10 Best Songs In The Tony Hawk's Games

The last entry developed by Neversoft (before Robomodo took over and, by all accounts, drove the series into the ground), 2007’s Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground was a mixed bag in many respects.

That said, its expectedly eclectic soundtrack was among its best features, with The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil standing out as the hippest and most timeless song from it. Beyond being an awesome tune, though, its place within the title meant that countless players got their first taste of the London troupe as they tore up Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

The track – which was inspired by French poet Baudelaire and Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita – first appeared on the Stones’ 1968 classic, Beggars Banquet. Granted, its sinister first-person narrative regarding Satan’s role in historical atrocities doesn’t exactly scream extreme sports; yet, singer Mick Jagger’s rebellious attitude and broad notion of being misunderstood by onlookers translate to skateboarding culture.

So, too, does its flashy musicality, with resourceful textures like shekere, maracas, piano, and backing howls adding worldly flair to their standard rock instrumentation. Above all else, though, Sympathy for the Devil is just brazenly cool from start to finish, plain and simple.