Extreme sports theme music... (1 Viewer)

[Dave Poehlman]

Okay, I've been trying to collect songs of a particular genre that invoke visions of base jumping, fire belching drag cars, etc...

My problem is, I can only think of a few:

Fuel - Metallica
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Kickstart my Heart - Motley Crue
Human - White Zombie

So, I pose to you this scenario: Let's say you're in charge of finding the theme music for an extreme sports documentary.. what songs would you choose?

 

[Dave Poehlman]

Apparently, I've nailed the only four.

 

[Christopher_S]

Not at all. Actually, if it were me, I'd look at music by the bands that seem to be most popular in the extreme-sports community. Ska and (new-era) punk seem to be the most popular soundtracks for this kind of thing, you can check Google for "extreme sports punk music" to get a lot of info w/r/t what bands are popular.

The stuff you picked out would go well with extreme sports footage, although I wouldn't call it "authentic", whatever that means. If you want to continue in that vein, though, you might want to listen to some Andrew W.K. Really over-the-top pop-metal stuff, real high energy.