Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast

We are back again, and this time we're returning to a classic show theme for another Part 2, this one focusing on the Five-Finger Fanfare (a term coined by the Super Marcato Bros. on their excellent and seminal VGM podcast). This is a term used to describe a run of 5 notes that line up with the first 5 notes of the minor scale - a technique used frequently in video game music. Will you be able to hear the Five-Finger Fanfares in each piece of Very Good Music the hosts brought to this episode? Only one way to find out!

As always, we appreciate our amazing patrons who supported us for so long, as well as the artists who made our show art and theme song. You can reach out to us one of these ways:

E-mail: [email protected]

Voicemail: Anchor.com/vgmvgm

And you can find our other content in these places:

Shootkapow's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCheYf62G3VoUQHNdwl18TdA

Shootkapow on Flat: https://flat.io/@boothkb0607

Very Good Music is proudly affiliated with RPGEra.com (https://rpgera.com/)! Check them out for lots of great content, including articles, videos, and podcasts covering a variety of pop culture topics!

Tracklist:

Migratory Birds - Wild Arms 3 - Michiko Naruke - PlayStation 2, 2002 - Media.Vision/Ubisoft/Sony

Hong Meiling's Theme (Stage 3 Boss) - Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - ZUN - Windows, 2002 - Team Shanghai Alice

Darkness Falls - Deltarune - Toby Fox - Multiplatform, 2018 - Toby Fox/8-4

In the Court of the Ant Queen - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling - Tristan Alric - Multiplatform, 2019 - Moonsprout Games/DANGEN Entertainment

Level 8 - Tetris CD-i - Jim Andron - Philips CD-i, 1992 - Philips Interactive Media

Erdrick's Theme - Dragon Quest XI - Koichi Sugiyama - Multiplatform, 2017 - Square Enix

Crossing the Sands - Kirby and the Rainbow Curse - Shogo Sakai - Wii U, 2015 - HAL Laboratory/Nintendo

Barren Valley - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda - Nintendo DS, 2009 - Nintendo/The Pokemon Company

Tango Rouge - CHUNITHM: Seelisch Tact - Yoko Shimomura - Arcade, 2015 - Sega

Aetheral Gates (Omega Version) - Rivals of Aether - flashygoodness - Multiplatform, 2015 - Dan Fornace/Aether Studios

Artist Links:

Naomi Rubin - patreon.com/naomirubin | comics at moonsproutstation.com

Carlos Leon Roman - Instagram.com/kf_carlito

Ben "The Diad" Dishman - @TheDiad

Skeletroy - patreon.com/skeletroy

Greetings, game music lovers. It's been a while, hasn't it? Shootkapow and I decided to dust off the old podcast for y'all after she encountered a game area in Celeste that she thought would make a great episode topic. I guess she was just feeling homesick and nostalgic, and dear old Dad was there to fire up the VGM-Mobile and get back on the road - for at least one more round of Very Good Music!

Thanks again to our listeners and supporters who recommended tracks for this episodes!

As always, we appreciate our amazing patrons who supported us for so long, as well as the artists who made our show art and theme song. You can reach out to us one of these ways:

E-mail: [email protected]

Voicemail: Anchor.com/vgmvgm

And you can find our other content in these places:

Shootkapow's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCheYf62G3VoUQHNdwl18TdA

Shootkapow on Flat: https://flat.io/@boothkb0607

Very Good Music is proudly affiliated with RPGEra.com (https://rpgera.com/)! Check them out for lots of great content, including articles, videos, and podcasts covering a variety of pop culture topics!

Tracklist:

Joy of Remembrance - Celeste: Farewell - Lena Raine - Multiplatform, 2018 - Maddy Makes Games

Last Battle - Cave Story - Daisuke Amaya - Multiplatform, 2004 - Studio Pixel

Megalovania - Undertale - Toby Fox - Multiplatform, 2015 - Toby Fox

Attack of the WEAPON - Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu - PlayStation, 1997 - Square

Fight Against Culex - Super Mario RPG - Yoko Shimoura - Nintendo Switch, 2023 - Nintendo

Emil/Despair - NeiR: Automata - Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi, Kuniyuki Takahashi - Multiplatform, 2817 - Square Enix

Titan Dweevil Battle - Pikmin 2 - Hajime Wakai & Kazumi Totaka - GameCube, 2004 - Nintendo

Morgan Freeman Boss Battle - South Park: The Fractured But Whole - Jamie Dunlap - Multiplatform, 2017 - Ubisoft

Delightful Spekkio - Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda - SNES, 1995 - Square

Slot Machine - Star Fox - Hajime Hirasawa - SNES, 1993 - Nintendo

Champion & Red Battle Music - Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver - Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sato, Jnichi Masuda, and Takuto Kitsuta - Nintendo DS, 2009 - The Pokemon Company

Valkyries - God of War - Bear McCreary - PS4/Windows, 2018 - Sony Interactive Entertainment

BIG SHOT - Deltarune Chapter 2 - Toby Fox - Multiplatform, 2021 - Toby Fox

The Incarnation of Devil - Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Motoi Sakuraba - PS2, 2003 - Square Enix

Artist Links:

Naomi Rubin - patreon.com/naomirubin | comics at moonsproutstation.com

Carlos Leon Roman - Instagram.com/kf_carlito

Ben "The Diad" Dishman - @TheDiad

Skeletroy - patreon.com/skeletroy

Episode 76: Credit Where It's Due

This is it, gamers. The last regular episode of VGMVGM. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you had as much fun on this road trip as we did.

Thanks to everyone who shared their tracks with us as well. A very special tanks to Dusk and ProfJeff, our most frequent cohosts, and to the rest of our family: Lemon Boy, Flare, Luna, and Mrs. Bedroth.

Now, let's get into one last batch of Very Good Music!

As always, we appreciate our amazing patrons who supported us for so long, as well as the artists who made our show art and theme song. Even though the show is ending, you can continue to reach out to us one of these ways:

Discord: https://discord.gg/gfypDsuqFs

Twitter: @VGMpod and @Shootkapow

E-mail: [email protected]

Voicemail: Anchor.com/vgmvgm

And you can find our other content in these places:

Shootkapow's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCheYf62G3VoUQHNdwl18TdA

Shootkapow on Flat: https://flat.io/@boothkb0607

The Movie Bar: https://anchor.fm/moviebar

BGMania: https://anchor.fm/bgmania

Very Good Music is proudly affiliated with RPGEra.com (https://rpgera.com/)! Check them out for lots of great content, including articles, videos, and podcasts covering a variety of pop culture topics!

Tracklist:

Credit Roll - Mega Man 3 - Yasuaki "BunBun" Fujita or Harumi Fujita

Staff Roll - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - Masanori Hikichi, Masayuki Nagao

Credits - Banjo-Kazooie - Grant Kirkhope

Ending Roll - Spark: the Electric Jester - Falk Au Yeong, Andy Tunstall, James Landino, Michael Staple, Paul Bethers, Pejman Roozbeh, and Funk Fiction

Staff Roll/The Yoshis Are Home/Cast List - Super Mario World - Koji Kondo

To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda

Smiles and Tears - Mother 2: Earthbound - Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka

Staff Roll - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Koji Kondo

Last Goodbye - Undertale - Toby Fox

Staff Credits - Metroid: Samus Returns - Ryoji Yoshitomi, arr(?) Daisuke Matsuoka

Ending Theme - Pokemon: Emerald Version - Junichi Masuda (also Go Ichinose, Morikazu Aoki, and Hitomi Sato)

Staff Credits - Star Fox 64 - Koji Kondo (also Hajime Wakai)

Dream a New Dream for Tomorrow - Kirby's Dream Collection - Jun Ishikawa, arr. HAL Laboratory Sound Staff

Daisy/Staff Roll - Super Mario Land - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka

Ending Demo/Staff Roll - Super Mario 64 - Koji Kondo

Special thanks to our Patrons:

Alex Messenger, host of A VGM Journey

The Last Rican, host of VGM Fight Club and Senpai's Playlist

Skeletroy, creator of SNES Thrash Remixes on YouTube

Ryan Steel, composer of Catlandia: Crisis at Fort PawPrint

"Kung Fu" Carlito, host of Heroes Three: Adventures in Asian Cinema

Forrest Shamlian, creator of Castle Corp and Bomb Show on YouTube

SprintCade

The Mysterious Nathan

Artist Links:

Naomi Rubin - patreon.com/naomirubin | comics at moonsproutstation.com

Carlos Leon Roman - Instagram.com/kf_carlito

Ben "The Diad" Dishman - @TheDiad

Skeletroy - patreon.com/skeletroy

Greetings, game music lovers. Welcome to the penultimate episode of Very Good Music. We've beaten the big bad boss, and now it's time for a cutscene, epilogue, or some other small detour before the credits roll. We're not always sure where this last step of our journey will take us, but we know we'll be accompanied by some Very Good Music!

Thanks again to our listeners and supporters who recommended tracks for this episode on Discord and Twitter!

As always, we appreciate our amazing patrons who supported us for so long, as well as the artists who made our show art and theme song. You can reach out to us one of these ways:

Discord: https://discord.gg/gfypDsuqFs

Twitter: @VGMpod and @Shootkapow

E-mail: [email protected]

Voicemail: Anchor.com/vgmvgm

And you can find our other content in these places:

Shootkapow's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCheYf62G3VoUQHNdwl18TdA

Shootkapow on Flat: https://flat.io/@boothkb0607

The Movie Bar: https://anchor.fm/moviebar

Very Good Music is proudly affiliated with RPGEra.com (https://rpgera.com/)! Check them out for lots of great content, including articles, videos, and podcasts covering a variety of pop culture topics!

Tracklist:

Because I Love You - Earthbound - Hirokazu Ando - SNES, 1994 - Nintendo

Ending Theme (Hard Mode) - TMNT IV: Turtles in Time - Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko - SNES, 1992 - Konami

You're My Hero - Sonic 3d Blast - Jun Senoue - Sega Saturn, 1996 - Sega

The Wake of Destruction - Mega Man X2 - Yuki Iwai - SNES, 1995 - Capcom

Hall of Fame - Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver - Junichi Masuda, arr. Shota Kageyama - Nintendo DS, 2009 - Nintendo/Game Freak

Wingding (Outro) - The Messenger: picnic Panic - Rainbowdragoneyes - Multiplatform, 2019 - Devolver Digital/Sabotage Studio

Each to His Own World - Kirby's Return to Dream Land - Hirokazu Ando, Jun Ishikawa - Nintendo Wii, 2011 - Nintendo/HAL Laboratory

Daybreak (Ending Theme) - Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Takayuki Iwai - Multiplatform, 1998 - Capcom

Recommended by Lee Tyrell, writer, musician, podcaster (host of The Sound Test) and currently working on the Decent Land project. Find out more by visiting @decentdotland on Twitter.

Lee's Medium Page: https://medium.com/@leetyrrell

Ending (Olimar's Comeback) - Pikmin 3 Deluxe - Unknown Composer - Switch, 2020 - Nintendo

Goodbye Geno - Super Mario RPG - Yoko Shimomura - SNES, 1996 - Nintendo/Square

Blooper Reel: End Game (Sweet Little Dead Bunny) - Doom - Bobby Prince - MS-DOS, 1993 - id Software

Special thanks to our Patrons:

Alex Messenger, host of A VGM Journey

The Last Rican, host of VGM Fight Club and Senpai's Playlist

Skeletroy, creator of SNES Thrash Remixes on YouTube

Ryan Steel, composer of Catlandia: Crisis at Fort PawPrint

"Kung Fu" Carlito, host of Heroes Three: Adventures in Asian Cinema

Forrest Shamlian, creator of Castle Corp and Bomb Show on YouTube

SprintCade

The Mysterious Nathan

Artist Links:

Naomi Rubin - patreon.com/naomirubin | comics at moonsproutstation.com

Carlos Leon Roman - Instagram.com/kf_carlito

Ben "The Diad" Dishman - @TheDiad

Skeletroy - patreon.com/skeletroy

Greetings, game music lovers. Welcome to the second of our final four official episodes. We've made our way through the final level, and now it's time to face the big bad boss! We don't know exactly what we'll be facing - a giant turtle-dragon, an even genius with a penchant for roboticization, or a one-winged angel, but we know we're in for some Very Good Music!

Thanks again to our listeners and supporters who recommended tracks for this episode on Discord and Twitter!

As always, we appreciate our amazing patrons who supported us for so long, as well as the artists who made our show art and theme song. You can reach out to us one of these ways:

Discord: https://discord.gg/gfypDsuqFs

Twitter: @VGMpod and @Shootkapow

E-mail: [email protected]

Voicemail: Anchor.com/vgmvgm

And you can find our other content in these places:

Shootkapow's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCheYf62G3VoUQHNdwl18TdA

Shootkapow on Flat: https://flat.io/@boothkb0607

The Movie Bar: https://anchor.fm/moviebar

Very Good Music is proudly affiliated with RPGEra.com (https://rpgera.com/)! Check them out for lots of great content, including articles, videos, and podcasts covering a variety of pop culture topics!

Tracklist:

Play-In: Premonition - Final Fantasy VIII - Nobuo Uematsu - PlayStation, 1999 - Square (Bryan

I'm the Boss - Power Overwhelming - Big Bad Bosses (Remix by DJ Cutman) - Original Album, 2015 - Remix by GameChops, 2016

One Winged Angel - Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu - PlayStation, 1997 - Square

Hymn of Light - Child of Light - Cœur de pirate (Béatrice Martin) - Multiplatform, 2014 - Ubisoft

RE-VGM: https://re-vgm.blubrry.net/

Radiance - Hollow Knight - Christopher Larkin - Multiplatform, 2017 - Team Cherry

Todesengel (Angel of Death) - SaGa Frontier 2 - Masashi Hamauzu - PlayStation, 1999 - Square

VGMPorium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYBTQsYS8AmE3Tv-v35ySg

CROWNED - Kirby's Return to Dream Land - Hirokazu Ando & Jun Ishkawa - Wii, 2011 - Nintendo

The Unexpected Enemy - Panzer Dragoon II Zwei - Yayoi Wachi - Sega Saturn, 1996 - Sega

Transcending, Overpowering, Everlasting - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling - Tristan Alric - Multiplatform, 2019 - developed by Moonsprout Games, published by Dangen Entertainment

Final Boss (Are You the True Form of Darkness?) - Mystic Ark - Akihiko Mori - Super Famicom, 1995 - Enix

Twitter: @ReddMcKnight

Live and Learn - Sonic Adventure 2 - Composition and guitar by Jun Senoue, lyrics and vocals by Johnny Gioeli, performed by Crush 40) - Multiplatform, 2001 - Sega

Rebirth - Fantasian - Nobuo Uematsu - Mobile, 2021 - Mistwalker (Brandon Specktor)

Twitter: @BeardSpeck

Blooper Reel: Gank-Plank Galleon - Donkey Kong Country - David Wise - SNES, 1994 - Rare/Nintendo

Special thanks to our Patrons:

Alex Messenger, host of A VGM Journey

The Last Rican, host of VGM Fight Club and Senpai's Playlist

Skeletroy, creator of SNES Thrash Remixes on YouTube

Ryan Steel, composer of Catlandia: Crisis at Fort PawPrint

"Kung Fu" Carlito, host of Heroes Three: Adventures in Asian Cinema

Forrest Shamlian, creator of Castle Corp and Bomb Show on YouTube

SprintCade

The Mysterious Nathan

Artist Links:

Naomi Rubin - patreon.com/naomirubin | comics at moonsproutstation.com

Carlos Leon Roman - Instagram.com/kf_carlito

Ben "The Diad" Dishman - @TheDiad

Skeletroy - patreon.com/skeletroy