The VGM Appreciation Hour – Details, episodes & analysis

With guest Marcy Neighbors.

Notes and links:

• You Will Know Our Names - XBC OST
• Yoko Shimomura
• Ace+: Ace plus Kenji Hiramatsu
• Yasunori Mitsuda
• Manami Kiyota
• Nobuo Uematsu
• Masayoshi Soken
• Kenji Yamamoto
• Yasunori Mitsuda's gorgeous studio
• Engage the Enemy - XBC OST (aka Meet Bad Guys)
• Royal Road Chord Progression:
  • Common Chord Progressions In Anime - ANIMYZE
  • Does all Anime Music Use These Chord Changes? - Charles Cornell
• Never Gonna Give you Up - Rick Astley
• Buoy Base Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy OST
• Lost Woods (aka Saria's Song) - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST
• Roman numeral analysis
• Robo's Theme - Chrono Trigger OST
• Mechanical Rhythm - XBC OST
• Chain Attacks - XBC game mechanic
• Time to Fight - XBC OST
• Rage Awakened - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep OST
• Koji Kondo
• Bob-Omb Battlefield - Super Mario 64
• Chain Attack Theme - XBC 3 OST
• Unfinished Business - XBC OST
• Satorl Marsh (Night) - XBC OST
• Destroyed Skyworld - Super Smash Bros (Wii U and 3DS) OST
• Emi Evans
• Satorl Marsh - XBC OST
• Jónsi and Sigur Rós
• Bill Evans
• Mechonis Field - X OST
• Romplers
• Deus Ex
  • GMDX: Augmented Edition Mod
  • Swimming
• Blossom Dance

We discuss the soundtrack of Final Fantasy IV, a game near and dear to our hearts.

Tracks covered:

• Prologue - Podcast intro
• The Prelude
• The Red Wings
• Theme of Love
• Edward's Harp
• The Lunarians
• Another Moon
• Within the Giant
• The Final Battle
• Kingdom of Baron
• The Sound of the End - From Nier Automata
• Ending Theme - No official upload by Square Enix, sadly
• Theme of Love arrangement with lyrics - Mistaken to be ending theme in podcast
• Inn - Podcast outro