DLC Discussion Thread Week of 10/9: Singles from Billy Squier & A Flock of Seagulls!

[JackStraps]

STROKE ME! STROKE ME!

When was the last time the forum reaction was this positive? I certainly cant remember it. Wow. What a great week.

I remember the week we got Whitesnake/Cutting Crew/Hoobastank was awfully positive as well.

Yes it is great to see such positive message

Good week for me also .... Billy Squier was way overdue, great to finally have him in RB

also a good 80's one-hit wonder with I Ran, it will surely be great on keys and vocals !

[bonethug0108]

What numbers? Songs are released in either easily defined groupings of three (two singles and an on-disc, say, if not a three-pack), just a single, or great big packs like full albums quite a bit more than any other combination. No one suggests that 4- or 5-packs or two singles without a third song on a game soundtrack don't ever happen, because obviously they do, but even the 15 or 20 (or 30) examples you're no doubt gonna beat me over the head with don't dispel what very much seems to be the most common practice. Most common -- not only.

The numbers where something like 14% of the songs were potentially 'licensed in threes'. That's including all three. If we were to go instance by instance, it would most likely shrink. I posted all the numbers the last time you tried saying this.

So what, an EIGHTH of the Harmonix DLC is maybe 'licensed in threes' and suddenly we use that as the example? What's the average amount of songs each band has in Rock Band? NOT three or higher? Hmm. Who woulda thought.

I have a thread, that I need to update, that you can use to gvet a rough figure for this. It doesn't include disc songs but I might add a section for that.

I'll just say it is closer to what GNF said. The rule of 3 isn't is way more common than the rule of 1(which I believe is actually the most common). In fact, between 1 and 2 singles I think that may make up about half of releases.

[NeilDiamond1974]

Thumbs up! 3/3! Well done. I would imagine the other Billy Squier songs are on the way since they are in the other game and probably already stemmed out. It is like stealing candy from a baby for those. (Okay, after the licensing is all done.)

[bonethug0108]

Thumbs up! 3/3! Well done. I would imagine the other Billy Squier songs are on the way since they are in the other game and probably already stemmed out. It is like stealing candy from a baby for those. (Okay, after the licensing is all done.)

Other games don't have the same standard as hmx when it comes to masters. Since we're not seeing them now it's likely the masters aren't good enough or the artist/label didn't want to licenese them(at least not now). There's no reason why hmx would not have asked about 2 of his biggest hits.

[thatmarkguy]

I'll just say it is closer to what GNF said. The rule of 3 isn't is way more common than the rule of 1(which I believe is actually the most common). In fact, between 1 and 2 singles I think that may make up about half of releases.

I did some numbercrunching with the Wikipedia DLC list (and all the caveats that come with that; Tom Petty lists separately from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, for instance; this includes the RB2 free-20 and the freebie 9-pack, it also includes the 3 Wii-released Blitz tracks) and, of 1674 tracks, 547 unique artists are represented. Of those 547 unique artists, 294 have exactly one DLC track. The secondmost common number is 2, with 76 artists having exactly 2 DLC tracks. 63 artists have exactly 3 DLC tracks. 60 artists have between 4 and 6 DLC tracks, and 54 artists have more than 6.

[NeilDiamond1974]

Other games don't have the same standard as hmx when it comes to masters. Since we're not seeing them now it's likely the masters aren't good enough or the artist/label didn't want to licenese them(at least not now). There's no reason why hmx would not have asked about 2 of his biggest hits.

Umm.. The question has already been asked. It is just not being released yet. Oh and the masters are fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuU7LPt7C0

The masters may need to be re-stemmed/mixed for HMX, but they're already in Pro Tools or whatever. No biggie. Unless Billy is asking a lot more for that song (I'd be surprised as The Stroke is better known) or there are some other publishing concerns with writers, you can bet Lonely is the Night is in the queue.

[Witticus]

Umm.. The question has already been asked. It is just not being released yet. Oh and the masters are fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuU7LPt7C0

The masters may need to be re-stemmed/mixed for HMX, but they're already in Pro Tools or whatever. No biggie. Unless Billy is asking a lot more for that song (I'd be surprised as The Stroke is better known) or there are some other publishing concerns with writers, you can bet Lonely is the Night is in the queue.

It was also used in Guitar Hero 5 as a master, so all parts seem to be useable.

My theory is that the Billy Squire songs have some crazy licensing restrictions and believe the week we only got Drive by Incubus was the original week we were supposed to get these but they had to be taken down due to complications.

[NeilDiamond1974]

My theory is that HMX wanted to release three 80s songs this week. This isn't the first time they've mixed and matched and then released more from previous artists. (See Tears for Fears.)

The bigger question to me is, where is Somebody Told Me by The Killers? They have pretty much everything else by them.

[nascargo19]

This is a meh week. But it is a good meh. If that makes any sense at all.

Only wish we had "Lonely Is The Night"

[coolsnoopy97]

This actually isn't too bad. Nothing great enough to compel me to start playing again and definitely not on the top of my buy list, but I actually sort of like those songs. Which makes this the first week since possibly July that that's happened. And Billy Squier is the closest we've gotten and closest we're going to get to classic rock, so this week is a plus.