Rock Out With Your Cart Out
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJason Arriola shares his favorite video game and video game-adjacent music.
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Rock Out With Your Cart Out 64 – Falcom vs. JDK BAND Summer 2010
June 27, 2021 22:40 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThis week, I’m doing my own celebration of Falcom turning 40 years old by sharing one of my favorite arranged albums of theirs. Falcom vs. JDK BAND Summer 2010 sees a lot of rotation from me, so I thought I’d share yet another peek into why I love Falcom Sound Team jdk so damn much. […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 63 – Power Blade 2 (NES)
June 20, 2021 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBLet’s go back to the world of the most dangerous boomerang in the world with Power Blade 2’s soundtrack. This was again handled by Kinuyo Yamashita (aka James Banana), so you know we’re in for some quality music here. Support me on Patreon. The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 62 – Power Blade (NES)
June 14, 2021 00:33 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIt’s been quite a while since we’ve done a soundtrack from the NES (Mighty Final Fight, way back on episode 39), so I thought we’d go to a favorite of mine, Power Blade by Kinuyo Yamashita (aka James Banana). Support me on Patreon. The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 61 – SaGa Frontier (Disc 3)
June 06, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBSupport me on Patreon. The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the podcast. The ROWYCO logo was designed by Melissa Diaz. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Get the podcast at any of these podcastin’ places: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Amazon Music Spotify Stitcher RSS Feed And finally, here’s the […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 60 – SaGa Frontier (Disc 2)
May 31, 2021 02:02 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBKeeping on that SaGa train, we’re going through the highlights from the second disc of Kenji Ito’s SaGa Frontier‘s soundtrack! Support me on Patreon. The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the podcast. The ROWYCO logo was designed by Melissa Diaz. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Get the podcast at […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out Dream Event 12
May 28, 2021 21:08 - 46 minutes - 85.7 MBSince I’m doing something new with the bonus episodes of Rock Out With Your Cart, I thought I’d stick the first episode in the new format in the free feed. If you go to my Patreon and kick in $3, you’ll get all of the previous 11 bonus episodes (plus I just posted another today), […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 59 – SaGa Frontier (Disc 1)
May 24, 2021 03:34 - 1 hour - 59 MBThis week, we’re starting our three episode venture into Kenji Ito’s soundtrack for SaGa Frontier! Support me on Patreon. The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the podcast. The ROWYCO logo was designed by Melissa Diaz. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 58 – Vimana (Arcade)
May 14, 2021 03:37 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBWe’re digging into Taoplan’s 1991 release, Vimana this week. Never heard of Taoplan? Don’t worry, I don’t think I had either until this! You might be more familiar with another of their releases, but that’s a story for the podcast itself. Let’s get on with listening to the music from this thing! Support me on […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 57 – Legendary Pokémon Battles (3DS)
April 26, 2021 01:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBThis week, we’re going to listen to the different iterations of the battle theme from the 3DS Pokémon games. Only, not the all of them. That would be insane. No, we’re listening to the ones from the fights with the Legendary Pokémon from those games! Much more manageable! Support me on Patreon! The ROWYCO theme […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 56 – Stellar Assault (32X)
April 11, 2021 22:26 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBWe’re heading into uncharted territory here with the 32X game, Stellar Assault. The soundtrack is a bit of a strange duck that fits in the with the original intent of this show (great video game music that might not be attached to a great game), but also doesn’t necessarily fit in with the game itself. […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 55 – The Legend of Zelda (Famicom Disk System and Remixes)
February 22, 2021 01:34 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBSince today is the 35th anniversary of The Hyrule Fantasy: Zeruda no Densetsu (known to most of the Western world as The Legend of Zelda) releasing on the Famicom Disk System, I thought I’d go over the soundtrack for it. Now, considering how sparse the actual soundtrack is, I included some of my favorite remixes. […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 54 – Is That Supposed to be Singing?
February 16, 2021 00:46 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAs I did last year, I’m putting this episode out in remembrance of my grandma, Florence Kara. She passed away February 9th, 2019, and I want to keep this tradition going of putting an episode out that has pieces of music that I correlate with memories of her. Sometimes, the music itself has something to […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 53 – Star Trader (X68000)
January 24, 2021 23:52 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week, I’m getting back to the game soundtrack I had to pull an audible on – Star Trader for the X68000! I originally thought the soundtrack for this version was the same as the original version of the game on the PC-88. As it turns out, I was way off! The original version of […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 52 – Winter Wonderland 2020
December 21, 2020 20:58 - 48 minutes - 44 MBMaking this an annual tradition now, I put together some nice, winter-y sounding pieces together for a winter/holiday episode. I did it a little differently this year and did all the talking right up front and then let the music take us through the rest of the episode without interruption. I thought it would be […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 51 – Secret of Mana Madness
December 07, 2020 00:11 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBInstead of covering the Secret of Mana soundtrack in its entirety, I decided to take a different approach and pick five tracks from the original Super Nintendo version, Secret of Mana Genesis / Seiken Densetsu 2 Arrange Album, and the 2018 remake. I was curious to see how those tracks were handled in each iteration, […]
Rock Out With Your Cart 50 – 30 Day Video Game Music Challenge
November 06, 2020 07:00 - 121 MBI made it to fifty episodes! It’s been a hell of a ride getting here, so I thought I’d do something that shows the diversity of (or some may argue my lack of) my tastes in video game music. This was originally a Twitter thing I saw that I thought would make a good episode […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 50 – 30 Day Video Game Music Challenge
November 06, 2020 07:00 - 2 hours - 121 MBI made it to fifty episodes! It’s been a hell of a ride getting here, so I thought I’d do something that shows the diversity of (or some may argue my lack of) my tastes in video game music. This was originally a Twitter thing I saw that I thought would make a good episode […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 49 – Legend of the Gunstar Heroes
October 16, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBThis week, we’re listening to an incredible tribute album by Monte from Kirby’s Dream Band. Legend of the Gunstar Heroes is a progressive rock tribute to the soundtrack to, you guessed it, Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis/Mega Drive. You don’t need to wait to listen to this episode to decide if you should buy Legend […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 48 – Atomic Robo-Kid (Arcade/Genesis/PC Engine/X68000)
September 25, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBThink of this episode as a call to action. The Atomic Robo-Kid soundtrack has a lot of potential but is hurt by some of the choices made for it. I’m not saying go out and make an album and thank me or anything, but I feel like SOMEONE should do something with this soundtrack. There’s […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 47 – Valis: The Fantasm Soldier (Genesis)
September 18, 2020 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBOnce again, I’m forced to pick a favorite. Instead of covering the remake for the PC Engine Super CD or the original PC-88 version, I decided to go with what I feel is the strongest version of the soundtrack of Valis: The Fantasm Soldier. In doing so, I’m also trying to dispel the myth that […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 46 – Lagoon (SNES)
September 11, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBI don’t want to lean too heavily on Falcom Sound Team jdk on this podcast. Instead of doing that, why not just find stuff that sounds like it could be something from them? In all seriousness, you can be forgiven for hearing this and thinking that someone who at least had a brief stint at […]
Rock Out With Your Cart 46 – Lagoon (SNES)
September 11, 2020 06:00 - 61 MBI don’t want to lean too heavily on Falcom Sound Team jdk on this podcast. Instead of doing that, why not just find stuff that sounds like it could be something from them? In all seriousness, you can be forgiven for hearing this and thinking that someone who at least had a brief stint at […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 45 – Super Mario Land Arranged
September 04, 2020 06:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThis week, I’m going back to doing a comparison. We’re going to compare the Super Mario Land soundtrack to the Super Mario Land Arranged album. Hip Tanaka was Super Mario Land’s composer and Ikuro Fugiwara and the “Mario Freaks Orchestra” handled the arranged album. It’s a fun album full of a variety of sounds. Support […]
Rock Out With Your Cart 45 – Super Mario Land Arranged
September 04, 2020 06:00 - 54.9 MBThis week, I’m going back to doing a comparison. We’re going to compare the Super Mario Land soundtrack to the Super Mario Land Arranged album. Hip Tanaka was Super Mario Land’s composer and Ikuro Fugiwara and the “Mario Freaks Orchestra” handled the arranged album. It’s a fun album full of a variety of sounds. Support […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 44 – What Did I Just Listen To? (with Alex Messenger)
August 26, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBThis week, I’m joined by Alex Messenger from A VGM Journey to listen to some oddballs. We each picked six songs that didn’t really fit. I went with stuff that didn’t fit with the game in general that track was in. Alex went more with stuff that didn’t fit the rest of the soundtrack. It’s […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 43 – Kamiko
August 03, 2020 19:48 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis time, we’re listening to a bit of a shorter soundtrack. And I do mean “we”! I wanted to share this soundtrack, but I couldn’t find enough to say about it, so I roped in a surprise, special guest. I would’ve liked to have gotten the composer, Taira Watanabe, on, but the language barrier would […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 42 – Eschatos (Xbox 360)
July 16, 2020 19:33 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThis week, we’re listening to the soundtrack of the Xbox 360 vertical shooter, Eschatos! Yousuke Yasui, someone we haven’t covered before on this podcast, handled the composition duties, with a special arrangement by Ryo Yonemitsu thrown in! Support me on Patreon! The ROWYCO theme song is “Kaze Fuma” and was created by chibi-tech for the […]
ROWYCO 41 – Waterworld (SNES)
July 01, 2020 16:58 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBSometimes something comes up and disrupts your plans. Well, this is exactly one of those instances. I had something entirely different planned for this episode, but then Dean Evan’s Waterworld soundtrack landed in my lap and I had to talk about it. Also, go check out his YouTube channel. He’s uploaded a few of his […]
ROWYCO 40 – Sol-Feace (Sharp X68000)
April 08, 2020 22:14 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBWho else but Motoi Sakuraba could get me to check out the soundtrack for a side-scrolling shooter that started life on the Sharp X68000? Yeah, probably Falcom Sound Team, but Sakuraba got me here this time. Anyway, this was one I only recently learned about myself and I’m happy to share my newfound love of […]
ROWYCO 39 – Mighty Final Fight
March 25, 2020 18:40This week, I’m listening to Mighty Final Fight! It’s a SD version of the arcade beat ’em up on the NES with a really great, albeit short, soundtrack. Setsuo Yamamoto and Yuko Takehara handled the compositions on this on. You might not know their names, but you’re more than likely familiar with their work! Support […]
ROWYCO 39 – Mighty Final Fight (NES)
March 25, 2020 18:40 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week, I’m listening to Mighty Final Fight! It’s a SD version of the arcade beat ’em up on the NES with a really great, albeit short, soundtrack. Setsuo Yamamoto and Yuko Takehara handled the compositions on this on. You might not know their names, but you’re more than likely familiar with their work! Support […]
ROWYCO 38 – My Name’s Not Florence, It’s Zelda
February 16, 2020 20:53 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThis week, I’m starting what is likely to be an annual tradition. About a year ago, February 9th, 2019, to be exact, my grandmother passed away. As you’ll hear in this episode, I’ve got a ton of memories of her with game music attached to them. Maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but I […]
ROWYCO 37 – Becoming a Hero with Kemikziel
January 26, 2020 20:12 - 2 hours - 72.8 MBAfter taking a longer break than I intended, Rock Out With Your Cart Out is back! This episode, I’m joined by Kemikziel. Kemi’s speciality is making her own Game Boy music that sounds like it could be from a game you grew up playing. We listen to some of our favorite tracks from other artists, […]
ROWYCO 36 – Winter Wonderland
December 19, 2019 18:42 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBWith a certain holiday right around the corner, I thought I’d put up some of my favorite winter/Christmas music in here. Don’t worry, we’re only listening to video game stuff still. There’s more music here than me talking, so I hope you enjoy this little playlist I’ve put together for you! Happy Holidays! The ROWYCO […]
ROWYCO 35 – Terranigma (Part 2)
December 19, 2019 17:05Let’s wrap up Terranigma’s soundtrack! There’s a few less tracks in here than the last episode, but the quality more than makes up for the quantity. Miyoko Takako and Masanori Hikichi really put together something special here and I’m really glad I got to this when I decided on covering the Gaia Trilogy. The ROWYCO […]
ROWYCO 35 – Terranigma – Part Two (SNES)
December 19, 2019 17:05 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBLet’s wrap up Terranigma’s soundtrack! There’s a few less tracks in here than the last episode, but the quality more than makes up for the quantity. Miyoko Takako and Masanori Hikichi really put together something special here and I’m really glad I got to this when I decided on covering the Gaia Trilogy. The ROWYCO […]
ROWYCO 34 – Terranigma – Part One (SNES)
December 10, 2019 17:37 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBHere we are, on the home stretch of another four part series. This episode, I go over part of Terranigma’s soudntrack. This is the final entry in the loosely connected series of games by Quintet, sometimes known as the Gaia Trilogy. Miyoko Takako and Masanori Hikichi handled the compositions for this one and, as former […]
ROWYCO 34 – Terranigma (Part 1)
December 10, 2019 17:37Here we are, on the home stretch of another four part series. This episode, I go over part of Terranigma’s soudntrack. This is the final entry in the loosely connected series of games by Quintet, sometimes known as the Gaia Trilogy. Miyoko Takako and Masanori Hikichi handled the compositions for this one and, as former […]
ROWYCO 33 – Illusion of Gaia (SNES)
November 29, 2019 21:51 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBThe second entry in Quintet’s “Gaia Trilogy” is Illusion of Gaia and it really feels like a huge step up from Soul Blazer in terms of both gameplay and its soundtrack. Yasuhiro Kawasaki handled the compositions on this one and I really feel like he nailed it out of the park on this one. This […]
ROWYCO 33 – Illusion of Gaia
November 29, 2019 21:51The second entry in Quintet’s “Gaia Trilogy” is Illusion of Gaia and it really feels like a huge step up from Soul Blazer in terms of both gameplay and its soundtrack. Yasuhiro Kawasaki handled the compositions on this one and I really feel like he nailed it out of the park on this one. This […]
ROWYCO Dream Event 8 – The Walter Murphy Files – Part 3
November 14, 2019 07:00 - 26.2 MBIt’s been a while since I started these, so I thought I’d make this one a freebie for everyone. Patreon backers still get the show at a higher quality. I didn’t do much in the way of plugs at the end since I decided to do this at the last second, but if you want […]
ROWYCO 32 – Soul Blazer (SNES)
November 08, 2019 20:36 - 1 hour - 78 MBThis week, I’m starting my dive into the first part of the “Gaia Trilogy” of games made by Quintet, Soul Blazer. I think this might be the weakest of the soundtracks I cover in this series, but there’s still plenty to like about its soundtrack. I was probably a little more harsh on it when […]
ROWYCO 32 – Soul Blazer
November 08, 2019 20:36This week, I’m starting my dive into the first part of the “Gaia Trilogy” of games made by Quintet, Soul Blazer. I think this might be the weakest of the soundtracks I cover in this series, but there’s still plenty to like about its soundtrack. I was probably a little more harsh on it when […]
ROWYCO 31 – Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine CD)
October 31, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBJason Arriola is joined by one of his Multimedia Failure cohosts, John Lucero, to dive into a sort of ssspppoooookkkyyy soundtrack. This episode, we’re covering the PC Engine CD’s version of the Castlevania: Rondo of Blood soundtrack. The Castlevania series is home to many an iconic piece of music, and Rondo of Blood stands shoulder-to-shoulder […]
ROWYCO 30 – The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – Disc Four
October 22, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBJason Arriola and Dominic Chavez wrap up covering the soundtrack to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III! With over four hours worth of podcasts, we hope we’ve shone a little bit of light as to why we spend so much time covering Falcom’s work. Rather than just take our word for it, why not check […]
ROWYCO 29 – The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – Disc 3
October 21, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBJason Arriola and Dominic Chavez continue their exploration of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III’s soundtrack. There’s even more good stuff here and even some stuff that might be bordering on the edge of not something we normally get into. Falcom Sound Team continues to work their magic on us, and we’re all too happy […]
ROWYCO 28 – The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – Disc Two
October 18, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBJason Arriola and Dominic Chavez continue with the Falcom madness! We continue our discussion on The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III as we cover the second disc of the soundtrack. We’ll give you a few days to get caught up, and then the next two episodes will be up, with the final one coinciding with […]
ROWYCO 27 – The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – Disc One
October 17, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBJason Arriola and Dominic Chavez are going Falcom Sound Team jdk crazy for the next few episodes! Over the course of our next four episodes, we’ll be covering the soundtrack for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III. Normally, this means this would be taking up two months of regular shows, but with the North American […]
ROWYCO Dream Event 7 – The Walter Murphy Files – Part 2
October 15, 2019 19:28 - 10.3 MBWant a little taste of the Rock Out With Your Cart Out bonus episodes? I’ll post a few minutes of them in the regular feed so you have a chance to see what you’re missing out by not backing us on Patreon! Jason Arriola and Dominic Chavez are back on the case! There’s some seriously oddball cases of […]
ROWYCO 26: Game Boy’s First Year
October 03, 2019 20:59 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBJason Arriola is flying solo this week. I needed something to act as a fill-in episode of sorts, so I decided to go back to a console near and dear to my heart. The Game Boy’s first year had some rather simple games on it, with only a few titles standing out, and the music […]