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Back in the the early 2000s, the game Tony Hawk became a status symbol in the early-elementary social scene. Whether or not you could shred some virtual concrete gnar was crucial to your ability to hang at the cool table and pull some killer play dates that all of a sudden started to include “nollie,” “kickflip” and “fastplant” despite our suburban country club backgrounds. My mom — bless her heart — bought me a skateboard for my eighth birthday because of Tony Hawk.
If you, like most Millennial American males, have ever had any history as a die-hard fanboy for the video game franchise named after skateboarding’s golden boy, you undoubtedly have an emotional connection to the franchise’s collection of soundtracks, full of the most random ska, rap, metal and punk groups of the ’90s.
Bound to give you all the feels from your childhood gamer days, I present to you the top 5 soundtrack jams from the Tony Hawk video games.
5.) “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” by Primus
What an awesomely ambiguous song title paired with an equally awesome grungy name for a diverse ’90s rock band. When I hear the word “funky,” this song comes to my mind.
4.) “Amoeba” by Adolescent
Wow, the goofy titles keep on coming. Having “Adolescent” as your band name might be the most punk rock thing I’ve ever heard.
3.)”Bring the Noise” by Anthrax and Public Enemy
While I was too young and distracted by the skater scene to realize it at the time, it’s great to know that Anthrax and Public Enemy pulled off the Jay-Z-and-Lincoln-Park way before that genre-crossing was seen as a (bad) thing. Pre-VH1 Flava Flav in Tony Hawk is always win.
2.) “Guerilla Radio” by Rage Against the Machine
Arguably the first to correctly fuse hiphop and rock, RATM’s “Guerilla Radio” is undoubtedly the first song I ever banged my head to.
1.) “Superman” by Goldfinger
Anyone who actually knows a thing on about Tony Hawk knows this power ranking was just a fight for second place. Seriously, I’m about to play this on Spotify on repeat the rest of the workday, and you will too.
Anyone else tryin’ to whip out the N-64 and challenge me in some Area 51?.
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Warehouse -> down the big start ramp -> over the halfpipe -> through the secret room -> land on the far ledge -> grind all the way around to the left. Repeat.
Must’ve done this no less than 1000 times. You are on point my friend
Bob Burnquist backflip through the room to the 1 footed smith grind. Grind-Ollie multipliers until the cows come home.
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Ace of spades by Motörhead or get out
Easily the top track on 3, but “Amoeba” is a solid second
By the way, the band’s name is actually Adolescents, plural. Thanks for giving a suburban white kid like me such an extensive knowledge of punk, Tony Hawk
Just relistened to THPS 1-3 soundtracks…
The only other two that had nostalgia: When Worlds Collide – Powerman 5000 & No Cigar – Millencolin
The Madden ’04 (Vick cover) soundtrack is the GOAT sports video game soundtrack
NCAA football 06 was pretty damn good too. Introduced me to Train in Vain.
Option Attack for daysssss. RIP.
Also MVP Baseball 2004. Hell of a year for EA soundtracks. Also NBA Live 2003
The frachise mode and mini camps in that game puts modern Madden to shame.
I agree. By far my favorite soundtrack. Don’t forget MVP 04 soundtrack as well. Classics
If “Superman” wasn’t #1, I’d be demanding your head on a stake. Every game in that series had a pretty awesome soundtrack, though.
The soundtrack from the movie Grind will blow your mind
I still get chills when I hear Seein Red play
I came here just to make sure Superman was number one and raise hell if it wasn’t. Everything looks to be in order
YES. This sound track is amazing. I’ve said this before but I am also a fan of the NFSU soundtrack. Middle school/early high school rap jams and some rob zombie.
Need for speed underground 2 has to be top 10 best games of all time
You beat me to it. Although because of that game I only knew the clean version of a couple of timeless rap songs.
“Till the sweat drop down and fall. All these females crawl.”
And just the word skeet repeated 87 times.
I’m all about that MillenCollin song “No Cigar”. Rodney Mullen is the best and will forever be the best in that game and in real life. The dude invented pretty much every trick.
Ahhh goddammit now I have to go out and buy this game…the addiction reemurges.
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