My ultimate setlist

[TheDrummerMan]

Before the songs some explanation.

1. I hate most metal, especially death metal and nu-metal. I realize some people enjoy songs more of this nature. Please feel free to reply with some metal songs as I know those are under-represented on my list.

2. Same goes for punk. Although I don't hate it, just don't know enough to make more suggestions than the ones I have.

3. I have country. Deal with it. If it's too much country for some I would strongly advocate the first 2 country songs listed.

4. I tried to be somewhat realistic i.e. no Zeppelin on the list (even though it would be awesome)

5. Songs I am convinced would be awesome in Rock Band and no amount of persuasion could change my mind are bolded.

50's & 60's

Crying - Roy Orbison
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Green River- Creedence Clearwater Revival
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Oh Boy - Buddy Holly
Ohio - CSN&Y (or any other Neil Young song)
Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Wild Thing - The Troggs

70's

All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
Already Gone - The Eagles
Amie - Pure Prairie League
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Blue Sky - Allman Brothers Band
Can't Get Enough - Bad Company (or Feel Like Makin' Love)
Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band
Crazy On You - Heart
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Fly By Night - Rush
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Have You Ever Loved A Woman - Derek & The Dominoes
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh (or Funk #49)
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
Rock And Roll Hoochie Coo - Rick Deringer
Stay With Me - The Faces
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
You Better You Bet - The Who (or Squeezebox)

80's

18 And Life - Skid Row (or I Remember You)
867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
Blister In The Sun - The Violent Femmes
Centerfold - J Geils Band
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
Funky Cold Medina - Ton Loc
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett
Kiss - Prince
Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
Mother - Danzig
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White
Paradise City - Guns N Roses
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
Power Of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
Run To You - Bryan Adams
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
The Warrior - Scandal
Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies

90's

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Cumbersome - Seven Mary Three
End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M.
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
Good - Better Than Ezra
Hangin' Around - Counting Crows
Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
Hook - Blues Traveler
I Alone - Live
Inside Out - Eve 6
Island In The Sun - Weezer
Jealous Again - Black Crowes
Karma Police - Radiohead
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
Outshined - Soundgarden
Peaches - Presidents Of The USA
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Sample In A Jar - Phish
Semi-Charmed Kind Of Life - Third Eye Blind
Superman's Dead - Our Lady Peace
Unforgiven - Metallica
What I Got - Sublime
When I Come Around - Green Day
Stone Roses - ???

00's

1985 - Bowling For Soup
Ain't Comin' Home - Silvertide
All My Life - Foo Fighters
Bodies - Drowning Pool
Bring Me Back To Life - Evanescence
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
Cold Hard ***** - Jet
Cowboy - Kid Rock
Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers (or Aeroplane)
Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Last Nite - The Strokes
Rock And Roll - The Redwalls
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Show Me How To Live - Audioslave
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Tribute - Tenacious D (oh how I would long for F*ck Her Gently)
With Your Love - The Len Price 3
Coheed And Cambria - ???? (Don't know much by them but loved their song on RB1)

Country a.k.a Yes I know it's called Rock Band

Ain't Goin' Down (Til The Sun Comes Up) - Garth Brooks
Long White Cadillac - Dwight Yoakum

Alcohol - Brad Paisley
Beer For My Horses - Toby Keith
Dust On The Bottle - David Lee Murphy
Play Something Country - Brooks & Dunn
Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) - Big & Rich
What Was I Thinkin' - Dierks Bentley (really wish this was the Dierks song we got next week)

[Teh_Jakester]

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
How You Remind Me - Nickelback

Two things:
One: SLTS would be awful. It's More Than a Feeling's riff, and some sustains for guitar, and the vocals have several random pitch jumps that would just make it dumb to include. Use Come as You Are, About a Girl or Lithium if you're going for popular, or you could go for the gusto:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNuVx0erhY
(note that About a Girl and School were released in the '80s)
Two: Chad Kroeger has said that games like Rock Band are the cancer that's killing Rock music. Nickelback could not be in this game.

[TheDrummerMan]

Two things:
One: SLTS would be awful. It's More Than a Feeling's riff, and some sustains for guitar, and the vocals have several random pitch jumps that would just make it dumb to include. Use Come as You Are, About a Girl or Lithium if you're going for popular, or you could go for the gusto:
(note that About a Girl and School were released in the '80s)
Two: Chad Kroeger has said that games like Rock Band are the cancer that's killing Rock music. Nickelback could not be in this game.

I changed it to Heart Shaped Box. About A Girl is on GHWT. I tried to get unique songs.

And I removed Nickelback. I just figured they are popular and that's the only one of their songs I can halfway stand.

[Teh_Jakester]

Heart-Shaped Box was on GH2, so... uh... yeah. Not that it's a bad choice. Just saying.

[TheDrummerMan]

Heart-Shaped Box was on GH2, so... uh... yeah. Not that it's a bad choice. Just saying.

Oh don't own GH2. Just really wanted to avoid GHWT. I know some of the others were on other games too, but adding drums and vocals makes them new in my book.

[YCFan282]

Two things:
One: SLTS would be awful. It's More Than a Feeling's riff, and some sustains for guitar, and the vocals have several random pitch jumps that would just make it dumb to include. Use Come as You Are, About a Girl or Lithium if you're going for popular, or you could go for the gusto:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNuVx0erhY
(note that About a Girl and School were released in the '80s)
Two: Chad Kroeger has said that games like Rock Band are the cancer that's killing Rock music. Nickelback could not be in this game.

i believe nickelback is killing music

[Teh_Jakester]

i believe nickelback is killing music

Yes, along with every other cookie-cutter band we see nowadays. It's ironic, see.

[YCFan282]

Yes, along with every other cookie-cutter band we see nowadays. It's ironic, see.

very


op: i'd like about 10 songs on that massive list

[Sargehalo51]

I gotta say I like the OP's list, well done.

I also gotta agree with his views on what people call metal these days. Certainly isn't the metal I grew up on during the 70's and 80's.