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

Shujin Academy VGM Club

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.

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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