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Songs Featured in the Video Game Rock Band

Posted Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:18pm PST by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

The following is a list of songs found in Rock Band, a music performance-based video game developed by a company named Harmonix. This list includes songs found on the game disc itself (”main setlist” and “bonus tracks”) apart from the downloadable songs available for purchase on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. I own a Wii and have been having a blast with Guitar Hero III, but I think Rock Band would be even more fun since up to four can join in on the jam session. Vocals included.

The game let's the non-musically inclined (as well as those who are) experience what it's like to play in a real band by utilizing well designed peripherals that simulate playing a real instrument. It's a fantastic experience, in no small part due to how the individual instruments sound when they are played correctly or incorrectly. It takes some practice, but instead of the years of dedication required to master a real instrument, you can get up to speed in a couple days.

It feels great to hit the notes perfectly in succession while the crowd screams -- even if it is just a game.

Famous musicians and labels are beginning to embrace the concept wholeheartedly because it offers a new way to sell music. Even the poster-boys for everything anti-commercial, the Sex Pistols, re-recorded a track for Guitar Hero III, since the master tapes were lost years ago.

If you want to master Rock Band, listen to this playlist when you're not actually playing the game and become intimate with every note that's coming.

Songs Featured in the Video Game Rock Band

1. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet

2. Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

3. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

4. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones 

5. Celebrity Skin - Hole

6. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins

7. Creep - Radiohead

8. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers 

9. Dead On Arrival - Fall Out Boy

10. Detroit Rock City - Kiss

11. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

12. The Electric Version - The New Pornographers 

13. Enter Sandman - Metallica

14. Epic - Faith No More

15. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet

16. Foreplay/Long Time - Boston

17. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

18. Go With The Flow - Queens Of The Stone Age

19. Green Grass And High Tides - The Outlaws

20. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails 

21. Here It Goes Again - OK Go

22. Highway Star - Deep Purple

23. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage

24. In Bloom - Nirvana 

25. Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters

26. Main Offender - The Hives

27. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

28. Mississippi Queen - Mountain 

29. Next To You - The Police

30. Orange Crush - R.E.M.

31. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

32. Reptilia - The Strokes

17 Comments

1. Vo -
Rock is my life n I want to meet more n more rockers in the world

2. The -
we're next!
check out thekenzos.com

3. chau -
Rockband is the coolest game everr

4. Yahoo! Music User -
I love all these songs

5. Yahoo! Music User -
too late, your mom beat you to it loser

6. Yahoo! Music User -
too late, your mom beat you to it loser

7. Yahoo! Music User -
I LOVE the game rock band. especially the guitar part. it is much easier than guitar hero III!!!!!!

8. Yahoo! Music User -
I like both this and Gutair Hero. So I'm neutral. I think that this has some good songs and so does gh3 (wii).

9. Yahoo! Music User -
The game would be better if it included the following features:
heroin shooting
hotel room trashing
banging around with 5 hep C positive, bi-sexual groopies
How bout the payola feature were you send cocaine to radio program directors to get them to play your single?

10. JEREMY -
dont hate just cause u losers cant play the drums. I know u cant help it your not taleted enough you keep up with us drum players so u gotta stick to the easy guitar.

11. Sound -
some songs included kinda BLOW - our MUSIKMAX BICOL has better songs that really ROCK! http://www.rebolusyon.com/musikmax-bicol

12. Yahoo! Music User -
why don't you all just learn to play a real instrument....
its like eating real food instead of cardboard

13. Jessica -
Oh my God you people are mean here. Any haterz should get off the site we know u hate it so don't post here; this game is awesome even though I don't have it my friend and cousins'do so all u haterz go play with urselvz and stop abusing the site b4 I report u.

14. Robert -
I cant believe u ppl still play games lmfao!!!! get off ur moms tig ol bitties and get a life. Losers!!!

15. omart -
GH 3 IS OVERRATED LESS SONGS TO DOWNLOAD AND THE GRAPHICS ARE JUST HORIBLE. ROCKBAND HAS THE FEEEL OF A REAL BAND AND 50 + PLUS SONGS AND MORE EVERY TUESDAY. THE PEOPLE THAT TALK BAD ABOUT RCKBAND CANT AFFORD IT.

16. Daniel -
wat happened to Flyleaf?

17. Brian A. -
i found this thread by searching "Rock Band Sux" to see if anyone else has resisted the brain wash. Rock sux - spite is sincere. sad but true. where's my pipe?
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