LMH Mixtape #52: Best Of Year In Review

This is it, users!  To celebrate the end of each LMH year, both boizz count down their top ten favorite new musical discoveries.  Brent and Rob switch (haha) off their selections at each level, so you'll hear both #10s, then both #9s, and so on up to the ultimate #1s.  This tradition may be a little more difficult to follow in mixtape form, but all you really need to know is that this tune parade is full of heavy-hitters whose attack power keeps increasing as the rush continues.  Make it to the end and congratulate yourselves on the first completed Legacy Music Hour year with a staff roll and some cake -- and if you have your own top ten list from the 2010-2011 era, share it down below or wherever you want!

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Partial track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/10/legacy-music-hour-episode-52-best-of.html

Episode 183: Chreepy Christmas

What starts out as an episode sort of about this year’s presidential election, ends up being a Christmas episode -and a scary one at that.  Full track listing below.

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Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Terra Cresta - Kenji Yoshida - Theme of Terracresta - Nihon Bussan/Vic Tokai - NES - 1990

HeroQuest - Neil Baldwin - Main Theme - Gremlin Graphics/Hasbro Interactive - NES (Europe) - 1991 (unreleased)

Bubble Bobble Part 2 - Kenichi Kamio - BGM I (Rounds 1-19) - ITL/Taito - NES - 1993

Splatterhouse - Katsuro Tajima - Body Eater (Battle) - Namco - TurboGrafx-16 - 1990

Cocoron - Yoshiji Yokoyama, Takashi Tateishi - Rescuing Friends - K2/Takeru - Famicom - 1991

Langrisser II - Isao Mizoguchi - Fight It Out - NCS - Mega Drive - 1994

Daisenryaku Expert WWII: War in Europe - Tamiya Terashima - Life and Death - ASCII Entertainment/SystemSoft - Super Famicom - 1996

Blazing Lazers - Masatomo Miyamoto (Miyamo), J.T.S, Masanobu Tsukamoto (Mats), Sydon Inoue (Sydon), Ozono, Keiji Takeuchi (Takeuchi) - Area 4 - Compile/Hudson Soft - TurboGrafx-16 - 1989

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon - Aki Hata - Stage 5, Area B: Beryl’s Fortress - Angel Studios/Ma-Ba - Mega Drive - 1994

A Nightmare on Elm Street - David Wise - Title Screen - Rare/LJN - NES - 1990

Thunder Fox - Kazuko Umino - Air Fortress (Stage 2) - Taito - arcade - 1990

LMH Mixtape #51: Girls, Girls, Girls

Episode 51 was definitely ladies' night at the Legacy Music Hour.  Not only was the setlist comprised entirely of tracks by women composers, but Brent's sister Laura sat in on the magic from the observation booth and added to the thematic atmosphere.  Enjoy this feminine focus, then get ready to wrap up the first full year of LMH mixtapes with the upcoming Best of the Year In Review!

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite: Little Nemo: The Dream Master - Nightmare Land (Dream 8)
Other instant new favorite:  Thunder Fox - Ending
Brewed new favorite: SimCity - Capital


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/10/legacy-music-hour-episode-51-girls.html

LMH Mixtape #50: Free Play 5

Well users, we made it to Mixtape 50 -- which means that the Best Of the Year In Review is just two episodes away.  If you never got around to making your top 10 list back in 2011, or you think your list might be different after ingesting all these mixtapes, now's your chance!  Start thinking about it while you take in Free Play 5, and maybe we'll all be comparing countdowns when we hit Mixtape 52.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite: Nosferatu - Main Theme
Other instant new favorite: Rygar - Cave
Brewed new favorite: Soul Blazer - The Shrine of the Master

This song has lyrics: Wonder Momo - Ending*
This song also has lyrics: Rygar - Cave**

* VGM Karaoke begins at 00:55:30 in the original episode
** VGM Karaoke begins at 01:00:22 in the original episode


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/10/legacy-music-hour-episode-50-free-play.html

Episode 182: Best Of Year In Review 5

Once again, Brent and Rob countdown their top tracks of the year (Episodes 170 through 180).  This year, they present their favorite five (instead of ten) in order from fifth to first best.  As usual, tracks selected for this episode are pieces of video game music they became aware of only within the last year and that were played on the show.  Similar to last year’s countdown, Brent talks a long time at the beginning of the episode, which might be kind of boring, so sorry about that.  However, unlike any previous year, something kind of neat happens with Brent and Rob.  Listen and find out what it is.  Partial track listing below.

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Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2 - Kenji Yamamoto - Ending - TOSE/Bandai - Super Famicom - 1993