Your "Eye of the Tiger"?

While a great song, the title also works as a Resident Evil pun.

So, what is your "Eye of the Tiger? To all who are not familiar with the Rocky films, what music gets you pumped when playing a game or doing... whatever it is you like to do.


For me, back when I spent my time playing Flat Out 2, every time Fall Out Boy's Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers started playing in-game I used to tear the opponents down.

When I'm driving around in my car it's Pendulum's Fasten Your Seatbelts that might one day get me a speeding ticket.


A couple examples there. Whether in-game or not, what is yours?

Mass Distraction wrote:

what music gets you pumped when playing a game or doing... whatever it is you like to do.

Anytime I play SSBB(Super Smash Bros. Brawl), I always have my headphones in, and whenever a Deftones or Avril song starts playing, I just fucking own those level 9's...here is a vid of me juggling level 9 Link. He 's gotta stay up!

BTW, before you play my vids from SSBB, where I own level 9 Link and level 9 Marth, start this song from Deftones!!!! Shove it! Shove it! Shove it!!






And here is another 1 on 1 with me as White Marth vs Black cloaked Marth!



Thanks iPod Touch for allowing this!

The song War from the Rocky 4 soundtrack pumps me up for workouts. I also listen to anything from Two Steps from Hell and old school west coast gangsta rap. I need to feel like a badass when I lift.


I also watch Bruce Lee clips on YouTube

@Mass Distraction

Yeah, I like Pendulum. "Hold Your Colour" is one of my all time favorite albums.

Solaris Phase 2 is a prime example of music pieces that get's me pumped.



This was actually kind of recently discovered, but it really does make Mercs much more epic, and makes killing all of those enemies feel like a personal vendetta against a group that killed your loved one or something. It get's me combo-ing!

Mass Distraction wrote:

A couple examples there. Whether in-game or not, what is yours?

I love rocky films. My favourite is rocky 4. Dolph lundgren was jus so perfect for that role.

Okay on topic,

I generally don't listen to music when i am playing a game(i mean by listening to any other themes that are not playing in the game) but as far as pumping up, there are these couple of themes.



And this:

@Ravior: That's some epic music right there!

@chrisredfield84: I love both of those songs. That Ryu's theme metal cover is actually made by Ryashon. You should check some of his stuff, he makes great music.


A couple others that came to my mind:

I was so pumped when the theme song of this game started suddenly playing during the final stretch. It was epic.


Now, here's the theme of one of my favorite video game characters of all time, Axel the Dark Hero. The boss battle with him while this is playing... F YEAH!

Any music that's on my iPod can pump me up starring but not only:

Rust of Summer (RE5 Versus song)
RE6 Mercs theme (Hope I can get the other DLC theme songs soon too)
Super Meat Boy - Betus Blues
All Hail Shadow (I'm also a Sonic fanboy, deal with it.)
Ape Escape - Specter Circus

Also, when playing RE6 I give some characters their own theme songs that I listen to.

Leon (Normal): Globus - Save Me (Look. this. song. up. That is an order)
Leon (Costume 1 + 2): You are a Pirate (Original Lazy Town one... But come on, it's Leon)
Helena (Normal): Shania Twain - I'm Gonna Getcha Good
Helena (Costume 1 + 2): Robot Chicken - Work it out on the Floor
Jake: Come on, do I even need to say- Kung fu Fighting
Piers in general: Joe Esposito - You're the Best (It's an inside joke as to why he has that song)
Sherry in general: DDR - Sweet Little Bumblebee

Don't have one for Carla, Ada or Chris yet... Or Agent Useless.

The mastAH! wrote:

Or Agent Useless.

I believe his real name is Agent Not-HUNK.

The mastAH! wrote:

Any music that's on my iPod can pump me up starring but not only:

All Hail Shadow (I'm also a Sonic fanboy, deal with it.)

The music in Sonic can pump me up too! Live and Learn from SA2 as well as Open Your Heart from SA are the best! Green Hill Zone, Escape From The City, Radical Highway and Green/White Forest are others!


Oh, and that's weird that the Mercs music pumps you up lol

I've always found that the Mercs music, especially RE5, Mercs Reunion and RE6's Mercs sounds so innapropriate for an RE game. But it works.

I've been listening to the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle soundtrack a lot lately.

NiteKrawler wrote:

I've been listening to the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle soundtrack a lot lately.

Really? That's weird. I actually just assumed you ordinarilly listened to like Celine Dion and stuff to get pumped up.

Ain't the Sonic themes just plain epic?

Actually, I have like all of those tracks from SA2 that I mentioned on a burned disc, I need to go put those on my iPod at some point. Who is the Sonic band anyway? I think a buddy of mine told me that a group called Crush40 did the SA songs, but I'm not familiar with them.

SA2 has one of the best Sonic soundtracks easily.

Spike991 wrote:

Who is the Sonic band anyway? I think a buddy of mine
told me that a group called Crush40 did the SA songs, but I'm not
familiar with them.

Yeah it's Crush 40, with Johnny Gioli and Jun Senue.

Speaking of Sonic music:

Mass Distraction wrote:

@chrisredfield84: I love both of those songs. That Ryu's theme metal cover is actually made by Ryashon. You should check some of his stuff, he makes great music.

Yeah, the mortal kombat metal theme was awesome and pumping up. I mean the original was awesome too.

I have a Mortal Kombat Epic Soundtrack thread around here I made a long time ago.

http://www.residentevilforums.net/t2599-mortal-kombat-epic-soundtrack

Tekken 5 had a lot of good tracks.
Since this thread is only for those(themes) that pump-up, this one theme really does. Its a mix of symphony(jus vocal and a bit of orchestra) and good rock.

For me Sly is the greatest legend, Rocky movies are extremely inspirational and of course eye of the tiger is an anthem of my gym, I remember when i pressed my 140 kilos for the first time (it was like 3 months ago, well year and a half later after i started to work out ) I could not lift it on the end of the pyramid(Pyramid means when you start the work out cycle on the smaller weights and lot of Reps and finish cycle with ur top weight which u can lift only 1ce) then i got off the bench took 30 - 45 second break (time that took me to put on that song) got back under that big ass weight and pressed the living shit out of it on the very first guitar rif intro. That song really has some kind of a magic that boils up ur blood. My second top testosterone song is of course the actual theme song of Rocky, Its simply brilliant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEnIkz82A0

Mortal Kombat, how can it not!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA

Open your heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEzXFuYN89k

When I was younger I used to play Megaman while listening to DragonForce.....and this is my favorite Dragonforce song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Z62kM85rc

BTW HOW DOES EVERYONE GET THOSE BOX LINKS

This. Just... This.

chocotricks wrote:

BTW HOW DOES EVERYONE GET THOSE BOX LINKS

You mean embedding the videos on the page? Go to "Post Reply" and in that screen click the film reel thingy in the options panel. Then just copy/paste the video URL there and voila. Either that or just write [youtube][/youtube] and put your link in between those.

Older games always have the best music

chocotricks wrote:

Older games always have the best music

Fact.

Cinema (Skrillex Remix) - My favorite song of all time. Whenever the bass drops, I completely wreak havoc and go on a total rampage on any game with the exception of online because I suck at multiplayer. XD

Right now, I would have to say this

Extremely high enegry song.