Show Notes
Pixelated Audio is back from this year's Persona themed MAGWest. In honor of the theme we threw together a quick show about the music of the mainline Persona games from Persona 1-5 with a little bit of early Megami Tensei history. We're also joined by co-host and our good friend AJ aka "rayjkayj" of the VGMPorium podcast. It's a light show with fun musical examples spanning the decades of the Persona series and we hope you enjoy it!
If you'd like to follow along with the slides we used during the talk, feel free to click through. If the presentation doesn't show up below, click here.
Track list
0:00:00 (Bedding) Convenience Store - Revelations: Persona - Kenichi Tsuchiya 0:09:30 1st & 2nd Ward Shopping District (West Entrance) - Revelations: Persona - Hidehito Aoki 0:14:25 Ayase's Theme - Revelations: Persona - Kenichi Tsuchiya 0:20:50 Sumaru City Map - Persona 2: Innocent Sin - Toshiko Tasaki 0:22:55 Battle - Persona 2: Innocent Sin - Kenichi Tsuchiya 0:28:39 Maya's Theme - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment - Kenichi Tsuchiya 0:31:00 Maya's Theme - Persona 2: Innocent Sin - Kenichi Tsuchiya 0:35:31 Theme of Tartarus (Arqa Block) - Persona 3 - Shoji Meguro 0:37:49 Burn My Dread - Persona 3 - Shoji Meguro
Singer: Yumi Kawamura Lyrics: Shigeo Komori, Yoshihiro Komori
0:47:06 Pursuing My True Self - Persona 4 - Shoji Meguro
Singer: Reiko Tanaka Lyrics: Yu Namba, RyoRca
0:48:48 Signs of Love - Persona 4 - Shoji Meguro
Singer: Shihoko Hirata Lyrics: Reiko Tanaka
0:54:43 Last Surprise - Persona 5 - Shoji Meguro
Singer: Lyn Lyricist: Benjamin Franklin
0:59:24 Life Goes On - Persona 5 - Shoji Meguro 1:09:34 Satomi Tadashi Pharmacy's Theme - Revelations: Persona - Misaki Okibe
Additional things mentioned during the talk
Bi Score Band albums
Is This Persona? - songs from Shin Megami Tensei 1-5 This Is Persona - songs from Persona 1-5
Lotus Juice - Rapper from Persona 3 onwards Lacey Johnson - Another great musician with lots of awesome Persona covers VGMPorium Podcast - AJ's VGM podcast
Shop Themes IV - Persona (VGMPorium episode)
Tom Miller
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