Hell, I’d pay double price for the whole Pulp Fiction soundtrack album.
Shadarr
3142
I can’t remember the last time I bought a CD. The last album I downloaded outside Rock Band was, funnily enough, Airborne, which I first heard in Rock Band.
I’d pay a lot for some Battles. Preferably all of Mirrored, but I’d settle for Race: In or Atlas.
sinfony
3144
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I would buy it twice. At the least, if they could throw in “Rainbow” and do a three-pack.
As scheduled long ago, Pearl Jam’s Ten next week. Woohoo!
And Rock Band deftly seperates me from more of my money:)
so, apparently rock band can teach you to play drums, or at least get you started. i started playing around may of last year, and a few weeks ago won the battle of the bands at my school. if you are so inclined, there’s a video of us on youtube here. not world class, i know, but i don’t think i do too badly considering i only played a real kit once a week for about a month before the gig.
(sorry if this isn’t strictly relevant to the thread, but i didn’t think it was worth making a new topic about, and i thought it might be of interest to the rock band crowd at QT3.)
So, as a reminder, Best Buy has an exclusive on the bonus Rock Band tracks that come with the reissue of Ten. Both the remixes and the remasters are great. I wonder what the RB version will end up sounding more like, since the remixes have more distinct instruments across the board. Either the way, the sort of muddy sound that characterized the first album is gone.
Unfortunately, I had to cancel my amazon order since they failed to secure a similar exclusive. They did (apparently) let me keep the bonus mp3 they sent me a while back (a live version of Once), which is nice, and I was sorry that they weren’t able to beat BB for the exclusive I care about.
Funkula
3150
$28? Fuck that. I was actually interested, because I figured it’d just be a remaster that came with the coupon for the RB tracks, but I don’t need the super-de-duper edition of an album I’ve owned since 1993.
Yeah, I would like to have the live tracks for RB, but for 30 bucks I think I will pass. Downloading the album for RB will be enough to scratch my Pearl Jam itch.
The pack is very good. I would recommend that everyone omit Oceans, Release, and Master/Slave from a partial download vs the whole thing. I had to get the second option out of curiosity, and while I must admit I am biased in seeing them already as my least favorite tracks on the album (songs would be too generous), I don’t think it is a stretch to say they will be dead weight for most people.
Porch and Once are the standouts of the pack for me, although I have to admit I’ve enjoyed almost every song on vocals more than any other option I’ve tried so far. Bass seems to have gotten the short end of the stick, but I mostly tried that with songs I am less fond of anyway. All of the songs trend towards the middle of the difficulty curve, at least for me as a mediocre hard/bad expert player.
I am interested to see what happens when someone encounters the actual lyrics Mumbles is belting out in Rock Band for the first time. Surprise? Disappointment? Indifference?
sluggo
3153
I used to sing Jeremy, Even Flow and Alive regularly back in my bar band days, so I couldn’t help but boot these up briefly before heading out to GDC. The note chart for Once is a blast to play, and there was something satisfying about getting 100% Expert Vocals on Jeremy the first time through. I think the nostalgia factor is going to make this a must-have pack for a lot of people, and a party favorite.
What euphemisms have they come up for this release? I seem to recall a profane word or two…
mystery
3155
I went with the whole thing, and played Release first. Admittedly, it’s one of my all-time favorite songs, so it has a big nostalgia factor for me, and I don’t think it was possible for me to be disappointed with any of these songs.
Given my reaction to this pack, I may have to buy the Beatles pack twice when it comes out in September.
Blank spaces. Didn’t even notice them since I didn’t need to read the words on vocals, but you feel them a bit on other instruments.
And yeah, it was perhaps unfair to lump Release in with Oceans and Master/Slave, or for that matter anything else with Master/Slave, which is just the intro/outro music of the album.
Reldan
3157
The album is just flat out awesome. I mean, playing it is pure, unadulterated joy. This is better even than the Who release.
Chose to play through the album, and it’s just awesome song after awesome song - Once, Even Flow, Jeremy, Porch, Black…
I mean, damn.
Seriously… I had actually forgotten how great an album Ten is. It’s probably been a good 8 years since I’ve listened to the whole thing straight through and for every song that came up in the set list I was like YESSSSSSSSSS. It’s gonna be hard to top this release.
Greedo
3159
Pretty much my thoughts exactly.
Being my favorite album from my favorite band, I had very high, probably bordering on unrealistic, expectations for this release and not for one second was I disappointed. I thought even Release and Oceans were fun to play.
One very minor nitpick is that I wish I you could go straight through, track to track with no little break in between songs . . . just like if you were tracking the CD.
So did anyone spring for the BB box-set and the bonus tracks? If so, how are they?
Like everyone else said…Ten is fucking awesome.
