Fess up what songs had you never even heard of before they were announced

[Rocker2]

My list

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Brainpower Freezepop
Celebrity Skin Hole
Dead on Arrival Fall Out Boy
Flirtin' With Disaster- Molly Hatchet
Green Grass and High Tides- The Outlaws
Maps- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pleasure (Pleasure) -Bang Camaro
Reptilia- The Strokes
Welcome Home -Coheed and Cambria
I Think I'm Paranoid- Garbage
Mississippi Queen-Mountain
Wave of Mutilation- Pixies

[Eman311]

^ seriously? wow. can't believe you hadn't heard the soundgarden song.

a lot for me, prob about 15 of the songs.

[Catalytic]

Before the last few announcements, every song was fairly familiar, but things have changed.

Brainpower - Freezepop (which I actually like a lot after listening to it)
Dead on Arrival - Fall Out Boy (they couldn't have picked another trendy, horribly lame band to put on here?)
Electric Version - The New Pornographers (this song is just odd ... I am not sure how well it will work for RB)
Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws (Neat song, should be fun)
Next to You - The Police (Maybe I am blanking, but I really don't remember this song)
Welcome Home - Coheed & Cambria (Neat song, not my style, but should be fun to play)

[Rocker2]

^ seriously? wow. can't believe you hadn't heard the soundgarden song.

Well I might have heard it a few times years ago but I don't listen to it all the time so...

[Apples]

At least 80 to 85% of the setlist.

[Rocker2]

I forgot Electric Version and Next To You

I like Aerosmith but Train Kept A-Rollin isn't ringing any bells either

[InsaneGame]

Well i'll be honest....
the 60's
70's except the Police, Ramones and Blue Oyster Cult
80's except for Faith No More and Bon Jovi
2000 except RHCP Queens of the Stoneage, NIN and Ok Go

[Catalytic]

This thread is starting to make me feel very old when people don't recognize music from the 80s and 90s (much less the 70s) :)

[Xzyliac]

Electric Version - The New Pornographers
29 Fingers - The Konks
Rockaway Beach - Ramones
Dead on Arrival - Fallout Boy
Baba O'Riley - The Who

[InsaneGame]

This thread is starting to make me feel very old when people don't recognize music from the 80s and 90s (much less the 70s) :)

If it makes you feel better I knew all the 90's songs.lol

[Catalytic]

Electric Version - The New Pornographers
29 Fingers - The Konks
Rockaway Beach - Ramones
Dead on Arrival - Fallout Boy
Baba O'Riley - The Who

You know Bab O'Riley ... most people remember it mistakenly as "Teenage Wasteland" because that is the most memorable part of the song. Great song!

[Keebler]

Baba O'Riley - The Who


:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[ZkDotNet]

I'm not counting DLC or bonus tracks.

Maps
Mississippi Queen
Welcome Home
Flirtin' with Disaster
Reptilia
Main Offender
Here It Goes Again
Next To You
Green Grass and High Tides
Dead on Arrival
Electric Version

All 70's or 00's? Strange.

Some others I didn't know by name, but recognized when I heard them.

[Nilsen31]

1980s

Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
R.E.M. "Orange Crush"

1990s
Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
Hole "Celebrity Skin"

2000s

Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps"
Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
New Pornographers "Electric Version"



Yea, Classic Rock all the way for me, I know some new stuff...don't like it, but I've heard it...My friends listen to that stuff :(

edit:
oh, and if you count DLC...

I know all Who , Nirvana and Grateful Dead...but not Metallica

[Keebler]

The Electric Version
Next to You
Train Keeps A-Rollin'
Welcome Home (didn't know by name, but instantly recognized it when I heard it)
Orange Crush
Green Grass and High Tides
Tom Sawyer (didn't know by name, but instantly recognized it when I heard it)
Cherub Rock (didn't know by name, but instantly recognized it when I heard it)
In Bloom (didn't know by name, but instantly recognized it when I heard it)
Main Offender
Wave of Mutilation
Reptilia (didn't know by name, but instantly recognized it when I heard it)
Dead on Arrival

[espher]

Outside of the bonus songs...

...

...

Wow, just the Fall Out Boy song. I'm kinda surprised. I guess I can thank my friend for the Coheed and Cambria introduction a few months ago. ;)

[Tragic_H3R0]

The Electric Version
Brainpower
Dead on Arrival
Flirtin With Disaster
Green Grass and High Tides
Welcome Home
Wave of Mutilation
Train Kept A-Rollin
29 Fingers

[Nilsen31]

being 19 and not knowing new songs, it feels weird.


something else, a lot of people don't know southern rock...

:(

I mean it's sad because so many great musicians won't be remembered, The Marshall Tucker Band, I mean Toy Caldwell...just wow, what a great guitarist.

Go youtube Toy Caldwell!! Ramblin' On My Mind especially...skip to about 1:20 :D


along w/ Molly Hatchet, jeez their songs were guitar heeeeavvvyyyyyyy

[joeincolorado]

Excluding the bonus songs (none of which I've heard of anyways) here goes:

1970's
David Bowie - Suffragette City
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
The Police - Next To You

1980's
Rush - Tom Sawyer
R. E. M. - Orange Crush
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

1990's
Radiohead - Creep
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

2000's
The Hives - Main Offender
Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Strokes - Reptilia

Also never heard the Fallout Boy or The Killers songs.

All in all, I'm kind of disappointed with the final list. While there's a good amount of songs in there that I will most certainly love, there's a long list of ones that I'm not too sure about. I know that my disappointment will fade once I play but, after just listening to some of the songs that are on the play list, eek. Hopefully, they translate a lot better in the Rock Band atmosphere. But, of course, this is Harmonix so, I'm not too worried.

[cmg4894]

1970s

* Boston "Foreplay/Long Time"
* The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides" (cover)

1980s

* Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills" (cover)


2000s

* The Strokes "Reptilia"
* Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
* New Pornographers "Electric Version"

Unlockable Tracks

* Bang Camaro "Pleasure (Pleasure)"
* Twelve more yet to be revealed


Wow, only seven that I haven't heard of. I'm not a huge metal fan so the Maiden and Boston songs I don't know. I do know some of their songs just not these. I'm proud to say I know all the 90's songs. I grew up in that era and these were huge songs. I'm surprised that I know most of the 00's too. Happy day.

[ZkDotNet]

1970s

* Boston "Foreplay/Long Time"
* The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides" (cover)

1980s

* Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills" (cover)


2000s

* The Strokes "Reptilia"
* Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
* New Pornographers "Electric Version"

Unlockable Tracks

* Bang Camaro "Pleasure (Pleasure)"
* Twelve more yet to be revealed


Wow, only seven that I haven't heard of. I'm not a huge metal fan so the Maiden and Boston songs I don't know. I do know some of their songs just not these. I'm proud to say I know all the 90's songs. I grew up in that era and these were huge songs. I'm surprised that I know most of the 00's too. Happy day.
Boston.. metal... wha?

[RkBndDrmr]

LOL Boston =metal

2000s

* The Hives "Main Offender"
* Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
* OK Go "Here It Goes Again"
* Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
* Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
* Fallout Boy "Dead on Arrival"
* The Killers "When You Were Young"
* New Pornographers "Electric Version"

I am probably one of the oldest people here, and cruised through the list till I got to the 2000's Of those that made my list, I had heard of all of them, and knew a different song from most. Except for Coheed & Cambria. Never heard of them.

[cmg4894]

Boston.. metal... wha?

Ha ha funny not what I meant. I mean Maiden and Coheed & Cambria. Never heard of The Outlaws. Are they metal?

[Chris_Gonzalez]

Everything except:

BLack Hole Sun
Flirtin' With Disaster
Welcome Home
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Ballroom Blitz
Dani California
Don't Fear the Reaper
Blitzkreig Bop
Foreplay/Longtime
Learn to Fly
Paranoid

Those are the only songs I knew. The rest I hadn't heard until they were announced.

[HPLabonte]

* The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides" (cover)
* Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills" (cover)
* Hole "Celebrity Skin"
* Garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid"
* The Hives "Main Offender"
* Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
* Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
* Fallout Boy "Dead on Arrival"
* The Killers "When You Were Young"
* New Pornographers "Electric Version"
* Bang Camaro "Pleasure (Pleasure)"

[Paakaa10]

Songs I'd Never Heard of:
1. David Bowie -- Suffragette City... I've definitely made up for it through coverage now haha.
2. The Outlaws -- Green Grass and High Tides
3. The Police -- Next to You
4. Pixies -- Wave of Mutilation... really glad to be introduced to this.
5. Garbage -- I Think I'm Paranoid
6. The New Pornographers -- Electric Version
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Maps

Everything else I'd at least heard once or twice or was aware of before it went up on the setlist. This is where it helps to have three different stations programmed on my radio for rock music--a current/alternative rock station, a classic/metal station, and my college radio station (91.9FM WMEB Orono Maine!) for the indie stuff.

I am really stoked for this game now. Even though The Killers are on Guitar Hero 3 as well, it really brought a huge smile to my face to see When You Were Young on this, as I bet the notechart will be more fun to play and I'll be able to sing it.

[jq71586]

Not counting DLC or bonus tracks.

"Dead On Arrival" - Fall Out Boy
"The Electric Version" - The New Pornographers
"Green Grass and High Tides" - The Outlaws
"Next to you" - The Police
"When You Were Young" - The Killers
"Welcome Home"- Coheed and Cambria

[LoneSteele]

How have so few people heard of the Strokes? They're pretty big these days.

[LongDarkBlues]

Wow - I can't imagine hearing so many classic songs for the first time in a game - seriously, who hadn't heard Don't Fear the Reaper - I must have heard that song no less than 10,000 times on the radio, and I haven't even listened to the radio in a decade. Anyway - there were a couple for me:

70s
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (I'd seen the album cover before, but never heard a thing off of it - it's pretty damn cool.)
The Police - Next To You (As it turns out, I don't know anything from the first Police album - this is by far the best song I've heard from them - most of thier pop stuff irritates the piss out of me.)

90's
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Cherub Rock
Corgan has always gotten on my nerves so I skipped TSP as much as possible - the guitar on this is pretty cool, but the lyrics are terrible)

00's
Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow
I know some other stuff of theirs that is way more awesome that this - one of the most disappointing tracks considering the other stuff I've encountered byQotSA
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
I actually know the much more obscure band that this song is about - Liars - and had heard about them a hundred times, but this was the first time I'd actually heard it. I love it.
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
stupidly pretentious, but it should be fun
Fallout Boy - Dead on Arrival
I try to encounter as little Fallout Boy as humanly possible - one of the crappiest bands of the 00s

Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
I know a fair about of both of their 90s stuff, but I had stopped paying attention to them a long time ago - these songs were pretty ok.

[e1duke]

Wait so is it just me or did ALL of you know what "Suffragette City" was before this game, because I sure as hell didn't.

[the_spike]

Never listened to or heard these:
"Celebrity Skin" – Hole
"The Electric Version" – The New Pornographers
"Flirtin' With Disaster" – Molly Hatchet
"Foreplay/Long Time" – Boston
"Gimme Shelter" – Rolling Stones
"Green Grass and High Tides" – The Outlaws
"I Think I'm Paranoid" – Garbage
"Main Offender" – The Hives
"Next to You" – The Police
"Orange Crush" – R.E.M.
"Suffragette City" – David Bowie
"Train Kept A-Rollin' – Aerosmith
"Wave of Mutilation" – Pixies

[bounchfx]

actually knew a lot of them, I'd say maybe 50%

[CableCarrier]

Spike, you'd never heard of Suffragette City? You, sir, are deprived.

[Chthonic]

I'd never heard "Highway Star" before, although I'd heard it mentioned quite often. Now I can see why it's talked about so much.

[masterx1918]

aside from bonus songs

Dead on Arival-FoB
The Electric Version-Porn guys
Green Grass and High Tides (I've heard of the Outlaws but not this song)
I Think I'm Paranoid
Maps-YYYs
Main Offender-Hioves
Orange Crush-REM (i've heard lots of rem but not this song)
When You Were Young-Killers

That's it

[toefer]

Aerosmith - Train Kept A Rollin'
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (I'm not a Maiden fan, sue me)
NIN - The Hand That Feeds (I'm not a NIN fan, sue me again)
New Porn - Electric Version (third lawsuit)

[Desensitized]

Everything except the Outlaws song. That was the only one I've never heard before.

[Xzyliac]

You know Bab O'Riley ... most people remember it mistakenly as "Teenage Wasteland" because that is the most memorable part of the song. Great song!

No seriously. I know a hell of alot of Who songs but when I downloaded and heard Baba O'Riley after everyone kept talking about it it was a first.

[foolosophy]

Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Aerosmith - Train Kept A-Rollin'
The Police - Next To You
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (yeah, I'm not a big fan of metal)
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

[Nilsen31]

Ha ha funny not what I meant. I mean Maiden and Coheed & Cambria. Never heard of The Outlaws. Are they metal?

Nah the Outlaws are a 70s Southern Rock Band...

Think Lynyrd Skynyrd, but a little more southern influence...although Green Grass and High Tides is more rockin' than some of their other stuff which has a little more southern/country in em.


They got 2 drummers and 3 guitarists.

[Xzyliac]

Nah the Outlaws are a 70s Southern Rock Band...

Think Lynyrd Skynyrd, but a little more southern influence...although Green Grass and High Tides is more rockin' than some of their other stuff which has a little more southern/country in em.


They got 2 drummers and 3 fùcking amazing guitarists.

Well said, well said.

[Nilsen31]

Hurry Sundown, Song For You, Freeborn Man, There Goes Another Love Song, Ghost Riders In The Sky...


I'd love for some DLC...

but probably not :(


yay Outlaws!! yaayyyyyyyyy :D

[cmg4894]

Nah the Outlaws are a 70s Southern Rock Band...

Think Lynyrd Skynyrd, but a little more southern influence...although Green Grass and High Tides is more rockin' than some of their other stuff which has a little more southern/country in em.


They got 2 drummers and 3 guitarists.


Thanks for the heads up. I'm always happy to expand my music tastes.

[xenopherus]

I'm most surprised I'd never heard the David Bowie song, and upon hearing it was very disapointed. He has so many better songs than that.

Deep Purple - Highway Star
David Bowie - Suffragette City (Wished it had been a song from the 80?s)
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (never heard of the band or song. May have heard some stuff by them, but didn't know it was The Outlaws)

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

The Hives - Main Offender (Wish this horrid band/song could be replaced by the far superior:
The Shins - Phantom Limb)

Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival
The New Pornographers - Electric Version (Never heard of the band or song)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Strokes - Reptilia
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Ok Go - Here It Goes Again (Never heard of the band or song)
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Dani California

A lot of these songs I'm happy about, but most are pretty bad. Most notably the C&C and Hives... The total opposite of what rock should sound like. The bands themselves are fine, it's just the hideous voices of the singers that totally ruin them. Same with the Molly Hatchet song (which I've heard many times over the years). I watched the video on YouTube, and thought at the beginning guitar riffs "hey, this is really good..." But then Danny Joe Brown has to chime in and totally ruin the whole song. Eh, it'll be fun to make fun while singing the songs anyway.

[eVoLuTiOn]

too tired to list the songs but i know all except 10 or so songs, most of which are from the 2000's.

[HPLabonte]

Wait so is it just me or did ALL of you know what "Suffragette City" was before this game, because I sure as hell didn't.

It's one of my favorite bowie songs

[Tendoza]

Ones I didn't know:

Cherub Rock
Dead On Arrival
Electric Version
I Think Im Paranoid
Main Offender
Next To You
Orange Crush
Train Kept A Rollin
Wave Of Mutilation
Welcome Home

Ones I went "???" or "hmmm..." but then went "AAAAAH, OK, I know that one!":

Celebrity Skin
Creep
Epic
Flirtin With Disaster
Green Grass and High Tides
In Bloom
Maps
Reptilia
Vasoline

[Xzyliac]

I'm most surprised I'd never heard the David Bowie song, and upon hearing it was very disapointed. He has so many better songs than that.

Die.

*filler*

[Kylekillgannon]

I'm most surprised I'd never heard the David Bowie song, and upon hearing it was very disapointed. He has so many better songs than that.

Deep Purple - Highway Star
David Bowie - Suffragette City (Wished it had been a song from the 80?s)
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (never heard of the band or song. May have heard some stuff by them, but didn't know it was The Outlaws)

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

The Hives - Main Offender (Wish this horrid band/song could be replaced by the far superior:
The Shins - Phantom Limb)

Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival
The New Pornographers - Electric Version (Never heard of the band or song)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Strokes - Reptilia
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Ok Go - Here It Goes Again (Never heard of the band or song)
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Dani California

A lot of these songs I'm happy about, but most are pretty bad. Most notably the C&C and Hives... The total opposite of what rock should sound like. The bands themselves are fine, it's just the hideous voices of the singers that totally ruin them. Same with the Molly Hatchet song (which I've heard many times over the years). I watched the video on YouTube, and thought at the beginning guitar riffs "hey, this is really good..." But then Danny Joe Brown has to chime in and totally ruin the whole song. Eh, it'll be fun to make fun while singing the songs anyway.


You said what about Claudio?

[Xenoburst]

There are a bunch of songs I hadn't heard until Rock Band. But I will only mention one, because honestly its kinda embarrassing...and will probably derail this topic forever.

*looks around*
...
*whispers*
Gimme Shelter

*runs*

[Catalytic]

There are a bunch of songs I hadn't heard until Rock Band. But I will only mention one, because honestly its kinda embarrassing...and will probably derail this topic forever.

*looks around*
...
*whispers*
Gimme Shelter

*runs*

Okay, we have to take you out back and beat the tar out of you for that one! :D

[espher]

Wait so is it just me or did ALL of you know what "Suffragette City" was before this game, because I sure as hell didn't.

Thank GH1. I... acquired the entire album after playing Ziggy Stardust and half-remembering having heard it before.

[BobLoblaw]

Just Mississippi Queen & Green Grass and High Tides, not counting stuff in the bonus section.

[Mushroom]

In regards to "Next To You" by The Police.

The Offspring covered it recently, and it got quite a lot of radio airplay, even though it was just a hidden track on their Greatest Hits. I think this may have something to do with it.

[Teh_Grimm]

Well, I'm 14 and still finding my way through the rock back catalogue. So I use Rock Band/Guitar Hero for bands to listen to and for history. Here's my list:

Celebrity Skin - Hole
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Creep - Radiohead
Dead on Arrival - Fallout Boy (thank christ)
The Electric Version - The New Pornographers
Epic - Faith No More
Flirtin With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Go With The Flow - QotSA
I think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
Main Offender - The Hives
Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Orange Crush - R.E.M
Say It Aint So - Weezer
Train Kept A-Rollin - Aerosmith
Vasoline -Stone Temple Pilots
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies

Not including bonus tracks or DLC. Only a measly 18, so not to bad. I guess.

[BeckRokk]

This thread is starting to make me feel very old when people don't recognize music from the 80s and 90s (much less the 70s) :)

I'm not very old but I am fairly well educated musically, and seeing that a lot of these (what I will assume to be 11-17 year old) kids not knowing things like Black Sabbath and Soundgarden really speaks to what the yougest generation does which is that they seem to reject the past to make way for the future(musically and otherwise).

[Ardius]

I'm not very old but I am fairly well educated musically, and seeing that a lot of these (what I will assume to be 11-17 year old) kids not knowing things like Black Sabbath and Soundgarden really speaks to what the yougest generation does which is that they seem to reject the past to make way for the future(musically and otherwise).

I hate generalisations. Of course, isnt that what people did back in the 50s? and the 60s? and so on? Of course the latest music is going to be more talked about than the old.

However, I dont like this "well, all people below the age of 25 dont care about old music", I beg to differ, many a person is surprised by the fact me and plenty of my friends love older music and find it to be far better than anything out today.
The fact we have to go back and listen to Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Rush, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Queen and so many others speaks a lot about how good music is today.

You dont have to be "educated musically" to find out about Black Sabbath, nearly all metal bands go on about how they were the pioneers of the genre.
Perhaps I have a bias because Im English, and overhere it may be talked about a lot more than in America, I dont know, but theres rarely a teenager overhere who hasnt heard a Queen song or seen a music video of an Iron Maiden song.

[GrayInvisible]

Some girl in my school thought Pink Floyd did the Yellow Submarine.