DLC Discussion Week of 9/18 - Singles from The Offspring and Smash Mouth!

[TheStuddz]

Still just makes me want to re-investigate working with ? and the Mysterians. I want the original now.

Do it. I want me some "96 Tears".

[TheStuddz]

I mean seriously, the AAF version of Smooth Criminal is much better than Michael's.

That is funny.

[hmxhenry]

You don't have to answer this, but I'm left to wonder why we still don't have "I'm a Believer," yet we're getting a "lesser known" cover of theirs. "New Divide" by Linkin Park was tied to the Transformer's 3 soundtrack, so I don't think a song from the Shrek soundtrack is way out there.

I'm not aware of the particulars, but sometimes bands / labels want to feature some songs over others. Also, with soundtracks, there are sometimes issues where a band is on one label but the soundtrack is on another or the original license holder of the song is on another, etc. There can be a lot more parties involved.

[Ehfahq]

I know that it started with "Why Don't You Get A Job", that was a ripoff of Obla-di Obla-da, but don't listen to the singles from 98 onwards.. just go backwards.

Ignition is my favourite album by them. Such a good piece of 90s punk rock. Sadly, they wanted to sell, and they ran short of ideas, so they copy-pasted other songs.

If I recall correctly, there's a song on "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace" that sounds exactly like american idiot.

OH HERE IT IS

I think they just wrote songs and people like to pretend they know their thought process.

[Banjofan284]

Cool to see another single from The Offspring. This is the 5th time that The Offspring has gotten DLC. Is there any other band that has gotten that many separate DLC releases? (aside from Foo Fighters, of course).

I didn't expect to see more Smash Mouth in the game. They're both 90's songs with keyboard parts, so I'm glad to get more of those. I might get Why Can't We Be Friends at some point.

EDIT - Also I'm kind of annoyed (although the last few weeks have been swell for me) that we always get music from bands that have about 20 songs on Rock Band already. Smash Mouth have quite a few, Offspring have loads; we keep getting Foo Fighters and Jesus man there's TOO many Foo Fighters songs on Rock Band to care now. Can't new bands get a chance? Like Say Anything? How many people would buy Alive With the Glory of Love? I would buy it like 20 times over.

Doesn't Smash Mouth only have 2 songs before these new ones (All-Star and Walking on the Sun)? That would only put us up to 4 songs from them. And The Offspring does have a decent amount of songs, but 8 songs spread out over 5 releases isn't nearly as much as some of the other bands in RB (particularly Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Queen).

[SirDavidTLynch]

The songs remain the same. And the cabal of multi-tracked vocal loving teens at Harmonix remains firmly in charge.

Of all the criticisms of modern music, you go after a recording technique that's existed since the mid-60s?

[Cipher_Peon]

SMASH MOUTH?!?! YEEEEEEEE-
Wait.
Wait wait wait wait.

We get their awful cover of War's amazing Why Can't We Be Friends and not their amazing cover of I'm A Believer?!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;_;

[generalbane]

No thanks this week. I'm gonna be disappointed if HMX doesn't capitalize on The Killers new album next week. They're long overdue.

PS: I loved Made in Heaven

[FairwoodStudios]

Do it. I want me some "96 Tears".

That would be the target. Especially since it seems the Mysterian version of "Can't Get Enough of You Baby" isn't really the original; it was written externally and The Four Seasons got to it first. Still, all their stuff was re-recorded in '97 and they've got other good tracks... here's hoping they respond to an email this time.

[Cipher_Peon]

*reads the comments*
Wow. I thought Smash Mouth was one of those almost universally loved bands like The Killers. I've never ever met anyone on this planet whose hated them. I'm pretty blown away.

On the other hand, this week marks the first time a song that's released that I've listened to in my thread! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Definitely gonna buy, but I would have loved You're Gonna Go Far Kid (my favorite The Offspring song).