3 Bands You Want to See Come Back to RBN

[NightmareLyre]

2.SNMT

I get this sudden urge to propose for marriage all the sudden even if I don't know you

[JamesDD4]

Flogging Molly
Lacuna Coil
Flogging Molly

[Bobman32x]

This thread makes me depressed at what a joke the RBN ended up becoming from the amazing potential we were teased with what it could have held when it was first announced and the first handfuls of songs were released.

I need more of:
The Slip
Bang Camaro
(Lets save time and say any band that had bonus songs from GH1&2)
New Pornographers
Mastodon
Testament
Steve Vai
My Morning Jacket
Less Than Jake
Anamanaguchi
Umphrey's McGee (They even said Ms Tinkle's Overture was supposed to come out )

Also, Id like to see some of the promises that were made come out. Anyone else remember the announcements of:
Gaslight Anthem
Blondie (ok it KINDA happened)
Smashing Pumpkins (Bullet with butterfly wings)
Teenage Dirtbag
THE ENTIRE SUBPOP CATALOGE
WHAT THE ****? WHERE IS MY SONIC YOUTH DISCOGRAPHY AND ALL OF NIRVANA'S BLEACH?!

Seriously Authoring companies, how did you drop the ball on these? Why did you tease us before locking down licensing?

But nope, what we ended up getting was 8000 Amberian Dawn songs, and ass tons of Speed and Emo Metal. Yea we got the occasional hit to make us go "Oh yea, theres a chance a song someone's heard of can pop up" like Blue, Great Balls of Fire, and St Elmo's Fire (which im still waiting to make it over to the ps3) but nope. week in and week out for the last 2 years has been MAYBE 5 songs.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff about why there was a bunch of big bands at the start, and why EMI up and left without releasing anything (which is what you're complaining about in 95% of your list) that the general public doesn't know about, that has nothing to do with authoring groups locking down announcements.

As for teenage dirtbag (which is the other 5% Yeah I suck at math), the authoring group DID lock down licensing from the band. It was a new version the band fully owned, and yet the label that owned the original version came in and slapped it down, and threatened the group so they backed off from it.

To me it was a diservice to RBN as a whole to artificially inflate the 'big names' on RBN to make it seem 'bigger' than what it was. Sure it was exciting when they were there, but when that ended it just made a lot of fans (as your post proves the point) going hey where did all the big names go and now we're stuck with nobodies (which was kinda the point from the start).

But I digress.

[NightmareLyre]

Looking only for big names on RBN is like going to a street corner shop and expecting to find big brands and getting offended when they only have imported Indian food that might be just as good (if not better) than the well known brands.

[matshi]

Bands I want to see come back to the RBN:
1. Gaslight Anthem
2. Crush 40
3. Less Than Jake

If one and two don't count, the runner ups are
4. Flogging Molly
5. Felsen

Where do you see Gaslight Anthem? :P

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Where do you see Gaslight Anthem? :P

It was one of the bands like the EMI bands, (and others that people have completely forgotten about) that showed in testing, then disappeared and was never released.

[LuigiHann]

1. Flight of the Conchords
2. Anamanaguchi
3. MC Frontalot

[Oscarvarium]

week in and week out for the last 2 years has been MAYBE 5 songs.

If from over 2000 songs you have only found 5 you like, then your musical tastes are very shallow and specific or you just aren't looking hard enough. Just because you haven't heard of a band doesn't mean they aren't any good.

[Bobman32x]

I have about 1250 DLC, and since im on the PS3, I dont have access to the full RBN. But I only have about 15 to 20 RBN songs, and I think only like 3 RBN2.0 songs. So yes, in the last 2 years since the launch of rb3, rbn releases have not been worth looking into. Also, My musical tastes are far from shallow, and just because i havent heard of a band not might make them bad, but it gives me no reason to invest real money on them ahead of bands I HAVE heard of for the same price