Apr 25, 2018
The Streets of Rage series had one of the best soundtracks ever, and that music helped define the early '90s era of muscled vigilantes walking city streets and punching bad guys. This episode celebrates Yuzo Koshiro's incredible compositions for those games while also looking at other titles that get at a similar sound: a city at night, glowing with neon, riddled with crime and in great need of a face-punching. Track listing: 0:07: Title Theme / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 1:39: In the Bar II / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro 4:50: Go Straight II / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro 7:26: Moon Beach / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 10:03: Beat Ambience / Streets of Rage 3 / Yuzo Koshiro 14:15: Title Screen / Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Genesis) / Kazunaka Yamane 16:04: Blue Moon Factory (Oh Oh Big Mix) / Art of Fighting 2 / Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan 18:17: Industrial Area / Final Fight / Yasuaki Fujita 22:13: Daddy Mulk / NInja Warriors / Hisayoshi Ogura 26:52: Urban Noise / Parasite Eve / Yoko Shimomura 28:30: BGM 2 / Shinobi (arcade) / Yasuhiro Kawakami 30:53: Planet 8 / Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight / Junko Tamiya 33:42: Final Area / Shatterhand / Iku Mizutani and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 35:37: Act 2, Part 2 / Ninja Gaiden / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta 40:11: Stage 4 / Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force / Keishi Yonao 44:37: Battle in the Dense Forest / Contra (arcade) / Kazuki Muraoka 46:49: The Wild Desire / Two Crude Dudes / Azusa Hara 50:52: U.S.A. / Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone (Genesis) / Akira Inoue and Takaro Nozaki 52:23: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 56:11: Dilapidated Town / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 59:34: Character Select / Streets of Rage / Yuzo Koshiro 62:03: Slow Moon / Street of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/singingmountain On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/