Man, NHL 08-12 were probably the ones I played more than any other. End of middle school to end of high school had nothing but time on my hands and would spend so much of it playing games like this for hours on end. I've always considered the older games soundtracks my favourites but these are the ones I've probably heard the most simply from the hours I put into these games. I remember hearing some of these songs 1000+ times... and yet somehow there have to be at least 6 or 7 tracks here I have absolutely zero memory of. Luckily almost all the ones I don't remember happen to be absolute detritus but it blew me away how many I have no recollection of whatsoever while remembering other ones I wouldn't have heard in 15+ years like the back of my hand. I'm gonna have to go find my old copy of this game and make sure it didn't have some perfectly placed scratch that just so happened to corrupt the worst half of the soundtrack for me.
Side note, learning about the hilarious ways some of these songs I had never bothered to look up the lyrics for were censored has become one of my favourite parts of this series.
The outro to Sorry You’re Not A Winner goes so hard. Also I think Pop Levi was going for his best Robert Plant impression. The song almost sounds like it could be a song from one of Plant’s solo records.
I’m pretty sure NHL 12 or so was the one where you were able to create your own soundtrack and I’m terrified to dust off my PS3 and see what monstrosity I curated for myself back then. Thanks for putting these together, really awesome kick of nostalgia.
Man, NHL 08-12 were probably the ones I played more than any other. End of middle school to end of high school had nothing but time on my hands and would spend so much of it playing games like this for hours on end. I've always considered the older games soundtracks my favourites but these are the ones I've probably heard the most simply from the hours I put into these games. I remember hearing some of these songs 1000+ times... and yet somehow there have to be at least 6 or 7 tracks here I have absolutely zero memory of. Luckily almost all the ones I don't remember happen to be absolute detritus but it blew me away how many I have no recollection of whatsoever while remembering other ones I wouldn't have heard in 15+ years like the back of my hand. I'm gonna have to go find my old copy of this game and make sure it didn't have some perfectly placed scratch that just so happened to corrupt the worst half of the soundtrack for me.
Side note, learning about the hilarious ways some of these songs I had never bothered to look up the lyrics for were censored has become one of my favourite parts of this series.
The outro to Sorry You’re Not A Winner goes so hard. Also I think Pop Levi was going for his best Robert Plant impression. The song almost sounds like it could be a song from one of Plant’s solo records.
I’m pretty sure NHL 12 or so was the one where you were able to create your own soundtrack and I’m terrified to dust off my PS3 and see what monstrosity I curated for myself back then. Thanks for putting these together, really awesome kick of nostalgia.