Rock Band Releases (we'd like to see)

Looking at another Rock Band week with one decent song and a lot of crappola, I started thinking again about my RB/GH wish list (Beatles RB is awesome but it never would have occurred to me to wish for a whole Beatles game)

Fleetwood Mac: Rock Band
Prince: Rock Band (or Rock Man)
Isley Brothers 3x3 full album
Funkadelic track pack
Drive-By Truckers track pack

what else?

Fleetwood Mac: Rock Band

Would buy.

instead, they go with Green Day: Rock Band

I was thinking about the Green Day thing the other night and figured that since the RB store can get track packs out so easily, why bother making anything but new Whole Band RBs? I mean I guess they can add features to the basic software but how much innovation does it really need at this point?

I imagine the notation itself takes a good amount of time and expertise, especially when it's something other than Green Day

Me and my little sister got Beatles rockband for christmas. I'm going to have to look into the downloadble tracks seeing how lots of great songs are missing. I wonder if the downloadable tracks get their own music video like all the other songs

I vote for Beach Boys rockband, and I vot for ILXors to come up with the tracklisting

rolling stones obv

Steely Dan: Rock Band

they've had some pretty sucky stones songs in rock band/ gh so far... gimme shelter, where you have to sing the gospel lady's part, paint it black, and can't you hear me knocking, imo the worst song they ever recorded

beach boys rock band wouldn't really have much for anyone to do besides the vocalists and the drummer, no? and the theremin player

rock band: nuggets

rock band: nuggets
rolling stones obv
Prince: Rock Band (or Rock Man)
Funkadelic track pack

FUCK YES

Marquee Moon

honestly i think they're doing just fine putting in 80 or so songs with many different bands, and i wonder if most people even bother with DLC (though personally I love that it's there). But yeah, whatever they do w/RB3 it's gonna have to be a major improvement or change gameplay-wise

At the very least it's the novelty. Also it's fun to be able to avoid the 30-40% shitty songs that come boxed with the games. I imagine it's fun to play through a whole album, which I've never actually done-- even though I bought the whole Screaming For Vengeange LP. God knows how much DLC I have invested in the 360 I'm giving away. At least $125.

I can't even begin to tell you how fun it was to play through Abbey Road from start to finish. I sang the medley! Wheeee

I love the fact that The End on that album would feel like a boss

Rancid: Rock Band

Floyd? Tom Waits?
FELA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0xVU-Osdw&feature=related

Serge Gainsbourg: Rock Band

WWF Theme Music: Rock Band

if they included the brutus beefcake and million dollar man themes i'd buy that in a heartbeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbyGA3CN0Dk

Rock Band: Bardo Pond, duh!

Bruce Springsteen track pack!

there is one

for GH tho

yeah i know. :(

and it's two songs and one of them sux

XTC: Rockband would orgasm me but it won't happen. Duran Duran: Rockband and Blur: Rockband would do.

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Jandek Rock Band

spent time making a song in Rock Band Network and god damn is it frustrating. time consuming too.

Stooges: Rock Band

just make it the first three studio albums, nothing fancy like the Aerosmith deal. The Weirdness can be DLC.

I'd happily play The Idiot and Lust for Life as well.

yes! Make it Iggy and the Stooges. Surely "Search and Destroy" must be on one of these games at this point? Oh, I see it was on Guitar Hero II. But it didn't make Guitar Hero Smash Hits, alas.

Rock Band: Bardo Pond, duh!

Rock Band: Terrastock!

Boss level is where you're Kawabata

Rock band: Krautrock

In addition to Iggy and the Stooges, maybe it can include other Detroit artists, like the MC5, Motown, etc. That would be really cool.

having spent some time last weekend at a friend's playing gh5 which includes 21st century schizoid man, I'd say a king crimson rock band game is definitely something I'd play

Imagine how incredible that would be. Depending on the line-up you'd get to play as one of 463 band members.

I want Yes Rockband, complete with six keyboards and a cape.

And a three-foot-high mic stand, obviously.

Rock Band: The Fall

You can be one of 64 band members however the game will lock you out on random occasions.

This Year's Model would really fun to play in its entirety.

The Otis Redding pack is kinda underwhelming. Why those songs?

krautrock band would be awesome

xxp would prefer My Aim Is True but still a good choice

srsly tho, how did Green Day end up in a position to pimp themselves out like this

I mean, I don't harbor any will towards them or anything but they've always come across as a 2nd-tier fun band that no one really paid attention to, so it's kind of bizarre to realize no actually they are fucking massive and competing with Nickelback as the most successful rock act to debut within the last 20 years.

this is a question that haunts me as well - although at least part of the answer would be that when it comes to career ambition its pretty clear that they are kinda whores

I mean they now have a BROADWAY SHOW

it's like, good for them, but WHY

People get sick of regular musicals and occasionally want "rock"-branded musicals as a palate cleanser. Green Day is a rock band/brand with some art cred and a large fan base.

The musical exists at all because the Berkeley Rep struggles for attendance sometimes, and a Green Day musical is attracts non-theater fans, Berkeley-for-Berkeley's-sake fans, etc., etc. I guess it was pretty good so it went Broadway. Not too complicated, but I can see how it might seem weird.

I mean, there was a Grey Gardens musical. Anything is possible.

-is

i think the berkeley rep should have a beserkely-themed musical

Also, Green Day made a rock opera, which is a format that translates well to the stage.

you realize that the question here isn't "why a rock opera" or "why American Idiot" but "why Green Day specifically", right, iow how did it come to be that this particular band which, on first glance, seems like it should completely forgettable/ignorable, blow the fuck up and become one of the cornerstone rock acts of the past two decades

like, imagine instead if we were talking about Rock Band: K's Choice; how the hell would that career path have worked to bring us to that point and isn't it kind of mind-boggling that it worked for Green Day? That is what is being discussed here, not "how did someone get the idea to do an American Idiot stage show" because the answer to that is pretty obvious once you stop boggling about the baseline condition that puts Green Day in a position to be taken seriously as an act whose music you could base a show aroung

Green Day write catchy pop punk songs that lots of people enjoy and have done this for the last ~15 years. It's no more baffling than the popularity of U2 or Red Hot Chili Peppers.

It probably has a lot to do with 'how can we get a band with a big catalog that is very popular amongst the core gaming demographic' than anything else.

I'd argue pretty strongly that there is a force of personality behind both Bono and Anthony Kiedis that Billy Joe Armstrong doesn't have; also both U2 and RHCP were doing stuff very different from what other acts on the radio with them were doing, or at least stuff that was instantly identifiable as THEM. I'm not sure you could say the same about Green Day (one of the issues I had with "Basket Case" was that I felt like it abandoned everything I thought was interesting about the band in favor of faceless energy).

Also gonna restate that I ultimately have nothing against Green Day and like most of what I've heard by them; it just seems odd that out of all the bands that came out when they showed up that they're the ones not only still around, but thriving. Obviously a lot of people like them but they never particularly seemed like a band built on longevity.

I guess the main reason why Green Day and not K's Choice is that K's Choice were never popular? I mean, the larger question of why one band gets famous instead of another is unanswerable. Why Modest Mouse instead of Built to Spill? Why Nirvana instead of Fugazi? Why Brothers Johnson and not Shuggie Otis? Why Bob Marley but not Alton Ellis?

Anyway, video games.

Fugazi's Nike beef doesn't bode well for an Ian MacKaye Pro-Scowler game coming out soon.

rock band: lady gaga

would still pay $$$ for Rock Band: The Smiths

I don't get the Green Day thing either. As someone said, there's a vacuum to be filled among "rock w/ longevity" and Green Day right now fits the bill, the way Aerosmith did until a few years ago (notice they got the GH treatment too). But why Green Day is filling that vacuum in 2010 is mind-boggling.

rock band: taylor swift

Would there have been Rock Band: Grand Funk Railroad, had there been Rock Band in 1975? A counterfactual ~worth pondering~

they were in a simpsons episode in thats basically the same

so in summary: yes

Rock Band: Iron Maiden would be a ton of fun.

Neighbour came round last night and mistook my Rock Band 'axe' for a bona fide Fender Strat - I don't know who was embarrassed more - me or him.

Also, how about Rock Band: Bowie?

I'll take an RB: Mick Ronson.

rock band: taylor swift

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