Friday, February 18, 2022

Madden NFL Greatest Hits

I wanted to post this for the Pro Bowl but my playlist became longer than I thought it would. I listened to every EA Trax, menu music, stadium music, international version, console exclusive and demo/trailer song for every Madden game to make this greatest hits playlist. The Madden soundtracks were great when they were rock heavy and mixed with rap. Then starting with Madden 13, they used original scores by different composers saving the licensed music for in stadium only. The EA Trax feature returned in Madden 16 but unfortunately the soundtracks since then became rap heavy to all rap. And these rap songs fucking SUCKS! It was a goddamn chore listening to the last couple Madden soundtracks with how awful they are. And it's not like I'm part of the "rap is crap" crowd because I have several rappers on my playlist like Xzibit, Killer Mike, Memphis Bleek, Brother Ali and Lil Wayne. It's just that TODAYS rap is crap. But there are some modern songs that didn't draw my ire, I just didn't feel they fit on my playlist.

  • Joyner Lucas - Will That was pretty cool seeing him rap through Will Smith's career dressing up as iconic characters like Will Smith, Agent J and Mike Lowrey.
  • Leikeli47 - Chitty Bang I've gotten so used to those iPhone ads using the only part of the song that's not explicit, it doesn't annoy me to hear it. It doesn't get on the playlist but at least it gets a honorable mention out of me. 
  • Deetranada - HIGHS AND lows! I didn't care about the song. I just liked the claymation in the music video along with the Instagram and Twitter posts on the wall.
  • Lord Afrixana - Touchdown This Madden 23 song is meh but it's football related, so it gets added to the updated honorable mentions.
  • Doechii - Crazy When I first saw the thumbnail for the music video, I thought to myself I was gonna hate this song. When I actually played the video, all I thought was "WTF am I watching?". So Doechii shoots a woman and there's a warehouse full of naked women (naughty bits blurred of course because YouTube) dancing, running around and causing mayhem. It doesn't get on my list either, but I didn't hate it. And it just highlights how goddamn stupid this puritan country is. Shooting someone in the head with blood on the wall and ground is fine but God forbid you show your tits or pussy on YouTube. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
  • Cordae & Hit-Boy - Checkmate At least this Madden themed song is a music video.
  • Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - Industry Baby Only fair to balance out a song with naked women dancing in a warehouse with naked guys dancing in a prison shower in this song. Nothing says football (and street racing) like twerking in a prison yard.

So here are the best songs from the Madden series. I didn't include any of the orchestra or Sam Spence/NFL Films songs because I wanted to keep this to licensed music only. The Videogame Soundtracks Wiki was very helpful in compiling this list so shoutout to those users. 

Michael Bartlow - John Madden Football '92 Theme
Ludacris - Madden 2000 Theme
The Beatnuts - Leave 'Em In the Dirt
The Beatnuts - The Score
Xzibit - The Mad In Game
Mos Def - Mathematics - Instrumental
Talib Wkeli ft. Xzibit & Rah Digga & Hi-Tek "Reflection Eternal" - Down For The Count (Instrumental)
Andrew W.K. - Party Hard
Audiovent - Energy
Dry Cell - Body Crumbles
Epidemic - Walk Away Good Charlotte - The Anthem
(hed)p.e - Suck It Up Bon Jovi - Everyday
Nappy Roots ft. Marcos Curiel of P.O.D. - Awnaw (Rock Remix)
OK Go - Get Over It
Quarashi - Mr. Jinx Seether - Fine Again
Adema - Unstable 
Avenged Sevenfold - Chapter Four (Madden Edit)
Alien Ant Farm - These Days
blink-182 - Feeling This
Bubba Sparxxx - Back In The Mud
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
Joe Budden - Pump It Up
Killer Mike - Akshon (Yeah!) Edited Version
Red Cafe - May I (Madden Mix) 
Serafin - Day By Day
The Federation - Mayhem (Madden Mix)
Thrice - All That's Left
Yellowcard - Way Away
Soil - Pride
Nappy Roots - Roun' The Globe
Killer Mike - Akshon (Madden 04 Remix)
Unloco - Crashing
AFI - The Leaving Song Pt. II
Outkast - Church
Bonecrusher - Never Scared (Madden Mix)
New Found Glory - This Disaster
Earshot - Wait
Jazze Pha- Da Heavy Hittas
Same Direction - Hoobastank
Wylde Bunch - Last Day Of School 
Strata - Piece by piece
Yung Wun - Anthem
Will.I.Am. - Go
Hazen Street - Fool The World
Alter Bridge - open your eyes
JR Ewing - Time ta Get Dirty
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
The Mooney Suzuki - Alive & Amplified
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Chevelle - The Clincher 
Green Day - American Idiot
Ozomatli - Saturday Night
The Hives - Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones 
Midtown - Give It Up
Yung Wun ft. DMX, David Banner, Lil Flip - Tear It Up
Thirty Seconds To Mars - ATTACK
The All-American Rejects - Night Drive
Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
Bullet For My Valentine - 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
Bump J - Move Around
Chamillionaire - Hate In Ya Eyes
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance
Finch - Ink
Funeral for a Friend - Streetcar
Foo Fighters - No Way Back
Godsmack - Bring It On
Pickin' It Up - Hot Hot Heat
Nine Black Alps - Cosmopolitan
Papoose - Born To Win
Paul Wall - They Don't Know (Ft. Mike Jones) (Prod. By Grid Iron)
Rev Run - Mind On The Road
Spider Loc- When I get Angry
Stat Quo - Rock the Party
Tech N9ne - The Beast
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Memphis Bleek feat Swizz Beatz - Like That
Sam Scarfo- Tear Em Up
The Panic Channel - Teahouse Of The Spirits
In Fate's Hands- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Don't Hold Back lyrics- The Sleeping
30 Seconds to Mars - Battle Of One
AFI - Summer Shudder
Al Fatz - Came Down
Anti-Flag - This is the End (For you my Friend)
Damone - Out Here All Night
Dashboard Confessionals - Reason To Believe
Hit The Lights - Until We Get Caught
Keane - Is It Any Wonder
Lupe Fiasco - The Instrumental
Matchbook Romance - Monsters
Omnisoul - Not Giving Up
Rise Against - Drones
Riverboat Gamblers - On Again Off Again
Wolfmother - Woman
Timbaland - Release
Operator - Soulcrusher
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's
Red1 (Feat. Afu Ra) - Dem No Worry We
HELLYEAH - You Wouldn't Know
Swizz Beatz - It's Me Snitches
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
Brother Ali - Whatcha' Got
Enter Shikari - OK, time for plan B
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Earl Greyhound - S.O.S. (Madden NFL 08 Edition)
The Bravery - Believe
Team Shadetek - Brooklyn Anthem (feat. 77klash & Jahdan)
Yellowcard - Fighting (Madden NFL 08 Edition)
Jupiter One - Countdown
O-Solo - Monsta
Atreyu - Becoming the Bull
Shadows Fall- Redemption
Datarock - New Song
The Used - The Ripper
Airbourne - Stand Up For Rock ‘N Roll
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
From First to Last - Worlds Away
K'naan - ABC's
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Killswitch Engage - Reckoning
Mastodon - Divinations
Set Your Goals - Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man)
Slipknot - Duality
System of a Down - Sugar
The Vanity Plan - Before I Die
Kid Rock - I Am The Bullgod
Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz - 6 Foot 7 Foot
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Robert DeLong - Better Days
James Bay - Collide
DJ Khaled feat. Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain & Snoop Dogg - All I Do Is Win

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