St. John from Des Moines
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#VideoGame Geek. Passionate #DesMoines-er. Family man. Wannabe #Polyglot #Linux Noob. #Neurodivergent #AuDHD (#ADHD + #Autistic) #VGM #Podcaster @NerdNoiseRadio!
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Nerd Noise RadioHappy 25th anniversary - #Sega #Dreamcast !!! The first significant purchase I made as a married man! And I still have it! Same copy even!
Hot takes # 13756848586993:
Today will go down in history as the day #Crowdstrike struck the crowd (but not we #Linux users!) 😂💓🍻🌈🐧
[edit: and not #Mac users either! 🌈 🍎 ]
New Ch 1 is out today! FaceOff Friday - vol 6 - a collection of "this vs that"! April and May were a rough couple months for my mental health (though I think things are finally mostly better now), so the fact that this episode exists at all, let alone is releasing on time, is kinda remarkable! 🍻💓 Enjoy!!
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E85: FaceOff Friday – vol. 6” | Nerd Noise Radio
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 88 [Super Mario Bros. Special] (a: Fumihiko Itagaki and/or Megumi Kawamata) - 00:09:48 02) Fatal Fury – Howard Arena (Tung Fu Rue) - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree - Neo Geo AES / MVS (a: N/A) - 00:11:59 - Genesis (a: Kazuyuki Oikawa and/or Kōjirō Mikusa) - 00:14:56 - SNES (a: Hiroshi Ebihara) - 00:17:40 - Neo Geo CD (a: Unknown) - 00:21:02 03) Shinobi - Yasuhiro Kawakami - Arcade (BGM 2) (a: N/A) - 00:26:03 - PC Engine (BGM 2) (a: Unknown) - 00:27:28 - Mastersystem FM [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:28:55 - Mastersystem PSG [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:30:18 - NES [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:31:03 04) Double Dragon V – Character Select - Robert Atesalp - Jaguar (a: Byron Parks) - 00:33:05 - SNES (a: N/A) - 00:34:48 - Genesis (a: N/A) - 00:36:35 05) Ninja Warriors – Daddy Mulk - Hisayoshi Ogura - Arcade (a: N/A) - 00:38:27 - Amiga (a: Ronald Pieket-Weeserik) - 00:42:46 - C64 (a: Tony Williams) - 00:46:54 - PC Engine (a: Unknown) - 00:51:02 - Mega CD (a: Junichi Kawaguchi) - 00:55:15 06) Tetris (SEGA) Tetramix A - Yasuhiro Kawakami - Arcade (a: N/A) - 01:00:10 - Genesis (a: N/A) - 01:01:56 07) Ninja Gaiden Series Boss Music - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa - Ninja Gaiden 1 (NES) (a: N/A) - 01:03:55 - Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) (a: Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura) - 01:05:42 - Ninja Gaiden 3 (NES) (a: Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno) - 01:07:28 - Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) (a: Unknown) - 01:09:14 08) Streets of Rage 1 vs Streets of Rage 2 (Boss Music 1) - Yuzu Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawasshima - SoR 1 (Attack the Barbarian) (a: N/A) - 01:11:06 - SoR 2 (Never Return Alive) (a: N/A) - 01:13:51 09) Y's III: Wanderers from Ys – The Winged Boy (aka “The Boy’s got Wings” or “Winged Boy”) - Mieko Ishikawa - PC98 (OPN) (a: N/A) - 01:17:24 - X68000 (a: Masaki Kawai) - 01:19:27 - Famicom (a: Osamu Kasai, Masaaki Harada, and/or Michiharu Hasuya) - 01:22:04 - MSX2 (a: Unknown) - 01:23:56 - SNES (a: Michiharu Hayusa, Masaaki Harada, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 01:26:00 - Genesis (a: Yoshiaki Kubotera and/or Noriyuki Iwadare) - 01:27:32 - PC Engine (a: Masaaki Inoue) - 01:29:35 - PS2 (a: Unknown) - 01:31:37 - Oath in Felghana (a: Yukihiro Jindo) - 01:34:18 10) Metroid - Norfair - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - Wii [Super Smash Bros. Brawl] (a: Yuzo Koshiro) - 01:37:29 - GBA (a: Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano) - 01:39:50 - NES (a: N/A) - 01:43:40 B1) Outro - 01:45:51 Music Block Runtime: 01:33:13, Total Episode Runtime: 01:54:12 Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux* on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! *=or Windows 11 since the transition back to Fedora on the Zephyrus happened midway through this episode's production You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own: Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. Or you can reach us by e-mail at [email protected] You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public! Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (dates TBD) for C1E86 (Channel 1, Episode 86): our 2024 contribution to Masters of VGM – featuring the soundtrack to Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, and C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18): a thus far untitled focus on music from unreleased games - 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! Cheers!
And here on this ***1st day of April*** join Nerd Noise Radio as we help everyone to become better multitaskers....on a program we're calling "Parallels"!
I created accounts on #bluesky today! If you're over there and want to gimme a follow, they are:
Personal acct: @ stjohndsm.bsky.social
VGM Podcast acct: @ nerdnoiseradio.bsky.social
Neurodivergence vlog acct: @ oddie-hd.bsky.social
Hope to see you there!!!
It's really, REALLY hard to narrow 466 great tracks down to just 50 - to summarize a year that has been one of the most profound and transformative of my adult life.....but as usual, at the 11th hour, I somehow managed!
Come hear St. John's top 50 from 2023 on C1R6A (Channel 1 - Retrospective 6A): "The Best of 2023 - part 1: St John's Pics!" - featuring 2.5hrs of completely uninterrupted music!
Nerd Noise Radio - [Ch 1] ”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1R6a: The Best of 2023 – part 1 : St. John’s Picks”
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 Best of 2023 – pt. 1: St John's picks". Be on the lookout for a second retrospective from Hugues! Tracklist! Track Number / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally From [Episode] / Originally Selected By / Timestamp A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 A2) Intro - 00:00:30 01) Inside the Wall - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:08:52 02) Space Walk - Lightening Force - Genesis - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai - C1E71 - St. John - 00:12:05 03) Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Stsumaru - C1E77 - St. John - 00:15:02 04) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors - Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro - C1E76 - St. John - 00:19:05 05) Swampy’s Course 1 - Where’s my Water - iOS / Android - Unknown - C1E76 - St. John - 00:21:41 06) Velocity Regression - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:23:51 07) Woody Land 1 & 2 - Mr. Nutz - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C2E15 - St. John - 00:26:12 08) Trouble Town Tunnels - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - C1E76 - St. John - 00:30:10 09) Busy Flare - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1E71 - St. John - 00:32:18 10) JaHamitUp - N/A (Original Chiptune - N/A (Genesis[sound hardware]) - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 00:34:55 11) Suitcase - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:35:57 12) Industrious - Jazz Jackrabbit - Amiga - Robert A. Allen and/or Joshua Jensen - C2E15 - St. John - 00:38:03 13) Coach’s Menu - NCAA Basketball - SNES - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, and/or Mark Ganus - C1E71 - St. John - 00:41:52 14) Tengu Man - Rockman and Forte - Super Famicom - Kirikiri-chan, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida - C1E71 - St. John - 00:43:38 15) Write Theme 2 - Drawful 2 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1E76 - St. John - 00:45:19 16) Main Menu - Pebble Beach Golf Links - 3DO - Yumi Kinoshita - C1E72 - St. John - 00:48:23 17) Secret of the Forest - N/A (originally from Chrono Trigger) - N/A (originally on SNES) - c: Yasunori Mitsuda / a: Guido (The Brink of Time: Chrono Trigger Arranged) - C1E80 - Hugues - 00:51:00 18) Airport Counter - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Switch - Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi - C2E14 - St. John - 00:56:57 19) Uwazumosurikae - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:59:48 20) Alone in the Town - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka - C2E12 - St. John - 01:02:27 21) Bando alle Seghe - N/A (originally from Human Race) - N/A (originally on C64) - c: Rob Hubbard / a: DHS (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 01:04:40 22) Aqua Cavern - Andarnov - Unreleased (or Unknown) - rayjkayj - Ch F: Composer mini-focus: rayjkayj - rayjkayj - 01:10:09 23) Valor - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:12:14 24) Jurassic Dope - Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - C1E78 - St. John - 01:15:38 25) Firestarter (Instrumental) WipEout XL - PS1 - The Prodigy - C1E77 - St. John - 01:18:42 26) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - C1E72 - St. John - 01:23:20 27) Zen Stories - Zenses Ocean - DS - Martin Schjoler - C1E76 - St. John - 01:27:39 28) Dragon Head Island - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:29:51 29) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Gustav Landerholm - C2E11 - St. John - 01:33:08 30) Heleosphere (Menu Music) - N/A (System Music) - A500 Mini - Chris Smith - C1E76 - St. John - 01:37:09 31) Construct Factory 4 - Loz: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch - Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - C1E78 - St. John - 01:40:50 32) World G - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E78 - St. John - 01:42:42 33) Waiting… - N/A (“Time and Place” Album) - N/A (Non-VGM [ALBUM]) - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - Ch F: “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - 01:46:39 34) Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - C1E72 - St. John - 01:47:59 35) Baby Download - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 01:51:13 36) Defeat - Galaxy Force II - Arcade - Katsuhiro Hayashi and/or Koichi Namiki - C1E71 - St. John - 01:54:32 37) Thin Holidays - Rage in Peace - PC / Switch - Peonies - C1E76 - St. John - 01:57:17 38) World C - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler - C1E77 - St. John - 01:59:58 39) Binary Sunset - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 02:02:18 40) Quiet - EDGE - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - C1E78 - St. John - 02:04:18 41) Continue - TMNT: Tournament Fighters - Genesis - Miki Higashino - C1E77 - St. John - 02:06:48 42) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) Super Bomberman 3 - SNES - c: Jun Chikuma / a: Keita Hoshi - C1E75 - St. John - 02:08:37 43) Titan - Hyper Light Drifter - Multiplatform - disasterpeace - C1E78 - St. John - 02:14:26 44) The Hunter’s Repose - Moryou Senki Madara 2 - Super Famicom - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E71 - St. John - 02:16:49 45) Beautiful Lie Requiem - N/A (originally from Dangonranpa) - N/A (originally on PSP) - c: Masafumi Takeda / a: Masafumi Takeda (Danganronpa Decadence REMIX) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:19:02 46) The Magical Box - World of Illusion - Genesis - Haruyo Oguro and/or Tomoko Sasaki - C2E15 - St. John - 02:25:11 47) Jookbi - N/A (Original Chiptune) - N/A (Masterststem PSG=FM [sound hardware]) - rayjkayj - C1E73 - rayjkayj - 02:26:45 48) Continue - Shadow Blasters - Genesis - Kim Songdong - C1E79 - “Kitty” - 02:29:34 49) Goodnight Moon - N/A (originally from Duck Tales) - N/A (originally on NES) - c: Hiroshige Tonomura / a: E-Bison (OC Remix) - C1E80 - Hugues - 02:31:06 50) Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform - C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld) - C2E13 - St. John - 02:32:50 B1) Outro: 02:40:41 Music Block Runtime: 02:32:00 / Total Episode Runtime: 03:00:00 - EXACT! Our customary Channel 1 intro and outro music, which did not appear today is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio, on the Sega Dreamcast - composed by BB Rights. Our special year-in-review intro and outro music are, respectively, Results Theme from Metroid Prime on the GameCube, composed by Kenji Yamamoto, and Results Parade, from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka. Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Linux (either Fedora Linux (Gnome), Nobara (Gnome), SteamOS 3 (KDE), Manjaro (MATE), Ubuntu DDE, Ultramarine (Pantheon), Ubuntu Unity, Sparky Linux (NsCDE), or on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Fedora on Laptop and/or Nobara on Big Rig being the most likely and most common). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and ot…
Apparently this was a year ago today - back when I still thought I was a 100% white neurotypical gentile......wrong on all counts!...2023 has been SOOOOOO illuminating for me, lemme tell ya!!!......
.....how's about that beard, tho?! 😂🍻