what song for your gf to sing?

[johnyringo04]

they need to have a small group of girl singer songs for this game. not too many because mostly dudes will play but just like 2 or 3 would be great. so what song would you love to see your girlfriend sing?
i would go with
flyleaf- all around me
or
kittie- into the darkness
or
kittie- spit
please voice your opinion.

[Mr_Bones]

i think the new kittie song would be kool 4 rb...but into the darkness would be sweet 2....but spit...if i can remember most of it in my head...there is 2 much screaming 4 girls 2 do...not most girsls could scream and make it sound good...but as far as flyleaf goes i would like 2 c so sick or fully alive

[Coldplayer]

I want Flyleaf :p But not All around me, rather I'm So Sick!!

[Rev0lver]

arch enemy.

[MrtyMcfly]

Walls of Jericho, any song really.

But the first Kittie album didn't have as much screaming as Oracle did. A lot of girls could pull off Spit I think.

Also, VAGIANT!

[gooble]

Here here! I would love to see flyleaf's sick and fully alive on this game. That, however, seems to be the extent of female singers i can recall that would be accessible enough for the general population to pull off. I am afraid the chorus for kittie's Spit would turn most female's off to attempting their own rendition.

I will bring this to light, at the horrendous risk of igniting a flame war, the cranberries' zombie would be right at home on this game. Thats not to say I would like to hear again but other than a few quavering vocal areas I think it would be a huge draw for this game.

If only a girl that could imitate the vocal styling of otep would come into my life. That would be a good thing.

[guan69]

I will bring this to light, at the horrendous risk of igniting a flame war, the cranberries' zombie would be right at home on this game. Thats not to say I would like to hear again but other than a few quavering vocal areas I think it would be a huge draw for this game.
Good call. Hell, I think guys & girls would be like to sing it. Besides, a worse flame war would've been if you had suggested some Alanis.

I also second the nomination of some Kittie songs. I've only listened to the first album so I'd go with just about anything on it.

I'd love it if The Breeders' "Canonball" was in the game, tho. I think its a fun song and one of the best alternative songs of its time.

[aku_chi]

I earnestly beleive that Rock Band should include some songs with female vocalists. I understand that guys would feel less comfortable singing along with a female vocalist than girls would feel singing along with a male vocalist, but having some songs with a female vocalist would help attract a wider audience and add some variety. Here are a few songs I would like to play:

The Cranberries, Zombie - as previously mentioned, this song would work very well in Rock Band and it is quite possibly my favorite rock song with a female vocalist.

Garbage, Only Happy When it Rains - This song would be pretty fun to rock out to.

Kelly Clarkson, Behind These Hazel Eyes - This song is problematic for a couple reasons. Are Kelly Clarkson's songs even rock? I think this one is. The other problem is that I can't imagine many guys who would feel comfortable singing this.

[Phrank-E]

My wife sings Maiden, Zeppelin, Priest, and Cornell.. Why do you think girls need to sing other girl songs?

[Angellore]

Your full of crap johnyringo04!!! Girls dont need to be restricted to just female singer songs!!! And what a load, more guys will play...I'm a female and a huge fan of Guitar Hero and can't wait till I get Rock Band!! Guess what, girls are interested in music and oh my god they like metal and death metal and goth metal and doom metal and black metal just as much as any guy!!!! If you want a female singer have Arch Enemy!! Or Tristania for some operatic vocals!! None of this pop singing crap!!!

[aku_chi]

Perhaps, Angellore, you misunderstood. For my part, I did not mean to imply that girls can only sing songs with female vocalists or that girls don't enjoy rock music. I do believe, however, that both men and women would feel more comfortable singing along with a vocalist of their own gender. Also, because there are several great rock songs with female vocalists, they should be included on their own merits.

In addition to the three songs I mentioned in my first post, I agree that Flyleaf, Fully Alive would make a nice addition. Veruca Salt, Seether could also work in Rock Band; I would enjoy playing it. I'm also pondering the merits of a No Doubt song in Rock Band. I think that Sunday Morning might be best if it were to be in the main game. Just A Girl is a great song but it would be torturous to make a guy sing so it would be better as a download. Evanescence would be tough to fit in because they use a lot of keyboard, chorus, and simple guitar parts. Everybody's Fool might be workable but I wouldn't want it in the main game. I think that The Breeders, Cannonball is a little too repetitive for Rock Band but it could be a download.

[rocker93]

what about paramore? the girls like them and there not to bad

[Rev0lver]

cannibal corpse. seriously, i know a bunch of girls who would be into it.

[ababypenguin]

I am hoping for more Vagiant in the bonus songs section. Chicks should like that, and I wouldn't mind either!

[_Five_]

I'd like to have female vocalists not for the girls to sing but for the variation.
I'm a girl and I don't mind, although with Singstar I experienced that songs are easier to sing if the original is not too far from your own voice.

Bands that come to my mind are:
Hole, Garbage, Rasputina (although probably not suitable)

[Phrank-E]

I'd like to have female vocalists not for the girls to sing but for the variation.
I'm a girl and I don't mind, although with Singstar I experienced that songs are easier to sing if the original is not too far from your own voice.

Bands that come to my mind are:
Hole, Garbage, Rasputina (although probably not suitable)

HMX stated that in RB you can go up or down in pitch. So if your range isn't the same as the original then you still can ace the song.

[WingsOfSteel]

We already have Rush, don't we?

[The_Wurm]

Whoa, whoa, whoa....

..so when you say "girlfriend" do you mean, "Imaginary Girlfriend"?

[p0pachery]

Salvation - Cranberries
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benetar
Oi To The World - No Doubt

[Tazeyo]

I mostly disagree with most here.
Girls don't really need other songs, though some female vocals songs could be added.
I wouldn't mind singing a song that originally had female vocals, except if it would sound creepy. Heh.

I'd like to see a girl sing Burning of the Midnight Lamp by Jimi Hendrix Experience.

[johnyringo04]

no i didnt mean imaginary girlfriend but its looking like thats what im going to have pretty soon again. but anyways i agree with those of you who put down cranberries, garbage, no doubt, and hole. they are exceptional bands along with the two i listed, flyleaf, and kittie. so im glad most of us are on the same page and we all know what harmonix needs to put on this game.

[_Five_]

Sorry, had to go when I was posting.

To continue my list:

- Hole [celebrity skin, violet, be a man]
- Garbage
- Rasputina [tourniquet, rock and roll]
- Tape
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Juliette and the Licks [killer] (maybe as a bonus)
- Tura Satana
- Kittie

All others I can think of are unfortunately very unfitting for this game.


Foreign bands:

- Guano Apes (though guitar parts might be too boring)
- Wir sind Helden [Endlich ein Grund zur Panik (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjiC6xM5nAM&mode=related&search=), Von hier an blind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAcShfgq54&mode=related&search=) (english version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa9ybNE038w&mode=related&search=))]


Aren't the Cranberries too soft for this? And I like No Doubt, but I can't think of a great song for the game either.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

i don't have a g/f < / 3

but anything by paatos would be fantastic

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n5vhCQEEdP0

http://www.myspace.com/paatos

[AKA_The_Joker]

http://www.rockband.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=2345

An earlier thread on good rock songs with female vocals.

[blue_dragonzero]

For the sake of pure amusement, Beelzeboss by Tenacious D. lawls

[axlroseftw]

girls can sing male vocal songs just like im sure all us guys have sang female vocals at some point. still there should be some female vocal song, just nott fro that reason.
some joan jett would be nice.... will prolly end up being avril lavigne lol

[_Five_]

Urgh, I'll puke if it's Avril. She's hot, but her music is not. Unless it's the Spongebob song, that one was ok.

I listened to Flyleaf in the meanwhile, her singing is very cute. :-)

[AVC808]

i was just thinking about this the other day. what are the chances that songs with a female vocalist would make it in? there's a lot of great songs, but given the singing aspect of the game, would the developers exclude them because men would be uncomfortable singing the tunes?

[BobLoblaw]

i was just thinking about this the other day. what are the chances that songs with a female vocalist would make it in? there's a lot of great songs, but given the singing aspect of the game, would the developers exclude them because men would be uncomfortable singing the tunes? On the flip side chicks might be annoyed if there are no women in there, so we'll probably see a couple of songs with female vox. I expect the ratio to be similar to the GH games. Even if there are no females in the main setlist, vagiant will most likely be in it.

Also, £50 says the op doesn't have a gf.

[Rock_Starman]

If No Doubt was in it should be Spiderwebs.
Tsunami Bomb is good but they'd probably have to be bonus or DLC.

[AVC808]

On the flip side chicks might be annoyed if there are no women in there, so we'll probably see a couple of songs with female vox. I expect the ratio to be similar to the GH games. Even if there are no females in the main setlist, vagiant will most likely be in it.

Also, £50 says the op doesn't have a gf.

i totally see both sides, if i was a girl i'd think it would be sexist not to include songs they were made to sing. but again, there are campaign modes for singing too. the ladies dont give a damn singing songs whether theyre sung by men or women, but the fellas would be forced to sing all songs to complete single player modes. it's not necessarily the pitch, but also the lyrics, for example a song about some boyfriend. face it, guys are just homophobic like that.

[Kang_Zircon]

From my experience, any guy too chicken to sing a song with female vocals isn't any more likely to sing David Bowie or Bon Jovi.

I don't see what the problem is, it's not like there aren't plenty of good options. The female vocals in karaoke games tend to be harder than the male vocals, too.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

how DARE YOU compare female vox to david bowie >:|

female vox rulez though and anyone who doesn't like to sing along to a catchy song just cuz a woman is singing it, is a ******

[Kang_Zircon]

Didn't mean it as a comparison so much as relating to the whole homophobia thing. But I agree with you. If a song is good, be a man and step up to the mic!

[battle_axe_of_doom]

david bowie is a god though so i get defensive about him sry :D

[Rock_Starman]

What's Up by 4 Non Blondes

[IrisKandi]

This thread disgusts me a little being that I am a girl. 2 or 3 songs with female vocals? Come on! This game has the opportunity to broaden the video game market by reaching out the all girlfriends out there. If you do not put at least 5 girl lead songs in the game, you will offend women. I am appalled by many of you guys lack of concern for female vocal songs because you are afraid of singing girl songs. Grow up. Real men can sing a girl vocaled song without feeling like less of a man. Puhlease!

Female bands that I want to see in RB eventually be it launch or DLC (in no particular order:
Flyleaf
No Doubt
Garbage
Guano Apes
Heart (mostly Crazy on You)
The Cardigans
Alanis Morrissette (Jagged Little Pill)
Evanescence (Amy Lee has an amazing voice even though I could care less about her band's skill)
Janis Joplin
Joan Jett
Laura Veirs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Kittie

[Rev0lver]

I am appalled by many of you guys lack of concern for female vocal songs because you are afraid of singing girl songs.


then why would you have a problem with all guy-singing songs? all the good ones are, anyway.

[Rev0lver]

if i was a girl i'd think it would be sexist not to include songs they were made to sing.

no, it would be normal. its sexist to include female songs just because you feel bad for them.

[IrisKandi]

I don't have a problem singing male vocals. I just think that it's only fair to add female vocals being that I enjoy singing female vocals. My bad.

The part that makes me mad is that you all assume that mostly guys will play the F*ck out of this song. I don't appreciate the stereotype that girls can't/don't game. Plus I know several girls that are looking forward to this game and not just for the singing aspect.

[Jsnkr9216]

i think the new kittie song would be kool 4 rb...but into the darkness would be sweet 2....but spit...if i can remember most of it in my head...there is 2 much screaming 4 girls 2 do...not most girsls could scream and make it sound good...but as far as flyleaf goes i would like 2 c so sick or fully alive




It's what song you want your girlfriend to sing. Not what song most girls CAN sing.

[Jsnkr9216]

This thread disgusts me a little being that I am a girl. 2 or 3 songs with female vocals? Come on! This game has the opportunity to broaden the video game market by reaching out the all girlfriends out there. If you do not put at least 5 girl lead songs in the game, you will offend women. I am appalled by many of you guys lack of concern for female vocal songs because you are afraid of singing girl songs. Grow up. Real men can sing a girl vocaled song without feeling like less of a man. Puhlease!

Female bands that I want to see in RB eventually be it launch or DLC (in no particular order:
Flyleaf
No Doubt
Garbage
Guano Apes
Heart (mostly Crazy on You)
The Cardigans
Alanis Morrissette (Jagged Little Pill)
Evanescence (Amy Lee has an amazing voice even though I could care less about her band's skill)
Janis Joplin
Joan Jett
Laura Veirs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Kittie

Stupid feminist much?


90% of the bands you listed sucks, for one.

For two, there are 210490290 more songs made by male-fronted singers than there are female-fronted singers. So go on your pms trip elsewhere if you're just going to be biased and not look at the facts.

[MotleyPriest111]

I like Heart, but the rest suck.

[IrisKandi]

I love male vocaled songs as much as the next dude, but there are a huge list of great female artists out there. I love how if a band doesn't fit into your cookie cutter idea of music that they suck, and if I stand up for a female view that I am a fembot.

You obviously have skewed view of what a feminist is. This isn't the time and place to argue about that.

And these bands will most likely make it into RB either in launch or DLC so don't play them if you don't like them.

As for all of those other male vocalled songs, please go sing them.

There are no such things as facts when it comes to music. You have PREFERENCE! which is an OPINION! There is no facts out there that say male vocals are better. Take your OPINIONS and put them in a blog because that's all they are. Opinion don't equal facts.

[Rev0lver]

led zeppelin is more musically talented than 50 cent, fact or opinion?

you could say opinion, but its as close to a fact as you can get, so why not say it is.

[IrisKandi]

It's still opinion depending on who you talk to. 50 cent might think that he's better than Led Zepplin. Plus I know A LOT of people who don't think that Led Zepplin is very good at all. Musical preference is just an opinion no matter whether I went to study music or create it on a computer.

I am sorry to say it, but music isn't balck and white. If it were do you think that there would be as many arguements about what is good and bad?

[Rev0lver]

but that's because 50 cent is ****ing retarted

i never said anything about led zeppelin's talent themselves, i was just saying that in comparison. there are so many arguments because people are stupid.

[IrisKandi]

No they aren't stupid. They just have differing musical opinions.

I don't like metal. It's not to say that I don't find those musicians to be talented, but I prefer not to listen.

And to answer your post earlier about if something is close enough to fact, then why not call it one? Because it isn't. I am sorry, but you can't go around parading opinions as facts. That's not how the world works. Facts are facts for a reason. They no longer become facts when they are biased. The only fact about RB and femal vocals is that there will be a few tracks with female vocals. HMX did Karaoke Revolution and added female vocals. One has to expect them in Rock Band.

[Rev0lver]

No they aren't stupid. They just have differing musical opinions.


yes, they are stupid, which shows from their musical opinion


I don't like metal. It's not to say that I don't find those musicians to be talented, but I prefer not to listen.


i don't like classic rock, but i still think many of those bands are very talented



And to answer your post earlier about if something is close enough to fact, then why not call it one? Because it isn't. I am sorry, but you can't go around parading opinions as facts.

yes, i can. this is america.


That's not how the world works. Facts are facts for a reason. They no longer become facts when they are biased.
led zeppelin being more musically talented than 50 cent isn't any more biased than a creme brule tasting better than dog ****. if you think dog **** tastes good, you have mental issues.


The only fact about RB and femal vocals is that there will be a few tracks with female vocals. HMX did Karaoke Revolution and added female vocals. One has to expect them in Rock Band

i realize that. my point was that there's no reason to be mad and all feminist over having less than 5 girl songs.

[IrisKandi]

How old are you?

I am not getting all "feminist" as you put it. Which once again isn't the correct term You are looking for Femi-nazi.

Ok. If you are going to parade opinions as facts then I am going to run around calling myself the Queen of England. Either way, neither will be true just because someone says so.

I get mad because you "guys" assume that girls won't play this game so that means there doesn't need to be ANY female vocals. You may not necessarily think this, but the OP does.

You can't call people stupid for having a musical preference. That's stupid as you put it.

[AVC808]

no, it would be normal. its sexist to include female songs just because you feel bad for them.

i dont think so. it's not that i feel bad for them, i think that if not one song by a female vocalist did not make it into the game, it would be somewhat suspect. and it would likely be for the reasons i stated in this thread, which makes it sexist.
although the ratio of hit rock songs sung by men v. women is lopsided by great proportions, there are still a few that could make it in. im not saying there should by half songs by men half by women. even a 5:1 ratio would be a stretch. but as it stands right now, there's not even one song (on the short track list made public) with female vocals.
oh, and for the record, i could care less if there were any songs in the game sung by a female. i just chimed my thoughts on this topic. :)

[Rev0lver]

How old are you?



16




Ok. If you are going to parade opinions as facts then I am going to run around calling myself the Queen of England.


go ahead, dog **** eater.



I get mad because you "guys" assume that girls won't play this game so that means there doesn't need to be ANY female vocals. You may not necessarily think this, but the OP does.


i never said no girls will play this game. but did you see the e3 demos of this? the girl from harmonix sang a guy-sung song. it's just that in general, guy sung songs are much better and more skilled than female ones. did you see my first post on this topic? that's one of my favorite songs and it has a female singer(i think it's this topic, i have to go check). but, most female led bands are boring as **** with simple, no talent guitar parts.



You can't call people stupid for having a musical preference. That's stupid as you put it

yes, i can.

[IrisKandi]

You're 16. That explains all of your immature posts.

[Rev0lver]

if i was a girl would that make it better? holy ****, come up with a better argument than that.

[IrisKandi]

If you were a girl, you'd still be immature.

You realize that with every post you sound more and more like a 10 year old?

[GrayInvisible]

Feminisms reputation has been ruined by radicals, hypocrites, idiots, and a combination of these. So feminazi is sometimes thought of as close to, or is feminism.

It just so happens that the genre of rock has lots of male artists. Therefore there are more good ones. There are more bad ones, but thats because there are so much that there is a higher chance of it being good.

I don't usually like female vocals beyond Heart, and Jefferson Airplane. Is that sexist? My mother doesn't usually like them either. I'm sure if there were tons and tons of female vocalists I'd like more.

I might add it's very hypocritical of you to be ageist to Revolver. He is quite smart, and until now I thought he was older. You don't want people to be the slightist hint of sexist, or even accidently sexist, but when it comes to ageism you outright insult him because of his age, more younger people are dumb, but if you see someone smart, and they happens to be underage, you don't automatically call them dumb.

He seems much smarter than you anyway, and doesn't sound 10 at all. His spelling and righting style are leagues better than a 10-14 year olds. And that's if they are intelligent. When I was 11, I first started posting. I could spell, but I typed generically, and my grammar was off by a lot. I improved up until now. People get smarter with age, but it isn't the universal factor of intelligence.

[theLoser]

Joan Jett and the Blackheart - I Love Rock N Roll - Hell any of joan jett

theLoser

[GrayInvisible]

Joan Jett and the Blackheart - I Love Rock N Roll - Hell any of joan jett

theLoser

I like this version better.

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[IrisKandi]

To GrayInvisible:

I agree with the feminism thing and about the wealth of male vocalists.

It's not sexist if you prefer male vocals. It's your opinion, but to say that male vocals are inherently better than female vocals is silly.

I would like you to point out one mature thing that he said in his arguments as he resorted to many base character attacks and poor grammatical construction. I only mention his age because I don't know many adults that argue so immaturely. If you want to call me out for bringing his age into the mix, fine. But don't stick up for his immature style of debating.

He's smarter than me? Well that's rich.

By the way, it's "writing style" not "righting style."

[MotleyPriest111]

What's wrong with being sexy?

[GrayInvisible]

To GrayInvisible:

I agree with the feminism thing and about the wealth of male vocalists.

It's not sexist if you prefer male vocals. It's your opinion, but to say that male vocals are inherently better than female vocals is silly.

I would like you to point out one mature thing that he said in his arguments as he resorted to many base character attacks and poor grammatical construction. I only mention his age because I don't know many adults that argue so immaturely. If you want to call me out for bringing his age into the mix, fine. But don't stick up for his immature style of debating.

He's smarter than me? Well that's rich.

By the way, it's "writing style" not "righting style."


Er sorry, I was kind of angry when I typed that. Now that I look at it I regret the bottom part. I typed real fast too, which made me say right.

[wolfmand73]

All I got to say is girls have just as much talent as guys do when it comes to singing, if not more. I am not sure who started this argument, but it's stupid and 50's attitude. Man better then woman my @$$. Look up Tristiana and listen to Cure. That takes a lot of talent, or better yet Shadowman. Now personally I think that is a masterpeice. What? never heard the Band Tristania? Youtube it.

[masacuna]

my GF's 2 best songs are Paranoid and My Sharona, sung by males and i like her voice, but i think some Pretenders and Heart should be in here.

[w00ties]

Please add anything by Paramore, Hayleys the greatest girl singer Ive ever heard. I know a ton of girls who are dying for this band on Rock Band!