Gamepro's 11 songs that wouldn't be sung without RB

[Rock_Starman]

11. Are You Gonna Be My Girl
"The incessant screaming and childish lyrics are uncomfortable to even attempt to belt: "1, 2, 3, / take my hand and come with me / because you look so fine / and I really wanna make you mine.""

10. My Sharona
"It's got a cheezy riff and lyrics that are embarrassing to sing, and it's really just embarrassing to hear once you find out it's a ballad for an underage groupie."

9. Roxanne
"It's really difficult to match Sting's unique vocal stylings without sounding foolish, and the odd timing of the lyrics against the instruments makes singing it a minefield of awkward embarrassment."

8. Dead on Arrival
"If I see one more picture of Pete Wentz emo-boy posturing with that "I'm just misunderstood" look on his face, I'm going to throw up on a baby.

The worst thing about Fallout Boy is that back in the heyday of so-called "emo" when bands like Sunny Day Real Estate and Rites of Spring were making a name for themselves, if some cookie-cutter group like these guys came around they'd be spat on by anybody who had two ears and a mind to see past this vomit-rock garbage."

7. Welcome Home
"Unless you're "emo" and have pipes lubed in gold, this song is a huge no-no for bar jocks. When playing Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home" in Rock Band, don't forget to ask your lead guitarist for a swift kick in the nuts before the lyrics kick in. I'm pretty sure that's how Coheed lead singer Claudio Sanchez does it."

6. I Think I'm Paranoid
"Nothing too personal against Garbage--they seemed to fit perfectly into the sometimes-boring 90s alt. scene. It's just that no man should ever have to sing these lyrics: "Heaven knows what a girl can do," or "Bend me / Break me / Any way you need me / All I want is you.""

5. Sabotage
"Okay, I admit it: I went through a "rapper" phase during my youth. I'd write "dope rhymes" and "drop science" in my bedroom, all in a "funky fresh flow." Don't laugh--you all did it too. But then I came to my senses and realized that I didn't have "mad skillz."

This is, coincidentally, why my bills all go unpaid on a monthly basis. And it's also why I would never, in a million years, attempt to sing"Sabotoge" by the Beastie Boys."

4. Tom Sawyer
"Look Geddy Lee, we know your lyrics are supposed to be really deep and all that garbage but why, oh why, must you sing like a castrated altar boy?

It's no coincidence that pre-pubescent boys and Fran Drescher can totally nail "Tom Sawyer" on expert, but where does that leave the rest of us? Oh yeah, thanking the higher power that our manhood is still intact. "

3. When You Were Young
"Put rightly by Pitchfork, "When You Were Young...reveals the unknown fact that aiming for Springsteen and missing even slightly results in Meat Loaf." The thing is, I actually like my Mom's meat loaf a little bit, something that unfortunately can't be said about this Killers song."

2. Wanted Dead or Alive
"A butt-rock supreme dream best kept strictly to dreams. Like trying to emulate Axl Rose, you'll probably come off sounding like a complete idiot when attempting to belt like Jon Bon Jovi."

1. Celebrity Skin
"If Courtney Love came to my house and offered to perform live in my living room, I'd tell her I prefer the soothing sounds of shrilling cats having sex on a chalkboard."

http://gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/features/153228.shtml

[KingNuclear]

7. Welcome Home
"Unless you're "emo" and have pipes lubed in gold, this song is a huge no-no for bar jocks. When playing Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home" in Rock Band, don't forget to ask your lead guitarist for a swift kick in the nuts before the lyrics kick in. I'm pretty sure that's how Coheed lead singer Claudio Sanchez does it."


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Actually, he took estrogen pills, to change the pitch in his voice.



-Nuke-

[Ryder35]

lol, now that was funny.

[DanAmrich]

lol, now that was funny.

Really? Where?

[SoulScreme]

Clearly the guy who wrote this article is the type of elitist music snob that I'm glad didn't work on this game. What a turd bag.

[SSPWOLF]

Allocating harsh and abrasive opinions to compensate for inability to be percieved as anything except a metal head is ridiculous.

Low self esteem typically forges these types of people. It's impossible for me to properly express my annoyance at people who feel that thier opinion must be taken as canon law.

My favorite bands include deftones and cannibal corpse, but you don't hear me crying about Fall Out Boy, in fact.. I think it's actually catchy enough to make a good VIDEO GAME track.

[blue_dragonzero]

Damn it! C&C is not emo, they're prog. And Tom Sawyer is a great song to sing. freaking elitist.

[ubikkibu]

It's kind of funny, but shows a lack of musical breadth. He "went through a rap phase," but since it's now over, of course he can't appreciate the Beastie Boys? And that's not actually Geddy Lee singing Tom Sawyer in Rock Band, eh buddy?

I don't like several of the songs he mentions, but the point of view he brings to critcizing them is a childish one. Still, I laughed a couple times.

[DirrtyBird]

Wow, i didnt even know Gamepro was still around and what is more shocking is they still have readers.....

[DesiredFX]

I actually didn't take this at all seriously. It just came off as a guy trying to quantify the occasional "wow, they actually expect me to sing that?" feeling that you get with some of the songs.

I thought the comments on The Killers were especially lame, though. You can hear some of what they tried to do as Springsteen-like, but saying it ended up sounding like Meat Loaf and then turning it into a joke about his mother's meat loaf was just bad, bad writing.

[NattyLight]

Allocating harsh and abrasive opinions to compensate for inability to be percieved as anything except a metal head is ridiculous.

Low self esteem typically forges these types of people. It's impossible for me to properly express my annoyance at people who feel that thier opinion must be taken as canon law.

My favorite bands include deftones and cannibal corpse, but you don't hear me crying about Fall Out Boy, in fact.. I think it's actually catchy enough to make a good VIDEO GAME track.

Some of you people are missing the entire point of the article.

[Black Flame Zealot]

Silly article...
http://gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/features/153228.shtml

This article feels like it was written by the random macho internet hater dude; possibly the most shallow critique of songs in the game I've seen. It tries to be clever and humorous, and fails at both.

[ElHombreSinNombre]

"Look Geddy Lee, we know your lyrics are supposed to be really deep and all that garbage but why, oh why, must you sing like a castrated altar boy?

If I'm not mistaken Peart writes all the lyrics.

[SoKGiX]

lol most of those songs do suck. i try and stay away from them on any instrument

[Ultrace]

Wow, i didnt even know Gamepro was still around and what is more shocking is they still have readers.....
PROTIP: Don't let a gaming magazine be your guiding influence when it comes to music selection... Even if it's music in a game.

[TheREVALOProject]

PROTIP: Don't let a gaming magazine be your guiding influence when it comes to music selection... Even if it's music in a game.

Great advice here sons. People who don't have opinions of their own... good luck during marriage @_@

[ThwompBlock]

I'm pretty sure Mr. Claudio "Six-foot-freakin'-huge" Sanchez would rip me apart if I ever kicked him in the crown jewels. Or called his music emo.

The man is a behemoth.

[RogerTarin]

The writer of the article it is really bias and closed minded. He is forgetting that there are girl gamers that have a hard time matching the male vocals which is the majority. Agree with fall out boy, they should never, ever, have been there, i just played it once in every career mode because i had to move on.....i'm way more than happy with the rest of the songs

[Angry_Games]

Really? Where?

haha that's what I'm thinking. I don't like a couple of those songs but the rest...I like the variety. As the post below yours says, a snob.

There is NOTHING better than belting out ROXANNE!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT ON THE RED LIGHT!!! in your best horrible Sting voice in front of 7 people in your living room who begin howling with laughter.

My better half, something happens when we have to play that Jet song and she's the singer. She gets an uncontrollable lower-body shake (kinda like the Elvis shake that got him a waist-up-only shot on tv) when singing that song...it's scary but in an awesome way.

We don't take any of the songs or any game for that matter seriously enough to care about high scores. No way will I ever be a better guitarist in this game than some 15 year old kid who has all day and night to play it (and being handicapped a little by my 15 years of playing a real guitar). My brother will never be Tommy Lee at his peak on the drums like those 15 year olds. None of us will be expert singers. Hard we can probably do at some point. But so what, playing a 58 song endless set list isn't really a big goal for us.

Getting friends and family to join in, especially during the holidays when we are supposed to have the fondest memories to last another year, that's the best.

Like I said, I don't like more than a few of the songs in the game as well as that list, but I enjoy playing the game with others who do like the songs, and that's pure anti-snobbery ;)

ps: Dan Amrich from OXM?

[Quinarvy]

4. Tom Sawyer
"Look Geddy Lee, we know your lyrics are supposed to be really deep and all that garbage but why, oh why, must you sing like a castrated altar boy?

It's no coincidence that pre-pubescent boys and Fran Drescher can totally nail "Tom Sawyer" on expert, but where does that leave the rest of us? Oh yeah, thanking the higher power that our manhood is still intact. "


Wow. Peart is the Rush lyricist and Geddy Lee is an amazing singer, but the moron who wrote this article can't read "AS MADE FAMOUS BY RUSH" apparently.

[aaron rogers]

wow...this guy should write for rolling stone magazine, he is so articulate and dead on with this article :rolleyes:

[Ryder35]

Really? Where?

Sorry, I forgot that the US sense of humour does not stretch to irony and sarcasm ;)

And I am joking there in case you missed it. I do not agree with his opinions (not thatt I think he is being entirely serious) but the writing used was pretty funny.

I guess we all have different tastes in homour as well as music. For the record I like most of the songs he is talking about.

[NotorietyH]

And I am joking there in case you missed it. I do not agree with his opinions (not thatt I think he is being entirely serious) but the writing used was pretty funny.

I guess we all have different tastes in homour as well as music. For the record I like most of the songs he is talking about.

I got it, but still don't think it's funny. If he was joking, he didn't go over the top enough to make it somewhat satirical (which I seriously doubt he was going for) and if he is serious, it's still not funny and he's a douche.

[Fatal1ty_Reaper]

Wow the guy who wrote that garbage has NO taste in music... What a ******.

[SSPWOLF]

Yeah, that's the problem. Hiding behind the guise of humor to express elitist opinions just makes you come off as a presumptious douche. He didn't come off as satirical he came off as "Holier than thou" and cynical.

I have a deep seeded despise for people who think thier opinion is more important than anyone else's. This is why I despise people who jump on bandwagon's to hate something.

The rash of posts slung out to express disdain for "Fall Out Boy" being included in the game being a prime example. I've never met anyone personally who likes thier music, but they have number one songs.

I remember a time when if you like Bon Jovi you were cool. Then I remember a time when if you like Bon Jovi your sexual preferences were questioned. Then I remember a time when if you liked Bon Jovi you were considered "old". Now I see a time when Bon Jovi is selling out stadiums again.

People need to realize that when it comes to entertainment, nobody cares what YOU think.

I think I rambled a bit too much here..

But my point is.. if you want to be funny, try using comedy. If you want to express an opinion, try being objective in execution and subjective in statement.

If you want to be a douche... go work for Gamespy, Ign, Gamespot, Vibe Magazine, or Congress.

[ThinkSoJoE]

Yeah, that's the problem. Hiding behind the guise of humor to express elitist opinions just makes you come off as a presumptious douche. He didn't come off as satirical he came off as "Holier than thou" and cynical.

I have a deep seeded despise for people who think thier opinion is more important than anyone else's. This is why I despise people who jump on bandwagon's to hate something.

The rash of posts slung out to express disdain for "Fall Out Boy" being included in the game being a prime example. I've never met anyone personally who likes thier music, but they have number one songs.

I remember a time when if you like Bon Jovi you were cool. Then I remember a time when if you like Bon Jovi your sexual preferences were questioned. Then I remember a time when if you liked Bon Jovi you were considered "old". Now I see a time when Bon Jovi is selling out stadiums again.

People need to realize that when it comes to entertainment, nobody cares what YOU think.

I think I rambled a bit too much here..

But my point is.. if you want to be funny, try using comedy. If you want to express an opinion, try being objective in execution and subjective in statement.

If you want to be a douche... go work for Gamespy, Ign, Gamespot, Vibe Magazine, or Congress.

I couldn't have said it better myself. This game isn't about what bands suck, or what songs you'd feel stupid singing or whatever, this game is about having fun.

[Exayle]

People need to realize that when it comes to entertainment, nobody cares what YOU think.

I think I rambled a bit too much here..

But my point is.. if you want to be funny, try using comedy. If you want to express an opinion, try being objective in execution and subjective in statement.

Ramble? Not at all good sir. I whole heartedly agree with every point you've made. The writer [whoever he is. Don't really care] obviously wrote the article to jump on "bandwagon" that you've described... and it shows.

Not to jump on any said bandwagon by ragging on this guy, but [i]wow. The worst part is that he's considered a great writer, and that someone actually paid him for his incredibly lacking wit. [Meat Loaf is an artist and a food!] Madness, in a word.

[Grayshadow-PSN]

Meh, I don't think there's a song on the game that I don't like singing, either because I like a particular song, think it's fun to sing, or because it challenges me. It sounds like the writer of the article just sucks at singing and tries to make up for it by bashing the songs. Some of the comments refer to singers that sing in a high pitch, and he probably can't do it.

I'm a 30 year old dude with a deep voice and fully operational male parts, but yeah, I sing the songs sung by female singers and the higher-pitched male ones in front of other people. Doing so is helping me widen my vocal range. Sure, I wouldn't try to sing "I think I'm Paranoid" in a real cover band - I would sing along if it came on the radio while I was driving, though.

In my experience so far with this game, nobody is impressed if you can sing something like "In Bloom" well - there just isn't much of a vocal range. I've had the best reaction from people when I can hit high notes without going into falsetto or going down an octave. I can't do all of "Run to the Hills" or "Tom Sawyer" yet, but I try (and mangle the really high parts), and eventually my range will be wide enough so that I can do it. If I were to just stick with stuff I can sing easily, I'd probably never get any better. Personally, I'm glad there's a good variety in the song selection in the game.

[terRize]

The rash of posts slung out to express disdain for "Fall Out Boy" being included in the game being a prime example. I've never met anyone personally who likes thier music, but they have number one songs.

Couldn't agree more with what you said. I don't mind some of their songs actually, no worse then a lot of other crap I've heard on the radio in the past year.

I'd also like to add that hopefully in 2008 we can stop labeling everything as "emo". It seems to be thrown about like "alternative" was back in the early to mid 90's. Maybe it's just me, but it (emo) seems to get used a lot anymore.

As for that list, I really enjoy the Killers song and quite a few others on that list.

[RavagerX]

Well I completely disagree with that article, plus I didn't find it funny at all.

I happen to like most of those songs, except for the fallout boy one, just not a fan of em, and I don't really care for rush either(the singing...cant stand it...the same way I can't really stand ac/dc's or zepplin's singing).

One song in particular they mentioned, Garbage's "I think I'm paranoid" I happen to like quite a bit, and listened to it long before this game(back when it was on the Grand Turismo soundtrack).

For the record, I'm a dude and will slap the $#@! out of any of you who looks at me weird....:)



j/k of course.....but still.

[SSPWOLF]

[QUOTE=terRize;205832]

I'd also like to add that hopefully in 2008 we can stop labeling everything as "emo". It seems to be thrown about like "alternative" was back in the early to mid 90's. Maybe it's just me, but it (emo) seems to get used a lot anymore.

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I agree. The problem with the label "emo" is that it actually serves to turn people off to the music. Alternative was embraced by everyone, whereas Emo is actually considered an insult outside of the "strictly emo" crowd.

I think the crux of the issue though, concerning a game like rockband, is that people forget the entire point. I may be a bit of an "odd case" but.. in the last year my "IRL" music has been Hip Hop and Death Metal.

The funny part is, while "clever" people like this video game website writer try to show thier musical elitism... my best friend, who just happens to be an emcee/producer from Anomalies Music Group was over here just the other day jamming with me and my wife. We had a blast playing songs like "Brass In Pocket" and "Buddy Holly".

It's supposed to be fun. My favorite song is "My Own Summer" by Deftones.. but I honestly don't want to see my wife trying to sing that song on any difficulty level, nor do I think that Cannibal Corpse would be a whole lot of fun for "the family", though that is one of my favorite bands.