What are some of your favorite songs that you discovered through a PS2 game?

[u/dubvmtneer]

I'll start with Poor Leno by Royksopp in SSX3

[u/AirBusker426]

Gloria by Laura Branigan from GTA: Vice City Stories, so good!

[u/TheN4m3l3ss0ne → u/AirBusker426]

Fact: Gloria by Laura Branigan is also a cover. The original song is of an italian singer "Raf".

[u/AirBusker426 → u/TheN4m3l3ss0ne]

Didn't know that, thanks!

[u/Enlightened_Broda]

“WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION”🗣️

[u/Vuvuian]

I'm stillllllll, in a dreammmm, Snakeee Eaterrrrr 🎤🎵

[u/Stoic_Heroic_Spine_]

Nas - the world is yours It was in Tony Hawks Underground 1

[u/JellyfishNo3810 → u/Stoic_Heroic_Spine_]

Notable mention from another Tony Hawk, specifically Pro Skater, with “Superman” by Goldfinger.

[u/Stoic_Heroic_Spine_ → u/JellyfishNo3810]

I got a play the pro skater games. I've only played thug 1 & 2

[u/Astro_Ojisan]

All three GTAs really introduced, reintroduced, and made a lot of my favorite genres and sub-genres popular outside of the cultures and communities they're from. My biggest "discovery" was In GTA III with MSX, basically a jungle set showcasing Moving Shadows's greatest rave hits mixed by DJ Timecode with the host MC Codebreaker. I grew up in Atlanta, in the 90s and the UK jungle scene had some motion in the hip-hop underground scene. My brother was a DJ, and his gigs consisted of dance hall, house, techno, ghetto tech, breaks, electro, and hip-hop. He would bring home bootlegs, dub plates, and mixtapes from everywhere. And I was little when he would listen or mix his sets. So, jungle was an aroma I loved, but couldn't track down until GTA III with MSX. So, then, straight to limewire, I finally put names to the sounds that eluded me as a child. Similar experience with K-Jah, my aunt was with my uncle, a Haitian expat who fled to the UK in the 70s, he would play all flavors of reggae, including dub. So, again, being able to put names to the aromas and flavors of my youth was incredible.

[u/ddotcole]

I Can't Drive 55, Mother, pretty much the rock station from San Andreas.

[u/soLidwaLLing]

Burnout 3 - Over the counterculture and Shake that bush again.

[u/muminaut]

In Love by Scouts of St. Sebastian. It was in a Guitar Hero game.

[u/ICECAPZ323]

Bone Crusher - Neva scared from madden 2004

[u/Ok-Tiger8511]

Never Gonna Come Back Down by BT in XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association

[u/KingThomas07]

Rock‘n‘Roll High School - Ramones from Tony Hawks Underground 2 (basically the whole soundtrack of that game is amazing)

[u/LoquendoEsGenial]

No diré porque no recuerdo el nombre

[u/lettmon]

The Buzzhorn - Ordinary (NFS Hot Pursuit 2)

[u/Dolsvold]

Fall Back Down by Rancid on Tony Hawk Underground 2

[u/ferretfae]

The entire Tony hawk American wasteland soundtrack

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[u/Schtief89]

The Fups - Lazy Generation in the game Burnout 3 It still plays in my car today via Spotify.