List of good albums for download!!

[Tiberiouslb]

This is actually from a post on the other game's forums but since Rockband has seemingly owned them I am putting it up here. I wonder if they got the album idea from my old post, I am perfectly okay with it if they did!!

More realistically how about album pricing... Many would pay a decent amount for some of the great albums. Theres a pretty good list of albums I would pay $20 dollars for, which would average out to under $2 a song. The best case scenario would be greatest hits albums (GH in list) for $20-25 (or less) a piece. That should leave plenty of room to pay royalties and get us some great albums.
I would rock to (In no particular order) and custom greatest hits packages would be fine where the artists don't have one:

Scorpions- greatest hits
Led Zepellin -greatest hits
Metallica- Ride the Lightning, Justice for All, Master of Puppets, and the "Black Album"
Megadeth- Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia, Cryptic Writings
Pantera- Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power
System of a Down- GH
Slipnot- Subliminal Verses (and throw in Wait and Bleed)
Mushroomhead- XIII or GH
Eric Clapton- GH
Ozzy Osbourne- The Ozzman Cometh (or another GH)
White Zombie/ Rob Zombie- Astrocreep 3000 or GH
ZZ Top- GH
Boston- GH
Corrosion of Conformity- Deliverance
Dio- GH
S.T.P. - Core, Purple or GH
Queensryche- Empire (I can't believe we haven't gotten one song yet)
Bush - 6teen stone
Live - Throwing Copper
Offspring- Smash
Reo Speedwagon- GH
Queen- Greatest Hits
Def Leppard- Vault
Rolling Stones- GH

[Desensitized]

.............. So many Greatest Hits....

I'd rather actual albums.

[Tiberiouslb]

Yeah but Greatest Hits are better for more casual fans of the bands and are probably a better way to bundle the songs on Live. As my list reflects, there are relatively few albums that I would want all the songs from. I don't want to pay for albums where I only like 3 songs on, and as it stands right now the songs most likely will end up bundled. If you could choose songs individually than whole albums would of course be better, more songs to choose= better all the time. However, It's better to have greatest hits albums than bundles like Guitar Hero 2 has.

[Mystophales]

You could just make a list of some of the greatest albums ever released that are strong all the way through...

AC/DC-Back in Black
Scorpions-Love at First Sting and Blackout
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Black Sabbath-Master of Reality
Led Zepplin-IV
Rush-2112 and Moving Pictures
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Testament-The New Order
Accept-Metal Heart

I could go on but in all reality this is pretty subjective although I am sure to have some people agree with at least some of my choices.

[SpeedMetal09]

You could just make a list of some of the greatest albums ever released that are strong all the way through...

AC/DC-Back in Black
Scorpions-Love at First Sting and Blackout
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Black Sabbath-Master of Reality
Led Zepplin-IV
Rush-2112 and Moving Pictures
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Testament-The New Order
Accept-Metal Heart

I could go on but in all reality this is pretty subjective although I am sure to have some people agree with at least some of my choices.

awsome choices id buy everyone of those...id buy Reign in Blood first tho :)

[WingsOfSteel]

Houses of the Holy is better than Led Zeppelin IV, tbh.

Also: any album by Boston.

[StartSomething]

I really wanna see the whole Master of Puppets cd, every song on it is so awesome

[Teh_Jakester]

The Black Album

Massive. Fail.

[ChuckBTY]

While I agree that "Greatest Hit" type albums would be better for the masses, I believe that this feature is for anyone but the masses as proved by the first album they are releasing (The Who's "Who's Next?").

That being said, and in full High Fidelity "Top Ten Albums I Would Pay $20 To Play on Rock Band" fashion:

1) Tool: Anema
2) Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime <------I would pay ANY amount of money for this one
3) Metallica: And Justice for All
4) Guns and Roses: Use Your Illusion I
5) The Offspring: Americana
6) Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine
7) Def Leppard: Hysteria
8) Pearl Jam: 10
9) Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
10) Van Halen: um...1984?, Diver Down?, 5150? ok...maybe in this case a Greatest Hits :)

[Teh_Jakester]

Oh, yeah. My list:

10: Come What(ever) May - Stone Sour
9: The Razor's Edge - AC/DC
8: Van Halen - Van Halen
7: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
6: Aerosmith - Aerosmith
5: Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
4: St. Anger - Metallica
3: Go Off! - Cacophony
2: Brave New World - Iron Maiden
1: Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne

[Tiberiouslb]

Massive. Fail.

The "Black Album" has so many hits and Enter Sandman might be the worst of them. Outside of the big hits The God that Failed would freaking rock.

[kilinor]

Ok, I was thinking about this the other day... here are some I came up with:
Def Leppard - Hysteria (So many singles - would work well)
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
AC/DC - Back In Black
Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Call of Ktulu being the only sticking point)
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (or Empire)
Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Queen - Queen 2 (contentious, but Night at the opera doesn't really work)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Wish you were here is also good, but shine on is a little too boring for vocals)
Van Halen - 1984
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Buckethead - Population Override or Electric Tears (all instrumental tho)
King's X - Dogman
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Dethklok - The DethAlbum :-)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Faith No More - The Real Thing

Also:
some sort of Cream/Clapton collection,
Dream Theatre,
Sonata Arctica,
Freak Kitchen,
Nightwish,
Arctic Monkeys,
David Bowie,
...the list goes on.

[Teh_Jakester]

The "Black Album" has so many hits and Enter Sandman might be the worst of them.

Hits=/=good for this game.

Good instruments/vocals=good for this game.

[Tiberiouslb]

Hmmm I think I admitted I would spend +/- $600. :eek: I better start saving. plus I see some other great suggestions I didn't list.

Can't believe I didn't list:
Alice in Chains- dirt
Nirvana- Nevermind

[Tiberiouslb]

Hits=/=good for this game.

Good instruments/vocals=good for this game.

I beg to differ. While you need some awesome instrumental work like Dream Theatre and good vocals help, saying hits aren't good is short sighted. People want to play songs they like and Harmonix wants to sell as many songs as they can. The Consumer base that is familiar with the hits is always going to be larger than the fan base of the lesser known songs. You forget that the posters on this board are among the fanatical fans, and many into harder metal than the general populace. A large percentage of the posters play on expert and get bored of the simple songs, but the general opinion (of the public not necessarily of this board) is that the set list for GH1 was better than GH2, because it featured more hit songs. I prefer GH2's set list, and I am glad they went more metal and higher difficulty. However I work retail selling video games and when parents or casual gamers come in and ask about GH, I always have told them they'll like the song list better in GH1. I personally would never suggest Green Day for GH or RB, but who sells more records Green Day or Iron Maiden? How many teens and kids (under 20) even know who Iron Maiden is? Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box is not a spectacular instrumental or vocal piece, but I had a ton of fun playing it. The Ramones I Wanna be Sedated is not at all my style, for me its a terrible GH/RB song and is to easy, But its one of my friend's (who plays on medium) favorite GH songs. Hits are great especially for the easy levels and for trying to introduce beginners to GH/RB and letting them play songs they are familiar with.

I would make a modest estimate that of the millions who play guitar hero, less than 25% play on expert, more than 50% play on medium or easy, and aren't really trying to go up to hard.

[Tiberiouslb]

Plus if they were choosing songs on vocal merits all of us metal fans would be crying because they would be loading the game with Mariah Carey, and Josh Groban.

Judging by Vocal standards rockers would fail big time. Any Growlers, yowlers, wailers, screechers, automatically fail. We'd be left with a few 80's hair bands, some 70's bands like Kansas and Boston, and thankfully Queen. AC/DC, Megadeth, Nirvana, etc. would all fail if judged on vocal talent. Stone Sour would probably pass.

[TylerSalak]

Who Made Who- AC/DC
Get Your Wings- Aerosmith
Greatest hits-Aerosmith
Back In Black- AC/DC

[mrblonde885]

Onesidezero - Self Titled (a badass solo in every song!)
Seether - Karma & Effect (has some great riffs and vocals)
10 Years - The Autumn Effect
Three Days Grace - One-X (an album filled with catchy, fun riffs. Wouldn't be all that difficult to play though)
Fuel - Sunburn
Strata - Self Titled (mainly because I'm a huge Strata fan and would buy it)

[bigheb774]

Metallica: Kill 'em All
Megadeth: Rust in Peace, United Abominations
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast

[x3ar23]

Slayer- reign in blood very strong album
slipknot's- subliminal verses very medolic metal so chill out
dimmu borgir's - stormblast

[Teh_Jakester]

AC/DC, Megadeth, Nirvana, etc. would all fail if judged on vocal talent.

Why? I always wanted to try to out-suck Dave Mustaine. :p

[Desensitized]

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

After just listening to this one, I think it'd be a pretty fun alternative rock album to play.