”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1E71: The Wonder Years”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E71 for Theme Thursday, January 26th, 2023. Today marks the precise 10yr anniversary of the launch of Nerd Noise Radio as a social media VGM aggregator service (podcast came along four years later), and to celebrate the occasion, today's episode features music we shared on social media and YouTube prior to the launch of the show, which had until now never appeared on the show – on a program we're calling "The Wonder Years" 

 

Tracklist: 

 

Track# / Game / System / Track / Composer(s) / Timestamp 

 

A1) Season 6 Earcatcher – 00:00:00  

  

A2) Intro – 00:00:03  

  

01) Ninja Gaiden – NES – Intro - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – 00:05:29  

  

02) Alisia Dragoon – Genesis – Stage 1-1 - Mecano Associates – 00:05:48  

  

03) Thunder Force IV – Space Walk - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai – 00:08:15  

  

04) TMNT: Turtles in Time – SNES – Technodrome: Let's Kick Shell – c: Mutsuhiko Izumi  / a: Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Harumi Ueko – 00:11:09  

  

05) Metal Slug – Neo Geo – Ridge 256 (Mission 4) - Takushi Hiyamuta – 00:12:57  

  

06) Batman – TG16 – HES 5 - Nobuyuki Hara – 00:16:00  

  

07) Super Street Fighter II – 3DO [/ FM Towns] – Ryu's Theme Street – c: Yoko Shimomura / a: Eurocom Sound Team – 00:18:40  

  

08) Ristar - Genesis - Busy Flare – Tomoko Sasaki – 00:20:39  

  

09) Bomberman 93 – TG16 – Intro – Jun Chikuma – 00:23:19  

  

10) Rayman Origins – Multi – Jibberish Jungle: The Darktoon Chase - Christophe Héral, and/or Billy Martin – 00:24:32  

  

11) Rockman and Forte – Super Famicom – Tengu Man – Kirikiri-chan, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida – 00:27:19   

12) Super Mario 3D World – Wii U / Switch – Double Cherry Pass - Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – 00:29:00  

  

13) Super Bonk – SNES – Blue Sky - Masaaki Nishizawa, Keiji Ueki, and/or Kennosuke Suemura – 00:31:15  

  

14) Kirby's Dreamland 3 – SNES – Sand Canyon 1 – Jun Ishikawa – 00:33:08  

  

15) Magical Chase - TG16 – It's Not Ice (Stage 4) - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata – 00:33:58  

  

16) Bonk's Revenge – TG16 – Piranha River - Hirohiko Takayama – 00:38:44  

  

17) Dick Tracy – Genesis – Car Chase – STI Sound Team – 00:40:48  

  

18) ESWAT – Genesis – BGM 3 - Yō Takada, and/or Takayuki Nakamura – 00:42:40  

  

19) Mortal Kombat – PC DOS (AdLib) - Palace Gates – c: Dan Forden / a: Allister Brimble and/or Dan Forden – 00:44:34  

  

20) Space Harrier II – Genesis – Mind Quake – Tokuhiko Uwabo – 00:47:17  

  

21) Snake's Revenge – NES – Forest Area - Tsutomu Ogura – 00:49:13  

  

22) Soldier Blade – PC Engine – Operation 3 - Keita Hoshi and/or Makiko Tanifuji – 00:50:54  

  

23) Target Earth – Genesis – Main Theme - Takayuki Suzuki – 00:53:10  

  

24) Corvette – GameBoy Advance – Car Selection / Gallery – Shin'en Sound Team – 00:55:10  

  

25) Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Empire Spacecraft – Norio Hanzawa – 00:55:48  

  

26) Skate or Die – NES – Skate Shop – Rob Hubbard and/or Kyle Granger – 00:58:12  

  

27) Pat Riley Basketball - Genesis - Team Select – Hikoshi Hashimoto – 00:59:44  

  

28) NCAA Basketball – SNES – Coach's Menu - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb,  and/or Mark Ganus – 01:00:59  

  

29) Maerchen Maze – PC Engine – Unknown Track 5 – c: Satoshi Kabayashi / a: Norihiko Togashi, and/or Kaeru Taniguchi – 01:02:42  

  

30) Super Valis IV – SNES – Castle Vanity – Junta – 01:04:44  

  

31) Jaki Crush – Super Famicom – Title - Masanobu Tsukamoto – 01:07:58  

  

32) Galaxy Force II – Arcade – Defeat – Katsuhiro Hayashi and/or Koichi Namiki – 01:08:59  

  

33) Akumajou Densetsu – Famicom (VRC6) - Rising – Konami Kukeiha Club – 01:11:44  

  

34) Soul Star – Sega CD – Track 06 – Nathan McCree – 01:13:24  

  

35) Sonic CD (NA) - Sega CD – Palmtree Panic Zone Bad Future – Spencer Nilssen, David Young, and Pastiche – 01:16:53  

  

36) Moryou Senki Madara 2 - SFC - The Hunter's Repose – Konami Kukeiha Club – 01:19:47  

  

37) Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion – PC – Track 4 – Unknown – 01:22:04  

  

38) Last Resort – Neo Geo AES/MVS - The Sunset Sky – Toshio Shimizu, and/or  Yasuo Yamate – 01:25:50  

  

39) Military Madness – TG16 – Ending – Jun Chikuma – 01:27:46  

  

40) Super Street Fighter II HD Remix – PS3 - True Ending – c: Yoko Shimomura / a: Another Soundscape [OCRemix] - 01:30:08  

  

B1) Outro – 01:31:49  

 

B2) Outtakes – 01:47:11  

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:26:22    Total Episode Runtime: 01:51:08  

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

Produced using Ardour 7.x / Audacity 3.x in Linux (either Ubuntu Studio, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora, or SteamOS on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, or one of three Linux laptops) - and in the case of today's episode: in SteamOS on the STEAM DECK!! Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

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Or you can reach us by e-mail at [email protected] 

 

You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel! 

 

Link to the promised collection of "anonymous 'Exhibit A' vs 'Exhibit B'" mic comparisons between the Podmic and the SM7B (or vice versa):

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vdokkXFmxnkpULRWYVp3YQyrcagr2-um?usp=share_link

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again February 13th for C1E72 (Channel 1, Episode 72): "Mishmash Monday – vol 13, and again February 23rd for C2E11 (Channel 2, Episode 11) for "It's Space Time!" - Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club (Ch 2) as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" (Ch 1)! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

 

Cheers!