News Guitar Hero Gets One-Upped
posted by on October 30 at 10:55 AM
According to TG Daily, there’s a new video game in town. It’s called Rock Band and it’ll allow players to plug in multiple “instruments” (a microphone, two guitars, a bass, and drums) so players can jam with their friends to almost 60 songs spanning four decades of music.
The song list was released today:
1960sRolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
1970s
Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”*
The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
Mountain “Mississippi Queen”*
The Police “Next to You”
David Bowie “Suffragette City”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid”*
Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Deep Purple “Highway Star”
KISS “Detroit Rock City”
Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides”*
Sweet “Ballroom Blitz”*1980s
Rush “Tom Sawyer”*
Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Faith No More “Epic”
R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills”*1990s
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Nirvana “In Bloom”
Stone Temple Pilots “Vasoline”
Weezer “Say It Ain’t So”
Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
Radiohead “Creep”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Hole “Celebrity Skin”
Garbage “I Think I’m Paranoid”
Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”2000s
The Hives “Main Offender”
Queens of the Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
The Strokes “Reptilia”
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
The Killers “When You Were Young”
New Pornographers “Electric Version”
New Pornographers? That’s crazy! But over all, the list actually looks really weak to me. Is that what the 2000s are going to be remembered for musically? Are Coheed and Fall Out Boy really the Nirvana and the Who of our generation? Are they the artists that are going to last?
And where the hell are Guns ‘n’ Roses and AC/DC?
its actually pretty strong list til it reaches the 00s, then its nose-dive city. and wave of mutilation is from 1989.
it proves a point: a lot of pop-rock music in the 00s is made for children by children. jet? fall out boy? coheed & cambria? maybe its just me getting older--OK thats exactly what it is--but that shits totally disposable.
The 2000s are so weak that the Pixies moved from the 90s? Talk to Grandy, there's plenty of decent 2000s, and they're not all changing their lyrics for Outback commercials.
Oh yeah, Rock Band is totally gonna pwn Guitar Hero. I can't wait to get behind the "drum kit" and rock out!
Considering it's a major video game release, the 00's aren't so bad. QOTSA, NIN, New Pornos, and not a lick of nu-metal? Not too shabby, if you ask me. But yeah, including the Pixies in the wrong decade is a pretty big screw-up.
Maybe video game developers just aren't the best arbiters of historically significant pop music...
why would anyone do this instead of actually making music with real instruments? fucking retarded. (same goes for guitar hero.)
More like "according to us"--we've had posts about it on Slog since August (link: http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/paxglove_is_all_around ). It's been demoed in the Seattle area by MTV Games a few times.
Rock Band is actually made by the guys who created Guitar Hero; there was a nice legal splintering between GH's developers and publisher, so the new Guitar Hero 3 game that came out on Sunday is more of a cash-in than a true sequel. In other words, think The Misfits post-Danzig. Rock Band's the real deal.
But I see big, big trouble ahead for Rock Band. Reason? The last Seattle demo of the game had a broken drum kit. You think people are going to play those virtual drums softly and safely in tune with Queens of the Stone Age? No way. Expect a lot of people to be angry about their less-than-durable $170 purchases this holiday season.
AC/DC hasn't licensed its songs for iTunes, either, so I'm assuming their catalog is on lock and key. And Guns 'N Roses are on Guitar Hero III...in fact, you can play as Slash in that one. So I'm guessing GH has the exclusive Axl rights for now.
Yeah, rock-n-roll didn't really start kicking till the 70s.
Oohh, and, but also... Guns & Roses suck major bags o' dicks!
Huh. BOC represented in both GH3 and this game. I have to admit that they've been a guilty pleasure of mine for years. It'd be more fun to do Cities On Flame than Don't Fear The Reaper.
Doolitle was released in 1989. They're way off.
Doolitle was released in 1989. They're way off.
I'd take Coheed over bands like AC/DC and Nirvana anyday. Just because they're considered "classics" doesn't mean they're not just overrated. Bands like Coheed and Cambria are way too underrated and deserve more respect and main-stream attention. People jump on them calling them a shitty band when they've never really even heard anything other than what MTV plays (or used to play in the case of Nirvana and AC/DC).
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