Episodes
Friday May 31, 2024
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E85: FaceOff Friday – vol. 6”
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Today’s broadcast is C1E85 for FaceOff Friday, May 31st, 2024 Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol 6, a collection of "this version vs that version" of various pieces of Delicious VGM!
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Super Mario Bros. - Overworld Theme - Koji Kondo
- SNES [Super Mario All Stars] (a: N/A) - 00:02:35
- NES (a: N/A) - 00:05:26
- PC 88 [Super Mario Bros. Special] (a: Fumihiko Itagaki and/or Megumi Kawamata) - 00:09:48
02) Fatal Fury – Howard Arena (Tung Fu Rue) - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree
- Neo Geo AES / MVS (a: N/A) - 00:11:59
- Genesis (a: Kazuyuki Oikawa and/or Kōjirō Mikusa) - 00:14:56
- SNES (a: Hiroshi Ebihara) - 00:17:40
- Neo Geo CD (a: Unknown) - 00:21:02
03) Shinobi - Yasuhiro Kawakami
- Arcade (BGM 2) (a: N/A) - 00:26:03
- PC Engine (BGM 2) (a: Unknown) - 00:27:28
- Mastersystem FM [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:28:55
- Mastersystem PSG [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:30:18
- NES [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:31:03
04) Double Dragon V – Character Select - Robert Atesalp
- Jaguar (a: Byron Parks) - 00:33:05
- SNES (a: N/A) - 00:34:48
- Genesis (a: N/A) - 00:36:35
05) Ninja Warriors – Daddy Mulk - Hisayoshi Ogura
- Arcade (a: N/A) - 00:38:27
- Amiga (a: Ronald Pieket-Weeserik) - 00:42:46
- C64 (a: Tony Williams) - 00:46:54
- PC Engine (a: Unknown) - 00:51:02
- Mega CD (a: Junichi Kawaguchi) - 00:55:15
06) Tetris (SEGA) Tetramix A - Yasuhiro Kawakami
- Arcade (a: N/A) - 01:00:10
- Genesis (a: N/A) - 01:01:56
07) Ninja Gaiden Series Boss Music - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa
- Ninja Gaiden 1 (NES) (a: N/A) - 01:03:55
- Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) (a: Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura) - 01:05:42
- Ninja Gaiden 3 (NES) (a: Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno) - 01:07:28
- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) (a: Unknown) - 01:09:14
08) Streets of Rage 1 vs Streets of Rage 2 (Boss Music 1) - Yuzu Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawasshima
- SoR 1 (Attack the Barbarian) (a: N/A) - 01:11:06
- SoR 2 (Never Return Alive) (a: N/A) - 01:13:51
09) Y's III: Wanderers from Ys – The Winged Boy (aka “The Boy’s got Wings” or “Winged Boy”) - Mieko Ishikawa
- PC98 (OPN) (a: N/A) - 01:17:24
- X68000 (a: Masaki Kawai) - 01:19:27
- Famicom (a: Osamu Kasai, Masaaki Harada, and/or Michiharu Hasuya) - 01:22:04
- MSX2 (a: Unknown) - 01:23:56
- SNES (a: Michiharu Hayusa, Masaaki Harada, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 01:26:00
- Genesis (a: Yoshiaki Kubotera and/or Noriyuki Iwadare) - 01:27:32
- PC Engine (a: Masaaki Inoue) - 01:29:35
- PS2 (a: Unknown) - 01:31:37
- Oath in Felghana (a: Yukihiro Jindo) - 01:34:18
10) Metroid - Norfair - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka
- Wii [Super Smash Bros. Brawl] (a: Yuzo Koshiro) - 01:37:29
- GBA (a: Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano) - 01:39:50
- NES (a: N/A) - 01:43:40
B1) Outro - 01:45:51
Music Block Runtime: 01:33:13, Total Episode Runtime: 01:54:12
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux* on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
*=or Windows 11 since the transition back to Fedora on the Zephyrus happened midway through this episode's production
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!
Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (dates TBD) for C1E86 (Channel 1, Episode 86): our 2024 contribution to Masters of VGM – featuring the soundtrack to Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, and C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18): a thus far untitled focus on music from unreleased games - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday May 15, 2024
NNR May 2024 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
A promised update on the status and future of the show!
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E84: TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 9”
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Today’s broadcast is C1E84 for TwoFer Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Today’s episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 9.
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto
- A) Planet Tallon IV - 00:02:29
- B) Crashed Frigate - 00:06:36
02) Diver's Dream – PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa and/or Shinya Watanabe
- A) Paradise - 00:11:30
- B) Big Pudding - 00:13:36
03) Shenmue – Dreamcast - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Hideaki Miyamoto, Akiko Hashimoto, Ryoko Okada, Shingo Murakami, Tadahiro Nitta, Yayoi Okumura, Nao to Nagai, Fumio Ito, Shinichiro Miki, Yasuhide Takeuchi, and/or Yuzo Koshiro
- A) Secret of a Warehouse - 00:16:25
- B) Antiquity Tree - 00:18:35
04) Art of Balance - Multi - Martin Schjøler
- A) World F - 00:20:01
- B) World B - 00:23:24
05) Summoner – PS2 - Walter Shaw, Dan Wentz, and/or Scott Lee
- A) Iona Island - 00:25:44
- B) Lenele Marketplace 1 - 00:30:45
06) Castlevania: Lament of Innocence – PS2 - Michiru Yamane
- A) Young Nobleman of the Water Prison - 00:24:43
- B) Garden Forgotten by Time - 00:38:23
07) Batman Returns – SNES - Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, and/or Kazuhiko Uehara
- A) Scene 1-1 - 00:42:06
B) Scene 3-1 - 00:44:30
08) Maldita Castilla (Cursed Castilla) - Multi - Javier Garcia (aka Gryzor87)
- A) Stage 5-1: El Bosque Encantado - 00:47:23
- B) Stage 5-2: Donde Habita la Bruja - 00:50:56
09) Trojan – NES - Ayako Mori and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
- A) Sewers - 00:53:52
- B) Stage 1 - 00:55:00
10) Captain Planet and the Planeteers – NES - Peter Stone
- A) Africa - 00:56:23
- B) Cutscene Theme 01 - 00:58:51
11) Streets of Rage – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro
- A) Stage 05 - 01:01:02
- B) Stage 08 - 01:03:14
12) n++ - Multiplatform
- A) Home – Marcel Dettmann - 01:06:36
- B) Kraft und Licht – Len Faki - 01:11:35
13) TMNT – NES - Jun Funahashi and/or Hidenori Maezawa
- A) Underwater - 01:18:30
- B) Overworld 1 - 01:20:20
B1) Outro - 01:21:35
Music Block Runtime: 01:19:07, Total Episode Runtime: 01:29:58
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Windows 11 on an Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!
Thanks for listening! Join us again in May for C1E85 (Channel 1, Episode 85):FaceOff Friday – vol. 6 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
[Ch 2] Nerd Noise Game Club - C2E17: “20th Century Floppies”
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E83: Parallels”
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Today’s broadcast is C1E83 for Mishmash Monday, April 1st, 2024. Today’s episode helps all of us who struggle so mightily with multitasking to enjoy an entire 27 track music block and an entire intro and outro without feeling like it, and without the guilt of tying up the time and resources so many of us generally require as serial monotaskers – on a program called "Parallels". Nerd Noise Radio is always here to help!
Tracklist!
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s)
01) Kraft und Licht - n++ - Mutliplatform - Len Faki
02) Planet Talon IV - Metroid Prime - GameCube / Wii / Switch - Kenji Yamamoto
03) Jazz 2 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin
04) World B - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler
05) Silly Science A - Snipperclips - Switch - Calem Bowen
06) Never 4ever - Hover - Multiplatform - Hideki Nagamuma
07) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Andreas Waldertoft
08) Portal - Futuri no Fantatvision - PS2 - Soichi Terada
09) Track 4 - Fantavision (PAL) - PS2 - Jim Croft
10) Lenele Market 1 - Summoner - PS2 - Walter Shaw / Dan Wentz / Scott Lee
11) Parcul Trandafirilor - Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Takami,Ryu Umemoto, and/or Hiroaki Sano
12) Young Nobleman of the Water Prison - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - PS2 - Michiru Yamane
13) Little Cave - Diver’s Dream - PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa, Shinya Watanabe
14) El Bosque Encantado - Cursed Castilla - Multiplatform - Javier Garcia (Gryzor87)
15) The Last Soul - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro
16) Track 2 - Impact Racing - PS1 / Saturn - Martin Schjoler
17) Free Programming - Game Builder Garage - Switch - Kazumi Totaka
18) Scene 3 - Batman Returns - SNES - Jun Funahashi, Harumi Ueko, and/or Kazuhiko Uehara
19) Underwater - TMNT - NES - Jun Funahashi
20) Africa - Captain Planet and the Planeteers - NES - Peter Stone
21) April Village - Lovely Planet 2: April Skies - PC - Calem Bowen
22) Reply Mode - Fantavision (N/A) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik
23) Stage 01 - Trojan - NES - Ayako Mori
24) Antiquity Tree - Shenmue - Dreamcast - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
25) City of the Future - Rocket Coaster - LaserActive - Unknown
26) Title - Adventures of Rad Gravity - NES - David Worhol
27) Round 4 - Cyber Shinobi - Mastersystem - Keisuke Tsukahara
B1) Outro
Music Block Runtime: 00:07:10, Total Episode Runtime: 00:15:06
Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Malo Mart, from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Game Cube and Wii, composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō.
Our final (of three – plus two Archive Super Bonuses) to be produced [at least partially] in Microsoft Windows – on the new Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 gaming laptop [shipped with Windows]. Also partially produced in Fedora Linux – on "Stickers" (the old primary laptop). Now that I've completed these productions on the ROG, I can finally flash it with Linux (probably also Fedora, or else possibly the Fedora-based Nobara, since this is a gaming laptop after all) and resume my life as a Linux-Exclusive user and producer. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!
Thanks for listening! Join us again later in April for C1E84 (Channel 1, Episode 84): TwoFer Tuesday - vol 9, and C2E17 (Channel 2, Episode 17), a "Title TBD" focus on old computer music - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E82: Run and/or Gun”
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Today’s broadcast is C1E82 for Theme Thursday, March 21st, 2024. Today’s theme is music from Run and Gun games (as best as I can define them), on a program we're quite hedgingly calling "Run and/or Gun"!
Tracklist!
Track# - Track Name – Game – System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Dice Dance Days – Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Norio Hanzawa – 00:03:45
02) Garden – Die Hard – PC Engine – Kenji Yoshida – 00:05:55
03) Stage Theme 1 – Rush'n Attack – NES – Kiyohiro Sada – 00:07:51
04) Bad Fairy – Rolling Thunder 3 – Genesis – Masakatsu Maekawa – 00:09:58
05) The Hard Corps Blues – Contra: Hard Corps – Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi – 00:13:06
06) River – Bloody Wolf – TG16 - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama – 00:15:17
07) Level 4-1 – Blazing Chrome – Multiplatform - Dominic Ninmark, Tiago Santos, and/or Kristine – 00:16:16:47
08) Hoodlum Dolls – Huntdown – Multiplatform – Tommy Gustafsson – 00:19:19
09) Drifter – Ruiner – Multiplatform - Piotr Niedzielski – 00:22:07
10) It Will All Come Together – Neon Abyss – Multiplatform – Min He – 00:25:32
11) Future World 1 – The Chaos Engine 2 – Amiga – Richard Joseph – 00:28:41
12) Infested Living Quarters – Cyber Lip – Neo Geo AES / MVS – Yasuo Yamate – 00:31:00
13) Himitsu Factory – Metal Slug 3 – Neo Geo AES / MVS - Takushi Hiyamuta, Yoshihiko Wada, Hori_Hori, Q_Jirou, and/or Maitaro – 00:32:55
14) Sunset Strip – NARC – Arcade - Eugene P. Jarvis, George N. Petro, Todd Allen, Jack E. Haeger, Mark Loffredo, John Newcomer, Larry DeMar, Brian Schmidt, Mark Locasio, Glenn Shipp, Lin Young, and/or Al Lasko – 00:35:04
15) Venus – Doom Troopers – Genesis – Fletcher Beasley – 00:36:45
16) Neo City – Gunstar Super Heroes – GBA – Norio Hanzawa – 00:39:56
17) Mountains – Super Cyborg – Multiplatform - Vladimir Tugay (aka Darkman007) - 00:42:26
18) Stages 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8 – Sly Spy – Arcade – Azusa Hara, and/or Hiroaki Yoshida – 00:44:25
19) City (Low Intensity) - Broforce – Multiplatform - Deon van Heerden – 00:47:03
20) High Tech Level 1 – B.O.B. - Genesis – Alex Rudis – 00:48:52
21) Farmtown Theme – Guerrilla War – NES - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, and/or Toshikazu Tanaka – 00:50:36
22) Cobra Main Base – G.I. Joe – NES - Yusuke Takahama, and/or Nobuyuki Shioda – 00:52:28
23) What the Heck? - Earthworm Jim – Genesis – Tommy Tallarico – 00:54:09
24) Clip Joint Calamity – Cuphead – Multiplatform – Luke Hatton, Michael Benzie, Chris Sweetman, Jack Raeburn, Samuel Justice, Joe Hudson, and/or Hannah Marsh, Luke De Ayora, and/or Denise Hatton – 00:56:30
25) Alley / Sewer – Dick Tracy – Genesis - STI Sound Team – 01:00:20
26) Neo Kobe Steel Factory – Contra III: The Alien Wars – SNES - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase, and/or Aki Hata – 01:02:10
27) Gate to Hell – Super Ghouls and Ghosts – SNES – Mari Yamaguchi – 01:05:56
28) Anything But Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – Saturn – Tommy Tallarico – 01:07:58
29) Missions 2-2 and 4 – Rambo III – Genesis – Kazuhiko Nagai – 01:12:05
30) Kessilag – Super Time Force Ultra – Multiplatform – Jason DeGroot – 01:14:20
31) Red Afterimage – Elevator Action Returns – Saturn – Yasuhisa Watanabe – 01:17:16
32) Joule's Wish – Azure Striker Gunvolt – Multiplatform – Ippo Yamada, Ryou Kawakami, Katsunori Yoshino, Mina Hatazoe, and/or Kotaro Yamada – 01:21:32
B1) Outro – 01:25:56
Music Block Runtime: 01:22:14, Total Episode Runtime: 01:39:46
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in [just this once] a mix of Fedora Linux (on the old lapop) and Windows 11 (on the "soon to be 'Linux'd'" new laptop). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!
Thanks for listening! Join us again April 1st for C1E83 (Channel 1, Episode 83):A very unique look at 27 tracks! - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
[Ch 2] Nerd Noise Game Club - C2E16: “Songs with Words”
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Today’s Broadcast is C2E16 for Theme Thursday, March 7th, 2024. Today’s theme is vocal music from video games, on a program we’re calling “Songs with Words”. BE SURE TO CATCH OUR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOWARDS THE END OF THE EPISODE!! (It’s highlighted in the show notes!)
Tracklist
Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Vocalist / Selected by
01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues
- a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
- b) Music - 00:00:08
- c) Introduction - 00:04:12
- d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:39
- e) Discussion - 00:14:56
02) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
- a) Music - 00:18:28
- b) Discussion - 00:24:03
03) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues
- a) Music - 00:28:34
- b) Discussion - 00:34:30
04) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (music) and David R. Leytze (lyrics) - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi - St. John
- a) Music - 00:40:45
- b) Discussion - 00:45:33
05) Instructor Mooselini's Rap - PaRappa the Rapper - PS1 - Izumi Amano and/or Ryu Watanabe - John Simpson III and Saundra Williams - Hugues
- a) Music - 00:50:35
- b) Discussion - 00:52:43
06) My Intellivision - Intellivision Lives - Multiplatform - Tom Kahelin and/or Michael Schwartz - Michael Schwartz (?) - St. John
- a) Music - 00:56:50
- b) Discussion - 01:01:33
07) Sea of Love - It Came from the Desert - TG16 - Kenneth Melville - Terence Kirby - Hugues
- a) Music - 01:05:28
- b) Discussion - 01:07:51
08) Volver a Comenzar - Little Big Planet - PS3 - Cafe Tabvca - Cafe Tabvca - St. John
[NOTE: I failed to sync this track up to the vocal portion where we do the "this part right here" thing. My apologies! - St. John]
- a) Music - 01:14:01
- b) Discussion - 01:22:18
09) A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy PS2 - Asuka Sakai - Ado Mizumori - Hugues
[NOTE: Same as the above track - missed the "this part right here" thing. - St. John]
- a) Music - 01:25:23
- b) Discussion - 01:30:01
10) Sonic Boom (Ending Version) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, Mark Young, and/or Pastiche - Pastiche - St. John
- a) Music - 01:33:16
- b) Discussion - 01:37:02
11) Sora wo Miagete (Ending Version) - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PSP - c: Takahiro Unisuga / a: Yukihiro Jindo - Kanako Kotera - Hugues
- a) Music - 01:41:18
- b) Discussion - 01:47:26
12) Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
[NOTE: This time I caught the "this moment right here" thing. Hooray! - St. John]
- a) Music - 01:51:04
- b) Discussion - 01:55:38
13) Everything's Alright - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - Laura Shigihara - Hugues
- a) Music - 02:01:12
- b) Discussion - 02:04:46
- c) End of Show Business - 02:14:40
- d) Oddie HD Updates - 02:19:42
- e) MOAR End of Show Business - 02:20:37
- f) *****OUR BIG CH 2 ANNOUNCEMENT***** - 02:22:36
- g) EVEN MORE End of Show Banter - 02:26:12
- h) Closing Track Discussion - 02:30:35
- i) Sign-Off - 02:32:12
14) Still Alive - Portal - Multiplatform - Jonathan Coulton - Ellen McClain (as GLaDOS) - St. John
- a) Music - 02:32:42
- b) Outtakes - 02:35:35
- c) [Audio-Only] The Debut YouTube Video of Oddie HD (the complete, unabridged audio) - 02:43:51
Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:34
Retro Game Club can be found here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
Referenced Article about “Sea of Love”:
https://www.tg-16.com/Lyrics_for_It_Came_From_the_Desert.htm
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C1E82: “Run and/or Gun”! Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Monday Jan 29, 2024
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E81: Mishmash Monday – vol. 15”
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Today’s broadcast is C1E81 for Mishmash Monday, . Today’s episode is Mishmash Monday – vol 15, and the inaugural episode of 2024's "Season 7" (and the start of St. John's 8th year in podcasting).
Tracklist: Track Number - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1 Season 7 Earcatcher - 00:00:00
A2) Intro - 00:00:03
01) Spirit Hymn - Dinosaur - FM Towns (YM2612) - Masaki Kawai - 00:03:04
02) White Summit Probe Naberius - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Multiplatform - Hideaki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Kenichi Tokoi, Tadashi Kinukawa, and/or Chihiro Aoki - 00:05:38
03) The Hanging Edge - Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 / XB360 - Masashi Hamauzu - 00:13:03
04) Down the Rabbit Hole - Deathloop - Multiplatform - Tom Salta - 00:16:21
05) Streets of Bronx - Three Dirty Dwarves - Saturn - Attila Héger, and/or Attila Dobos - 00:19:33
06) Title Theme - Two Crude Dudes - Genesis - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, and or Tatsuya Kiuichi - 00:22:52
07) As Vrea - Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Umemoto, and/or Hiroaki Sano - 00:24:02
08) Wayland's Watch - Bard's Tale - Apple IIGS (ProDOS 8) - Lawrence Holland - 00:26:32
09) The Silence of Daylight - Castlevania II - NES - Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and/or Kouji Murata - 00:27:59
10) Super Shop Theme - Clash at Demonhead - NES - Michiharu Hasuya - 00:29:27
11) Yoru No Nikusyokujyu - Contra: Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - 00:30:31
12) Ginza - Shin Megami Tensei - PC Engine - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:33:06
13) Pao Pao Cafe - Fatal Fury - SNES - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree - 00:34:55
14) Title Theme - Supremacy - C64 - Jeroen Tel - 00:37:18
15) Level 2 - Jurassic Park - Gameboy - Jonathan Dunn - 00:41:07
16) The House of Wax Dolls - Vampire: Master of Darkness - Master System - Takashi Horiguchi - 00:45:43
17) Fight Theme - Mortal Kombat - Amiga - Allister Brimble - 00:47:25
18) Chicago Rooftop - Killer Instinct - Arcade - Robin Beanland, and/or Graeme Norgate - 00:49:16
[SENSORY WARNING: Next track opens very abrasively!]
19) Last Battle - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda - 00:51:37
20) Death Adder - Golden Axe - Genesis - Tōru Nakabayashi - 00:55:07
21) Munari City - Summoner 2 - PS2 - Franky Vivid - 00:57:33
22) Cave Dweller Concert - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise, Eveline Fischer (Novakovic), and/or Robin Beanland - 01:02:43
23) Poisonous Swamp / Ghost House - Super Mario Wonder - Switch - Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, and/or Chisaki Shimazu - 01:05:33
24) Outside NIWA - The Medium - Multiplatform - Arkadiusz Reikowski, and/or Akira Yamaoka - 01:07:42
25) Hot Spot - Zenses Ocean - DS - Martin Schjøler - 01:11:15
26) Little Cave - Diver's Dream - PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa, and//or Shinya Watabe - 01:14:31
27) 10pm - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Tanaka, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:16:55
28) Select Screen - StarFox 64 - N64 - Kōji Kondō, and/or Hajime Wakai - 01:19:10
29) The Corridors of Time - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda - 01:20:56
30) Supplement - Bomberman Hero - N64 - Jun Chikuma - 01:23:38
31) World E - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - 01:25:57
32) Forest - Miitopia - 3DS / Switch - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 01:28:11
33) Floor 2-2 - Wolfenstein 3D - 3DO - Todd Dennis - 01:30:08
B1) Outro - 01:33:30
B2) Outtakes - 01:45:12
Music Block Runtime: 01:30:30, Total Episode Runtime: 01:46:23
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Linux (either Fedora Linux (Gnome), Nobara (Gnome), SteamOS 3 (KDE), Manjaro (MATE), Ubuntu DDE, Ultramarine (Pantheon), Ubuntu Unity, Sparky Linux (NsCDE), or on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Fedora on Laptop and/or Nobara on Big Rig being the most likely and most common). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!
Thanks for listening! Join us again in February (dates TBD) for C1E82 (Channel 1, Episode 82) [SUBJECT TBD], as well as C2E16 – working title "Songs with Words" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club". And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:08:52
Today’s broadcast is C1R6a for Wayback Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. Today’s episode is our first of two Channel 1 retrospectives of Calendar 2023. Taking a page from Channel 2's retrospective scheme, today's episode is numbered "C1R6a" (Channel 1 – Retrospective 6a), and will be titled, simply, "The Best of 2023 – pt. 1: St John's picks". Be on the lookout for a second retrospective from Hugues!
Tracklist!
Track Number / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally From [Episode] / Originally Selected By / Timestamp
A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
A2) Intro - 00:00:30
01) Inside the Wall - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:08:52
02) Space Walk - Lightening Force - Genesis - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai - C1E71 - St. John - 00:12:05
03) Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Stsumaru - C1E77 - St. John - 00:15:02
04) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors - Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro - C1E76 - St. John - 00:19:05
05) Swampy’s Course 1 - Where’s my Water - iOS / Android - Unknown - C1E76 - St. John - 00:21:41
06) Velocity Regression - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:23:51
07) Woody Land 1 & 2 - Mr. Nutz - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C2E15 - St. John - 00:26:12
08) Trouble Town Tunnels - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - C1E76 - St. John - 00:30:10
09) Busy Flare - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1E71 - St. John - 00:32:18
10) JaHamitUp - N/A (Original Chiptune - N/A (Genesis[sound hardware]) - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 00:34:55
11) Suitcase - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:35:57
12) Industrious - Jazz Jackrabbit - Amiga - Robert A. Allen and/or Joshua Jensen - C2E15 - St. John - 00:38:03
13) Coach’s Menu - NCAA Basketball - SNES - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, and/or Mark Ganus - C1E71 - St. John - 00:41:52
14) Tengu Man - Rockman and Forte - Super Famicom - Kirikiri-chan, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida - C1E71 - St. John - 00:43:38
15) Write Theme 2 - Drawful 2 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1E76 - St. John - 00:45:19
16) Main Menu - Pebble Beach Golf Links - 3DO - Yumi Kinoshita - C1E72 - St. John - 00:48:23
17) Secret of the Forest - N/A (originally from Chrono Trigger) - N/A (originally on SNES) - c: Yasunori Mitsuda / a: Guido (The Brink of Time: Chrono Trigger Arranged) - C1E80 - Hugues - 00:51:00
18) Airport Counter - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - C2E14 - St. John - 00:56:57
19) Uwazumosurikae - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:59:48
20) Alone in the Town - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka - C2E12 - St. John - 01:02:27
21) Bando alle Seghe - N/A (originally from Human Race) - N/A (originally on C64) - c: Rob Hubbard / a: DHS (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 01:04:40
22) Aqua Cavern - Andarnov - Unreleased (or Unknown) - rayjkayj - Ch F: Composer mini-focus: rayjkayj - rayjkayj - 01:10:09
23) Valor - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:12:14
24) Jurassic Dope - Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - C1E78 - St. John - 01:15:38
25) Firestarter (Instrumental) WipEout XL - PS1 - The Prodigy - C1E77 - St. John - 01:18:42
26) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - C1E72 - St. John - 01:23:20
27) Zen Stories - Zenses Ocean - DS - Martin Schjoler - C1E76 - St. John - 01:27:39
28) Dragon Head Island - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:29:51
29) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Gustav Landerholm - C2E11 - St. John - 01:33:08
30) Heleosphere (Menu Music) - N/A (System Music) - A500 Mini - Chris Smith - C1E76 - St. John - 01:37:09
31) Construct Factory 4 - Loz: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:40:50
32) World G - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E78 - St. John - 01:42:42
33) Waiting… - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:46:39
34) Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - C1E72 - St. John - 01:47:59
35) Baby Download - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 01:51:13
36) Defeat - Galaxy Force II - Arcade - Katsuhiro Hayashi and/or Koichi Namiki - C1E71 - St. John - 01:54:32
37) Thin Holidays - Rage in Peace - PC / Switch - Peonies - C1E76 - St. John - 01:57:17
38) World C - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E77 - St. John - 01:59:58
39) Binary Sunset - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 02:02:18
40) Quiet - EDGE - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - C1E78 - St. John - 02:04:18
41) Continue - TMNT: Tournament Fighters - Genesis - Miki Higashino - C1E77 - St. John - 02:06:48
42) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) Super Bomberman 3 - SNES - c: Jun Chikuma / a: Keita Hoshi - C1E75 - St. John - 02:08:37
43) Titan - Hyper Light Drifter - Multiplatform - disasterpeace - C1E78 - St. John - 02:14:26
44) The Hunter’s Repose - Moryou Senki Madara 2 - Super Famicom - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E71 - St. John - 02:16:49
45) Beautiful Lie Requiem - N/A (originally from Dangonranpa) - N/A (originally on PSP) - c: Masafumi Takeda / a: Masafumi Takeda (Danganronpa Decadence REMIX) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:19:02
46) The Magical Box - World of Illusion - Genesis - Haruyo Oguro and/or Tomoko Sasaki - C2E15 - St. John - 02:25:11
47) Jookbi - N/A (Original Chiptune) - N/A (Masterststem PSG=FM [sound hardware]) - rayjkayj - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 02:26:45
48) Continue - Shadow Blasters - Genesis - Kim Songdong - C1E79 - “Kitty” - 02:29:34
49) Goodnight Moon - N/A (originally from Duck Tales) - N/A (originally on NES) - c: Hiroshige Tonomura / a: E-Bison (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:31:06
50) Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform - C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld) - C2E13 - St. John - 02:32:50
B1) Outro: 02:40:41
Music Block Runtime: 02:32:00 / Total Episode Runtime: 03:00:00 - EXACT!
Our customary Channel 1 intro and outro music, which did not appear today is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio, on the Sega Dreamcast - composed by BB Rights. Our special year-in-review intro and outro music are, respectively, Results Theme from Metroid Prime on the GameCube, composed by Kenji Yamamoto, and Results Parade, from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Linux (either Fedora Linux (Gnome), Nobara (Gnome), SteamOS 3 (KDE), Manjaro (MATE), Ubuntu DDE, Ultramarine (Pantheon), Ubuntu Unity, Sparky Linux (NsCDE), or on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Fedora on Laptop and/or Nobara on Big Rig being the most likely and most common). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.
Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:
Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/
We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/
Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.
Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com
You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Links to Oddie HD (as of this writing, Oddie HD is really only any kind of active on Threads):
YouTube (have literally done nothing with this as of this writing):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5y_HMgokZFQxspXjoOI8A
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/oddie.hd?mibextid=ZbWKwL
X (the artist formerly known as Twitter):
https://x.com/OddieHD?t=9_YPjcxnoqdeQUjpTEB8Kw&s=09
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/oddiehd?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==
Threads (only outlet thus far where Oddie is actually active – best way to connect for now):
https://www.threads.net/@oddiehd
Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@oddiehd
"Autistic Spreadsheets" to see St. John's work:
1) Spreadsheet which lists every single track featured on NNR in 2023 - I am withholding this one until Hugues' C1R6b releases, because this will contain spoilers for that episode otherwise. I'll put this spreadsheet in the show notes of that episode instead (as well as putting a burst up about it otherwise).
2) Spreadsheet showing John's work narrowing down from the year's total of 466 tracks to a meager 50 for this best of (if you read all the title bars, then the document will become self-explanatory):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16JF-JjsMiwy9ZxcnVsaouhXkFDT4pgdRBzpMWeWSmtk/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C1ER6b (Channel 1, Retrospective 6b): "The Best of 2023 – pt. 2: Hugues' Picks" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
[Ch 2] Nerd Noise Game Club - C2R3: The Best of Season 3
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Today's Broadcast is C2R3 for Wayback Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. Today's episode is our highlights from Season 3 of Nerd Noise Game Club (Channel 2) - our look back at calendar 2023. If you listened to the Channel F which shared every single track featured on Channel 2 this year, and started making some guesses / wishes on what we'd pick, you'll have to let us know how close or far off you were! :-D
Tracklist:
Track number / Track Name / Game Name / System(s) / Composer(s)
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Episode Opener! Hugues' "Wild Card" track - from C2E12: "House Music" (originally selected by Hugues)
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01) My Quiet Forest Home - Octopath Traveller - Switch / PC - Yasunori Nishiki
a) Earcatcher: 00:00:00
b) Music - 00:00:03
c) Intro - 00:03:26
d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:15
e) Mic talk / "The Boys from Ames" / Oddie HD (AuDHD stuff) - 00:08:07
f) More Neurodivergent Shout-Outs - 00:12:50
g) Doom @ 30 / Googling Yourself / One last thing about the mics - 00:14:17
h) How this Retrospective is going to go - 00:18:22
i) Opening Track Discussion - 00:19:30
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First Trip through 2023 - "Hugues Tracks" (tracks which Hugues picked for the original episodes)
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Episode: C2E11 - "It's SPACETIME"
Originally released: 03/03/2023
Episode Theme: Space Music
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNmE2MmZjZjctYjAyMS0zZGM4LTgzY2ItMTc1ODcwMzQxMzli?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
02) Asteroid Core - The Dig - PC - Michael Z. Land
a) Music - 00:22:17
b) Discussion - 00:26:20
Hugues' "Hugues Track":
03) Track 4 - Alien 3 - Master System - Matt Furniss
a) Music - 00:27:48
b) Discussion - 00:31:11
Episode: C2E12 - "House Music"
Originally released: 04/27/2023
Episode Theme: Music from Houses and Towns and Inns and Shops etc
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Hugues
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjcxYjljNjctNDkyMS0zYzJiLThhZjQtMTdlMjU5NTNiMDlh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
04) Shenhua's House - Shenmue II - Dreamcast / XBox - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi,
Yuzo Koshiro, Ryuji Iuchi, Takeshi Yanagawa, Satoshi Miyashita, Koji Sakurai,
Masataka Nitta,Shinji Otsuka, Fumio Ito, Megumi Takano, Osamu Murata,
and/or Shinichi Goto
a) Music - 00:34:38
b) Discussion - 00:38:25
Hugues' "Hugues Track":
05) Dezolis Town 2 - Phantasy Star IV - Genesis - Izuho Numata, and/or
Masaki Nakagaki
a) Music - 00:41:34
b) Discussion - 00:43:17
Episode: C2E13 - "Songs of the Unsung" [our "Masters of VGM" episode - www.mastersofvgm.com]
Originally released: 07/06/2023
Episode Theme: Music by unsung and undersung composers
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjA5MDlkMTYtNzlkNy0zMzkxLTlhYWMtYmYyZmZjMDBiMjcw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
06) Search Break - J.B. Harold Murder Club - TG16 [editor's note: may actually be
PC88 instead] - Yoshihiko Miyazaki
a) Music - 00:46:33
b) Discussion - 00:48:26
Hugues' "Hugues Track":
07) Templo del Sol - Asteka II - PC88 - Takahiko Abe
a) Music - 00:51:03
b) Discussion - 00:52:46
Episode: C2E14 - "Escape Artists"
Originally released: 10/12/2023
Episode Theme: Music from Escape Sequences
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Hugues
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vODRlOWI3M2ItMWRhZC0zMzI2LTkwOWUtZDNhODZjNTMxZWJh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
08) Recollection - 999 - Nintendo DS - Shinji Hosoe
a) Music - 00:56:02
b) Discussion - 00:59:54
Hugues' "Hugues Track":
09) Distrust - Dangonronpa - Multiplatform - Masafumi Takada
a) Music - 01:02:22
b) Discussion - 01:05:47
Episode: C2E15 - "Animal Planet"
Originally released: 11/23/2023
Episode Theme: Music from games with Animal Protagonists
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vYTMxOTIwMjctMjRjMy0zOTU0LWE2MzYtYWU3MTAxZjUyYjA1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
St. John's "Hugues Track":
10) Carnival of the Penguins - Thin Ice - Intellivision - George Sanger
a) Music - 01:08:04
b) Discussion - 01:09:11
Hugues' "Hugues Track":
11) Cell - Bucky O'Hare - NES - Tomoko Sumiyama
a) Music - 01:10:55
b) Discussion - 01:13:14
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Second Trip through 2023 - "St. John Tracks" (tracks which St. John picked for the original episodes) - episode info included again ..... because the redundancy this creates bothers my autism a whole lot less than the asymmetry we'd have doing it the other way!! - St. John :-D
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Episode: C2E11 - "It's SPACETIME"
Originally released: 03/03/2023
Episode Theme: Space Music
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNmE2MmZjZjctYjAyMS0zZGM4LTgzY2ItMTc1ODcwMzQxMzli?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
12) Snow on the Moon - Fantavision (N.A. vers) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik
a) Music - 01:16:20
b) Discussion - 01:21:43
St. John's "St. John Track":
13) Space - Yoshi's Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda
a) Music - 01:23:44
b) Discussion - 01:26:57
Episode: C2E12 - "House Music"
Originally released: 04/27/2023
Episode Theme: Music from Houses and Towns and Inns and Shops etc
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Hugues
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjcxYjljNjctNDkyMS0zYzJiLThhZjQtMTdlMjU5NTNiMDlh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
14) Town 2 - RPG Maker VX Ace - PC - Unknown
a) Music - 01:28:37
b) Discussion - 01:31:25
St. John's "St. John Track":
15) Build Mode 4 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo
a) Music - 01:32:37
b) Discussion - 01:36:37
Episode: C2E13 - "Songs of the Unsung" [our "Masters of VGM" episode - www.mastersofvgm.com]
Originally released: 07/06/2023
Episode Theme: Music by unsung and undersung composers
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vNjA5MDlkMTYtNzlkNy0zMzkxLTlhYWMtYmYyZmZjMDBiMjcw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
16) Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto
a) Music - 01:39:30
b) Discussion - 01:41:25
St. John's "St. John Track":
17) Login Screen - N/A (System Music) - PS5 - Unknown
a) Music - 01:46:22
b) Discussion - 01:49:03
Episode: C2E14 - "Escape Artists"
Originally released: 10/12/2023
Episode Theme: Music from Escape Sequences
Episode Theme by: Hugues
Episode Title by: Hugues
Episode Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vODRlOWI3M2ItMWRhZC0zMzI2LTkwOWUtZDNhODZjNTMxZWJh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
18) Act 2 Part 1 - Ninja Gaiden - NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or
Ichiro Nakagawa
a) Music - 01:52:02
b) Discussion - 01:54:12
St. John's "St. John Track":
19) Escape Theme - Metroid - NES - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka
a) Music - 01:56:16
b) Discussion - 01:58:34
Episode: C2E15 - "Animal Planet"
Originally released: 11/23/2023
Episode Theme: Music from games with Animal Protagonists
Episode Theme by: St. John
Episode Title by: St. John
Episide Link: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL25lcmRub2lzZXJhZGlvL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bmVyZG5vaXNlcmFkaW8ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vYTMxOTIwMjctMjRjMy0zOTU0LWE2MzYtYWU3MTAxZjUyYjA1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjojaS965aDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Hugues' "St. John Track":
20) Fishing for Seema - Tsuri Tarou - Super Famicom - Katsuhiro Hayashi
a) Music - 02:02:52
b) Discussion - 02:05:12
St. John's "St. John Track":
21) Hanging Waters - Ecco: Defender of the Future - Dreamcast - Tim Follin
a) Music - 02:09:21
b) Discussion - 02:12:05
c) End of Show Discussion - 02:12:03
d) Closing Track Discussion / Sign-Off - 02:20:28
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Episode Closer! St. John's "Wild Card" track - from C2E15: "Animal Planet" (originally selected by St. John)
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22) Spring Yard Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis - Masato Nakamura
a) Music - 02:21:38
b) Outtakes - 02:23:57
Total Episode Runtime: 02:31:58
Retro Game Club can be found here:
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Hugues’ blog can be found here:
Hugues' Christmas features:
https://huguesjohnson.com/scans/EBNovember03/
https://huguesjohnson.com/scans/EBDecember94/
https://huguesjohnson.com/random/xmas2023/
Dr. Alondra Rogers:
www.divergentautismservices.com
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dr_alondra_rogers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_alondra_rogers/
Her Book: "Meeting Myself in the Dark: Guided Shadow Work Journal for Neurodivergent Souls" - (editor's note: Gaahhh, I said "Meeting Yourself in the Dark" instead! I'm so sorry, Alondra!!!!)
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Meeting-Myself-Dark-Journal-Neurodivergent-ebook/dp/B0CLH6B5MP
Brooke Schnittman, MA, PCC, BCC:
https://www.youtube.com/@CoachingWithBrooke
https://www.coachingwithbrooke.com/
https://www.facebook.com/coachingwithbrooke/
https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithbrooke/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachingwithbrooke/
https://twitter.com/BSchnittman
https://www.threads.net/@coachingwithbrooke
"Nucleus" - Alan Parson's Project - I Robot - 1977 - compare this piece to the PS5 Menu music! It's not 1-for-1, but the similarities are unmistakable!....and yes, yes, I chickened out of just putting it in the episode. Figured it wouldn't do to have our year-in-review episode taken off Spotify, right? Anyway, give this track til about the 01:30 mark and then the similarities to the PS5 track will just leap off the page to you - I promise!
https://youtu.be/HuhDSkJH9cc?si=PyVGgO4vd7LfNyzT
"The Ames Episodes" - also: "The RE20 Episodes!"
(1 of 2) Spotlight Episode 77 - featuring St. John of Nerd Noise Radio*
Spotify (Audio-only):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EDF0u5Q9LRF5pCMNqrYjN?si=0cn3oX_2RtGKuOJirGtg7A
YouTube (Audio AND Video - so you can see all the silly faces and hand/arm gestures I make when I talk!) [EDIT: Original link defective - replaced with good link!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRBvl0X8eA