A handful of classic rock songs

[Cr1ckt]

These are my selections (some of which are more obvious than others.) Secondary choices are in parentheses.

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train. This needs to be in RB or GHIII
The Eagles - Hotel California. A classic; the game would be better for it.
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Money for Nothing) Personal favorite of mine.
YES - Roundabout - It has awesome bass/drum tracks (Owner of a Lonely Heart)
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Quiet Riot - *** on Feel the Noise. Would be awesome on full band mode.
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Immigrant Song, Rock and Roll) Black Dog would be the most interesting.
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Back in Black)
Aerosmith - Walk This Way (Dream On)
Pink Floyd - Money
Queen - Brighton Rock, Dragon Attack, or Under Pressure. The first two would be more challenging, but I think Under Pressure would have a much broader appeal. It has decent parts on all sides, as well.
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City. I'd rather have this than a duplicate of Welcome to the Jungle, even if the lyrics are repetitive.
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'. Just because Journey gets ignored so much by karaoke titles...it's time that they got their due.
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Born to be Wild) Sweet 60's option.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

[WingsOfSteel]

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train. This needs to be in RB or GHIII

You, sir, are correct

The Eagles - Hotel California. A classic; the game would be better for it.

It'd be pretty fun: The vocals are good, the solos are sweet (although the guitar is pretty boring for the middle four minutes), and the drums have good fills, but I think a faster song like Already Gone would be better.

YES - Roundabout - It has awesome bass/drum tracks (Owner of a Lonely Heart)

YES! Oh, the wit

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

Good song.

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

The drums are boring. They're verrrrrry slow and repetitive. Kickin' guitar and vocals, though, so it'd be good DLC, but the main game should have a song like Helter Skelter or Revolution.

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Immigrant Song, Rock and Roll) Black Dog would be the most interesting.

1. Black Dog has AWESOME guitar and drums, but the singer spends most of his time vocalizing rather than singing. That would be really frustrating on somebody's first time singing since they have to read the lyrics. Still, a very good song overall

2. Immigrant Song has one four-second riff that the guitar plays over and over. No solo. Bad choice.

3. Rock and Roll is an awesome choice. (Thank you for not saying Kashmir or Stairway to Heaven)

Pink Floyd - Money

Time

Queen - Brighton Rock, Dragon Attack, or Under Pressure. The first two would be more challenging, but I think Under Pressure would have a much broader appeal. It has decent parts on all sides, as well.

Where's Keep Yourself Alive? The drum solo in that is insane.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Good choice

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

Also good

Guns N' Roses - Paradise City. I'd rather have this than a duplicate of Welcome to the Jungle, even if the lyrics are repetitive.

Good, but Nightrain would be even better

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'. Just because Journey gets ignored so much by karaoke titles...it's time that they got their due.

No guitar for the first minute. Maybe Wheel in the Sky, Separate Ways, or Stone in Love instead?

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

Yes. Hell yes. Still, check out Call Me The Breeze, it's also good.

[Cr1ckt]

Already Gone would be a good Eagles track, but it is similar to the style of the other tracks that have been announced. It's still a good choice, but I would go with Hotel California first, for variety. Again, with DLC, why not have both?
Sadly, I do agree with your opinion of the drums on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It would be more suited to DLC. I think Helter Skelter would be another great track, but I doubt its appeal as a party song. Sadly, it's hard to think of a Beatles song that would fulfill every requirement as a RB track, but I don't think that should keep them out of the game.
You're right about the Immigrant Song's guitar work. It is really bland compared to Page's other tracks. I would place Rock and Roll before it. I still think that even a novice singer could have fun trying to sing Plant's high-pitched lyrics in Black Dog.
The biggest problem with Pink Floyd is that they use so many non-conventional ways to make their music. I feel that many of their songs (even Money would have a sparse guitar part at the beginning, despite its sweet bass riff) would feel disconnected in the context of GH or RB. Even the short pauses in War Pigs kept me from playing it too much in GHII. If by some miracle, Harmonix was able to license Dark Side of the Moon I'm sure many people would be interested in it for DLC, despite the fact that few songs would be suitable.
I still prefer Under Pressure for it's awesomeness, but Keep Yourself Alive would be right up there with the other two.
Night Train is a decent selection, with ample challenge in the parts, but I would pick Paradise City for the setlist to score points with the mainstream crowd. I know that there are a lot of people who would be interested in this game, who are not fans of hard rock or metal. Most of them can barely play the game on easy, but if you let them sing along to a song they recognize, they'll have a blast, even if they fail. Paradise City also has some awesome guitar licks for us seasoned GH veterans. It should be on the set list, while anything else should be left for DLC.
For Journey, I think that either Don't Stop Believing or Anyway you want it would be good crowd pleasers at a party, especially for the vocals. Anyway you want it has feel-good power in its guitar riff, which would make it very fun to play at a party. The guitar lapse at the beginning of DSB is comparable to the breaks that many other members of the band have to take in other songs. However, as a GH player, I share your concern. Maybe a guitar doubling the piano part could be added to detract from the boredom.

[Julio-Claudius]

No guitar for the first minute. Maybe Wheel in the Sky, Separate Ways, or Stone in Love instead?

Yeah, but when the guitar comes in it is a challenging sequence of pull-offs, basically making up for the absence of the first minute.

[dirty_bird32]

Would "Life in the Fast Lane" be an acceptable Eagles song for RB?

also, you need some Cream (I love the other choices/WoS's suggestions)

[diesel]

hell yes, life in the fastlane rocks

[Ghandi]

Would "Life in the Fast Lane" be an acceptable Eagles song for RB?

also, you need some Cream (I love the other choices/WoS's suggestions)
I'd love some cream, way fun to play. Would also love me some Grateful Dead, key and time changes galore :P They would have to make the notes slightly change every time you played the song to keep with their style. Hah.

[Rockerman]

All pretty good choices.I'm kinda getting tired of people choosing songs from Back In Black though.Get somthing from the Bons Scott era.

[Anteraan]

Excellent list - FAR, FAR better than what we've been given recently. I too would go with Separate Ways as the best Journey song for RB, but I'd be happy with most anything by them. Stone in Love is great too, but with Steve at the high end of his range, the vocals will kill a lot of guys, while other songs are a bit more...accessible.

As an aside, a fairly unknown song by them, Can't Tame the Lion, would also be a fine song for this game. It's off the Trial by Fire album, has a wonderful guitar solo (first part is easy, but the typical Neal Schon fastball HO/PO stuff is there), and just ROCKS in the manner of Separate Ways. Because it's obscure, it would please the "absolutely no popular stuff" crowd (you know who they are). Not that I really care what a lot of them think - I get the "draw people in" factor of popular (yet good for the game) songs.

Note: I'd love to link to an mp3 or the like of "Can't Tame the Lion", but am having trouble finding one. That said, the iTunes clip is a pretty fair representation, if anyone out there is curious.