Songs in Videogames: Some help to make a huge list
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Hi everyone.
I’d like to ask you for a little help, I’ve already been looking by myself for a long time, but the more content I can get, the better and you might be able to help me out.
So here it goes. We’re going to organize a gaming night with some friends and obviously we will be playing Phase Shift. People attending there has a mixed musical taste and I get to manage all the music in the event. So I thought that besides playing the classical videogame music like the OST for Zelda, Final Fantasy and so on, I’d like to introduce licensed music that has appeared in videogames, of artists such as Nirvana, Guns and Roses or any music style that appears in any kind of music such as Need For Speed, GTA, Burnout, Fifa…
As I said, the more music I can put onto the playlist the better, that way everyone can be satisfied. I’ve already found and selected a list of games that I’ll detail at the bottom of this post.
The idea for this thread is that you say games that have licensed songs in them and I’ll add some of every game into that playlist.
It doesn’t matter the genre, age or platform of the game as long as the song appears in the game itself wether it’s in the intro, menus, in-game or credits, but not in trailers or any kind of promotional material. Also the game cannot be a musical/rythm game.
Here is the list of games and I hope that thanks to you I can make it bigger.
Actua Soccer 3
Activision Anthology
Agressive Inline
All-Pro Football 2K8
APB Reloaded
Asphalt
Big Air
Big Mutha Truckers
BMX XXX
Brutal Legend
Burnout (series)
Call of Duty (series)
Carmageddon (series)
Cart Fury Championship Racing
Conflict: Vietnam
Crazy Taxi (series)
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (series)
DIRT (series)
Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure
Don King Presents: Pizefighters
Driver (series)
Downhill Domination
EA Sports MMA
EA Sports UFC
ESPN X Games ProBoarder
F1 2000
FIFA (series)
FIFA STREET (series)
FlatOut
Forza (series)
Freestyle Metal X
Gran Turismo (series)
Grand Theft Auto (series)
Infected
Juiced (series)
LittleBigPlanet Karting
LMA Manager
Lollipop Chainsaw
Lumines II
Made Man
Maden NFL (series)
Mafia III
Major League Baseball 2K (series)
Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX
Metal Gear (series)
Midnight Club (series)
MLB (series)
MotorStorm (series)
MTV Sports: Skateboarding featuring Andy
MTV Sports: Snowboarding
MTV Sports: T.J Ultimate BMX
MTX Mototrax
MX Unleashed
MX VS ATV
Nail’d
NASCAR (series)
NCAA March Madness 2005
NFL Blitz Pro
NFL GameDay 2004
NBA 2K (series)
NBA Street (series)
Need For Speed (series)
NHL (series)
NHL 2K (series)
NHL Rivals 2004
Playboy: The Mansion
Pro Evolution Soccer (series)
Project Gotham Racing (series)
Race Driver (series)
Road Rash (series)
RoadKill
Rock and Roll Facing (16 BIT MUSIC)
Saints Row (series)
Scarface: The World is Yours
Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Video Game
Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder
Shaun White: Skateboarding
Shaun White: Snowboarding
Skate (series)
Sleeping Dogs
Splashdown
Splatterhouse
Street Sk8er
SSX (series)
Summer Heat Beach Volleyball
Surf Up
Supercross
Test Drive (series)
The Bigs (series)
The Crew
The Fast and the Furious (series)
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Tony Hawk’s (series)
Top Spin (series)
True Crime (series)
Twisted Metal (series)
Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray
Watch Dogs (series)
We Dare
WWE 2K (series)
WWE Smackdown! vs Raw (series)Thanks a lot, greetings
A lot of big name racing game franchises have their soundtracks archived at NFSSoundtrack.com.
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A lot of big name racing game franchises have their soundtracks archived at NFSSoundtrack.com.
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This was the first page that I found. Thanks for the reply
Also, I saw all the games in vgost wikia
“TNT” by AC/DC was in one of the Tony Hawk games.
“New York Groove,” “Cry,” “Evil Woman,” “Heaven and Hell,” “Her Strut,” “Jailbreak,” “Mama,” “One Vision,” “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “The Seeker,” and “1979” were in Grand Theft Auto 4.
“Lonely is the Night,” “Hollywood Nights,” “Night Moves,” “If You Leave Me Now,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” “Baker Street,” “The Break Up Song,” “Too Late for Goodbyes,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Rock’n Me,” “Rain,” “Black Velvet,” “Fortunate Son,” “Cat’s in the Cradle,” “Carry On Wayward Son,” “Danger Zone,” “We Built This City,” “Roundabout,” “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “I Want It That Way,” “Party All the Time,” and “Highwayman” were in Grand Theft Auto 5.
“TNT” by AC/DC was in one of the Tony Hawk games.
“New York Groove,” “Cry,” “Evil Woman,” “Heaven and Hell,” “Her Strut,” “Jailbreak,” “Mama,” “One Vision,” “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “The Seeker,” and “1979” were in Grand Theft Auto 4.
“Lonely is the Night,” “Hollywood Nights,” “Night Moves,” “If You Leave Me Now,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” “Baker Street,” “The Break Up Song,” “Too Late for Goodbyes,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Rock’n Me,” “Rain,” “Black Velvet,” “Fortunate Son,” “Cat’s in the Cradle,” “Carry On Wayward Son,” “Danger Zone,” “We Built This City,” “Roundabout,” “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “I Want It That Way,” “Party All the Time,” and “Highwayman” were in Grand Theft Auto 5.
Thanks you!!
Gotta have the Borderlands series, my man. Three songs in particular:
And this song was used in promotional materials, which is against your rules, but god damn if it isn’t awesome:
Have fun!
I’ll always recommend the ATV Offroad Fury series of games music (especially considering we’ve done a ton of songs off of the first two games’ soundtracks):
From the first game: Alice in Chains – Them Bones, Primus – Jerry Was a Race Car Driver, Soundgarden – Spoonman, Bender – Superfly
From the second: Cypress Hill – Amplified, Deadsy – The Key to Gramercy Park, Lostprophets – Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja, Mekon – What’s Goin’ On?
Have you tried the soundtrack from Cars?
Revolution X (arcade) – An old light-gun shooter that featured both Aerosmith’s music and Aerosmith themselves. Wikipedia has a list of songs that were featured in-game.
Journey (arcade) – “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” by Journey – Even though the game came out in 1983, the song actually wasn’t chiptuned, but instead was piped in from a cassette player inside the arcade cabinet.
Journey Escape (Atari 2600) – chiptune version of “Don’t Stop Believin'” by Journey
Bomb Jack (Commodore 64) – chiptune version of “Les Chants Magnétiques II” by Jean Michel Jarre
Yie Ar Kung Fu (Commodore 64) – chiptune version of “Les Chants Magnétiques IV” by Jean Michel Jarre
Track and Field (arcade) – chiptune version of “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis
California Games (multiple systems) – chiptune version of “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen
Several pinball tables have licensed songs as part of their soundtrack. Tables released before the mid ’90s used chiptune renditions. Off the top of my head I can think of:
- Twilight Zone – “Twilight Zone” by Golden Earring
- The Getaway: High Speed II – “La Grange” by ZZ Top
- Lethal Weapon 3 – “Gonna Make You Sweat” by C+C Music Factory, “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top
- Creature from the Black Lagoon – “Rock around the Clock” by Bill Haley’s Comets, “Get a Job” by the Silhouettes, “Red River Rock” by Johnny and the Hurricanes, “Willie and the Hand Jive” by Johnny Otis, “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran
- The Who’s Tommy – various songs from the album Tommy
- AC/DC – various songs by the band
- Metallica – various songs by the band
- Guns N’ Roses – various songs by the band
Finally, this is a bit of a stretch, but several classic game compilations have included classic pop songs to serve as background music:
- Activision Anthology for the PS2 (song list here)
- Activision Anthology: Remix Edition for Mac/Windows (song list here)
- NamcoMuseum 50th Anniversary for the PS2 among others (song list here)
You could also make a case for games based on movies and TV shows that use songs written for the movie or show, like Ghostbusters or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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