HOW TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER

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1. Come hang out in the Discord! https://discord.gg/9GbTq4d8Pe

2. TPS soundtracks all the way to THAW were perfect. Personally I think Tony Hawk’s Underground had the best playlist. No skips.

3. I was attending a boarding school when THPS first came out. Almost everybody in my dorm (about 80 teenage boys) owned a copy of this game at one point. Some of us, like me, even bought a second copy just so we didn't have to switch between our CD players and playstations all the time.

4. Man, talk about nostalgia…. I played Skate or Die and so much THPS 2…. I was into punk and skateboarding before the game, but it definitely solidified some things. Didn't really think about it before this video. Great work, as always, Finn.

5. My favourite cover from AW has to be Alkaline Trio covering TSOL for sure.

6. Not jus THPS but need for speed, burnout, smackdown vs raw tiger Woods 2004 and many more.. so many bands were introduced to me through these games.

7. I remember Millencolin from my youth seeing them in my hometown (where they're from) at the skate park was almost a daily event.

8. It's not where I discovered punk(that happened through a friend introducing me to Green Day years earlier), but it is where I discovered Goldfinger and Rise Against!

9. I always think of Crazy Taxi as a game with Bad Religion before Tony Hawk

10. Millencolin’s Pennybridge Pioneers album was amazing and I owe Tony Hawk Pro Skater thanks. No cigar.

11. I gotta disagree about Street Sk8r for ps1. Sure it lacked the technical finesse but it was basically Top Skater (which had that Pennywise soundtrack in the local mall) on a console, so was competent enough in a pre-THPS world and it’s soundtrack was basically just Punk-o-Rama vol 3. Street Sk8r was introducing young me to punk rock before THPS. THPS just did EVERYTHING infinitely better, especially the soundtrack

12. I have a very similar view of the THPS games (and games that tried to follow the formula) as I do the surf, skate, bmx, snowboarding, and paintball videos of the same era. Highlighted sports that never got enough credit and bands that deserved a wider audience.

13. I loved THUG and American Wasteland. Great music. That’s how I found Alkaline Trio.

14. Music criticism is my favorite cause everyone who does it knows nothing about music

15. I believe there was a Madden game with atreyu and underoath when I was in high school.

16. I'm actually play the first thps game after nearly 12 or even 16 years ago and I beat the whole game in literally a day, the soundtrack, the graphics or even the scenarios bring back some many memories of the gold old days of my childhood..

17. I did go out of my way in adulthood to track down the THPS soundtrack again just to figure out who the hell had done that Superman song, and since then have only head Goldfinger mentioned in your videos. I don't think anyone has heard of this band that doesn't watch your videos. It's a curse you're stuck with when so many of us discovered so much punk thru these games. I didn't find out The Boy Who Destroyed the World (the "remember when" song to me) was an AFI song until a few years ago (I had thought it was an 80s punk song), even though I've been listening to Decemberunderground since 6/6/6. The most important song in these games for me is by far If You Must, which got me into Del totally separately from knowing him by Gorillaz. Only for that reason do I disagree with you on the impact of the rap in these games–that song and Clint Eastwood are two of the biggest reasons I ended up a rapper. Ace of Spades hit my generation here too.

18. Literally introduced me to Millencollin. Still enjoy their music til this day!

19. Tbh the underground games encapsulate the Bam margera/ jackass era of skateboarding. Bam was probably as well known as Tony hawk was. Underground for the kids my age at the time those games were skateboarding. And ultimately those are the most fun Tony hawk games because that's what it was all about fun even skate which is more a simulator they did the same shit.

20. I think you missed out on a important note; how THPS games set a standard for other games, especially with both Activision and EA games to always have a soundtrack that included punk, rock, metal and hiphop artists that few had heard about. I myself discovered alot of punkrock and then their culture through these games in the very early 00's.

    Funny memories btw
    You went to the games playlist, wrote the songs you liked down on a piece of paper, went over to limewire and downloaded everything. So many times I discovered great albums, so many times I only received p*rn.

21. I played these games so much growing up I knew every one of those songs to the point of turning the music off half the time I played up until Tony Hawks under ground witch is one of my favorite but after T.H.U.G. It wasn't as good

22. 100% got me into all that kind of music and still skate to it to this day.

23. Still have my ps1 from 98' and 2 games left that still work. Thps2 and tekken 3. I still play both

24. THPS2 was fundamental in my childhood. I genuinely think it influenced my life!

25. I met Tony hawk at birdhouse projects skateboarding demo at Ohio surf and skate in Eastlake Ohio when I was 14 with Jeremy Klein Willie Santos and a couple other skate Legends. Super super cool dude let us take pictures with him and everything.cheers 🍻 I'm glad Tony got the recognition that he deserves

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