50: Unheard and Unused

Sometimes great video game music doesn’t end up in the finalized video game, but that doesn’t mean it's gone forever. Singing Mountain celebrates its fiftieth episode (!) with a playlist of lesser-known, lesser-heard music from famous franchises, including Super Mario Bros., Sonic, Final Fantasy, Streets of Rage, Mega Man, Ys, Castlevania and of course Chrono Trigger, the game whose “lost” track gave this podcast its name.

Sometimes great video game music doesn’t end up in the final product, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy it. Singing Mountain celebrates its fiftieth episode with a playlist of lesser-known, lesser-heard music from famous franchises, including Super Mario Bros., Sonic, Final Fantasy, Streets of Rage, Mega Man, Ys, Castlevania and of course Chrono Trigger, the game whose unused track have this podcast its name. 0:08: Singing Mountain / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 3:26: Unused Track 5 / Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons / Kiyohiro Sada and Minako Adachi 4:59: Underground Theme / Koji Kondo / Super Mario Bros. 2 (prototype) 8:26: Space Fight / ActRaiser / Yuzo Koshiro 11:40: Hidden Palace Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura 14:09: Cross Your Heart / Castlevania: Dracula X / Composed by Kenichi Matsubara, arranged by Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko and Masahiko Kimura 17:52: Battle of the Holy / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 19:39: Lost Painting / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 23:47: Little Money Avenue / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima 25:31: Walking Bottom / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima 27:57: Unused Track / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man 7 30:42: Unused Deep Sea / Mega Man X5 / Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka and Takuya MiyawakI 34:26: The Origin / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 36:20: The Sea of Silence / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 38:35: Restless Moments / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 41:48: Town 2 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 43:18: Town 3 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 44:24: Approaching Premonition / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu 47:34: King Description / Undertale / Toby Fox 50:33: Music Track of Unknown Purpose / WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto 53:07: Dreaming / Ys 1: Ancient Ys Vanished / Yuzo Koshiro and Mieko Ishikawa 56:42: Unused Track 2 / The Flintstones / Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn 61:25: Vanilla Lake (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 63:57: Rainbow Road (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 65:31: Bubble / Super Mario Galaxy / Koji Kondo and Mahito Yokota 70:11: Closing: File Select (Moyse Mix) / Claude M. Moyse / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening The Cutting Room Floor, a great site to look at cut video game content: https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor Drew on Twitter: twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: www.facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singi…ain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3?si=OM-bFRP1RLSLkiv2XyQxNg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: www.singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com

Track listing:

0:08: Singing Mountain / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 
3:26: Unused Track 5 / Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons / Kiyohiro Sada and Minako Adachi 
4:59: Underground Theme / Koji Kondo / Super Mario Bros. 2 (prototype)
8:26: Space Fight / ActRaiser / Yuzo Koshiro
11:40: Hidden Palace Zone / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 / Masato Nakamura
14:09: Cross Your Heart / Castlevania: Dracula X / Composed by Kenichi Matsubara, arranged by Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko and Masahiko Kimura 
17:52: Battle of the Holy / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 
19:39: Lost Painting / Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth / Composed by Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa and Hidehiro Funauchi, arranged by Manabu Namiki 
23:47: Little Money Avenue / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima 
25:31: Walking Bottom / Streets of Rage 2 / Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima
27:57: Unused Track / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man 7 
30:42: Unused Deep Sea / Mega Man X5 / Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka and Takuya MiyawakI
34:26: The Origin / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 
36:20: The Sea of Silence / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu
38:35: Restless Moments / Final Fantasy IV / Nobuo Uematsu 
41:48: Town 2 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu
43:18: Town 3 / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu
44:24: Approaching Premonition / Final Fantasy VI / Nobuo Uematsu
47:34: King Description / Undertale / Toby Fox 
50:33: Music Track of Unknown Purpose / WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto
53:07: Dreaming / Ys 1: Ancient Ys Vanished / Yuzo Koshiro and Mieko Ishikawa 
56:42: Unused Track 2 / The Flintstones / Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn 
61:25: Vanilla Lake (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka 
63:57: Rainbow Road (beta) / Super Mario Kart / Soyo Oka
65:31: Bubble / Super Mario Galaxy / Koji Kondo and Mahito Yokota
70:11: File Select (Moyse Mix) / Claude M. Moyse / Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

 
 
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Drew Mackie