love Guitar Hero, and I'm totally in love with my copy of Rock Band. I just have one problem, I was brought up with a vast knowledge of music and appreciation for all types of music. Unfortunately for people like me, most rhythm games fail to include some of my favorite songs and or bands.

While I find it very cool that the game designers for both game series are trying to be all-inclusive and bring elements from modern music and music from the past together in one game, they sometimes fall flat on their face trying to meet my expectations and the expectations of people like me.

I know that I am not the only audiophile in the vast sea of Destructiod readers. There will no doubt be those of you who agree with the songs I post here, and a great deal more of you who won't agree or have never heard the songs I list. Let's get started shall we?

Cake -- I Will Survive


Even though the hugely popular cover of Gloria Gaynor's off of the album Fashion Nugget, was a cover, it was a much better song than anything that the disco queen herself could perform. The addition of the word "fucking" made things all that much cooler to my 16 year old mind back in the day. The only problem I can see with including this game with Rock Band or Guitar Hero is the surprising lack of a horn section in the games. Other than that the bass sections and guitar solos are more than adequate for any rhythm game and the awesomely flat but melodic vocals of John McCrea would be a whole lot of fun to do. Besides, everything is better with cake right?

Sevendust -- Trust


I don't think there would be anyone on this website who could match the vocals of Lajon Witherspoon, seriously he's one of my favorite vocalists. I find it awesome that the band plays so well together, it seems like every Sevendust album that comes out the group gets tighter and tighter as a unit. I picked this album, Animosity, recently and have been addicted to the beautiful buttery lyrics and amazingly coherent rhythm section composed of Vinnie Hornsby and Morgan Rose, oh the guitars are excellent too. Man, I loves me some Sevendust.

Refused -- New Noise


Refused (if you've never heard of them) were a Swedish hardcore/punk group who founded in 1992 but broke up in 1998 right after their final album, The Shape of Punk to Come, was released. Their sound was essentially punk but with some really sharp departures from the punk sound from the "pop punk" groups like blink -182. The vocals are pretty hard to understand at first but once you've got them, they're fucking epic. The guitars are thrashing and the bass and drum sections are just insane. Its hard to believe that there were groups like this doing the "scremo" music way before the 2000s.

Pitchshifter -- Whiteout


I got turned on to Pitchshifter by a friend of mine back in the late '90s and the first album from them I bought, Infotainment, was a masterpiece of what the band likes to consider strum & bass (instead of drum & bass). The vocals on this song are slightly growly and hella tough (especially after you listen to their later albums), the drums are all made by a drum machine on the albums but performed live when the group is touring. These guys used to hang with groups like Biohazard and Fear Factory and have been doing this type of music since the early 90's and have done England proud ever since their inception.

Grade 8 -- Resurrection


Grade 8's second album, Resurrection, features some of the most fierce lyrics and amazingly bass heavy tracks that I've heard in years. The song in question is likely to make the person trying to sing the song's throat bleed. I'd just love to see the person on drums complain about how many times they had to hit that bass pedal, and all the "ow my calves!" would make me a very sadistic but happy host. The group is virtually unknown so go out and "support" the group and let me know what you think of them.

I know, I know, I probably didn't include the group/song that you think would be great, but give me some time, this is just the beginning of a series of many blog posts I'll be continuing to post about songs I'd love to see in Guitar Hero / Rock Band. Who knows, maybe next time, your favorite song will be here. Thanks for reading.