This week’s new Rock Band DLC features four songs: Avenged Sevenfold’s “Afterlife” and “Critical Acclaim”; “Hammerhead”, The Offspring’s first single from their newly released album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace; and “Rock N Roll Dream” by Crooked X, a band that neither I nor Wikipedia have heard of. The first three songs are priced at $1.99 (160 MS Points) each, while the last song is selling for $0.99 (80 MS Points).
Now, we’ve got word -- from The Offspring’s official Web site -- that more songs from the punk rockers will soon be making their way to Rock Band. Here’s the list, straight from the news update:
“Come Out And Play [Keep ‘Em Separated]“
“Self Esteem“
“Gone Away“
“All I Want“
“Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)“
&
”The Kids Aren‘t Alright
As a big fan of The Offspring’s earlier stuff (“Hit That” from 2003’s Splinter turned me off to them for a while), this makes me very happy. Pretty much all of the above tracks are well-known classics from the band, and “The Kids Aren’t Alright” specifically is one of my all-time favorite Offspring songs. And I know that at least one other community member, Dexter345, will be excited to hear about this (see fourth comment) as well.
What do the rest of you guys think? All I can say is this: assuming that those songs are coming in a ten-dollar six-pack, à la the must-download Boston pack, I will be throwing down a Hamilton as soon as the songs hit the PlayStation Store.
[Harmonix’s PR department might as well hire power-glove]
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8:14 PM on 06.18.2008
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And I'm going to make an effort to end every comment with "Jimmy Buffet can go fuck himself."
I know there a lot of Rock Band fans that actually like the Buffet pack especially the Expert-level players who think that the note charts are well done and fun to play.
If I happened to own Rockband I would probably be more excited by it.
'Session' would be fun, or maybe just the starting vocals.
But they have Gone Away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(OOHWHOOOAHOAH!)
Please let this be out before I get to the States...
Also, Jimmy Buffet can go fuck himself.
You make it sound as though women can't cream themselves. It's possible. That's science.
They needed even older Offspring. The pre-sold out Offspring.
I am going to destroy my voice singing along to these songs. I love 'em so.
Very much.
Gone Away is their best song ever.
Can't we see something a little less inspired by money and popularity? And a little more about the gameplay aspect? I'm not saying obscure, just a little more interesting and a little more challenging. How about some Primus? That might be fun. Or some Alice In Chains? Or maybe Tool? Imagine how fun that would be to try and play on the drums!.... Opeth? That would be crazy! Or just release a tool to make these songs on Xbox Live so I can stop whining already ;)