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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2004--

Game Soundtrack to Debut Music from Green Day, Chevelle, Alter Bridge, THE HIVES, Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas and More


Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) today unveiled the highly-anticipated soundtrack for Madden NFL 2005. Featuring an all-star line-up of emerging rock and hip-hop artists, the world's best-selling football videogame will once again shape the sound of the 2005 football season. The in-game soundtrack features 21 groundbreaking new songs that will rock the music scene this fall.

Madden NFL 2005 launches the new Green Day album with their single "American Idiot", the first single from the platinum band Chevelle and new singles from Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas, THE HIVES, Hoobastank, New Found Glory and Alter Bridge - the originating members of Creed. Adding further edge to the line-up are breaking bands Yung Wun, Midtown, Earshot, Hazen Street, Mooney Suzuki, Jazze Pha, Franz Ferdinand and an exclusive rematch of The D.O.C's "It's Funky Enough" vs. Earshot's "Wait" mixed by famed DJ, D.J. Z Trip.

The full soundtrack line-up for Madden NFL 2005 is:

ARTIST TRACK
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Wylde Bunch Last Day of School
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New Found Glory This Disaster
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Earshot Wait
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Hoobastank Same Direction
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Ozomatli Saturday Night
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Jazze Pha Da Heavy Hittas
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Strata Piece By Piece
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Yung Wun Yung Wun Anthem
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Z-Trip feat. Soup of J5 Listen to the DJ
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The D.O.C. vs. Earshot The Madden Re-Match
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Will.I.Am Go!
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Hazen Street Fool the World
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Midtown Give It Up
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Alter Bridge Open Your Eyes
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Green Day American Idiot
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JR Ewing Time to Get Dirty
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THE HIVES Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones
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Mooney Suzuki Alive and Amplified
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Chevelle The Clincher
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Faith No More From out of Nowhere (Throwback Track
Powered by Rhino)
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Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
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"Madden helps set the pace of pop culture by defining the look, feel, and sound of the upcoming season," said Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Audio at EA. "For millions of players worldwide, the sound of football in Madden NFL 2005 will be synonymous with Franz Ferdinand, D.J. Z Trip, Green Day, THE HIVES and the other artists in the game. We sort through thousands of new songs as we make our selections. We will not put last year's hits in this year's game. Players around the world can count on Madden to deliver the coolest tracks of the year."

The soundtrack is a part of the EA SPORTS(TM) TRAX music initiative that EA debuted in 2001. The program is dedicated to bringing gamers the hottest music through EA's videogames.

Madden NFL 2005, developed by EA-Tiburon, is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and will be available on the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, the Nintendo GameCube(TM), the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, Game Boy(R) Advance in stores on August 12. It will be available in September on PC and PlayStation(R).

 

[Bog]

Where'd all the rap go?

 

[swoon]

JR Ewing Time to Get Dirty

oh snap.

and franz!

but yea, needs more rap - and i thought they had teamed up with rhino and were only going to feature old stuff?

 

[dskillzhtown]

I don't know more than half of those artists, that is good though. EA Trax has introduced me to some groups that I would have never heard of otherwise. I am looking forward to "The D.O.C. vs. Earshot The Madden Re-Match," whatever that is.

 

[swoon]

oh wait. is that the rapper jr ewing or the hardcore group

 

[dskillzhtown]

and i thought they had teamed up with rhino and were only going to feature old stuff?

I think they will feature only 1 or 2 old songs per game.

 

[shantyman]

Highly anticipated? What?

 

[Guileless]

What's worse, the Madden rap theme song from Madden 2002, or the Andrew WK theme song on Madden 2003? Even the GBA version of '03 had digitized Andrew WK. I turned on my GBA once and it started playing, and this guy looked at me with a strange mixture of disgust and curiosity.

 

[WasabiKing]

There's going to be a ton of music I will be turning off...

 

[WarPig]

DJ Z-Trip is the shit.

DFS.

 

[Fifty]

Oh no...Is that "Time to get dirty" song the same one that was in Fight Night? I hated that song so much.

 

[bob_arctor]

Custom soundtracks in the Xbox version? Yay or nay?

 

[Guileless]

Yay on custom soundtracks unless they took it out of last year's edition.

 

[mjq jazz bar]

Yeah, Faith No More. Weird.

 

[Raise Havok]

Green Day is cool. I'm not sure if I've heard that Midtown song or not. But everything else looks suck. +1 for XBOX and custom soundtracks.

 

[Bog]

What's worse, the Madden rap theme song from Madden 2002, or the Andrew WK theme song on Madden 2003? Even the GBA version of '03 had digitized Andrew WK. I turned on my GBA once and it started playing, and this guy looked at me with a strange mixture of disgust and curiosity.

That wasn't because of the Andrew WK music, it was because you were playing your GBA in public.

 

[Agent Dormer]

This just proves the power of Franz.

 

[DMczaf]

http://www.easports.com/games/madden2005/music.jsp?artist=doc

Go listen to the tracks here

 

[LEBRON KING JAMES]

wow that soundtrack is garbage. needs rap instead of rock and roll

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

thank god for custom soundtracks 0_o

 

[DMczaf]

thank god for custom soundtracks 0_o

FMT's face while listening to the soundtrack at EAsports.com

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GETGGAH GET OVER IT!

 

[Meier]

Woo Franz represent! Needs more Snow Patrol to make FMT happy.

 

[impirius]

What's worse, the Madden rap theme song from Madden 2002, or the Andrew WK theme song on Madden 2003? Even the GBA version of '03 had digitized Andrew WK. I turned on my GBA once and it started playing, and this guy looked at me with a strange mixture of disgust and curiosity.

THIRD DOWN
WHAT TO DO NOW

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

yes dude i love snow patrol! hey meier did you preorder the new album? if you do preorder it online, you get this cool picture of the band from its earlier days. each picture is individually numbered and autographed on back by one of the bandmembers. awesome deal! here's the pic:

 

[jecclr2003]

Alter Bridge > you

 

[dtrip]

DJ Z-Trip is the shit.

DFS.

That's the truth!

 

[Argyle]

Oh shit, Z-Trip on the soundtrack.

I might have to buy it just to hear that