{"id":19417,"date":"2025-07-11T10:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/it-fully-altered-my-taste-in-music-bands-reflect-on-the-awesome-power-of-the-tony-hawks-pro-skater-soundtracks\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:38:28","slug":"it-fully-altered-my-taste-in-music-bands-reflect-on-the-awesome-power-of-the-tony-hawks-pro-skater-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/it-fully-altered-my-taste-in-music-bands-reflect-on-the-awesome-power-of-the-tony-hawks-pro-skater-soundtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It fully altered my taste in music\u2019: bands reflect on the awesome power of the Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The games\u2019 runaway success introduced a whole generation to hopped up US punk and metal. Bands including Less Than Jake, the Ataris and AFI pay tribute to a gaming megastar who loves them back<\/p>\n<p>When millions of parents bought their kids a Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater game in the late 90s and early 00s, they couldn\u2019t have understood the profound effect it would have on their children\u2019s music taste. With bands from Bad Religion to Papa Roach and Millencolin accompanying every failed spin and grind, these trick-tastic games slyly doubled up as the ultimate compilation CD.<\/p>\n<p>While the Fifa games have an equally storied history with licensed music, those soundtracks feel impersonal \u2013 a who\u2019s who of whichever artists EA\u2019s associated record labels wanted to push at the time. Pro Skater\u2019s soundtrack, by contrast, felt like being handed a grubby and slightly dog-eared handmade mixtape, still battered from its last tumble at the local skate park.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jul\/11\/music-tony-hawks-pro-skater-soundtracks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75489a0a08cf96fc2f87f0461a533102bef44e6d\/655_0_2698_2160\/master\/2698.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9213e1106910775e8637e87c4f7e93b1\" title=\"\u2018It fully altered my taste in music\u2019: bands reflect on the awesome power of the Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater soundtracks\" \/>The games\u2019 runaway success introduced a whole generation to hopped up US punk and metal. Bands including Less Than Jake, the Ataris and AFI pay tribute to a gaming megastar who loves them back<br \/>\nWhen millions of parents bought their kids a Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater game in the late 90s and early 00s, they couldn\u2019t have understood the profound effect it would have on their children\u2019s music taste. With bands from Bad Religion to Papa Roach and Millencolin accompanying every failed spin and grind, these trick-tastic games slyly doubled up as the ultimate compilation CD.<br \/>\nWhile the Fifa games have an equally storied history with licensed music, those soundtracks feel impersonal \u2013 a who\u2019s who of whichever artists EA\u2019s associated record labels wanted to push at the time. Pro Skater\u2019s soundtrack, by contrast, felt like being handed a grubby and slightly dog-eared handmade mixtape, still battered from its last tumble at the local skate park. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The games\u2019 runaway success introduced a whole generation to hopped up US punk and metal. Bands including Less Than Jake, the Ataris and AFI pay tribute to a gaming megastar who loves them back When millions of parents bought their kids a Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater game in the late 90s and early 00s, they &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/it-fully-altered-my-taste-in-music-bands-reflect-on-the-awesome-power-of-the-tony-hawks-pro-skater-soundtracks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It fully altered my taste in music\u2019: bands reflect on the awesome power of the Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater soundtracks<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}