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  • [RE-RUN] C2E16: "Songs with Words" (orig rel. 03/07/2024)

    [RE-RUN] C2E16: "Songs with Words" (orig rel. 03/07/2024)
    Jan 28 2026
    2026 Show Notes Addendum: Our last [for now] Ch 2 rerun (our last Ch 2 rerun specifically shared with incoming NintenDomain listeners in mind in the wake of the recent Ch F "Channel Trey" one-off) This was the first episode of the last season of Ch 2 - the one where we announced to the listeners that Ch 2 would be shutting down, as well as the episode where I revealed my then very recently discovered African and Jewish ancestry. This episode also has the distinction of being my personal favorite episode in Ch 2 history with perhaps the lone exception of the 5 1/2hr long "C2F: 'Finally our Final Finale'" series retrospective. You can also hear our very last non-retrospective Ch 2, C2E20: "....all good things...." if you look back to the NNR Dec 2025 podcast feed. And with that.....NintenDomain fans now have had a great look at the seeds to what went on to make "Channel Trey", while long-time NNR fans get a look back on a handful of really great moments in Ch 2 (and "quasi-channel 2") history. Enjoy this last [for now] installment! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Original 2024 Show Notes------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 / Selected by 01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:08 c) Introduction - 00:04:12 d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:39 e) Discussion - 00:14:56 02) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John a) Music - 00:18:28 b) Discussion - 00:24:03 03) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues a) Music - 00:28:34 b) Discussion - 00:34:30 04) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (music) and David R. Leytze (lyrics) - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi - St. John a) Music - 00:40:45 b) Discussion - 00:45:33 05) Instructor Mooselini's Rap - PaRappa the Rapper - PS1 - Izumi Amano and/or Ryu Watanabe - John Simpson III and Saundra Williams - Hugues a) Music - 00:50:35 b) Discussion - 00:52:43 06) My Intellivision - Intellivision Lives - Multiplatform - Tom Kahelin and/or Michael Schwartz - Michael Schwartz (?) - St. John a) Music - 00:56:50 b) Discussion - 01:01:33 07) Sea of Love - It Came from the Desert - TG16 - Kenneth Melville - Terence Kirby - Hugues a) Music - 01:05:28 b) Discussion - 01:07:51 08) Volver a Comenzar - Little Big Planet - PS3 - Cafe Tabvca - Cafe Tabvca - St. John [NOTE: I failed to sync this track up to the vocal portion where we do the "this part right here" thing. My apologies! - St. John] a) Music - 01:14:01 b) Discussion - 01:22:18 09) A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy PS2 - Asuka Sakai - Ado Mizumori - Hugues [NOTE: Same as the above track - missed the "this part right here" thing. - St. John] a) Music - 01:25:23 b) Discussion - 01:30:01 10) Sonic Boom (Ending Version) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, Mark Young, and/or Pastiche - Pastiche - St. John a) Music - 01:33:16 b) Discussion - 01:37:02 11) Sora wo Miagete (Ending Version) - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PSP - c: Takahiro Unisuga / a: Yukihiro Jindo - Kanako Kotera - Hugues a) Music - 01:41:18 b) Discussion - 01:47:26 12) Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John [NOTE: This time I caught the "this moment right here" thing. Hooray! - St. John] a) Music - 01:51:04 b) Discussion - 01:55:38 13) Everything's Alright - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - Laura Shigihara - Hugues a) Music - 02:01:12 b) Discussion - 02:04:46 c) End of Show Business - 02:14:40 d) Oddie HD Updates - 02:19:42 e) MOAR End of Show Business - 02:20:37 f) *****OUR BIG CH 2 ANNOUNCEMENT***** - 02:22:36 g) EVEN MORE End of Show Banter - 02:26:12 h) Closing Track Discussion - 02:30:35 i) Sign-Off - 02:32:12 14) Still Alive - Portal - Multiplatform - Jonathan Coulton - Ellen McClain (as GLaDOS) - St. John a) Music - 02:32:42 b) Outtakes - 02:35:35 c) [Audio-Only] The Debut YouTube Video of Oddie HD (the complete, unabridged audio) - 02:43:51 Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:34 Retro Game Club can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680 You can also follow...
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    2 hrs and 55 mins
  • [RE-RUN] C2E1: "Songs of the Pandemic" - the first "official" ep of Ch 2 (orig rel. 09/17/2020)

    [RE-RUN] C2E1: "Songs of the Pandemic" - the first "official" ep of Ch 2 (orig rel. 09/17/2020)
    Jan 21 2026
    2026 Show Notes Adendum: This was the very first "official episode" of Ch 2 - approx 9 months after Hugues and I's "fun one-off", which at the time had no strings attached! PRODUCTION CAVEATS: Just like the 2019 one-off, this was recorded using an M-Audio MobilePre XLR-to-USB audio interface and AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic, and was recorded down in a very echoey basement room. Also, I hadn't [yet] started editing out the "ums" yet. However, unlike the 2019 one-off, I had moved onto Linux by this point, so it was produced in a mix of Audacity and Ardour, rather than in GarageBand and was produced on a 2017 Dell Latitude 7480 laptop (docked to an external monitor, KBM, and sound system) rather than on a 2014 Mac Mini. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Original 2020 Show Notes------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s the Dawning of a new Era! You are Tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 2! Today’s inaugural installment is C2E1, for Theme Thursday, Sept 17th, 2020. Today’s theme is “Songs of the Pandemic”. Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Selected By – Timestamp 01: The Runaway (City on the Horizon – Instrumental) - 198X – Multi – Daniel Rosenqvist and/or Anton Dromberg (UFD?) - St. John a: Music / Intro: 00:00:00 b: Conversation: 00:03:47 02: Overdrive – Saturday Morning RPG – Multi – Vince DiCola and/or Kenny Merideth - Hugues a: Music: 00:11:05 b: Conversation: 00:13:19 03: Unholy Impact – Mother Russia Bleeds – Multi – Fixions – St. John a: Music: 00:19:10 b: Conversation: 00:24:28 04: The Abyss – Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PC / PSP – Hayoto Sonoda - Hugues a: Music: 00:27:28 b: Conversation: 00:30:04 05: They’re Back – Streets of Rage 4 – Multi – Yuzo Koshiro – St. John a: Music: 00:35:17 b: Conversation: 00:38:24 06: Power or Technique – Trails of Cold Steel III – PC / PS4 / Switch – Hayato Sonoda - Hugues a: Music: 00:42:17 b: Conversation: 00:45:27 07: Friend Select – Air Zonk – Turbografx16 – Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita – St. John a: Music: 00:48:43 b: Conversation: 00:49:44 08: Bar – Dungeon Explorer – Turborafx16 – Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues a: Music: 00:53:18 b: Conversation: 00:54:59 09: Demons Undulate – Alien Crush – Turbografx16 – St. John a: Music: 00:58:35 b: Conversation: 01:01:00 10: Mako Reactor – Final Fantasy VII Remake – PS4 – c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Masashi Hamauzu - Hugues a: Music: 01:06:59 b: Conversation: 01:10:29 11: Behind the Cosmic Curtain – Samarost 3 – iOS / Android – Floex – St. John a: Music: 01:19:32 b: Conversation: 01:22:09 12: Beneath the Mask (Rain – Instrumental) - Persona 5 – PS3 / PS4 - Shōji Meguro - Hugues a: Music: 01:26:20 b: Conversation: 01:29:59 13: 10pm – Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi – St. John a: Music: 01:32:40 b: Conversation: 01:35:03 14: Results (Golf) - Wii Sports – Wii – Kazumi Totaka - Hugues a: Music: 01:45:29 b: Conversation: N/A (Included in previous conversation) 15: Blooper: 01:48:21 Total Episode Runtime: 01:48:55 LINKS: retrogameclub.net https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2 nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173 Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/ This is our LAST CALL for track submissions for December’s Channel 1 “Best of 2019 – listener picks!” Here is the list of eligible tracks! https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified Please get us tracks as soon as possible. Deadline is 09/30/2020! On Archive dot org, there is a Super Bonus – music only! All the music from this episode, without any of the talking. This will be something we do with every Channel 2 episode moving forward! We also went back in time and created a parallel Super Bonus from last December’s “Episode Zero”: “Nerd Noise Game Club”. So, go check those out! Lastly, make sure you catch the blog post, as it contains a lot of additional notes about Channel 2! Here’s the Link: https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/09/nerd-noise-radio-channel-2-episode-1.html Thanks for listening! Join us again in December for C2E2: Holiday / Wintry Theme [Episode Title TBD]
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • [RERUN] "Nerd Noise Game Club" - the one-off which later became "Channel 2" (orig. 12/19/2019)

    [RERUN] "Nerd Noise Game Club" - the one-off which later became "Channel 2" (orig. 12/19/2019)
    Jan 16 2026
    2026 Show Notes Addendum: If you're a NintenDomain listener who is new to NNR from Trey and I's "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel Trey" one-off simulcast collaboration, then this rerun should be uniquely interesting to you! So, "Channel Trey" was a one-off between Trey and I, in the style of an episode of the now-defunct "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2" which I used to do with Hugues Johnson of Retro Game Club (so, another "so and so Johnson" out of Chicago), only with Trey at the mic instead of Hugues. It was in the exact style and format of Channel 2. Well, funnily enough, what went on to become Channel 2 also began life as a similar fun one-off between Hugues and I all the way back in December 2019. And here is that 2019 one-off. Hugues and I's 6yr earlier parallel to Trey and I's recent outing. This was before I knew I was AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD), and before I knew I possessed African and Jewish ancestry. It was also before I started editing out the "ums". But it's remarkable to me how "different yet the same" it feels to our official Ch 2 episodes which came later, or "Channel Trey" which rose from the ashes of the now-defunct Ch 2. PRODUCTION CAVEATS: At this point, I had not switched from Mac to Linux, so I was using Garageband in MacOS on a late 2014 Mac Mini. Also, I had not yet upgraded to the Focusrite 4i4 (3rd Gen) XLR-to-USB interface, still using the lesser M-Audio MobilePre, and had not yet upgraded to the RODE Podmic dynamic microphone, let alone my current Shure SM7B, but was still using my original AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic, and lastly, was recording in a very very echoey room with no noise cancellation. But apart from inferior hardware, software, and production techniques, and apart from this being my very first time ever doing something even remotely like this, the seeds of all NNR Channel 2 episodes, as well as the seeds of "Channel Trey" are all very much present here! This is where it all started: Channel 2, Channel Trey.....all of it! My intent for this month is to also rerun not only our very first official Ch 2 episode from Sept 2020, but also C1E16: "Songs with Words", the first episode of the last season, and what in my personal opinion is the very best Ch 2 episode of all, perhaps save for C2F, our "series finale". Also, if you look back to December 2025 on the NNR podcast feed, you can also catch C2E20: "...all good things...", our final non-retrospective episode of Ch 2. So, if your first experience with Nerd Noise Radio was "Channel Trey", then you'll get to hear a lot of the context behind that episode! In any case, enjoy the rogue one-off that became an entirely new Nerd Noise Radio program, which would ultimately culminate in yet another rogue one-off with Trey Johnson of NintenDomain!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Original show notes---------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. John of "Nerd Noise Radio" and Hugues Johnson of "Retro Game Club" (and "The Retro League" alum) join forces to cover and discuss some of their favorite pieces of VGM from the 2010's. It's about what you'd expect if you put Retro Game Club / The Retro League, Nerd Noise Radio, Legacy Music Hour, and an entire decade of VGM in a blender....ooh, or maybe the hadron collider! For the time-being, this is just a one-time "one-off" special, but if there is enough demand from either, or especially both of our respective listener pools, then we're open to making this an ongoing (albeit occasional, and likely irregular) thing. "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2", maybe? ;-) Anyway, the power is yours, listeners! Make your voices heard! In the meanwhile? Enjoy! Game - System - Track - Composer - Year - Selected By - Timestamp - Earcatcher: 00:00:00 - Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues Music: 00:00:03 Intro / Discussion: 00:00:39 - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John Music: 00:04:25 Discussion: 00:08:07 - Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues Music: 00:12:45 Discussion: 00:16:07 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John Music: 00:19:32 Discussion: 00:22:06 - Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues Music: 00:26:35 Discussion: 00:28:57 - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John Music: 00:32:17 Discussion: 00:34:41 - L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues Music: 00:39:17 Discussion: 00:43:49 - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John Music: 00:46:40 Discussion: 00:...
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    2 hrs and 47 mins
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