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Today’s broadcast is C1E99 for Theme Thursday, November 27th, 2025. Today’s broadcast is "Listener Picks – vol. 3" - the final installment of a trilogy of outstanding episodes, guest curated, and guest hosted by you.....the listener!
Tracklist:
Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Contributing Listener / Timestamp
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Into the Darkness – Astal – Saturn – Tatsuyuki Maeda, and/or Tatsuya Kōzaki - Electric Boogaloo – 00:05:37
02) Snowfield – Gradius Gaiden – PS1 – Norikazu Miura – Electric Boogaloo – 00:08:50
03) Stormy Saxophone – King of Fighters '95 – Neo Geo MVS / AES - Masahiko Hataya, Yasuo Yamate, Brother-Hige, Pearl Sibakiti, and/or Akihiro Uchida – Professor Tom – 00:11:40
04) Endless Season – Alpine Racer – Arcade – Takayuki Ishikawa – Electric Boogaloo – 00:14:40
05) Refracting Feelings – Penny's Big Breakaway – Multiplatform – Tee Lopes – The Messenger – 00:17:53
06) Goomba Lagoon – Super Mario Party Jamboree – Switch / Switch 2 - Shigenobu Okawa and/or Yuta Yamaguchi – The Messenger – 00:21:03
07) Opening and Title – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 00:23:12
08) Chaosium Sword – Ninja Gaiden II – NES – Ryichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:24:35
09) Requiem – Ninja Gaiden – NES – Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 00:26:07
10) Captain Neo – Metal Soldier Isaac II – Arcade – Hisayoshi Ogura and/orTadashi Kimijima – Electric Boogaloo – 00:24:48
11) Stage Theme – Bad Dudes – NES - c: Azusa Hara, and/or Hiroaki Yoshida / a: Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, and/or I. Uchida – Justin Regan – 00:27:36
12) A New Day Dawns – Ninja Gaiden III – NES - Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno – Zach Hugethanks – 00:30:27
13) Blighted Docks – Mina The Hollower – Multiplatform – Jake Kaufman (Virt) and/or Yuzo Koshiro – Adam Huisman – 00:32:28
14) Player's Turn – Military Madness – TG16 – Jun Chikuma – Professor Tom – 00:36:13
15) Irene Captured – Ninja Gaiden II – NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:38:00
16) Castle Demonic – Ninja Gaiden II – NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:39:34
17) Stage 3 – Solar Striker – Game Boy – Toru Osada – Electric Boogaloo – 00:39:59
18) NYC – X-Men: Wolverine's Rage – Game Boy Color – Bob Baffy and/or Ed Cosico – Justin Regan – 00:41:53
19) Start – R-Type – Arcade – Masato Ishizaki – Zach Hugethanks – 00:44:37
20) Bravery on the Clutches – Ninja Gaiden – NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 00:46:16
21) Tower of Faunus 1F-3F – Lady Sword – PC Engine – Keine – Justin Regan – 00:48:19
22) Successor of Fate – Castlevania: Harmony of Disonance – Game Boy Advance – Shoshiro Hokkai – Justin Regan – 00:49:59
23) Bloody Tears – Castlevania II – NES - Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and/or Kouji Murata – Zach Hugethanks – 00:51:15
24) Wily's Castle 1 – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 00:52:52
25) The Third Sanctuary – Deltarune – Multiplatform – Toby Fox – Adam Huisman – 00:55:32
26) Horizons Unbound – Sea of Stars – Multiplatform – Eric W. Brown – Jeshua Lack – 00:59:37
27) Main Title (Orchestral) - Panzer Dragoon – Saturn / PC – Yoshitaka Azuma – Electric Boogaloo – 01:02:47
28) Compass Points to the Future – Intelligent Qube – PS1 – Takayuki Hattori – 01:07:54
29) Bonds Reforged – Chants of Senaar – Multiplatform – Thomas Brunet – Jeshua Lack – 01:09:51
30) Side Story – Gradius Gaiden – PS1 – Norikazu Miura – Electric Boogaloo – 01:14:02
31) Sarabande of Healing – Vampire Survivors – Multiplatform – c: Michiru Yamane / a: Keygen Church – Adam Huisman – 01:17:08
32) Rip and Tear – DOOM (2016) - Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – Zach Hugethanks – 01:24:19
33) The Entrance – Animorphs: Shattered Reality – PS1 – Chuck E. Myers, and/or Tom Hopkins – Electric Boogaloo – 01:28:35
34) Large Green Meadow – Master of Monsters – Genesis - Hayato Matsuo, and/or Hitoshi Sakimoto – Justin Regan – 01:30:48
35) The Axiom – Axiom Verge – Multiplatform – Thomas Happ – Zach Hugethanks – 01:33:00
36) Raphael's Final Act – Baldur's Gate 3 – Multiplatform – Borislav Slavov – Jeshua Lack – 01:36:18
37) Jelly – World of Goo – Multiplatform – Kyle Gabler – Zach Hugethanks – 01:43:14
38) Animal Well – Animal Well – Multiplatform – Billy Basso – Jeshua Lack – 01:45:44
39) Title – Cyber Shadow – Multiplatform – Enrique Martin – Justin Regan – 01:47:44
40) Ovin Nevarei – Blue Prince – Multiplatform – Trigg & Gusset – Jeshua Lack – 01:50:49
41) Spring Meadows – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Multiplatform – Lorien Testard – 01:58:26
42) Phendrana Drifts – Metroid Prime – GameCube / Wii / Switch - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Koichi Kyuma – Zach Hugethanks – 02:01:06
43) Memories of Memories – Tunic – Multiplatform - Lifeformed, Terence Lee, and/or Janice Kwan – Jeshua Lack – 02:04:44
44) Slingshot – Daytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge – Arcade - M: Fumio Ito / L: Fumio Ita and Ryuichi Hasigawa / V: Dennis St. James – Electric Boogaloo – 02:09:20
45) Rough "B" Rock – Rakuga Kids – N64 - Tomoya Tomita, Kozo Nakamura, and/or Masahiko Kimura – Electric Boogaloo – 02:13:57
46) Stage 4 – Sutte Hakkun – Super Famicom – Akito Nakatsuka – Electric Boogaloo – 02:16:49
47) Construction Site Chaos – Donut Dodo – Mutliplatform – Sean Bialo – The Messenger – 02:19:09
48) Original Mission 7 – Mercs – Genesis - c: Manami Matsumae / a: Yoshiaki Kashima – Justin Regan – 02:21:46
49) Slam Shuffle – Final Fantasy VI – SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – Adam Huisman – 02:23:54
50) Credits – Ninja Gaiden – NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 02:26:05
51) Follow the Knot - River City Ransom Underground (original soundtrack) - PC - Lexi & The Cheap Disaster (Richard Louis Vreeland, Alex Mauer, and/or Dino Lionetti) - Justin Regan – 02:27:48
52) Mr. Handagote – Machinarium – Multiplatform - Tomáš Dvořák - Zach Hugethanks – 02:23:04
53) Fascination Io Stage – Zero Divide – PS1 / PC - Hideyuki Shimono, and/or Akihito Okawa – Electric Boogaloo – 02:33:14
54) Garden Theme – Frogger 2 – PS1 / PC / Dreamcast – Andrew Morris – Electric Boogaloo – 02:36:20
55) Bonus Theme 1 – Croc: Legend of the Gobbos – PS1 / Saturn / PC - Karin Griffin, Martin Gwynn Jones, and/or Justin Scharvona – Electric Boogaloo – 02:39:04
56) Heat Man – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 02:40:40
57) Stage 2-1 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan – Game Boy - Tomoko Nishikawa, and/or Michiru Yamane – Justin Regan – 02:42:55
58) Stage Theme 03 – ESWAT – Genesis – Dolphin and/or Takayuki Nakamura – Justin Regan – 02:44:39
59) Trons Castle – Willy Wombat – Saturn – Masayoshi Ishi – Electric Boogaloo – 02:48:21
60) Funky Spin – Sega Rally 2006 – PS2 – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi – Electric Boogaloo – 02:51:10
61) Revolution – IQ Remix + - PS2 – Tetsuo Ishikawa – Electric Boogaloo – 02:52:17
62) Ruines de Tarm – Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons – Game Boy Color - Kyoko Nakamura, and/or Minako Adachi – Justin Regan – 02:56:28
63) Slow Illusion – Gimmick! - Famicom – Masashi Kageyama – The Messenger – 02:58:18
64) Greenhouse – Game and Watch Gallery 3 – Game Boy – Noriko Nishikawa – The Messenger – 03:00:09
65) Wishes on Wind – Party Project – PC – Blue Loner Wolf – The Messenger – 03:02:01
66) Island Course – True Swing Golf – DS – Katsumi Yokokawa – Professor Tom – 03:05:26
67) T-Triangle – Race Drivin' a Go! Go! - Saturn / PS1 - Kenji Yokoyama, Kensudke Komatsu, and/or Naoki Tsuchiya – Electric Boogaloo – 03:08:20
68) Time – Metropolis Street Racer – Dreamcast - M: Richard Jacques / V: T.J. Davis – Electric Boogaloo – 03:11:49
69) Baka Mitai – Yakuza Zero – Multiplatform – Mitsuharu Fukuyama – The Messenger – 03:15:44
70) Ending – Battlecorps – Sega CD – Martin Iveson – Utopia Nemo – 03:20:29
B1) Outro – 03:24:33
B2) Outtakes – 03:54:56
Music Block Runtime: 03:19:15, Total Episode Runtime: 04:14:03
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Link to Rerun of Listener Picks – vol 1 (C1E40 – Dec. 2018):
https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-reruns-c1e40-listener-picks-vol-1-orig-released-12202018
Link to Rerun of Listener Picks – vol 2 (C1E60 – Dec 2021):
Link to Shujin Academy VGM Club Podcast (Professor Tom):
https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club
Link to A VGM Journey Podcast (The Messenger):
https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey
Link to Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach Hugethanks):
https://absolutelythebest.net/
Link to Retro 411 - @reganjustin1 VGM YouTube Channel (Justin Regan):
https://www.youtube.com/@reganjustin1
Link to Pixelated Audio Discord Server (Utopia Nemo)
https://discord.gg/49ZDM4hQ
And to the A VGM Journey Discord Server (Utopia Nemo / The Messenger)
Also, link to an episode of The VGMbassy podcast which featured skits written / produced by – and starring Utopia Nemo:
https://thevgmbassy.com/tag/blind-listen/
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Thanks for listening! Join us again in December for C1E100 (Channel 1, Episode 100): "Now Go and Rest Our Heroes" - our final non-retrospective episode of Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 1: focusing on end credits and ending sequence music - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Saturday Nov 22, 2025
Saturday Nov 22, 2025
2025 Rerun Notes:
In anticipation of this month's incoming C1E99: "Listener Picks - vol 3", we are rerunning both previous installments of the Listener Picks trilogy this month!
Today's rerun is the second installment, from December of 2021 And it is less of a sequel per se, and more of an omake (that is, more of an "outtakes" episode). While vol 1 was 40 tracks long and selected by 18 contributors, their total body of contributions was not 40, but instead, an absolutely insane 100!! Well, even in 2025, we'd never do an episode 100 tracks long! Such a mixtape could possibly hit 5hrs long, which is too long even for St. John! :-D
So, what I did instead in 2018 was take the 100 and narrow it down to 40, with the 60 track remainder kept in reserve, intended for a Channel F "F-isode" to immediately follow as a bonus and feature the remaining 60. This bonus was to feature Trey Johnson of the NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio podcasts as co-host, and be in the original format of W.A.R.T. Radio as a "return the favor" tribute to Trey in return for W.A.R.T. changing formats to match the NNR format. It was also going to feature an interview with a composer, spearheaded by Trey.
But schedules did not align, and so the F-isode never happened! Today's rerun, eventually released years later in 2021 as a numbered "official" Ch 1 episode is essentially what that F-isode would've been - only with no interview (scheduling conflicts). Trey would still go on to co-host with me, though.
Lastly, as always: all the usual caveats about how much worse my production quality was back in 2021 than it is today, and not to judge the current state of NNR production quality by this rerun. If you are new, and this is your first exposure to NNR, and you enjoyed the content, but were put off by the production, either go back and listen to a recent episode, such as C1E98 or C1E96....or perhaps even better, keep your eyes peeled for C1E99, which is basically this all over again, but at 2025's far improved production quality standards!
In fact, in this case, the situation is even worse! My side of the recording session with Trey was lost, and so we had to fallback on his side of the Zoom call for my voice, where I was using a super cheap wireless headset. So my voice quality sounds especially terrible. My apologies if any of that detracts from this otherwise excellent and joyous outing!
And with that, please enjoy the very non-standard-formatted - Listener Picks - vol 2, thanks again to Trey for lending his voice and talents in joining me to make this one happen, and please keep an eye out for the trilogy's incoming 3rd (and final) installment!
Cheers!
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Original Show Notes:
Today’s Broadcast is C1E60, for Theme Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 - our final episode of our very non-standard two-year long “Season 4”. So it is fitting that we’d end such a wildly non-standard season - filled with primarily wildly non-standard content already - with such a dramatically non-standard Channel 1 episode. Today’s episode abandons the customary Channel 1 “great big music block” mixtape format for a modified take on the original W.A.R.T. Radio format, featuring Trey Johnson of Nintendomain / W.A.R.T. Radio and St. John. Today’s episode is also a “Lost Level”, as it was originally intended to be a Channel F bonus “F-isode” to supplement “C1E40 - Listener Picks - vol. 1” from December 2018, and was intended to release right after it, in a nearly identical presentation to what you receive today. As such, today’s broadcast shall be “Listener Picks - vol. 2”. All music, other than the background music for the speaking portions was curated by listeners of the show, and are the roughly 60 remaining unused tracks from the pool of roughly 100 that were offered up for C1E40 in 2018, of which only 40 were used.
p.s. We apologize for the uncharacteristically poor audio quality on St. John's speaking voice. Details available upon request, but the short version is that John had technical difficulties on his end of the recording with "the good mic", but fortunately, we had a lower-quality backup recording on Trey's end over Zoom using St. John's built-in laptop mic. The sound quality is diminished, but the content is still preserved.
Note: All Speaking Portions originally produced in December 2021 by St. John
01: Intro
Timestamps: 00:00:00 - 00:05:18
Runtime: 05:18
Emceed by: Trey and St. John
02: Phillip Vaughn Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:05:18 - 00:24:00
Runtime (including introduction): 18:42
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:07:30 - 00:24:00
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 16:30
Number of Tracks: 8
Emceed by: Trey
Intro Runtime: 02:12
Track Selection by: Phillip Vaughn
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 00:05:18
- a)Title – TMNT – NES – JunFunahashi - 00:07:30
- b)Final Dungeon – Zelda II – NES – Akita Nakatsuka - 00:09:19
- c) Title Screen – Aero the Acrobat – SNES – Fox Productions - 00:10:32
- d)Zombie Panic – Zombies Ate my Neighbors – SNES – Joe McDermott - 00:12:11
- e)Fool's Play (Puppet Show) – Secret of Evermore – SNES – Jeremy Soule - 00:14:22
- f)The Ancient Battleground – King's Field 2 - PS1 – Sound Kids Corp. - 00:16:39
- g)The East Village – King's Field - PS1 – Koji Endo - 00:18:20
- h)Decisive Battle with Magus – Chrono Trigger – SNES – Yasunori Mitsuda and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:21:15
03: Eric Barks Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:24:01 - 00:39:45
Runtime (including introduction): 15:44
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:27:00 - 00:39:45
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 12:45
Number of Tracks: 2 (Fewest of the Day)
Emceed by: St. John
Intro Runtime: 02:59
Track Selection by: Eric Barks
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 00:24:01
- a)Hellwalker– DOOM (2016) – Multi – Mick Gordon - 00:27:00
- b)Cyberdemon - DOOM (2016) – Multi – Mick Gordon - 00:32:04
04: Chris Randazzo Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:39:43 - 00:48:12
Runtime (including introduction): 08:29
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:41:15 - 00:48:12
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 06:58 (Shortest of the Day)
Number of Tracks: 3
Emceed by: Trey
Intro Runtime: 01:31
Track Selection by: Kris Randazzo
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 00:39:43
- a)Chapter 2 – PAC PIX – DS – Yoshinori Kawamoto - 00:41:15
- b)Goin Across Town – Tin Star – SNES – Chris Jojo, Matthew Cannon and/orSuddi Raval - 00:43:33
- c)Drifting Brother – Balloon Kid -GameBoy – Hirukazu "Hip" Tanaka - 00:45:43
05: Adam Huisman Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:48:11 - 01:05:20
Runtime (including introduction): 17:09
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:50:41 - 01:05:20
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 14:38
Number of Tracks: 6
Emceed by: St. John
Intro Runtime: 02:31
Track Selection by: Adam Huisman
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 00:48:11
- a)Blood Dragon Theme – Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – PC / PS3 / XB360 - Power Glove - 00:50:41
- b)Roller Mobster – Hotline Miami – Multi - Carpenter Brut - 00:53:41
- c)Hills of Destiny (Past) – Messenger – Multi –Rainbowdragoneyes - 00:57:13
- d)Hills of Destiny (Future) - Messenger – Multi –Rainbowdragoneyes - 00:58:36
- e)Positive Force – VVVVVVV – Multi - Magnus Pålsson - 00:59:59
- f)Kyoto – Tree of Knowledge – PC98 –Yogurtbox - 01:02:46
06: Michael "Nestrogen" Raisner Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:05:19 - 01:15:44
Runtime (including introduction): 10:25
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:07:51 - 01:15:44
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 07:52
Number of Tracks: 9
Emceed by: Trey
Intro Runtime: 02:33
Track Selection by: Nestrogen
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: Nestrogen
Originally Produced in: 2019
Intro - 01:05:19
- a)Title Screen – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:07:51
- b)Story Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja - Multi –Nestrogen - 01:08:23
- c)Level Select – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:08:53
- d)Main Boss Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:09:17
- e)Tower 4 Hyperactive – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:10:36
- f)Tower 5 Main – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:11:32
- g)Tower 6 Main – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:12:35
- h)Final Boss Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:13:37
- i)Game Clear Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:15:03
07: Jeshua Lack Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:15:44 - 01:40:07
Runtime (including introduction): 24:23
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:19:12 - 01:40:07
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 20:55
Number of Tracks: 10
Emceed by: St. John
Intro Runtime: 03:28
Track Selection by: Jeshua Lack
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 01:15:44
- a)Ending – Sonic 2 – Genesis – Masato Nakamura – 01:19:12
- b)In-Game Theme – Adventures of Lolo – NES – HidekiKanazashi – 01:20:25
- c)Stage Theme 1 – Dino Riki – NES – Takeaki Kunimoto – 01:22:17
- d)Bridge 05 – Hack Sign – PS2 –Norikatsu Fukuda – 01:25:10
- e)Spider Dance – Undertale – multi – Toby Fox – 01:25:54
- f)Prologue – Shining Force – Genesis – Masahiko Yoshimura – 01:29:46
- g)Save Room – Resident Evil 2 – PS1 – Masami Ueda – 01:31:00
- h)Primal Eyes – Parasite Eve – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura – 01:32:50
- i)Time's Scar – Chrono Cross – PS1 – Yasunori Mitsuda – 01:34:57
- j)Casino – Sonic 2 – Genesis – MasatoNakmura – 01:37:18
08: Electric Boogaloo Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:40:07 - 02:20:42
Runtime (including introduction): 40:35
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:44:13 - 02:20:42
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 36:29
Number of Tracks: 13 (Most of the Day)
Emceed by: Trey
Intro Runtime: 04:06
Track Selection by: Electric Boogaloo
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 01:40:07
- a)Paint Dance (Menu Music 4) – NBA Live 98 – Multi –Traz Damji - 01:44:13
- b)Try 2 Luv U – DDRMAX2 - PS2 – Sota Fujimori - 01:47:15
- c)Introducing Challenge – Cosmic Smash – Arcade / Dreamcast – Kazunori Ito, Todd Okawa, Toshi Masuda, and/orKeitarou Hanada – 01:48:31
- d)Ruined Paths – Gravity Rush – PS4 /PSVita – Kohei Tanaka - 01:50:56
- e)Freezing Moment – Hover Racing – PS1 – Hiroaki Omori and/or Tooru Kawakami - 01:54:20
- f)Valley of Autumn – Rapid River – Arcade – Yoshie Arakawa - 01:56:16
- g)Prime #5 –Echochrome – PSP / PS3 – Hideki Sakamoto - 01:59:16
- h)Eternal Move –Spindizzy II – X68000 – Toshiya Yamanaka and/or Tetsuya Nakano - 02:02:31
- i)BGM 5 –Blockout – Arcade – Unknown - 02:07:13
- j)Kinchu(Main Menu) – Hot Shots Golf – PS1 – Motoi Sakuraba - 02:09:35
- k)Hanglider– Pilotwings 64 – N64 – Dan Hess - 02:12:59
- l)Reach for the Top (Clay Court) – Windjammers – Neo Geo CD –Seiichi Hamada, Tomoyoshi Sato, and/or Masaki Iwasaki - 02:15:54
- m)Girl of Power - Border Down – Arcade / Dreamcast – Yasuhisa Watanabe - 02:18:07
09: Amber Pearey Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction): 02:20:41 - 03:01:34
Runtime (including introduction): 40:53
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 02:24:19 - 03:01:34
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 37:15 (Longest of the Day)
Number of Tracks: 9
Emceed by: St. John
Intro Runtime: 03:38
Track Selection by: Amber Pearey
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: St. John
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro - 02:20:41
- a)Got Well Soon – Life Is Strange – Multi - Breton - 02:24:19
- b)Build that Wall (Zia) – Bastion – Multi – Darren Korb - 02:29:07
- c)Mother, I'm Here (Zulf) – Bastion – Multi – Darren Korb - 02:34:28
- d)Mt Moon –Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow – Gameboy – Junichi Masuda - 02:36:41
- e)Lavender Town –Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow – Gameboy – Junichi Masuda - 02:39:36
- f) Koe – Fatal Frame 3 – PS2 – Ayako Toyoda - 02:42:30
- g)Chou – Fatal Frame 2 –XBox – Ayako Toyoda - 02:47:56
- h)Obstacles – Life Is Strange – Multi – Syd Matters - 02:53:34
- i)To All of You – Life is Strange – Multi – Syd Matters - 02:56:55
10: Trey Johnson Music Block
Timestamps (Including Introduction / Outro…duction?): 03:01:34 - 03:20:16
Runtime (including introduction etc): 18:42
Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 03:03:23 - 03:19:28
Runtime (Music Block-Only): 16:05
Number of Tracks: 5
Emceed by: Trey [and “Deku Scrub”]
Intro 1 Runtime: 01:20
Intro 2 Runtime: 00:27
Outro Runtime: 00:50
Total Intro/outro Runtime: 02:37
Track Selection by: Trey Johnson
Produced by: St. John
Run-Order by: Trey Johnson
Originally Produced in: 2018
Intro 1 - 03:01:34
Intro 2 - 03:02:55
- a)To Break the Curse (Past) – The Messenger – Multi –Rainbowdragoneyes - 03:03:23
- b)Signs of Love – Shin Megami Tensei Persona 4 – PS2 –Shouji Meguro - 03:07:08
- c)Battle –Pokemon Sun and Moon – 3DS - Hitomi Sato, Go Ichinose, and/or GAME FREAK - 03:10:03
- d)Section 2 BGM – Silver Surfer – NES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 03:12:45
- e)Sunshine Coastline – Ys VIII:Lacrimosa of Dana – Multi – Hayato Sonoda, and/or Takahiro Unisuga - 03:16:15
Outro - 03:19:25
11: Outro
Timestamps: 03:20:16 - 03:30:06
Runtime: 09:50
Emceed by: Trey and St. John
12: Blooper Reel
Timestamps: 03:30:04 - 03:39:08
Runtime: 09:04
Featuring: Trey and St. John
Total Episode Runtime: 03:39:08
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Background Music – during speaking portions (tracks selected and extended by St. John in 2020):
01 Intro: In-Game Theme – Lunar Battle – iOS / Android – Unknown
02 Vaughn: 5AM – Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch -
Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi
03 Barks: Kara Kara Bazaar (Desert Oasis) – LoZ: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / Switch – Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata
04 Randazzo: Shinto Shrine – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 – Masashi Hamauzu
05 Huisman: Ninja Theme 4 – 198X – Multi – Yuzo Koshiro
06 Nestrogen: Sector 4 (AQA): Aquatic Level Control Zone – Metroid Fusion – GBA – Minako Hamano and/or Akira Fujiwara
07 Lack: Overflow – Streets of Rage 4 – Multi – Groundislava
08 Boogaloo: Jungle – Wolfchild – Genesis – c: Martin Iveson / a: Matt Furniss
09 Peary: Sakado Shops – Zelda: Wand of Gamelon – CD-i – William Havlicek and/or Tony Trippi
10 Johnson: Legacy [Episode 3 Town Square Edit] – Saturday Morning RPG – Multi – Vince DiCola
11 Outro: Results Theme – Metroid Prime – GameCube – Kenji Yamamoto
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A very special thanks to Trey Johnson of Nintendomain and W.A.R.T. Radio for joining me for this very special episode! You can find Trey and the gang’s shows at www.nintendomainpodcast.com, nintendomain.libsyn.com, or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nintendomain/id1055861408, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 2.42 in Ubuntu Studio 21.10. Elements produced before April 2020 produced instead in GarageBand on macOS, and 2020 production elements produced using earlier versions of Ardour and Ubuntu Studio.
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Saturday Nov 15, 2025
Saturday Nov 15, 2025
2025 Rerun Notes:
In anticipation of this month's incoming C1E99: "Listener Picks - vol 3", we are rerunning both previous installments of the Listener Picks trilogy this month!
Today's rerun is the inaugural installment, from all the way back in 2018.
It features a semi-standard intro and outro, and a standard mixtape - with the exception of the fact that every track is selected by the listeners (40 tracks - 18 contributors) - and that the intro and outro are guest-curated by a collage of 11 of those same 18 contributors. It was also, at the time, the longest non-retrospective episode in show history - and featured a long, glorious outtakes reel at the end!
C1E99 will share a great many of these same attributes! It will feature 70 tracks, collectively selected by 8 listeners (6 of which also contributed to today's rerun (and 3 of which were also featured in vol 2). At just under 3.5hrs, it will also be the longest mixtape in non-retrospective Ch 1 history (even if this new record nearly doubles the [then] record which the 2018 episode set). And it will also feature a semi-standard intro and outro, largely guest-hosted by a collage of the contributing listeners. In fact, unlike today's rerun, this time every single track contributor also contribute their voices to the intro and outro (except for the one which prizes anonimity and requested a text-to-speech be used in his place). And I also anticipate 99 to feature a fairly decent outtakes reel - though not quite as robust and spectacular as today's rerun.
So, where vol 2 is less a "sequel" to vol 1 per se, and more of an "omake" (or an "outtakes") of vol 1, the upcoming vol 3 will be the true sequel to today's rerun. The long-awaited "echo". The "let's do this exact same thing one more time". In fact, due to a joint failure of double-checking from both St. John and the contributing listener, C1E99 will even feature one track that was featured in today's rerun. So be on the look out for that and see if you can spot which one it is before the reveal! And yes, it even was the same contributing listener in both episodes! D'oh! :-)
Lastly, as always: all the usual caveats about how much worse my production quality was back in 2018 than it is today, and not to judge the current state of NNR production quality by this rerun. If you are new, and this is your first exposure to NNR, and you enjoyed the content, but were put off by the production, either go back and listen to a recent episode, such as C1E98 or C1E96....or perhaps even better, keep your eyes peeled for C1E99, which is basically this all over again, but at 2025's far improved production quality standards!
And with that, please enjoy the absolute block party that is C1E40 - Listener Picks - vol 1, and keep an eye out for the trilogy's incoming 2nd (rerun) and 3rd (fresh) installments!
Cheers!
Cheers!
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Original Show Notes:
Today’s broadcast is Episode 40 for Theme Thursday, December 20th, 2018. Today’s Theme is Listener Picks on a program we're calling "Listener Picks - vol. 1". Guest curated by the listeners - guest hosted by the listeners!
01 - Prologue - 00:00:00
02 - Intro - 00:00:10
03 - Wizards and Warriors – NES – Opening Theme – David Wise – Phillip Vaughn - 00:02:38
04 - Super Smash Bros. Ulitmate - SWITCH – Lifelight (Main Theme – English Vocals) - Hideki Sakamoto – The Messenger - 00:03:13
05 - Twisted Metal 4 – PS1 – Neon City – Chuck Doud – Phillip Vaughn - 00:06:56
06 - King of Fighters 2000 – multi – Inner Shade – Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, USAKO-X, Yasuo Yamate, and/or ZOE – Justin Regan - 00:11:20
07 - Undertale - multi - Metal Crusher - Toby Fox - Jeshua Lack - 00:14:36
08 - Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – BGM# 20 – Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – KeyGlyph - 00:16:51
09 - Tower of Heaven – PC – Luna Ascension – Flashygoodness – Adam Huisman - 00:18:17
10 - Alter Ego Dreamwalker – multi – Hunters (Menu) - Coda, and/or Kulor – Chris Murray - 00:20:43
11 - PunchOut - NES - In-Game Theme - Yukio Kaneoka, Akito Nakatsuka and/or Kenji Yamamoto - Brian Peterson - 00:21:56
12 - Crackin' DJ Part 2 - Arcade - Seven O' Clock - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Mitsuharu Fukuyama - Electric Boogaloo - 00:23:40
13 - Toe Jam and Earl – Genesis – Rapmaster Rocket Racket – John Baker – Jeshua Lack - 00:25:47
14 - Runner 3 – multi – CommanderVideo Runs Again – Matthew Harwood – Kris Randazzo - 00:29:36
15 - Majula Frontier – PC – Into the Abyss – Dale North – Chris Murray - 00:32:31
16 - DOOM (2016) - multi – Transistor Fist – Mick Gordon – Eric Barks - 00:34:35
17 - Castlevania III - NES – Riddle – Konami Kukeiha Club – Valerie Wedgeworth - 00:40:37
18 - Wild Guns - SNES - Final Fight - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and/or Harou Ohashi - Deirdre Fischer (aka Pieness 64) - 00:41:40
19 - Genji Tsuushin Agedama – PC Engine – BGM# 06 – T's Music – KeyGlyph - 00:43:16
20 - Pigskin 621 A.D. - Arcade - First Half - Dan Forden - Electric Boogaloo - 00:44:57
21 - Aldynes: The Mission Code for Rage Crisis – Supergrafx – Stage 6 – Keita Hoshi – KeyGlyph - 00:48:00
22 - Skyroads – PC (AdLib) - Road 8 – Ott M. Aaloe, Hasso Bruck – Justin Regan - 00:49:29
23 - Lady Sword: Ryakudatsu Sareta 10 Nin no Otome – PC Engine – 1F-3F – Unknown – Justin Regan - 00:52:28
24 - Kirby's Dream Land - GameBoy - Castle Lololo - Jun Ishikawa - Brian Peterson - 00:54:08
25 - Earthbound – SNES – Onett Theme – Keiichi Suzuki, and/or Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka – Phillip Vaughn - 00:56:03
26 - Kero Blaster – multi – Hinterland Fort (It's My Blaster)– Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya – Kris Randazzo - 00:58:23
27 - Mega Man 11 – multi – Bounce Man Stage – Marika Suzuki – Kris Randazzo - 01:01:47
28 - Super Hyperactive Ninja – multi – Tower 4 Main – Michael Nestrogen Raisner – Michael Nestrogen Raisner - 01:03:52
29 - Resident Evil – PS1 – End Credits – Makoto Tomozawa, Akira Kaida, and/or Masami Ueda – John Jekel - 01:05:39
30 - Modaozi - PC - Credits - Unknown - Oke Music - 01:08:41
31 - Metal Black - Arcade - Dual Moon - Yasuhisa Watanabe - Electric Boogaloo - 01:10:07
32 - Journey – PS3 / PS4 – Apothesis – Austin Wintory – Adam Huisman - 01:12:44
33 - Chrono Cross – PS1 – Dead Sea / Ruined Tower – Yasunori Mitsuda – Amber Peary - 01:19:31
34 - Legend of Mana – PS1 – City of Flickering Destruction – Yoko Shimomura – Amber Peary - 01:22:29
35 - Resident Evil 2 – PS1 – End Credits – Masami Ueda – John Jekel - 01:25:41
36 - Life is Strange – multi – Spanish Sahara – Foals – Amber Peary - 01:28:09
37 - Celeste – Multi – Resurrections – Lena Raine – Chris Murray - 01:34:46
38 - Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – BGM# 04 - Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – KeyGlyph - 01:44:19
39 - Botanicula – multi – Juchu – DVA, Bara Kratochvilova, and/or Jan Kratochvilova – Adam Huisman - 01:47:01
40 - Ecco: Defender of the Future - Dreamcast – Hanging Waters - Tim Follin - Electric Boogaloo - 01:50:34
41 - Kerbal Space Program – multi – Space Music (Track 2) - Victor Machado – Jeshua Lack - 01:53:01
42 - Spark the Electric Jester – PC – Smog City Sewers (Stage 4) - Faulk Au Yeong, Pejman Roozbeh, James Landino, Andy Tunstall, Paul Bethers, and/or Michael Staple - The Diad - 01:54:36
43 - Outro - 01:58:47
44 - Blooper Reel - 02:12:48
Music Block Runtime: 01:56:13, Total Episode Runtime: 02:25:51
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Cheers!
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Today’s broadcast is C1E98 for Mishmash Monday, Sept 29th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be Mishmash Monday – vol. 17 – our final installment in the Mishmash Monday series on Ch 1. Also, while, barring circumstances far beyond my control, this is most certainly not the final episode of Nerd Noise Radio, it is "an end" in a certain manner of speaking. Details in the intro.
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Splash Down - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - 00:05:54
02) Metropolis Zone - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - 00:08:40
03) The Rosetta Stone - Double Dragon 3 - Arcade - Akira Inoue and/or Takaro Nozaki - 00:10:18
04) Menu - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin, and/or Francisco Cerda - 00:13:23
05) Best Tone - Driving Emotion Type S - PS2 - Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Sasō, and/or Takayuki Aihara - 00:16:48
06) Menu 3 - FIFA 94 - 3DO - Jeff van Dyck and/or Graeme Coleman - 00:21:55
07) Challenge Course 2 - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 00:24:07
08) Tidal Tempest Zone (Present) - Sonic CD (N/A version) - Sega CD / Windows 95 - Spencer Nilsen, David Young, and/or Pastiche - 00:26:50
09) Training Mode - Star Fox - SNES - Hajime Hirasawa - 00:28:31
10) Introduction 1 - Flimbo’s Quest - C64 - Johannes Bjerregaard - 00:30:21
11) Stage 2 - Kirby’s Block Ball - Game Boy - Sukezo Ouyama, and/or Ryoue Takagi - 00:32:32
12) There and Back - Rocket League - Multiplatform - Protostar - 00:34:34
13) Can’t Sleep - Olli Olli World - Multiplatform - Alex Swim - 00:38:18
14) Tubular 2 - Fantavision 202X - Soichi Terrada - 00:42:48
15) Pulse - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - 00:47:08
16) The Streets - Skate or Die 2 - NES - Rob Hubbard - 00:50:07
17) Red Out - After Burner II - PC Engine - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Kenichiro Isoda, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:52:20
18) Main Theme - Crystal Hammer - Amiga - Karsten Obarski - 00:55:26
19) Pure Stone - Zillion - Master System - Tokuhiko Uwabo - 00:59:31
20) Boss - Somer Assault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki and/or Katsuyuki Inose - 01:02:49
21) Attacking Vah Rudania - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 01:06:16
22) Fire Temple Phase 2 - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:08:46
23) El Quejio - Blasphemous - Multiplatform - Carlos Viola, and/or Daniel Parejo - 01:12:12
24) Temple of the Sands - The Talos Principle - Multiplatform - Damjan Mravunac - 01:17:14
25) Winter Night - Hitman Contracts - PS2/XB/PC - Jesper Kyd - 01:19:11
26) The Junction - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 01:22:34
27) Left to Bloom - Minecraft - Mutiplatform - Lena Raine - 01:24:34
28) Maintain the Firmament - Firmament - PS5/PC - Maclaine Diemer - 01:30:07
29) Crossroads - Hollow Knight - Multiplatform - Christopher Larkin - 01:33:05
30) Pokopoko - Minecraft - Multiplatform - Kumi Tanioka - 01:35:29
31) Main Theme - Atari 50 - Multiplatform - Bob Baffy - 01:40:12
32) Game Select - Kirby Super Star - SNES - Jun Ishikawa, and/or Dan Miyakawa - 01:47:51
33) Stage 1 - Legendary Wings - NES - Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae, and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi - 01:49:19
34) Quick Man - Mega Man - Game Gear - c: Takashi Tateishi / a: David Lowe - 01:51:14
35) Title Music - Batman Returns - Lynx - Robert Vieira - 01:53:16
36) Aqueduct - Lagrange Point - Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Aki Hata, Makoto Kawamoto, Kenji Nakamura, and/or Tadashi Sawashita - 01:55:00
37) Viewros Overworld - Metroid Prime 4 (pre-release) - Switch / Switch 2 - Kenji Yamamoto - 01:57:07
38) The Divide - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 02:00:07
39) Puzzlebox - Minecraft - Multiplatform - Aaron Chernof - 02:02:45
40) Gerudo Town Night - LoZ: BotW / TotK - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 02:07:34
41) North Point Mall - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - PS2 / PC - Lex Horton - 02:10:40
42) Whimsical Waypoint - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - 02:15:01
B1) Outro - 02:17:21
Music Block Runtime: 02:11:28 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:30:21
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
In this very special edition of Nerd Noise Radio Channel F, St. John's 7yr old son, St. Wyatt makes his Nerd Noise Radio debut (at least, in all the ways that matter). This episode will be a miniature of the Channel 2 format - with only one track!
Circumstances: St. John *MEANT* to include a track from one of Wyatt's iPad games into the mixtape of C1E98: "Mishmash Monday - vol. 17", but realized way too late into that episode's production that he had completely spaced it off.
He briefly considered going back into the mixtape and the voice track and retroactively adding the track. But then decided to instead use the occasion of his complete air-headedness to "turn lemons into lemonade" and and introduce Wyatt into the show - something that had been in the back of St. John's mind since the day Wyatt was born.
While Wyatt has yet to master the art of radio communication (I hope everyone likes "salad"), this F-isode absolutely melts my heart!....I hope it will you too!
Lastly, I actually really like this track....and once again, I hope you will too! Given St. John's penchant for "ironically, humorously literal titles", this one is aptly named: "One for Wyatt!"
Track:
01) Gettin' Freaky - Friday Night Funkin' - iOS/Android - Kawai Sprite
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
2025 Rerun Notes:
In commemoration of this month release of the last-ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, I thought I'd rerun the first two installments of the series - both from all the way back in 2017 (Season 1 of the show). Therefore, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" and blah blah blah (especially on C1E10, the earlier of the two releases).
Though this rerun is "officially" and "canonically" the first "Mishmash Monday" (free play) episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, it is really "Mishmash Monday in name only" as it wasn't truly a free play. Instead, it was designed with a very specific purpose and with each track housing a very specific meaning.
Though I explain and elaborate fully in a 2019 special expanded rebroadcast of this episode we called "Chandlerfest", which I'll link to below, for now, the tl;dr is that this mixtape was actually made in commemoration for a friend who died entirely too young in Dec 2016, and whose absence we still feel regularly from here in 2025.
When I got the news, I left work, went home, and turned my grief into tortured energy, and made this mixtape, with the design philosophy being to use the tracks and the particular arch of the track order to tell the story of the emotions of those of us left behind in his wake as we processed the news of his departure. With this being a 2017 episode, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" (especially episodes from the first half of 2017, which were even worse than those from the second half.) But content-wise, this early outing remains one of the most important episodes of Nerd Noise Radio....ever.
Here's a link to Chandlerfest for anyone who wants to know more:
https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-radio-reruns-presents-chandlerfest
Otherwise, enjoy! Original 2017 show notes below!
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Today’s broadcast is Episode 10 for Mishmash Monday, May 22nd, 2017 on a program we're calling "Mishmash Monday vol. 1"
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Chris Chandler.
Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Track Name, Composer, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00
02: Shinobi 3 - Genesis - Japonesque - Hirofumi Murasaki, Masayuki Nagao, Morihiko Akiyama - 01:55
03: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - The Vile Peaks - Masashi Hamauzu - 04:13
04: Trip World - Game Boy - Stage 2-2 - “Phase Out” - 06:59
05: Ninja Warriors - SNES - City - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki - 08:43
06: Quake 2 - PC - Quad Machine - Sonic Mayhem - 10:50
07: X-Men - Arcade - Ethnic Cave and Flame - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 14:22
08: Jumping Flash 2 - PS1 - Stage 1-2 - Takeo Miratsu - 16:56
09: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia - PCE - HES 12 - Shiro Sagisu - 18:34
10: Sim City - SNES - Capital - Soyo Oka - 20:33
11: Castlevania III - NES - Riddle - Konami Kukeiha Club - 22:54
12: Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Stage 4-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 23:56
13: Star Wars: SOTE - N64 - Menu - Joel McNeely - 25:33
14: Super Meat Boy - PC/360 - Forest Funk - Danny Baronowsky - 26:34
15: Metroid Prime - GameCube - Metroid Prime Battle - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma - 29:22
16: James Bond 007 - Genesis - Space Hop - Matt Furniss - 31:58
17: Tiny Toon Adventures: BBL - SNES - Space Opera - Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Yukie Morimoto - 34:03
18: Chester Cheetah: TCTF - Genesis - To the Exit - Kaneko Sound Team - 36:46
19: Salamander - PC Engine - Crystal Forever - Konami Kukeiha Club - 39:41
20: Outro - 40:09
Music Block Runtime: 38:18, Total Episode Runtime: 46:39
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
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Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
2025 Rerun Notes:
In commemoration of this month release of the last-ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, I thought I'd rerun the first two installments of the series - both from all the way back in 2017 (Season 1 of the show). Therefore, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" and blah blah blah (especially on C1E10, the earlier of the two releases).
Though today's rerun is officially, canonically the "second" Mishmash Monday, it's actually the first "for real" Mishmash Monday. The first "actual free play episode". Not that it was produced before C1E10, but released later, but that C1E10 was a "Mishmash Monday" in name only, and was definitely not a true free play. I'll explain in that episode's rerun. But for now, numbers and dates aside, this was our first actual "free play" episode in NNR history. And even though the production quality is so absolutely horrible, I still regard this episode as an excellent collection of music! Easily in our top 50% of show history, and perhaps even top 25%.
So, enjoy! Original 2017 show notes below!
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Today’s broadcast is Episode 16 for Mishmash Monday, October 9th, 2017 on a program we're calling "Mishmash Monday - vol. 2".
Track Number / Game / System / Track Name / Composer / Time Stamp
01: Intro 00:00
02: Ghost in the Shell - PS1 - The Vertical - Joey Beltram 01:44
03: Solstice - NES - Title Theme - Tim Follin 08:10
04: Axiom Verge - multi - Inexorable - Thomas Happ 11:04
05: Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - The Reverse Will - Akira Yamaoka 15:44
06: Wai Wai Mahjong - PC Engine - Unknown Track 4 - Uncredited 19:09
07: Adventure Island - NES - Stage 1-1 - Jun Chikuma 20:50
08: Mega Man X - SNES - Central Highway - Toshihiko Horiyama 22:14
09: Tsuri Taro - SFC - Fishing for Seema - Katsuhiro Hayashi 25:14
10: Liquid Kids - Arcade - Waltz of Water and Bubble - Kazuko Umino 28:18
11: Metroid Fusion - GBA - Nightmare Battle - Minako Hamano 30:21
12: X-Men - Genesis - Shi'ar Empire - Fletcher Beasley 32:11
13: X-Racer - Hydra Development Unit - Floor it! - c: John Wedgeworth / a: Jay Cook 36:05
14: Shovel Knight - multi - A Cool Reception - Jake Kaufman 37:47
15: Destiny - PS4/XB1 - Passage - C. Paul Johnson 40:26
16: ARMS - Switch - Main Theme - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata 43:36
17: El Viento - Genesis - High Sky - Motoi Sakuraba 46:26
18: Magical Chase - TG16 - Waltz of Meditation (part 1) - Hitoshi Sakimoto 48:48
19: Wolverine - NES - Bonus Room - Geoff Follin 51:18
20: Castlevania II - FDS - The Silence of Daylight - Kenichi Matsubara 52:17
21: Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Esto Gaza - Nobuo Uematsu 53:21
22: Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 3DS - 10pm - Kazumi Totaka 56:47
23: Outro 59:23
Music Block Runtime: 57:43, Total Episode Runtime: 01:05:49
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
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Option 2: If you're ONLY interested in Channel 1 episodes, and not in any of the other channels, there is a Channel 1-specific feed. But it's hosted on a free account, rather than an upgraded account like the "All Channels Feed" with lower quality sound (mono, I believe), a maximum 2hrs per month of content (so if the month's episodes run longer than that, they may need to be trimmed), and episodes expire off the feed forever after 90 days. If this is what you want instead, here's the RSS:
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Hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again Saturday, October 28th for C1E17 (Channel 1, Episode 17): the Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack, and wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
Today's "F-isode" is the soundtrack to the upcoming indie game "MAKRANA" designed, developed, and scored by Matt Miller of Des Moines-based Chronarian Games. Matt sits in with St. John at Nerd Noise Studios for a Channel 2-style in-person conversation to discuss the soundtrack and various other matters of varying degrees of relevance. ;-)
All tracks from the game MAKRANA, an upcoming game by Chronarian Games for PS5, XBSX and probably other platforms as well. All tracks composed, arranged, and performed by Matt Miller.
Tracklist
A1) "Production Disclaimer" Earcatcher (St. John on the now NNR-customary $400 Shure SM7B Mic) - 00:00:00
A2) "Episode Opener" Earcatcher (St. John on the now long-deprecated $100 AudioTechnica AT2020 Mic which was the mic St. John used on NNR from 2017-2022) - 00:00:59
01) "ZENITH" (game and track titles all capitalized for stylistic purposes by developer)
a) Music - 00:01:12
b) Discussion and Top-of-Show Business (St. John and Matt sharing a single AT2020) - 00:04:50
02) "OBSERVE"
a) Music - 00:29:39
b) Discussion (all voice recordings from here on out using that same single AT2020) - 00:33:27
03) "REFLECT"
a) Music - 00:47:59
b) Discussion (our shortest conversation of the episode by far!) - 00:51:47
04) "QUADRANT"
a) Music - 00:59:04
b) Discussion - 01:03:21
05) "DEVIATE"
a) Music - 01:28:28
b) Discussion and End-of-Show Business - 01:33:51
B1) Outtakes - 02:04:08
Total Episode Runtime: 02:10:02
Matt and Chronarian Games can be found at www.chronariangames.com as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube, and X.
Special Thanks to Erin Miller, Nora Miller, and Jodee Wedgeworth (aka "St. Jodee") for making this recording session / episode possible.
Produced in a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on a 2023-model Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop (docked in a "desktop" context) using the aforementioned mics, a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface, and in the case of the SM7B, a Cloudlifter in-line signal booster. No alcohol was involved in this recording - however, I do think sleep deprivation may have been a factor! ;-) :-D
Enjoy!!
Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Today's bonus broadcast is the soundtrack to Lucid 9, created by Fallen Snow Studios, and composed by Ultra Kitsune (10 of 36 tracks), Breezee (15 of 36 tracks), Ziassan (4 of 36 tracks), Blue Wolfie (6 of 36 tracks), and Haven235 (1 of 36 tracks) - listed in order of appearance! The first game I ever played on Steam.
Track list:
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Urban Disturbance (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:05:06
02) Usual Routine (by Breezee) - 00:08:50
03) Hustle & Bustle (by Breezee) - 00:10:08
04) Peaceful Days (by Ziassan) - 00:11:35
05) Consequences of a fool (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:13:52
06) Marvelous Masa (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:15:38
07) Gover Mecher (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:16:30
08) Victory in Sight (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:18:07
09) Adult talk (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:20:23
10) Empty Eyes (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:22:17
11) Optimist in shining armor (by Breezee) - 00:24:52
12) Stardust (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:25:56
13) Rationality (by Haven235) - 00:28:02
14) Vision from my soul (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:29:53
15) Unpredictable Youth (by Breezee) - 00:30:54
16) Eccentric Detective (by Breezee) - 00:33:18
17) Process of Elimination (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:35:55
18) Instinctive Suspicion (by Breezee) - 00:38:07
19) Instinctive Suspicion - music box (by Breezee) - 00:40:07
20) Instinctive Suspicion - ominous (by Breezee) - 00:42:03
21) Equanimity (by Breezee) - 00:43:58
22) Anxiety (by Breezee) - 00:48:44
23) Tasteless (by Ziassan) - 00:50:11
24) Introspection (by Ziassan) - 00:52:29
25) Melancholy (by Breezee) - 00:58:00
26) Melancholy - heavy (by Breezee) - 01:00:16
27) Hollow (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:03:06
28) Restless (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:05:27
29) Asphyxia (by Breezee) - 01:08:19
30) Electrifying Tension (by Breezee) - 01:10:07
31) Melancholy - emotional (by Breezee) - 01:12:59
32) Warm Feeling (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:16:04
33) Secrets of Isamu (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:17:49
34) Depths (by Ziassan) - 01:19:44
35) Disturbed (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:22:09
36) Urban Disturbance - dark edit (by Ultra Kisune) - 01:25:11
Soundtrack Runtime - 01:22:47 Total Runtime - 01:27:53
You can find Fallen Snow Studios here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfMivU4sAY
Background music for the introduction segment: Water Temple (Phase 1) from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch (and Switch 2) composed by Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and/or Tsukasa Usui
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Today’s broadcast is C1E97 for Soundtrack Saturday, July 26th, 2025. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Metroid soundtrack on the Super NES, composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. This episode is Nerd Noise Radio's contribution to the VGM Hall of Fame ("HoF") project, created in collaboration with Alex "The Messenger" of "A VGM Journey" and Professor Tom from "Shujin Academy VGM Club" podcasts. Links to their programs will be found in the show notes! Stick around after the show for bonus content!
Tracklist:
Track# - Track - Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Title Theme - 00:05:16
02) Prologue - 00:07:28
03) Approaching the Space Colony - 00:10:01
04) Ceres Space Colony - 00:10:11
05) Ridley / Draygoon / Chozo Statue - 00:10:43
06) Approaching Planet Zebes - 00:12:52
07) Crateria (Surface Arrival) - 00:13:06
08) Crateria (Underground) - 00:14:47
09) Crateria (Space Pirates) - 00:16:25
10) Mysterious Statue Chamber - 00:19:58
11) Item Room - 00:21:48
12) Brinstar (Overgrown Area) - 00:23:23
13) Brinstar (Red Soil) - 00:27:00
14) Spore Spawn / Botwoon - 00:29:12
15) Tension - 00:31:27
16) Kraid / Crocomire / Phantoon - 00:33:17
17) Norfair (Fire of Zebes) - 00:35:07
18) Theme of Samus Aran - 00:37:22
19) Wrecked Ship (Deactivated) - 00:41:01
20) Wrecked Ship (Activated) - 00:43:11
21) Maridia (Drifting Sands) - 00:45:34
22) Maridia (Underwater) - 00:49:30
23) Norfair (Ancient Ruins) - 00:52:23
24) Golden Four Statue - 00:57:00
25) Tourian - 00:59:13
26) Mother Brain - 01:03:03
27) Escape - 01:05:21
28) Finale - 01:07:33
29) Continue - 01:10:51
B1) Outro - 01:11:41
B2) BONUS: Super Metroid Medley - performed on June 22nd 2025 by the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra (“DSMGSO”), and arranged by the DSMGSO’s very own Joseph Mullin! - 01:20:59
Music Block Runtime: 01:06:27 / Bonus Music Runtime: 00:13:15 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:33:25
Our intro and outro is Funky Radio from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights
You can find Alex’s show: “A VGM Journey” here:
https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey
And you can find Professor Tom’s “Shujin Academy VGM Club” here:
https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club
You can find the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra here:
https://youtube.com/@desmoinesgamersymphonyorch3631?si=hq8tUJYKOR0-ynjr
You can find Valerie’s Flute Entertainment here:
https://www.valwedgeworth.com/
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
We are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!
But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:
https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw
Thanks for listening! Join us again in August (or more likely, September) for C1E98 (Channel 1, Episode 98): Mishmash Monday – vol. 17 – our final ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, and our third-to-last [quote] "regular", "ordinary", "standard" episode of Channel 1, though certainly not our third-to-last all-time production of Nerd Noise Radio. Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!