or some horrible combination of the two. Is it a cliche? Sure. But it’s one this podcaster can be okay with. Listen to the saxophone-specific episode of Singing Mountain: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/best-saxophones-video-games Track listing: 0:15: Ultimecia’s Castle / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 2:34: Manoria Cathedral / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 3:42: Door of Journey / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 4:56: Title Theme / Gauntlet II / Hal Canon, Brad Fuller and Earl Vickers 5:23: Nature / Front Mission / Yoko Shimomura and Noriko Matsueda 7:11: Divine King Tower / Kenji Ito / Romancing Saga 3 9:08: St. Eva Grand Church (God of Decadence) / Breath of Fire II / Yuko Takehara 11:34: Shrine of the Master / Soul Blazer / Yukihide Takekawa and Kazz Tomaya 14:40: Armageddon / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 17:06: Golbez, Clad in Darkness / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy IV 21:18: Ganon’s Tower / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 24:02: Cackletta’s Theme / Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimomura 25:43: Ultimate Koopa / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 28:30: Drawcia Sorceress / Kirby: Canvas Curse / Jun Ishikawa and Tadashi Ikegami 29:59: The Place Where Evil Sleeps (Cordelia’s Theme) / Panel de Pon Harmony / Masaya Kuzume 33:53: Beyond the Colosseum / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 36:09: Wandy’s Castle / Pac-Man All-Stars / Unknown Composer 37:48: Portal to Open Grounds / Radical Dreamers / Yasunori Mitsuda 40:19: Reincarnation / Shin Megami Tensei IV / Ryota Kozuka, Kenichi Tsuchiya and Toshiki Konishi 45:59: Simon’s Theme / Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 49:27: After Confession / Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow / Masahiko Kimura and Michiru Yamane 52:00: The Gears Go Awry / Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin / Michiru Yamane and Yuzo Koshiro 53:55: A Toccata into Blood-Soaked Darkness / Castlevania: Curse of Darkness / Michiru Yamane and Yuka Watanabe 59:28: Healed by a Hymn / Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) / Koichi Sugiyama 61:41: Hey You, What Time Is It? / Treasure Hunter G / Hitoshi Sakamoto 62:59: Shrine / Shining in the Darkness / Masahiko Yoshimura 64:17: The Saint / Dragon Quest VI / Koichi Sugiyama 66:01: Please, God / Breath of Fire 2 / Breath of Fire II / Yuko Takehara 67:06: Pray for the People’s Joy / Yasunori Mitsuda / Xenogears 69:22 Safety in the Sanctuary / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo 70:50: Safety in the Sanctuary / Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Ryo Nagamatsu Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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What could the 1990 dance hit “Groove Is in the Heart” possibly have to do with video games? It’s kind of a weird story, involving the Sega series Space Channel 5 and — in the context of this episode — diversions into Herbie Hancock and the Edgar Winter Group. The fifth installment of my series on VGM and mainstream pop looks at how Sega imposed a major game over on the cult pulp icon Lady Miss Kier. Listen to all VGM+POP episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain An excellent, comprehensive article about the Miss Kier-Space Channel 5 lawsuit: http://www.sega-16.com/2018/04/sega-firsts-ulala-goes-to-court/ Track listing: 0:18: Groove Is in the Heart / Edwin van Santen 3:26: Groove Is in the Heart / Deee-Lite 5:56: Bring Down the Birds / Herbie Hancock 6:37: Blank TV (Ulala Support Chant) / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 8:04: Mexican Flyer / Ken Woodman and His Picadilly Brass 10:40: Pala Paya (Lounge Music) / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 13:17: Pussycat Meow / Deee-Lite 13:52: Ulala’s Dance 100 / Space Channel 5: Part Two / Naofumi Hataya, Kenichi Tokoi and Tomoya Ohtani 14:13: Mororian’s Base (Strange Path) / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 15:38: Spaceship Trapped in the Galaxy / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 16:25: Mororina the Elegant Crowd / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 19:23: Coco Tapioca, the Huge Dancer / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi 23:03: Evila: Attack of the Perfect Reporter / Space Channel 5 / Naofumi Hataya and Kenichi Tokoi Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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There’s the Mario music that gets remade time and time again with each new game, but there’s also a great deal of other tracks that don’t. They're good too, however, and a lot more eclectic than you might expect from ol' Super Mario and friends. This episode — a sequel to Episode 23, linked below — is all that weird stuff from Mario games and their various spinoffs. The Marioverse is wild and strange. Enjoy. Listen to the first Mario B-Sides episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/super-mario-b-sides Track listing: 0:09: Gurgle Gulch / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 2:53: BGM 2 / Mario Paint / Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kazumi Totaka 5:06: Monster Dance / Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally / Hideki Kanazashi 8:01: Tutorial Theme (Hello, Happy Kingdom) / Itadaki Street DS / Composed by Yoko Shimomura, arranged by unknown composer 11:08: Shutter / Game & Wario / Yasuhisa Baba, Masanobu Matsunaga, Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Sho Murakami and Yoshito Sekigawa 14:19: Koopa Beach / Mario Sports Mix / Masayoshi Soken 17:56: Ocean Floor / Mario Artist: Paint Studio / Kazumi Totaka, Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall and Suddi Raval 22:42: Sunset Wilds / Mario Kart: Super Circuit / Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunaga and Minako Hamano 25:53: Fire / Game & Watch Gallery 4 / Riyou Kinugasa and Kengo Hagiwara 28:42: Ship of Souls / DK: King of Swing / Takashi Kouga 31:24: Sammer’s Kingdom / Super Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba 34:17: Fury Volcano 2 / Super Princess Peach / Akira Fujiwara 37:38: Wario Cup / Mario Kart Arcade GP / Yoshihiro Kurohata, Kunio Yamaguchi, Hiroto Fushimi, Keigo Tanaka, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto, Hiroyuki Hiraishi, Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Minamo Takahashi, Takehito Sasaoka, Norihide Nakajima and Ken Nakadate 42:56: Crimson Tower / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe 45:43: Daffodil Peak / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe 47:47: Island in Violet / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe 51:53: Hot Top Volcano / Diddy Kong Racing DS / David Wise 55:41: Body Rock / WarioWare: D.I.Y. / Kenichi Nishimaki and Takeru Kanazaki 61:41: Credits Theme / Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Koji Kondo 63:51: Sacred Somnom Woods / Mario & Luigi: Dream Team / Yoko Shimomura 68:01: Create: Super Mario Bros. 3 Underwater / Super Mario Maker / Koji Kondo, Naoto Kubo and Asuka Hayazaki 70:24: Ending Theme / Yoshi’s Island / Koji Kondo Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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How many versions of Athena Asamiya’s theme can you listen to before you give up? Is Athena the businest high school student this side of Laura Palmer? Is this whole episode an April Fool’s joke? You better run if you are bad! Track listing: 0:17: Psycho Soldier Team Theme (China) / Papaya (a.k.a. Masahiko Hataya) 3:11: Title Theme (Japanese) / Psycho Soldier / Composed by Eikichi Kawasaki, vocals by Kaori Shimizu 4:58: Title Theme (English) / Psycho Soldier / Composed by Eikichi Kawasaki, vocals by Kaori Shimizu 6:07: Area 1 (Japan) / Psycho Soldier / SNK Sound Team 7:22: World of Sea / Athena (NES) / SNK Sound Team 8:57: Psycho Soldier (Cassingle Version) / Kaori Shimizu 12:57: Title Theme / Psycho Soldier / Composed by Eikichi Kawasaki, arranged by Martin Galway 14:38: Psycho Soldier Theme / King of Fighters ‘94 (Neo Geo CD) / Arranged by SNK Sound Team, vocals by Reiko Furui 18:32: Psycho Soldier Remix / King of Fighters ‘96 / Papaya (a.k.a. Masahiko Hataya) 21:39: Psycho Soldier Remix ‘97 / King of Fighters ‘97 / SNK Sound Team 24:52: Athena’s Theme / SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium / SNK Sound Team 26:37: Psycho Soldier / King of Fighters 2002 / Papaya (a.k.a. Masahiko Hataya) 28:12: World of Forest / Athena (NES) / SNK Sound Team 29:19: World of Sky / Athena (NES) / SNK Sound Team 30:13: Badly Scarred Moon / Psycho Soldier / SNK Sound Team 31:30: Kizu Darake no Blue Moon / Psycho Soldier / SNK Sound Team Silent Aswang’s Athena compilation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABs-f5IgjuY Geltonz’s Athena videos https://www.youtube.com/user/GELTONZ/search?query=psycho Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe]

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You’re driving, but it doesn’t have to be a race. Track listing: 0:11: Grand Bridge / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 1:29: Grass Land / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 2:31: Pipe Island / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 3:10: Crescent Island / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 4:33: Amazon / Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix / Isao Abe, Yuki Iwai and Setsuo Yamamoto 7:29: Marina Madness / Knuckles’ Chaotix / Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba 10:16: Column Dive / Columns III / Morihiko Akiyama 12:18: Sea / U.N. Squadron / Manami Matsumae 14:50: Title Theme / Double Dragon II: The Revenge / Kazunaka Yamane 17:35: Tengu Man / Mega Man & Bass / Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta and Akari Kaida 20:14: Battle 8 / Arc the Lad / Masahiro Andoh and Hirotaka Izumi 22:47: Wall Tune / Cool Spot (Genesis) / Tommy Tallarico 25:38: BGM 4 / Shinobi / Yasuhiro Kawakami 27:11: Twinbee to the Rescue! / Pop'n Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventures / Kenichi Matsubara, Yukie Morimoto and Saiko Miki 29:33: Sandinista / Contra (Arcade) / Kazuki Muraoka 31:18: Kasnan Fortress / Ys IV: Mask of the Sun / CUBE (Yoshiaki Kubotera, Masanori Hikichi, Miyoko Kobayashi, Naoki Ito, Tomohiro Endo and/or Hiroo Tengenji) 34:51: Fire World (Flare’s Theme) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 40:11: Mojo Ramble / Art of Fighting 3 / SNK Sound Team 42:27: Napalm Man / Mega Man 5 / Mari Yamaguchi 45:22: Wheat Field / Double Dragon II: The Revenge / Kazunaka Yamane 48:07: Unused Theme / U.N. Squadron / Manami Matsumae 51:19: Shoot! / Windjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 54:20: Dolphin Park / Wave Race 64 / Kazumi Totaka 56:54: Beach / Plok / Tim and Geoff Follin 62:18: Spirit Mountain / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 63:09: Floating Castle / Yoshi’s Safari / Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura and Yasushi Tokunaga 64:46: Magical Sound Shower / Out Run / Hiroshi Kawaguchi Moonlight Drive: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/moonlight-drive https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/race-to-your-death Race to Your Death! Or Don't!: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/race-to-your-death Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Indie rock was one of the biggest genres of the early 2000s. This episode looks at some of the more notable instances of video game music influencing the indie sound, with stories of Super Mario, Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy infiltrating the work of artists such as Owen Pallett, Boom Bip, Fleet Foxes and The Mountain Goats. All this plus a stern warning against going to Coachella if you haven’t been already. Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Track listing: 0:09: Wario’s Castle / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 3:20: Haunted House / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 4:43: An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett 6:41: Star Maze / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 9:08: Treetop / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 9:45: Seashore / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 10:24: Machine / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 13:57: He Poos Clouds / Owen Pallett 16:45: Hey Dad / Owen Pallett 18:10: Coin Heaven / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Koji Kondo 19:31: Brazil / Francisco Alves 20:56: Brazil / Kate Bush 24:46: Quiet Houses / Fleet Foxes 27:13: Roads Must Roll / Boom Bip 39:54: Title Theme / Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 35:37: Choose Your Pipe / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 39:35: Staff Roll / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 41:10: Thank You, Mario, But Our Princess Is in Another Castle / The Mountain Goats & Kaki King Episode notes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/link-mario-go-to-coachella The video art project I'm choosing to force upon you: https://www.phantofilms.com/marion-marion Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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The Valis series stars long-legged, sword-swinging anime girls, and the third installment has more than one to choose from. This entry in the series also boasts a kickass soundtrack by Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami. It toes the line between 1980s cheese and anime badassness, and here’s hoping it’s what you need to make your Friday better. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:09: Prologue / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 3:26: Ningenkai / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 7:29: Kakumen Boss no Theme / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 9:11: Joshou Cham no Theme / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 10:46: Garu no Tou / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 12:33: Sutherland / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 15:28: Nirvan Road / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 17:19: Nizetti / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 19:40: Makai / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 22:05: Iceland / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 24:15: Deja Vu / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 25:23: Grames / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 26:38: Staff Roll / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami 30:23: Grames no Tou / Valis III (Genesis) / Jun Hasebe, Hisao Inoue and Shingo Murakami Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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Back in the day, video games could rock without featuring anything close to a real guitar. It’s actually a testament to those composers’ ingenuity that they could conjure something from those sound processors that sounded unmistakably like an electric guitar. This episode is an eclectic mix of some of those remarkably hard-rocking soundtracks. (Long live Barbara the Bat!) Track listing: 0:17: Launch Octopus / Mega Man X / Setsuo Yamamoto 3:02: Overdrive Ostrich / Mega Man X2 / Yuki Iwai 4:56: Volt Catfish / Mega Man X3 / Kinuyo Yamashita 6:26: Operation Thunder Zone / Thunder Zone (Desert Assault) / Hiroaki Yoshida (a.k.a. Maro) and Akira Takemoto (a.k.a. Raika) 9:56: Burning Heart / Battle Mania Daiginjou / Junichi Masuda 12:34: Ragnarok Canyon / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) / David Wise 17:38: Mission 2 / Carrier Air Wing / Manami Matsumae 19:45: Corneria / Star Fox / Hajime Hirasawa 25:39: Russia / Aero Fighters / Naoki Itamura 28:57: Hurry Up (Ray’s Theme) / Fighter’s History / Gamedelic 31:43: Bluefin Tuna (Galford’s Theme) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 34:37: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 39:27: Flugelheim Museum / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 42:03: Epilogue / Heavy Barrel / Azusa Hara and Hiroaki Yoshida 44:00: Bloodlines / Castlevania: Rondo of Blood / Akira Souji (a.k.a. Akiropito) 47:43: The End of Raging Waves / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 50:10: Dawn of Ys / Ys IV: Mask of the Sun / Naoki Kaneda 53:35: Ginza / Shin Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 57:19: Gorgeous Musical Castle Part Two (Goe Goe Spark) / Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon / Shigeru Araki, Yusuke Kato, Saiko Miki and Yasumasa Kitagawa 60:39: Southern Island / Wave Race 64 / Kazumi Totaka 63:13: Break Point Champs / Windjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 65:32: Ending Theme / F-Zero / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

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The music of the Kirby games is cheerful but not relentlessly so. In fact, Kirby’s swan song on the Super NES, Kirby’s Dream Land 3, has some slightly more down-tempo tracks. This quickie episode is just those: not a comprehensive look at this game, but a more moody take on Kirby, some of Jun Ishikawa’s best work and some of the best music we ever got from Nintendo’s 16-bit era. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Pixel Beat’s episode about the first Kirby’s Dreamland: pixelbeatpod.com/blog/files/pod26.html Track listing: 0:06: Opening / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 1:02: Pop Star / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 4:38: Grass Land 2 / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 7:32: Grass Land 4 / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 10:28: Ripple Field 2 / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 13:22: Ripple Field 3 / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 17:30: Sand Canyon 3 / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 21:09: Iceburg / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 24:43: Cloudy Park / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 28:39 Staff Roll / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 36:04: Dedede / Kirby’s Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The third installment of Singing Mountain’s look at how VGM interacts with mainstream music focuses on the Elec Man theme from the first Mega Man game. It sounds a lot like a track by Journey, but also like likes from REM, Cheap Trick, Bon Jovi, Human League and more. What’s going on here? I talk to some songwriters about why this one melody might seem to be a 1980s mainstay. Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain This episode's page, with notes, sources and that weird Journey album art that looks curiously like Mega Man: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/62-mega-man-journey The robots episode of Super Marcato Bros.: http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/2/24/episode-358-robots The GTV episode about the Elec Man theme: https://youtu.be/7GSx_0yMuXo Karl Brueggemann on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcatobros Analise Nelson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lalalanalise Nick Loiacano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bionicbroadcast Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/ Track listing: 0:11: Bomb Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 1:50: Cut Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 4:02: Elec Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 6:11: Faithfully / Journey 7:10: Fire Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 8:28: Guts Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 9:55: All the Right Friends / REM 11:15: Way of the World / Cheap Trick 11:53: Marianne / Human League 12:21: Change / John Waite 12:42: She Don’t Know Me / Bon Jovi 13:14: On the Edge / AWOL 13:58: Back to ’80s / High NRG Man featuring Domino 14:23: Never Surrender / Giant 14:49: Follow Your Heart / Sunstorm 15:15: Every Priase / Hezekiah Walker 15:44: M.A.S.K. Theme / Shuki Levy 16:18: Steal My Girl / One Direction 17:03: Select Screen / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 17:35: Runaway / Bon Jovi 17:54: Ice Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 19:38: Main Theme / Space Harrier / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 21:27: Wily Fortress 1 / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 24:01: Wily Fortress 2 / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 26:34: Ending Theme / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 29:39: Elec Man / Mega Man: Powered Up / composed by Manami Matsumae but arranged by Toshihiko Horiyama View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/59-eternal-champions-bone-thugs Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Can you guess how a piece of VGM was supposed to be used in a game you’ve never played? This week, I’m giving you an experiment, and you will decide if it becomes a regular feature on Singing Mountain. I play a little un-winnable, un-loseable game show with my roommate, Glen, in which I play music from video games he doesn’t know and he uses his base knowledge of VGM to guess what kind of scene, setting or genre the composition was supposed to evoke. Play along! And tell me if you’re into this. Glen on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iwritewrongs Gayest Episode Ever, the podcast I co-host with Glen: https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/ Episode 48, the interview with Katherine that inspired this episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/48-katherine-spiers-howard-phillips Track listing: 0:15: Lunar (Fighting Through the Darkness) / Lunar: The Silver Star / Composed by Noriyuki Iwadare, sung by Shiya Almeda 2:01: Overworld Theme 1 / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 4:07: Overworld Theme 2 / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 6:32: Merbia / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 7:37: Vane / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 9:01: Underwater Theme / Super Mario Bros. / Koji Kondo 10:36: Battle Theme 1 / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 12:42: Venus Fire (Stage 2 Gorgon) / Thunder Force AC / Unknown Composer 15:09: Little Sweet Cafe / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 18:14: Shop Theme / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa 19:54: Moon Petal / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 22:01: Controls Menu / Star Fox / Hajime Hirasawa 23:26: Ebon Keep / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 26:09: Sky Over Gotham City / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 28:07: Title Theme / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo / Kenji Yamamoto 31:51: Determination / Undertale / Toby Fox 33:45: The Sun Also Sets / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa 37:18: Paula’s Theme / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 39:47: Primrose the Dancer / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nishiki 43:13: Step up / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo 44:34: Bracky News / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo 47:46: Dreams Dreams / NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams / Tomoko Sasaki, vocals by Robbie Wyckoff and Francis M. Benitez Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The 16-bit era of Squaresoft RPGs helped teach a generation of gamers what this style of game could be. But as celebrated as titles like Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger were, their fans outside Japan missed out on a slew of others. This episode is a musical sampler of the titles that came out for the Super Famicom but not the Super NES: Romancing SaGa, Bahamut Lagoon, Front Mission, Treasure of the Rudras, Treasure Hunter G, Alcahest and Live a Live. Track listing: 0:11: Tension / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Nobuo Uematsu 2:28: Menu / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 4:47: Voyage / Romancing SaGa 2 / Kenji Ito 7:19: Destined Fate / Romancing SaGa / Kenji Ito 10:21: Bard’s Tale / Romancing SaGa / Kenji Ito 12:15: Julian’s Theme / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito 14:24: Harid’s Theme / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito 16:46: Magical Tank Battle / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito 20:39: Overworld / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest 22:04: Cave / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest 24:16: Dungeon / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest 27:45: Knock You Down / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 29:54: Native Life / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 31:28: Sancho de los Panchos / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 32:57: A Painful Death at the Hands of a Psycho / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 34:15: Pure Odio / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 37:05: Coaxial Town / Front Mission / Yoko Shimomura 38:41: Shop / Front Mission / Noriko Matsueda 40:15: Richard Millman / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Nobuo Uematsu 42:19: Approach to a Shrine / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Masashi Hamauzu 43:50: Trial Zone / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Yasunori Mitsuda 48:57: Yoyo (Jojo) / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 50:54: Kahna / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 52:26: Sub Battle / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 54:02: Requiem / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 56:10: Yoyo and the Dragons / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda 59:17: Beginning for the End / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 61:48: Between Two Worlds (Night) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 64:02: Crime of the Heart / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 67:11: Take the Gold and Run (Night) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 68:43: Underworld / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 69:51: Whistle Down the Wind / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 72:27: Well, Let’s Get Out There and Fight / Treasure Hunter G / Yoko Takada 73:30: The World’s Cavern 1 / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 75:45: Just Like the Mountain, He Will Not Move / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 78:45: Whose Cat Is This? / Treasure Hunter G / Yoko Takada 81:20: Sad Freedom / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 85:30: Mission Complete / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Yasunori Mitsuda 87:57: King of the Mountain / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The second installment of the VGM+pop music series looks at Eternal Champions, a 1993 entry in the canon of fighting games that was created by an all-American team of Sega employees. Eternal Champions has its own merits, but this episode is concerned solely with two tracks from this game — both composed by Andy Armer and both of which seem to have been sampled in the 1995 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album E. Eternal 1999. Neither Armer’s work nor Sega’s ownership of the source tracks seems to be documented anywhere official, and I do my best to try and find out why. Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/ Gamelan music sample by the court musicians of the Royal Palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, via freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/255544/ View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/59-eternal-champions-bone-thugs Track listing: 0:06: Blade’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 2:12: Rax’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 4:06: Shadow’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 5:28: Title Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 9:46: Character Bio Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 11:54: Eternal / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 13:27: Bad Ending Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 15:24: Crossroad / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 17:50: Menu Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 23:33: Rise / Herb Alpert 24:48: Hypnotize / The Notorious B.I.G. 25:23: Battle Room Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 28:27: Jetta’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 32:21: Title Theme / Ecco: The Tides of Time / Andy Armer 35:50: Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 37:55: Xavier’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 40:00: Elec Man Theme / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The previous episode looked at David Wise’s music before Donkey Kong Country, but purposefully spared on the Wizards & Warriors just because this long-neglected Rare franchise had too much good music to ignore. So please enjoy thirtysomething minutes of the best of the soundtracks from Wizards & Warriors and its three sequels. David Wise rules! Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:10 Wizard Guild / Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros — Visions of Power / David Wise 3:11: Title Theme / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 3:47: Forest of Elrond (Alternate) / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 6:42: Mountain Theme / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 9:36: Forest Theme / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 12:32: Underwater Theme / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 15:25: Summit of Icefire Mountain / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 18:22: Stage 2 / Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear / David Wise 19:51: Stage 3 & 4 / Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear / David Wise 21:06: Cave Passage / Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros — Visions of Power / David Wise 24:00 Unused Theme 4 / Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros — Visions of Power / David Wise 26:56: The Wise Men / Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros — Visions of Power / David Wise 29:50: Game Over / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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In 1994, David Wise became a video game hero as a result of his soundtrack to Donkey Kong Country, but he’d actually been composing music for video games for nearly a decade. This episode looks at his NES work leading up to DKC and pointing out where and when his genius for mood-setting, ambiance-encompassing first blossomed. By virtue of showcasing the best of early David Wise, this episode features some of the best music composed for the NES. That Eurogamer interview with David Wise: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-05-from-slalom-to-snake-pass-the-musical-life-of-david-wise The first ice level episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/diamond-dust-ice-music The Donkey Kong Country 3 episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/2018/5/11/24-dixie-kongs-double-soundtracks The Game Boy Donkey Kong episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/34-big-ape-mountain Track listing: 0:06 Fear Factory / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 3:17: Life in the Mines / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 6:00: Downhill Theme / Slalom / David Wise 10:19: Fire Cavern / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 12:13: Inner Castle / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 14:16: Princess Rescued / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 15:39: Title Theme / R.C. Pro-Am / David Wise 18:14: Half-Pipe / California Games / David Wise 19:45: Foot Bag / California Games / David Wise 20:39: Flying Disc / California Games / David Wise 22:44: Continue Theme / Who Framed Roger Rabbit / David Wise 25:04: Title Theme / Wheel of Fortune / David Wise 25:30: Title Theme / Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition / David Wise 29:08: Title Theme / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 32:52: Cave Theme 4 / Digger T. Rock / David Wise 35:41: Cave Theme 2 / Digger T. Rock / David Wise 40:16: Elm Street / A Nightmare on Elm Street / David Wise 43:24: Castle Harman / Time Lord / David Wise 45:33: Ending Theme / Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship / David Wise 49:51: Surf City / Battletoads / David Wise 52:06: Ragnarok Canyon / Battletoads / David Wise 54:23: The Armageddon / Battletoads / David Wise 57:15: Stage House / Beetlejuice / David Wise 60:27: Prologue / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise 60:54: Stage 3 / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise 63:00: Stage 5 / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise 66:13: OST 1 / Monster Max / David Wise 68:02: Approaching Planet / Monster Max / David Wise 71:23: Mining Melancholy / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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The first Singing Mountain of 2019 is also the first in a new series looking at the interactions between mainstream pop music and video game music. Though this episode focuses on Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, consider it an overview of the many ways VGM and pop can play off each other. I’m also stoked to say that in addition to the Jacksons, I got to mention Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Carly Simon, Biz Markie, Phil Collins, Sia and The Beatles, and I never thought I’d get to do all that in one episode of this show. It’s super weird, and I couldn’t be happier to be deep-diving into all manner of pop culture obscurities. Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/ View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/56-michael-jackson-janet-jackson-vgm Track listing: 0:12: Title Theme / The Race Against Time / Written by Peter Gabriel, arranged by David Whittaker 2:24: Games Without Frontiers / Peter Gabriel 6:12: Ice Cap Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer 7:15: Who Is It? / Michael Jackson 7:58: Smooth Criminal / Michael Jackson 10:41: Carnival Night Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer (but probably Brad Buxer) 10:58: Jam / Michael Jackson 11:13: Staff Role / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer 11:46: Stranger in Moscow / Michael Jackson 12:38: Hard Times / The Jetzons 16:11: Ending Theme / Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker / Written by Michael Jackson, composed by Tohru Nakabayashi 20:03: Together Again / Janet Jackson 21:30: Bridge Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog / Yuzo Koshiro 25:29: Moonlight City Roa / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 26:50: China Love / Janet Jackson 31:30: Bayou Boogie / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 32:34: In the Air Tonight / Phil Collins 35:51: Game Over / Lil’ Flip 40:04: Stage Two / Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker / Written by Michael Jackson, composed by Tohru Nakabayashi David Russell, pop music encyclopedia, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/17days Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Hey, remember winter? The season we’re in right now? In response to audience requests, I decided to get in one more episode about non-jolly winter music. And unlike Episode 33, I talk less on this one so you can enjoy an hour of what it would sound like to hang out in a palace made of ice. Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music Track listing: 0:08: Ice Cap Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown Composer (but probably Brad Buxer) 2:37: 3 a.m. (Snow) / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka and Atsuko Asahi 4:11: Heart of Icegrave / Monster World IV / Jin Watanabe 7:12: Frost Walrus (Theme Two) / Mega Man X4 / Toshihiko Horiyama 9:37: Snowy / Undertale / Toby Fox 13:06: Ice Place / King of Fighters 2000 / SNK Sound Team 17:38: Frozen Fantasy / Kirby: Canvas Curse / Jun Ishikawa and Tadashi Ikegami 19:05: Dungeon of Ice / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Ryuji Sasai 20:45: Snowpoint City / Pokemon Diamond and Pearl / Hitomi Sato 24:43: Snow Road / Paper Mario / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda 27:10: Arctic Justice (Frostbite Island) / Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse / Jake Kaufman 30:39: Frost Man / Mega Man 8 / Shusaku Uchiyama 33:42: Snowdrift Shrine / Golden Sun 3: Dark Dawn / Motoi Sakuraba 36:22: Frozen Plains / Disney's Magical Quest 2: The Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey & Minnie / Makoto Tomozawa 37:23: Inside the Igloo / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka and Atsuko Asahi 38:32: Into the Crystal Cavern / Final Fantasy III DS / Nobuo Uematsu 39:42: White Wafers / Kirby’s Return to Dreamland / Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa 42:10: Kolin’s Theme / Street Fighter V / Junya Nakano 46:22: Snowdin Town / Undertale / Toby Fox 48:47: Shield Sheldon / Mega Man X6 / Naoto Tanaka 51:05: Snowman / Mother / Hirokazu Tanaka 53:44: Snowt / Monstania / Noriyuki Iwadare 57:02: Like Sisters / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima 59:15: Both You and Me / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Seasons come and go in the world of the Harvest Moon games. This episode is all about the music you hear when snow covers the landscape. It’s all peaceful, but with a twinge of sadness, because it’s the coldest time of year and presumably the worst time for a harvest. The game, however, must go on. Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 3:35: Winter / Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life / Miyuki Homareda 5:59: Winter (Farm) / Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland / Kimitaka Matsumae, Hitomi Shimizu, Gary Ashiya and Suguru Yamaguchi 7:51: Song of Silence / Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life / Miyuki Homareda 9:03: Winter / Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon / Tomoko Morita 11:07: Winter / Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility / Eriko Ito 13:31: Winter (Night) / Harvest Moon: Animal Parade Yasufumi Fukuda and Hideaki Miyamoto 16:36: Winter / Harvest Moon: Animal Parade / Yasufumi Fukuda and Hideaki Miyamoto 20:09: Winter / Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands / Yousuke Ago, Kengo Hagiwara, Noriko Ishida, Mitsutosi Kodama, Ryoue Takagi and Masaya Tsunemoto 22:35: Winter (Farm) / Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon / Tomoko Morita 25:03: Winter / Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness / Noriko Ishida, Eri Yasuda and Yousuke Agou 27:19: Winter at Night / Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley / Tsukasa Tawada 29:16: Winter / Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon / Tomoko Morita 30:02: Winter / Harvest Moon DS / Yousuke Ago, Kengo Hagiwara, Noriko Ishida, Mitsutosi Kodama, Ryoue Takagi and Masaya Tsunemoto Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Last year, I celebrated the season with a trove of icy blue tracks from wintery video game levels, with none of the mirth and jingle of most Christmastime music. This year, I intended to go cheerier… but I didn’t, and instead I’m given you more chilled-to-the-touch levels that evoke Christmas eve in an ice cave. Stay cool. This episode is a sequel to Episode 12, Diamond Dust. Listen to that episode here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/diamond-dust-ice-music Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music Track listing: 0:06: Frostlands / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nishiki 5:52: Cool Cave / Kirby’s Epic Yarn / Tomoya Tomita 9:22: Mountaintop Secrets / Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam / Yoko Shimomura 12:38: Frozen Solid and Chilled / Yoshi’s Wooly World / Tomoya Tomita, Misaki Asada and Kazumi Totaka 16:16: Banquet Invitation / Shinsetsu Samurai Supirittsu: Bushidō Retsuden / SNK New World Sound Players 19:22: Iceolation / Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 / Koichi Sugiyama 22:54: Song of Tundra / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata 24:54: A Wish / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 26:39: Ice Lake / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 28:21: Closed-Off Invidia / 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 33:26: Nocturne of Ice / Stardew Valley / Concerned Ape a.k.a. Eric Barone 37:15: Snowbelle City / Pokemon X & Y / Shota Kageyama 40:12: Blizzard Wolfgang / Mega Man X6 / Akemi Kimura a.k.a. Naoto Tanaka 41:56: Tundra Man / Mega Man 11 / Marika Suzuki 44:52: Dark Dizzy (Dark Necrobat) / Mega Man X5 / Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka and Takuya Miyawaki 48:21: White Glacier / Bomberman 64 / Akifumi Tada 51:24: Freezing Soul / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Naoki Kaneda 54:49: The Salt Flats / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 58:21: Ice Cavern / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 61:15: Phantoms / Final Fantasy X / Junya Nakano 67:46: Snowy Scenery / Shenmue / Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 71:51: Ice Cave / Five Nights at Freddy’s World / Leon Riskin 75:53: Snow Valley / The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse / Mari Yamaguchi 77:41: Limestone Cave / Sonic Adventure / Fumie Kumatani 80:40: Crystal Caves / Donkey Kong 64 / Grant Kirkhope 84:48: Northern Hemispheres / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 87:01: Sherbet Land / Mario Hoops 3 on 3 / Masayoshi Soken Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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It never left Japan and it’s not the best known of Square’s 16 bit-era RPG outings, but Live a Live should be notable to VGM fans at least for having a great soundtrack composed by Yoko Shimomura. It bridges the gap between her Street Fighter II phase and the work she composes today for games like Kingdom Hearts. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:16: Title Theme / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 2:22: Select-a-Live / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 5:03: Secret Mission / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 7:39: Under the Fake / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 8:53: Wait for Truth / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 10:36: The Birds Fly in the Sky, the Fish Swim in the Rivers / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 12:28: Dangerous Bar / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 14:44: Silent Labyrinth / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 17:23: Kiss of Jealousy / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 19:02: Ultimate Strength ~ Victory Road / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 21:29: Megalomania / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 23:56: Sound of Shinobi / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 26:58: Prehistoric Night / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 28:27: Difficult Fight / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura Forever Sound Version: https://foreversoundversion.wordpress.com Obscure Video Games: https://obscurevideogames.tumblr.com Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Nintendo’s Smash Bros. series has become not only an altar to worship the gods of video games past but also a place to pay our respects to video game music. In this episode, I anticipate the arrival of Smash Bros. Ultimate on Friday with ten examples of Smash Bros. covers that improve upon their source materials. Track listing: 0:06: Super Mario Bros.: the Lost Levels Medley / Super Smash Bros. Wii U / Composed by Koji Kondo, arranged by Katsuro Tajima 2:08: Pedal Glider (Pilotwings Resort) / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed and arranged by Asuka Ito 6:30: Stickerbush Symphony / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 7:23: Stickerbush Symphony (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest) / Super Smash Bros. Brawl / Composed by David Wise, arranged by Michiko Naruke 11:17: Snowman / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 11:55: Snowman (Mother) / Super Smash Bros. Brawl / Composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, arranged by Shogo Sakai 17:26: Chill / Dr. Mario / Hirokazu Tanaka 18:12: Chill (Dr. Mario) Version 2 / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed and arranged by Hirokazu Tanaka 24:05: Palace Theme / Zelda II: The Adventure of Link) / Akito Nakastuka 24:46: Temple Theme (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link) / Super Smash Bros. Melee / Composed by Akito Nakatsuka, arranged by Shogo Sakai 29:46: Mount Dedede / Kirby’s Dreamland / Jun Ishikawa 30:46: King Dedede’s Theme Version 2 (Kirby’s Dream Land) / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed by Jun Ishikawa, arranged by Hideki Ishigaki and Hideki Onoue (HIDE+HIDE) 35:21: Field Theme / Mysterious Castle Murasame / Koji Kondo Mysterious Castle Murasame Medley / Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / Composed by Koji Kondo, arranged by Shohei Tsuchiya (ZUNTATA) 40:59: Light Plane / Pilotwings / Soyo Oka 41:51: Light Plane Vocal Mix (Pilot Wings) / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed by Soyo Oka, arranged by Masato Coda with RiRiKA 46:57: Pac-Man Intro / Pac-Man (Arcade) / Toshio Kai 47:03: Pac-Man (Club Mix) / Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / Composed by Toshio Kai, arranged by Hirokazu Tanaka 52:52: Ground Theme / Super Mario Bros. / Koji Kondo 53:22: Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Smash Bros. Brawl / Koji Kondo 56:56: Title Theme / Pikmin / Hajime Wakai 58:09: Mission Mode (Pikmin 3) / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed by Hajime Wakai, Asuka Hayazaki and Atsuko Asahi, arranged by Taku Inoue 61:46: Tomodachi LIfe / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed by Daisuke Matsuoka and Asuka Ito, arranged by Masafumi Takada 65:22: Fortress Boss (Super Mario World) / Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / Composed by Koji Kondo, arranged by ACE (TOMOri Kudo / CHICO) Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Sometimes great video game music doesn’t end up in the finalized video game, but that doesn’t mean it's gone forever. Singing Mountain celebrates its fiftieth episode (!) with a playlist of lesser-known, lesser-heard music from famous franchises, including Super Mario Bros., Sonic, Final Fantasy, Streets of Rage, Mega Man, Ys, Castlevania and of course Chrono Trigger, the game whose “lost” track gave this podcast its name. Track listing: 0:08: Singing Mountain / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 3:26: Unused Track 5 / Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons / Kiyohiro Sada and Minako Adachi 4:59: Underground Theme / Koji Kondo / Super Mario Bros. 2 (prototype) 8:26: Space Fight / ActRaiser / Yuzo Koshiro 11:40: Hidden Palace Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 14:09: Cross Your Heart / Castlevania: Dracula X / Composed by Kenichi Matsubara, arranged by Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko and Masahiko Kimura 17:52: Battle of the Holy / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 19:39: Lost Painting / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 23:47: Little Money Avenue / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima 25:31: Walking Bottom / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima 27:57: Unused Track / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man 7 30:42: Unused Deep Sea / Mega Man X5 / Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka and Takuya MiyawakI 34:26: The Origin / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 36:20: The Sea of Silence / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 38:35: Restless Moments / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 41:48: Town 2 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 43:18: Town 3 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 44:24: Approaching Premonition / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 47:34: King Description / Undertale / Toby Fox 50:33: Music Track of Unknown Purpose / WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto 53:07: Dreaming / Ys 1: Ancient Ys Vanished / Yuzo Koshiro and Mieko Ishikawa 56:42: Unused Track 2 / The Flintstones / Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn 61:25: Vanilla Lake (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 63:57: Rainbow Road (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 65:31: Bubble / Super Mario Galaxy / Koji Kondo and Mahito Yokota 70:11: File Select (Moyse Mix) / Claude M. Moyse / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening The Cutting Room Floor, a great site to look at cut video game content: https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Relax with all your favorite Nintendo franchises except F-Zero, because that one is never relaxing. But hey, Fire Emblem is here and even Metroid. There’s even Panel de Pon! But with this podcast, there is always Panel de Pon. Track Listing: 0:12: Piranha Plant’s Lullaby / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 2:58: Shooting Star Summit / Paper Mario / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda 6:32: A Rainy Day / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 9:37: Daytime (Globe) / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 13:05: 11 p.m. / Animal Crossing: City Folk / Manaka Tominaga, Shiho Fujii and Kazumi Totaka 15:42: Lake Lamode / Super Mario Odyssey / Shiho Fujii 18:43: Zora's Domain (Night) / Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild / Yasuaki Iwata 23:59: Forest Requiem / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 27:40: Frozen Fantasy / Kirby: Canvas Curse / Jun Ishikawa 29:40: Results / Pilotwings 64 / Dan Hess 32:27: Sponge Cave Spelunking / Yoshi’s Wooly World / Tomoya Tomita 35:36: Quiet Quarry / Donkey Kong Country Returns / Minako Hamano, Masaru Tajima, Shinji Ushiroda, Daisuke Matsuoka and Kenji Yamamoto 39:04: 4 a.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 41:57: Thiana’s Theme (Forest World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 44:25: Airytale Castle / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 49:27: Torvus Bog / Metroid Prime 2: Echoes / Kenji Yamamoto 53:38: The Truth-Teller / Fire Emblem: Fates / Takeru Kanazaki 56:42: Undella Town (Autumn, Winter and Spring) / Pokemon Black & White / Hitomi Sato 60:03: Excess Express at Dusk / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 62:35: Isle of Songs / Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword / Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yokota and Takeshi Hama 65:36: Footlight Lane / Super Mario 3D World / Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo 67:42: 11 p.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 70:01: Nighttime (Globe) / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 75:31: Rainy Day (Sunset) / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 77:26: The Starlight’s Flower / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 78:30: A Starlit Sky / Mario Party 9 / Toshiki Aida and Ryosuke Asami 80:15: You’ve Come Far, Ness (Coffee Break) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka More “less talk, more music” episodes of Singing Mountain: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-chill-vgm Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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Little Nemo: The Dream Master was a NES-era Capcom platformer that didn’t star a robot or a gargoyle or a millionaire duck. This title was one of the tougher 8-bit platformers, but it was also one of the best composed, with a soundtrack by Junko Tamiya that features melodies that will stick with you… or at least stuck with Drew for almost three decades. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing; 0:06: Prologue Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 0:58: House of Toys / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 4:10: Title Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 5:06: Mushroom Forest / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 8:00: Flower Garden / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 10:54: Night Sea / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 13:46: Nemo’s House / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 16:40: Cloud Ruins / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 19:36: Topsy-Turvy / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 22:28: Nightmare World / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 25:21: Boss Battle / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 28:13: The Nightmare King / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 31:07: Ending Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

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In a Singing Mountain first, this episode features a person who is not me: Katherine Spiers, friend and business partner, comes in to talk about TableCakes, the Los Angeles-based podcast network we started together and what that means for Singing Mountain listeners. She also talks about growing up being the stepdaughter of Howard Phillips, the American spokesperson for Nintendo back in the NES days and then we play a loosely structured game about video game music. Plus two stories about Macaulay Culkin and one about New Kids on the Block! Track listing: 0:19: You’ve Come Far, Ness (Coffee Break) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 5:13: A Rainy Day / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 8:48: Daytime / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 13:13: Shooting Star Summit / Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba 18:23: 4 a.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 22:01: Lake Lamode / Super Mario Odyssey / Shiho Fujii 28:33: Title Theme / Metroid / Hirokazu Tanaka 32:13: Aquatic Ambience / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 36:57: In the Air Tonight / Phil Collins 37:54: Bayou Boogie / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 39:24: Kefka’s Theme / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 42:23: Chun-Li’s Stage / Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition / Yoko Shimomura 45:27: Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 47:37: Inside the Castle Walls / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 52:15: Hi Hi HI (Saturn Valley Theme) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka TableCakes, the podcast network I started: https://tablecakes.com/ The TableCakes Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes Katherine’s podcast: https://soundcloud.com/smartmouthpodcast Katherine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/katherinespiers Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Singing Mountain’s celebration of Halloween comes to an end with the most Halloween-appropriate fighting series in history, Darkstalkers. This is a “music only” episode befitting the season, but Drew is pledging to give this franchise a fully annotated spotlight episode one day. For now, please enjoy a taste of the series that made a mummy fight an evil bee. Track listing: 0:09: Player Secret 1 / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 2:05: Continue Theme / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge / Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and Hideki Okugawa 4:20: Demitri’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 7:15: Iron Horse, Iron Terror (Q-Bee’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 9:34: Victor’s Stage / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge / Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and Hideki Okugawa 11:16: Arabaya I Bishamon’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 14:08: Anakaris’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 16:53: Deserted Chateau (Morrigan’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 18:50: War Agony (B.B. Hood’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 21:13: Tower of Arrogance (Felicia’s Stage / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 23:30: Revenger’s Roost (Donovan’s Stage) / Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 26:05: Fetus of God (Jedah’s Theme) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 28:57: Morrigan’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 30:23: Feast of the Damned (Demitri’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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The horrors of the Halloween season never sounded creepier than when they were channeled through the audio processors of the Super NES and Sega Genesis. Welcome to my 16-bit nightmare. Track listing: 0:07: Prologue / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 2:48: The Nightbreed / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 5:33: Mystic Chanting / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 7:30: Mystic Cave Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 9:30: Macabre Funk / Magic Sword / Kouji Murata 11:49: Plague Factory / The Ooze / Howard Drossin 13:45: Crazy Woods / Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body / Inuyo Yamashita and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 15:52: Haunted House / Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose / Kazuhiko Uehara and Yukie Morimoto 20:05: Fillmore / Actraiser / Yuzo Koshiro 21:47: Shade Man / Mega Man VII / Toshihiko Horiyama 23:16: This Enchanted Forest / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 25:27: Den / Castlevania: Dracula X / Konami Kukeiha Club 28:26: Haunted House / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 33:19: Title Theme / Otogirisou / Chiyoko Mitsumata 35:54: Curse of the Tongue / Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Joe McDermott 38:07: Wandering Spirits / Terranigma / Miyoko Kobayashi 40:58: Threed, Zombie Central / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 42:17: Ice Forest / Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Mari Yamaguchi 46:39: The Sinking Ship / Romancing SaGa 2 / Kenji Ito 48:15: Beneath the Haunted Mansion / LaPlace No Ma / Akiko Kosaka 49:32: Horror / Wondrous Magic / Yuji Nomi and Hiroki Kamata 50:37: Witch’s Theme / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 52:47: Fog of Phantom / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi and Sakimoto Masaharu Iwata 59:56: Don’t Cry, Jennifer / Clock Tower / Kōji Niikura 63:15: Title Theme / Banshee’s Last Cry (Night of the Sickle Weasel) / Kota Kano and Kojiro Nakashima 66:33: Jakyou no Yakata / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 70:19: Strains of Insanity / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 71:51: The Demon King Odio / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura 77:28: Intro / Super Metroid / Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano 79:02: At Home (Night) / Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen / Unknown Composer 80:19: The Discolored Wall (Stage 3) / Castlevania: Bloodlines / Michiru Yamane 82:25: The Workyard / Nightmare Circus / Kurt Harland, Jim Hedges and Andy Armer 85:46: Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 88:45: Depths of the Forest / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 91:04: Phantom Train / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Why does creepy music sound even creepier when channeled through a Game Boy? Maybe it’s that we still think of the Game Boy as a system we played on family trips. Maybe we think about it being more innocent, like when we were kids. Regardless the reason, when it skews sinister it gets uncomfy real fast, and this Halloween episode features some of the most unsettling music yet. BTW, this episode is limited to creamed spinach-era Game Boy and Game Boy Color only. Track listing: 0:09: Tower / Donkey Kong (Game Boy) / Taisuke Araki 3:42: Battle of the Holy / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 5:32: Darkness / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 6:48: Death Fair / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 7:57:Inside the Castle / Castlevania Legends / Kaoru Okada and Youichi Iwata 10:40: Hell Field / Gargoyle’s Quest / Harumi Fujita and Yoko Shimomura 12:04: Dungeon 1 / Final Fantasy Adventure / Kenji Ito 13:33: Stage 2 / Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear / David Wise 15:03: Track 4 / Hammerin’ Harry: Ghost Building Company / Ikuko Mimori 16:29: Gen-an’s Theme / Samurai Shodown / Fumito Tamayama 18:50: Big Monster Tower / Gargoyle’s Quest / Harumi Fujita and Yoko Shimomura 20:51: Caverns Theme 1 / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 21:51: Metroid Nest / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 22:29: Omega Metroid Territory / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 28:03: Haunted Forest / Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break / Composed by Edvard Grieg, arranged by Hidehiro Funauchi 29:51: Office 4 / Gremlins 2: The New Batch / Naoki Kodaka 31:40: Level 2 Theme / The Real Ghostbusters / Unknown Composer 34:00: BGM 3 / Magic Knight Rayearth 2nd: Missing Colors / Unknown Composer 36:54: Haunted House / Looney Tunes / Manami Matsumae 40:21: Forest of Fear!! / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 41:27: The Pool of Rain ~ The Stagnant Swamp (Night) / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 43:08: Desert Ruins / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 45:21: A Peaceful Village ~ A Town in Chaos (Night) / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 47:30: Stage Theme 2 / Donkey Kong (Game Boy) / Taisuke Araki 49:28: CInnabar Mansion / Pokemon Red and Blue / Junichi Masuda 51:28: Last Fortress / Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters / Unknown Composer 55:53: Title Theme / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 59:50: Lavender Town / Pokemon Red and Blue / Junichi Masuda 65:28: Vampire Wario / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 68:23: The End of the Day / Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge / Hidehiro Funauchi Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween And here’s that episode of my other podcast, You Have to Watch This Movie, that’s all about Gremlins 2: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com/episodes/5-gremlins-2-joan-ford Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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It’s October, and Singing Mountain celebrates the Halloween season with the first actual, fully fledged sequel episode: a follow-up to Episode 10: An 8-Bit Halloween from October last year. Like the original, it’s a celebration of the spookiest music to ever be created for the NES and/or Famicom systems. Boo. Track listing: 0:08: Prelude / Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto 6:23: The Ghoul Realm / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 7:46: Labyrinth of Mirrors / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 9:02: Dark Forest of Hidon / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 11:22: Cabin Theme / Friday the 13th / Hirohiko Takayama 13:17: Basement Theme / Junko Tamiya / Sweet Home 15:26: Pyramid / Dragon Quest III / Koichi Sugiyama 17:22: Title Theme / Shadowgate / Hiroyuki Masuno 20:11: Diamond Lake / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 22:19: Diamond Camp / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 23:00: The Cabin / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 27:58: Boss Battle / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 29:13: Kagura Temple / Famicom Tantei Club: The Missing Heir / Hiromi 30:30: Skull Island / Higemaru Makaijima (Makai Island) / Harumi Fujita 35:05: A Ghastly Sight / Mother (Earthbound Zero) / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 37:27: Forest / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 39:02: Fog / Famicom Fairytales: Yuyuki / Soyo Oka 39:36: Cave / Time Twist: On the Outskirts of History… / Hajime Hirasawa 40:18: Demon From the Museum / Time Twist: On the Outskirts of History… / Hajime Hirasawa 41:36: Underground / Mother (Earthbound Zero) / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 44:26: Cursed Town / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 46:22: Dark Warriors Sacrifice / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 46:57: Forest of Healing / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 48:50: Heart of Fire / Castlevania / Kinuyo Yamashita 51:46: Dwelling of Doom / Dracula II (Famicom Disk System) / Kenichi Matsubara 53:03: Mad Forest / Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 54:35: Nightmare /Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 56:09: Demon Seed / Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 5742: Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 60:05: Disco Dracula / Ghost House (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker / Koji Kondo, Naoto Kubo and Asuka Hayazaki Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Horror-themed games are relatively rare in the arcade, but this first October episode looks at a handful of ’80s titles that sound spooky in the good way. This Friday episode features tracks from Haunted Castle (the arcade version of Castlevania), Splatterhouse and Ghouls ’n Ghosts. What’s your favorite spooky-sounding work of VGM? Track listing: 0:08: The Crypt Elevator / The Simpsons (Arcade) / Norio Hanzawa 2:21: Bloody Tears / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 3:40: Evil Cross & Nightmare / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 6:31: The Haunted Graveyard / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 8:56: Devil’s Requiem / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 10:59: Master Dead / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 12:51: Baron Rankle’s Tower / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 15:21: Devil’s Revival / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 17:20: Womb / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 19:36: The Crystal Forest / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 21:56: Cross Your Heart / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 23:27: Hell Chaos / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 26:30: Lucifer’s Castle / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 27:59: Basement Melodies / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 32:27: Under the Moonlight / Night Slashers / Tomoyoshi Sato Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Night doesn’t have to be scary. This episode brings together video game music that suggests the ways night can be the most exciting part of the day. I’m calling this a sequel to Episode 11, Moonlight Drive. Track listing: 0:09: Gloom of the N.H.B. / NiGHTS into Dreams / Tomoko Sasaki 5:00: Silvery Light of the Moon / Thunder Force IV / Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida and Tomomi Ootani 7:48: Planet 7 / Street Fighter 2010 / Junko Tamiya 11:34: Prayer of a Tragic Queen / Castlevania: Bloodlines / Michiru Yamane 15:15: Sword of the Valiant (Moonlight) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 18:40: Desert Highway / Hotel Dusk: Room 215 / Satoshi Okubo 23:14: Fate (Sara’s Theme) / Breath of Fire / Yasuaki Fujita 25:51: Forest Theme (Search Man) / Mega Man 8 / Shusaku Uchiyama 28:52: The Submerged City / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 33:49: The Starlit Winds (Campfire Theme) / Shovel Knight / Jake Kaufman 36:11: Queen Serenity / Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon / Takanori Arisawa 40:15: Colony 9 (Night) / Xenoblade Chronicles / Yoko Shimomura 44:49: Credits Theme / SonSon II / Manami Matsumae 47:20: Turismo / Breath of Fire IV / Yoshino Aoki 49:44: Crystal Teardrop / Castlevania: Symphony of the Night / Michiru Yamane 54:29: Selene’s Theme (Moon World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 57:32: Tower of Arrogance / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 59:58: The Moon Lit Up the Street / Metal Slader Glory: Director’s Cut / Takane Okubo 61:59: Soft Collision / Mighty Switch Force / Jake Kaufman Episode 11: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/moonlight-drive Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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It’s a game you maybe haven’t heard of. And if you have heard of it, you probably haven’t played it. And even if you have played it, you probably still haven’t heard the “full” soundtrack. Spend thirty-some minutes with Tatsuhiko Asano’s trippy tropicalia in the expanded soundtrack to Doshin the Giant, a Nintendo series that came and went but is perhaps worth a second look. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:16: The Theme of Doshin the Giant / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 1:52: Bonfire / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 8:36: The Barthes Island / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 11:56: The Island of Memory / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 16:03: Lights / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 17:55: The Island Without Anything / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 19:14: Paradize Zone / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 20:57: Grass Fumes / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 24:34: Time / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 27:20: Jungle Morning / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 31:21: Yellow Giant (Reprise) / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano Tatsuhiko Asano on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/asa Tatsuhiko Asano on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tatsuhiko-asano/74521256 Tatsuhiko Asano on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/knadma Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: singingmountainpod.com

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Sometimes you just need a break. This episode is all about relaxation… and I promise I’ll do an episode where I intro every track next week. For now? Just kick back and go to a pixelly place. Track listing: 0:10: Star Lift / Mario Party 3 / Ichiro Shimakura 2:10: Beacon / Fez / Disasterpeace 4:36: Space Junk Road / Super Mario Galaxy / Mahito Yokota 8:05: Big Water / Ecco the Dolphin 2: The Tides of Time / Gabor Foltan, Csaba Gigor, Laszlo Fazekas 10:54: Game Over / Shin Megami Tensei OST II / Tsukasa Masuko 13:12: Meditating Monks / Rayman / Stéphane Bellanger and Pete Anthony 16:13: BGM 3 / Mario Paint / Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kazumi Totaka 19:37: Tears Stained Eyes / Snatcher / Konami Kukeiha Club 24:28: Residential District / Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut / Takane Okubo 27:46: Village Shop / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Yasuhiro Takagi 29:26: At the End of Time / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 31:48: Cabin / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 34:17: Irish Spring / Amberstar / Jochen Hippel 36:24: Save Room / Resident Evil (2002) / Makoto Tomozawa, Koichi Hiroki and Masami Ueda 39:40: The Whereabouts of Truth / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 42:36: Summer Forest / Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! / Stuart Copeland 44:53: Sunflowers and Illusions / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 47:31: Birdman / Pilotwings 64 / Dan Hess 54:25: Peaceful Mushroom Village / Mario Party / Yasunori Mitsuda 56:51: Phantasy Sprite / Phantasy Star 2 / Tokuhiko Uwabo Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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Streets of Rage and the Ys series most likely top most VGM fans’ lists of the best-composed Yuzo Koshiro games, but they'd likely be leaving out his unlikely turn in Super Adventure Island, where he lent the Hudson Soft platforming series a higher level of cool than it deserved, with a soundtrack that combines reggae, calypso and hip hop influences. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:09: Round 1 / Adventure Island / Jun Chikuma 2:21: Round 2 / Adventure Island / Jun Chikuma 4:59: Blue Blue Moon a.k.a. Essential Vitamins (Stage 3 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 7:54: The Island of Everlasting Summer (Stage 2 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 10:47: Cool Jam (Stage 6 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 13:38: Jungle Chase (Stage 4 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 16:31: Hop Step and Jazzy Beats (Bonus Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 17:53: Ice Groove (Stage 7 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 20:41: Hot Reception (Boss Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 21:48: Drop Into a Walk (Stage 5 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 24:38: Darkside Visitor (Stage 8 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 27:29: Big Zen (Final Battle Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 30:23: Hawaiian (Ending Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 33:36: Theme Song / Bug-tte the Honey / Toshiyuki Takahashi Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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It's a super megamix of the dance tracks featured in episodes 29, 30 and 31, plus some extras from previous episodes, all adding up to just under two full hours of video game music you can dance to. (Or so I think, anyway.) Enjoy! Track Listing: 1:29: Levels 5 & 6 / Dance Aerobics / Unknown Composer 3:15: Disco Train / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 6:42: Chemical Plant Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 8:48: Track 1 / Top Gear / Barry Leitch 12:34: Basement Melodies / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara and Masahiro Ikariko 15:32: Master of Water / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki 18:25: Unbreakable Determination / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 19:49: Kraken of the Sea / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 22:04: Duke’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 25:21: Title Theme / First Samurai / NIcholas A. Jones 31:10: Special Levels / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 33:53: Death by Glamour / Undertale / Toby Fox 36:03: Loader Theme / Comic Bakery / Martin Galway 39:13: Daddy Mulk / NInja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 43:52: Trade / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 45:55: Sea of Flames (Hellfire) / Kyūyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 47:38: Dynamite Plant ~ Try Again (Bean’s Theme) / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 50:13: Title Theme / Super Cars 2 / Barry Leitch 52:42: Level One / Risky Woods / Jose A. Martin 55:05: Morrigan / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Takayuki Iwai (a.k.a. Anarchy Takapon) 56:45: Title Theme / Shadow Warriors / Matthew Furniss 58:52: Bonus Stage / Cool Spot (Genesis) / Tommy Tallarico 1:02:27: Gorgonzola Goblins / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 1:03:59: 604800sec / Breath of Fire 3 / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 1:05:09: Barrel Volcano / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 1:06:58: Counterfeit Mermaids / Shantae: Half-Genie Hero / Jake Kauffman 1:09:42: Xiaoyu / Tekken Tag Team Tournament / Keiichi Okabe 1:12:29: Sunset Town / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 1:15:09: Stayin’ Alive / Vector Man / Jon Holland 1:18:37: Title Screen / Bad Company / Dave Whittaker 1:20:37: Love Will Never Die / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima 1:23:07: Disco / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 1:25:32: Title Theme / Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 / Barry Leitch 1:28:15: Rungo’s Theme / Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 1:31:07: Idaten / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 1:33:52: Battle Against a Machine / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 1:35:42: Moon Beach / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 1:38:26: Castle Theme / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck??? 1:40:45: Sentimental Solder / Valis II (PC-88) / Masahiro Kajihara 1:42:22: Eagle's Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 1:44:31: Let's Dance, Boys / Bayonetta / Hiroshi Yamaguchi 1:48:09: Theme of Poison / Ultra Street Fighter IV / Hideyuki Fukasawa 1:52:12: Rainbow Road / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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The classic SNK hacking and dicing fighter finally gets its Singing Mountain spotlight, and everyone is going to lose a limb. In roughly thirty minutes, you'll get traditional Japanese compositions, some stuff inspired by western music and then a little of the nifty ambiance for which the series is famous. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:12: Fifteen Warriors / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 1:57: Bamboo Thicket (Jubei Yagyu) / Samurai Shodown / SNK Sound Team 4:06: Comma-Shaped Jewels (Kyoshiro Senyro) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 6:26: Demon (Kibagami Genjuro) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 9:15: Smell the Breeze (Shizumaru Hisame) / Samurai Shodown 3 / SNK Sound Team 13:39: River (Ukyo Tachibana) / Samurai Shodown 3 / SNK Sound Team 19:05: Successively Foreign Girl (Charlotte Colde) / Samurai Shodown 4 / SNK Sound Team 22:17: Tuna (Galford Weller) / Samurai Shodown / SNK Sound Team 24:34: Six Sentences (Kuruko) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 27:21: Heart Mirror (Rimururu) / Samurai Shodown 4 / SNK Sound Team 30:08: Moonlight Supper (Yukei Kusagaredo) / Samurai Shown 5 / SNK Sound Team Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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Mario’s first-ever adventure on a portable system has a great soundtrack, but its final world, Chai Kingdom, features an example of a certain melody that has long been a shorthand for all manner of Asian cultures, accurately or not. This episode — which is one where Drew talks a lot, you should probably know — explores where this nine-note structure came from and how we should regard it now that we know it’s a bunch of malarkey. But what VGM is actually authentic to the culture it is referencing? Track listing: 0:07: Chicken Dance / Savage Reign / SNK Sound Team 2:18: Chai Kingdom / Super Mario Land / Hirokazu Tanaka 5:40: Kung-Fu Fighting / Carl Douglas 6:09: Turning Japanese / The Vapors 6:41: China Girl / David Bowie 7:20: Japanese Boy / Aneka 8:43: Scene 1 Intro / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game / Yasuhiko Manno 9:54: China Theme / Street Fighter II / Yoko Shimomura 12:20: Aladdin Quick Step / Thomas Comer 12:42: Chinese Bicycle / Columns 3 / Morihiko Akiyama 14:56: Tea Rock / The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy / Yasuko Yamada and Naoto Yagishita 16:32: Oriental / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 20:13: Fo’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 23:23: Szechwan, China / Tekken / Yoshie Takayanagi 24:40: Chinatown / The Revenge of Shinobi / Yuzo Koshiro 27:09: War in China / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura 28:10: Back to the China / Metal Slug 2 / Takushi Hiyamuta 31:25: Eastern Country / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 34:44: Lee / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 36:41: Dragon Driftway / Mario Kart 8 / Atsuko Asahi 38:35: Oriental Comrades / Bounty Sword / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori 41:35: China Unified / Sangokushi Retsuden: Ransei no Eiyuutachi / Unknown Composer Links and whatnot: The NPR segment on the oriental riff: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/08/28/338622840/how-the-kung-fu-fighting-melody-came-to-represent-asia The website where examples of this melody are catalogued: http://chinoiserie.atspace.com/1847to1899.html Legacy Music Hour’s “asiatic” episode: http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2012/03/legacy-music-hour-episode-74-asiatic.html The Super Marcato Bros’ TMNT episode: http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2018/8/12/episode-331-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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Today I'm rolling out a new feature on Singing Mountain: a regular Friday afternoon "mostly music" episode that gives you a solid thirty minutes of music. This first week focuses on the NES classic, Mega Man 3. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:12: Select Screen / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita (a.k.a. Bun Bun) 2:16: Title Theme / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 5:17: Gemini Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 8:13: Shadow Man / Mega Man 3 / Harumi Fujita 11:08: Magnet Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 14:01: Hard Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 16:55: Snake Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 19:52: Spark Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 22:29: Needle Man / Mega Man 3 / Harumi Fujita 25:42: Wily Fortress 1 / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 28:39: Wily Fortress 2 / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita 31:26: Proto Man / Mega Man 3 / Yasuaki Fujita Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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A history lesson (with musical aids!) that explores lesser-celebrated Nintendo games by pointing out which characters are probably not going to be playable in the upcoming Smash Bros. game, from Sky Skipper to Panel de Pon to Captain Rainbow. Track listing: 0:12: Bonus Stage Theme / Balloon Fight / Hirokazu Tanaka 3:09: Recover Health / Mole Mania / Taro Bando 5:11: Stage 3 / Sutte Hakkun / Akito Nakatsuka 7:10: Castle Theme / Mysterious Castle Murasame / Koji Kondo 11:21: Course Theme / Mach Rider / Hideki Kanazashi and Hiroaki Suga 15:18: Title Theme / Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School / Nobuo Uematsu and Toshiaki Imai 17:51: Robot City / Joy Mech Fight / Hideaki Shimizu 21:56: Investigation / Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir / Hiromi 24:41: The Alien Spaceship / StarTropics / Yoshio Hirai 27:30: Umasakaba (Horse Bar) / Knight Move / Hirokazu Tanaka 32:08: Title Theme / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 36:40: Stage 1 & 2 Theme / Solar Striker / Toru Osada 39:24: The Prince’s Adventure / The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls / Kazumi Totaka 42:31: Pipe Theme / Mole Mania / Taro Bando 46:45: Flare’s Theme / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 52:44: Christopher Henson / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 55:52: Out in the West / Tin Star / Chris Jojo, Matthew Cannon and Suddi Raval 60:18: Yellow Giant / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 64:00: Free Slow / GiFTPiA / Hirofumi Taniguchi and Yousuke Obitsumi 68:56: Art Museum and Clink Prison / Drill Dozer / Go Ichinose and Satoshi Nohara 73:59: Daytime / Captain Rainbow / Hirofumi Taniguchi 76:26: Mole Patrol / Super Scope 6 / Ryoji Yoshitomi, Yumiko Kanki and Hajime Hirasawa 68:45: Village Theme / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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Long live King K. Rool! In Donkey Kong Land, the Donkey Kong Country games had spinoffs on the Game Boy that tread into weird territory not covered by the Super NES version of the series. This episode looks at the original areas created for the first Donkey Kong Land and how the music for these locations tried really hard to match David Wise’s newly established Donkey Kong Country sound. Track listing: 0:09: Gangplank Galleon / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 3:38: Main Theme Menagerie / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 7:55: Kremlantis / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 11:10: Chimpanzee Clouds / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 13:56: Cavey Cavey / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 17:17: Monkey Mountain / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 20:33: Big Ape City / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 23:28: Blimp Off / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 26:02: Great Girder Grapple / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 29:13: Oil Drum Slum / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 32:04: K. Rool’s Acid Punk / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 36:06: Ancient Beaver Bop / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 38:08: Snowy Pig WIngs / Donkey Kong Land / Graeme Norgate 41:29: Hornet Hole / Donkey Kong Land 2 / Grant Kirkhope 44:49: Bramble Blast / Donkey Kong Land 2 / Grant Kirkhope 48:21: Black Ice Battle / Donkey Kong Land 2 / Grant Kirkhope 52:03: Treetop Tumble / Donkey Kong Land III / Eveline Fischer 55:45: Cavern Caprice / Donkey Kong Land III / Eveline Fischer 58:52: Hot Pursuit / Donkey Kong Land III / Eveline Fischer 61:12: Gangplank Galleon Ahoy! / Donkey Kong Land / Composed by David Wise, Arranged by Graeme Norgate 64:16: Aquatic Ambience / Donkey Kong Land / Composed by David Wise, Arranged by Graeme Norgate Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

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This is a celebration of the sounds of the classic, green screen-era Game Boy, which can be as beautiful as what you'd hear on any fancypants console system capable of displaying full color. Thanks much to everyone who reached out with their suggestions for their favorite Game Boy tracks. Without you I wouldn't have ever learned who Yakapoo was. Track listing: 0:06: Stage 1 / Battletoads / David Wise 2:42: Link Awakens (Marin’s House) / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa 4:05: Menu / Game Boy Camera / Hirokazu Tanaka 6:36 Tal Tal Heights / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa 10:48: In Search of the Sacred Sword / Final Fantasy Adventure / Kenji Ito 13:08: World Three (Part One) / Trip World / Phase Out (Tsutomu Ishida, Masayuki Iwata and Atsushi Mihiro) 15:10: Tunnel Scene / X / Kazumi Totaka 17:37: Ancient City / Turok: Battle of the Biosaurs / Alberto José González 22:29: New Messiah (Crystal Castle) / Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge / Hidehiro Funauchi 25:41: Praying Hands (Cloud Castle) / Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge / Hidehiro Funauchi 28:38: Psycho Warrior (Rock Castle) / Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge / Hidehiro Funauchi 32:36: Password Theme / Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge / Makoto Tomozawa 35:58: Stage 2 Warehouse 1 / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan / Michiru Yamane 38:39: Dark Road / Gargoyle’s Quest / Harumi Fujita and Yoko Shimomura 41:04: Course 3 and 7 / Motocross Maniacs / Michiru Yamane and Tsuyoshi Sekito 44:00: The Road Home (Credits Theme) / Wario Land II / Kozue Ishikawa 47:22: Credits Theme / Tail Gator / Iku Mizutani 50:09: Credits Theme / Game & Watch Gallery / Yoko Mizuta and Jin Sugita 52:12: Credits Theme / Metroid II: Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 54:52: Beach Theme / Mole Mania / Taro Bando 58:40: Main BGM / Bubble Ghost / Hitoshi Sakimoto 63:11: Rungo’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano and Dōta Andō 65:48: Stage Theme 1 / The Amazing Spider-Man / David Wise 69:25: Wily Marine Fortress / Mega Man III / Kouji Murata 72:18: Coo’s Theme / Kirby’s Dreamland 2 / Hirokazu Ando and Tadashi Ikegami 73:39: Cinnabar Island / Pokemon Red and Blue / Junichi Masuda 75:28: Poochy (Forest) / Tetris Attack / Masaru Tajima, Masaya Kuzume and Yuka Tsujiyoko 79:59: Ending Theme / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening / Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Though probably most familiar to North American gamers as the series that gave us River City Ransom and Crash and the Boys, the Kunio-Kun series is one of the longer-lived and more varied in video game-dom. Kazuo Sawa's soundtracks are not only consistently great but also some of the most representative of how great 8-bit NIntendo could sound. And considering how most of the Famicom-era titles didn't make it outside Japan, you may well be hearing this great tracks for the first time. Track listing: 0:09: Boss Battle 2 / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa 1:45: Streets Theme / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa 4:37: Password Theme / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa 7:52: Music 4 / Nintendo World Cup / Kazuo Sawa 9:52: Music 8 / Nintendo World Cup / Kazuo Sawa 11:41: Music 10 / Nintendo World Cup / Kazuo Sawa 13:57: Music 3 / Downtown Nekketsu Kōshinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundōkai / Kazuo Sawa 16:55: Music 4 / Downtown Nekketsu Kōshinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundōkai / Kazuo Sawa 14:46: Music 7 / Downtown Nekketsu Kōshinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundōkai / Kazuo Sawa 23:23: Music 2 / Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen'in Shūgō! / Kazuo Sawa 26:18: Music 3 / Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen'in Shūgō! / Kazuo Sawa 29:16: Music 9 / Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen'in Shūgō! / Kazuo Sawa 32:51: Music 8 / Crash and the Boys: Street Challenge / Kazuo Sawa 35:49: Music 12 / Crash and the Boys: Street Challenge / Kazuo Sawa 38:44: Music 15 / Crash and the Boys: Street Challenge / Kazuo Sawa 42:09: Music 13 / Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey Bu: Subette Koronde Dairantō / Kazuo Sawa 44:00: Music 15 / Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey Bu: Subette Koronde Dairantō / Kazuo Sawa 46:05: Music 3 / Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu / Kazuo Sawa 49:04: Music 6 / Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu / Kazuo Sawa 51:56: Music 15 / Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu / Kazuo Sawa 55:08: Music 2 / Kunio-Kun Nekketsu Soccer League / Kazuo Sawa and Taku Urabe 58:05: Music 3 / Kunio-Kun Nekketsu Soccer League / Kazuo Sawa and Taku Urabe 60:58: Music 7 / Kunio-Kun Nekketsu Soccer League / Kazuo Sawa and Taku Urabe 64:23: Music 3 / Nekketsu! Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes / Kazuo Sawa 67:21: Music 5 / Nekketsu! Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes / Kazuo Sawa 70:17: Music 13 / Nekketsu! Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes / Kazuo Sawa 73:13: Menu and Shop / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa 75:26: Music 12 / Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen'in Shūgō! / Kazuo Sawa 77:28: Credit Roll / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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The third and final installment in Singing Mountain’s series on dance music in video games takes a detour into the wild world of the Amiga, and the many kinds of electronic genres that you can hear in its titles. Some of the music is very ‘80s, but other selections veer into more ‘90s-era techno. If you’ve never played a game on the Amiga, you’re missing out on some amazing work by western composers. Track listing: 0:15: Title Theme / Super Cars 2 / Barry Leitch 6:59: Title Theme / First Samurai / NIcholas A. Jones 10:13: Title Theme / Amnios / Paul Shields 13:33: Title Screen / Bad Company / Dave Whittaker 15:27: Title Theme / Shadow Warriors (Ninja Gaiden) / Matthew Furniss 18:58: Meadow’s Edge / Apidya / Chris Huelsbeck 21:45: Manic Moose / Projectyle / Steve Wetherill 23:36: Title Theme / Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 / Barry Leitch 26:15: Title Theme / Project X / Allister Brimble 32:51: Title Screen / Clown-o-Mania / Roman Werner 34:50: Laidback 5 / Cubulus / Bjørn Lynne (a.k.a. Dr. Awesome) 37:16: Title Screen / Amegas / Karsten Obarski 41:34: Title Theme / Nicky Boom / Alain Lambin 44:26: Forest World / Elf / Matthew Cannon 48:56: Title Screen / Xenon 2 Megablast / Tim Simenon (a.k.a. Bomb the Bass) 52:57: Level One / Risky Woods / Jose A. Martin 55:25: Title Theme / Blood Money / Ray Norrish 56:29: Hall of Fame / Gem’x / Chris Huelsbeck 59:03: Loading Screen Theme / Paradroid 90 / Jason Page 60:53: Ending Theme / Amberstar / Jochen Hippel 63:06: Climb to Survive / Turrican III / Chris Huelsbeck Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Rad! Another look into dance music in video games that probably wasn’t meant for dancing but you totally could if you wanted to. This episode pulls from dance music of all types, including EDM, funk, house and more… though since it is video games and mostly retro games, there’s still a profound ’80s vibe. Enjoy. Track listing: 0:07: Spicy Calamari Inkantation (Squid Sisters Theme) / Splatoon 2 / Ryo Nagamatsu and Shiho Fujii 4:27: Chemical Plant Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 7:36: Bonus Stage / Cool Spot (Genesis) / Tommy Tallarico 11:10: The Man With the Machine Gun / Final Fantasy 8 / Nobuo Uematsu 14:36: Wave 131 / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro 18:36: Barrel Volcano / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 21: 47: Title Theme / Dance Aerobics / Unknown Composer 24:46: Gambit’s Theme / Spider-Man and X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge (Super NES) / Tim and Geoff Follin 30:11: Electric Indian / Toba No. 1 / Yasunori Mitsuda 35:00: Battle Against a Machine / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 37:41: Counterfeit Mermaids / Shantae: Half-Genie Hero / Jake Kauffman 41:51: Sunset Town / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 44:49: Stage 3-1 (Jungle) / Ranger X / Yoshinobu Hiraiwa 48:57: Xiaoyu / Tekken Tag Team Tournament / Keiichi Okabe 52:53: Stayin’ Alive / Vector Man / Jon Holland 57:47: Kraken of the Sea / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 63:12: Balrog / Street Fighter II Turbo (PC) / Yoko Shimomura 65:23: Character Select / Tekken / Yoshie Arakawa 67:06: Dance Theme / Vay / Sakop 70:16: Mango Tango Neon Jungle / Double Dragon Neon / Jake Kaufman Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: singingmountainpod.com/

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Dance-y. Synth-y. This is what nostalgia sounds like. Anyone who grew up in the 1980s knows that there’s a great deal of that era’s music echoed in video games. This episode looks at one style of ’80s music in particular — italo disco — and how it overlaps with video game music. And no worries if you’ve never heard of italo disco, I’ll explain it. And if you don’t care? Well, I made it easy to skip my explanation and just get to the goods. Track listing: 0:19: Disco Train / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 4:10: Jimmy T’s Big Tipper / WareWare: Twisted! / Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunaga and Yasuhisa Baba 7:17: Polaris / Cyber People 8:35: I Wanna Fly Away / Blue Russell 10:03: Love Spy / Mike Mareen 11:21: Track 1 / Top Gear / Barry Leitch 16:23: Basement Melodies / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara and Masahiro Ikariko 19:38: Master of Water / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki 23:29: Unbreakable Determination / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 25:44: Duke / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 29:47: Special Levels / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 33:29: Trade / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 36:42: Dynamite Plant ~ Try Again (Bean’s Theme) / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 40:44: BGM 1 / Shinobi (Arcade) / Yasuhiro Kawakami 41:53: Long Distance / The Revenge of Shinobi / Yuzo Koshiro 43:32: Idaten / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 46:35: Love Will Never Die / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima 50:02: Gorgonzola Goblins / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 53:00: Under / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo 55:31: DIsco / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 58:34: Altered Beast / Altered Beast (Arcade) / Tohru Nakabayashi 62:45: Levels 5 & 6 / Dance Aerobics / Unknown Composer 65:23: Theme of Adol / Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished / Yuzo Koshiro 68:18: Morrigan / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Takayuki Iwai (a.k.a. Anarchy Takapon) 70:05: 604800sec / Breath of Fire 3 / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 72:20: Wario Dance Company (Wii Dance) / WarioWare: Smooth Moves / Naoko Mitome, Masanobu Matsunaga and Yasuhisa Baba 74:40: Sentimental Solder / Valis II (PC-88) / Masahiro Kajihara Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/

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Pixelated waves crashing onto a 16-bit shore. Welcome to summer, or at least a reasonable video game reproduction of summer. Track listing: 0:07: Summers, Eternal Tourist Trap / Earthbound / Hiroshi Kanazu 4:44: Labyrinth Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog / Masato Nakamura 6:59: Flower Garden (Ohanabatake) / Yoshi’s Island / Koji Kondo 11:11: Grasslands of Time / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 15:14: Blue Resort / Bomberman 64 / Akifumi Tada 18:44: Hang Glider / Pilotwings 64 / Dan Hess 25:08: Passing Breeze / Out Run / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 31:57: Besaid / Final Fantasy X / Masashi Hamauzu 37:35: Lawn Court / WIndjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 40:33: Palmtree Panic (Past) / Sonic CD (Japanese) / Naofumi Hataya and Masafumi Ogata 43:10: Shipwrecked / Treasures of the Deep / Tommy Tallarico 46:25: Cianwood City / Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver / Go Ichinose and Hitomi Sato 50:07: Elias’s Theme (Water World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 53:10: Tortimer Island (Night) / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 58:38: Essential Vitamins / Super Adventure Island / Yuzo Koshiro 62:42: Ripple Field 1 / Kirby’s Dreamland 3 / Jun Ishikawa 66:10: Door Into Summer / Knuckles’ Chaotix / Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba 69:24: Beachcombing / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 71:25: Costa del Sol / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 75:00: So Much for Today / Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter / Mieko Ishikawa Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/

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The last handheld Wario Land outing had one of the best and weirdest soundtracks ever featured in a Nintendo title. But while this episode is a showcase for composer Ryoji Yoshitomi, it’s also a giant shoutout to a Wario fan named Weario, who took the time to create an uncompressed version of this game’s soundtrack — which is to say a cleaner, brighter, and altogether spiffier version of this underrated classic. Track listing: 0:09: Title Screen / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 2:53: Enter the Pyramid / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 7:00: Palm Tree Paradise / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 11:50: Wildflower Fields / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 16:27: Mystic Lake / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 20:49: Monsoon Jungle / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 24:13: Curious Factory / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 28:59: The Toxic Landfill / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 33:37: 40 Below Fridge / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 36:25: Pinball Zone / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 40:29: Domino Row / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 46:49: Toy Block Tower / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 48:41: The Big Board / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 51:39: Doodle Woods / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 53:46: Crescent Moon Village / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 59:46: Arabian Night / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 62:25: Hotel Horror / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 63:47: Fiery Cavern / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 66:29: Hurry Up! / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 70:27: Golden Passage / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 74:02: Item Shop / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 76:53: Princess Shokora / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 77:47: Ending (English) / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 78:21: Ending (Japanese) / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 79:48: About That Shepherd / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 82:20: Soft Shell / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 84:05: The Avocado Song / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 85:53: The Errand / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 88:09: The Short Futon / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 93:26: Mr. Ether and Planaria / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi Weario on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3b8No-Ge40e7LVxVP_aLHw Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/

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Here is what it sounds like to be a tiny person traversing a big world. This is a remix + extended cut of the previous episode that started out as a side project and quickly grew into a full-fledged bonus episode. Track listing: 3:30: Main Theme / Final Fantasy (NES) / Nobuo Uematsu 4:46: Unknown Land / Dragon Quest (NES) / Koichi Sugiyama 7:35: Silent Zone / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo 10:33: Eternal Wind / Final Fantasy III (Famicom) / Nobuo Uematsu 12:55: Seeking Treasure / Landstalker / Motoaki Takenouchi 16:31: Alefgard Overworld / Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom) / Koichi Sugiyama 18:43: Main Theme / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 21:14: Homeland / Dragon Quest IV (Nintendo DS) / Koichi Sugiyama 24:01: Overworld (all versions) / Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom / Izuho Numata 28:25: The Legend / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 30:38: World Map / The 7th Saga / Norihiko Yamanuki 33:19: Land of Dwarves / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 34:51: Birth of the People / Actraiser / Yuzo Koshiro 37:14: Our Journey (Overworld 3) / Breath of Fire 2 / Yuko Takehara 38:44: Map Screen / Exile (Genesis) / Shinobu Ogawa and Tenpei Sato / Shinobu Ogawa 40:25: Overworld Map 1 / Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) / Motoroi Sakuraba 43:18: Unknown Lands / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 45:36: World Map / Shining Force / Masahiko Yoshimura 47:11: Motavia Field / Phantasy Star IV / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 49:38: The Earth / Lufia: Fortress of Doom / Yasunori Shiono 51:33: Theme / Dual Orb / Lucky-7 53:31: A New World / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 56:39: Through the Fields / Dragon Quest VI / Koichi Sugiyama 58:26: Terra / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 1:02:14: Overworld / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 1:05:23: Memories of Green / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:09:04: Searching for Friends / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 1:11:50: The Earth / Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 1:14:08: WInd Scene / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:17:26: Main Theme / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 1:23:45: Emotions / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:26:47: Lone Bird in the Shire / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 1:28:20: Land of Sylvarant / Tales of Symphonia / Motoi Sakuraba 1:31:39: Walking the Ground / Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 1:34:19: Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:36:27: Distant Hometown / Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana / Daisuke Achiwa, Ken Nakagawa and Akira Tsuchiya 1:38:52: The World Beneath Your Feet / Breath of Fire IV / Yoshino Aoki and Taro Iwashiro 1:41:08: Blue Fields / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 1:43:59: Horizon of Light and Shadow / Bravely Default: The Flying Fairy / Revo 1:46:35: Migratory Birds ~ Wandering Bird ~ Scoundrels / Wild Arms 3 / Michiko Naruke 1:50:08: Grasslands of Time / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:53:17: Onward, to Adventure / Bravely Second: End Layer / Ryo 1:56:57: Cross the Field, Cross the Mountains / Dragon Quest IX / Koichi Sugiyama 1:59:31: Crossing Those Hills / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 2:04:33: Main Theme / Final Fantasy / Nobuo Uematsu (PSP) The video version of this episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/videos Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/

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A hero’s journey can be lonely. Think about what it was like to start a new game, see your tiny sprite on the map screen for the first time and then wonder about what all you might be doing in this new adventure. This episode is all about music that captures that feeling: being a little excited, being a little lost, and feeling all the freedom of setting off on your own. Track listing: 0:16: Eternal Wind / Final Fantasy III (Famicom) / Nobuo Uematsu 4:50: Wanderer / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 8:32: Walking in Peace / Bounty Sword / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori 12:40: Rise From Your Grave / Altered Beast (Genesis) / Tohru Nakabayashi 19:06: Unknown Land / Dragon Quest (NES) / Koichi Sugiyama 19:30: Unknown Land / Dragon Quest (Super Famicom) / Koichi Sugiyama 21:22: Distant Journey / Dragon Quest II (NES) / Koichi Sugiyama 22:12: Distant Journey / Dragon Quest II (Super Famicom) / Koichi Sugiyama 23:21: Alefgard Overworld / Dragon Quest III (NES) / Koichi Sugiyama 24:10: Alefgard Overworld / Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom) / Koichi Sugiyama 28:24: Beyond the Wilderness / Radiant Historia (Nintendo DS) / Yoko Shimomura 32:48: The Earth / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 36:04: Exotic Country Road / Pocky & Rocky 2 / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kinuyo Yamashita, Haruo Ohashi and Asuka Yamao 40:22: Night Shift / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 43:00: Ravaged Village / Golden Axe 2 (Genesis) / Naofumi Hataya 45:28: Field: The Barren Lands / Wild Arms 2 / Michiko Naruke 49:09: Unknown Lands / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 51:22: A New World / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 53:18: My Home, Sweet Home / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 56:29: Overworld / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 60:41: Walking the Ground / Final Fantasy: Four Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 63:14: Walking the Ground (Night) / Final Fantasy: Four Heroes of Light / Naoshi Mizuta 65:08: That’s the Beginning of the Adventure / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 68:33: World Map / Shining Force / Masahiko Yoshimura 74:47: Windy Day / Metal Slug 5 / Toshikazu Tanaka Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/

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This is an experiment in which I'm trying to tell a story using video game music. I'm not sure if the story will translate, but even if it doesn't, you're going to hear some awesome, spacey tracks. If you're wondering what the story is, the title is a hint. Track listing: 0:08: Title Theme / Phantasy Star / Tokuhiko Uwabo 1:30: Dr. Andonuts' Lab / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 2:51: Title Theme / Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for Famicom Disk System / Akito Nakatsuka 4:34: Shooting Star Summit / Paper Mario / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda 6:13: To the Sea of Stars / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 8:08: Title Theme / Star Cruiser / Toshiya Yamanaka 11:16: Magic Rocks / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 13:21: Popstar / Kirby's Dream Land 3 / Jun Ishikawa 14:11: Shooting Stars / Thunder Force IV / Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida and Tomomi Ootani 15:16: Hidden Palace Zone (Lava Reef Zone, Act 2) / Sonic & Knuckles / A whole lot of people 19:03: Steel Thy Shovel / Shovel Knight / Jake Kaufman 20:28: The Gaia Stones / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 22:24: Inside the UFO / Secret of the Stars / Chinatsu Okayasu 23:18: Premonition / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki 27:18: Tower of the Shadow of Death / Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (PC88) / Yuzo Koshiro 29:20: Horrible Shadow / Romancing Saga / Kenji Ito 32:08: Maze of Death / Mega Man 9 / Yu Shimoda 36:03: Subterranean Canal (Waterways Beneath the Shrine) / Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter (PC88) / Mieko Ishikawa 38:33: Final Level / Mighty Switch Force! / Jake Kaufman 41:03: Black Blood / Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 43:55: J-E-N-O-V-A / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 46:15: Atlas / Ogre Battle / Masaharu Iwata 47:09: Starfield / Life Force / Miki Higashino 48:49: Captain of the Shooting Stars! / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura 50:34: The End of Battle / Gunstar Heroes / Norio Hanzawa 55:52: One Fateful Night / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 57:37:Title Theme / Cybernoid II / Jeroen Tel Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: @singingmountain On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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The third Donkey Kong Country title is the black sheep of the series for a few reasons, but I'm here to sing its praises. It's especially unique in that it got two different soundtracks: one by Eveline Fischer for its debut on the Super Nintendo and a second by David Wise for its re-release on the Game Boy Advance. A lot of fans of Wise's work may not have ever heard this "lost" Donkey Kong Country soundtrack, and in this episode I look at the best of both. Long live Dixie Kong! Track listing: 0:18: Forest Frenzy / Donkey Kong Country / Eveline FIscher 3:49: Northern Hemisphere / Donkey Kong Country / Eveline Fischer 6:45: Voices of the Temple / Donkey Kong Country / Eveline Fischer 8:52: Stilt Village / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 11:49: Stilt Village / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 12:49: Treetop Tumble / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 15:26: Cascade Capers / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 18:13: Cascade Capers / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 23:14: Frosty Frolics / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 26:57: Frosty Frolics / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 28:07: Mill Fever / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 33:35: Water World / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 36:27:Water World / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 42:00: Enchanted Riverbank / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 43:36: Enchanted Riverbank / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 44:44: Enchanted Riverbank (Underwater) / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 48:28: Jangle Bells / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 53:02: Crystal Chasm / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 54:45: Cavern Caprice / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David WIse 60:50: Rockface Rumble / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 62:42: Rockface Rumble / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 67:02: Jungle Jitters / Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) / Eveline Fischer 69:47: Jungle Jitters / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 74:44: Funky’s Game / Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) / David Wise 76:43: Candy’s Love Song / Donkey Kong Country / Eveline Fischer 78:35: Ice Cave Chant / Donkey Kong Country / Eveline Fischer Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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This is a celebration of the less famous songs from Mario games and Marioverse games. These are not the familiar, nostalgic tracks that get redone again and again. No, these are the catchy, weird and otherwise notable tracks from Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Wario games that haven't made their way into the go-to Nintendo songbook. Trigger warning: I will make you listen to a Virtual Boy song. Track listing: 0:12: Let’s Play “Geno” / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Composed by Koji Kondo, arranged by Yoko Shimomura 2:05: Title Screen / Wrecking Crew / Hirokazu Tanaka 3:51: Ending Theme / Super Mario Land / Hirokazu Tanaka 5:55: Roshambo Temple Win / Paper Mario: Color Splash / Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto and Fumihiro Isobe 7:59: Riverside Park / Mario Kart: Super Circuit / Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunaga and Minako Hamano 10:14: Star Maze / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins / Kazumi Totaka 16:14: Spiky Stroll / Yoshi’s Wooly World / Tomoya Tomita, Misaki Asada and Kazumi Totaka 20:00: Monsoon Jungle / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 23:51: Credits / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / David Wise 28:08: Jade Jungle / Paper Mario / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda 30:33: Jungle Adventure / Mario Party / Yasunori Mitsuda 33:17: Aquatic Ambience / Donkey Kong Land / David Wise and Graeme Norgate 36:29: Octopus / Game & Watch Gallery 4 / Riyou Kinugasa and Kengo Hagiwara 40:44: Spooky Attic / Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis / Lawrence Schwedler 45:26: Fury Volcano / Super Princess Peach / Akira Fujiwara 48:00: Pipes (Level 1) / Mario Clash / Ryoji Yoshitomi 51:36: Stilt Village / Donkey Kong Country 3 for Game Boy Advance / David Wise 54:42: Mill Fever / Donkey Kong Country 3 for Game Boy Advance / David Wise 60:41: Enchanted Riverbank (Underwater) / Donkey Kong Country 3 for Game Boy Advance / David Wise 65:16: Yo-Yo-Yoshi (Jelly Pipe) / Yoshi’s Story / Kazumi Totaka 68:31: Jimmy T’s Dance Club Rub / WarioWare: Touched! / Masanobu Matsunaga and Yasuhisa Baba 72:08: Blizzard on the Star Express / Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker / Naoto Kubo and Mahito Yokota 75:02: Save & Load / Mario Paint / Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kazumi Totaka 78:18: Steam Gardens / Super Mario Odyssey / Koji Kondo Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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The Streets of Rage series had one of the best soundtracks ever, and that music helped define the early '90s era of muscled vigilantes walking city streets and punching bad guys. This episode celebrates Yuzo Koshiro's incredible compositions for those games while also looking at other titles that get at a similar sound: a city at night, glowing with neon, riddled with crime and in great need of a face-punching. Track listing: 0:07: Title Theme / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 1:39: In the Bar II / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro 4:50: Go Straight II / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro 7:26: Moon Beach / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 10:03: Beat Ambience / Streets of Rage 3 / Yuzo Koshiro 14:15: Title Screen / Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Genesis) / Kazunaka Yamane 16:04: Blue Moon Factory (Oh Oh Big Mix) / Art of Fighting 2 / Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan 18:17: Industrial Area / Final Fight / Yasuaki Fujita 22:13: Daddy Mulk / NInja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 26:52: Urban Noise / Parasite Eve / Yoko Shimomura 28:30: BGM 2 / Shinobi (arcade) / Yasuhiro Kawakami 30:53: Planet 8 / Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight / Junko Tamiya 33:42: Final Area / Shatterhand / Iku Mizutani and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 35:37: Act 2, Part 2 / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 40:11: Stage 4 / Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force / Keishi Yonao 44:37: Battle in the Dense Forest / Contra (arcade) / Kazuki Muraoka 46:49: The Wild Desire / Two Crude Dudes / Azusa Hara 50:52: U.S.A. / Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone (Genesis) / Akira Inoue and Takaro Nozaki 52:23: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 56:11: Dilapidated Town / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 59:34: Character Select / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 62:03: Slow Moon / Street of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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If you're like me, you encountered the Commodore 64 as a classroom edutainment tool only. But if you did, you missed out on a whole library of "real" video games and some of the most epic and most intense video game music you'll ever come across. Thanks to an episode of PixelTunes Radio, I had reason to jump neck-deep into C64 music, and this episode collects the brightest gems I found in this treasure hunt, including tracks by Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Tim Follin and more. Track listing: 0:15: Loading Theme / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck 3:53: Central Park / Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance / Matt Gray 9:33: Central Park Loading Theme / Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance / Matt Gray 12:06: Title Theme / Comic Bakery / Martin Galway 17:50: Title Theme / RoboCop / Jonathan Dunn 21:07: Title Theme / Druid II: Enlightenment / David M. Hanlon 24:25: Title Theme / Light Force / Rob Hubbard 31:54: Wilderness / Golden Axe / Jeroen Tel 36:38: Title Theme / The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo / Neil Brennan 41:06: Stage One / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tim Follin 44:28: Acid Antics / Creatures 2: Torture Trouble / Steve Rowlands 49:35: Title Theme / Auf Wiedersehen Monty / Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish 57:08: Magical Sound Shower / OutRun / Composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, arranged by Jason C. Brooke 60:44: Title Theme / Commando / Rob Hubbard 65:45: Title Theme / Hawkeye / Jeroen Tel 72:58: The Wilderness / The Last Ninja / Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees 76:59: Character Select / Gauntlet 3 / Tim Follin 79:05: Moon Balade / ??????? / Danjel Nyberg Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ And here is the PixelTunes Radio episode that inspired me to make this episode; https://pixeltunesradio.com/2018/03/28/episode-108-isometric-jamz/

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I want you live in the 16-bit fantasy world you used to dream about, but giving you the soundtrack for that world is the best I can do at the moment. This is a mix of music that I can only call "medievalish" -- dreamy, melancholy, wistful, adventurous and hopeful, and all of the tracks plucked from the best fantasies that video games have offered so far. Get lost, but in the good way. 0:13: The Place I’ll Return to Someday / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 3:55: Cavern 1 / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takenouchi 5:08: In the Memory / Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (for MSX) / Mieko Ishikawa 7:14: Nostalgic Song / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 10:33: The Quest for Rudra’s Mines / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 13:41: Birth of People / Actraiser / Yuzo Koshiro 15:49: Heading West to Escape My Past / Treasure Hunter G / Mitsuhito Tanaka a.k.a. John Pee 17:35: Fortune Teller / Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen / Masaharu Iwata a.k.a. Rezon 18:36: Foresta / Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest / Yasuhiro Kawakami 20:41: Green Green Woodlands / Etrian Odyssey / Yuzo Koshiro 25:09: Castle at Night / Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (for Nintendo DS) / Koichi Sugiyama 27:32: Lost Kingdom / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Falcon Sound Team JDK 31:45: The Great Warrior / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 34:58: Evergreen / Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse / Konami Kukeiha Club 37:00: Ancient Dolphin / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 40:51: White the Heart / Star Ocean: The Second Story / Motoi Sakuraba 42:26: Garden of the Gods / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 44:55: Lost in the Forest / Romancing Saga 2 / Kenji Ito 47:50: Crooked Ladder / Breath of Fire II / Yuko Takehara 50:17: Opera House / Golden Sun: Dark Dawn / Motoi Sakuraba 53:05: Deku Nut Palace / Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask / Koji Kondo 55:20: Icefire Mountain Cave / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise 58:09: Castle / Sword of Vermilion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Yasuhiro Takagi 59:30: Ship of Regret and Sleep / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:02:00: Dorga and Unne’s Pavilion / Final Fantasy III (for Nintendo DS) / Nobuo Uematsu 1:03:30: The Garden Where the Celestite Lies / Radiant Historia / Yoko Shimomura 1:06:20: A Cygnet / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata 1:08:10: Fate in Haze / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 1:10:24: Misty Lake / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Falcon Sound Team JDK 1:13:17: Shopkeeper / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule 1:14:29: Princess Rescued / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 1:15:19: Mysterious Tower / Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King / Koichi Sugiyama 1:18:36: Tanglebloom Forest / Golden Sun: Dark Dawn / Motoi Sakuraba 1:21:04: Hero’s Theme / Final Fantasy Tactics / Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata 1:22:09: Ancient Zodiac / Bounty Sword / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori 1:24:55: Stirring the Forest / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 1:27:11: Between Two Worlds (Night) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 1:29:16: Theme of Lovers / Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand / Falcon Sound Team JDK 1:32:08: The Venerable Forest / Star Ocean: The Second Story / Motoi Sakuraba 1:34:42: Ancient Castle / Final Fantasy II (for PlayStation Portable) / Nobuo Uematsu 1:37:15: Rescued Princess / Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power / David Wise 1:38:23: Atlena / Equinox / Tim Follin and Geoff Follin 1:39:54: The Girl Who Stole the Stars / Radical Dreamers / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:42:58: The Oath / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 1:46:23: The Wind Never Ceases / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 1:48:20: Faraway Dreaming Days ~ Siren’s Song / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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Think about what a racing video game sounds like and you'll come up with an answer pretty quickly. But what about VGM tracks that kinda-sorta-maybe sound like they're from racing games when they're not? What if you heard a piece of video game music out of context and had someone suggest it was from a racing game? Could you picture what kind of track you'd be racing around? I think so, and this episode thinks so. Track listing: 0:06: Crazy Motorcycle Chase / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 5:17: Sting Chameleon / Mega Man X / Setsuo Yamamoto 7:07: Speed of Sound / Knuckles’ Chaotix / Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba 9:50: Inner Station / Metal Slug / Takushi Hiyamuta (a.k.a. HIYA) and JIM 14:08: Cross-Examination (Questioning ~ Allegro 2001) / Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS) / Composed by Masakazu Sugimori and arranged by Akemi Kimura 16:55: Look Out Below (Jane’s Theme) / Fighting Vipers / David Leytze 19:20: Reach for the Top / Windjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 21:19: Turbo Tunnel / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs / David Wise 23:23: Reach for the Front / Lunar: Silver Star Story / Noriyuki Iwadare 26:16: Busy Flare ~ Planet Scorch / Ristar / Tomoko Sasaki 29:09: Nitro Rider / Mega Man 10 / Manami Matsumae 31:22: Like a Wind / Revenge of Shinobi / Yuzo Koshiro 33:16: Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi! (Hon Fu’s Theme) / Fatal Fury 3 / Masahiko Hataya (a.k.a. Papaya) 35:55: Mission 2: Lumber Storehouse / Double Dragon II: The Revenge (arcade) / Kazunaka Yamane 38:10: Cammy’s Theme / X-Men vs. Street Fighter / Yuki Iwai and Yuko Kadota 41:27: Sea of Flames (Hellfire) / Kyūyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 43:54: Pressing Pursuit ~ Cornered / Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney / Hideki Okugawa 46:24: The Inveterate Skirt Chaser’s Usual Tune / Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash / Masaaki Nishizawa, Eisaku Nambu and Kennsouke Suemura 48:12: Wheel Gator / Mega Man X2 / Yuki Iwai 51:01: Toad Rankings / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 52:14: Peach Rankings / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 53:36: Something Wonderful / Contra Hard Corps / Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akiropito, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka and Hirofumi Taniguchi Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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This is a music only remix of my last episode, about laidback music in fighting games, in which "laidback" = relaxed, cheerful, atmospheric and in any other way unusual for the background music of a stage in a fighting game. In addition to the tracks from that original episode, I included a few more that either didn't make the cut or had been used in recent episodes. It's about an hour of music altogether. Track listing: 1:30: Floating on a Harp and Piano Fantasy for Yvonne Lerolle / Fatal Fury 3 / SNK Sound Team 4:52: Vanity Paradise / DarkStalkers 3 / Anarchy Takapon (a.k.a. Takayuki Iwai) and Masato Kouda 7:13: Morning Field / Tekken 2 / Yoshie Takayanagi and Yoshie Arakawa 10:16: Jazzy NYC (NY House Mix) / Street Fighter 3: Second Impact / Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai 12:44: Banquet of Nature Part II / Samurai Shodown IV / SNK Sound Team 15:17: Swamp / Marvel vs. Capcom 2 / Tetsuya Shibata and Mitsuhiko Takano 16:30: Ice Place / King of Fighters 2000 / SNK Sound Team 19:01: The Sun Also Sets / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa 21:10: Beast Girl / Samurai Shodown II / Yasumasa Yamada 23:47: King / Tekken 3 / Nobuyoshi Sano 26:25: Moonlight / Street Fighter 3: Third Strike / Hideki Okugawa 27:56: Full Moon — Heartful / Garou: Mark of the Wolves / SNK Sound Team 30:18: Dance / Virtua FIghter 3 / Takayuki Nakamura 32:31: Moon Flower / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Team 35:32: False Wings / Warzard / Anarchy Takapon 37:56: Almost Frozen / Tekken / Yoshie Arakawa 40:35: Underwater 1 / Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness / Capcom Sound Team 43:17: Kolin’s Theme / Street Fighter V / Junya Nakano 47:25: Forest of Memories / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa 49:25: Morrigan’s Theme / Darkstalkers / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 52:06: Demon (Ogre) / Samurai Shodown II / Yasuo Yamate (a.k.a. Tate Norio) 54:57: Sakura / Street Fighter Alpha 2 / Tatsuro Suzuki 56:14: Eagle's Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 58:42: Requiem K626 (Lacrimosa) / Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arranged by SNK Sound Team) Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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Typical fighting music is exactly what you'd want as a soundtrack to two people kicking the crap out of each other, but sometimes composers throw in a random laidback track. This episode is all about these: the inexplicably peaceful or cheerful or otherwise not-super-face-poundy songs that are nonetheless in fighting games, featuring tracks from Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, Tekken and more. Track listing: 0:12: Guile’s Theme / Super Street Fighter II / Yoko Shimomura 3:34: Vanity Paradise / DarkStalkers 3 / Anarchy Takapon (a.k.a. Takayuki Iwai) and Masato Kouda 7:19: Floating on a Harp and Piano Fantasy for Yvonne Lerolle / Fatal Fury 3 / SNK Sound Team 10:32: Banquet of Nature Part II / Samurai Shodown IV / SNK Sound Team 13:01: Moon Flower / Samurai Shodown II / SNK Sound Team 15:41: Almost Frozen / Tekken / Yoshie Arakawa 18:39: King / Tekken 3 / Nobuyoshi Sano 21:27: Dance / Virtua FIghter 3 / Takayuki Nakamura 24:12: Full Moon — Heartful / Garou: Mark of the Wolves / SNK Sound Team 26:19: Ice Place / King of Fighters 2000 / SNK Sound Team 29:01: Kolin’s Theme / Street Fighter V / Junya Nakano 31:55: False Wings / Warzard / Anarchy Takapon 39:24: Beast Girl / Samurai Shodown II / Yasumasa Yamada 37:02: The Sun Also Sets / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa 40:01: Swamp / Marvel vs. Capcom 2 / Tetsuya Shibata and Mitsuhiko Takano 41:25: Cave / Marvel vs. Capcom 2 / Tetsuya Shibata and Mitsuhiko Takano 43:00: Clock Tower / Marvel vs. Capcom 2 / Tetsuya Shibata and Mitsuhiko Takano 44:36: Morning Field / Tekken 2 / Yoshie Takayanagi and Yoshie Arakawa 48:47: Eagle's Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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Capcom gave us a generation of NES games inspired by Disney’s animated series but set these games to soundtracks that were wholly original. Sure, games like DuckTales and Rescue Rangers also have 8-bit versions of the show theme songs, but the rest of the music is awesome all on its own. This episode is all about that classic Capcom platformer sound, as it was defined by greats such as Hiroshige Tonomura, Harumi Fujita, Minae Fujii, and Yasuaki Fujita. Track listing: 0:08: Moon / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 2:54: Himalayas / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 4:25: African Mines / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 7:48: Amazon / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 10:43: Transylvania (Beta) / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 13:53: Zone A / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers / Harumi Fujita 16:48: Zone F / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers / Harumi Fujita 19:43: Zone J / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers / Harumi Fujita 23:55: The Sea / TaleSpin / Minae Fujii 26:51: The Clouds / TaleSpin / Minae Fujii 29:49: The Cave / TaleSpin / Minae Fujii 32:37: The Jungle / TaleSpin / Minae Fujii 36:14: Quacker Jack / Darkwing Duck / Yasuaki Fujita (a.k.a. Bun Bun) 39:11: Wolfduck / Darkwing Duck / Yasuaki Fujita 42:05: Moliarty / Darkwing Duck / Yasuaki Fujita 44:59: Bushroot / Darkwing Duck / Yasuaki Fujita 48:47: Zone B / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 / Minae Saito 51:41: Zone D / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 / Minae Saito 54:35: Zone H / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 / Minae Saito 58:26: Mu / DuckTales 2 / Minae Saito and Akihiro Akamatsu 61:19: Niagra Falls / DuckTales 2 / Minae Saito and Akihiro Akamatsu 64:12: Pirate Ship / DuckTales 2 / Minae Saito and Akihiro Akamatsu 71:11: Stage Select / DuckTales / Hiroshige Tonomura 71:48: Wildcat Shop / TaleSpin / Minae Fujii 73:03: The Woods / Mickey Mousecapade / Takeaki Kunimoto Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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I'm celebrating Valentine's Day with the video game characters I love most: bad girls. This is a collection of music associated with big bads, supervillainesses, henchwomen and general badasses who don't fit the mold of damsels in distress, with music from DarkStalkers, Shovel Knight, Sonic, Breath of Fire, Battletoads, Final Fantasy, Samurai Shodown and more. You go, girls. Track listing: 0:13: Morrigan’s Theme / Darkstalkers / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 2:09: Medusa Battle / Kid Icarus / Hirokazu Tanaka 4:06: The Pirate Shop / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 7:25: Succession of Witches / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 11:04: Mizuki Rashojin / Samurai Shodown V Special / Kennosuke Suemura and Haruhiko Kuroiwa 14:11: Dark Queen Battle / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) / David Wise 16:55: Tron Bonne’s Theme (The Flutter vs. The Gesellschaft) / Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds / Hideyuki Fukasawa 19:15: Rottytops! / Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse / Jake Kaufman 21:47: Zeal Palace / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 25:10: A Curious Happening / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 27:45: Pirates Ahoy! / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 30:02: I’m a Spy / Sonic Adventure 2 / Fumie Kumatani 33:03: Barbara the Bat’s Theme / Daigasso! Band Bros. / Masami Yone 36:16: Kotake and Koume / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 38:44: Deep Purple / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 42:03: Cackletta’s Theme / Mario & Luigi: Superstar Story + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimimura 44:32: Magic Square / Red Earth / Takayuki Iwai (a.k.a. “Anarchy Takapon”) 47:33: Devilotte’s Theme / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Tatsuro Suzuki, Isao Ave, Yuko Kadota, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto and Anarchy Takapon 51:11: Gypsy Heart / Lunar 2: Eternal Blue / Noriyuki Iwadare 55:53: Distant Traces of Beauty / Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations / Noriyuke Iwadare 59:33: Margarie Margarita / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 62:26: Sofia’s Theme (Take 1) / Battle Arena Toshinden 2 / Makoto Mukai 65:18: Vanessa Plots / WarioWare: Touched! / Masanobu Matsunaga, Yasuhisa Baba and Masaru Tajima 66:05: Cordelia’s Theme (The Place Where Evil Sleeps) / Panel de Pon (Nintendo Puzzle Collection) / Composed by Masaya Kuzume, arranged by Masanobu Matsunaga, Noritaka Misawa and Yoshito Sekigawa 67:40: The Possessor / Shovel Knight / Jake Kaufman Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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Hey, do you need to listen to some low-key, ambient video game music? Half a lifetime ago, your host was a college freshman sorely in need of both video games and downtime, and he made a mix to get him through his workload. Today, this playlist has been revived for your benefit, podcast listeners, and you can now enjoy a nostalgic reminder of Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong Country, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Secret of Mana and more. Track listing: 0:11: Hometown Domina / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 3:06: One Who Bears Fangs at God / Xenogears / Yasnunori Mitsuda 8:00: Out of Phase / Parasite Eve / Yoko Shimomura 11:48: Corridors of Time / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 14:35: Aquatic Ambience / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 17:50: Eternal Recurrence / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 20:31: You've Come a Long Way, Ness (Coffee Break) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 21:49: Black Omen / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 24:24: Valley of the Fallen Star / Final Fantasy VII / Nobuo Uematsu 27:17: Dire, Dire Docks / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 29:58: Bayou Boogie / Donkey Kong Country 2 / David Wise 33:25: Few Paths Forbidden / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 35:35: Serpent Trench / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 37:35: Inside the Deku Tree / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 40:00: Moonlit City Roa (Moonlit City Lumina) / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 42:38: Sevat (The Wind Is Calling) / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 45:47: Overworld (Main Theme) / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 47:56: Secret of the Forest / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 52:07: The Legend / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 55:04: Welcome to Bukki Tower (Welcome to Booster Tower) / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 56:01: Jellyfish Sea / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 58:53: Blue Fields / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 1:00:54: Ruined, Sparkling City / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 1:04:00: Sara's Theme (Schala's Theme) / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:06:36: Hero’s Theme / Final Fantasy Tactics / Masaharu Iwata and Hitoshi Sakimoto 1:08:24: Stickerbush Symphony / Donkey Kong Country 2 / David Wise 1:13:33: Stone Tower Temple / Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / Koji Kondo 1:14:33: Gau / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 1:16:15: Chronopolis / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:19:16: Decision Bell / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 1:22:04: Crystal Chasm / Donkey Kong Country 3 / Eveline Fischer 1:23:40: Brink of Time / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 1:25:17: Peaceful Rest Valley / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 1:27:50: Mountain Path Conde Petie / Final Fantasy IX / Nobuo Uematsu 1:29:08: Gumi Village (Tenda Village) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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In this short episode, I talk about how Terra's theme is reused throughout the first half of Final Fantasy VI, and how that might trick players into thinking she's the main character and that there's not a surprising (and depressing) second half to this 1994 RPG masterpiece. This plus all due praise for Nobuo Uematsu's finale to the series' Super Nintendo era. Track listing: 0:11: Omen (Parts 1 and 2) / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 1:31: From That Day On... / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 3:28: Omen (Part 3) / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 5:56: Awakening / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 8:25: Terra / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 11:36: Protect the Espers! / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 13:07: Esper World / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 15:03: Dark World / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 16:22: Searching for Friends / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 19:39: The Magic House / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 21:24: The Floating Continent / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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"No, there atcually are some kickass saxaphones in video game music," Drew said, responding to no one. Yes, this is an unabashed appreciation of saxophones and their digital reproductions as they've been used in video games, all because I wanted to include Edea's theme from Bravely Default in an episode and ended up building other sax-tastic tracks around it. I have tracks from Mario Kart 8, ToeJam & Earl, Street Fighter 3, Undertale and Bayonetta and more. Bonus? I avoided making an "aural sax" pun. You're welcome. Track listing: 0:10 Title Theme / John Baker / ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron 3:47 Baby Bird / Revo / Bravely Default 5:38 One Night on Neo Kobe City / Konami Kukeiha Club / Snatcher 9:15 Love Is Not Enough (Ai ga tari nai ze) / composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, arranged by Kuzo Koshiro / Project X Zone 12:35 Big Blue / composed by Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida, arranged by Kenta Nagata / Mario Kart 8 16:02 Death by Glamour / Toby Fox / Undertale 20:39 Jazzy NYC (NY House Mix) / Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai / Street Fighter 3: Second Impact 24:11 Staff Credits (Stickerbush Symphony) / David Wise / Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 29:58 Title Theme (Extended) / Lex Horton / Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 34:40 Magypsy Party / Shogo Sakai / Mother 3 37:36 The Fragrance of Dark-Colored Coffee / Noriyuke Iwadare / Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations 39:44 Underground / Riyou Kinugasa Takuya Kobayashi Hiromi Mizutani / Deadly Premonition 44:21 An Die Freude / Shoji Meguro / Catherine 47:53 Jazzy Sabotage / Katsuhiko Suzuki and Norio Hanzaw / Guardian Heroes 49:39 "Toki" Meki Saxophone / Katsuhiko Suzuki and Norio Hanzaw / Guardian Heroes 51:29 Arashi no Saxophone / Papaya / King of Fighters '95 52:15 Arashi no Saxophone 5 / Tetsuhiro Ogawa, Iku Mizutani, Toshihiko Hiraguchi, Tomonao Niiya, Makoto Suehiro and Tasuku Mizutani / King of Fighters XIII 56:07 バトル～HEROES / Kenji Ito / Imperial SaGa 57:48 Theme of Eiji / Battle Arena Toshinden 2 / Yasuhiro Nakano 60:30 Staff Roll / Mega Man 8 / Shusaku Uchiyama 65:15 Theme of Poison / Hideyuki Fukasawa / Ultra Street Fighter IV 68:06 Compression of Time / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VIII 69:25 Let's Dance, Boys / Hiroshi Yamaguchi / Bayonetta Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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What if you celebrated Christmas in a 16-bit ice cavern? That's the mood this episode wants to create for you. In this end-of-year installment, I'm trying to get together the best of the less holly-jolly music from ice levels. Think crystal blue. Think sparkly. Think about there being nary a jingle bell in sight. And don't worry about sliding off a ledge and plummeting to your doom. Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music Track listing: 0:10 Bamboo Houses / Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian 2:32 Vanilla Dome / Koji Kondo / Super Mario World 3:58 Ice Caverns / David Wise / Battletoads 5:32 Winter Season / Tsuyoshi Tanaka / Harvest Moon 64 7:03 North Wall / Yuzo Koshiro / Actraiser 8:53 Ice Cave Chant / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country 10:55 In a Snowbound Land / David Wise / Donkey Kong Country 2 13:06 Frosty Frolics / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country 3 15:31 Ice Zone / Spencer Nilsen, Brian Coburn and András Magyari / Ecco the Dolphin for Genesis 18:42 Iceberg / Jun Ishikawa / Kirby’s Dreamland 3 21:19 Search a Seal / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura / Tales of Symphonia 24:00 The Mines of Narshe / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI 25:45 A Bell Is Tolling / Hiroki Kikuta / Secret of Mana 28:13 Wind Scene / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger 29:54 Sacred Grounds / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy IX 31:56 Snowman / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka / Earthbound 33:06 Phendrana Drifts / Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma / Metroid Prime 36:44 Snowpeak / Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 38:58 Freeze Man / Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama and Makoto Tomozawa / Mega Man VII 40:12 Absolute Chill / Shusaku Uchiyama / Mega Man 10 41:42 Frost Walrus / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man X4 43:55 Taboo Storyteller / Michiko Naruke / Wild Arms 44:53 Mount Sabre / Yoko Osaka / Crystalis 45:51 Crystal Palace Crawl / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda / Paper Mario 47:29 Ice Mountain Zone / Yuji Naka and Hiroshi Matsumoto / Sonic Advance 48:54 Ice Cap Zone / ????? / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 49:41 Diamond Dust Zone / Jun Senoue and Tatsuyuki Maeda / Sonic 3D Blast 51:00 Valak Mountain / ACE+ / Xenoblade Chronicles 54:23 Podul / Kenji Ito / Romancing Saga 3 56:38 Fluffy Snow, Here We Go! / Tomoya Tomita and Misaki Asada / Yoshi’s Wooly World 58:53 Sherbet’s Theme / Masaya Kuzume / Panel de Pon for Super Famicom 60:17Another Winter / Hiroki Kikuta / Seiken Densetsu 3 Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Follow this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4

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Cuphead features an old-timey aesthetic that is well-matched with a retro throwback soundtrack by Kristofer Maddigan. However, it was pointed out to me how great the game's mostly big band soundtrack would sound being played on an old scratchy record, and I decided to make that happen. Here's a seven-song sampler of the game's soundtrack, gussied up with the pops and hisses you'd hear listening to well-aged vinyl. Track listing: 1:17 Inkwell Isle 1 5:05 Threatenin' Zeppelin 8:31 Treetop Trouble 11:22 Floral Fury 15:05 Sugarland Shimmy 18:40 Pyramid Peril 24:25 Dramatic Fanatic

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What does a nighttime drive through the city sound like? Here are thirty video games that attempt to answer that question. Starting with the theme to Toad's Turnpike from Mario Kart 64, this episode explores a lesser-known type of video game music: "chill metropolis" or "skyscraper nocturne" or whatever else you want to call it. Featuring titles from Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, Square and more. Track listing: 0:07: Intro / Takashi Tateishi / Mega Man 2 1:30: Crash Man / Takashi Tateishi / Mega Man 2 3:14: Toad's Turnpike / Kenta Nagata / Mario Kart 64 4:56: Big Blue / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida / F-Zero 6:56: Glittertown / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano / Wario Land: Shake It! 8:29: Vanilla Lake / Soyo Oka / Super Mario Kart Beta 9:35; Pyoro Part Three / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto / WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ 12:42: Fetus of God / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda / DarkStalkers 3: Jedah's Damnation 14:37: Moonlight / Hideki Okugawa / Street Fighter 3: Third Strike 16:01: Subway Park / Capcom Team / Final Fight 17:29: Scala / Capcom Team / Street Fighter Alpha 3 18:48: Boomer Kuwanger / Yuko Takehara / Mega Man X 21:26: Spring Yard Zone / Masato Nakamura / Sonic the Hedgehog 22:13: Star Light Zone / Masato Nakamura / Sonic the Hedgehog 23:05: Keep the Groovin' / Masato Nakamura / Streets of Rage / 26:24: Mellow Groove / John Baker / ToeJam & Earl 28:00 Planet Freon / Tomoko Sasaki / Ristar 29:23: Cylic’s Stage / Hikoshi Hashimoto / Cosmic Carnage 30:34: Beyond the Galaxy / Koichi Namiki / Galaxy Force II 32:04: Wolf / Takayuki Nakamura / Virtua Fighter 36:15: Under Her Control / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VIII 37:37: Ending / Jean Baudlot and Fabrice Visserot / Flashback 39:22: Area H / Fujii Minae, Saito Minae, Akihiro Akamatsu and Sachiko Oita / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 40:24: Warth / Ippo Takeuchi and M. "Gaki-Chan" Nakagaki / Phantasy Star 4 42:90: Act 4, Part 2 / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta / Ninja Gaiden 43:18: Ruins of Lab 16 / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger 44:13: Remains of the Factory / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger 47:44: Last Wave / Hiroshi_Kawaguchi / Outrun 49:03: Sunset Coastline / Nobuo Uematsu / Rad Racer 50:02: BGM 1 / Hikoshi Hashimoto / Racing Hero 51:13: Track 1 + Track 2 + Track 6 / Takami Asano / Chase HQ 53:26: Track 1 / Barry Leitch / Top Gear 57:19: Oppressed People / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VII 59:09: Drifting Away / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto / WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ /

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Halloween + video game nostalgia. If your old NES was haunted, it would sound like this. This extra episode features music from Castlevania, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Megami Tensei, Splatterhouse and even some non-horror-themed games that happen to have some great, Halloween-appropriate music. Playlist: 0:07 Transylvania / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi / DuckTales 2:25: Vampire Killer / Castlevania / Kinuyo Yamashita 5:17: Title Theme / David Wise / A Nightmare on Elm Street 8:00: Stage 1 Theme / Ayako Mori / Ghosts 'n Goblins 10:51: Mourning for Rick / Anna Puruna / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti 13:40: Hallway Theme / Scott Marshall / Ghoul School 15:10: Round 2, Part 1 / Takane Ohkubo and Norio Nakagata / Zombie Nation 17:57: Lobby Theme / Junko Tamiya / Sweet Home 20:45: Graveyard Theme / Yoshio Hirai / StarTropics 23:33: Forest of Elrond 1 / David Wise / Wizards & Warriors 26:27: Pray / Tsukasa Masuko / Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II 27:50: Haunted Forest / Jun Funahashi, Masae Nakashima and Satoko Minami / Tiny Toon Adventures 30:44: Graveyard Theme / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka / Mother (Earthbound Zero) 33:10: This Will Be Your Grave / Anna Puruna / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti 35:58: Magician Tower / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy II 38:47: Bloody Tears / Kenichi Matsubara / Simon's Quest: Castlevania II 41:38: Labyrinth / Naoki Kodaka / Fester's Quest 44:30: World of Horror / Masaki Hashimoto / Monster Party 47:18: Stage Three Theme / David Wise / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors 2 50:00: Monster Dance / Kenichi Matsubara and Satoe Terashima / Simon's Quest: Castlevania II 52:48: The Haunted House / Minae Fujii / Disney's TaleSpin 55:35: Eerie Area / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka / Mother (Earthbound Zero) 57:04: BGM Theme / Tim Follin / Solstice 58:56: Hell House / Anna Puruna / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti 1:01:45: Rising / Konami Kukeiha Club / Castlevania III Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween

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Yes, the Mario games have often been relentlessly cheerful, but sometimes Nintendo allows the mustachioed one and his pals to tread into darker territory. And the music that accompanies these ventures into what I call "creepy Mario" is often some of the best in the game. Featured in this episode: the most Halloween-appropriate music from Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario, Super Mario RPG and more. Track listing: 0:07: Haunted House BGM / Super Mario World / Koji Kondo 2:13: Haunty Halls Galaxy (Ghost Conveyer) / Super Mario Galaxy 2 / Koji Kondo 4:35: Castle & Fortress / Yoshi's Island / Koji Kondo 7:27: Banshee Boardwalk (Hyuudoro Lake) / Mario Kart 64 / Kenta Nagata 11:03: Haunted House / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 13:08: Merry-Go-Round / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 15:35: Temple Theme / Super Mario Land / Hirokazu Tanaka 16:02: Underground Theme / Super Smash Bros. Brawl / composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, arranged by by Koji Hayama 18:08: Sunken Ship / Super Mario RPG / Yoko Shimomura 21:29: Ashley's Song / WarioWare: Twisted / Masanobu Matsunaga, Yasuhisa Baba, and Masaru Tajima 25:31: Haunted Woods / Diddy Kong Racing / David Wise 29:06: Dark Hallways / Luigi's Mansion / Kazumi Totaka and Shinobu Tanaka 30:44: Main Theme / Luigi's Mansion / Kazumi Totaka and Shinobu Tanaka 32:16: Melody's Melody / Luigi's Mansion / Kazumi Totaka and Shinobu Tanaka 34:01: Crescent Moon Village / Wario Land 4 / Ryoji Yoshitomi 34:29: Twilight Trail / Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 38:16: Twilight Town / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 39:42: Creepy Steeple / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 42:43: Waltz of the Boos / Super Mario Galaxy / Mahito Yokota 45:40: Shifty Boo Mansion (Moving Floor at the Ghost Mansion) / Super Mario 3D World / Mahito Yokota 48:00: Twisted Mansion / Mario Kart 8 / Shiho Fujii 51:07: World of Nothing / Super Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba 54:19: Haunted Chase / Donkey Kong Country 2 / David Wise 56:42: Shadow Queen / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 59:25: Antechamber / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon / Chad York, Darren Radtke and Mike Peacock 59:59: Distant Piano / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon / Chad York, Darren Radtke and Mike Peacock 1:00:46: Gloomy Manor / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon / Chad York, Darren Radtke and Mike Peacock 1:03:20: Old Clockworks / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon / Chad York, Darren Radtke and Mike Peacock 1:05:44: River Twygz Bed / Super Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba 1:07:13: Graveyard / Super Mario Land 2 / Kazumi Totaka 1:09:06: End Credits / Super Mario Bros. 2 / Koji Kondo Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

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Seiken Densetsu 3 was never officially translated and brought to the U.S., but you can still enjoy the game's soundtrack. In this episode, Drew talks about how this sequel to Secret of Mana sounds melancholy but every bit as beautiful as the original. Track listing: 0:08: Meridian Child 4:47: Witchmakers 6:14 Another Winter 8:39: Female Turbulence 9:48: Different Road 9:50: Evening Star 13:32: Lefthanded Wolf 18:44: Hope Isolation Pray 20:28: Harvest November 24:01: Innocent Water 24:02: Innocent Sea 28:31: Weird Counterpoit 31:28: Electric Talk 37:02: Few Paths Forbidden 38:45: Decision Bell 40:57: Breezin' 43:38: Religious Thunder 46:52: Long Goodbye 48:48: Angel's Fear (All tracks were composed by Hiroki Kikuta and are from Seiken Densetsu 3.)

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Discussed herein: The likely (but not yet proven) connection between the original Legend of Zelda and the British rock band Deep Purple, as well as Koji Kondo's past in a cover band, those people who don't regard video game music as being as legitimate as "real" music, and Hayley Mills, for some reason. Track listing: 0:05: April / Deep Purple 2:03: Smoke on the Water / Deep Purple 3:00: Hush / Deep Purple 5:45: Dungeon Theme / Legend of Zelda / Koji Kondo 7:57: Death Mountain Dungeon Theme / Legend of Zelda / Koji Kondo 12:04: Title Theme / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo

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The flute noise from the original Legend of Zelda has resurfaced in later games, woven into the soundtrack in sometimes hard-to-notice ways. In this episode, I'm attempting to round them up, all while celebrating Koji Kondo and the other composers who have defined this series' sound. (Note: This episode has been updated from the version I originally uploaded to include a track from Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.) Track listing: 0:06: Title Theme / Legend of Zelda (FDS) / Koji Kondo 3:34: Overworld Theme / Zelda II: The Adventure of Link / Akito Nakatsuka 5:56: Grass Land / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Koji Kondo 8:17: Light World Dungeon / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo 11:14: Title Theme / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 15:15: Forbidden Woods / Legend of Zelda; The Wind Waker / Kenta Nagata and Koji Kondo 18:58: Wind Ruins / Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap / Mitsuhiko Takano 20:49: Shrine / Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild / Manaka Kataoka 26:50: Fortune Teller / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo 28:35: Dark World / Switched on NES / Switched on NES: A Link tp the Past

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A little something extra! Here's all the tracks from episode five (plus a few more that got cut from the final edit) mixed together into one uninterrupted longplay. Think green. Chill out. Norfest Forest / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi Secret of the Forest / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda Forest Interlude / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / David Wise ??????? Powell, the Moonlight Forest / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta Windy Cliffs / Do-Re-Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma Elf Forest / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi Water Goddess Mitula / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi Still of the Night / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta Black Forest / Suikoden / Miki Higashino, Tappy Iwase, Hiroshi Tamawari, Hirofumi Taniguchi and Mayuko Kageshita Lost Woods / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo Faron Woods / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess / Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota and Koji Kondo Beware the Forest Mushrooms / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura A Wish / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta Mystical Forest / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 5 a.m. (Rain) / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka Forest of Illusion / Super Mario World / Koji Kondo 42:04: Forest of Cutting Shadows / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda

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It's hot, and I'm taking refuge from the heat with some of the most beautiful forest themes composed in video games. Among the titles featured: Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Shining Force. Stay cool. 0:10: Norfest Forest / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 4:34: Secret of the Forest / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 8:17: Forest Interlude / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / David Wise 12:22: Powell, the Moonlight Forest / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta 15:49: Windy Cliffs / Do-Re-Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma 18:42: Elf Forest / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 19:29: Water Goddess Mitula / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 21:20: Still of the Night / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 28:09: Lost Woofs / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo 28:18: Faron Woods / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess / Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota and Koji Kondo 32:09: Beware the Forest Mushrooms / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 34:54: Mystical Forest / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 37:47: 5 a.m. (Rain) / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 39:49: Forest of Illusion / Super Mario World / Koji Kondo 42:04: Forest of Cutting Shadows / Chrono Cross / Yasunori Mitsuda

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It's a deep dive into the wonderfully weird music of Nintendo's Earthbound/Mother 2, but it's also a personal essay of sorts, as Drew tracks his association with a Ric Ocasek song that he didn't even know he knew. Track listing: 0:07: Battle With Kraken / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 1:55: One Day for Sure (Threed) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki 4:15: Battle With an Unsettling Opponent / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 5:54: Onett's Arcade / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 703: Get on the Bus / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 9:01: Dead End Chaos Theater / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 10:55: Boris' Cocktail / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 12:01: Moonside Swing / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 15:26: Keep on Laughin' / Ric Ocasek 17:12: Magicant / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 18:50: Crossing Over Space and Time / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 20:30: The Place / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka 21:29: Deirdre / The Beach Boys 22:16: Dr. Andonuts' Lab / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki 25:20: Moonlit City Roa / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura

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The Great Giana Sisters is a Commodore 64 title best known for imitating Super Mario Bros., but the game's soundtrack is actually pretty awesome. In this episode, we look at how the Great Giana Sisters music makes for a handy entry point into the work of one of the most talented video game composers around: Chris Huelsbeck. Track listing: 0:03: Overworld / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck 3:33: Title Theme / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck 5:53: Castle Theme / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck 7:44: 'Dark/Cute' / Great Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams / Chris Huelsbeck 9:03: Stage One Theme / Hard 'n' Heavy / Chris Huelsbeck 10:20: Stage Two Theme / Hard 'n' Heavy / Chris Huelsbeck 11:46: Title Theme / The Baby of Can Guru / Chris Huelsbeck 14:10: Title Theme / Dulcedo Cogitationis / Chris Huelsbeck 17:36: Stage One Theme / Jim Power in Mutant Planet / Chris Huelsbeck 22:14: BGM 1 / Gem'x / Chris Huelsbeck 20:38: Title Theme (The Final Fight) / Turrican 2: The Final Fight / Chris Huelsbeck Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: @singingmountain On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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Music is a big part of the Mega Man games, in more ways than you might think. This episode looks at the relationship between the games' stage music and the boss waiting at the end of those stages. The goal here is Splash Woman's theme from Mega Man 9, about which Drew has some crazy, unfounded theories. Track listing: 0:06: Needle Man / Mega Man 3 / Harumi Fujita 3:51: Pharoah Man / Mega Man 4 / Minae Fujii 4:51: Shade Man / Mega Man 3 / Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama and Makoto Tomozawa 6:18: Charge Man / Mega Man 5 / Mari Yamaguchi 7:22: Maze of Death / Mega Man 9 / Yu Shimoda 8:26: Splash Blue (Splash Woman) / Mega Man 9 / Hiroki Isogai 11:21: Hornet Dance (Horney Man) / Mega Man 9 / Hiroki Isogai 14:05: Aqua Man / Mega Man 2 / Takashi Tateishi 15:52: Aqua Vistas / Ecco the Dolphin (Sega CD) / Spencer Nilsen Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: @singingmountain On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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The first episodes kicks off with a track from Super Mario RPG. This selection quickly told players how this game would be a radical departure for a Super Mario game, and more than twenty years later, I still have it stuck in my head. Track listing: 0:08: Welcome to Booster Tower / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 2:15: Inside the Earthen Pipe / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 4:07: The Sword Descends / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 4:41: The Starlight's Flower / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 7:04: Singing Mountain / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: @singingmountain On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/

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