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["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 "Masters of VGM" - season 2! Masters of VGM can...

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) sequel, and this much more enthusiastic, revoluti...

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 - Yuzo Koshiro   Genesis – 00:11:04  Master...

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, and/or Shinobu Tanaka Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Mus...

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 Menu – 00:06:44  05) Strike Aggressively (sta...

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) - Timestamp (all tracks were composed by rayjkayj exc...

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 (NA) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik - St. John Music - 0...

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" Tanaka – 00:04:00    02 - 3D Pinball Space...

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 sh...

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 – Lightening Force – Genesis - Toshiaru Yamanish...

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 ago RIGHT NOW [as of the time I'm uploading thi...

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 - Timestamp    01) Earcatcher – 00:00:00    02) In...

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 today’s episode by St. John HH - selected in both...

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 - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:03 Introduction - 00:03:4...

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 (Past) - Naofumi Hataya and/or Masafumi Ogat...

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 wildcard track to serve as our episode opener and clo...

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 2 - Motoi Sakuraba - 00: 05:09  05 - Sim Ci...

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: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:3...

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 indefinitely, and lost to the sands of time....UN...

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 # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega...

Happy Halloween! Today’s broadcast is Episode 37 for Soundtrack Saturday, October 27th, 2018. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Castlevania IV soundtrack on the SNES, composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo.    Note: While producing the video, I noticed (and corrected) a few mistakes in the show notes that I did not notice when recording the audio for the outro. So the spoken track list in the out...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E46 for FaceOff Friday, August 9th, 2019. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday - vol 3 - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Electric Boogaloo!    01) Intro - 00:00:00  02) Ogre Battle - Overture - Hitoshi Sakimoto  a) SNES [March of the Black Queen] - 00:02:45 b) GBA [Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis]  - 00:03:44 c) N64 [Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E67 for FaceOff Friday, September 16th, 2022. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 4 – a 2019 Lost Level, originally intended for release in 2020!    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare - Dream Street  a) SNES - composed or arranged by Mark Ganus and/or H. Kinsley Thurber – 00:04:47 b) Genesis - composed or arranged by Dean Morrell – 00:06:40 03) B...

Today’s broadcast is Episode 33 for Face Off Friday, August 10th, 2018. Today's program will be "Face Off Friday - vol. 2"    Play along with us! Let us know in the comments section, or on our social media sites, or by e-mail which versions of which tracks you like better - and why! Let's cuss it, and discuss it!    Track Number / Game Name / Track Name / Composers / Versions List / Timestamp    0...

Today’s broadcast is C1E48 for Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is a return visit to the wonderful sounds of the spectacular internet chiptune artist collective "Battle of the Bits". Each and every "chipist" to have appeared in spring 2017's "Battle of the Bits - vol 1" reappears here, and is joined by a legion of faces, names, and sounds which are all new to the program!    Track...