Singing Mountain, A VGM Podcast

Relax with all your favorite Nintendo franchises except F-Zero, because that one is never relaxing. But hey, Fire Emblem is here and even Metroid. There’s even Panel de Pon! But with this podcast, there is always Panel de Pon. Track Listing: 0:12: Piranha Plant’s Lullaby / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 2:58: Shooting Star Summit / Paper Mario / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda 6:32: A Rainy Day / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 9:37: Daytime (Globe) / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 13:05: 11 p.m. / Animal Crossing: City Folk / Manaka Tominaga, Shiho Fujii and Kazumi Totaka 15:42: Lake Lamode / Super Mario Odyssey / Shiho Fujii 18:43: Zora's Domain (Night) / Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild / Yasuaki Iwata 23:59: Forest Requiem / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 27:40: Frozen Fantasy / Kirby: Canvas Curse / Jun Ishikawa 29:40: Results / Pilotwings 64 / Dan Hess 32:27: Sponge Cave Spelunking / Yoshi’s Wooly World / Tomoya Tomita 35:36: Quiet Quarry / Donkey Kong Country Returns / Minako Hamano, Masaru Tajima, Shinji Ushiroda, Daisuke Matsuoka and Kenji Yamamoto 39:04: 4 a.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 41:57: Thiana’s Theme (Forest World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 44:25: Airytale Castle / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano 49:27: Torvus Bog / Metroid Prime 2: Echoes / Kenji Yamamoto 53:38: The Truth-Teller / Fire Emblem: Fates / Takeru Kanazaki 56:42: Undella Town (Autumn, Winter and Spring) / Pokemon Black & White / Hitomi Sato 60:03: Excess Express at Dusk / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 62:35: Isle of Songs / Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword / Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yokota and Takeshi Hama 65:36: Footlight Lane / Super Mario 3D World / Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo 67:42: 11 p.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 70:01: Nighttime (Globe) / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 75:31: Rainy Day (Sunset) / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 77:26: The Starlight’s Flower / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 78:30: A Starlit Sky / Mario Party 9 / Toshiki Aida and Ryosuke Asami 80:15: You’ve Come Far, Ness (Coffee Break) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka More “less talk, more music” episodes of Singing Mountain: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-chill-vgm Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

Little Nemo: The Dream Master was a NES-era Capcom platformer that didn’t star a robot or a gargoyle or a millionaire duck. This title was one of the tougher 8-bit platformers, but it was also one of the best composed, with a soundtrack by Junko Tamiya that features melodies that will stick with you… or at least stuck with Drew for almost three decades. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing; 0:06: Prologue Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 0:58: House of Toys / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 4:10: Title Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 5:06: Mushroom Forest / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 8:00: Flower Garden / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 10:54: Night Sea / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 13:46: Nemo’s House / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 16:40: Cloud Ruins / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 19:36: Topsy-Turvy / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 22:28: Nightmare World / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 25:21: Boss Battle / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 28:13: The Nightmare King / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya 31:07: Ending Theme / Little Nemo: The Dream Master / Junko Tamiya Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

In a Singing Mountain first, this episode features a person who is not me: Katherine Spiers, friend and business partner, comes in to talk about TableCakes, the Los Angeles-based podcast network we started together and what that means for Singing Mountain listeners. She also talks about growing up being the stepdaughter of Howard Phillips, the American spokesperson for Nintendo back in the NES days and then we play a loosely structured game about video game music. Plus two stories about Macaulay Culkin and one about New Kids on the Block! Track listing: 0:19: You’ve Come Far, Ness (Coffee Break) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 5:13: A Rainy Day / Pikmin 3 / Asuka Hayazaki, Atsuko Asahi and Hajime Wakai 8:48: Daytime / Wii Weather Channel / Kazumi Totaka 13:13: Shooting Star Summit / Paper Mario / Naoko Mitome, Chika Sekigawa and Yasuhisa Baba 18:23: 4 a.m. / Animal Crossing: New Leaf / Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi and Kazumi Totaka 22:01: Lake Lamode / Super Mario Odyssey / Shiho Fujii 28:33: Title Theme / Metroid / Hirokazu Tanaka 32:13: Aquatic Ambience / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise 36:57: In the Air Tonight / Phil Collins 37:54: Bayou Boogie / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 39:24: Kefka’s Theme / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 42:23: Chun-Li’s Stage / Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition / Yoko Shimomura 45:27: Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 47:37: Inside the Castle Walls / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 52:15: Hi Hi HI (Saturn Valley Theme) / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka TableCakes, the podcast network I started: https://tablecakes.com/ The TableCakes Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes Katherine’s podcast: https://soundcloud.com/smartmouthpodcast Katherine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/katherinespiers Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

Singing Mountain’s celebration of Halloween comes to an end with the most Halloween-appropriate fighting series in history, Darkstalkers. This is a “music only” episode befitting the season, but Drew is pledging to give this franchise a fully annotated spotlight episode one day. For now, please enjoy a taste of the series that made a mummy fight an evil bee. Track listing: 0:09: Player Secret 1 / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 2:05: Continue Theme / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge / Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and Hideki Okugawa 4:20: Demitri’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 7:15: Iron Horse, Iron Terror (Q-Bee’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 9:34: Victor’s Stage / Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge / Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and Hideki Okugawa 11:16: Arabaya I Bishamon’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 14:08: Anakaris’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 16:53: Deserted Chateau (Morrigan’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 18:50: War Agony (B.B. Hood’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 21:13: Tower of Arrogance (Felicia’s Stage / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 23:30: Revenger’s Roost (Donovan’s Stage) / Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 26:05: Fetus of God (Jedah’s Theme) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 28:57: Morrigan’s Stage / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa 30:23: Feast of the Damned (Demitri’s Stage) / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

The horrors of the Halloween season never sounded creepier than when they were channeled through the audio processors of the Super NES and Sega Genesis. Welcome to my 16-bit nightmare. Track listing: 0:07: Prologue / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 2:48: The Nightbreed / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 5:33: Mystic Chanting / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 7:30: Mystic Cave Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 9:30: Macabre Funk / Magic Sword / Kouji Murata 11:49: Plague Factory / The Ooze / Howard Drossin 13:45: Crazy Woods / Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body / Inuyo Yamashita and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 15:52: Haunted House / Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose / Kazuhiko Uehara and Yukie Morimoto 20:05: Fillmore / Actraiser / Yuzo Koshiro 21:47: Shade Man / Mega Man VII / Toshihiko Horiyama 23:16: This Enchanted Forest / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 25:27: Den / Castlevania: Dracula X / Konami Kukeiha Club 28:26: Haunted House / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 33:19: Title Theme / Otogirisou / Chiyoko Mitsumata 35:54: Curse of the Tongue / Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Joe McDermott 38:07: Wandering Spirits / Terranigma / Miyoko Kobayashi 40:58: Threed, Zombie Central / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 42:17: Ice Forest / Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Mari Yamaguchi 46:39: The Sinking Ship / Romancing SaGa 2 / Kenji Ito 48:15: Beneath the Haunted Mansion / LaPlace No Ma / Akiko Kosaka 49:32: Horror / Wondrous Magic / Yuji Nomi and Hiroki Kamata 50:37: Witch’s Theme / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 52:47: Fog of Phantom / Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together / Hitoshi and Sakimoto Masaharu Iwata 59:56: Don’t Cry, Jennifer / Clock Tower / Kōji Niikura 63:15: Title Theme / Banshee’s Last Cry (Night of the Sickle Weasel) / Kota Kano and Kojiro Nakashima 66:33: Jakyou no Yakata / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 70:19: Strains of Insanity / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 71:51: The Demon King Odio / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura 77:28: Intro / Super Metroid / Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano 79:02: At Home (Night) / Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen / Unknown Composer 80:19: The Discolored Wall (Stage 3) / Castlevania: Bloodlines / Michiru Yamane 82:25: The Workyard / Nightmare Circus / Kurt Harland, Jim Hedges and Andy Armer 85:46: Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 88:45: Depths of the Forest / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 91:04: Phantom Train / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

Why does creepy music sound even creepier when channeled through a Game Boy? Maybe it’s that we still think of the Game Boy as a system we played on family trips. Maybe we think about it being more innocent, like when we were kids. Regardless the reason, when it skews sinister it gets uncomfy real fast, and this Halloween episode features some of the most unsettling music yet. BTW, this episode is limited to creamed spinach-era Game Boy and Game Boy Color only. Track listing: 0:09: Tower / Donkey Kong (Game Boy) / Taisuke Araki 3:42: Battle of the Holy / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 5:32: Darkness / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 6:48: Death Fair / The Castlevania Adventure / Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi 7:57:Inside the Castle / Castlevania Legends / Kaoru Okada and Youichi Iwata 10:40: Hell Field / Gargoyle’s Quest / Harumi Fujita and Yoko Shimomura 12:04: Dungeon 1 / Final Fantasy Adventure / Kenji Ito 13:33: Stage 2 / Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear / David Wise 15:03: Track 4 / Hammerin’ Harry: Ghost Building Company / Ikuko Mimori 16:29: Gen-an’s Theme / Samurai Shodown / Fumito Tamayama 18:50: Big Monster Tower / Gargoyle’s Quest / Harumi Fujita and Yoko Shimomura 20:51: Caverns Theme 1 / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 21:51: Metroid Nest / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 22:29: Omega Metroid Territory / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 28:03: Haunted Forest / Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break / Composed by Edvard Grieg, arranged by Hidehiro Funauchi 29:51: Office 4 / Gremlins 2: The New Batch / Naoki Kodaka 31:40: Level 2 Theme / The Real Ghostbusters / Unknown Composer 34:00: BGM 3 / Magic Knight Rayearth 2nd: Missing Colors / Unknown Composer 36:54: Haunted House / Looney Tunes / Manami Matsumae 40:21: Forest of Fear!! / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 41:27: The Pool of Rain ~ The Stagnant Swamp (Night) / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 43:08: Desert Ruins / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 45:21: A Peaceful Village ~ A Town in Chaos (Night) / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 47:30: Stage Theme 2 / Donkey Kong (Game Boy) / Taisuke Araki 49:28: CInnabar Mansion / Pokemon Red and Blue / Junichi Masuda 51:28: Last Fortress / Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters / Unknown Composer 55:53: Title Theme / Metroid II: The Return of Samus / Ryoji Yoshitomi 59:50: Lavender Town / Pokemon Red and Blue / Junichi Masuda 65:28: Vampire Wario / Wario Land 3 / Kozue Ishikawa 68:23: The End of the Day / Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge / Hidehiro Funauchi Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween And here’s that episode of my other podcast, You Have to Watch This Movie, that’s all about Gremlins 2: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com/episodes/5-gremlins-2-joan-ford Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

It’s October, and Singing Mountain celebrates the Halloween season with the first actual, fully fledged sequel episode: a follow-up to Episode 10: An 8-Bit Halloween from October last year. Like the original, it’s a celebration of the spookiest music to ever be created for the NES and/or Famicom systems. Boo. Track listing: 0:08: Prelude / Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto 6:23: The Ghoul Realm / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 7:46: Labyrinth of Mirrors / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 9:02: Dark Forest of Hidon / Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness / Yuki Iwai 11:22: Cabin Theme / Friday the 13th / Hirohiko Takayama 13:17: Basement Theme / Junko Tamiya / Sweet Home 15:26: Pyramid / Dragon Quest III / Koichi Sugiyama 17:22: Title Theme / Shadowgate / Hiroyuki Masuno 20:11: Diamond Lake / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 22:19: Diamond Camp / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 23:00: The Cabin / Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 27:58: Boss Battle / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise 29:13: Kagura Temple / Famicom Tantei Club: The Missing Heir / Hiromi 30:30: Skull Island / Higemaru Makaijima (Makai Island) / Harumi Fujita 35:05: A Ghastly Sight / Mother (Earthbound Zero) / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 37:27: Forest / Shin Onigashima / Koji Kondo 39:02: Fog / Famicom Fairytales: Yuyuki / Soyo Oka 39:36: Cave / Time Twist: On the Outskirts of History… / Hajime Hirasawa 40:18: Demon From the Museum / Time Twist: On the Outskirts of History… / Hajime Hirasawa 41:36: Underground / Mother (Earthbound Zero) / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka 44:26: Cursed Town / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 46:22: Dark Warriors Sacrifice / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 46:57: Forest of Healing / Final Fantasy III / Nobuo Uematsu 48:50: Heart of Fire / Castlevania / Kinuyo Yamashita 51:46: Dwelling of Doom / Dracula II (Famicom Disk System) / Kenichi Matsubara 53:03: Mad Forest / Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 54:35: Nightmare /Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 56:09: Demon Seed / Akumajō Densetsu (Castlevania III for Famicom Disk System) / Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto 5742: Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti / Anna Puruna 60:05: Disco Dracula / Ghost House (Super Mario Bros.) / Super Mario Maker / Koji Kondo, Naoto Kubo and Asuka Hayazaki Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

Horror-themed games are relatively rare in the arcade, but this first October episode looks at a handful of ’80s titles that sound spooky in the good way. This Friday episode features tracks from Haunted Castle (the arcade version of Castlevania), Splatterhouse and Ghouls ’n Ghosts. What’s your favorite spooky-sounding work of VGM? Track listing: 0:08: The Crypt Elevator / The Simpsons (Arcade) / Norio Hanzawa 2:21: Bloody Tears / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 3:40: Evil Cross & Nightmare / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 6:31: The Haunted Graveyard / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 8:56: Devil’s Requiem / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 10:59: Master Dead / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 12:51: Baron Rankle’s Tower / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 15:21: Devil’s Revival / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 17:20: Womb / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 19:36: The Crystal Forest / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 21:56: Cross Your Heart / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 23:27: Hell Chaos / Splatterhouse / Katsuro Tajima and Yoshinori Kawamoto 26:30: Lucifer’s Castle / Ghouls ’n Ghosts / Tamayo Kawamoto 27:59: Basement Melodies / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara 32:27: Under the Moonlight / Night Slashers / Tomoyoshi Sato Listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/minusworld/2018/10/18/halloween Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

Night doesn’t have to be scary. This episode brings together video game music that suggests the ways night can be the most exciting part of the day. I’m calling this a sequel to Episode 11, Moonlight Drive. Track listing: 0:09: Gloom of the N.H.B. / NiGHTS into Dreams / Tomoko Sasaki 5:00: Silvery Light of the Moon / Thunder Force IV / Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida and Tomomi Ootani 7:48: Planet 7 / Street Fighter 2010 / Junko Tamiya 11:34: Prayer of a Tragic Queen / Castlevania: Bloodlines / Michiru Yamane 15:15: Sword of the Valiant (Moonlight) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 18:40: Desert Highway / Hotel Dusk: Room 215 / Satoshi Okubo 23:14: Fate (Sara’s Theme) / Breath of Fire / Yasuaki Fujita 25:51: Forest Theme (Search Man) / Mega Man 8 / Shusaku Uchiyama 28:52: The Submerged City / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 33:49: The Starlit Winds (Campfire Theme) / Shovel Knight / Jake Kaufman 36:11: Queen Serenity / Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon / Takanori Arisawa 40:15: Colony 9 (Night) / Xenoblade Chronicles / Yoko Shimomura 44:49: Credits Theme / SonSon II / Manami Matsumae 47:20: Turismo / Breath of Fire IV / Yoshino Aoki 49:44: Crystal Teardrop / Castlevania: Symphony of the Night / Michiru Yamane 54:29: Selene’s Theme (Moon World) / Panel de Pon / Masaya Kuzume 57:32: Tower of Arrogance / Darkstalkers 3: Jedah’s Damnation / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda 59:58: The Moon Lit Up the Street / Metal Slader Glory: Director’s Cut / Takane Okubo 61:59: Soft Collision / Mighty Switch Force / Jake Kaufman Episode 11: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/moonlight-drive Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com

It’s a game you maybe haven’t heard of. And if you have heard of it, you probably haven’t played it. And even if you have played it, you probably still haven’t heard the “full” soundtrack. Spend thirty-some minutes with Tatsuhiko Asano’s trippy tropicalia in the expanded soundtrack to Doshin the Giant, a Nintendo series that came and went but is perhaps worth a second look. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:16: The Theme of Doshin the Giant / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 1:52: Bonfire / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 8:36: The Barthes Island / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 11:56: The Island of Memory / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 16:03: Lights / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 17:55: The Island Without Anything / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 19:14: Paradize Zone / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 20:57: Grass Fumes / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 24:34: Time / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 27:20: Jungle Morning / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano 31:21: Yellow Giant (Reprise) / Doshin the Giant / Tatsuhiko Asano Tatsuhiko Asano on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/asa Tatsuhiko Asano on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tatsuhiko-asano/74521256 Tatsuhiko Asano on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/knadma Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: singingmountainpod.com

Sometimes you just need a break. This episode is all about relaxation… and I promise I’ll do an episode where I intro every track next week. For now? Just kick back and go to a pixelly place. Track listing: 0:10: Star Lift / Mario Party 3 / Ichiro Shimakura 2:10: Beacon / Fez / Disasterpeace 4:36: Space Junk Road / Super Mario Galaxy / Mahito Yokota 8:05: Big Water / Ecco the Dolphin 2: The Tides of Time / Gabor Foltan, Csaba Gigor, Laszlo Fazekas 10:54: Game Over / Shin Megami Tensei OST II / Tsukasa Masuko 13:12: Meditating Monks / Rayman / Stéphane Bellanger and Pete Anthony 16:13: BGM 3 / Mario Paint / Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kazumi Totaka 19:37: Tears Stained Eyes / Snatcher / Konami Kukeiha Club 24:28: Residential District / Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut / Takane Okubo 27:46: Village Shop / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Yasuhiro Takagi 29:26: At the End of Time / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 31:48: Cabin / Marvelous / Yuichi Ozaki 34:17: Irish Spring / Amberstar / Jochen Hippel 36:24: Save Room / Resident Evil (2002) / Makoto Tomozawa, Koichi Hiroki and Masami Ueda 39:40: The Whereabouts of Truth / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura 42:36: Summer Forest / Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! / Stuart Copeland 44:53: Sunflowers and Illusions / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 47:31: Birdman / Pilotwings 64 / Dan Hess 54:25: Peaceful Mushroom Village / Mario Party / Yasunori Mitsuda 56:51: Phantasy Sprite / Phantasy Star 2 / Tokuhiko Uwabo Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

Streets of Rage and the Ys series most likely top most VGM fans’ lists of the best-composed Yuzo Koshiro games, but they'd likely be leaving out his unlikely turn in Super Adventure Island, where he lent the Hudson Soft platforming series a higher level of cool than it deserved, with a soundtrack that combines reggae, calypso and hip hop influences. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:09: Round 1 / Adventure Island / Jun Chikuma 2:21: Round 2 / Adventure Island / Jun Chikuma 4:59: Blue Blue Moon a.k.a. Essential Vitamins (Stage 3 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 7:54: The Island of Everlasting Summer (Stage 2 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 10:47: Cool Jam (Stage 6 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 13:38: Jungle Chase (Stage 4 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 16:31: Hop Step and Jazzy Beats (Bonus Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 17:53: Ice Groove (Stage 7 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 20:41: Hot Reception (Boss Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 21:48: Drop Into a Walk (Stage 5 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 24:38: Darkside Visitor (Stage 8 Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 27:29: Big Zen (Final Battle Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 30:23: Hawaiian (Ending Theme) / Yuzo Koshiro / Super Adventure Island 33:36: Theme Song / Bug-tte the Honey / Toshiyuki Takahashi Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

It's a super megamix of the dance tracks featured in episodes 29, 30 and 31, plus some extras from previous episodes, all adding up to just under two full hours of video game music you can dance to. (Or so I think, anyway.) Enjoy! Track Listing: 1:29: Levels 5 & 6 / Dance Aerobics / Unknown Composer 3:15: Disco Train / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise 6:42: Chemical Plant Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 8:48: Track 1 / Top Gear / Barry Leitch 12:34: Basement Melodies / Haunted Castle / Kenichi Matsubara and Masahiro Ikariko 15:32: Master of Water / Lagoon / Hideki Suzuki 18:25: Unbreakable Determination / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 19:49: Kraken of the Sea / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 22:04: Duke’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 25:21: Title Theme / First Samurai / NIcholas A. Jones 31:10: Special Levels / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 33:53: Death by Glamour / Undertale / Toby Fox 36:03: Loader Theme / Comic Bakery / Martin Galway 39:13: Daddy Mulk / NInja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 43:52: Trade / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 45:55: Sea of Flames (Hellfire) / Kyūyaku Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 47:38: Dynamite Plant ~ Try Again (Bean’s Theme) / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 50:13: Title Theme / Super Cars 2 / Barry Leitch 52:42: Level One / Risky Woods / Jose A. Martin 55:05: Morrigan / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Takayuki Iwai (a.k.a. Anarchy Takapon) 56:45: Title Theme / Shadow Warriors / Matthew Furniss 58:52: Bonus Stage / Cool Spot (Genesis) / Tommy Tallarico 1:02:27: Gorgonzola Goblins / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 1:03:59: 604800sec / Breath of Fire 3 / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 1:05:09: Barrel Volcano / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 1:06:58: Counterfeit Mermaids / Shantae: Half-Genie Hero / Jake Kauffman 1:09:42: Xiaoyu / Tekken Tag Team Tournament / Keiichi Okabe 1:12:29: Sunset Town / Sonic the Fighters / Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi 1:15:09: Stayin’ Alive / Vector Man / Jon Holland 1:18:37: Title Screen / Bad Company / Dave Whittaker 1:20:37: Love Will Never Die / Twinkle Star Sprites / Takao Oshima 1:23:07: Disco / Shin Megami Tensei II / Tsukasa Masuko 1:25:32: Title Theme / Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 / Barry Leitch 1:28:15: Rungo’s Theme / Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 1:31:07: Idaten / Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master / Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama and Masayuki Nagao 1:33:52: Battle Against a Machine / Earthbound / Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 1:35:42: Moon Beach / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 1:38:26: Castle Theme / Great Giana Sisters / Chris Huelsbeck??? 1:40:45: Sentimental Solder / Valis II (PC-88) / Masahiro Kajihara 1:42:22: Eagle's Theme / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 1:44:31: Let's Dance, Boys / Bayonetta / Hiroshi Yamaguchi 1:48:09: Theme of Poison / Ultra Street Fighter IV / Hideyuki Fukasawa 1:52:12: Rainbow Road / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

The classic SNK hacking and dicing fighter finally gets its Singing Mountain spotlight, and everyone is going to lose a limb. In roughly thirty minutes, you'll get traditional Japanese compositions, some stuff inspired by western music and then a little of the nifty ambiance for which the series is famous. Listen to all of Singing Mountain’s 30-minute Friday episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-30-minute-fridays Track listing: 0:12: Fifteen Warriors / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 1:57: Bamboo Thicket (Jubei Yagyu) / Samurai Shodown / SNK Sound Team 4:06: Comma-Shaped Jewels (Kyoshiro Senyro) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 6:26: Demon (Kibagami Genjuro) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 9:15: Smell the Breeze (Shizumaru Hisame) / Samurai Shodown 3 / SNK Sound Team 13:39: River (Ukyo Tachibana) / Samurai Shodown 3 / SNK Sound Team 19:05: Successively Foreign Girl (Charlotte Colde) / Samurai Shodown 4 / SNK Sound Team 22:17: Tuna (Galford Weller) / Samurai Shodown / SNK Sound Team 24:34: Six Sentences (Kuruko) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 27:21: Heart Mirror (Rimururu) / Samurai Shodown 4 / SNK Sound Team 30:08: Moonlight Supper (Yukei Kusagaredo) / Samurai Shown 5 / SNK Sound Team Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com

Mario’s first-ever adventure on a portable system has a great soundtrack, but its final world, Chai Kingdom, features an example of a certain melody that has long been a shorthand for all manner of Asian cultures, accurately or not. This episode — which is one where Drew talks a lot, you should probably know — explores where this nine-note structure came from and how we should regard it now that we know it’s a bunch of malarkey. But what VGM is actually authentic to the culture it is referencing? Track listing: 0:07: Chicken Dance / Savage Reign / SNK Sound Team 2:18: Chai Kingdom / Super Mario Land / Hirokazu Tanaka 5:40: Kung-Fu Fighting / Carl Douglas 6:09: Turning Japanese / The Vapors 6:41: China Girl / David Bowie 7:20: Japanese Boy / Aneka 8:43: Scene 1 Intro / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game / Yasuhiko Manno 9:54: China Theme / Street Fighter II / Yoko Shimomura 12:20: Aladdin Quick Step / Thomas Comer 12:42: Chinese Bicycle / Columns 3 / Morihiko Akiyama 14:56: Tea Rock / The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy / Yasuko Yamada and Naoto Yagishita 16:32: Oriental / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 20:13: Fo’s Theme / Battle Arena Toshinden / Yasuhiro Nakano 23:23: Szechwan, China / Tekken / Yoshie Takayanagi 24:40: Chinatown / The Revenge of Shinobi / Yuzo Koshiro 27:09: War in China / Live A Live / Yoko Shimomura 28:10: Back to the China / Metal Slug 2 / Takushi Hiyamuta 31:25: Eastern Country / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 34:44: Lee / Fighting Street / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 36:41: Dragon Driftway / Mario Kart 8 / Atsuko Asahi 38:35: Oriental Comrades / Bounty Sword / Kohei Tanaka and Akihiko Mori 41:35: China Unified / Sangokushi Retsuden: Ransei no Eiyuutachi / Unknown Composer Links and whatnot: The NPR segment on the oriental riff: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/08/28/338622840/how-the-kung-fu-fighting-melody-came-to-represent-asia The website where examples of this melody are catalogued: http://chinoiserie.atspace.com/1847to1899.html Legacy Music Hour’s “asiatic” episode: http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2012/03/legacy-music-hour-episode-74-asiatic.html The Super Marcato Bros’ TMNT episode: http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2018/8/12/episode-331-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/…bs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com