Rock Band Tracks Finalized
By Stephany on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 7:02 PM PST In Electronic Arts, Gamer Life, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
Arriving in stores on November 20th, the much anticipated Rock Band has finally had their track lists finalized – although the unlockable tracks have yet to surface (save a Bang Camaro song). So far, the downloadable content available is the albums “Who’s Next” from The Who and “One” from Metallica. You can also get 18 songs by the Grateful Dead. The music ranges from different generations starting with the 60’s up to present day – as we already know- but the era with the most songs is the 70’s. I have broken it down for you per time frame.
60’s
- “Gimme Shelter” – The Rolling Stones
70’s
- Ballroom Blitz – Sweet (as made famous by)
- Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
- Detroit Rock City – KISS
- Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
- Flirtin’ With Disaster – Molly Hatchet
- Foreplay/Long Time – Boston
- Green Grass & High Tides – The Outlaws (amfb)
- Highway Star – Deep Purple
- Mississippi Queen – Mountain (amfb)
- Next to You – The Police
- Paranoid – Black Sabbath (amfb)
- uffragette City – David Bowie
- Train Kept a Rollin’ – Aerosmith
- Don’t Get Fooled Again -The Who
80’s
- Epic – Faith No More
- Orange Crush – R.E.M.
- Run to the Hills – Iron Maiden (amfb)
- Should I Stay or Should I Go – The Clash
- Tom Sawyer – RUSH
- Wanted Dead or Alive – Bon Jovi
- Wave of Mutilation – Pixies
***90’s and 2000’s After the Break***
90’s
- Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
- Celebrity Skin – Hole
- Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
- Creep – Radiohead
- Enter Sandman – Metallica
- I Think I’m Paranoid – Garbage
- In Bloom – Nirvana
- Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters
- Sabotage – Beastie Boys
- Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
- Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots
2000’s
- Are You Gonna be My Girl – Jet
- Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Dead on Arrival – Fallout Boy
- Electric Version – New Pornographers
- Go With the Flow – Queens of the Stone Age
- Here It Goes Again – OK Go
- Main Offender – The Hives
- Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Reptilia – The Strokes
- The Hand That Feeds – Nine Inch Nails
- Welcome Home – Coheed & Cambria
- When You Were Young – The Killers
Downloadable Content
- Pleasure (Pleasure) – Bang Camaro
oh HELLZ yeah! This is one of the best line-ups for a guitar hero style game I’ve seen yet! AND ITS GOT DRUMS!!! The end of November can’t come soon enough.
I can only sympathize with half that track listing. I know it’s not all about the guitar parts, but I couldn’t knowingly own anything with “When You Were Young” on unless there was a fantastic reason and for only a small handful of tracks I like, I can say there definitely isn’t. Roll on Guitar Hero 3. You’ve got my vote. Just need to decide which console I get it for now.
Yeah,
I agree, its official, the guitar hero setlist is superior. Still very good though.
This game went on the back burner for me, I just picked up GH3 for 360 with the wireless guitar. So I’ll pick up RB in 08 when I can just get the game and drums only…
After playing most of GH3 now, I can say that it has its fair share of “blah” tracks. In fact, maybe I’ll save that for a review. GH3 is definitely not as balanced as say GH2 was.
Rock Band is going for the less shreddy songs anyway. I tend to look forward to Rock Band more so for the DLC. Oh yeah, and drums do rule.
Hell, if that list is correct, it looks like Rock Band & Guitar Hero 3 are sharing a lot of tracks. I’m really not sure if that’s a good thing, either- like Steve said, some of those songs, well, they flat-out sucked.
Oh well, it’ll be interesting to see the two companies’ different takes on the same tunes.
Steve speaks truth. After playing through GH3, it’s time to look forward to RB. While there are a few great songs on GH3, the majority of the filler songs are flat out blah.
It’s GH3 for me, and for a very good reason: Rock Band isn’t being published for the PC. >.