wumpus
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If it’s based on the chart, I nominate “Naked Eye”, then.
Do you mean Lazy Eye? I hate that song but I don’t know that it’s on par with Shackler or Visions.
I don’t get the hate for Lazy Eye. I love that freaking song. Easily one of my favorites to play on drums. I also like singing it. The best part about singing it is that after the screamy part you can go and get yourself a coffee. Read the paper for a bit. Then come back for the end.
-xtien
“Everyone’s so intimately rearranged.”
The worst song is clearly Nine in the Afternoon.
It’s a boring chart, and it’s Panic! At the Disco, so that also makes it the worst artist on RB2. Loser on both ends!
Lazy Eye I don’t care for, but I’m not much on Silversun. I don’t see the hate.
And Naked Eye is great, it’s a tricky fun drum chart, maybe on guitar it’s different, but I love the song and have fun playing it.
I think I’m definitely one of the players who plays for enjoying the song as opposed to the chart. I love playing I Think I’m Paranoid, and hate playing Dead on Arrival.
Are you all forgetting about Paramore? “That’s what you get” ?
Truely, pain in game form.
Is that on drums? Paramore’s song is great on guitar, bass and vocals.
Both of the Paramore songs are fun on drums, though Crushcrushcrush is the better of the two.
wumpus
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July 21st dlc
Kings of Leon “Crawl”
Kings of Leon “Molly’s Chambers”
Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire”
Rancid “Last One to Die”
Rancid “Ruby Soho”
Rancid “Time Bomb”
Rise Against “Prayer of the Refugee”
Rise Against “Re-Education (Through Labor)”
Rise Against “Savior”
Lush “Sweetness & Light”
The_B
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Urgh. Am I the only person absolutely sick of this song? Heck, even ones I’d usually had enough would be perked up again by the prospect of RBing them up but even this one just makes me dread it as being requested far too much by people I play with.
Or maybe it’s just because it’s more recent and the memories are still fresh that I’m having such an adverse reaction.
Woo! Ruby Soho and Time Bomb! More songs for me to sing and everybody else in the room to hate!
The_B
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Not if I was in that room. Sweet!
ZekeDMS
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Rancid, YES!!!
I was just rueing that I’d seen Rancid on GH:WT’s downloads, but now…woo! 2/3 of those are direct hits for me, though I’d have gone with Out Come The Wolves over Last One To Die.
Still, pretty minor complaint that.
Looks like three solid Rise Against songs too. I’m hit and miss with them, sometimes they swing too emo for me, and Savior is on the border but the instrumentals are ridiculous, so that’s another full pack for me this week.
Lush too is quite a shocker, but Rock Band isn’t afraid to bring out the unusual songs. But damn it, they still need to give us Cannonball. Oh, maybe Ready to Go? Yeah, a little Lucious Jackson would be fun, I admit it.
It’s a good thing I just don’t really like Kings of Leon much, or I’d be fucking broke this week.
This makes me very excited. Except not about trying to find songs on the new version of the store using the drums.
Okay that’s huge. Letting bands and labels outsource or do their own RB track development and then QA it through Creators Club. It’s like the GH:WT make your own without the legal issues and potentially less suck!
I’d say way less suck as you’d be using actual master tracks to real songs.
Certainly seems more thought out than GH Tunes.
They already have the beta website up: http://creators.rockband.com/
For me as a player though, (since I’m not a musician) I guess all this will mean is that we’ll soon have access to a lot of Indie bands through Rock Band.
I’ll have to rely more than ever on this thread to find out if something is worth checking out or not.
Way way way way way less suck. GH Tunes is basically a complete waste of time. But this looks like it will have concurrent major label releases in rockband day and date with the CD releases.
It’s a long article. But as I understand it Harmonix will be giving the tools to convert songs into the Rock band format directly to the record companies. This will allow the record companies to sell their songs directly through the game just like they sell them in ITunes. In theory every song in a bands catalog could be made available.
From the article:
Although originally designed to give indie and unsigned artists a way to sell music through the game, MTV quickly realized the Rock Band Network could be used to clear the bottleneck for major-label content as well. While the Harmonix team has grown from fewer than 10 programmers to a few dozen since MTV acquired the videogame developer in 2006, the company can only add about 10 new songs per week to sell through the “Rock Band” store. The same team has also been handling the development work for the upcoming “The Beatles: Rock Band,” due in September.
“Once we flip on the infrastructure, we can go from a few dozen people capable of doing this work to hundreds of people or more,” Harmonix founder/CEO Alex Rigopulos says. “We can ramp up by a factor of 10 or more the rate of production of content.”
Shadarr
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Holy carp, this is huge! I wonder how a person goes about becoming a freelance Rock Band charter.
The_B
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From the sounds, bands could even record a Rock Band version of a track at the same time as the original song itself. That would be awesome to see even more simultaneous releases with the songs themselves.
