What if you celebrated Christmas in a 16-bit ice cavern? That's the mood this episode wants to create for you. In this end-of-year installment, I'm trying to get together the best of the less holly-jolly music from ice levels. Think crystal blue. Think sparkly. Think about there being nary a jingle bell in sight. And don't worry about sliding off a ledge and plummeting to your doom.

Listen to all the Singing Mountain winter music episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-winter-music

Track listing:
0:10 Bamboo Houses / Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian
2:32 Vanilla Dome / Koji Kondo / Super Mario World
3:58 Ice Caverns / David Wise / Battletoads
5:32 Winter Season / Tsuyoshi Tanaka / Harvest Moon 64
7:03 North Wall / Yuzo Koshiro / Actraiser
8:53 Ice Cave Chant / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country
10:55 In a Snowbound Land / David Wise / Donkey Kong Country 2
13:06 Frosty Frolics / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country 3
15:31 Ice Zone / Spencer Nilsen, Brian Coburn and András Magyari / Ecco the Dolphin for Genesis
18:42 Iceberg / Jun Ishikawa / Kirby’s Dreamland 3
21:19 Search a Seal / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura / Tales of Symphonia
24:00 The Mines of Narshe / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI
25:45 A Bell Is Tolling / Hiroki Kikuta / Secret of Mana
28:13 Wind Scene / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger
29:54 Sacred Grounds / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy IX
31:56 Snowman / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka / Earthbound
33:06 Phendrana Drifts / Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma / Metroid Prime
36:44 Snowpeak / Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
38:58 Freeze Man / Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama and Makoto Tomozawa / Mega Man VII
40:12 Absolute Chill / Shusaku Uchiyama / Mega Man 10
41:42 Frost Walrus / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man X4
43:55 Taboo Storyteller / Michiko Naruke / Wild Arms
44:53 Mount Sabre / Yoko Osaka / Crystalis
45:51 Crystal Palace Crawl / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda / Paper Mario
47:29 Ice Mountain Zone / Yuji Naka and Hiroshi Matsumoto / Sonic Advance
48:54 Ice Cap Zone / ????? / Sonic the Hedgehog 3
49:41 Diamond Dust Zone / Jun Senoue and Tatsuyuki Maeda / Sonic 3D Blast
51:00 Valak Mountain / ACE+ / Xenoblade Chronicles
54:23 Podul / Kenji Ito / Romancing Saga 3
56:38 Fluffy Snow, Here We Go! / Tomoya Tomita and Misaki Asada / Yoshi’s Wooly World
58:53 Sherbet’s Theme / Masaya Kuzume / Panel de Pon for Super Famicom
60:17Another Winter / Hiroki Kikuta / Seiken Densetsu 3

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Diamond Dust

No, we're not advocating for smoking weed in your dorm room or hiding it in your locker. Instead, we're talking about academic education surrounding cannabis. A 2017 survey published in Drug and Alcohol Dependance reached out to medical school deans, fellows and residents and found that there was a “fundamental mismatch between the state-level legalization of medical marijuana and the lack of preparation of physicians-in-training to prescribe it.” In addition to guiding future doctors on its use, what about the larger implications of widespread cannabis - like how do we teach about how it may affect the US’s economy?  This week Hayley speaks with Eugenio Castro Garza, co-founder of UCLA’s own Cannaclub, a student-run organization that aims to connect students with jobs in the legal cannabis industry while also addressing wider misconceptions surrounding the drug.

UCLA's Cannaclub: https://cannaclubatucla.org

Hayley's L.A. Taco story: https://www.lataco.com/cannabis-city-ucla-weed-course-aims-at-legitimacy

Drug and Alcohol Dependance survey: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28892720

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11. The Need for Weed in the Classroom

The first Singing Mountain of 2019 is also the first in a new series looking at the interactions between mainstream pop music and video game music. Though this episode focuses on Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, consider it an overview of the many ways VGM and pop can play off each other. I’m also stoked to say that in addition to the Jacksons, I got to mention Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Carly Simon, Biz Markie, Phil Collins, Sia and The Beatles, and I never thought I’d get to do all that in one episode of this show.  It’s super weird, and I couldn’t be happier to be deep-diving into all manner of pop culture obscurities.

Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain

Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/

View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/56-michael-jackson-janet-jackson-vgm

Track listing:
0:12: Title Theme / The Race Against Time / Written by Peter Gabriel, arranged by David Whittaker 
2:24: Games Without Frontiers / Peter Gabriel
6:12: Ice Cap Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer
7:15: Who Is It? / Michael Jackson
7:58: Smooth Criminal / Michael Jackson
10:41: Carnival Night Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer (but probably Brad Buxer)
10:58: Jam / Michael Jackson
11:13: Staff Role / Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Unknown composer 
11:46: Stranger in Moscow / Michael Jackson
12:38: Hard Times / The Jetzons
16:11: Ending Theme / Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker / Written by Michael Jackson, composed by Tohru Nakabayashi
20:03: Together Again / Janet Jackson
21:30: Bridge Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog / Yuzo Koshiro
25:29: Moonlight City Roa / Legend of Mana / Yoko Shimomura
26:50: China Love / Janet Jackson
31:30: Bayou Boogie / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise
32:34: In the Air Tonight / Phil Collins
35:51: Game Over / Lil’ Flip
40:04: Stage Two / Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker / Written by Michael Jackson, composed by Tohru Nakabayashi

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Michael and Janet in Video Game Land

In the last episode of the first season, professional cake-taster Nicole Byer presents the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It, which features great music, Oscar-worthy performances by Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, and a rather liberal take on factual events. But does historical accuracy matter much in the face of the majestic perfection that is Tina Turner? Nope. Special appearance by Glen Lakin, a.k.a. Roommate Glen. 

Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get a 15 percent discount on your purchases.

Nicole’s podcast: https://headgum.com/why-wont-you-date-me
Tony’s episode of Nicole’s podcast: https://headgum.com/why-wont-you-date-me/47-ice-cold-kiss-with-tony-rodriguez
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17: Nicole Byer Loves What’s Love Got To Do With It

In 1994, David Wise became a video game hero as a result of his soundtrack to Donkey Kong Country, but he’d actually been composing music for video games for nearly a decade. This episode looks at his NES work leading up to DKC and pointing out where and when his genius for mood-setting, ambiance-encompassing first blossomed. By virtue of showcasing the best of early David Wise, this episode features some of the best music composed for the NES.

That Eurogamer interview with David Wise: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-05-from-slalom-to-snake-pass-the-musical-life-of-david-wise

The first ice level episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/diamond-dust-ice-music
The Donkey Kong Country 3 episode:  https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/2018/5/11/24-dixie-kongs-double-soundtracks
The Game Boy Donkey Kong episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/34-big-ape-mountain 

Track listing: 
0:06 Fear Factory / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise
3:17: Life in the Mines / Donkey Kong Country / David Wise
6:00: Downhill Theme / Slalom / David Wise
10:19: Fire Cavern / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise
12:13: Inner Castle / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise
14:16: Princess Rescued / Wizards & Warriors / David Wise
15:39: Title Theme / R.C. Pro-Am / David Wise
18:14: Half-Pipe / California Games / David Wise
19:45: Foot Bag / California Games / David Wise
20:39: Flying Disc / California Games / David Wise
22:44: Continue Theme / Who Framed Roger Rabbit / David Wise
25:04: Title Theme / Wheel of Fortune / David Wise
25:30: Title Theme / Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition / David Wise
29:08: Title Theme / Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II / David Wise
32:52: Cave Theme 4 / Digger T. Rock / David Wise
35:41: Cave Theme 2 / Digger T. Rock / David Wise
40:16: Elm Street / A Nightmare on Elm Street / David Wise
43:24: Castle Harman / Time Lord / David Wise
45:33: Ending Theme / Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship / David Wise
49:51: Surf City / Battletoads / David Wise
52:06: Ragnarok Canyon / Battletoads / David Wise
54:23: The Armageddon / Battletoads / David Wise
57:15: Stage House / Beetlejuice / David Wise
60:27: Prologue / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise
60:54: Stage 3 / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise
63:00: Stage 5 / Battletoads & Double Dragon / David Wise
66:13: OST 1 / Monster Max / David Wise
68:02: Approaching Planet / Monster Max / David Wise
71:23: Mining Melancholy / Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest / David Wise

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David Wise Before Donkey Kong Country

The second installment of the VGM+pop music series looks at Eternal Champions, a 1993 entry in the canon of fighting games that was created by an all-American team of Sega employees. Eternal Champions has its own merits, but this episode is concerned solely with two tracks from this game — both composed by Andy Armer and both of which seem to have been sampled in the 1995 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album E. Eternal 1999. Neither Armer’s work nor Sega’s ownership of the source tracks seems to be documented anywhere official, and I do my best to try and find out why.

Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain

Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/

Gamelan music sample by the court musicians of the Royal Palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, via freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/255544/

View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/59-eternal-champions-bone-thugs

Track listing:
0:06: Blade’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 
2:12: Rax’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 
4:06: Shadow’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 
5:28: Title Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer  
9:46: Character Bio Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 
11:54: Eternal / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
13:27: Bad Ending Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 
15:24: Crossroad / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
17:50: Menu Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer
23:33: Rise / Herb Alpert
24:48: Hypnotize / The Notorious B.I.G.
25:23: Battle Room Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 
28:27: Jetta’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 
32:21: Title Theme / Ecco: The Tides of Time / Andy Armer
35:50: Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta
37:55: Xavier’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 
40:00: Elec Man Theme / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae

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Throughout the Universe, in Eternity

Welcome to season two! We’re kicking off this new run of Monday Afternoon Movie with The Spell, a 1977 made-for-TV marvel that really wants to outdo Carrie and probably doesn’t but stars Lee Grant and that is enough! Sam is joined by Frankie Frascatore, a font of pop culture knowledge, to talk ploth oles, magic powers, and this film’s very particular brand of 1970s clutter set dressing. Come for the TV-censor approved horror. Stay for confusion about what banana cake is. 

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THE SPELL with Frankie Frascatore

The 16-bit era of Squaresoft RPGs helped teach a generation of gamers what this style of game could be. But as celebrated as titles like Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger were, their fans outside Japan missed out on a slew of others. This episode is a musical sampler of the titles that came out for the Super Famicom but not the Super NES: Romancing SaGa, Bahamut Lagoon, Front Mission, Treasure of the Rudras, Treasure Hunter G, Alcahest and Live a Live.

Track listing:
0:11: Tension / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Nobuo Uematsu
2:28: Menu / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
4:47: Voyage / Romancing SaGa 2 / Kenji Ito
7:19: Destined Fate / Romancing SaGa / Kenji Ito
10:21: Bard’s Tale / Romancing SaGa / Kenji Ito
12:15: Julian’s Theme / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito
14:24: Harid’s Theme / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito 
16:46: Magical Tank Battle / Romancing SaGa 3 / Kenji Ito 
20:39: Overworld / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest 
22:04: Cave / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest 
24:16: Dungeon / Jun Ishikawa / Alcahest
27:45: Knock You Down / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 
29:54: Native Life / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 
31:28: Sancho de los Panchos / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 
32:57: A Painful Death at the Hands of a Psycho / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 
34:15: Pure Odio / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 
37:05: Coaxial Town / Front Mission / Yoko Shimomura
38:41: Shop / Front Mission / Noriko Matsueda
40:15: Richard Millman / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Nobuo Uematsu
42:19: Approach to a Shrine / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Masashi Hamauzu
43:50: Trial Zone / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Yasunori Mitsuda
48:57: Yoyo (Jojo) / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
50:54: Kahna / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
52:26: Sub Battle / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
54:02: Requiem / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
56:10: Yoyo and the Dragons / Bahamut Lagoon / Noriko Matsueda
59:17: Beginning for the End / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai 
61:48: Between Two Worlds (Night)  / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai
64:02: Crime of the Heart / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai
67:11: Take the Gold and Run (Night) / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai
68:43: Underworld / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai
69:51: Whistle Down the Wind / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai
72:27: Well, Let’s Get Out There and Fight / Treasure Hunter G / Yoko Takada
73:30: The World’s Cavern 1 / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 
75:45: Just Like the Mountain, He Will Not Move / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee
78:45: Whose Cat Is This? / Treasure Hunter G / Yoko Takada
81:20: Sad Freedom / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee
85:30: Mission Complete / Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard / Yasunori Mitsuda  
87:57: King of the Mountain / Treasure of the Rudras / Ryuji Sasai

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Square Over There

Can you guess how a piece of VGM was supposed to be used in a game you’ve never played? This week, I’m giving you an experiment, and you will decide if it becomes a regular feature on Singing Mountain. I play a little un-winnable, un-loseable game show with my roommate, Glen, in which I play music from video games he doesn’t know and he uses his base knowledge of VGM to guess what kind of scene, setting or genre the composition was supposed to evoke. Play along! And tell me if you’re into this.

Glen on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iwritewrongs
Gayest Episode Ever, the podcast I co-host with Glen: https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/
Episode 48, the interview with Katherine that inspired this episode: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/48-katherine-spiers-howard-phillips

Track listing:
0:15: Lunar (Fighting Through the Darkness) / Lunar: The Silver Star / Composed by Noriyuki Iwadare, sung by Shiya Almeda 
2:01: Overworld Theme 1 / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare
4:07: Overworld Theme 2 / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare
6:32: Merbia / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare
7:37: Vane / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare
9:01: Underwater Theme / Super Mario Bros. / Koji Kondo
10:36: Battle Theme 1 / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono
12:42: Venus Fire (Stage 2 Gorgon) / Thunder Force AC / Unknown Composer
15:09: Little Sweet Cafe / Seiken Densetsu 3 / Hiroki Kikuta
18:14: Shop Theme / River City Ransom / Kazuo Sawa
19:54: Moon Petal / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team
22:01: Controls Menu / Star Fox / Hajime Hirasawa
23:26: Ebon Keep / Secret of Evermore / Jeremy Soule
26:09: Sky Over Gotham City / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka
28:07: Title Theme / Famicom Tantei Club Part 2: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo / Kenji Yamamoto
31:51: Determination / Undertale / Toby Fox 
33:45: The Sun Also Sets / Waku Waku 7 / Masato Araikawa
37:18: Paula’s Theme / Earthbound / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka
39:47: Primrose the Dancer / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nishiki 
43:13: Step up / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo
44:34: Bracky News / Phantasy Star II / Tokuhiko Uwabo
47:46: Dreams Dreams / NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams / Tomoko Sasaki, vocals by Robbie Wyckoff and Francis M. Benitez

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Power Litany (With Special Guest Star My Roommate!!!)

The third installment of Singing Mountain’s look at how VGM interacts with mainstream music focuses on the Elec Man theme from the first Mega Man game. It sounds a lot like a track by Journey, but also like likes from REM, Cheap Trick, Bon Jovi, Human League and more. What’s going on here? I talk to some songwriters about why this one melody might seem to be a 1980s mainstay.

Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain

This episode's page, with notes, sources and that weird Journey album art that looks curiously like Mega Man: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/62-mega-man-journey

The robots episode of Super Marcato Bros.: http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/2/24/episode-358-robots
The GTV episode about the Elec Man theme: https://youtu.be/7GSx_0yMuXo 
Karl Brueggemann on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcatobros
Analise Nelson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lalalanalise
Nick Loiacano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bionicbroadcast
Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/

Track listing:
0:11: Bomb Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 
1:50: Cut Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 
4:02: Elec Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae 
6:11: Faithfully / Journey
7:10: Fire Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
8:28: Guts Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
9:55: All the Right Friends / REM
11:15: Way of the World / Cheap Trick 
11:53: Marianne / Human League
12:21: Change / John Waite
12:42: She Don’t Know Me / Bon Jovi
13:14: On the Edge / AWOL
13:58: Back to ’80s / High NRG Man featuring Domino
14:23: Never Surrender / Giant
14:49: Follow Your Heart / Sunstorm
15:15: Every Priase / Hezekiah Walker
15:44: M.A.S.K. Theme / Shuki Levy
16:18: Steal My Girl / One Direction
17:03: Select Screen / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
17:35: Runaway / Bon Jovi
17:54: Ice Man / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
19:38: Main Theme / Space Harrier / Hiroshi Kawaguchi
21:27: Wily Fortress 1 / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
24:01: Wily Fortress 2 / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
26:34: Ending Theme / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae
29:39: Elec Man / Mega Man: Powered Up / composed by Manami Matsumae but arranged by Toshihiko Horiyama

View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/59-eternal-champions-bone-thugs

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Elec Man’s Journey

“Rebecca’s Lover... Not” (April 23, 1992): Gayest Episode Ever kicks its hiatus into the gutter with the first installment of it second season. And yes, we’re back in Boston with Cheers, but it’s a very different show in its tenth season and featuring not Shelley Long but Kirstie Alley as the barmaid having to address her feelings about homosexuality. Harvey Fierstein guest stars in an episode that has connections to both She-Ra and Fright Night, and that makes for a big gay win.

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Rebecca Howe Suffers From Gay Blindness

A movie podcast on which host Drew Mackie and Tony Rodriguez talk to the people they love about the movies they think more people should see.

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