Their music, however, is a little more technical and trash-driven than the sounds that had taken over the Cali scene in the mid-late ’90s.

These hardcore punks from Venice, CA are often touted as skate punk genre originators – a moniker that seems to fit well, given their affiliation with both the notoriously violent punk scene and the street skate scene of early-mid ’80s California.

You can’t make a skating game without including Suicidal Tendencies. Of course, I was going to put Dead Kennedys on a skate game soundtrack, that’s what I listened to skating! Shredding the streets of San Francisco to ‘Police Truck’ is one 1999’s greatest pleasures. That was the music that I heard hanging out in the skate park as a kid. As Tony Hawk himself told us back in March, “For me I was just trying to keep it authentic to my experience. Released all the way back in 1979, ‘Police Truck’ is an all-time great punk track from a band that is synonymous with early street skate culture, and its inclusion as the lead track on the first game helped to introduce a generation of suburban kids to one of punk’s most important bands.

There’s a reason this track was chosen to soundtrack the official trailer for the remake. Tony Hawk Pro Skater ‘Police Truck’ – The Dead Kennedys A combination of new and classic alt-culture sounds ranging from the punk sounds of OGs like The Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies and Bad Religion, through to the skate punk and ska bands of the era like Lagwagon, Millencolin and Goldfinger, to hip-hop icons Naughty by Nature, to rap-rock gods Rage Against the Machine and even the iconic Anthrax/Public Enemy mosh-up ‘Bring the Noise’, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack was a bridge between musical worlds, a multi-volume mixtape that defined an era and laid the foundation for the genre-hopping musical taste of a generation.īelow we’ve compiled a playlist of 10 tracks from across the first two Tony Hawk Pro Skater titles that helped change the soundtrack of our lives forever. The music of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series was, to borrow a slang term of the era, rather tight.

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