Episode 14 - Masters of VGM II - Primary Colors (Shoji Meguro)

All your favorite VGM podcasters are doing a series called “Masters of VGM”, where we do episodes devoted to our favorite video game composers. For my second entry into this series, we’ll listen to the greatest hits of Shoji Meguro. This episode also serves as a de facto mixtape for the Persona games, since Meguro composed most of the music for the series. Special thanks for this episode goes out to:  –Bedroth of Very Good Music and everyone else who’s set up the Masters of VGM project and all the podcasters who are participating. You can follow the project’s Twitter account @mastersofvgm or visit their website at mastersofvgm.com to see all the participating podcasts and episodes released to date. –Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants for being the voice of Junes. You can check him out on Twitter @NerdInformants, or find Nerd Informants on Facebook. You can also check out his podcasts “It’s Hollywood Calling with Josh Grisham” and “Informants NERDcast” wherever you get your podcasts.  –My darling wife and beautiful children for being the Junes family. –Jameson of the BARSlience podcast for the art for this episode. Find his excellent podcast on Twitter @BarSilenceVGM or wherever you get your podcasts.   During the talk segments, I said that I’d put some links to things in the show notes, and here they are!  –You can check out the arranged version of Persona 3’s Changing Seasons at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxGYUd0w24.  –You can check out the lyrics for Reach Out To The Truth at https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Reach_Out_To_The_Truth    If you liked this episode, and want to check out more Persona music, you can follow Daily Persona Music on Twitter (@Daily_Persona), where they post Persona music every day.    Thanks to BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.    If you want to reach me, you can email me at [email protected]. You can find me on Twitter at @ShujinVGMClub, and on Instagram at ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Persona (PSP) - Dream of Butterfly 02:07 - Talk Segment 1 07:40 - Persona 3 - Burn My Dread 09:12 - Persona 3 - Changing Seasons 12:09 - Persona 3 - Iwatodai Station 14:32 - Persona 3 - When The Moon’s Reaching Out Stars 17:08 - Talk Segment 2 19:56 - Persona 4 - Backside of the TV 22:48 - Persona 4 - Reach Out To The Truth 25:35 - Persona 4 - Your Affection  28:25 - Persona 4 - Heartbeat, Heartbreak 30:38 - Persona 4 - Heaven 33:37 - Talk Segment 3 37:20 - Persona 5 - Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There (opening movie version) 38:55 - Persona 5 - Tokyo Emergency 41:28 - Persona 5 - Beneath the Mask 46:02 - Persona 5 - The Whims of Fate 49:14 - Persona 5 - Butterfly Kiss 51:37 - Persona 5 - Rivers in the Desert 56:50 - Talk Segment 4 57:52 - Catherine - It’s a Golden Show 1:00:24 - Catherine - Act on Instinct 1:01:57 - Persona PSP - Shops 1:03:22 - Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Normal Battle  1:05:21 - Outro Talk Segment 1:07:42 - Revelations: Persona - Aria of the Soul