The songs you'd like to see in Rock Band thread

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#1

(hope there’s no thread on this matter already)

I know there’s a ton of DLC on the way (500 songs by the end of the year including RB 2, or so they said), and I know this thread will be completely useless, but just for the sake of it and the pleasure of arguing/dissing our musical taste : what would be the 10 tracks (or track packs) you would absolutely like to see in Rock Band and its sequel ?

Not the perfect set list nor the objective set list, just songs you would love to play, and why. It can be anything of course, since the game already cover a wide musical range, from Duran Duran to Machine Head, but at least let’s keep things believable - no Stairway to Heaven, since we all know where Jimmy Page stands on using his masters for musical games.

My dream list as of today :

AC/DC - Squealer. Best Angus Young solo ever in my book, probably a bore for everyone else though (vocals, drums, bass)…

A Deep Purple pack, with at least Lazy & Child in Time. Like Squealer Child in time would be pretty boring for the most part (and rather hard to sing), but I would love to play the solo. As for Lazy, well, just listen to the song, what’s not to like ?

A UFO pack with Boogie for George/Rock Bottom, self explanatory, great guitar riffs, great guitar solo for Rock Bottom.

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing. Come on, 6 Guitar Hero games, two Rock Bands, no Mark Knopfler ?? Perfect in almost every area, guitar, singing, drums, bass…

Suicidal Tendencies - Lost Again. I need to work my double strums and on my endurance as a drummer…

The Cramps - I was a teenage werewolf. This game needs some psychobilly !

Soundgarden - Rusty Cage. Many Soundgarden songs would be good of course but this one clearly has the energy required. I can totally picture me and my friends playing it.

Girls against Boys - Kill the sexplayer. Sexy and noisy as hell, love the drums.

And I would also love some Mclusky, more Queens of the Stone Age, but that’s definitely not going to happen.

#2

I want Hocus Pocus, by Focus.
Thats it.

#3

Pearl Jam - Ten. The complete album.

Huey Lewis and the News - Every album, every song. Stop laughing.

#4

Sisters of Mercy pack: Vision Thing, Temple of Love, and Lucretia My Reflection

#5

I’d loooove some cramps in there. I’d prefer googoomuck, muleskinenr blues or OOH EE AH A AH

More Pixies

Anything by Pigface, though you’d need at least 9 drummers which would be expensive.

I’d like some Dwarves or Angry Samoans or (old) Circle Jerks.

Supersuckers.

DK

Misfits would be a nice fit too.

Minor Threat.

The Nomads

The Maggots

Stiff Little Fingers

Naked Raygun

The Bishops

The Sonics

Joy Division

.45 grave (PARTYTIME!!!)

Dinosaur Jr

Iggy/Stooges

Lulu’s Marble

The Stranglers

Operation Ivy

#6

I would like to see the entirety of The Bends by Radiohead, or OK Computer. Preferably both, but I think The Bends would work the best.

#7

Yessssss. I knew there was a song I really wanted but couldn’t remember what it was. That was it.

Here’s some other I’d like:
Toadies - I Come From the Water
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Elvis Costello - Lipstick Vogue
Heart - Barracuda
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Candlebox - You
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Cake - Short Skirt Long Jacket

#8

Hell yeah.

Many great inputs, loved the Focus piece.

#9

One that I would love to rock out on but will sadly NEVER see the light of day on Rock Band would be Silent Hill - Waiting For You (live At Heaven’s Night). I would kill to rock out to this - drums, guitar, vocals, all of it.

#10

This thread would be so much cooler if it was started by someone who works at Harmonix, but I’ll bite nonetheless.

The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar, Paint It Black, Jumpin’ Jack Flash

The Cure: Disintegration (Album)

Suede: Animal Nitrate, The Drowners, Animal Lover

Morrissey: Suedehead, The National Front Disco, Irish Blood, English Heart

Paul Weller: I Walk on Gilded Splinters, Stanley Road, Blink and You’ll Miss It

#11

Tool Pack- Lateralus, Vicarious and Sober

Helmet Pack- Unsung, Milquetoast, and Wilma’s Rainbow

Opeth Pack- Bleak, Reverie/Harlequin Forest, and Ghosts of Perdition

Alice In Chains Pack- Would, I Stay Away, and Rain When I Die

The Cult - Fire Woman

The Cranberries - Zombie

Flaw- Amendment

Mushroomhead - Sun Doesn’t Rise.

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack -Dropping Anchor

Fuel- Shimmer

Godsmack -Alive

Muse -Stockholm Syndrome

Great White -Rock Me

Hum -Stars

The Hunger -Vanishing Cream

Incubus - Sick Sad Little World

Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles

K’s Choice - Not An Addict

Limp Bizkit - Nookie

Live - Lakini’s Juice

Pantera - Cemetary Gate.

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

#12

you covered most of mine, but I’d like to add Pulp

Wow, and Pigface. Not a lot of Pigface fans around.

#13

These are fun to drum along to on the steering wheel, so I think they’d be fun to play as well.

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Kinks - Lola
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man, Legs
BTO - American Woman
Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown

Or in a different vein, the PE/Anthrax version of Bring The Noise.

#14

A song or two from Dread Zeppelin, so I can get my Tortelvis on.

#15

Heard this at the Bears game last night, and thought it’d be great for drums.

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher. Actually, any old Van Halen will do.

#16

The Song Remains the Same.

#17

It would be easy for me to get ridiculously obscure, but here are a few things that I think might actually be considered:

Hum - “Stars” or “You’d Prefer An Astronaut” (vid of the latter)
The Kinks - “This Time Tomorrow”
Modest Mouse - “Trucker’s Atlas” or “Night on the Sun”
Built to Spill - “Car”, “Twin Falls”, or basically anything off of Secret or Perfect
The Walkmen - “The Rat”
The Smiths - “Cemetry Gates” or several other songs
Uncle Tupelo - “Factory Belt”, “Punch Drunk”, “Gun”
Son Volt - “Drown”
Wilco - Plenty of things
The Dismemberment Plan - “Face of the Earth” or something else
Archers of Loaf - “Web In Front”
At the Drive In - something. One Armed Scissor is in GH4, so they could probably get that
Yes - something. Maybe “Heart of the Sunrise”
Death Cab for Cutie - something from 2003 or earlier. Maybe “405” or “A Movie Script Ending”
Radiohead - “Paranoid Android” and most of The Bends

I agree with Pearl Jam - Ten, a select few Misfits songs (probably not Skulls or Braineaters, for example. It would be pretty great to play Bullet, but I don’t really see that happening), I think Rusty Cage is one of the better Soundgarden suggestions.

Really, I could do this all day long, so I’ll stop here. Plus, I don’t have any music in front of me, so it’s a little harder to just work off the top of my head.

#18

They need to release a metal-free version.

Oh, and some Wilco - Misunderstood would be awesome but never happen, but Passenger Side would work as well.

#19

Oh my god yes, and Powerman. The world definitely needs more Kinks.

#20

Soul Coughing. All of it.

Times one million.