2025 Show Notes addendum:
In light of the release of C1E100 (the final "non-retrospective" Ch 1), I thought it would also be good to release C2E20 (the final "non-retrospective" Ch 2) as a nice tie-in. Though my production quality has improved somewhat since late 2024, it is nowhere even remotely close to the quantum leap that is the difference between my Dec 2025 and my Jan 2017 production quality difference with C1E1.
Channel 2 was a COMPLETELY different kind of show, though. Rather than being a vaguely NPR-esque mixtape-style program that was "less a podcast per se" and more "a late nite FM radio music program which just so happened to go out over the podosphere", Ch 2 was a "proper podcast" with a co-host out of Chicago and myself taking turns sharing tracks and talking about them. We wrapped the show at the end of 2024 because my co-host had been podcasting since 2009, and would be turning 50 in 2025, and so he decided at the end of 2023 that he would be retiring completely from podcasting at the end of 2024, and I didn't feel like replacing him, so we just wrapped it together.
Anyway, since we referenced C2E20 and even featured a few tracks from it in C1E100, and since we're rerunning C1E1, I figured I'd rerun this too.
By the way: that one upcoming Ch F one-off with Trey Johnson of NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio will be in this exact format - only, obviously, a different co-host.
Anyway....enjoy! Also, this rerun will release on Christmas Eve. So, Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates it - and a belated Happy Hannukah to anyone who celebrates it instead (I celebrate both, myself!) :-D
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orig show notes
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 ending music, on a program we’re calling “...all good things…”
Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By
01) Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xanadu - Multiplatform - Takahiro Unisuga (Falcom Sound Team jdk) - Hugues
Earcatcher - 00:00:00
Music - 00:00:03
Introduction - 00:05:23
Top of Show Business - 00:06:14
The Reveal of last episode’s mystery themes - 00:09:44
Discussion - 00:24:38
02) Credits - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - St. John
Music - 00:30:16
Discussion - 00:33:01
03) Staff Roll - Phantasy Star III - Genesis - Ippo Takeuchi - Hugues
Music - 00:35:17
Discussion - 00:37:15
04) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - St. John
Music - 00:42:07
Discussion - 00:44:46
05) Ending - Another World - Amiga - Jean-François Freitas - Hugues
Music - 00:54:53
Discussion - 00:56:27
06) Triforce Chamber - LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo
Music - 01:00:40
Discussion - 01:02:09
07) The Credits Concerto - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise and/or Eveline Fischer - Hugues
Music - 01:08:45
Discussion - 01:10:43
[EDITOR’s NOTE: I partially confused Vangelis with fellow Greek musician, Iasos. My bad! -St. J]
08) Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and/or Masayuki Nagao - St. John
Music - 01:16:19
Discussion - 01:18:38
09) Good End - Streets of Rage II - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - Hugues
Music - 01:34:07
Discussion - 01:36:30
10) End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita and/or Harumi Fujita - St. John
Music - 01:43:56
Discussion - 01:46:14
11) Farewell and a Decision - Grandia II - PS2 / Dreamcast - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
Music - 01:49:38
Discussion - 01:54:26
12) Ending - Stray - Multiplatform - Jan van der Cruyssen - St. John
Music - 02:01:40
Discussion - 02:05:12
13) 16th Floor - Speedrun Tower - Genesis - c: JAM / a: Hugues Johnson - Hugues
Music - 02:10:48
Discussion - 02:12:38
End of Show Business - 02:22:27
Closing track Discussion - 02:29:49
Sign-off - 02:30:44
14) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - St. John
Music - 02:30:51
Outtakes - 02:34:52
BONUS - the “Composed by St. John / arranged by Jay Cook” collection
“Floor It!” from the Game “X-Racer” (Hydra Development System) - 02:39:52
“In-Game Theme” from the Game “Ranquest” (Hydra Development System) - 02:41:07
Total Episode Runtime: 02:44:07 Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
St. John’s Mom’s flute business can be found here: Website:
www.valwedgeworth.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/UxpsjWw3Js5uUtLf/
Valerie's Flute Entertainment, LLC (Playing the Decades)
Email: valerie@valwedgeworth.com
Note: St. John called it “Val’s Flute Entertainment”, instead of “Valerie’s Flute Entertainment”, but it used to be called “Val’s Flute”.
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Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for a very special Channel 1 (subject a surprise for now), and then again in November for a sequel Ch 1 and for our Ch 2 “Best of Season 4 retrospective” - which will be our second-to-last ever installment of Ch 2…..Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club…and wherever you are….Fly the N!
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