Thursday, April 30, 2020

Track lists for "Backtracks" and "The OTHER 50"

So, I had promised you on April 1st that we would have the track lists to Backtracks released to the world via the blog "sometime later this month". And just like Indiana Jones, reaching back under the dropping wall he just slid under for his hat at the last millisecond, here on this final day of April, I am ultimately succeeding in keeping my promise! :-)

Actually, we're going to kill two birds with one stone on this blog post, because I will actually be sharing the track lists to BOTH "Backtracks" (Channel 1: C1E52 - 04/01/2020) AND " Backtracks - The OTHER 50" (Channel F - 04/28/2020). Let's start with Backtracks, shall we?

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             Backtracks
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Below is the track list with timestamps, composer info, the NNR episode the track originally appeared in, and which of five sources I pulled the tracks from for the purposes of backtracks. During the production of this track list, I colored coded those different sources for my own convenience so that I could keep easier track of what I was doing. It will look a bit tacky, and a bit unprofessional from a presentation perspective, but I decided to leave the color coding in, so that you can kinda "see" where these picks fit into the greater tapestry of our history and legacy.

Those sources are:

1) "Best of 2017 - John's Picks" (Channel F) - Light Blue
2) "Best of 2018 - John's Picks" (Channel 1) - Light Green
3*) The Golden Episode - Personal Picks (Channel 1 - C1E50b) - Yellow
4*) The Golden Episode - Popular Picks (Channel 1 - C1E50a) - Red
5) Miscellaneous - (candidate tracks sent to Hearts of Space, and various loose tracks) - Purple.

For your convenience, if you either have not heard Backtracks yet, or if you wanted to listen again WITH a track list for reference purposes, here is the link to the episode:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tcipe-d799ff


Backtracks – Track list - color coded (all tracks are played in reverse):

Track# – Track Name – Game – System – Composer – From Collection – Original Episode – Timestamp 


01) Intro – 00:00:00 

02) Lifelight (English Vocals) – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – SWITCH – Hideki Sakamoto – Golden Popular – Ep 40 (originally selected by Alex Messenger) – 00:02:39 

03) What About the Future? – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Richard Jacques – Best of 2017 – Ep 20 – 00:06:25 

04) USA Race 4 – Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:10:32 

05) Mirage – Gran Turismo 5 – PS3 – Kemmei Adachi – Best of 2018 – Ep 27 – 00:13:41 

06) Colour (AtJazz Remix) – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (OM Lounge 6) – Soulstice – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 00:17:21 

07) Ai Suru Hito Yo – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (Ai Ga Nakucha Ne) – Akiko Yano –  Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 00:23:51 

08) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket – Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani – Golden Personal – Ep 27 – 00:28:12 

09) Area 1 – Blaster Master – NES – Naoki Kodaka – Golden Popular – Ep 46 (originally selected by Electric Boogaloo) – 00:31:09 

10) Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:33:07 

11) Stage 4 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Yoshio FurakawaMasahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:35:22 

12) Rikuo – Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge – Multiplatform – Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida, and/or Hideki Okugawa – Best of 2018 – Ep 27 – 00:37:41 

13) DA Garden – Sonic CD (JP/EU) - Mega CD – Minoru Kanari and/or Makoto Oshitani – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 00:39:16 

14) Title Theme – Super Mario World – SNES – Koji Kondo – Golden Popular – Ep 1 – 00:43:26 

15) In-Game Theme – Ranquest – Hydra Dev Kit – c: John Wedgeworth / a: Jay Cook – Golden Personal – Ep 30 – 00:45:10 

16) Aitos – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro – Golden Personal – Ep 3 – 00:47:32 

17) Cold Cave – Out of This World – 3DO – Andrew Dimitroff – Miscellaneous – Ep 41 – 00:49:57 

18) Stage 4-3 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 00:51:31 

19) Coldman – N/A (VGM Karaoke – originally Mega Man and Bass) – N/A (originally GBA) –  Original c: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akira Kaida / Karaoke written and performed by Deirdre Fischer (aka “Pieness 64”) – Golden Personal – Ep 28 – 00:54:28 

20) Yug – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 00:56:56 

21) Solitary – Shinobi III – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirfumi Muasaki, and/or Morihiko Akiyama – Golden Popular – Ep 42 – 00:58:29 

22) Forest Funk – Super Meat Boy – Multiplatform – Danny Baronowsky – Golden Popular – Ep 10 – 01:00:09 

23) Titan’s Realm – DOOM (2016) – Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – Golden Popular – Ep 22 – 01:02:50 

24) The Reverse Will – Silent Hill 2 – PS2 – Akira Yamaoka – Miscellaneous – Ep 16 – 01:11:56 

25) Title Theme – Solstice – NES – Tim Follin – Best of 2017 – Ep 16 – 01:14:55 

26) Seven O’Clock – Crackin’ DJ Pt. 2 – Arcade – c: Hioshi Kawaguchi / a: Misuharu Fukuyama – Golden Personal – Ep 40 (originally selected by Electric Boogaloo) – 01:17:52 

27) Citizens of Luala – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (TG16) – Strobe – Golden Personal – Ep 8 – 01:19:42 

28) In-Game – Youkai Douchuuki – Arcade – Hiroyuki Kawada – Golden Personal – Ep 2 – 01:22:55 

29) Fourth Cause – Psychosis – TG16 – Atsuhiro Motoyama – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:25:58 

30) Gong Shun Sheng – Dark Legend – Multiplatform – Seiichi Hamada – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:28:59 

31) Stage 5-2 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 17 – 01:31:23 

32) Norfair – N/A (Non-VGM) - N/A - c: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka / a: Luminist – Best of 2018 – Ep 29 – 01:33:54 

33) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac – Multiplatform – Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans – Golden Personal – Ep 30 – 01:35:22 

34) Bloodpool – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro – Golden Popular – Ep 3 – 01:39:08 

35) Unit – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (Logic) – Logic System – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 01:40:29

36) Daisuke – Hotline Miami – Multiplatform – El Huervo (aka Shelby Cinca) – Golden Popular – Ep 30 – 01:44:56 

37) Bulberry Hill – Zool 2 – Amiga – Neil Biggin – Best of 2018 – Ep 24 – 01:47:58 

38) King of Speed – Daytona USA – Saturn – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze – Golden Popular – Ep 44 – 01:50:53 

39) Trance Parlient in Blue – Night Striker – Mega CD – c: Masahiko Takaki / a: Shuichiro Nakazawa – Golden Personal – Ep 46 (originally selected by Electric Boogaloo) – 01:55:14 

40) Cylic (Heavily Armored) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:58:32 

41) Process Control – Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Yasuhisa Inoue – Golden Personal – Ep 41 – 02:00:27 

42) Map 2 – Bomberman ‘93 – TG16 – Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 02:04:40 

43) Mysterious Island – Landstalker – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi – Miscellaneous – Ep 44 – 02:06:11 

44) Waltz of Water and Bubble – Liquid Kids – Arcade – Kazuko Umino – Best of 2017 – Ep 16 – 02:08:38 

45) Old Man’s Prayer – Ogre Battle – SNES – Masahru Iwata, Hiroshi Sakimoto, and/or Hayato Matsuo – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 02:10:25 

46) The Serpent Trench – Final Fantasy III (VI) - SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – Best of 2017 – Ep 18 – 02:11:44 

47) Menu 2 – Shenmue – Dreamcast – Ryuiji Iuchi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsutoshi, Osamu Murata, and/or Takeshi Yanagawa – Best of 2018 – Ep 38 – 02:13:41 

48) ESPIRIT.WAV - Data Wing – iOS / Android - ESPRIT ç©ºæƒ³ – Golden Personal – Ep 44 – 02:15:16 

49) The Blazing Sands – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu – Golden Personal – Ep 44 – 02:18:26 

50) Inside Vah Naboris (1 Terminal) - L.o.Z.: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / SWITCH – Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai – Golden Personal – Ep 24 – 02:21:38 

51) What Can You Do? - Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Lenny Ibizarre – Golden Personal – Ep 44 – 02:23:48 

52) Outro – 02:28:39 


Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:06 

And also, "Backtracks - UNBACKED!" was released today as an Archive.com-Exclusive "SUPER BONUS". It has it's own parallel tracklist in its own show notes, as well as a more in-depth exploration on the thought of how both "backwards" and "forwards" are something of a misnomer here, since Backtracks is an episode of backwards music running in forward order, where Unbacked is an episode of forward music running in backward order. Kinda heady, huh? :-D

Anyway, here's the link to Unbacked if you wish to hear it. If nothing else, you'll be able to finally see what was going on in that CRAZY outro:

https://archive.org/details/backtracks-unbacked-complete

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        The OTHER 50!
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Here is the link to the episode, once again, in case you either haven't heard it, or you wanted to hear it again WITH the track list for cross reference:

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/channel-f-backtracks-…/


Backtracks – The OTHER 50 – Track list - color coded (all tracks are played in reverse):

Track# – Track Name – Game – System – Composer – From Collection – Original Episode – Timestamp 


01) Intro – 00:00:00 

02) Options – Daffy Duck in Hollywood – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 00:12:13 

03) September 2015 – N/A (eShop) - 3DS / WiiU – Kazumi Totaka – Golden Personal – Ep 6 – 00:16:33 

04) The Mall – Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 00:19:44 

05) Evil Dante – Cratermaze – TG16 - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:21:21 

06) Character Select – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 00:23:01 

07) Ethnic Cave and Flame – X-Men – Arcade – Konami Kukeiha Club – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:25:06 

08) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2018 – Ep 35 – 00:27:36 

09) Reckless Running – Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya – Best of 2018 – Ep 24 – 00:32:38 

10) Collision Chaos Zone (Present) – Sonic CD (US) – Sega CD – Spencer Nilsen w/ David Young and Mark Crew – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 00:36:45 

11) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – Multiplatform – Tee Lopes – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 00:40:02 

12) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Koji Hayama – Golden Popular – Ep 11 – 00:41:10 

13) Brinstar (Red Soil) – Super Metroid – SNES – Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano – Miscellaneous – Ep 18 – 00:42:56 

14) Stage 3-3 – Ai Chou Aniki – PC Engine – Iwasaki Taku – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:46:40 

15) Options – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 00:50:00 

16) The Vile Peaks – Final Fantasy XIII – PS3 – Masashi Hamauzu – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:51:26 

17) Twilight Palace (Outside) – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ota – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:54:49 

18) Outside Ref, The Pyramid of Ice – Dungeon Explorer 2 – PC Engine – Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma – Golden Personal – Ep 47b – 00:58:00 

19) After the Battle – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Golden Personal – Ep 4 –01:00:05 

20) The Vertical – Ghost in the Shell – PS1 – Joey Beltram – Best of 2017 – Ep 16 – 01:02:23 

21) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – Best of 2018 – Ep 31 – 01:08:44 

22) Cycle 1 – Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis – Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 01:13:03 

23) Track 11 – Illusion Blaze – PC (AdLib) - D.A.C. – Golden Personal – Ep 2 – 01:16:12 

24) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Popular – Ep 13 –  01:18:45 

25) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka / a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada – Best of 2018 – Ep 34 – 01:20:31 

26) Imperial Death March – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams / a: Paul Webb – Golden Popular – Ep 9 – 01:22:05 

27) Fly Like a Butterfly – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Hideki Naganuma – Golden Personal – Ep 20 – 01:22:43 

28) At Doom’s Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince – Golden Popular – Ep 35 – 01:25:59 

29) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi – Golden Popular – Ep 24 – 01:29:13 

30) Naja – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 01:31:26

31) Swamp – Samurai Ghost – TG16 – Gappy, Miyoshi Okuyama, and/or Hiroyon – Best of 2017 – Ep 20 – 01:33:36 

32) Segadore Genesid 64 – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (Genesis) – MrSonic699 – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 01:34:43 

33) Stage Theme 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami – Golden Popular – Ep 2 – 01:36:48 

34) Title Theme – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane – Golden Popular – Ep 1 – 01:38:24 

35) Field 3 – J.J. and Jeff – TG16 – Takeaki Kunimoto – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 01:40:05 

36) Zena Lan (Light Armor) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:42:07 

37) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – Multiplatform – Brendan Ratliff – Best of 2018 – Ep 30 – 01:44:22 

38) Map – Wolfchild – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 01:47:47 

39) Tyr (Heavily Armored) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:49:03 

40) Level 1 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Yoshio FurakawaMasahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:50:46 

41) Stage Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker – Golden Popular – Ep 18 – 01:55:13 

42) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage vers.) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiko Kawashima – Golden Popular – Ep 31 – 01:58:37 

43) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC2: Diddy Kong’s Quest – SNES – David Wise – Golden Popular – Ep 49 (originally selected by Mario Mendez) – 02:04:06 

44) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-i – Jim Andron – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 02:06:22 

45) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) – PS4 – Daniel Capo – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 02:08:51 

46) Microsoft Interactive Sampler – N/A (Non-VGM) – PC – Unknown – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 02:10:06 

47) Althena’s Shrine – Lunar: The Silver Star – Sega CD - Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, and/or Isao Mizoguchi – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 02:11:09 

48) Zora’s Domain (Day) L.o.Z.: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / SWITCH – c: Koji Kondo / a: Yasuaki Iwata – Best of 2017 – Ep 18 – 02:12:12 

49) Martinis for Two – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 02:15:24 

50) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo – Best of 2018 – Ep 37 – 02:21:46 

51) Ending – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A – c: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka / a:  Luminist – Golden Popular – Ep 29 – 02:25:58 


Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:13 

And lastly, "The OTHER 50 - UNBACKED!" came out today also, and is also an Archive-exclusive SUPER BONUS. Here's the link:



The very last thing I will do as it relates to Backtracks is upload as Archive-only SUPER BONUSES, the four full collections of backwards music I listened to as candidate tracks to pull from for the series. These wont be of interest to the common listener, I suspect - and that's totally okay. It takes a special kind of person to actually WANT to hear 275 pieces of backwards video game music. But for the rare few like me who kinda super-geek the backwards stuff, and/or for those of you who are just interested in seeing whether I did, in your opinion, a good or bad job of distilling 275 tracks down to 50 and 100, they will be out there. I'm hoping to get them up today. And hoping to get them up with track lists with functioning timestamps. However, since time is so short to make that goal, what I may do instead is upload them without track list / timestamps, just to get them out there, and then come back later and edit that information in. So, be on the look out for that!

Meanwhile, thank you for joining me on this amazing journey through hidden sound! I hope you enjoyed it! 


Cheers.....and FLY THE N (or "Nay the Alf" as it sounds in reverse!) :-D


p.s. maybe I'll edit this entry with links to the 275 after they're up. Stay tuned! 


[edit] Friday, May 1st, 1:43 AM CDT: The four-part "The 275" mini-series is updated on Archive MINUS the track list and time stamps. I'll get those uploaded as soon as possible. Meanwhile, here are the links to all four parts:

Pt. 1: The Best of 2017 - John's Picks (71 tracks: approx 3.5hrs)

https://archive.org/details/reverse-the-best-of-2017-johns-picks

Pt. 2: The Best of 2018 - John's Picks (75 tracks: approx 3.5hrs)


https://archive.org/details/reverse-the-best-of-2018-johns-picks

Pt. 3: Golden Episodes parts 1 & 2 (124 tracks: less than a minute under 6hrs) (!!!!!)

https://archive.org/details/reverse-golden-episode-pts-1-and-2-complete-all-music

Pt. 4: Miscellaneous (40 tracks, just over 2hrs.....by comparison, this one's quite the shorty!)

https://archive.org/details/misc-collection-for-backtrack


And you know what? While we're at it, I might as well provide links also to the four-part "The 100 - Back to Front" mini-series that came out earlier this month. And with this, you have access to pretty much EVERYTHING "Backtracks"....all in one blog post. Nice, eh?! :-D

Cheers!

-St. John

The 100: Back to Front: Pt. 1 - Best of 2017:


https://archive.org/details/backtofrontthe100pt1of4bestof2017complete

The 100: Back to Front: Pt. 2 - Best of 2018 (and Misc):

https://archive.org/details/backtofrontthe100pt2of42018andmisccomplete

The 100: Back to Front: Pt. 3 - Golden Episode - Popular Picks:

https://archive.org/details/backtofrontthe100pt3of4goldenpopularcomplete

The 100: Back to Front: Pt. 4 - Golden Episode - Personal Picks:

https://archive.org/details/backtofrontthe100pt4of4goldenpersonalcomplete

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