Unique and Semi-Unknown Bands

[Asystole]

Hello all, this is my first post and I literally just joined just for this. This is not so much a setlist as much as songs that I heartily recommend for Rock Band DLC. These songs are fun, complicated in one or more parts, and just rocking all around and would enhance the eclectic choices already in place on Rock Band. If anyone wants to add songs from these bands that would be good that is more than welcome. I probably have a ton more I can add to it if it's requested (doubtful), and if you have any suggestions PM me and I'll check them out and maybe add them to my list.

Tomahawk:
God Hates a Coward (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jt856_nRxQk)
101 North (http://youtube.com/watch?v=F05vHhhkC70)
Flashback (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZf7Nq4SQUQ)

The Blood Brothers:
Vital Beach
Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4OEtlteAojI)
Camouflage, Camouflage
Laser Life (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ0OuUrDes&feature=related)
Set Fire to the Face On Fire (http://youtube.com/watch?v=cGovcXvmbU0)

Minus the Bear:
Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dllO08Wkx1o&feature=related)
Let's Play Clowns
Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oxv75TRoIqg)
Drilling (http://youtube.com/watch?v=cYiHwI2236c)
Women We Haven't Met Yet
Pachuca Sunrise (http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXTADlY1NMY)

The Dead Science:
White Train
Below
Batty
Gamma Knife
Drrrty Magneto
Threnody


Jawbox:
Mirrorful (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HcDx3oAhOp0)
68

The Mars Volta:
Inertiatic ESP
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=8cdSiAgz1XU)

Hum:
The Pod (http://youtube.com/watch?v=egugSdWvHzc)
Green To Me (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uduQGhj9uoQ&feature=related)

Death From Above 1979:
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (http://youtube.com/watch?v=arL7FWupl7Q)
Go Home, Get Down

Pavement:
In The Mouth of a Desert (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_AzfE8hY0lg)
Summer Babe (Winter version) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=RNp-kv5K47Q)
Cut Your Hair (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BoMdkyeZOqE)

Chavez:
Break Up Your Band (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FDxiSPLaCfQ)
Lions

Built to Spill:
The Plan (http://youtube.com/watch?v=yiv1qnoKg3g)
Carry the Zero (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4s_3jcZqsIQ)

Big Business:
Start Your Digging

Ash:
Petrol (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bpiKzlgToqM)
Uncle Pat (http://youtube.com/watch?v=r0h7IB04-00)
Kung Fu (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zguGxVes6bI)

Drive Like Jehu:
Caress (http://youtube.com/watch?v=aZ1VdJ-nIr8&feature=related)

Schoolyard Heroes:
Panic in the Year Zero (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4djV262F-dc)
Sincerely Yours, Jonathan Harker
They Live (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Py3XOuF27T0)
Attack of the Puppet People
Dawn of the Dead (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zztt-HRdViI&feature=related)

[derrikirred]

Finally, someone with good taste!

[Schabel]

The Blood Brothers would be a no-no just because of the vocals and some of the lyrical content. They are a fave of mine though. The fact that you have my favorite band, Minus The Bear, on your list makes you my hero. I would love to see some MtB, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Brand New in the game. Probably won't happen, though.

[tmanrocks]

Mars volta is well known

but thats not the point right? lol

[mind_in_rewind]

Awesome list.

I would love Pavement, Ash, Built to Spill, Hum, and Death From Above 1979.

DFA 1979 doesn't have a guitarist, but I'm sure they could make it work.

[Asystole]

The Blood Brothers would be a no-no just because of the vocals and some of the lyrical content. They are a fave of mine though.

Hm, actually I think they could make The Blood Brothers work, especially with some of the songs I've chosen. I mean that Flyleaf song has screaming in it, they basically just have to do it like a rap/spoken word.

[Rev0lver]

the mars volta and minus the bear would be good.

[Asystole]

Mars volta is well known

but thats not the point right? lol

I wouldn't say they are well known. They definitely aren't UNKNOWN, but I am more than sure that less than half of the people you could ask walking down the street would know who they are off the top of their head. That's also why I didn't chose The Widow since that song is semi-popular. ;)

[Cashed]

As much as I love DFA1979, they wouldn't work in Rock Band with not being able to cover all the instruments Rock Band has available.

I'd like to see:

Modest Mouse
Trailer Trash
Dashboard
3rd Planet
Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
Dance Hall
The View

Voxtrot
Kid Gloves
Firecracker
Brother in Conflict

The Shins
Australia
Phantom Limb

Bloc Party
Like Eating Glass
Helicopter
Banquet
Positive Tension
Luno
Hunting for Witches

The Flaming Lips
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

The Pixies
Debaser
Tame

Spoon
You Got Your Cherry Bomb
Don't Make Me A Target

The New Pornographers
Mass Romantic
Centre for Holy Wars
Mutiny, I Promise You

The Hives
Tick Tick Boom
T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

The Hold Steady
Stuck Between Stations
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Chips Ahoy

[powdrdmilkman]

Rx Bandits is unique...

[Asystole]

Added some video links for the songs for those who may not know them and want a sample.

[mind_in_rewind]

Rx Bandits is unique...Not really. Anyway, they have no business being in this thread.

[Pixaroo]

I'd love to see the following:

Metric
Grow Up and Blow Away
Hustle Rose
Patriarch on a Vespa

Men, Women & Children
Sell Your Money
Vowels
Lightning Strikes Twice in New York

The Birthday Massacre
Happy Birthday
Nevermind
Red Star

Jack Off Jill
Vivica
Star No Star
Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers

Kill Hannah
Kennedy
Nerve Gas
Lips Like Morphine

Porcupine Tree
Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
Deadwing
Blackest Eyes

Our Lady Peace is somewhat well known, but anyway...
Starseed
Is Anybody Home?
Naveed
Potato Girl
Stealing Babies
Clumsy

Yeah, I know, I put six for the last one. They should make two OLP bundles! I'm probably the only person who would download them, but still...

[derrikirred]

For (semi)unknown bands, I would go with:

16 Horsepower
Pretty much any song, but we need a banjo

Angel City Outcasts
I'm An ACO
Let It Ride
Popeye In Afghanistan

The Bronx
Heart Attack American
White Tar
They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)

Cursive
The Great Decay
Retreat!
Art Is Hard

Don Caballero (instrumental, but way too much fun to pass up)
Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex
You Drink A Lot Of Coffee For A Teenager
A Lot Of People Tell Me I Have A Fake British Accent

dredg
That Tanbark Is Hot Lava
Sanzen
Convalescent
Bug Eyes
... and many more

The F*cking Champs (instrumental, but way too much fun to pass up)
Extra Man
Hats Off To Music
A Forgotten Chapter In The History Of Ideas

The Mars Volta (fairly well known, but needs mentioning anyway)
Inertiatic Esp
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Drunkship Lanterns

Minus The Bear (fairly well known, but needs mentioning anyway)
Thanks For The Killer Game Of Crisco Twister
Burying Luck
Fine + 2 Pts
Drilling
... and many more

Murder By Death
Brother
I'm Afraid Of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe
Sometimes The Line Walks You
Masters In Reverse Psychology

Refused (pretty well known, but needs mentioning anyway)
Coup d'état
The Deadly Rythm
New Noise
Refused Are F*cking Dead

Twothirtyeight
Forty Hour Increments
I Pretend To Choke

[Matt&Sarah]

RX Bandits would be ridiculous...hahaha. Great choice. Probably won't happen...

[Chimchim]

I want more Dethklok!

[omg10avalanches]

The Blood Brothers would be a no-no just because of the vocals and some of the lyrical content. They are a fave of mine though. The fact that you have my favorite band, Minus The Bear, on your list makes you my hero. I would love to see some MtB, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Brand New in the game. Probably won't happen, though.I would also love to see some MtB and Brand New. We need to start the petition for Brand New because I think if enough people have a hunger for it, they just might feed us.

EDIT: Oh man i just saw that someone posted Cursive and RX Bandits, great choices.

[minorbravo]

Mars Volta!

[Djanco]

I want more Dethklok!

**** yes. i want to hear the duncan hills coffee jingle and hatredcopter.

also, there's a couple of songs i can think of right now that would be great for people who dig classic rock/heavy metal

doctor doctor (walk on water version) - UFO
fight the good fight - Triumph

and hows about "Show me the way" from Frampton Comes Alive?