Very few professional sports can claim they launched a music genre. But skateboarding – and the culture surrounding skaters – definitely spawned a bevy of musical artists that forever are associated with the sport.
Which is why it’s important that the highly anticipated Tony Hawk: RIDE video game, which is due to hit North American retail shelves on November 17, gets its music right. By the looks of the recently released track list, RIDE creators at Robomondo are skating down the right path. The game boasts more than 50 eclectic tracks from such artists as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT and Green Day to new rising artists Band of Skulls and The Temper Trap. The game also goes old school from time to time with tracks by The Commodores, The Meters, The Stooges and The Replacements.
The full track list for Tony Hawk: RIDE is below. The game, which features a groundbreaking wireless skateboard controller, will be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii beginning November 17.
Adam Tensta – “My Cool”
Band of Skulls – “Patterns”
Beatsteaks – “Run Run”
Beck – “Gamma Ray”
Bill Withers – “Lovely Day”
The Black Keys – “I Got Mine”
The Bronx – “Minutes in Night”
Chevelle – “Jars”
Children Collide – “Social Currency”
Coconut Records – “West Coast”
The Commodores – “Machine Gun”
Darker My Love – “Two Ways Out”
Dead End Road – “Sin City”
Disbelievers – “Bad Storm”
The Duke Spirit – “Into The Fold”
The Faint – “The Geeks Were Right”
The Fold – “Neverender”
Gray Matter – “Fill A Void”
Green Day – “Murder City”
Half Astro – “Cellular”
Helen Earth Band – “Shake N Cut”
Kenny Rogers & First Edition – “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”
Kram – “Blitzkreig Bop”
KRS-One w/ Buckshot – “Robot “
Living With Lions – “She’s A Hack”
The Meters – “Cissy Strut“
MGMT – “Electric Feel”
Modey Lemon – “Become A Monk”
Modest Mouse – “Satellite Skin”
Morning After Girls – “Death Processions”
Murs feat. will.i.am – “Lookin’ Fly”
Nico Vega – “Burn Burn”
Nitzer Ebb – “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”
NOFX – “Just the Flu”
Norma Jean – “Robots 3 Humans 0”
Patchwork – “Ping Pong”
The Pinkertones – “Electrobumbao”
Queens of Stone Age – “The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret”
The Raconteurs – “Consoler of the Lonely”
The Replacements –“Takin’ A Ride”
Revolution Mother – “Night Ride”
Rose Hill Drive – “Showdown”
Russian Circles – “Death Rides A Horse”
Santigold – “L.E.S. Artistes”
Shiny Toy Guns – “Ricochet”
Spinnerette – “All Babes Are Wolves”
The Stooges – “I Got A Right”
Superchunk – “Punch Me Harder”
The Temper Trap – “Hearts”
This Drama – “She Had A Knife”
TSOL – “Dance With Me”
Turbotito – “Losing Their Head”
TV On The Radio – “Dancing Choose”
We Are Scientists – “After Hours”
Willowz – “Ulcer Soul”
Wolfmother – “Joker & The Thief”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero“