Broken Chair Scores
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Broken Chair Scores is a soundtrack review podcast. Every month we review our favorite tracks from one film and one game soundtrack.
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Episode 41
January 13, 2024 21:48Welcome to season 5 of the Broken Chair Scores soundtrack podcast. This is the season where we're probably going to go viral. Did you see that we're on Instagram now? Follow us there via this link or find it on our landing page. We're cool now! Tell your friends about it. In this episode we play tracks by Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis from the 2020 video game Spiritfarer by Thunder Lotus Games as well as some selections by various composers (mostly Vangelis though) from the 1980 PBS television s...
Episode 6 - Remastered!
December 23, 2023 21:24This is 2023 and I'm having some time on my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original ep was uploaded in 2015. He...
Episode 40
November 17, 2023 20:01This is episode 40 which marks the end of season 4 of the Broken Chair Scores podcast. Instead of having the quiz we just play our 5 (actually 6) favorite tracks each from episodes 31 to 39. For reasons concerning this change, listen to the episode. We talk about it on the air. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno,...
Episode 39
August 31, 2023 19:45The second post-Covid live and on-site recording felt just as great as the first one! Join us as we dive deep into the magical world of Outcast, the 1999 Infogrames video game with a soundtrack written by Lennie Moore. This is interlaced with the absolute banger score of Neon Genesis Evangelion from the 1995 Gainax Japanese television anime program directed by Hideaki Anno which was composed by Shiro Sagisu. This is also the episode that brings you the phrase "to mellow out" which should...
Episode 7 - Remastered!
May 20, 2023 20:22This is 2023 and for whatever reason I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original ep was ...
Episode 38
February 11, 2023 21:46Live and on-site! We sat together in the same room for the first time since February 2020 (that was episode 30 which does not sound too far away but since this show moves at tectonic rates of 3 eps per year it was actually 3 years ago!). And of course it was great and there was some physical contact and I think you can hear it (the good vides, not the touching). During the show I felt like asking you (the listeners) a bunch of questions along the lines of "should I drink more or less duri...
Episode 8 - Remastered!
November 28, 2022 20:58This is 2022 and for whatever reason I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it sound better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original e...
Episode 37
July 24, 2022 20:08This time we really went all in. Not just did the Kaptain massively increase his mic-game, no, I also treated parts of the recording to a full Auphonic spa which means that it sounds even better. But here comes the real kicker: I took the 1:40h original file and tried to smash every "erm" and to delete every false start and word-repetition I could find. I also hardcore erased some of the stuff we said cause it was really not saying a lot. This took me close to fifteen hours of additional wo...
Episode 36
May 29, 2022 20:06Good news and bad news. Good news first: We tried Zencastr so the audio should be better. Bad news: The audio is worse because one of the microphones was crapping out and I didn't hear the clicking sounds during recording. So sorry for that. This podcast is still in its infancy so we are naturally struggling with the technicalities. It can only get better. Anyways, the Captain brings the score to the 1993 Capcom SNES game Mega Man X written by Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yu...
Episode 35 - Special: One Hit Wonders and Remixes
December 03, 2021 10:40Episode 35 means "One Hit Wonders and Remixes" with a definition of "one hit wonders" that might deviate a little from your run-off-the-mill definition used by radio DJs. If you're new here, don't worry. You'll get a proper definition during the show. If you're a BCS hardcore addict / poweruser you already know the drill. We present 10 tracks from various ages, media, and styles. Also there seems to be a bit of a problem with K's audio, I'm sorry for that. As soon as that first big wave of ...
Episode 34
June 20, 2021 06:38So we ran into some audio issues after half an hour. I had to delete some minutes of the original recording but it's not like there was a lot of crucial stuff going on in those minutes anyways. In one case I had to include some sentences during editing, you'll hear it. My clothes are nothing to write home about but the dude from my game (Samorost 3, Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex, Amanita Design, 2016) is going full hipster wearing a white onesie with a bobble cap. Tripple K delivers, as usual, w...
Episode 33
January 23, 2021 19:54Yeah, so we're still not in the same studio. But! I basically passed my advanced sound engineering degree by hardcore figuring out how to hock up all the devices necessary and the result is alright. Is it great? Maybe not. But hey, this is the beginning of 2021 and our threshold for calling things "good enough" is pretty low. Anyways, while I'm wearing black and other dark shades to stress the general artsiness of my score (Philipp Glass, Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1983/1998), the Kapt...
Episode 9 - Remastered!
December 19, 2020 21:40This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 9 can be called a classic episode. We ...
Episode 10 - The Quiz Part 2 - Remastered!
November 04, 2020 19:40This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in he room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 10 is THE QUIZ! We had to split it in t...
Episode 10 - The Quiz Part 1 - Remastered!
October 14, 2020 20:00This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: (Beware that the rules of the quiz were still different than in lat...
Episode 32
July 01, 2020 08:25I really messed this one up. Since I was eager to record a show during the pandemic I kind of hurried during the setup phase. Turns out that the voices were recorded properly but the music was a fierce clusterfuck. Thus I had to not just edit in the music for the listening phase but the subdued music in the background as well, which in turn had to be synced up to the fragments that ended up in the recording after all. Anyway, in this fashion heavy episode one of us dons a rather urban l...
Episode 31
April 11, 2020 20:45In these trying times we need some constant elements that keep us grounded and sane. For some this element is their family or their job. Others might attribute these features to the Broken Chair Scores podcast of video game and movie soundtracks. So keep sane and sanitized and listen to this episode for your monthly dose of mental cleansing. More than any other episode this one brings you the latest in podcaster fashion since it is important during a crisis like this to hold up the facade ...
Episode 30 - The Quiz
February 15, 2020 17:09This is our third quiz-episode which also marks the end of season 3. It was a pretty long and tough season 3 since we lost a host. We added new segments to the show (fashion anyone?), got our email address ([email protected]) and launched a T-shirt competition (basically, you write a comment and we don't know you? you get a shirt; this only works once though, like for the very first genuine comment which still hasn't happened yet). Obviously I'm not going to name the scores t...
Episode 29
December 27, 2019 16:39In this episode of our daily fashion insta-story I'm wearing the exact same stuff I was wearing last time but triple K's doing a smooth T from www.redbubble.com (please become a sponsor maybe?) so brace yourselves for the full fashion frenzy. Scorewise the show dons mostly black worn by Edward Scissorhands (written by Danny Elfman for the Tim Burton film from 1990) and steampunky bdsm leather stuff worn by the crew in Wachenroeder, the 1998 Japan only Sega Saturn game with music by Ian McD...
Episode 28
November 22, 2019 21:11In this episode of our weekly fashion vlog we're doing mostly checkered stuff and a bunch of Crocs. As a bonus Krazy Kaptain Khalid plays some funky beats from the 1992 ACCLAIM SNES game "Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge" composed by Geoff and Tim Follin. Melee Markus is doing the score to the 1997 Paul Verhoeven classic "Starship Troopers" by Basil Paledouris. Oh btw, we're using a new technique to live mix our stuff so maybe the transitions don't sound as smooth and seamless a...
A Broken Chair Scores Spinoff Project
October 31, 2019 22:22Hi I'm abusing the Broken Chair Scores channel to promote a new solo project that I was forced to begin since SOMEone decided to turn his life around and go back to university in a different city. This by no means has to be the end of the BCS but it means that particularly in the beginning of this new phase there might be some delays when it comes to new episodes. Meanwhile I took matters into my own hands and created a spinnoff project that is pretty similar to the BCS albeit with some impo...
Episode 27
September 11, 2019 09:26Second upload in one month. Just sayin'. This episode is basically one big fashion advice column disguised as a podcast on soundtracks. We're talking colours, patterns, the lot. After 26 episodes of ramp-up we are following our true calling and giving fashion advice like your basic insta-bitch. In the background of all the fashion there is some talk about the soundtrack to the 2002 Square video game "Unlimited Saga" for the Playstation 2 composed by Masashi Hamauzu. The Kap brings music fr...
Episode 26
August 26, 2019 20:29Sooo eventually the Kaptain edited an episode. It sure is dope. Let's see, we got Kap bringing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds", a 2003 video game for PS2, XBOX and GameCube developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software with a soundtrack by Ian Livingstone. On the other hand there is Melee Markus with some tracks from "The Fountain", a 2006 Sci-Fi flick by Darren Aronofsky scored by his go-to guy Clint Mansell. Oh and just by the way, this is our first real episode without Apeshit...
Episode 25 - Special: One Hit Wonders
July 04, 2019 19:56This one is very special and dear to my heart since it is the one where Apeshit Andy says Goodbye. As always in the middle of a season each of us plays a bunch of tracks that fall into either of the following categories: cover/remix (that's the one that's apparently fairly easy to grasp) OR: "one hit wonders" (according to my definition). This one on the other hand seems to be a neverending source of misunderstanding and headache. To reiterate: "what we actually meant by that in the...
Episode 24
April 25, 2019 19:30Melee Markus is kinda sick so he let Apeshit Andy and Krazy Kaptain Khalid take center stage. This turned out to be a very good idea since both of them are pros. Also, there is a gut-wrenching twist at the end! Listen how the Kaptain brings you the sweet sounds of the score to the Konami game "Super Castlevania IV" for the SNES composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo. Apeshit on the other hand casually drops a neat score-bomb in the form of Buzz Kulik's "Around the world in 80 days" by Bi...
Episode 23
April 10, 2019 18:09This is episode 23 which is also sort of a tribute to J.S. Bach. The influence is strong. Anyways, we dive into the 4 or 5 tracks that make the "Dancing Mad" sequence by Nobuo Uematsu from the videogame "Final Fantasy VI" for the SNES by Square Enix. On the film-side of things we present exactly 5 or 6 tracks from the soundtrack to the 1984 film "Dune" by David Lynch which was basically written by Toto, a band. Enjoy!
Episode 22
March 07, 2019 09:54This is episode 22 where we present basically two times the same soundtrack. "Flower" by Vincent Diamante to the 2009 videogame of the same title by Thatgamecompany has many similarities to the Basil Paledouris score to the 1982 John Milius film "Conan the Barbarian". Trust me on this one. They are brothers from anther mother. Just listen to the show and you'll get it. Enjoy!
Episode 21
January 09, 2019 20:26In episode 21 of the Broken Chair Scores we present the Wojciech Kilar score to the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Francis Ford Coppola as well as the soundtrack to the System 3 video game "Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance" from 1988 composed by Matt Gray. We drink red wine on this occasion and Melee Markus shares how he almost got to be an alcoholic because of this score (sort of). We strongly advise that you drink along so that you can relate to the hosts in a more intimate way. ...
Xmas Special 2018
December 23, 2018 20:29This is our first Christmas Special. We planned to do one in 2017 but it somehow didn't work out. Since it's only 3 tracks I'm not going to describe them here. Surprise yourself and of course have yourself a merry little christmas 2018! Enjoy!
Episode 20 - The Quiz
November 18, 2018 12:46This is our end-of-season-two-quiz-episode-extravaganza! Enjoy us failing to recognize even the most obvious tracks. Marvel at our incompetence when attributing composers to albums. Bask in our shame when we mix up things that have never been mistaken for each other before! Obviously I'm not gonna mention what we are playing in this episode since that would take all the fun from those of you who would like to quiz along. Enjoy! download
Episode 11 - Remastered Version
October 18, 2018 11:30This is the 2018 remastered version of episode 11 where we for some weird reason played 7 tracks each although we were already convinced that 5 is the way to go. Anyway, here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 11 is the first episode recorded in 2016. There was kind of a longish break in between the quiz episode and this one. Thus we take a long time to catch up and talk about all kinds of things. Sorry for the longer duration of the show. But then, if you listen to...
Episode 19
September 11, 2018 21:47In episode 19 of the Broken Chair Scores we present the Angelo Badalamenti score to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks by Mark Frost and David Lynch as well as the second set of tracks from the soundtrack to the Cavia video game "Nier" from 2010 composed by Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, and Takafumi Nishimura. We had to go back to this score since it contains so much great music that one episode of 5 tracks just weren't enough. Also this is the first episode only featuring Kr...
Episode 18 - aka Midi Madness
August 03, 2018 11:06This is episode 18 which is basically our glorious comeback (again) into a more constant rhythm. Let's see how that goes. Anyway we present to you this time the Ludwig Göransson score to the 2015 Film Creed by Ryan Coogler as well as something very special. Do you remember episode 12? (Sure you do, silly old me). Well this was the one where we presented two different versions of the Castlevania 3 soundtrack. This time Krazy Kaptain Khalid does something similar. Here he is himself des...
Episode 12 - remastered version
July 02, 2018 19:54In Broken Chair Scores episode 12 we dive into contemporary classical music with Michael Nymans Score to the film "A Zed and Two Noughts" by Peter Greenaway which reminds me of my favourite guy from this genre (Philip Glass) and thus already makes this a very special episode for me. Then we do something even more cool in that we compare two versions of the same soundtrack. We dissect "Akumajou Densetsu" for the Famicom and "Castlevania 3" for the NES respectively (composed by Hidenori Maez...
Episode 13 - Clean Version (Fixed)
March 17, 2018 12:04The legendary and formerly broken Broken Chair Scores Episode 13. This was the one that 2 years ago when it was initially released had the stupid cellphone interference ziggiziggiziggi-sounds that kept stabbing your eardrums. Good news though! I completely remastered it and removed most of the more heavy ziggiziggiziggis. (Some minor distortions had to remain since we say important things like track titles or make stupid jokes simultaneously.) This process also took about half an hour...
Episode 17
March 17, 2018 11:56This is probably the best edited episode so far. I tried to reduce the clicks and other sounds to a minimum. At least the ones that are not a part of the music ;-) Tracks have been edited seperately to sound crisp and clear. We also have a third microphone now so that all three of us get roughly the same air time.In this episode we present the soundtrack to the 2013 Steven Knight film "Locke" by Dickon Hinchliffe as well as the soundtrack to the Cavia video game "Nier" from 2010 composed by...
Episode 14 - Don't take Troy's bucket!
March 17, 2018 11:55Welcome to the NEXT GENERATION of Broken Chair Scores. We improved our audio setup and drastically altered our style of presentation. Also, we bring important lifestyle advice in the form of "The tale of Troy's bucket". As usual we present one film soundtrack and one game soundtrack. This time it's the soundtrack to the Microsoft game "Age of Mythology" written by Stephen Rippy and Kevin McMullan as well as the soundtrack to the "Ocean's #" trilogy composed/selected by David Holmes. ...
Episode 16
December 27, 2017 11:48We're back and from now on we will be doing the show as a trio. The pattern is kind of complicated but we explain it in annoying detail right at the beginning of the recording. Other than that you will hear our selections from one game and one film score as always. The game boy (Krazy Kaptain Khalid this time) will present selections from Axelay for the SNES from 1992 which were composed by Taro Kudo and AKI whereas the film buff (Melee Markus) is hitting you with some of the awesome m...
Episode 15 - Special: One Hit Wonders
September 08, 2017 20:57This is a very special episode. It took us more than a year to prepare it. Well at least that's how long we needed in order to come back together again after a very long hiatus due to the extreme busyness of some of the Broken Chair Scores show hosts. The topic is One Hit Wonders and what we actually meant by that in the context of this show is this: tracks that are superb on otherwise rubbish or at least boring albums AND that are at least loosely connected to films and games. I'm happy to ...
Episode 10 - The Quiz Part 2
September 08, 2017 20:50Broken Chair Scores Episode 10 is THE QUIZ! We had to split it in two parts because SOMEONE needed to go to the toilet and thus there was a cut in the flow of the show anyway. This is part 2 and again I am not going to mention any of the tracks that are going to be played in the show since this would ruin the quiz-along experience for you! Instead you get the rules of the game that we basically stuck to. The pictures above show our super sophisticated audio setup (notice the 2 laptops and...
Episode 10 - The Quiz Part 1
September 08, 2017 20:49Broken Chair Scores Episode 10 is THE QUIZ! We had to split it in two parts because SOMEONE needed to go to the toilet and thus there was a cut in the flow of the show anyway. So this is part 1 and obviously I am not going to mention any of the tracks that are going to be played in the show since this would ruin the quiz-along experience for you! Instead you get the rules of the game that we basically stuck to. The pictures above show our super sophisticated audio setup (notice the 2 lapt...
Episode 6
September 08, 2017 20:46Broken Chair Scores Episode 6 is the best episode so far. Believe me. We deliver a concise and kind of bizarre one hour and thirty minutes of soundtrack goodness. As always we review our favorite tracks from one film and one game soundtrack. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 1995 Sega game "Alien Soldier" written by Kazuo Hanzawa as well as the soundtrack to the 2003 Peter Weir Film "Master and Commander" written by Richard Tognetti, Iva Davies and Christopher Gordon. ...
Episode 7
September 08, 2017 20:46Broken Chair Scores Episode 7 is us paying tribute to the recently deceased James Horner. He was one of the three masters of my personal film music history (Jerry and John being the other two Js). He gave us so many awesome soundtracks. I'm actually really sad that he is no longer with us and there won't be new material. May he rest in peace. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 1997 James Cameron film "Titanic" as well as the soundtrack to the 1995 Joe Johnston film "Juman...
Episode 8
September 08, 2017 20:46Broken Chair Scores Episode 8 is only 10 minutes longer than we planned it to be but this way you get two oldschoolers talk browsers, music streaming services and the fact that you can actually buy mp3-files legally. Further (and way more interestingly IMHO ) we review our favorite tracks from one film and one game soundtrack. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 2013 Capcom game "Remember Me" written by Olivier Derivière as well as the soundtrack to the NBC television show "...
Episode 9
September 08, 2017 20:44Broken Chair Scores Episode 9 can be called a classic episode. We got all the main ingredients in there: Cleaning up the mess that we left unanswered in Episode 8. Talking way too long about the upcoming anniversary Episode 10. One film soundtrack. One game soundtrack. This time it's the soundtrack to the "Commandos" games written by Mateo Pascual as well as the soundtrack to the Tykwer/Wachowsky Film "Cloud Atlas" written by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil. curren...