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