Reviewing the Tracks

[LongDarkBlues]

Alphabetical by track title, ratings out of 10 - this includes all of Who's Next, since it's been confirmed (and you're loser if you don't download such an awesome album):

1. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 4
A straight up Stooges rip-off, this is a perfect flagship track for the game: snarling vocals, pounding drums, big rock riffs and lot of Rolling Stones swagger. The interplay between the instruments seems to be a perfect intro to the mechanics of the game.

2. Baba O'Riley - The Who
awesomeness: 10
anticipated difficulty: 7
The opening epic and companion piece to Won't Get Fooled Again (both are from the aborted Lifehouse album). There are drums parts that are going to be really difficult, and the vocal range on this on is going to be pretty demanding - lyrically it's one of the Who's most badass songs. The guitar part is perfect for windmilling Pete Townsend-style. Not a whole lot for the vocalist to do towards the end, though, while the guitarists and drummer speed way up.

3. Bargain - The Who
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 9
The drums are going to be really difficult on this one - perhaps more of a showcase for Moon's parts than any other song on the album - and the end of the chorus is one of the hardest to sing parts of the album. The bridge starts a little lame, it ends up pretty awesome and I'm sure it'll be great when everything comes back in and rocks out together and you get one pretty great guitar solo in there.

4. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 7
Always one of my least favorite Who songs lyrically, this song is going to be a bit more enjoyable in the game. The finger-picked acoustic guitar parts should be pretty tough, but th first half of this is really a vocal showcase. It build up to a pretty great full-on band piece around half-way through, and the second half, once the drums finally come in, is a pretty great and should be pretty fun, and as always the drums are going to be phenomenally hard.

5. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 5
This one'll probably show up pretty early in the game, as it's pretty easy to sing, and the riffing and drumming are pretty straight forward, but isn't that what the Ramones were all about anyway? It's still a killer songs, and on expert I'd wager the strumming will get pretty tiring.

6. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 4
An ok song, pretty much every part seems pretty simple except for those that have trouble holding a note for an extended period of time - the range is pretty narrow, but he does hold some of those notes for a while. The noisy solo-thing should be pretty interesting to see how it's pulled off with notation, but should be too hard for the most part - a lot of held notes, I'd imagine.

7. Brainpower - Freezepop
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 6
Not quite as awesome as GHII's Less Talk..., it's still a pretty cool synth/keytar thing, and the lyrics are pretty funny - just the timing on the delivery should be entertaining. It's fun just for the difference in sound from the rest of the tracks.

8. Celebrity Skin - Hole
awesomeness: 3
anticipated difficulty: 5
The big-budget crunchy production on the guitars is pretty fun when it comes in, but that's about the sole interesting thing in this track - I can appreciate the need for female-vocals rock songs, but Hole is pretty lame overall, and none of the parts sounds particularly interesting or difficult. The only real misstep in the game, I'd argue. I hope that all the vocal effects Courtney Love uses are applied in real time to the singers vocal parts -= that'd be pretty cool.

9. Cherub Rock - The Smashing Pumpkins
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 6
The wall-of-noise guitar parts (cribbed from My Bloody Valentine) should be a blast to play really loud, as well as the decent solo, but Corgan's limp vocals and lyrics are some of his weakest, so it' a bit of a trade off. The drums at the end are pretty awesome, and probably quite difficult for about 15 seconds.

10. Creep - Radiohead
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 5
I really hope they don't censor the lyrics for this (unlike the board here - you're so ****ing special...). It's a plainspoken, but subtly challenging vocal melody at first, and the soft guitar could be pretty tricky. When the heavily distorted guitars come it's incredible - the drums never seem to hard, but it's a great song, and the dynamic of it will be great for band play, maybe a little dull for any of the instruments solo. The falsetto vocals towards the end could be challenging if you can't naturally drop it an octave.

11. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 6
RHCP have been pretty lame overall since about 1989, but this is one of the few sweet songs from their later works, despite being knock-off of Tom Petty's Last Dance With Mary Jane in the verses, the chorus is awesome vocally - just a great build up. The falsetto bridge is going to produce a lot of amusingly terrible singing, I anticipate. The Hendrix-y solo is going to sound great playing with the guitar with it's clear single-note melody line.

12. Detroit Rock City - Kiss
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 7
Never a favorite of mine from them - I would have gone with Cold Gin or Black Diamond if they didn't want to reuse Strutter from GHII - but I anticipate that it'll be more fun to play than to listen to, plus that bass run-down is pretty awesome, and the lyrics are a perfect fit for the rock star fantasy in the game. The drums are straight-forward, but should be really fun to play just for the fills.

13. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 8
If you've seen the video you know how hard these drums are going to be - there's a lot of lead guitar going on too, that'll probably be a little tricky. Really, the song doesn't get really difficult until the breakdown jam 3/4 of the way in (often cut from the radio version) - that's going to be hard - really fast drum roll, some fast guitar parts. It's a classic rock song, and is going to be one of the highlights of the songs on the disc, I imagine.

14. Enter Sandman - Metallica
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 8
The pounding drums should be fun, and the production makes the guitars sound huge, but this is pretty low on the list of Metallica songs I'd be interested in playing. Hetfield has a really easy vocal range to match, and the lyrics are exceptionally lame (heavy thoughts tonight and that aren't of Snow White? we're off to Never-Neverland? please), but it'll be pretty entertaining to ham it up. The solo is fairly cool, but is certainly not of their most challenging in a Guitar Hero sense - the timing is mostly pretty simple and there's only a few short parts with much speed.

15. Epic - Faith No More
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 7
There's no doubt that singing this is going to be challenging - the rapped lyrics mixed with the really high chorus is a hallmark of the song - but it's also kind of annoying. Instrumentally though, this should be pretty sweet to play - the solo is lame harmonic build-up wankery - but the riff is pretty awesome. Also there's bit of standing around at the end waiting for the piano outro, but that's a good time to open another beer so **** it, right?

16. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
awesomeness: 4
anticipated difficulty: 9
The end result is pretty boring Southern-Boogie-Rock, but the elements that go into it that, individually, are pretty damn challenging. The guitar, drums and bass are all really technically difficult, busy parts - that would be a real challenge in the game, even if the overall song is pretty lame. The long solos in particular will be as challenging as anything from the main game in GHII.

17. Foreplay / Long Time - Boston
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 9
Another long and really difficult song - the drums on the Foreplay part are insane, and the guitar is no slouch either. As badass as the first part is, though, Long Time is pretty tame in comparison- the guitar soloing should be pretty entertaining, though. Boston's weakness was never it's players, but it's lite-rock singer - barring the relative lameness of him, though, there's a ton to love in the song - it's going to be really hard.

18. Getting in Tune - The Who
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 5
A piano and vocals song for the first 45 seconds, even once the band comes in it's still Daltry's show, sure to provide amusingly ironic moments of singing 'I'm in tune' way out of tune. This is going to be great for the vocalists, and pretty middle-of-the-road for the instruments. Probably the second easiest Who song on here - the breakdown at the end, the drums in particular (as always), will still be quite the challenge

19. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 5
One of the Rolling Stones best tracks, it's got a great snake-y guitar line, epic drumming, apocalyptic lyrics and some of the best back-up vocals ever recorded. Nothing sounds like it'll translate to a particularly difficult song game-wise, but it's such a monstrously awesome song I don't think it'll matter as far as enjoyment goes. Rape! Murder! It's just a shot away, it's just a shot away...

[LongDarkBlues]

20. Go With the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 7
One of the wimpier QotSA song, this will probably still be pretty fun for the tribal drumming. The guitar parts are mostly just some repetitive riffing - though the low-mixed solo is pretty fast - and the vocal melody is pretty generic and simple and the lyrics are mostly inane. About as middle-of-the-road as the songs get in RB.

21. Going Mobile - The Who
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 7
The hippie lyrics are pretty goofy in retrospect, but the cheesiness should be fun, and the post-bridge 'When I'm Mobile!! - Whee! Whoo!! Beep-beep!" is pretty awesome and, of course, the drumming rules - not much going on guitar-wise barring a fun but mostly-simple-sounding wah-wah solo.

22. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 6
Playing electronically-corrected perfect-tempo drumming is going to be a real challenge, but the riffing is pretty straight-forward, the synthy solos seems simple but fun, and nobody's going to accuse Reznor of being a challenging vocalist to match. It's a pretty sweet song, though - should be fun.

23. Here it Goes Again - Ok Go
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 5
An ok song (no pun intended) that I imagine will be in the early part of the game - it's pretty unchallenging (both music-wise and game-wise). The flow of the vocals should be fun to keep up with, and there's some quick drums fills and vocal effects, but it's ok for a disposable pop-rock track. The shout-out to the Pixies in the lyrics is at least some fun inter-game synchronicity. I bet the lyrics shouting towards the end will be fun.

24. Highway Star - Deep Purple
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 10
It's long, the riffing never stops, the vocals are all over the place range-wise, the solos are clearly hard, and mostly intense hammer-ons for almost a minute, the stuttered rhythm guitar part is going to be a challenge - this is going to be amongst the hardest tracks in the game. Oh yeah, the drums are no simple matter, either. Damn.

25. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 4
A pretty basic song, the vocals might be a bit tricky for guys singing the part range-wise, but the guitar and drums are pretty basic. The drum programming might be tiring to match for a whole song, so that's something - hey, it's better than Hole.

26. In Bloom - Nirvana
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 5
Some of Cobain's lamest singing and lyrics in the verses, and overall one of Nevermind's weakest tracks, the howling sing-along and drums in the chorus is still going to rule. I can't fathom why they'd choose this over Breed, which would be awesome. I really hope that they get the whole Nevermind album confirmed just for that track alone.

27. Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
awesomeness: 3
anticipated difficulty: 4
A strange choice - one the least interest songs in the Foo Fighter's catalog, it's consummately generic and faceless. The lyrics are trite, the instrumentation is phoned in - there's not a whole to suggest this song. Perhaps it's somehow incredibly fun with a band, but I doubt it. There's a handful of challenging drum fills, perhaps, but the vocals and guitars don't really go anywhere interesting.

28. Love Ain't For Keeping - The Who
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 4
A short fun, country-tinged Who song, the acoustic guitar should be entertaining. Not much to say about this one, it's pleasant, but nothing challenging.

29. Main Offender - The Hives
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 7
If you can't appreciate the massive garage hooks and super distorted vocals and guitars you need to get some more schooling in what rock is all about. Derivative almost to a fault, the Hives certainly studied up on the guts of 60's garage and Detroit rock and recreated it perfectly. The guitar is primal, the vocals shrieked, the drums bludgeoned - it's not covering any new ground, but it still kicks ass and you prog and metal dorks could learn a thing or two about the benefits of not being very good at your instruments.

30. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 5
The opening single-note guitar line is going to be deceptively difficult, I imagine. Besides that, the song is pretty simple sounding. It's a great song, - a particularly sweet drum fill - although I'm not sure how suited it is to the game - we'll see in practice I guess. It's nice to get something indie in here, though. I would've gone with a more rocking band - Wolf Parade or Modest Mouse or something, but this is a cool, short song.

31. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 7
An awesome track by one of the first really heavy bands. The guitar lead is supremely killer, and the rest is pretty sweet - I hope the cover artists nailed the vocals like it demands - a lame cover singer would really kill this track's intensity. Lots of cowbell, incidentally.

32. My Wife - The Who
awesomeness: 5
anticipated difficulty: 7
Another Who song, another clearly tricky drum part, at least in parts - the rest doesn't sound to tough vocally or guitar-wise. This is probably the weakest track on the Who's Next album, but still decent - kinda sounds like Boston, really.

33. Next to You - The Police
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 5
I figure if the Boston song is confirmed, than this one is too, essentially. I hadn't heard this one prior to seeing it here - it's easily the least-crappy Police song I've heard - none of the big-ego Sting wankery, and really some pretty sweet Post-Punk, Proto-New Wave rocking - a pleasant surprise. The drummign sounds fun, but nothing too challenging.

34. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 4
A weird choice, but it's got some pretty cool lyrics and some cool drumming. The guitars don't do a whole lot beyond the loping melody line, but not too bad. I'm not sure how they're going to do the ranting spoken word part. Also surprising in it's anti-American Imperialism political stance.

35. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
awesomeness: 10
anticipated difficulty: 7
On one hand, I've heard it a million, billion times. On the other, it's ****ing Black Sabbath and obviously rules harder than you non-Sabbath-loving middle school kids can fathom - Those Avenged Sevenfold sissies can suck it. Anyway- the riff is great, the drums are great, the vocals are great - it's a fantastic track. I hope this opens the door to even more Sabbath in the game - there were rumors of the whole Paranoid album for DLC -that would be great - Hell, just release the whole first 5 albums - they are all great.

36. Pleasure (Pleasure) - Bang Camaro
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 8
It sounds lifted right off the first Def Leppard album, which is pretty cheesy, but also pretty awesome. There's some hard sounding scale-climbing solos that should make for quite the ridiculous hammer-on soloing. The vocals and drums don't sound too hard. "Rock it Up, Rock it Down!"

37. Reptilia - The Strokes
awesomeness: 8
anticipated difficulty: 6
Another fun garage-ish track - it doesn't sound very hard, but is a great band song by a decent modern rock band. The vocals should be a lot of fun, and the interplay of the bass ad lead sounds sweet.

38. Sabotage - The Beastie Boys
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 6
It's a killer track - the lyrical flow is great, the guitar squalls are great, the drums are thundering - it's an easy highlight of the on-disc games. Probably going to be particularly challenging for vocalists that have trouble rhyming on the beat or keeping up with hip-hop-rooted vocals in general.

39. Say It Ain't So - Weezer
awesomeness: 4
anticipated difficulty: 3
I hadn't gone back and listened to this in a decade. I forgot what an annoying vocalist Cuomo was. Anyway - it's kind of cool to have a something with an old-school reggae rhythm, and when the big power chords come in on the chorus, and the bridge has it's moments - that one high note - but one of the lesser tracks and I'd bet money it's one of the easiest tracks in the game. Possibly the fun factor of playing it with a full band will outweigh a lot of that criticism.

[LongDarkBlues]

40. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash
awesomeness: 2
anticipated difficulty: 3
The drumming could get a little tricky when it goes to double time, but overall this seems like the simplest song in the game vocally and for the guitar. I wonder if they'll keep the 'Allah!!' in at the beginning? Regardless, the lamest of the famous Clash songs (they had some real duds later in their career), and the least interesting song in the game.

41. The Song is Over - The Who
awesomeness: 7
anticipated difficulty: 8
Another solid Who song - this one is particularly difficult vocally, and again, the drums are insanely hard and great. Cheesy lyrics, though.

42. Suffragette City - David Bowie
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 6
Though mysteriously unloved on this board, Suffragette City is prime classic Bowie - one of his most guitar-oriented tracks. the lyrics are great, the delivery is perfect, the drums are great - it's the ultimate Rock Band track that we've heard so far, and it's no surprise that it's been the focus of much of the early performances of the game - it's simply fantastic.

43. Tom Sawyer - Rush
awesomeness: 4
anticipated difficulty: 8
One of the more tolerable Rush tracks, this one is going to be a hell of a lot more fun with someone other than Geddy Lee singing. The lyrics are still dumb, but it's sheer goofy prog pomposity should be entertaining enough too perform, and of course the drums are going to be really hard, and the chorus guitar riff is decent.

44. Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots
awesomeness: 1
anticipated difficulty: 3
About as awesome as Nickelback or Creed, STP at least has a decent guitar tone. This song sucks ass, regardless. The moronic lyrics and dumbed down frat-grunge is still lame after all these years. The sheer repetitiveness of the guitar riff could make it hard as you attempt to keep focused not to start paying attention to something else going on which is surely more interesting.

45. Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 6
The faux-Western guitar work should be fun to replicate, and besides that it's more of a karaoke classic than a great rock song, but it's lucky enough to be great fun for the vocalists and happens to have some pretty probably-challenging guitar work. The drums are pretty non-existent, though, unless there's a lot going on that I'm just not hearing.

46. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 5
It wouldn't have been my choice for a Pixies song, but it's hard to deny how great it is for all the instruments, and a better fit for the game than many of my favorites - great drums, guitars and vols - sweet! A good song by a classic band - I hope we get to see some more of their surf guitar stuff down the road - I'd be thrilled ot have their first 2 records available as DLC so many great track PLUS some killer stuff with female vocals. (Come to think of it, The Breeders could be fun, too)

47. Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 9
I would never listen to this for enjoyment, but for Rock Band rocking it's going to be awesome - it's absurdly pompous, pretentious, wanky and stupid - in the best way possible. Although they sound like a metal version of Rush, who I loathe, they take it so much further over the top it goes all the way around from terrible to sweet, plus it's going to be be really hard music-wise, and the vocals are going to be laughable, ridiculous and fun.

48. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 9
An all-time classic, and one of the best rock songs of it's era. Every part is going to be challenging, it's quite long, and sounds insanely fun. THe Who usually go surprisingly light on teh guitar solos, but this have plenty of them, and the drums is Keith Moon, so you know it's hard, and the vocals - particularly the 'Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!' part - is going to rule.

49. 29 Fingers - The Konks
awesomeness: 9
anticipated difficulty: 5
I hadn't heard these guys before they showed up in Rock Band - simply awesome, primal garage rock - it's big, dumb, and dirty, just like it should be. I'm really hoping that the DLC will have a lot of underground bands of this caliber - it's excellent. I really hope they only use 2 of the drum pads, even on Expert.

So, ranking them in order of my interest in playing them, I would rate them thusly:

1. Baba O'Riley - The Who
2. Suffragette City - David Bowie
3. Sabotage - The Beastie Boys
4. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
5. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
6. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
7. Main Offender - The Hives
8. 29 Fingers - The Konks
9. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
10. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
11. Creep - Radiohead
12. Going Mobile - The Who
13. Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones
14. Highway Star - Deep Purple
15. Wave of Mutilation - The Pixies
16. Bargain - The Who
17. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
18. Foreplay / Long Time - Boston
19. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
20. Reptilia - The Strokes
21. The Hand that Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
22. Love Ain't For Keeping - The Who
23. Detroit Rock City - Kiss
24. Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
25. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
26. Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
27. Pleasure (Pleasure) - Bang Camaro
28. Getting in Tune - The Who
29. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
30. In Bloom - Nirvana
31. Next to You - The Police
32. Here it Goes Again - Ok Go
33. Enter Sandman - Metallica
34. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
35. Go With the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
36. Brainpower - Freezepop
37. Epic - Faith No More
38. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
39. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
40. The Song is Over - The Who
41. Tom Sawyer - Rush
42. Say It Ain't So - Weezer
43. My Wife - The Who
44. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
45. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
46. Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
47. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash
48. Celebrity Skin - Hole
49. Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots

[GrayInvisible]

How come Progressive Rock is automatically pompous? Tom Sawyer is a great song, and I don't see how it's pompous. The Police weren't that bad, although I really hated the song they have in this game. You're right about Sting, but his attitude didn't show up during a lot of his time with the Police, and it wouldn't show up during a song.

Good idea though. I enjoyed reading something like this, although I disagree with a few things, I agree with a bunch (especially on Hole. What was Harmonix THINKING?)

[jq71586]

Definitely appreciate you doing something like this. It was good to see all the songs laid out like that. I'm looking forward to "Who's Next" so much. I disagreed with a few things here and there. Like the Rush thing which GreyInivisible mentioned.

Also, "Learn To Fly" I know it's not the Foo Fighter's best song and clearly I'm in the minority in thinking the song is good for the Rock Band setlist, but I enjoy it. :D

Good job with this, I think most of it is spot on.

[LongDarkBlues]

Yeah - there's not a lot I can complain about - I'm pretty psyched to play at least 80% of the tracks overall.

Prog's very concept - marrying sophisticated classical arrangements with rock music is pretentious in that it assumes they are some how 'above' rock's raw, visceral nature and that making it more complicated somehow makes it better, and in doing so, I would argue, they miss the very point of the genre. There's some pretty cool prog-related out there - Hawkwind, Iron Butterfly, etc. - but a lot of prog is more interested in technical mastery of the instruments than actually creating a good song. Really, prog is almost the very definition of pretentious as revealed by dictionary.com:

2. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.

People love it, though! More power to them!
:)

[Keebler]

"Vasoline" gets a 1? Pffft.

[WingsOfSteel]

17. Foreplay / Long Time - Boston
awesomeness: 6
anticipated difficulty: 9
Another long and really difficult song - the drums on the Foreplay part are insane, and the guitar is no slouch either. As badass as the first part is, though, Long Time is pretty tame in comparison- the guitar soloing should be pretty entertaining, though. Boston's weakness was never it's players, but it's lite-rock singer - barring the relative lameness of him, though, there's a ton to love in the song - it's going to be really hard.

Say that again.


Another long and really difficult song

No, the other thing.


Boston's weakness was never it's players, but it's lite-rock singer - barring the relative lamene-

WRONG!

[RkBndDrmr]

I did not agree with you 100%, maybe 80%..and nobody else will either but...

You did a fantastic job and it was a good read.

[espher]

I still disagree with you on The Hives' track, although that may have more to do with the fact that I loved the song when I first heard it and thus was a little burnt out on it when it started to get mainstream play. By the end of the radio life of the song (at least locally) my enjoyment of the song seemed to turn to loathing. ;)

Edit: Also, a big wtf on the Boston commentary.

[foolosophy]

I'll do my rankings for anticipated Main Listers

1. Highway Star - Deep Purple
2. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
3. Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
4. Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
5. Who's Next (The Whole Damn Album!) - The Who
6. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
7. Tom Sawyer - Rush
8. Epic - Faith No More
9. Say It Ain't So - Weezer
10. Reptilia - The Strokes
11. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
12. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Creep - Radiohead
14. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
15. Sabotage - The Beastie Boys
16. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
17. Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones
18. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
19. Enter Sandman - Metallica
20. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
21. Here It Goes Again - Ok Go
22. Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
23. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash
24. Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots
25. Detroit Rock City - Kiss
26. Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
27. Main Offender - The Hives
28. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
29. Suffragette City - David Bowie
30. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
31. In Bloom - Nirvana
32. Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
33. Next To You - The Police
34. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
35. Wave of Mutilation - The Pixies
36. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
37. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
38. Celebrity Skin - Hole
23. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins

[LongDarkBlues]

Yeah - I'm pretty lucky in that I stopped listening to the radio a long time ago - I'd only heard the Hives songs maybe a dozen times prior to it's arrival on Rock Band.

I still think Boston's lead singer sucks though - Brad Delp is a dufus :)
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[KingofQUEEN48]

dude the strokes reptillia havent you seen that guitar part it looks awsome!

[LongDarkBlues]

dude the strokes reptillia havent you seen that guitar part it looks awsome!
It's in the top half! I like that song.

[GrenadeJumper]

A lot fo stuff in there that I do not agree with, but of course there will be, I mean, everyone is different in their taste of music. Appreciate the write up though.

[diesel]

only 5 or 6 songs on this list i know!!! for the rest i dont have a clue.ps who the hell is bubba riley???? and why do i want it

[Jp7588]

only 5 or 6 songs on this list i know!!! for the rest i dont have a clue.ps who the hell is bubba riley???? and why do i want it

Oh. My. God.

Sarcasm maybe?

[jq71586]

only 5 or 6 songs on this list i know!!! for the rest i dont have a clue.ps who the hell is bubba riley???? and why do i want it

Cousin of legendary basketball coach Pat Riley.

[dlisapussy]

I still think Boston's lead singer sucks though - Brad Delp is a dufus :)


your crazy

[Tragic_H3R0]

Great read. I agree with most of what you said.

[dethklok]

I think all of these ratings come down to opinion so yeah... I myself are going to play Dani California so much, I think the first scratch on my RB disk is going to be because of it ;) So like i said, it's all opinion.

[army_of_me]

Are your difficulty ratings based on guitar?

I think you're a little off on a few of them, at least in regards to the drums.

I anticipate the Jet, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, and Police tracks are going to kick are collective asses.

[mmorgan184]

only 5 or 6 songs on this list i know!!! for the rest i dont have a clue.ps who the hell is bubba riley???? and why do i want it

Baba O'Riley is by The Who. You might know the song as Teenage Wasteland though Baba O'Riley is it's true title.

[LongDarkBlues]

Are your difficulty ratings based on guitar?

I think you're a little off on a few of them, at least in regards to the drums.

I anticipate the Jet, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, and Police tracks are going to kick are collective asses.

I was making a vague average between all the part as I imagined their charts would like like on Hard/Expert - a lot of The Who songs are only going to be hard on drums, for example so the overall difficulty is lower by my rationing. I certainly anticipate that some will harder/easier than I thought.

[e1duke]

Good read, now my opinion.

Tom Sawyer Drums automatically is 10 on your awesome scale

WGFA? umm not 9, its a 10

In Blooms lyrics? Umm, they are supposed to not make any sense at all. And its some of the best drum work. Simple chords and bass line, awesome drums. 7-8 on awesome.

My opinion :cool:

[army_of_me]

I was making a vague average between all the part as I imagined their charts would like like on Hard/Expert - a lot of The Who songs are only going to be hard on drums, for example so the overall difficulty is lower by my rationing. I certainly anticipate that some will harder/easier than I thought.

Fair enough. I did enjoy reading it; I dig list-y things.

[Young_Nastyman]

I'm surprised battle_axe hasn't been here yet to try to end all of the prog hatin' going on :p

[Desensitized]

I still think Boston's lead singer sucks though - Brad Delp is a dufus :)
It's doofus. And he's dead.

I can't believe you compared STP to Creed and Nickleback. STP actually managed quite a few great songs that don't all sound alike as opposed to those bands.

[icantwaitforrockband]

It's doofus. And he's dead.

I can't believe you compared STP to Creed and Nickleback. STP actually managed quite a few great songs that don't all sound alike as opposed to those bands.

Seriously, WTF?? Anyhoo, everyone's entitled to their opinion! I can't wait to rock out to ALL the songs (well, except maybe Hole...but that's the song I'm using to convince my wife this game is worth getting...along with a PS3, so Celebrity Skin FTW!!!)