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The top song list on RBDLC seems to skew towards harder difficulty songs and the reviews are mostly based on how fun they are to play on expert difficulty, without much regard to how good the songs actually are to listen to.

Here’s the recommendation list I posted a few weeks ago.

Mother Hips - Red Tandy: One of the best drums and bass songs in the game. Guitar is pretty entertaining. Ends with a long jam that will bore the vocalist to death unless he/she is also playing an instrument.

The Who - Who Are You: fun song for most instruments, but the bassist will be bored. It’s ranked as one of the hardest drum songs of the Who pack, but I think it’s a little overtiered on expert, so perhaps beware on lower difficulties.

The Who - Going Mobile: Tough drums on expert. I’d put this higher than Who Are You at least for expert drums, so maybe a bit easier on lower difficulties. Guitar is enjoyable and challenging.

The Who - My Generation: Drums are fast and a bit tiring on this one, but the bass and guitar are both a lot of fun. A classic song, might as well grab it.

Black Tide - Shockwave: There aren’t too many guitar charts in all of Rock Band that are charted in a way that make me feel like I’m playing GH2. This is one of them. Challenging, but not impossibly frustrating, speaking for myself at least. I like the drums in this one as well.

Judas Priest - Electric Eye or Bloodstone: Might as well get a Priest song or two, but I wouldn’t recommend the whole album. Electric Eye is fun on guitar and a kickass song overall, but kind of repetitive on drums. Bloodstone is fun for me on both guitar and drums, but not as good a song.

Radiohead - My Iron Lung: Just a great song. A bit on the easy side for me on most instruments, but my friends love playing it (many of whom were not even previously familiar with it).

On top of those I’d recommend:
pretty much all of the Boston songs
the other Who songs
The Killers - Spaceman and Mr Brightside
the Black Sabbath songs
Rush - Working Man, Limelight, Red Barchetta
The Cars - Just What I Needed, My Best Friends Girl
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones, China Cat
System of a Down - Toxicity

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I just want Cross-Eyed Mary. Locomotive Breath would be a nice Tull song too. If they were to release an entire Tull album, I’d prefer Benefit.

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A few DLC recomendations for each instrument.

Guitar.
Rush-Working Man
Boston - Peace Of Mind
Grateful Dead - Franklin’s Tower
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Disturbed - Inside The Fire

Drums.
Police - Message In A Bottle
Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
Metallica - …And Justice For All
The Knack - My Sharona
Offspring - Hammerhead

Bass.
Muse -Hysteria
Rush - Red Barachetta
6AM - Life Is Beautiful
Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Vox. (according to my wife)
Serj Tankian - Beethoven’s Cunt
Coheed And Cambria - Ten Speed of God’s Blood and Burial
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Cars - Just What I Needed
Killers - Mr Brightside

All Around Fun Songs
Silversun Pickups - Well Though Out Twinkles
Rush - Tom Sawyer (Original version)
Oasis - Rock And Roll Star
Greatful Dead - Sugar Magnolia
Foo Fighters - My Poor Brain
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
SOAD - Toxicity

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Note that Pumpkinhead’s list is pretty difficult for the respective instruments. Perhaps that’s the criteria. The songs are still fun, but you should note that some of them are pretty damn tough.

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Difficulty is not necesarily my top criteria. But at the same time I think what makes a song fun is the variety in the chart. Most of the songs on my list are difficult because of the chart complexity and variation, not the speed or note volume. If that makes sense. For example I cannot play Siva or Hammerhead on expert drums. But even on hard I find them very fun to play.

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Clash - My Sharona

My Sharona is by The Knack and it’s definitely one of the best DLC songs.

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Is it a cover or the real thing? Not that some of the covers aren’t pretty great.

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The Knack’s My Sharona is a cover, but I think it’s even better than the original. I love it.

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It’s very very good.

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I’m in a weird place skill wise on guitar, where I can beat some songs on expert with over 90% and other songs I can’t even beat on hard and have to play on medium.

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Heya, just fyi, I’m the guy who is in charge or RBDLC, and I will confirm that since a large part of the people who use the song are from Scorehero, the song ratings do skewer towards harder songs.

That said, I did just put together a Recommendations page that skewers it towards your own preferences, based on previous ratings you’ve entered. This ought to help out with the problem with hard songs being highly rated. I personally tested it out, doing a test user where I noted that I disliked Afterlife and it immediately figured out to avoid other hard songs.

If you have any problems with it, or want some tweaks to it, let me know and I’ll see what I can come up with.

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Anyone know if you can play DLC online with RB1 and RB2? I have RB1 and my friend has RB2, but we have most of the same DLC.

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Welcome to the next year of your fake guitar life. Actually, it may be longer than that, it’s just a rough estimate from my experience. People either seem to blow past hard altogether and struggle with the top end of expert or painfully inch their way to the plateau you describe. Obviously, I’m in the same boat, and it’s a testament to how good the game is that it only pisses me off when I find one of those songs that I love to hear but require me to play on an unfun difficulty level in order to get by.

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Only the DLC you both have will be available if you play against/with each other online.

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That’s cool, I had no idea they’d interoperate like that. What about if the RB2 player has imported the RB1 disc?

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Ah shit my bad, I didn’t read his post right. You can’t interplay. Both have to have the same game. He should go buy RB2.

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I’d be happy with Locomotive Breath. I can’t understand why they’d opt for Hymn 43 over that one.

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Locomotive Breath and Bungle in the Jungle are the only two Jethro Tull songs I know. But both those songs are so good, I’m willing to give other Tull songs a chance.

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I’m not big on Bungle, but check out Cross-Eyed Mary. I can’t imagine you’d be disappointed. I also love To Cry You a Song, but it’s a bit long for RB, and it doesn’t have enough vocals for such a game.

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I bought and really enjoyed the James Gang, Deep Purple and Jethro Tull tracks today. Jethro Tull is one of those bands that I don’t particularly enjoy listening to, but I love playing the tracks in Rock Band.