Discussion Thread: DLC Week of 2/26 - Singles from The Flys, Queensrÿche, and Staind!

[Lowlander2]

Guh.

Pro Keys:

1. Silent Lucidity: Synth violin chords, very hard shapes to get down.
2. Got You (Where I Want You): Yeah, this actually has keys. And it's around eight easy chords, so you can see why they didn't bother to point it out in the presser.
3. So Far Away: Oh wait, the press release lied here too. No keys. But, and here's the kicker, it's pretty obvious that there should be. Why the synth violins aren't charted here I don't know, especially considering what else came out this week. GNF? Ryan? Wanna take a crack at it?

Guitar:

1. Silent Lucidity: That main riff is pretty slow but still enjoyable. The solo's lameish, though.
2. So Far Away: Has a similar slow main riff, but is also permeated with chordy blandness,
3. It's Been A While: There are only three patterns, and none of them are particularly good.
4. Got You (Where I Want You): For a short song, it sure feels really repetitive.

Musical opinion:

If we never get a forgettable nineties one-"hitter" again, it will be too soon.

Overall, the song choices are alright, but the charting choices seem to reinforce a lack of morale in the wake of having to stop DLC in a month's time. Or at least I hope that's why this egregious mistake was made. Otherwise, I'm just going to say it: If DLC stopping isn't causing HMX to falter in their charting, then HMX faltering in their charting means that DLC should stop.

This is a sermon you've seen me say so many times, so I won't bog the topic down with it. But seriously, this is crazy.

[BlazingSky]

Finally RB get's a Queensryche song. I couldn't even find them on the wishlist (strange) for some reason, and yet they had Aldo Nova, and Fates Warning. So I'm going to buy that, even though they should have picked a more guitar oriented song from Queensryche. Enough of the slow songs, Valentines Day is over. I thought maybe they would get Jet City Woman since it's already on Guitar Hero (Warriors of Rock in which I have), but I would've prefered an Operation Mindcrime song, or just an uptempo song. It's almost as if RB didn't know anything about Queensryche, except for there biggest hit song 'Silent Lucidity'. There are several Queensryche songs that show off Geoff Tate's pipes, but 'Silent Lucidity', isn't one of them.

Well, my best DLC this year has to be 'Bang Your Head (Metal Health). They got it right with that one, by picking a rocking song by Quiet Riot, instead of just picking the most popular song '*** On Feel the Noise' (which I wouldn't have a problem with). And I'm going to let everyone in on a secret. Great White has a lot of great songs (no pund intended) besides 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy'. I'm extremely happy RB has a dlc song from Great White, but I was hoping they would pick a different hit song, besides the one everybody knows. Like, 'Rock Me', or 'Face the Day' for example. Oh Well, I guess beggars can't be choosers.

[BlazingSky]

Queensryche was my favorite band in high school. Which was 20 years ago. Silent Lucidity is pretty iconic so it doesn't surprise nor disappoint me in its presence - the absence of pro guitar upgrade mildly disappoints, but hey. My dream Queensryche song for plastiguitar games is Speak, but I don't suspect that would make the cut even if they got a six-pack.

Kinda surprised that there isn't an Appetite For Destruction-esque rights-agreement issue with Queensryche's back catalogue nowadays given that they've had the same sort of bad-blood vocalist-versus-rest-of-band split as GnR had.

Same thing with Great White. They were able to get a dlc song with them, even though Jack Russell and Geoff Tate are pretty much in the same boat, which sucks because those are two of my favorite bands.

[www1221]

Got You (Where I Want You)
Bass/ Vocals

So Far Away
Bass/ Vocals

Silent Lucidity
Bass and Drums/ Vocals and Guitar

It’s Been Awhile
Bass/ Vocals

[thatmarkguy]

Finally RB get's a Queensryche song. I couldn't even find them on the wishlist (strange) for some reason

The reason being that Umlaut-y. It does an exact text search/match, and a search for Queensryche does not match Queensrÿche.

[MagicMurderBag7]

3. So Far Away: Oh wait, the press release lied here too. No keys. But, and here's the kicker, it's pretty obvious that there should be. Why the synth violins aren't charted here I don't know, especially considering what else came out this week. GNF? Ryan? Wanna take a crack at it?

Wow. If I actually cared about this song at all I would be pissed.

The quality of HMX charts has really slipped in these last few months. The Chicago pack got it bad.

[thatmarkguy]

Musical opinion:

If we never get a forgettable nineties one-"hitter" again, it will be too soon.

To be clear, Queensrÿche is a band that has three RIAA-certified platinum albums under their belt in addition to two RIAA Gold ones. That outpaces some little-known seldom-requested band of today (Muse) by 3 RIAA Platinum albums. They had a substantial cult following before Silent Lucidity even got recorded, and Empire was already a certified Platinum-selling album before Silent Lucidity was even released as a single and music video.

[Bront20]

To be clear, Queensrÿche is a band that has three RIAA-certified platinum albums under their belt in addition to two RIAA Gold ones. That outpaces some little-known seldom-requested band of today (Muse) by 3 RIAA Platinum albums. They had a substantial cult following before Silent Lucidity even got recorded, and Empire was already a certified Platinum-selling album before Silent Lucidity was even released as a single and music video.

Pst, I think he was talking about The Flys.

[peterock2007]

Pst, I think he was talking about The Flys.

Funny that he assumed that Queensryche was the object of his complaint so easily though.

[thatmarkguy]

Well, yeah. I have seen plenty of people over the past 20 years who have branded Queensrÿche a one-hit-wonder because of ignorance of any band's existence or following outside the scope of the Hot 100. If Lowlander wasn't trying to say that then I misjudged, but yeah, I did make the assumption so easily because I've seen that foolishness before.