This is one of the worst game songs selections ever. Well, BRMC's "Rival" is good and Broken Bell's "Holding on for Life" is excellent, though the latter doesn't fit at all with baseball.
I guess that's Columbia/Sony for you. Most good alternative bands are now on indie labels.
This is the superb "Holding On For Life" for anyone interested. It is completely irrelevant with the baseball "theme":
I listen a lot to Sirius Xm's Alt Nation, and most of these bands are not unknown to me. I recognized "Dangerous" from that dev vid a few months back, had a feeling it would be on here. As of last week, it's currently #2 on their Top 18 countdown. It's been on there for like 2 months too.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Broken Bells, Sir Sly, and Band Of Skulls are all fairly known bands on Alt Nation Those songs by Sir Sly and Broken Bells were on the countdown multiple times in 2013. Good stuff. Personally I wouldn't say it's the most baseball music (even I tend to just play custom tracks almost exclusively haha), but it's not that bad.
For anyone that wants to hear those songs now, I made a YouTube list for you below.
The only one I couldnt find was the last one, The Pack A.D. - Creeping' Jenny.
Here they are, had to type them out. I've never even heard of any of these songs but I just use my own music every year so whatever.
Aloe Blacc - Can You Do This
Band of Skulls - Asleep at the Wheel
Big Data - Dangerous
Black Joe Lewis - The Hipster
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Rival
Broken Bells - Holding on for Life
Flume - On Top
Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise
Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone
MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'
Nick Waterhouse - This is a Game
Sir Sly - Gold
The Pack A.D. - Creepin' Jenny
As usual, never heard of any of these. Hell, most of these I couldn't even figure out which was the band name, and which was the song title. lol. Ho hum.
Here they are, had to type them out. I've never even heard of any of these songs but I just use my own music every year so whatever.
Aloe Blacc - Can You Do This
Band of Skulls - Asleep at the Wheel
Big Data - Dangerous
Black Joe Lewis - The Hipster
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Rival
Broken Bells - Holding on for Life
Flume - On Top
Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise
Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone
MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'
Nick Waterhouse - This is a Game
Sir Sly - Gold
The Pack A.D. - Creepin' Jenny
Cool to see some Jake Bugg on the game this year. Interesting choice from whoever has a part in compiling this list. For those not familiar, Jake Bugg has some very, very good material.