EA Reveals Soundtrack for Madden NFL 06

Electronic Arts has released the list of music to be featured in Madden NFL 06. For a few years now, EA has used the soundtracks for its popular Madden series to sell more games, to inextricably link
"cool" with "video games" and to establish the company as a tastemaker with the coveted gamer demographic.

Here's an example: Madden 2004 featured the Blink 182 song "Down" from their (at the time) unreleased album
Blink 182. The song became such a hit that radio stations were playing it off of the video game disc,
according to an article at Gamerfeed.com. Having a disc jockey announce on air that he's playing the game off of the game disc because that's the only place that the song can be found is great for EA and even for the industry at large.
The sooner we all get over that "games are for geeks" image the sooner more ladies start showing up in the games we love to play.

Here's the track list. We're relieved that the repetitive background track at Madden06.com wasn't an indicator of the music budget for the game.

ARTIST, TRACK NAME

Avenged Sevenfold , Bat Country

Bullet For My Valentine, 4 Words (To Choke Upon)

Bump J, Move Around

Chamillionaire, Hate In Ya Eyes

Disturbed, Ten Thousand Fists

Fall Out Boy, Dance, Dance

Finch, Ink

Foo Fighters, No Way Back

Funeral For A Friend, Streetcar

Godsmack, Bring it On

Hot Hot Heat, Pickin' It Up

Memphis Bleek, Like That

Nine Black Alps, Cosmopolitan

Papoose, Born To Win (1)

REV RUN, Mind On The Road

Sam Scarfo, Tear 'Em Up (1)

Slim Thug, Get It Started (1)

Spider Loc, When I Get Angry (1)

Stat Quo, Rock Da Party

Tech N9ne, The Beast

The All-American Rejects, Night Drive

Further reading on EA's music strategy and the Madden series here. View the EA press release on Madden 06 after the jump.

Update: corrected name of Blink 182 album. Thanks, Isaac.