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Part 1 of a 2 part series. What’s better for a brisk, sunny 1st of April than taking a great big look back at music we featured in the respective “best-of-year-in-review” St. John’s Picks episodes from 2019-2025? Definitely not another backwards episode. Nope. No sir. Uhuh. Just six years esion tseb eht fo. [editor: who did that?!]   Tracklist (all tracks are playing in reverse)   Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - From “best-of-year-in-review” episode# (year(s)) - Timestamp   A1) Intro - 00:00:00   01) Funky Radio [In-Game version] - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - B.B. Rights - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:02:10   02) Thin Holidays - Rage In Peace - Multiplatform - Peonies - C1R6a (2023) - 00:05:32   03) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Tanobu Mitsuyoshi and David Leytze - C1E55b (2019) - 00:08:14   04) Signs of Love - Persona IV - PS2 - Shoji Meguro - C1E65a (2020/2021)  - 00:12:47   05) Suitcase - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - C1R6a (2023) - 00:15:40   06) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors - Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro - C1R6a (2023) - 00:17:46   07) Bonus - Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore - Multiplatform - Button Masher (aka Jake Silverman) - C1R8 (2025) - 00:20:20   08) Results Parade - Check Mii Out Channel - Wii - Kazumi Totaka C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:22:16   09) Mission 2 - Double Dragon 2 - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Togo - C1E55b (2019) - 00:24:21   10) Club Tigre - Final Vendetta - Multiplatform - C1R7 (2024) - 00:27:23   11) USA Race 2 - Trickstyle - Dreamcast / PC - Richard Beddow - C1E70a (2022) - 00:30:44   12) Gettin’ Freaky - Friday Night Funkin / aka Music Battle - iOS / Android - Kawaii Sprite - C1R8 (2025) - 00:33:54   13) Lobby [Monster Seeking Monster] - Jackbox Party Pack 4 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1R8 (2025) - 00:36:40   14) Menu - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin and/or Francisco Cerda - C1R8 (2025) - 00:39:33   15) Endscreen - Final Vendetta - Multiplatform - Futurecast and/or Utah Saints - C1R8 (2025) - 00:42:57   16) Toad’s Turnpike - Mario Kart 64 - N64 - Kenta Nagata, Taroh Bandoh, and/or Yoji Inagaki - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:45:39   17) Jus’ Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Mr. V - C1E70a (2022) - 00:48:29   18) Eccentric Detective - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - C1R8 (2025) - 00:55:57   19) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) - Super Bomberman 3 - SNES - c: Jun Chikuma / a: Keita Hoshi - C1R6a (2023) - 00:58:45   20) Fonction - n++ - Multiplatform - Broca - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:04:41   21) [SLOW*] Fonction - n++ - Multiplatform - Broca - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:11:33 (*= Slowed version from C1E57: “Slow Jams” - April Fool’s 2021 episode of slowed down VGM).   22) Stage 2-2 - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku - C1E55b (2019) - 01:21:25   23) Non-Linear Reliance - Blue Reflection: Second Light - Multiplatform - Hayato Asano - C1R8 (2025) - 01:24:12   24) Earth - Lords of Magic - PC - Keith Zizza - C1R8 (2025) - 01:28:15   25) Electrifying Tension - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - C1R8 (2025) - 01:32:19   26) Voices of Urdak - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:34:57   27) The Icon of Sin - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E70a (2022) - 01:41:04   28) Mission 6 - Double Dragon 2 - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Togo - C1E55b (2019) - 01:46:27   29) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Marakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Moishita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:49:07   30) Stage 1-3 - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku - C1E55b (2019) - 01:52:03   31) Attack the Barbarian - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzu Koshiro - C1R7 (2024) - 01:55:33   32) Firestarter (Instrumental) - WipEout XL - PS1 - The Prodigy - C1R6a (2023) - 01:58:30   33) Jurassic Dope - Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - C1R6a (2023) - 02:03:07   34) Kraft und Licht - n++ - Multiplatform - Len Faki - C1R7 (2024) - 02:06:13   35) Norfair - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - c: Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:12:56   36) Freak You Out - Vay - Sega CD - Shigeki Sako - C1E70a (2022) - 02:15:27   37) Balom Dungeon - Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Masato Ohashi, Manaka Kataoka, Chisaki Hosaka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Azusa Kato - C1R8 (2025) - 02:17:24   38) Forest of Elrond - Wizards and Warriors - NES - David Wise - C1R7 (2024) - 02:20:27   39) Got Well Soon - Life is Strange - Multiplatform - Breton - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:22:28   40) Zebra Bananza - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - C1R8 (2025) - 02:27:09   41) PerfecT Shape - to a T - PC / XBSX - c: Sakai Asuka and/or Keita Takahashi / v: Sam Bird - C1R8 (2025) - 02:29:22   42) Star Guitar - Lumines II - PSP - The Chemical Bros. - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:30:53   43) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - C1R6 (2023) - 02:37:02   44) Prime #5 - Echochrome - PSP / PS3 - Hideki Sakamoto - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:39:32   45) Kara Kara Bazaar - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:42:45   46) I Came I Saw - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - SNES - KungFuFurby - C1E55b (2019) - 02:44:43   47) Heleosphere (Menu Music) - N/A (System Music) - A500 Mini - Chris Smith - C1R6a (2023) - 02:50:11   48) Taste of Blood - Portal - Multiplatform - Kelly Baily and/or Mike Morasky - C1R7 (2024) - 02:53:50   49) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - C1E6a (2023) - 02:56:48   50) Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform - C148 - C1R6a (2023) - 03:01:06   B1) Outro - 03:08:50 Mixtape Runtime: 03:06:51 / Total Episode Runtime: 03:21:24 Our now customary April Fool’s episode outro music is Malo Mart, from LoZ: Twilight Princess on GameCube, Wii, and WiiU (and maybe eventually, Switch 2) composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō. Special thanks to St. Jodee, St. August, and St. Wyatt for joining me in the outro. Intro was recorded on Shure SM7B dynamic microphone running through a Cloudlifter Preamp for superior sound quality. Outro was recorded on AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser microphone for better ability to pick up sounds further away from the mic (important when capturing four different people standing or sitting varying distances away from it). All were recorded using the Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface into a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux Pt 2 releases simultaneously to Pt 1.