Nerd Noise Game Club: C2E6 - “Fast Music for Slow Times”

Episode can be found here! 

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/nerd-noise-game-club-c2e6-fast-music-for-slow-times/

Today’s Broadcast is C2E6 for Theme Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 (St. John’s 42nd Birthday!). Today’s focus will be a rare look into hard rock, heavy metal, and adjacent music on a program we’re calling “Fast Music for Slow Times” (a loving and playful inversion on Hearts of Space’s slogan “Slow Music for Fast Times”)

Tracklist: 

Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected By

01) Earcatcher - 00:00

02) Like a Wind - Revenge of Shinobi - Genesis - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues

a) Music - 00:00:03

b) Introduction - 00:02:11

c) Discussion - 00:06:35

03) Swing Time - Spider-Man vs the Kingpin - Sega CD - Mr. Big and/or Spencer Nilsen - St. John

a) Music - 00:12:15

b) Discussion - 00:16:34

04) Wildon - Lords of Thunder - Sega CD - c: Satoshi Miyashita / a: Unknown - Hugues

a) Music - 00:22:55

b) Discussion - 00:27:36

c) “Top of the Show Business” (late again….like usual) - 00:31:00

05) Quad Machine - Quake II - PC / PS1 - Sonic Mayhem - St. John

a) Music - 00:38:15

b) Discussion - 00:41:58

06) Conflict - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Takeharu Ishimoto - Hugues

a) Music - 00:45:51

b) Discussion - 00:48:18

07) The Super Gore Nest - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - St. John

a) Music - 00:53:27

b) Discussion - 01:02:36

08) Midnight’s Stage - Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side - Sega CD - Tristan des Prés - Hugues

a) Music - 01:07:56

b) Discussion - 01:11:35

09) Title - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - St. John

a) Music - 01:16:21

b) Discussion - 01:17:33

10) The Cage - Shadowrun - SNES - Marshall Parker - Hugues

a) Music - 01:26:02

b) Discussion - 01:28:21

11) Bonus Table 4 - Devil’s Crush - TG16 - Toshiaki Sakoda - St. John

a) Music - 01:31:39

b) Discussion - 01:33:46

12) Theme of Chester - Ys III - X68000 - Masaaki Kawai - Hugues

a) Music - 01:37:27

b) Discussion - 01:40:12

13) Run Through the Speed Highway - Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - St. John

a) Music - 01:44:05

b) Discussion - 01:46:01

14) Fight ver. 1 - Grandia II - Dreamcast / PS2 - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues

a) Music - 01:48:50

b) Discussion - 01:52:53

c) Housekeeping - 01:56:37

d) New Beginnings (aka “a false Farewell”) - 02:01:22

e) Final Track Discusssion - 02:02:13

f) “The Actual Farewell” - 02:05:21

15) Stand Up Against Myself - Lightening Force - Genesis - Composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeishi Yoshida, and/or Tomomi Ootani - St. John

a) Music - 02:06:36

16) Blooper Reel - 02:08:41

Total Episode Runtime - 02:10:56

Retro Game Club can be found here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680

You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here: 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 

You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

Link to the “Best of 2020 / 2021 eligible tracklist (READ THE NOTES AT THE TOP OF IT!):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for listening! Join us again February 21st for C1E62: “Mishmash Monday - vol. 11” and again on March 13th for C1E63: “Keeping up with The OneUps - vol. 2” and wherever you are…..Fly the N!!