Rock Band

[Gabriel]

No Rain means I'm definitely adding some tunes to my collection on Tuesday. I am VERY excited for that song.

Murphys, Eve 6 and All My Life will likely end up getting picked up at some point too, but holy shit for Blind Melon. I love it.

[Rocketbusta]

DKM and Eve 6... sign me up, a couple more songs for me to play the hell out of when I need a break between Madden and NCAA football.

[Bigal]

I'll get Dropkick Murphys and Kaiser Chiefs, but I really don't see why we need any more Foo Fighters.

[stokeriño]

What we need is an accordian peripheral for Dropkick Murphys.

[Cactus Drags]

SHIPPIN' UP TO BOSTON WHOA-OH-OHHHHHH!

Wonderful. Might pick up Kaiser Chiefs too. I *think* that's been ignored long enough to be an okay song now, rather fucking irritating overplayed radio dirge.

[Kaney]

We can convince Ellis to get Dropkick Murphys, right? >_>

[RoyWill Rumble]

Fuck that. Blind Melon.

Favourite band ever.

[GoGo Yubari]

Blur - There’s No Other Way

YES YES YES DO WANT

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Blur and Kaiser Chiefs wahey!

I've decided that Bass on the harder levels is the most fun to play to get into the groove.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Harmonix and MTV Games Make Major Music Announcements at Gamescom 2009

Details for the Three Downloadable Albums Coming to

“The Beatles™: Rock Band™” Music Store Revealed

“All You Need Is Love” Available on 9/9/09 for $1.99

Tracks from Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera and More Coming Soon to the “Rock Band™” Platform

Rock Band Catalog Surpasses 800 Songs Available to Date

Scheduled to Hit 1000 Songs by Holiday 2009

Cologne, Germany – August 19, 2009 – Speaking at Gamescom 2009, Alex Rigopulos, CEO and cofounder of Harmonix, the world’s leading developer of music-based games and a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today confirmed release details for the three Beatles albums that will be available for purchase as downloadable content in The Beatles™: Rock Band™ Music Store by the end of this year. Abbey Road will be released on October 20, 2009, followed by the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in November and Rubber Soul in December.

Additionally, Rigopulos revealed that tracks from Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn, The Raconteurs and more will be among the artists coming to the various offerings across the Rock Band™ platform. With over 800 songs available to date via the Rock Band catalog and 1000 by end of 2009, the billion dollar selling and genre-defining Rock Band franchise continues to be the gold standard in music video games by completely dominating its closest competition with its massive music library, weekly downloadable content and artist offerings, innovation, and superior gameplay (Rock Band 2 average metacritic score: 92). With its leadership stance on music game peripheral compatibility, disc and DLC export, the recently announced Rock Band Network and the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band, music fans will need to look no further than the Rock Band platform to satisfy all their music video game appetites.

Details for downloadable albums coming to The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store are as follows:

Abbey Road (1969)

Release Date: October 20, 2009

Pricing: $16.98 (or 1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for album

$1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for individual tracks

• “Come Together”

• “Something”

• “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”

• “Oh! Darling”

• “Octopus’s Garden”

• “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”

• “Here Comes The Sun”

• “Because”

• “You Never Give Me Your Money”

• “Sun King”

• “Mean Mr. Mustard”

• “Polythene Pam”

• “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”

• “Golden Slumbers”

• “Carry That Weight”

• “The End”

• “Her Majesty”

In addition, purchasers of the full album download of Abbey Road will have the option to play the famous 16-minute B-side medley as a single continuous track. The medley includes “You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End."

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Release Date: November 2009

• “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”

• “With A Little Help From My Friends”

• “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”

• “Getting Better”

• “Fixing A Hole”

• “She’s Leaving Home”

• “Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite”

• “Within You Without You

• “When I’m Sixty Four”

• “Lovely Rita”

• “Good Morning Good Morning”

• “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”

• “A Day In The Life”

Rubber Soul (1965)

Release Date: December 2009

• “Drive My Car”

• “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”

• “You Won’t See Me”

• “Nowhere Man”

• “Think For Yourself”

• “The Word”

• “Michelle”

• “What Goes On”

• “Girl”

• “I’m Looking Through You”

• “In My Life”

• “Wait”

• “If I Needed Someone”

• “Run For Your Life”

As previously announced, “All You Need Is Love” will be released Sept.9, 2009 for the standard Rock Band DLC pricing of $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360), exclusively through Xbox LIVE for a limited time as a downloadable song for The Beatles: Rock Band, with Apple Corps Ltd, MTV Games, Harmonix and Microsoft proceeds benefitting Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox®LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation®Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii™ using Wii points purchased through the Wii Shop Channel.

Now THERE's a surprise I wasn't expecting.

Queen, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Elton John as DLC?

Pantera, White Stripes and Nirvana?

I need a new credit card ¬_¬

[GoGo Yubari]

In addition, purchasers of the full album download of Abbey Road will have the option to play the famous 16-minute B-side medley as a single continuous track. The medley includes “You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End."

Awesome.

I have to say that I know it's their signature album and all but Sgt. Pepper's over A Hard Day's Night is a little dodgy because I think they got all the Sgt. Pepper's songs that will actually be fun to play on Rock Band in the actual game itself (except perhaps A Day in the Life). But then, I just want "You Can't Do that," dammit

[Crybaby Bunting]

Apparently those albums aren't the only ones who are going to feature on their online service, they're just using it to work out how much interest could be generated from their most popular albums before digging into the more obscure.

Which makes sense, as Harmonix have said that they have access to ALL Beatles material.

It's also great to know that there's no Beatles tax that was rumoured to be happening a while ago, where songs would be bumped up for being from the Beatles.

And apparently, the reason why songs are included that are already in the game is because these will be much more accurate representations of the songs, and not just tweaked for Rock Band. And if you count the amount of points between songs and albums, you get 4 songs free if you buy Abbey Road as one... which would technically give you these 'origonal versions' of songs for free.

[ragbag]

New songs for the DS version of LEGO Rock Band announced. I'm just going to assume that these will show up on the console versions as well.

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

The Automatic - Monster

Ray Parker Jr - Theme from Ghostbusters.

Tom Petty - Free Fallin

[Crybaby Bunting]

I'm so glad I pre-ordered it (and paid for it) when Argos thought it was only going to be a track pack.

£25 for Lego Rock Band = win

[Cactus Drags]

Monster = Epic.

[Bigal]

They really should release the Lego tracks as DLC down the line. I have no interest in the Lego game because there's no way to transfer the songs, and the tracklisting is so awesome

[Crybaby Bunting]

Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Aug. 25) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Aug. 27):

• Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”

• Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”

• Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”

• Fleetwood Mac – “World Turning”

• Jet – “She’s a Genius”

• Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”

• Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

I have no interest in the Lego game because there's no way to transfer the songs

That hasn't been confirmed yet, as far as I know.

[Bigal]

Oh, well in that case, I'll reserve judgement.

[Cactus Drags]

Oh hells yes for Rebel Yell.