2761

It’s the last song on their myspace page.

2762

Wow, the Ghost Houds are almost borderline soul/funk. Unusual choice! Thanks for the link, MS.

2763

Not just those; the entire tracklist needs to be DLC. I continue to wait in vain for Take It Off to make it to Rock Band. And when are we going to get some Queen?

2764

the entire tracklist needs to be DLC

FORTY-THIRDED!

2765

Agree on both counts; the more classic rock the better.

2766

Speaking of fun for girls to sing, have they ever given a reason for only offering 3 country songs as DLC? I know those helped win my wife over with the game, I’d be shocked if she’s the only country music fan that likes plastic guitars.

2767

I assume that the first pack was an experiment. I’m with you. My wife loves those songs. I hope they plan a couple more.

2768

My friend went home for Christmas, took his old copy of Rock Band with him, since he’d bought Rock Band 2. And the Country Music Pack was key in winning over his parents. They love the game now. They were really perplexed by it’s interface (so wait, I have to be logged in, and then the instrument, what?) of Rock Band 1, but the Country Music pack was definitely key.

2769

Been searching around for answers to these, but the top 8,3345,124545,88 hits are for cheat codes.

[ol]
[li]How do you unlock songs? I know it’s done through Tour mode, but what triggers the unlocking?[/li][li]How else, without cheating, can you unlock songs?[/li][li]Are there only 9 “bonus” songs in Rb2 that you can unlock?[/li][li]Are the songs from Rb1 available to me in Rb2 after I transferred them from a Rb1 disc? I think there were 13 of these?[/li][li]Is there an easy way to tell which songs I’ve unlocked and how many more I need to unlock, without checking them off a list I print out?[/li][/ol]

Thankie!

2770

  1. To unlock a song in tour mode, I believe you just need to get offered the song at a gig, and play it successfully. Different venues have different songs available. So by racking up stars and winning stuff like the van and the plane, you get access to more songs, which are then available for later play.

  2. The easiest non-tour way is by doing the marathon. Grab your band, and instead of doing “Continue Tour” you pick “Challenges” (or something like that). There will be different setlists offered as challenges. Pick the one that says “Intro Marathon” (or something like that) and beat all the songs. That will unlock “Intro Marathon Part 2”. You keep going along like that, and once you play all the marathon sets, you’ll have unlocked every song that comes with RB2.

  3. I’m pretty sure it’s more than 13 songs. But yeah, they’re available – all but I think 2 of them, which Harmonix couldn’t re-license. You have to import them off of your RB1 disc, which I think you do through the Options screen. It’s a long, one-time ripping process, and then all the songs are available for quickplay (as well as random play or choose-your-setlist play).

2771

Thanks Rywill. For #4, sorry, I meant, are the LOCKED Rb1 songs available to me in Rb2, and do I have to unlocked them?

2772

All the RB1 songs are unlocked in RB2 soon as you import them I’m pretty sure.

2773

This is the easiest way by far to unlock everything, but beware - if you don’t like metal, the last two challenges are torture.

2774

Ugh. Yeah. The last tier contained just about nothing I actually wanted to play…

2775

  1. Play through either the World Tour mode, which can be a little haphazard because you can miss songs, or for a more direct route, play through the Marathon challenges, which lets you play through all 84 songs in 12 chunks of 6. here’s my article and Scorehero’s thread on it.

  2. See #1.

  3. There are 9 songs by Harmonix bands to unlock in RB2. However, they’re not really treated as “bonus” songs this time around – they’re completely integrated into the setlists like any other song.

  4. All imported RB1 songs should be available in RB2 immediately. There are 55 songs that are imported, out of 58 – the three that don’t get imported are Enter Sandman, Paranoid and Run to the Hills.

  5. To see what you’ve unlocked, go to Quickplay and sort by Location. There are three possible “locations” - Rock Band 1, Rock Band 2, and Downloaded. The header line for each section shows you how many songs you have available in that category. When Rock Band 2 says 84, you’re maxed out.

2776

The worst decision made by Harmonix on Rock Band 2, in my opinion. “Conventional Lover” and “Rob the Prez-o-dent” are the two lousiest songs in the game. At least in Rb1 you weren’t forced to play this garbage.

2777

Conventional Lover and Rob the Prez-o-dent are fine. I thought they were a lot better than some of the bonus songs in Rock Band 1, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2.

However, there was one bonus “song” that was not fine… at all, which you failed to mention. And, you know what? I’m not going to mention it either, because it’s just so horribly bad I don’t even like thinking about it.

2778

Ehhh…I think I’m over complaining about bonus content being in the main setlist. Frankly, I’ve gone out and fetched all the albums that all the bonus songs that I could acquire originally appeared on (exception - that which will not be named) and I quite enjoy most of them, though Speck’s record sounds a lot more like a bunch of monkeys let loose in a music shop than a piece of professional music because of the horrible production values. I actually quite liked Rob the Prez-o-dent.

The problem, though, is that if we weren’t all busy bitching about that horrible Abnormality joke, probably a significant fraction of the people complaining about that would be complaining about that ridiculous Dream Theater song instead. I’ve never really heard of either group outside of Rock Band, though I know OF Dream Theater from guitar people whom I’ve known in the past. Point is, I wouldn’t listen to either group’s music voluntarily, and I consider Panic Attack to be nearly as un-musical as Visions, and my only unique problem with Visions is the lobster-powered castanets or WHATEVER that ridiculous clicking is that makes it impossible for me to tell when I miss a note or when the song is just being successfully crappy.

I’m off point, though - the point is that the songs being from people that aren’t major names doesn’t make them intrinsically bad. The songs being horrible experiments in musical torture is what makes them bad, and that conclusion is mostly informed by personal taste. If the only bonus songs that ever appeared on a Rock Band game were from Freezepop, Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives, and That Handsome Devil, I’d be defending the musical genius of including music from bands that I totally love but don’t get lots of major distribution. The problem ISN’T making the bonus songs mandatory - it’s either making any song mandatory at all, or making the crappy songs unavoidable.

2779

Has anyone tried to defend Visions on the ground of subjectivity though? Or is that a theoretical argument that you’re bring up Brian? At least here at Qt3, I haven’t heard anyone defend the musical quality of Visions. And even on the Rock Band forums, I’ve only seen people praise it for how challenging it is, not for it’s musical content. To be fair, I don’t hang out much on those forums though.

2780

Oh Lord no - Visions is the kind of musical abortion that would prompt less tolerant societies to brand letters onto people’s sensitive bits. There might be a theoretical argument for its ridiculous time changes and cacophonous caterwauling being creative and interesting, but in order to construct it you’d need to have your head so far up your ass that the words would be too muffled to hear. My point, though, is that it’s not bad because some no-names from Boston made it. Indeed - only talented people could intentionally create something so magnificently hideous. The problem is that it sucks. Hard. With a fried egg on top. So the problem isn’t that the bonus bands make the songs bad - it’s that some of the bonus bands make bad songs, which is ultimately subjective. I mean, there were a few people that actually liked Yes We Can, too (not to harp on Made in Mexico - they’ve had enough at this point) - I’m sure SOMEBODY likes Visions. I can’t personally conceive of a reason to enjoy Panic Attack apart from the fact that it’s hard to play (and listen to) - it’s just a lot closer to something I would recognize as music than Randy Savage in One-Man-Band Suit Falling Down a Spiral Staircase. If it weren’t for Visions, I’d probably hate that song pretty hard.

So, I think my conclusion here is that Visions is the one ugly girl that all the mean cheerleaders let into the group? It’s not about her being named Funkelstein - it’s about her looking like the elephant man.