Singing Mountain, A VGM Podcast

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

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

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

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

It's not a rerun; it's a special edition. This is redo of the fourth episode I ever did on this podcast. I thought that original was good. but being relatively ignorant about podcast-making back in the day, there are a few things, content-wise and production-wise, that I always wanted to change about the original version. Now I've done it: For your enjoyment and entertainment, a better-sounding and deeper-diving episode about the use of pop music in EarthBound, all tied together with a personal story about the persistence of memory. Weird!

All installments of the VGM+POP series

A video guide to EarthBound's hpop music inspirations

All 173 samples used in EarthBound

The Retronauts episode about EarthBound

Twin Peaks, David Lynch and Link's Awakening

Track listing: 0:08: Battle With Kraken / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 2:31: Your Name, Please / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 4:03: One Day for Sure (Threed, Free at Last) / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 5:08: Battle With an Unsettling Opponent / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 6:51: Onett's Arcade / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 7:32: Get on the Bus (City Bus Ride) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 9:23: Dead End Chaos Theater / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 11:18: Alien Invasion 1 / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 13:01: Boris' Cocktail / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 14:44: Moonside Swing / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 16:00: Keep on Laughin' / Ric Ocasek 18:15: Magicant / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 20:02: Crossing Over Space and Time (The Cliff That Time Forgot) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 20:57: The Place (The Cave of the Past) / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka 22:15: Deirdre / The Beach Boys 22:58: Battle Against a Weird Opponent / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 23:53: Mother / Plastic Ono Band 24:37: Megaton Walk / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 25:17: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / The Beatles 26:13: Eight Melodies / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 26:52: Give Peace a Chance / Plastic Ono Band 27:46: The Skyrunner / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 28:15: Won't Get Fooled Again / The Who 28:53: Dr. Andonuts' Lab / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki 30:01: Peaceful Rest Valley / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 31:13: Apple Kid's Theme / EarthBound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 32:30: Hospital (Call the Doctor) / EarthBound / Keiichi Suzuki

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

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

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

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

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