Official Discussion: DLC Week of 12/30 - Andrew W.K., Hot Chelle Rae, P!nk, and Fun.!

[grumblevolcano]

Dream Theater had a hit song? I thought Progressive Metal bands couldn't get hits?

Pull Me Under

[Bront20]

Dream Theater had a hit song? I thought Progressive Metal bands couldn't get hits?

Pull Me Under

Which is why they have a "Greatest Hit and some other songs we think you'll like" compilation album.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

They have fun with it, too.

[NightmareLyre]

Huh who would have thought, also I love that album title

[tnevaker]

The Toadies got a 3-pack.

the toadies only have one well-known song. i'm talking about a band that has a some other well known songs, certainly better known than solace of you. and that's one of my personal fave LC songs, but not only is it obscure even by LC standards, it's also in a completely different style than any other LC song ever, and it's not very well suited to RB gameplay. HMX makes some odd DLC choices from time to time, but even i find it hard to believe that they or the band would choose that song over so many others from their catalogue in a 3-pack.

[tnevaker]

No, he still had 2 hits, even if 1 of them has faded into obscurity a bit.

It's been beaten to death on the forums though, that one man's "one hit wonder" isn't always the case for someone else. It depends on what you define as a hit. Certainly, #1 on the US chart qualifies, but what about #2? #5? #22? What about popular songs that didn't chart? You can argue it in so many ways.

i'm still not sure if a-ha is a one-hit wonder or not. i guess it depends on where you live.

[dog037]

We still need Rock Me from Great White.

[LuigiHann]

Wow. Do you ever get to pick a song played at your parties? If so, RBN can be played.

Unless your party is VERY small, SOMEONE will be playing SOMETHING they haven't heard before at SOME point.

I can't speak for everybody, and I certainly can't speak for randrac, but whenever I play Rock Band with a group, we tend to rotate instruments and let whoever is playing vocals choose the song. Since familiarity is pretty important to singing, only songs that people know from outside of Rock Band get played, basically. Now for my group several of those songs have arrived via RBN, but I can totally understand the mindset of never buying a song that I haven't heard before. And RBN songs are just less likely to be something I or my friends will know.

[Meat-Popsicle]

I sometime "make" my band mates play RBN songs with me (mostly me singing Dance for the Dying*). Once I explicitly put on the RBN filter and said [to the vocalist] - "pick one of these"! They went with a Jonathan Coulton song which, yes, they knew from outside of Rock Band. But I mostly play on my own, and I love to find new songs via the RBN. Even if I have to play them on other instruments a few times before I learn them well enough to try the vocals. I have no use for growly metal vocals, but that still leaves many hundreds of songs that I might love to sing, or to play on bass or drums etc.

So, yeah, I totally agree, it's much harder on the RBN to find songs that everyone (or at least the vocalist) knows, compared to regular Rock Band DLC. That's a perfectly valid issue to have if you normally play in groups or if you don't like being "forced" to research and discover and learn lots of new songs that you don't already know by heart. But for me, my only issue with the RBN is that there is unlikely to ever be any Pro Guitar / Pro Bass available for the songs there. Nobody in my band (including me) is good enough at those Pro instruments to be able to have that same "I'm a real Rock and Roll star!" kind of fun playing a Fender in the group experience anyway. But, for me, it's the lack of Pro upgrade that is the real reason why RBN songs will always be thought of as 2nd class members of the Rock Band DLC family.

* A band I never would have discovered without the RBN, and they are now my favorites, and I get to see them play around DC just about every month. Victory!

[StackOverflow0x]

All right, finally got to play Party Hard on keys. I like note-dense songs like that. Hope to get to the other instruments later in the month.