Fact: I have literally not paid any attention to Band Hero except for the time Nick told me Taylor Swift was in it.
So then, today's unveiling of the game's full track list by Spinner is even more of a shock to me; since I am unaware of what has and hasn't been confirmed for Band Hero, this stuff is all brand new to me.
Personally, I think it's a fairly strong line-up. Most of it, as far as I can tell, is music we haven't previously seen in other rhythm games. Strangely enough, the vast majority of these songs are ones that stand out as something I'd prefer to sing, rather than play on guitar, bass, or drums.
Well, what are you waiting for? Hit the break to see the full list before I run out of filler content to write. Whoops, too late!
[Via GameDaily]
Console versions of Band Hero:
- 3 Doors Down, 'When I'm Gone'
- The Airborne Toxic Event, 'Gasoline'
- The All American Rejects, 'Dirty Little Secret'
- Alphabeat, 'Fascination'
- Aly and AJ, 'Like Whoa'
- Angels & Airwaves, 'The Adventure'
- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, 'Steal My Kisses '
- Big Country, 'In a Big Country'
- The Bravery, 'Believe'
- Carl Douglas, 'Kung Fu Fighting'
- Cheap Trick, 'I Want You to Want Me (live)'
- Cold War Kids, 'Hang Me Up to Dry'
- Corinne Bailey Rae, 'Put Your Records On'
- Counting Crows, 'Angels of the Silences'
- Culture Club, 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me'
- Dashboard Confessional, 'Hands Down'
- David Bowie, 'Let's Dance'
- Devo , 'Whip It'
- Don McLean, 'American Pie'
- Duffy, 'Warwick Avenue'
- Duran Duran, 'Rio'
- Evanescence, 'Bring Me to Life'
- Everclear, 'Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)'
- Fall Out Boy, 'Sugar, We're Goin' Down'
- Filter, 'Take a Picture'
- Finger Eleven, 'Paralyzer'
- The Go-Go's, 'Our Lips Are Sealed'
- Hilary Duff, 'So Yesterday'
- Hinder, 'Lips Of An Angel'
- Jackson 5, 'ABC'
- Janet Jackson, 'Black Cat'
- Jesse McCartney, 'Beautiful Soul'
- Joan Jett, 'Bad Reputation'
- Joss Stone, 'You Had Me'
- Katrina and The Waves, 'Walking on Sunshine'
- The Kooks, 'Naïve'
- KT Tunstall, 'Black Horse and the Cherry Tree'
- The Last Goodnight, 'Pictures of You'
- Lily Allen, 'Take What You Take'
- Maroon 5, 'She Will Be Loved'
- Marvin Gaye, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 'The Impression That I Get'
- Nelly Furtado, 'Turn Off the Light'
- N.E.R.D., 'Rockstar'
- No Doubt, 'Just a Girl'
- No Doubt, 'Don't Speak'
- OK Go, 'A Million Ways'
- Papa Roach, 'Lifeline'
- Parachute, 'Back Again'
- Pat Benatar, 'Love Is a Battlefield'
- Poison, 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'
- Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, 'Kids'
- The Rolling Stones, 'Honky Tonk Women'
- Roy Orbison, 'Oh Pretty Woman'
- Santigold, 'L.E.S. Artistes'
- Snow Patrol, 'Take Back the City'
- Spice Girls, 'Wannabe'
- Styx , 'Mr. Roboto'
- Taylor Swift, 'Love Story'
- Taylor Swift, 'Picture to Burn'
- Taylor Swift, 'You Belong With Me'
- Tonic, 'If You Could Only See'
- The Turtles, 'Happy Together'
- Village People, 'YMCA'
- Yellowcard , 'Ocean Avenue'
DS version of Band Hero:
- The All-American Rejects, 'Believe'
- Avril Lavigne,'Girlfriend'
- Black Eyed Peas,'Let's Get It Started'
- Blink-182,'First Date'
- Boys Like Girls, 'The Great Escape'
- Duran Duran, 'Hungry Like the Wolf'
- Eagles of Death Metal, 'Wannabe in L.A.'
- Evanescence, 'Call Me When You're Sober'
- Fall Out Boy, 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs'
- Foo Fighters, 'Monkey Wrench'
- Kaiser Chiefs, 'I Predict a Riot'
- The Killers, 'Spaceman'
- Kings of Leon, 'Manhattan'
- KT Tunstall, 'Suddenly I See'
- Lacuna Coil, 'Our Truth'
- No Doubt, 'Excuse Me Mr.'
- Pink, 'So What'
- The Presidents of the United States of America, 'Lump'
- The Pretenders, 'Boots of Chinese Plastic'
- Queen, 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'
- Queens of the Stone Age, 'No One Knows'
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, 'You Better Pray'
- The Rolling Stones, 'Under My Thumb (live)'
- Spin Doctors, 'Two Princes'
- Sublime, 'All You Need'
- Sum 41, 'In Too Deep'
- Ugly Kid Joe, 'Everything About You'
- Vampire Weekend, 'A-Punk'
- The Vines, 'Get Free'
- Weezer, 'Troublemaker'
Contest:
8:00 PM on 10.16.2009
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Good music, we hardly knew ye.
or those who would just prefer to rock and roll on saturday night, and party maybe once a week... maybe twice on holiday weekends
The DS version doesn't look too much better.
Not enough here to shell out $60, not even close.
Personally, The Guitar Hero franchise imo can do away with all the rock music and keep being more diverse. Im tired of playing metallicas and weezers, its all getting old.
Seriously though, there may be a lot of crappy songs on this list, but atleast there's none of the stupidly unfun metal songs that plague most other music games. Overall this set list appeals to me way more than the average guitar/band game and I'm not even a fan of most of these artists.
Now if only it weren't made by Activison.
I think this raises a pretty good question for Rock Band: Why are a lot of these mass market appeal songs not available for download in Rock Band? The only reason for this game to even exist would be to play as Taylor Swift if Rock Band would just broaden and deepen their DLC catalog.
But I guess they're who it's intended for, so the list has done its job.
To be fair Lego Rock Band is trying to do the same thing this game is only putting more emphasis on getting titles for the whole family instead of Top 40s. So it's not like they're not trying. Pluss they have all those Nintendo/MTV tracks on the RB Store and country. I don't disagree that there's not much Top 40s pop but, especially when a very big chunk of the BH setlist is already in RB, you gotta admit they're tryin'.
DAY ONE PURCHASE.
/Devo
//still won't buy the game.
The songs are mostly guilty pleasures, or are surprisingly fun to play. The drums in Sugar We're Going Down are ridiculous fun.
Alot of them are just so chord infested you never even notice there's guitar there. Like Hilary Duff
Goodbye emo rock douches, and oldies music. go play beatles rock band!
Wheres the music with Soul.... all i can see is majoritively whacky pop shite.
Fuck the "Hero" games. No More Heroes.
Though I'd do Taylor Swift something rotten.
I can't wait to hear a horribly censored version of that song.
i guess...