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Licensed tracks that you strongly associate with specific games

Ain't no rest for the wicked - Borderlands.

Billie Jean - Vice City.

Anything from The Ink Spots - Fallout.

Song 2 - Fifa 98.

Kids - Fifa 09.

Mercy - Fifa 09.

Stop The Rock - Fifa 2000.

Bodyrock - Fifa 2001.
 
Life is Strange:

Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (Episode One/Episode Two)
Alt-j - Something Good (Episode Two)
Local Natives - Mt Washington (Episode Two)
Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons (Episode Three)
Foals - Spanish Sahara (Episode Five)

Way To Fall from Starsailor for MGS3.

SHIT WAS POWERFUL.


And these for me too, especially Starsailor. Also add in, with the Tony Hawk connection, Motorhead's Ace of Spades for Pro Skater 3 and Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire for Underground.
 
Well, Tony Hawk is covered, so...

We Got the Noise -> Need For Speed series

You're the inspiration -> Elite Beat Agents

Huddle Formation -> Little Big Planet
 
"Guerrilla Radio" - RATM with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

"Sugar" - System of a Down with Madden 09 or 10

"Dragula" - Rob Zombie with Jet Set Radio

"Mother" - Danzig with GTA San Andreas

"Heavy" - Collective Soul with NHL 2001
 
Way to Fall is MGS3 to me, up there with the title track itself. Sometimes I even forget it's not really an MGS song.
To a lesser degree, The Man Who Sold the World will always remind me of The Phantom Pain from now on, specially Midge Ure's cover which will forever give me flashbacks to the hospital sequence (huge props to the cover btw, he sounds so much like David Bowie there that I actually thought it was just a remixed version of the original track).
 
Holding out for a Hero - Saints Row the Third (perfect for the ending mission)
Billie Jean, Broken Wings, And the Beat Goes On, Africa, etc.... - Vice City
Heart Shaped Box - Infamous Second Son
Man Who Sold The World - MGSV
Moon River - Bayonetta 2
September by Earth, Wind, and Fire - Elite Beat Agents
My Hands - Final Fantasy XIII
Super Bon Bon, Sex Type Thing, All I Want Is You - Gran Turismo 2
 
I associate "Mad World" with Gears just from its trailer.

There's also a couple others from sports games like 'TNT' in Tony Hawk
 
I just remembered this cause it hit my playlist, but Make it Bun Dem by Skrillex and Damian Marley is synonymous to me now with Far Cry 3 and burning the field
 
Kinda cheap to pick something from GTA but first thing to come to mind:
Kanye West - Flashing Lights (GTA IV)

A lot of songs like Let the Bodies Hit the Floor by Drowning Pool I associate with the old WoW PvP vids.
 
The music by Oneohtrix Point Never has always reminded me of video game music. I always associated his last album with Bloodborne.

Excerpt from a track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVO8fbXmPlc

In one interview, talking about this track I think he said something about liking this weird idea of aliens of higher intelligence indifferent to humans, like animals in a zoo while a king and queen sat hopeless in their thrones. I was like yup, Bloodborne.

This other song just makes me think of Uematsu and Final Fantasy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vhnMkcK5yo
 
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