Two JEFF The Brotherhood songs will be heard by the baseball video game playing minions next month! Their 2009 cut “U Got The Look” is on the soundtrack for MLB 12: The Show while “Shredder” from 2011’s We Are The Champions is on Major League Baseball 2K12. Check out the “U Got The Look” music video below:
The soundtrack for Need For Speed: The Run, the long-running racing video game, has just been announced and most importantly it features some fine music (otherwise I wouldn’t have made this post). Black Lips‘ “The Lie” (Arabia Mountain, 2011, Vice) is in the game as is The Handsome Furs “Damage” (Sound Kapital, 2011, Sub Pop) and “Lonely Boy” (El Camino, 2011, Nonesuch) by Black Keys.
As I believe I’ve written before, video game soundtracks more or less were the forerunner to a pretty significant amount of music that I like presently. Musicians and bands like Jay Reatard, The Walkmen, Pixies, and Editors would hardly or doubtfully be among my favorites today if I hadn’t been exposed to them via video game back then. It’s encouraging to read about how my favorite band is going to be in a widely played game. The video game soundtrack is a great platform for exposure, especially when it reaches out to people who perhaps otherwise would never get a chance (or want a chance) to listen to Black Lips or Handsome Furs.
Check Out “The Lie”:
Introduction
I didn’t get to play too many video games this year, unfortunately. The first few months of ’09 saw very little spare time for me. In fact, time spent gaming has gradually decreased since my freshman year of high school. At that time, I got a job that occupied a sizable amount of time on weekends; in addition, the amount of schoolwork I had shot up big time. As the years passed and school got harder and I got more jobs, free time to game approached nil. That leaves me where I’m at now. I get a chance to play maybe once or twice a month.
Favorite Game
FIFA Soccer 10 – This is the shit! It’s so frustrating to lose (and I do often), but winning is just an amazing feeling because it’s so rare. I’ve found that my favorite team to play as is my ancestral club S.S.C Napoli. Before Napoli, I was a die-hard Bayern Munchen fan (maybe out of respect to the song “Munich” by Editors), but I sort of lost my rhythm playing as them. With Napoli, I got Fabio Quagliarella, who has been absolutely money. He scored three goals for me in one game on normal difficulty. To put something into perspective, it’s rare that I score one goal per game. Obviously, things ended up working out quite well not just because of Fabio, but I got to give him a lot of credit.
No, not No Age, more like No Control haha. The disturbing, yet painfully hilarious effects of erasing a young miscreant’s Warcraft account.
Chris
That sound you hear is me, Chris, Ramsden, and all the other Beatles fan boys having an orgasm after reading this article.
GILES MARTIN WAS conjuring spirits, or perhaps summoning gods. The tools for this ritual included a pair of omnidirectional microphones, a digital mixing console and a hastily-procured set of teacups and saucers, but the magic was in the room itself. Studio Two at Abbey Road in London has changed very little since 1969, when Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison recorded together for the last time. The Steinway upright McCartney played on “Lady Madonna” still stands in one corner, its middle keys worn to the wood. Sound-absorbing quilts hang in wide stripes down the whitewashed brick walls. The view from the control room on the second level is much as it would have been for George Martin, Giles’s father, who oversaw the creation of nearly every Beatles album from this room. Giles held a slender finger to his lips, which turned up into a playful grin. He handed cups and saucers to three people nearby and mimed a sip. The others followed his lead, and a few feet away the microphones captured the small clattering sound of four people drinking tea.
The odd recording session in March was one very small contribution to what Apple Corps — the company still controlled by McCartney, Starr and the widows of Lennon and Harrison — hopes will be the most deeply immersive way ever of experiencing the music and the mythology of the Beatles. The band that upended the cultural landscape of the 1960s is now hitching its legacy to the medium of a new generation: the video game.
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