Best EA NHL soundtrack

[Edmonton East]

NHL 2002

Still have the two featured Sum 41 songs on a lot of my playlists...

 

[MaxDummy]

I'm a punk music fan, but this intro still gives me chills. Pure nostalgia

 

[MaxDummy]

Rom Di Prosco was amazing in NHL 2002 too. As far as best soundtrack I'd have to go with 2004..

Autopilot Off, Gob, Less than Jake, Modern day Zero, The Ataris, Bowling for Soup, Brand f***ing new....

Yes Please

 

[Kevs Security]

NHL 99 soundtrack is a frigging classic

 

[Avery Rule]

Nhl 2004, and then 2002. I liked Brand new low, and I hear you calling from 02.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

There is already a thread about the same topic, but i don't mind.

Those above pretty much sums it up for me The classic's are the best,
with today's copyright BS, its practically impossible to get good music on sports games
i like indie music as the next one, but not enough to not mute the music.

 

[Clownish]

NHL '99, for the intro song and also the soundtrack that was composed by Jeff van Dyck.


Here's another awesome track he did for NHL '98's intro.
EA Sports NHL ’98 (1997)

Wow, if anyone ever asks what the 90's were like, I'll direct them to the NHL '98 intro. I forgot how 90's that was. I can almost see ESPN 2--I mean, "the deuce" with their hip lower case font used throughout their programming.

 

[kungfugazi]

There's a Parquet Court song in 19, so that's quite alright. 08 was pretty good from what I vaguely remember. 06 had an early version of a Billy Talent song, which is interesting. And 03 was Queen of the Stone Age: the game. It was kinda ridiculous in a way I'm alright with.

Overall though, you could put my absolute favourite 20 songs in any NHL game, and I would end up hating them just as much due to repetition. Purple Rain is my jam; hearing it for the 30th time while doing maths and trying to figure out how to re-sign all your players in franchise mode would kinda ruin that song for me, yknow? Don't want to ruin a song with memories of Joe Colborne asking for 4 mils a year.

The spotify app on PS4 is a godsend.

 

[Chimpradamus]

It's typically all trash. It's usually garbage rock that people who enjoy their steaks cooked well done enjoy to listen to.

Yes, no kidding. I usually mute the soundtracks quite quickly, because they're godawful. I rather have silence than garbage. I have to agree with the sentiment that the soundtracks pre 2000 and around 2000 were the best, it was slowly downhill from there.

I do like my steak well done though. Meat that is red isn't dead.

 

[Igor Shestyorkin]

I was actually listening to the 2008 soundtrack yesterday. I think 2004 and 2008 are my favourites.

I feel like the days of great NHL soundtracks are gone.

They are. That's also as a result of music quality declining in general.

None of the next gen soundtracks get you pumped to play hockey. Old gen had that.

 

[KnightsFan110]

some of the current gen games have good songs, but the one that really stands out to me and got me pumped to play a game was Adventure Club Crash 2.0 (NHL17 I think)

Nothing beats the 04 track though

 

[Panthaz89]

There is literally only a couple songs that I want to listen to when they come for 19....while they put a song like "my favourite color is blue" on there for god knows what reason because it sure isn't pumping anyone up.

 

[Pay Carl]

surprised no one mentioned 2012

Billy Idol
Electric Light Orchestra
Against Me
Manchester Orchestra
Bush

some other good ones too I can't remember off the top of my head

and the ability to mute certain songs, and (at least on Xbox) upload your own! I remember changing the goal songs for my BAP team

 

[Alex K]

NHL 09 had a mind blowing soundtrack!





Also Apocalyptica, Panic at the Disco, Billy Talent, The Kills and many others.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

I really liked 06. But that is just me. It was a weird soundtrack, but I like weird.

 

[Poliz24]

98-2000, 2003 had 2 great songs, 2004-2009 Golden Age of EA Trax, I thought 11 was pretty good.

 

[SotasicA]

NHL' 97 had great original (=proprietary) instrumental heavy metal:



That must be my favourite soundtrack.

 

[Sens With Benefits]

NHL 09 had a mind blowing soundtrack!





Also Apocalyptica, Panic at the Disco, Billy Talent, The Kills and many others.

Came here to post this. It was my first next gen game. That Apocalyptica song was sooooo good

 

[araisarena]

1. NHL 2002: Gob - I hear You Calling and Treble Charger - Brand New Low are fantastic songs. Also living in Canada as a kid, we all loved Sum 41
2. NHL 2004: Adema - Co Dependent, Bowling For Soup - Punk Rock 101 and Vendetta Red - Shatterday were amazing. SS Recognize by Alien Ant Farm also a classic

 

[Engebretson]

2003 was, I think, the first NHL game I owned that actually had songs on it. It had Jimmy Eat World, Default, Queens of the Stone Age, Treble Charger, Blindside and a band called Greenwheel who I actually saw in concert by chance a few months after the game came out. The songs were perfect for that time and I feel like the soundtrack was one of the more memorable parts of the game.

I also got into 2012's soundtrack too. Manchester Orchestra and Against Me! to go along with ELO, Judas Priest, Billy Idol and Anthrax was a pretty sweet lineup.

 

[ShootIt]

2009-2008-2003-2004-12

In that order for me.

Man, there were some really good soundtracks.

Lately, Madden and NHL have had putrid soundtracks.

 

[ek93]

Looking back now, I can totally understand why my mom was a little weirded out by me always blasting the soundtracks to these old NHL games. Some classic songs by Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, etc.

Then some of the lesser-known ones like Sorry You're Not A Winner by Enter Shikari in NHL 08 and Loyalty by American Head Charge in NHL 06.

The soundtracks have changed so much over the years. You'd never see songs like that in today's games.

 

[Carlzner]

1. NHL 2002: Gob - I hear You Calling and Treble Charger - Brand New Low are fantastic songs.

I have vivid memories of these two songs playing combined with the menu sounds.

 

[John Price]

The ones these days suck. The old ones from a few years ago were good.

"Breaking up my bonnes oh oh oh oh"

You hear that every time they score a goal lol

 

[pucksakes666]

The early 2000's always seemed to have decent soundtracks not so much now