Soundtrack Music

The Sims is more jazz and shopping music while The Sims 2 has regular music by real life artists.

The Sims: House Party
Radio stations: Rap, Techno, Country, Beach, and Disco

Hot Date
Radio station: Jazz

The Sims 2 Music
The Sims 2 soundtrack music is set up by Maxis' audio director Robi Kauker. He is in charge of making all the radio stations like rap, salsa, heavy metal, and pop. The music took about a year to record and was restricted from being repetitive. Kauker says, "Diehard Sim fans spend virtual lifetimes playing, so the music can't be repetitive."

The theme music and music from the Create-A-Sim portion of the game was created by Mark Mothersbaugh, a founding member of Devo, whom Maxis enlisted. However Kauker took a variety of styles from the radio for the music within the game. Maxis asked several developers to help develop the music like the Humble Brothers.

Beginning with The Sims 2: University, Kauker and his team used real bands in order to produce music. Each artist replaced the English lyrics with Simlish.

Music from The Sims 2 and The Sims 2: University was remixed by real DJs in The Sims 2: Nightlife.

University Soundtrack

 * "Come On" - Steadman
 * "This Conversation Is Over" - Acceptance
 * "Beautiful Life" - Charlotte Martin
 * "Outsider" - The Daylights
 * "Sway" - The Perishers
 * "Pretty People" - Dexter Freebish
 * "Very Very Rich Town" - Go Betty Go
 * "The Compromise" - The Format

FreeTime Soundtrack

 * "Fa-Fa-Fa" - Datarock
 * "It's A Party" - Fire Flies
 * "Into The Sun" - Great Northern
 * "Britney" - I'm From Barcelona
 * "La Otra Princesa" - Lara
 * "Your Forgiveness" - Lexington Bridge
 * "Pocket Full Of Sunshine" - Natasha Bedingfield
 * "Take Out The Trash" - They Might Be Giants