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Jason Wojnar

Oh man, love the idea for this episode. The games introduced me to awesome bands like Dead Milkmen and Hold Steady and AFI. What bands have surprised you not being on the soundtrack? For me it is the World/Inferno Friendship Society. They are a circusy type punk band I guess kind of comparable to Gogol Bordello or Oingo Boingo. It's also my song recommendation for the episode. Zen and the Art of Breaking Everything In This Room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGH277gx3_g

Hey y'all! I played a bunch of THPS growing up, and some of my favorite artists came out of listening to those soundtracks at such a young age (Rage Against The Machine, Primus, System Of A Down, etc.). They were kind of my gateway into hard rock at the time. But looking back on a lot of those soundtracks, there were also a lot of hip-hop artists I love now that I didn't even remember were in those games, like Aesop Rock and Public Enemy. It makes me wonder if my tastes in hip-hop as I became an adult were subconsciously influenced by those tracklists? To focus this into a question, when you look back on these soundtracks today, how do you think the tracks for these games may have unintentionally shaped your tastes in music, if at all? :-)

Nubbyy

The Tony Hawk games are known for their great licensed soundtracks, but lots of other sports games also had excellent licensed soundtracks. One that stands out to me is that of SSX On-Tour, although not the most classic SSX game, On-Tour had an AMAZING soundtrack lead by Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" which plays during the animated intro cutscene. And the guitar riff from the following main-menu music of Louis XIV's "God Killed the Queen" was forever branded into my brain as an adolescent. My question is: Do you have a favorite licensed soundtrack from a non-THPS game?

Do you know if in the original THPS 1 or 2 if there were any songs the were planned to be in the game but weren’t due to licensing issues or simply not making the cut?

Imagine you’re a god tier skateboarder and you’ve got one THPS1+2 Track to use for your skateboard shredding montage, what song would you use to highlight your sick flips.

Bob Buel

Here's a question for each of you, especially Ralph - what's a song that you love right now that absolutely would NEVER appear on a Tony Hawk soundtrack? Whether the song is stylistically very different from the games, or too explicit, or would cost far too much to get on the game, etc. Thanks, love the show, and love THPS. Bob

Marc S

How much does Goldfinger’s successes rely on the Tony Hawk franchise? Were they well known independent of the games?

How does the licensing for these games work? I imagine its expensive since developers have actually covered songs instead of licensing the music (such as Guitar Hero). Song: All Nightmare Long by Metallica (GH version whenever possible)

ryan

i can say for certainty that the tony hawk games (mainly the underground games) established my taste in music and greatly changed my life. because of the music they had in the game, it got me into metal. and because i got into metal, i met some cool metalheads at school, and because i met metalheads at school i started going to concerts, and because i statred going to concerts i met new people and made new friends and traveled across the country to go to metal fests that i would have never gone to if i was never introduced to the music i was. the people i know now and my love of travel is due almost entirely to the music i like and that was mostly due to the tony hawk games. the songs that really kickstarted my love of metal were over the years by 25 ta life and black label from lamb of god. bands like spirit caravan, high on fire, and orange goblin, became favorites of mine and it was only later that i realized that they were in the tony hawk games and i probably liked them because of the game. GOD BLESS TONY HAWK UNDERGROUND 1, 2 AND AMERICAN WASTELAND

What are your top three songs from any of the Tony Hawk games, and which genre do you all personally think is the best to play these games to? Shout out to Kick, Push by Lupe. https://open.spotify.com/track/6nz35DNIzbtj5ztpDEcW1j?si=zNx8OYopQGSCYkpsJ3_6yA

Geoff Enright

These games informed me of more new bands than any other video game franchise besides music games like rock band or guitar hero. Apparently Neversoft and Vicarious Visions are filled with people with good taste. Papa Roach, Rage Against the Machine, Bad Religion, and Powerman 5000 are examples of bands I was exposed to.

Thom Blackburn

I hope for a rhythm based skateboarding game that focuses entirely on flatland tricks. I want to hold a manual down a slight slope and shift directions and spin whenever this woman hits a note. I may not ever get this game, but we will always have the song! https://open.spotify.com/track/5Rgo9m5dg3cl4h4xLtyXyT?si=qDRtCBtIRuCYgjCl5T_3_g