The video game also contains three songs from band Ink & Dagger's album The Fine Art of Original Sin. In 2005, former drummer Ryan McLaughlin sued Microsoft, claiming that they were used without the band's knowledge.
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The game is also well known for helping to launch the career of pop punk band Yellowcard due to the in-game soundtrack consisting of the complete One for the Kids album on it.
freestyle swimming | Freestyle swimming | Freestyle Fellowship | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle | Coca-Cola Freestyle | Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle | Snowboarding | snowboarding | Freestyle skiing | Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX | Transworld Snowboarding | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle | Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metres freestyle | Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay | Shaun White Snowboarding | freestyle music | Freestyle Football | FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 | 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle | 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle | Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 66 kg | Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 55 kg | Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 63 kg | Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 48 kg | women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay | U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix | TransWorld Snowboarding | Transworld SNOWBOARDING | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800 metre freestyle | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships (50m) in Barcelona, Spain – Women's 400 metre freestyle |
Amped 2 features 14 top snowboarding pros, including Jeremy Jones, Mikey LeBlanc, Travis Parker, and Janna Meyen.
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Amped 2 has an abundant soundtrack of over 300 songs, including various underground and indie groups such as MyG, Acumen Nation, and The Peripheral Visionaries.
He has written four books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001) a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004), a history of extreme sports; and Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008).
107.7-HD2 carries a New CHR format branded as "Z 107-7 Amped."
The song has been described as "an amped-up Motown bounce recalling Britpop progenitors The Jam's classic "A Town Called Malice", but with speaker-bursting modern-rock dynamics".