[Rock Block] October 21st
My god... it's full of guitars!
Published: October 21, 2009
Phew! I've spent the past week moving WAY across the country from Vermont to Alaska, and I get here, and what do I see? Well, first I see that no one has kept up on news in my absence... damn you guys! Then I also see about 30 news stories all backed up... time to play catch up! Amazingly, fully 50% of those stories are about music games. So let's get this backlog unjammed!
Yes, I love you too.
[Guitar Hero 5]
[Wolfmother]
“Pilgrim”
“California Queen”
“Cosmic Egg”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Three-Song Track Pack - $5.49
That's it this week for GH5. Again. Wolfmother. My mom is a wolf. Little known fact. OK, that is a lie, but my dog is partly wolf... which is pretty common in Alaska. Aren't you glad to know that!
[Rock Band 2]
Holy cow! It's the Queen 10-pack! YESSSSSSS!
[Queen]
“Another One Bites the Dust”
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
“Fat Bottomed Girls”
“I Want It All”
“I Want to Break Free”
“Killer Queen”
“One Vision”
“Somebody to Love”
“Tie Your Mother Down”
“Under Pressure”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Queen 10-pack - $15.99
[Rock Band Unplugged]
Two more track as usual!
[Blink-182]
“The Rock Show"
[The Offspring]
“All I Want”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99
[The Beatles : Rock Band]
Did you know that TB:RB was the number one selling music game for the month of September. Hard to believe, I know. But the boys from Liverpool proved to be as popular today as they were 40 years ago. See, you mom was right about something for once!
To help celebrate this momentous occasion (actually this was pre-planned regardless of sales), they are releasing the missing tracks from Abbey Road (the others were included in the original TB:RB game), as well as a medley of tracks from the Abbey Road B-Sides!
[Abbey Road Complete the Album Pack]
“Maxwell's Silver Hammer”
“Oh! Darling”
"Because"
and the 16 minute medley of...
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“Sun King”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Carry That Weight”
“The End”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Complete Album - $16.99
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Can you believe all the dead celebrities that are appearing in music games these days? I can! Because you don't have to pay them as much! You know what's even cooler? When they turn those dead celebrities into Legos! The latest addition to Lego Rock Band... dead rocker Freddie Mercury and the rest of Queen! Did you know they also just released a Queen track pack for Rock Band? They did! Also joining Queen are not-yet-dead rockers Blur. Any guesses on who is next? Jerry Garcia?
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Those of you with the ducats to purchase the Renegade Edition of DJ Hero will not only get a hard shell case and a sweeter turntable, but also a two-disc set of tracks from Jay-Z and Marshall Mathers...err...Eminem! Check out the featured tracks...
DJ Hero Renegade album - JAY-Z’s disc track list:
Ain't No N***a - JAY-Z Featuring Foxy Brown
Where I’m From - JAY-Z
Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - JAY-Z
Jigga My N***a - Ruff Ryders Featuring JAY-Z
I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me) - JAY-Z
Izzo (H.O.V.A.) - JAY-Z
03’ Bonnie & Clyde - JAY-Z Featuring Beyoncé Knowles
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - JAY-Z
Show Me What You Got - JAY-Z
Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)… - JAY-Z
Brooklyn Go Hard - JAY-Z Featuring Santigold
D.O.A. (Death of Auto Tune) - JAY-Z
DJ Hero Renegade album - EMINEM’s disc track list:
Taking My Ball - EMINEM
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - EMINEM
Soldier - EMINEM
The Re-Up - EMINEM & 50 Cent
Rabbit Run - EMINEM
Get U Mad - EMINEM
Bad Guys Always Die - Dr. Dre & EMINEM
Public Enemy No. 1 - EMINEM
Say What You Say - EMINEM Featuring Dr. Dre
Lose Yourself - EMINEM
Hey Lady - Obie Trice Featuring EMINEM
One Shot 2 Shot - EMINEM Featuring D-12
Noice....
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And of course we wrap all this up with the setlist for the not-hotly anticipated release of Band Hero. I'm pretty sick of writing about these games, so here is the list...
3 Doors Down - “When I'm Gone”
The Airborne Toxic Event - “Gasoline”
The All American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
Alphabeat - “Fascination”
Aly and AJ - “Like Whoa”
Angels & Airwaves - “The Adventure”
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - “Steal My Kisses “
Big Country - “In a Big Country”
The Bravery - “Believe”
Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
Cheap Trick - “I Want You To Want Me (live)”
Cold War Kids - “Hang Me Up To Dry”
Corinne Bailey Rae - “Put Your Records On”
Counting Crows - “Angels of the Silences”
Culture Club - “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”
Dashboard Confessional - “Hands Down”
David Bowie - “Let's Dance”
Devo - “Whip It”
Don McLean - “American Pie”
Duffy - “Warwick Avenue”
Duran Duran - “Rio”
Evanescence - “Bring Me To Life”
Everclear - “Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)”
Fall Out Boy - “Sugar, We're Goin' Down”
Filter - “Take A Picture”
Finger Eleven - “Paralyzer”
The Go-Go's - “Our Lips Are Sealed”
Hilary Duff - “So Yesterday”
Hinder - “Lips Of An Angel”
Jackson 5 - “ABC”
Janet Jackson - “Black Cat”
Jesse McCartney - “Beautiful Soul”
Joan Jett - “Bad Reputation”
Joss Stone - “You Had Me”
Katrina and The Waves - “Walking On Sunshine”
The Kooks - “Naïve”
KT Tunstall - “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
The Last Goodnight - “Pictures Of You”
Lily Allen - “Take What You Take”
Maroon 5 - “She Will Be Loved”
Marvin Gaye - “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “The Impression That I Get”
Nelly Furtado - “Turn Off The Light”
N.E.R.D. - “Rockstar”
No Doubt - “Just A Girl”
No Doubt - “Don't Speak”
OK Go - “A Million Ways”
Papa Roach - “Lifeline”
Parachute - “Back Again”
Pat Benatar - “Love Is A Battlefield”
Poison - “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - “Kids”
The Rolling Stones - “Honky Tonk Women”
Roy Orbison - “Oh Pretty Woman”
Santigold - “L.E.S. Artistes”
Snow Patrol - “Take Back the City”
Spice Girls - “Wannabe”
Styx - “Mr. Roboto”
Taylor Swift - “Love Story”
Taylor Swift - “Picture To Burn”
Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
Tonic - “If You Could Only See”
The Turtles - “Happy Together”
Village People - “YMCA”
Yellowcard - “Ocean Avenue”
Yes, I love you too.
[Guitar Hero 5]
[Wolfmother]
“Pilgrim”
“California Queen”
“Cosmic Egg”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Three-Song Track Pack - $5.49
That's it this week for GH5. Again. Wolfmother. My mom is a wolf. Little known fact. OK, that is a lie, but my dog is partly wolf... which is pretty common in Alaska. Aren't you glad to know that!
[Rock Band 2]
Holy cow! It's the Queen 10-pack! YESSSSSSS!
[Queen]
“Another One Bites the Dust”
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
“Fat Bottomed Girls”
“I Want It All”
“I Want to Break Free”
“Killer Queen”
“One Vision”
“Somebody to Love”
“Tie Your Mother Down”
“Under Pressure”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Queen 10-pack - $15.99
[Rock Band Unplugged]
Two more track as usual!
[Blink-182]
“The Rock Show"
[The Offspring]
“All I Want”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99
[The Beatles : Rock Band]
Did you know that TB:RB was the number one selling music game for the month of September. Hard to believe, I know. But the boys from Liverpool proved to be as popular today as they were 40 years ago. See, you mom was right about something for once!
To help celebrate this momentous occasion (actually this was pre-planned regardless of sales), they are releasing the missing tracks from Abbey Road (the others were included in the original TB:RB game), as well as a medley of tracks from the Abbey Road B-Sides!
[Abbey Road Complete the Album Pack]
“Maxwell's Silver Hammer”
“Oh! Darling”
"Because"
and the 16 minute medley of...
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“Sun King”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Carry That Weight”
“The End”
Price: Single Songs - $1.99 | Complete Album - $16.99
*******************
Can you believe all the dead celebrities that are appearing in music games these days? I can! Because you don't have to pay them as much! You know what's even cooler? When they turn those dead celebrities into Legos! The latest addition to Lego Rock Band... dead rocker Freddie Mercury and the rest of Queen! Did you know they also just released a Queen track pack for Rock Band? They did! Also joining Queen are not-yet-dead rockers Blur. Any guesses on who is next? Jerry Garcia?
*******************
Those of you with the ducats to purchase the Renegade Edition of DJ Hero will not only get a hard shell case and a sweeter turntable, but also a two-disc set of tracks from Jay-Z and Marshall Mathers...err...Eminem! Check out the featured tracks...
DJ Hero Renegade album - JAY-Z’s disc track list:
Ain't No N***a - JAY-Z Featuring Foxy Brown
Where I’m From - JAY-Z
Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - JAY-Z
Jigga My N***a - Ruff Ryders Featuring JAY-Z
I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me) - JAY-Z
Izzo (H.O.V.A.) - JAY-Z
03’ Bonnie & Clyde - JAY-Z Featuring Beyoncé Knowles
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - JAY-Z
Show Me What You Got - JAY-Z
Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)… - JAY-Z
Brooklyn Go Hard - JAY-Z Featuring Santigold
D.O.A. (Death of Auto Tune) - JAY-Z
DJ Hero Renegade album - EMINEM’s disc track list:
Taking My Ball - EMINEM
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - EMINEM
Soldier - EMINEM
The Re-Up - EMINEM & 50 Cent
Rabbit Run - EMINEM
Get U Mad - EMINEM
Bad Guys Always Die - Dr. Dre & EMINEM
Public Enemy No. 1 - EMINEM
Say What You Say - EMINEM Featuring Dr. Dre
Lose Yourself - EMINEM
Hey Lady - Obie Trice Featuring EMINEM
One Shot 2 Shot - EMINEM Featuring D-12
Noice....
*****************
And of course we wrap all this up with the setlist for the not-hotly anticipated release of Band Hero. I'm pretty sick of writing about these games, so here is the list...
3 Doors Down - “When I'm Gone”
The Airborne Toxic Event - “Gasoline”
The All American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
Alphabeat - “Fascination”
Aly and AJ - “Like Whoa”
Angels & Airwaves - “The Adventure”
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - “Steal My Kisses “
Big Country - “In a Big Country”
The Bravery - “Believe”
Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
Cheap Trick - “I Want You To Want Me (live)”
Cold War Kids - “Hang Me Up To Dry”
Corinne Bailey Rae - “Put Your Records On”
Counting Crows - “Angels of the Silences”
Culture Club - “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”
Dashboard Confessional - “Hands Down”
David Bowie - “Let's Dance”
Devo - “Whip It”
Don McLean - “American Pie”
Duffy - “Warwick Avenue”
Duran Duran - “Rio”
Evanescence - “Bring Me To Life”
Everclear - “Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)”
Fall Out Boy - “Sugar, We're Goin' Down”
Filter - “Take A Picture”
Finger Eleven - “Paralyzer”
The Go-Go's - “Our Lips Are Sealed”
Hilary Duff - “So Yesterday”
Hinder - “Lips Of An Angel”
Jackson 5 - “ABC”
Janet Jackson - “Black Cat”
Jesse McCartney - “Beautiful Soul”
Joan Jett - “Bad Reputation”
Joss Stone - “You Had Me”
Katrina and The Waves - “Walking On Sunshine”
The Kooks - “Naïve”
KT Tunstall - “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
The Last Goodnight - “Pictures Of You”
Lily Allen - “Take What You Take”
Maroon 5 - “She Will Be Loved”
Marvin Gaye - “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “The Impression That I Get”
Nelly Furtado - “Turn Off The Light”
N.E.R.D. - “Rockstar”
No Doubt - “Just A Girl”
No Doubt - “Don't Speak”
OK Go - “A Million Ways”
Papa Roach - “Lifeline”
Parachute - “Back Again”
Pat Benatar - “Love Is A Battlefield”
Poison - “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - “Kids”
The Rolling Stones - “Honky Tonk Women”
Roy Orbison - “Oh Pretty Woman”
Santigold - “L.E.S. Artistes”
Snow Patrol - “Take Back the City”
Spice Girls - “Wannabe”
Styx - “Mr. Roboto”
Taylor Swift - “Love Story”
Taylor Swift - “Picture To Burn”
Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
Tonic - “If You Could Only See”
The Turtles - “Happy Together”
Village People - “YMCA”
Yellowcard - “Ocean Avenue”
