Today’s broadcast is C1E90 for Theme Thursday, November 21st 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 2 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turnin…

Today’s broadcast is C1E89 for Theme Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 1 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turni…

Today’s Broadcast is C2E20, for Theme Thursday, Oct 24th, 2024. All good things must come to an end. Today is the final “regular” (as in, “final non-retrospective” episode - and as opposed to “final all time” episode). This will be the final episode where we bring new tracks to the show, though. So it is still an ending. The theme, therefore, is en…

Today’s broadcast is C1E88 for FaceOff Friday, Sept 27th, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 7 – very likely to be our final FaceOff Friday episode! A1) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Double Dragon - Mission 2 - Kazunaka Yamane A) Arcade – 00:03:39 B) Genesis – 00:05:19 C)MastersystemFM – 00:06:59 D)MastersystemPSG – 00:09:06 E) NES – 00:1…

Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”. [Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening tr…

Today’s broadcast is C1E87 for TwoFer Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10. This episode is dedicated to my lovely wife, Jodee, on the occasion of releasing on our 25th wedding anniversary! A) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Fantavision 202X – Multi – Soichi Terada A)Fantavision202X – 00:03:57 B) Expositor 2 – 00:04:56 …

Today’s broadcast is C2E18 for Theme Thursday, July 4th, 2024 (the holiday connection was a pure coincidence - but happy holidays to everyone who celebrates it!). Today’s theme is music from unreleased (and usually unfinished) games - on a program we’re calling “It Never Happened” - subject selected by Hugues, and episode title by St. John! Track# …

[RE-UPLOAD NOTE: When I had previously uploaded this episode, I had accidentally included the sound file to the previous episode instead. So I deleted that upload and am uploading the correct sound file now. My apologies for the mix-up! Original show notes (which were correct) are below - St. John] Today’s broadcast is C1E86 for Soundtrack Saturday…

Today’s broadcast is C1E85 for FaceOff Friday, May 31st, 2024 Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol 6, a collection of "this version vs that version" of various pieces of Delicious VGM! A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Super Mario Bros. - Overworld Theme - Koji Kondo - SNES [Super Mario All Stars] (a: N/A) - 00:02:35 - NES (a: N/A) - 00:05:26 - PC…

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Today’s broadcast is C1E84 for TwoFer Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Today’s episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 9. A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto A) Planet Tallon IV - 00:02:29 B) Crashed Frigate - 00:06:36 02) Diver's Dream – PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa and/or Shinya Watanabe A) Paradise - 00:11:30 B) Big Pudding - 00…

Today’s Broadcast is C2E17 for Theme Thursday, April 11th 2024. Today’s broadcast is a focus on pre-turn of the century music from computer systems (as opposed to consoles) - on a program we’re calling “20th Century Floppies”. Tracklist Track Number / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected by 01) Bootup Sequence - N/A (System Music) - FM…

Today’s broadcast is C1E83 for Mishmash Monday, April 1st, 2024. Today’s episode helps all of us who struggle so mightily with multitasking to enjoy an entire 27 track music block and an entire intro and outro without feeling like it, and without the guilt of tying up the time and resources so many of us generally require as serial monotaskers – on…

Today’s broadcast is C1E82 for Theme Thursday, March 21st, 2024. Today’s theme is music from Run and Gun games (as best as I can define them), on a program we're quite hedgingly calling "Run and/or Gun"! Tracklist! Track# - Track Name – Game – System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp A1) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Dice Dance Days – Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – …

Today’s Broadcast is C2E16 for Theme Thursday, March 7th, 2024. Today’s theme is vocal music from video games, on a program we’re calling “Songs with Words”. BE SURE TO CATCH OUR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOWARDS THE END OF THE EPISODE!! (It’s highlighted in the show notes!) Tracklist Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Vocalist / Sel…

Today’s broadcast is C1E81 for Mishmash Monday, . Today’s episode is Mishmash Monday – vol 15, and the inaugural episode of 2024's "Season 7" (and the start of St. John's 8th year in podcasting). Tracklist: Track Number - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp A1 Season 7 Earcatcher - 00:00:00 A2) Intro - 00:00:03 01) Spirit Hymn - Dino…

JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:08:52 Today’s broadcast is C1R6a for Wayback Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. Today’s episode is our first of two Channel 1 retrospectives of Calendar 2023. Taking a page from Channel 2's retrospective scheme, today's episode is numbered "C1R6a" (Channel 1 – Retrospective 6a), and will be titled, simply, "The B…

Today's Broadcast is C2R3 for Wayback Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. Today's episode is our highlights from Season 3 of Nerd Noise Game Club (Channel 2) - our look back at calendar 2023. If you listened to the Channel F which shared every single track featured on Channel 2 this year, and started making some guesses / wishes on what we'd pick, you'…

Today's Broadcast is the entire collection of every single track featured on Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 during Calendar 2023 (Season 3). All the conversation and dialog have been scrapped, so these are music-only. 5 little mini-blocks, kinda like 5 little "mini Ch 1s with no intros or outros", all shared back to back....to back, to back, to back.…

Today’s “F-isode” is a look at the fabulous chip-tribute Album, “Time and Place”, written by Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - on a program we’re calling “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - recorded on-location at the Iowa State University campus radio studio! Tracklist 01) Blimp Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:21 Introduction - 00:02:00 Disc…

Today’s broadcast is C2E15, for Theme Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 - Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! But whether you have a certain animal roasting in the oven or not, here are some great animal tunes and talk to keep you company! Tracklist: Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected by which host 01) Spring Yard Zone - …

In light of the recent turn of events involving Spotify, and its impact to Nerd Noise Radio in particular, the VGM podcast scene more broadly, and even music podcasts of all types, I wanted to get a special announcement up right away about what's going on, and how Nerd Noise Radio is responding. This announcement is most directly applicable to our …

Today’s Broadcast is C1E80, for Scene Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Today’s episode (our final non-retrospective Ch 1 episode of calendar 2023’s “Season 6”) is a focus on remixes of VGM from various sources, with an emphasis on the OC Remix community, on a program we’re quite simply calling “The Remix Episode”. Today’s episode curated, hosted, and pr…

[SEE IMPORTANT EDITOR’S NOTE BELOW THE TRACKLIST!] Today’s Broadcast is C2E14 for Theme Thursday, October 12th, 2023. Today’s Theme is escape themed music, on a program called “Escape Artists” - theme and title (and track run order by Hugues)! Also, a bit of big news and a bit of small news from St. John - neither of which will probably be a surpri…

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In addition to being a really special episode for me already in that it features one of my all-time best personal friends, and also includes a really fun, really touching extended conversation between us at the end of the episode (which we're somewhat euphemistically calling an "interview"), or even for the episode featuring an "SM7…

Today’s broadcast is C1E78 for TwoFer Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Today’s Episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 8. A1) Intro – 00:00:00 01) EDGE – Multi – Richard Malot A) Quiet – 00:04:29 B) Pad – 00:06:58 02) Tetris Party Deluxe – Wii - Brian DiLucente A) King Street – 00:09:56 B) Main Menu – 00:12:19 03) Hover Racing - PS1 - Tooru Kawakami and/or…

Today’s broadcast is C1E77 for Mishmash Monday, July 31st, 2023. Today’s episode will be Mishmash Monday – vol 14. A1– Intro – 00:00:00: 01 - Practice Race - Marble Madness - FM Towns – c: Hal Canon and/or Brad Fuller / a: Unknown – 00:05:28 02 – R.E.D. - Illumination LASER - X68000 - I.C. Kaze – 00:07:18 03 – Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X – Teruhi…

Today’s F-isode features video game music works from chipist and fellow VGM Podcaster, AJ Reyes, better known as “rayjkayj” of the VGM podcast VGMporium, and is our final contribution (of four) to MoVGM - season 2. A fifth was planned, but “man plans and COVID laughs”. Apologies also for a few “production shortcuts” used here due to the last minute…

Today’s broadcast, for Theme Thursday, July 6th, 2023 is an episode of the Masters of VGM - season 2 (www.mastersofvgm.com) and is a focus on music from unsung and undersung composers - on an episode we’re calling “Songs of the Unsung”. Tracklist: 01) John’s 1st composer (of 4): C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld) John’s Track: Dreiton - Minecraft - Multip…

Today’s Channel F (which in the parlance of Nerd Noise Radio are “bonuses and betas” episodes) features highlights from the soundtrack to Stray, for multiple platforms, composed by Yann Van der Cruyssen, also known as Morusque. This program will follow the standard format of neither a Ch 1 nor a Ch 2. I hope you enjoy the unique journey for NNR! [a…

["Skip straight to the music" timestamp: 00:09:09] Today’s broadcast is C1E76 for Theme Thursday, June 1st, 2023. Today’s theme is music from unsung and undersung composers, on a program we're calling "The Big Sound of the Little Guy – vol. 2" - an episode (and likely the debut episode) of the fabulous VGM podcast community's massive group project …

IMPORTANT NOTE: Masters of VGM Season 2 starts June 1st, and is slated to kick off with Nerd Noise Radio C1E76: "The Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 2". To prime the pump of excitement for MoVGM in general, as well as to offer a "compare and contrast" between the incoming, much more polished and measured and matured (and much more well-produced)…

Today's broadcast is C1E75, for FaceOff Friday, May 12th, 2023. Today's broadcast will be "FaceOff Friday – vol 5". Be sure to let us know which versions of which tracks you prefer – and WHY! A1) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Battletoads Double Dragon - Stage 1 - David Wise SNES – 00:05:46 Genesis (a: Unknown) - 00:08:25 02) Streets of Rage 2 - In the Bar -…

Today’s episode is C2E12, for Theme Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Today’s theme is music from Houses and/or Towns and/or Town Locations, on a program we’re calling “House Music” - episode theme and title both selected by Hugues! Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected By 01) Training - Luigi’s Mansion - GameCube - Kazumi Totaka, an…

Today’s broadcast is C1E74 for Soundtrack Saturday, April 1st, 2023. Today’s soundtrack is Yar's Revenge, on the Atari 2600 – composed by Howard Scott Warshaw A1) Intro – 00: 01) Fly on the Wall (title screen) - 00:03:12 02) They Started It! (Intro story sequence 1) - 00:04:03 03) Lord of the Flies (Intro story sequence 2) - 00:05:05 04) Options Me…

Today’s broadcast is C1E73 for Scene Sunday, March 26th 2023. Today’s episode is a focus on the original chiptunes and cover works of Chipist and VGMporium podcast host rayjkayj on a program we're calling "UNKAYJ THE RAYJ"! Tracklist: Track# (total / "chapter") - Track Name – System (approximated) - Production Source – Compo / Event (or N/A) - Time…

Today’s Broadcast is C2E11 for Theme Thursday, March, 2nd, 2023 - the inaugural episode of Channel 2’s “Season 3!”. Today’s theme is music from space games and space biomes on a program we’re calling “It’s SPACE TIME!” Tracklist Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 01) Snow on the Moon - Fantavision (…

Today’s broadcast is C1E72 for Mishmash Monday, February 13th, 2023. Today’s episode will be Mishmash Monday – vol 13. Dedicated to my friend Harrison Frost, who celebrates his 44th birthday today, and with whom I only very recently reconnected after a nearly 20yr hiatus. A1 – Intro – 00:00:00 01 - Wrecking Crew - NES - Stage Theme – Hirokazu "Hip"…

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 s…

Today’s broadcast is C1E70B for Wayback Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final release of 2022) will be "The Best of 2022 – pt. 2: Hugues' Picks" 01) Intro – 00:00:00 02) Space Harrier Theme – N/A (JP Main System BIOS) - Master System [FM + PSG] - Hiyoshi Miyauchi – C1E62 – St. John – 00:01:46 03) Stand Up Against Myself – Light…

Happy Holidays, everybody! As the tile suggests, I hadn't planned on doing this re-run. But when the realization dawned that the events which occurred in the story told in this broadcast (originally intended as the debut for Nerd Noise Radio - Channel F) occurred precisely 30yrs ago today - indeed, give or take 30 minutes, they were occurring 30yrs…

Today’s broadcast is C1E70A for Wayback Wednesday, December 21st, 2022. Today’s episode is "The Best of 2022 – St. John's Picks" - a look back on John's favorite tracks of calendar 2022 on Nerd Noise Radio (includes tracks from Channel 1 and from Channel 2) Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Originally from – Originally selected by - Ti…

Today’s broadcast is C2R2 for Wayback Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. Today’s focus is a look back on Season 2 (calendar 2022)! And maybe we also lose ourselves in a little bit of Mastodon talk towards the end of the episode! ;-) “Selected by Legend” (use this for reference in the tracklist) JJ - selected in both the original episode as well as tod…

Truncated Show notes for "length-limit exceeded" reasons! See Full-Length show notes here: https://archive.org/details/nnr-c-2-r-1-complete ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let’s open with a Wildcard….. 01) Birdman - Pilotwings 64 -N64 - Dan Hess - Hugues - Hugues (originally from C2E3) Earcatcher - 00:00…

Today’s broadcast is C1E51 for Mishmash Monday, February 3rd, 2020. Today’s broadcast is Mishmash Monday - vol 9. The inaugural episode of Season 40, and a special celebration of St. John's 40th birthday, guest hosted by various members of his family. 01 - Ear Catcher - 00:00:00 02 - Intro - 00:00:12 03 - Sonic CD - Sega CD - Stardust Speedway Zone…

It’s almost time again for our end-of-year “Best of Season 2” (C2R2), on Channel 2, where Hugues and I will pick a combined 22 tracks from the 72 total which we featured across all of Season 2 in calendar 2022. Like last year, we’ll each pick 2 tracks per episode (one per episode per host from each of the two hosts), as well as each picking one wil…

Today’s broadcast is C1E41 for Mishmash Monday, February 4th, 2019. Today’s Episode is Mishmash Monday, vol. 7 - the inaugural episode of 2019's "Season 3". 01 - Intro - 00:00:00 02 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - intro - Soichi Terada - 00:02:08 03 - Sonic Mania - multi - Studiopolis Zone Act 2 - Tee Lopes - 00:02:40 04 - Ernest Evans - Genesis - Stage…

Today’s broadcast is C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019. Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp 01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 02) Intro - 00:00:12 03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yosh…

Today's Broadcast is C1E68 for Theme Thursday, October 27th, 2022. Today's theme is a collection of spooky, dissonant, jarring music for the occasion of Halloween, on a program we're calling "They're Coming to Get You, Barbara" - a "Lost Level", originally intended for C1E37: Halloween 2018, then bumped to C1E48: Halloween 2019, before being bumped…

Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D Track # / Trac…