Some of these songs are by bands I’m familiar with thanks to their appearances in Rock Band or Guitar Hero - My Chemical Romance, Dropkick Murphys, Fall Out Boy, Rise Against - but the rest of the bands featured are pop-rock, post-punk or emo-rock bands that came and went. The whole album is available on digital streaming services, including Spotify, so you can listen along with me here: While I ended up finding the album at a thrift store for a pittance, you don’t have to do the same. Considering Tony Hawk games tend to hit the gamut of multiple genres, it’s a bummer they focused on this and not the rock or hip-hop sides of the game’s soundtrack. The soundtrack for American Wasteland only covers a small portion of the 64 (!) tracks that are in the entire game, and the 14 songs featured here are all covers of punk songs of the ’70s and ’80s like Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits, The Stooges, and even Black Flag. The first being a “music from and inspired by” album for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, which had a bunch of songs from people who didn’t appear in the game like Outkast, Papa Roach, and Drowning Pool while omitting good stuff like Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades.”
This is the second released soundtrack album for a Tony Hawk game. This looks so low-quality compared to the cover it’s based on, The Clash’s London Calling.
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