The playlist that made an entire generation of skaters into punk rock kids overnight. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 stacked its PS2 soundtrack with early-2000s heavyweights and it still goes off. NOFX opens with "What's the Matter With Parents Today" and the attitude is set immediately.
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Sum 41's "Summer" is pure cafeteria energy, and then Alien Ant Farm's "Wish" drops that bouncy groove right into a halfpipe. But the real flex is the range. Outkast's "B.O.B." sits next to Drowning Pool's "Follow" and somehow it all works while you're grinding a rail in Foundry.
Deftones close it out with "Headup" and Ozomatli's "Cut Chemist Suite" adds a Latin funk wildcard nobody expected. Millencolin's "Pepper" is the sleeper that everybody ended up loving. If you can hear any of these tracks without mentally landing a kickflip, you never owned a PS2.