Singing Mountain, A VGM Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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