SKATE 2 had a totally banging soundtrack. No Swift. She has a terrible reach into the skate game history books.
If it’s not in Vice City, I don’t want to hear it.
“Hate” is a strong word, but I really, really, really don’t like you.
Hold The Line brother!
I just wanna skate skate skate skate skate skate
Bladers gonna hate hate hate hate hate hate
Skate it off, skate it offThanks i hate it
if I die before i wake… at least in heaven i can skate…
'Cause right now on Earth I can’t do jack… Without the man up on my back
My brother’s friend died young when we were in school, and definitely played Tony Hawk.
My brother bought him this song for the funeral. Not sure if the parents appreciated/understood it, but it was a nice thing nonetheless.
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime
What better place than here, what better time than now?
All hell can’t stop us now!
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 had a massive impact on my taste in music.
Need for Speed was that series for me. Pendulum, Justice, The Qemists, Junkie XL, Hyper, Madeon, Feed Me, Nine Inch Nails, Celldweller, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Noisia, Haezer… Man NFS had some killer soundtracks.
This but WipEout
Riders on the Storm. But afair it was Snoop Dogg who made the Version for NFS.
You make a fantastic point
Excellent point.
starts listening the bomb rush cyberfunk ost and wonders what it would be like to switch the soundtrack for both games
I still listen to the THUG soundtrack, shifting away from the NOFX/QOTS/Bad Religion/Social Distortion bands I was into when I played as a teen, towards other songs I overlooked:
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Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
- Literally written during and about the Troubeles in N Ireland, fantastic punk/protest song.
- https://www.50thirdand3rd.com/stiff-little-fingers-suspect-device/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6DxBgfsDY
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Smoke Blow - Circle of Fear
- My first foray into Kraut Rock. This whole German Angst album is pretty good.
- https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6ruaKlr3Pms
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Mastodon - Crusher Destroyer
- Not their greatest song, but it defintely opened me up to their rest of their stuff.
- https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4-5WSkJDg (this song gets good for exactly 30 seconds at the 1:00 mark)
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Assorted Jelly Beans - Rebel Yell
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This song used to irritate the hell out of me when I first heard it. Babyish, lazy, unfocused?
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As I got older, I started to appreciate the creativity and the many mood shifts within it. I count at least 5 distinct shifts. It’s a patchwork of several different songs squashed together brilliantly.
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Plus, try to match the tempo of the singer when he sings at 0:37:
The spotlight’s shining, heard you had something to say
The hourglass is pouring, your boring crowd fades awayIt’s harder than it sounds
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Someone please make a custom ROM of THPS2, but with all the songs changed to be AI-powered covers of the soundtrack by Taylor Swift.
Yeah. AI covers!
Edit. I completely missed that you said ai powered, lol. Fistbump
Noooooo
Pretty sure she was not born yet when the first one came out
She’s 34 and the first Pro Skater came out in 1999
Oh yeah, I remember all her albums from when she was 10 :D
She was born, but that’s the joke that she’s too young to even have had a chance.
I’m feeling pretty old these days. Wouldn’t have surprised me if she was born 2 years after
Errrm, I’m pretty sure her age, while being a huge factor, isn’t the only thing that prevented that happening. She’s not exactly on a similar vibe as Anthrax or Millencolin.
I mean, neither Britney Spears nor Christina Aguilera made the cut iirc, despite their popularity in the same era.
Trouble feels like a good song to rack up a massive combo line.
I know its a good song to rack up lines of coke to.
I still play Tony hawk soundtracks on Spotify in my car
Fully, a MASSIVE amount of what I’m into now came from Tony Hawk games and [adult swim] and the trajectory that put me on. [adult swim] was for sure the MTV of my generation.
By the time I was watching MTV, it was still some TRL and music vids, but also a big dose of Room Raiders, etc… And it eventually fell out of fashion. [AS] definitely had their finger on the pulse of what the cool cats were to tho. Such a hip scene. I still vividly recall a bump for Boondocks featuring Flying Lotus’ song Massage Situation that felt mind blowing.
Weird to think where I’d be without either.
This is why I am fucking terrified of Gen Alpha raised on Elsagate-style youtube shorts.
Wonder what the media trajectory of growing up watching your beloved cartoon friends unexpectedly mutilated as their chubby little baby fingers scroll into the weird part of youtube
We are gonna get some uniquely fucked up people in the next two decades.
Need for speed underground was the first game for me that made my head bop.
