[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E97: The Super Metroid Soundtrack (VGM Hall of Fame)”

Today’s broadcast is C1E97 for Soundtrack Saturday, July 26th, 2025. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Metroid soundtrack on the Super NES, composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. This episode is Nerd Noise Radio's contribution to the VGM Hall of Fame ("HoF") project, created in collaboration with Alex "The Messenger" of "A VGM Journey" and Professor Tom from "Shujin Academy VGM Club" podcasts. Links to their programs will be found in the show notes! Stick around after the show for bonus content! 

 

Tracklist: 

  

Track# - Track - Timestamp 

  

A1) Intro - 00:00:00 

01) Title Theme - 00:05:16 

02) Prologue - 00:07:28 

03) Approaching the Space Colony - 00:10:01 

04) Ceres Space Colony - 00:10:11 

05) Ridley / Draygoon / Chozo Statue - 00:10:43 

06) Approaching Planet Zebes - 00:12:52 

07) Crateria (Surface Arrival) - 00:13:06 

08) Crateria (Underground) - 00:14:47 

09) Crateria (Space Pirates) - 00:16:25 

10) Mysterious Statue Chamber - 00:19:58 

11) Item Room - 00:21:48 

12) Brinstar (Overgrown Area) - 00:23:23 

13) Brinstar (Red Soil) - 00:27:00 

14) Spore Spawn / Botwoon - 00:29:12 

15) Tension - 00:31:27 

16) Kraid / Crocomire / Phantoon - 00:33:17 

17) Norfair (Fire of Zebes) - 00:35:07 

18) Theme of Samus Aran - 00:37:22 

19) Wrecked Ship (Deactivated) - 00:41:01 

20) Wrecked Ship (Activated) - 00:43:11 

21) Maridia (Drifting Sands) - 00:45:34 

22) Maridia (Underwater) - 00:49:30 

23) Norfair (Ancient Ruins) - 00:52:23 

24) Golden Four Statue - 00:57:00 

25) Tourian - 00:59:13 

26) Mother Brain - 01:03:03 

27) Escape - 01:05:21 

28) Finale - 01:07:33 

29) Continue - 01:10:51 

B1) Outro - 01:11:41 

B2) BONUS: Super Metroid Medley - performed on June 22nd 2025 by the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra (“DSMGSO”), and arranged by the DSMGSO’s very own Joseph Mullin! - 01:20:59 

  

Music Block Runtime: 01:06:27 / Bonus Music Runtime: 00:13:15 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:33:25 

  

Our intro and outro is Funky Radio from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights 

  

You can find Alex’s show: “A VGM Journey” here: 

  

https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey 

  

And you can find Professor Tom’s “Shujin Academy VGM Club” here: 

  

https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club 

  

You can find the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra here: 

  

https://www.dsmgso.org/ 

https://youtube.com/@desmoinesgamersymphonyorch3631?si=hq8tUJYKOR0-ynjr 

  

You can find Valerie’s Flute Entertainment here: 

 

https://www.valwedgeworth.com/ 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop. 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! 

 

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