Peaches is a fairly colourful character and made for an interesting interviewee, from what I can remember. So while I never actually discovered any new music, I did at least have a few tidbits of useful information about what was going at the time to throw into conversation and make me sound like a normal 20-something. In the 00s I used to occasionally read Q Magazine (RIP) and happen across articles about/interviews with bands and artists that I’d never heard of before, find my interest briefly piqued, only to go back to never thinking about them again. Which means while you’re driving in circles trying to battle the weird handling, you’ll also be distracted by some noisy era-appropriate pop music. ProStreet is a game that combines all of the edgy attitude of the previous few NFS titles with all-new boring and broken track-based action.
#NEED FOR SPEED PROSTREET SOUNDTRACK MOVIE#
But under other circumstances, for example while driving a fake car around the fake streets of a fake city while trying to avoid the fake police, it definitely recreates the frantic movie car chase sound that you’d consider appropriate for this kind of game. This one is quite thuddy, to the extent that if you drove a silly souped-up car with big speakers in the back in real life, the noise generated could well irritate pedestrians and the occupants of nearby buildings. This rethink involved ditching the single altogether and excising from Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned any vocal contribution from either Keith Flint or Maxim Reality, who had both featured prominently in The Fat of the Land. However, I’ll go for You’ll Be Under My Wheels, which answered my question, ‘What have The Prodigy been up to since 1997?’ It turns out that they were so big in the late 1990s they decided to go away for a while, then came back with the mildly embarrassing 2002 single Baby’s Got a Temper, which attracted controversy for mentioning the date rape drug Rohypnol in the lyrics and prompted a rethink for the next album. Although that same wise man really didn’t like Need for Speed: Most Wanted, as it happens).Īn honourable mention here has to go to a track called I Am Rock, which is apparently by an artist called (logically enough) Rock, further details of whom are quite hard to come by. (As a wise man once said: in your life, you’re going to have experiences that remain forever special to you, even if you later come across better, improved versions of that same experience. Most Wanted may or may not be objectively the best Need for Speed, if you can even ever make that kind of claim, but I think it’ll be the one that personally will leave me with the fondest memories. (I don’t get The Doors – don’t write in to explain/argue, you won’t win a prize). I personally enjoy singing along in the manner of a buttoned up old crooner while wondering why Morrison was ever considered some kind of rock god. Jim Morrison’s voice always did sound kind of like a dusty old sample used in a rap song, so it fits perfectly here. Riders on the Storm is the exception, a collaboration that sounds on paper like an hilariously misconceived mashup-stroke-remix with the potential to embarrass fans of 70s poser rock and 00s hip-hop alike.īut like many of the songs featured in this series, it soon worms its way into your brain through repeated plays, to the point where it seems quite cool and catchy. The Doors – Riders on the Storm (Fredwreck Remix) I don’t want to hear an Australian rock band’s cover version of Black Betty, which also featured on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Without a Paddle (starring Matthew Lillard, Seth Green *and* Dax Shepard), ever again, thank you. But it also has adverts for Burger King and Campbell’s Soup, as well as a less enjoyable selection of songs. Need for Speed: Underground 2 has more *stuff* in it than the first game, and is probably a marginally better game overall.
#NEED FOR SPEED PROSTREET SOUNDTRACK SERIES#
So what do we have left? A mopping-up exercise involving the best of the rest, in my completely subjective opinion? Or a bloody great compilation showstopper to send this series off with a bang? Need for Speed: Underground and, especially, Need for Speed: Carbon might not be the best games in the series, but I’d argue that their soundtracks are the most memorable. Hello and welcome to Soundtracks, a series that is likely to be ending soon.įor a finale, let’s do some more racing games: why not? Specifically, all of the Need for Speed games that have some good tunes but not quite enough for me to be able to write an individual piece about them. Soundtracks is where we take a look back at the use of licensed music in games.
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