The "We're Boned" Setlist

[Electric_Zen]

There is an interesting picture in the Gamespy writeup of Battle of the Bands. The Gamespy team has played Rock Band for a couple of weeks, and Sluggo classified all of the songs by difficulty. He put the hardest ones into the "We're Boned" setlist.

There's no Who or Deep Purple or Outlaws on this particular list. Several of these songs surprised me. The list is:

Run to the Hills
Flirtin' With Disaster
Detroit Rock City
The Electric Version
Welcome Home
Train Kept A Rollin'
Main Offender

<img src="http://xbox360media.gamespy.com/xbox360/image/article/834/834919/whiteboard_1194997616.jpg"/>

[ZkDotNet]

Run to the Hills on both B and C. It's challenging and boning!

[Huwonk]

I'm pretty sure this is taken out of context. I think he is saying for his band set-up that those are the hardest songs... Remember not everyone plays on Expert... And they played purely for score.

[Huwonk]

Double post.

[MundaneSoul]

I thought some of those were a bit odd as well. Can't wait to see for myself!

[ZkDotNet]

I'm pretty sure this is taken out of context. I think he is saying for his band set-up that those are the hardest songs... Remember not everyone plays on Expert... And they played purely for score.
I'm pretty sure you're right. They had medium/hard players to contend with. It was a chart of what was the best for their particular group, including Sluggo planning on doing some vocals/lead at the same time.

[fried_blowney]

I just want to know what that announcement is that Gamespy is allowed to let out.

[TK-757]

I'm guessing it was the singing that was the biggest obstacle for all of those songs.

[bounchfx]

After playing Detroit Rock City ... I don't remember it being that bad.. at all.. maybe like a third teir. this is just from memory though, and yes I'm comparing this to GH2/3 so I'm probably dead wrong.

Anyway... 6 days!!

[ZkDotNet]

After playing Detroit Rock City ... I don't remember it being that bad.. at all.. maybe like a third teir. this is just from memory though, and yes I'm comparing this to GH2/3 so I'm probably dead wrong.

Anyway... 6 days!!
I did have a hard time with lead on Detroit Rock City on the intro. In hindsight, it's because I saw the opening as a trill... (it wasn't). Past that, it was fine.

[masterx1918]

At first I thought it was typo and was supposed to say "we're bored" but I don't know how you could get bored by playing any of those songs

[Huwonk]

After playing Detroit Rock City ... I don't remember it being that bad.. at all.. maybe like a third teir. this is just from memory though, and yes I'm comparing this to GH2/3 so I'm probably dead wrong.

Anyway... 6 days!!

Drums were really hard. Harder than Tom Sawyer, imo.

[Bakkster]

After playing Detroit Rock City ... I don't remember it being that bad.. at all.. maybe like a third teir. this is just from memory though, and yes I'm comparing this to GH2/3 so I'm probably dead wrong.

The bass is pretty fast, which makes it difficult for some (like Fargo), and the vocals are pretty challenging. It requires a lot of range, and you're singing almost continuously during the chorus. Not impossible, but certainly challenging, especially for some bands.

[Metalteeth]

*Offtopic, first post*

Ok, Why would these specific songs be the hard ones?

Run to the Hills- Vocals would be hard

Flirtin' With Disaster- Guitar, duh

Detroit Rock City- Everything?

The Electric Version- Listen to the drums, very fast, plus hard to sing

Welcome Home- Guitar Solo FTW

Train Kept A Rollin'- Um...?

Main Offender- Vocals I am assuming

So, Vocals are very hard is the conclusion I draw...

[masterx1918]

everything is hard about Train Kept A Rollin'. Go listen to the song and you'll agree with me.

[Electric_Zen]

everything is hard about Train Kept A Rollin'. Go listen to the song and you'll agree with me.

Agreed. This song gets almost no discussion, and I'm wondering if it's just because nobody has listened to it.

It is one of my five favorite songs on the main setlist, and so much better than most of the 'popular' Aerosmith tracks. It's one of those songs that will be very challenging, but also a lot of fun to rock out to.

[Jack_Harvard]

Flirtin' With Disaster- Guitar, duh

The vocals are also crazy hard, because they're relentlessly fast and change pitch a lot.

[masterx1918]

Agreed. This song gets almost no discussion, and I'm wondering if it's just because nobody has listened to it.

It is one of my five favorite songs on the main setlist, and so much better than most of the 'popular' Aerosmith tracks. It's one of those songs that will be very challenging, but also a lot of fun to rock out to.
for real though. Train Kept a rollin' is definitly the best RB choice for Aerosmith. It should get alot more praise along with Flirtin' With Disaster, Green Grass and High Tides and Foreplay/ Long Time. Very underrated tracks imho.

[sporkBrigade]

After playing Detroit Rock City ... I don't remember it being that bad.. at all.. maybe like a third teir. this is just from memory though, and yes I'm comparing this to GH2/3 so I'm probably dead wrong.

Anyway... 6 days!!

Me and a couple of friends played this one at Best Buy. Guitar was no problem for me, but our vocalist was murdered by this song. It was a bloody mess, I will truely miss him.

[HMXJohnlok]

Hm, that is an interesting list, although I definitely would've flipped a few from the "challenging" section to "boned."