Maybe they haven’t patched it yet? I remember RB2 didn’t support the Lips mic when Lips came out, but that they had planned to patch RB2 at some point so that it would support it. But I’m not sure if they’ve done that yet or not.
Cubit
2882
Hmm, I’d thought they had released a patch, but maybe not.
If this is the PS3 version, the wireless controller also have to be assigned as number 1-4 to make it work. This took me quite a while to work out at a party a few months back, where I admittedly wasn’t all that sober…
The_B
2884
It probably isn’t though, given Lips is a XBox exclusive…
Hey gang!
Here’s an early morning surprise for you… an announcement of the DLC arriving on the week of 2/10! We’re probably going to be posting the DLC announcements around this time (10am EST) for the foreseeable future in an attempt to sync up with the European rockers waiting for the announcements, so get up early and keep your eyes peeled on Fridays from now on.
This week we’re releasing a 3 pack from The Fratellis, featuring tracks from their 2006 album Costello Music!
Here’s the track listing
The Fratellis - Creeping Up the Back Stairs
The Fratellis - Flathead
The Fratellis - Henrietta
All tracks are original master recordings.
These tracks will be $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) a piece, or $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) for the full 3 pack.
Uh, what the fuck?
I’m not even gonna ask about Duke Nukem anymore…
Cubit
2886
I was reading the Rock Band 2 forum, and apparently they haven’t released the patch that was announced in early December yet. hmmm.
So, the Fratellis just released a new record and we’re getting three tracks from their old record? Not that I won’t buy them, since I love the Fratellis, but I’m just confused at why they didn’t try to wedge in one of their crappy new songs to, you know, move some product.
That said, Flathead, at a minimum, is catchy to listen to - at least enough to spawn an iPod commercial. We’ll see how much fun it is to play.
NOW I can boycott again!
I’ve figured out how to do it: If HMX releases stuff I never heard of and they charge too much for it, I can boycott! Sweet.
If you watch television, you’ve heard Flathead. I don’t think it’s possible to have lived through the past five years without hearing at least one Fratellis song, though the one you heard (possibly Chelsea Dagger - jump to the :33 mark - which was everywhere for about six months maybe a year and a half back, or maybe I just see a lot of movie and beer commercials) might not be in this package. They got spontaneously popular for a little while there kind of in spite of their talent.
Now that I listen to it again, Flathead could actually work out.
JPR
2890
That’s interesting. I have never heard of these guys, and I’ve never heard either of the songs you linked.
For the record, I don’t ever listen to the radio, and I get all my TV off the internet – some legitimately, and some otherwise, but generally without commercials to speak of.
I thought I’d seen all of Apple’s iPod ads, but I just found out that I haven’t. The Chelsea Dagger video you linked to does sound vaguely familiar, but I can’t place where I’ve heard it.
Wow. I thought it was physically impossible to miss them. I guess I’m just an incredible consumer whore. The breakdown on the music, though (since that damned commercial put that equally damned song in my head and now I’ve got the album running) is that they should all be interesting middle-tier up-tempo numbers. I’m actually looking forward to next week’s tracks for a change, since this is almost always the kind of stuff I want to play in Rock Band when I just pick it up for a couple of minutes between other things.
salwon
2893
This is fucking awesome and will be incredible for every instrument. I’ve always put The Fratellis in the “Never going to happen, stop dreaming” category of DLC.
salwon
2894
Yes, clearly they need to release songs by these no-name bands for less. WTF, HMX?
The_B
2895
The Fratellis are fairly well known here in the UK, no idea about across the pond. So I’m guessing along with the information about being more in sync with European players means this is definitely one aimed at the EU/UK side of things.
salwon
2896
They’re pretty well known over here too. I was just pointing out the idiocy of saying they were “charg[ing] too much for it.” You know, since they’re the exact same price as every other song by non-Harmonix/Nickelodeon bands.
sluggo
2897
This is definitely a case where the price point makes the difference for me.
I’ve never heard of these guys or any of the songs being released, although I did recognize the other song from a commercial. So after checking the songs out, I’m on the fence enough that I’d buy them at the half-price rate, but not for the full $6 or whatever it comes out to.
salwon
2898
How is it different from this group
Steve Miller Band “Space Cowboy”
Steve Miller Band “Take the Money and Run”
Steve Miller Band “The Joker”
Godsmack “I Stand Alone”
Belly “Feed the Tree”
Ghost Hounds “Wind Me Up”
Mute Math “Typical”
Rob Zombie “War Zone”
though? I’ll give you SMB at $1.99, but Costello Music (the album the Fratellis songs are on) has sold 1.5 million copies - is it worth less than Mute Math? Or a random Rob Zombie track? The fucking song from The Scorpion King? Or Belly, who I had forgotten existed 15 years ago? At what point is a song no longer worth $1.99, and more importantly how can it be quantified beyond “I’ve never heard of them?”
I’m not trying to be too snarky here, I’m honestly curious. I’ve never heard the price argument made before, and there has been plenty of completely random Never-Heard-It stuff lately. This one will sell like gangbusters in the UK at least, and I’m sure it’ll be a quick favorite at any NYC Rock Band club.
I think you might be making the classical error of assuming the limited indictment of price made in this case endorses every previous price ever assigned in the history of Rock Band. Nobody said that these these tracks should specifically cost less than tracks from anybody else anywhere ever, but just that these tracks needed to cost less in specific.
I can kind of see where he’s coming from, though I think that the general public is a lot more likely to pay for this stuff because you don’t make an iPod commercial without getting noticed. Just because you know and I know that these songs are good does not mean that everybody does, and the lower price point is one of the tools that Harmonix uses to get people interested in this crap (see the first week sale on the Fall Out Boy tracks, and they’re sure as hell better known than these dudes). I certainly think that more people would download and enjoy these specific musical entries if they were cheaper, and I also suspect that The Fratellis don’t have the kind of name recognition in Harmonix’s biggest market that, say, The Grateful Dead do.
Nonetheless, I concur that these songs will be awesome. This is perhaps the first time ever that Harmonix has actually picked the right three songs off the record. Somebody should give them a trophy or something.
Zigacly. What matters here is if I know them. Don’t matter how many copies they sold.
