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[mreddie]

https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-payback/news/nfs-payback-music-soundtrack?utm_campaign=nfsp_hd_ww_ic_soco_twt_soundtrack-tw&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cid=37557&ts=1507264670601

The Need for Speed soundtracks are fueled by a legacy like no other. We’ve introduced landmark tracks such as Snoop Dogg & The Doors’ ‘Riders on the Storm’, Terror Squad’s ‘Lean Back’, Chemical Brothers ‘Go’ and Chiddy Bang’s ‘Opposite Of Adults’.

New music, along with exclusive remixes by Eagles of Death Metal, Pharrell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Calvin Harris, 30 Seconds to Mars, TV on the Radio, Xzibit, The Black Keys, and hundreds more that have helped define the sound of Need for Speed over the years.

Its long-awaited return represents more than just the next chapter in the series. Need for Speed Payback is a reinvention of the entire Need for Speed soundtrack experience.

Need for Speed Payback has a soundtrack that follows no rules, defies the odds, owns its roads, and does it all with soul, grit and edge that is wholly independent of genre, era and mainstream restrictions. In other words, this is the full-throttle soundtrack that will leave all others in its dust.

Whether it's creating your perfect car, pulling off insane heist missions, outrunning high-speed police pursuits, or just cruising the open world, the games’ distinct car classes – as well as its garage, all feature their own unique soundtracks.

Need for Speed Payback also features a sleek and ominous original score by composer Joe Trapanese, best known for blockbusters like The Raid, Tron: Legacy, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and Allegiant, and Straight Outta Compton.

• A$AP Ferg: Trap and a Dream feat. Meek Mill
• Action Bronson: The Choreographer
• Barns Courtney: Kicks
• Bite the Buffalo: Enemies
• Bonobo: Kerala
• Chase & Status and Blossoms: This Moment
• DJ Shadow & Nas: Systematic
• Duckwrth: MICHUUL.
• Flowdan: Original Ragamuffin feat. Wiley
• Formation: Buy and Sell
• Goodbye June: Liberty Mother
• Gorillaz: Ascension feat. Vince Staples
• Haikaiss: Raplord feat. Jonas Bento
• Ho99o9: City Rejects
• Jacob Banks: Unholy War
• Jaden Smith: Watch Me
• K.Flay: Black Wave
• Kano: 3 Wheel-Ups feat. Wiley and Giggs
• Kontra K: Power
• Lethal Bizzle: I Win feat. Skepta
• Lil’ Kleine: Kleine Jongen
• Local Natives: Dark Days (Sofi Tukker Remix)
• Mondo Cozmo: 11 Acre
• Nothing but Thieves: I Was Just A Kid
• Ohana Bam: Rebels
• Otherkin: Bad Advice
• P.O.S: Gravedigger
• Queens of the Stone Age: The Way You Used To Do
• Rae Sremmurd: Perplexing Pegasus
• RAT BOY: BOILING POINT
• Royal Blood: Lights Out
• Run the Jewels: Panther like a Panther (Miracle Mix) feat. Trina
• Salmo: Daytona
• SHREDDERS: Flipping Cars
• Skepta & Goldie: Road Trip
• SOHN: Hard Liquor
• Spoon: Pink Up
• Stormzy: Return of the Rucksack
• SUR: Lean Back
• Syd Arthur: Evolution
• Ten Tonnes: Silver Heat
• The Amazons: In My Mind
• Tom Morello feat. Leikeli47: Roadrunner
• Tom Walker: Play Dead (Avelino x Raf Riley Remix)
• Warbly Jets: Fast Change
• Watt: Burning Man feat. Post Malone
• X Ambassadors: The Devil You Know

Everything was Grime. Lock if old.

 

[secretanchitman]

Digging the tracklist!

 

[Suzzopher]

I'm so old, I recognise nothing.

 

[Nokterian]

I'm so old, I recognise nothing.

Same..well a few but i do not know a bunch of them.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Oh crap they got Gorillaz. I'm still begging for more of them in Rock Band! Hmm....

Everything else is meaningless to me.

 

[Suzzopher]

Same..well a few but i do not know a bunch of them.

Some of the artists but none of the songs here.

 

[KRaZyAmmo]

I found the soundtrack kinda disappointing. I do quite like the Unholy War song by Jacob Banks and I'm quite curious about the original score by Joe Trapanese. I don't know any of these artists though, there are just a few I recognize.

 

[fastballspecial]

I know Tom Morello and Queens well. I've heard RTJ before. The rest... fuck if I know.

There's never any good metal in racing games. Totally a place for a few songs too but it so rarely happens.

 

[rrs]

not feeling the soundtrack, where's my hard house kicks at

Seriously, this soundtrack is bloated with songs instead of picking stuff that gotcha in the first fifteen seconds pumped to race

 

[BAW]

Ho99o9

How do you even pronounce this shit

 

[Mushroomer25]

Mondo Cozmo, The Amazons, and Royal Blood are good picks - but I can't say I'm super excited about the majority of the set here.

 

[5taquitos]

Jesus, that marketing copy.

 

[Bishop89]

Never heard of any of them.

Jaden Smith: Watch Me

Will Smith Jaden Smith?

 

[Nexus Zero]

Flowdan... didn’t think I’d live to see the day.

 

[sleverfunk]

Never heard of any of them.



Will Smith Jaden Smith?

aka white batman.

 

[BrettHeazy]

No Bhad Bhabie, No buy

 

[Mozendo]

I recognize Syd from The Internet, but that's it

 

[OfTheOverflow]

Who are any of these artists lol. I am fond of that Gorillaz track tho

 

[LeFAIS]

Lil’ Kleine?

How did he get in!?

 

[c0Zm1c]

• X Ambassadors: The Devil You Know

I recognise that from the recent episode of Lucifer.

 

[Falchion]

Shout out to K.Flay making the list.

 

[mreddie]

How do you even pronounce this shit

I think that's Horror in leet

 

[NESpowerhouse]

Where's the Eurobeat?

 

[RoKKeR]

Nothing But Thieves?? Damn, that's awesome. The song they picked is killer, too.

Definitely up for trying this out on EA access.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Ctrl+F: Run The Jewels

this should be in VGM bingo.

 

[djplaeskool]

Good list.
Systematic is a dope track. Makes a good #resist anthem.

 

[Auctopus]

For people who don't recognise the artists, it's mainly trendy rock with some hip-hop/garage/EDM thrown in.

Skepta & Goldie in a Need For Speed is pretty funny.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

This is 100% down to taste but man I miss the days racers had a lot of rock, metal and punk in their soundtracks.

Edit: That's a lot of licensing fees haha

 

[Wiped89]

Nothing has defined and shaped my music taste more than racing games. I can literally trace my changing tastes through the racing games I played through the years. I think it's because tracks on repeat + fast speeds makes them stick with me.

Wipeout 3 = electronica
Gran Turismo 3 = light indie
Burnout 3/Revenge = Indie, then rock/metal
Burnout Paradise = old school rock
Need For Speed Most Wanted/Hot Pursuit: Bassy pop/dance
Forza Horizon 3 = dance/pop

It's ALL been developed through my racing games.

Will 10/10 buy this new NFS day one.

 

[Youth Crew]

I know maybe 5 things on that list. Damn.

Guess nothing will ever top the Tony Hawk games.

 

[mreddie]

Edit: That's a lot of licensing fees haha

Aren't a lot of these artists indie now?

 

[Rap2thaMoon]

Will need for speed ever have a great licensed soundtrack again? post pro street it has been mediocre, according to my music taste, I do like most music genres and yet I can barely find a song that I liked in most NFS games sins shift. Thanks for spotify I guess.

And Most wanted 2005 had a fantastic mix of rap, rock and electronic music, hell even the original soundtrack was great.

But maybe when I play payback I'll like the music or a few tracks.