Be Excellent To Each Other

So we all bitch and moan about rubbish song selections on these rhythm games, so what would you choose if you were at the helm and had no IP problems to worry about? Ignore Guitar Hero as it's fucking shit.

Mine startings:

Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (surprised The King hasn't been in anything like this yet, tbh)
Ghost Town - The Specials
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf (Shut up. SHUT UP OKAY)
Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
Video Killed The Radiostar - The Buggles OR! The Presidents of the United States of America's version
Come on Eileen - Dexys
Dosed - RHCP

I'm mainly thinking about stuff I like to sing here, to be honest.

Well, I would have picked some of flight of the conchords, but they are doing it as DLC via RBN.

I'd like Zombie Jimi Hendrix to be in the game, but only so could make him sing to paramore.

Oxygéne 4 by Jean Michel Jarre
Psyché Rock by Pierre Henry
Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer
Brown Paper Bag by Roni Size
The Box by Orbital
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss
4'33" by John Cage

I'd imagine rock band 3 will have something major included to make it a proper sequel. They seem happy to release DLC and Track Packs until then, I'd imagine it will be a keyboard like, possibly like a keytar.

I'd like deerhoof-runners four released as an album.
The mending of the gown by sunset rubdown.
REO Speedwagon-Keep on loving you.
I also want a rocking band version of free bird for shits and giggles.

First 10 I think of:

Rainbow - 'Stargazer'
Megadeth - 'In My Darkest Hour'
Faith No More - 'Midlife Crisis'
My Chemical Romance - 'Famous Last Words'
Paramore - 'That's What You Get'
New Pornographers - 'Three or Four'
Wildhearts - 'TV Tan'
Black Sabbath - 'Sweet Leaf'
Biohazard - 'Punishment'
Guns N' Roses - 'Nightrain'

Twat.


I'm not. I can imagine the master recordings would prove extremely hard to find.
And you said Guitar Hero was shit.


Yeah, most of that would be really boring to play on the rest of the instruments. Perhaps this should be the thread for Lips 2?

I want to see more Tool stuff. A track pack with the following would be great:
Undertow
Stinkfist
The Grudge
Lateralus
Intolerance
Forty Six & 2
H.

Some Meshuggah, Botch and Candiria would be nice from a drumming and guitar point of view. I'm starting to get the hang of polyrhythms. Old Green Day would be really fun, as The Offspring tracks proved. King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the list could go on forever.

If they did suspicious minds, I'd want the live one from hawaii.

Well natch. Mental drummer and all.

While I was playing GH:WT at my friend's, I kept annoying him by asking 'is there any Converge/Coalesce/Kiss It Goodbye/Botch/Drowningman/Human Remains?' etc.

Meshuggah would be the worst thing in the world to do vocals on. Such a boring throatman.

Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always, Alice, Body Electric, Andrenochrome, Floorshow, Temple of Love, Vision Thing, Doctor Jeep, Lucretia My Reflection
Siouxsie - Happy House, Christine, Paradise Place, Sin in My Heart, Spellbound, Into the Light, Candyman, Partys Fall, Shadowtime, Stargazer, Into a Swan, Here Comes that Day

(okay maybe just as song packs..)

Ting Tings - That's Not My Name, Shut Up and Let Me Go

Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses
18 And Life - Skid Row
Tower Of Strength - The Mission
Shoot Out The Lights - Richard Thompson
Purple Rain - The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
December - All About Eve

I dunno, I see it more as another rhythmic instrument - it does fit the music well.

I'd go for (a selection that patently wouldn't sell):

What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers (or the Self version played entirely on toy instruments)
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five (with added piano controller)
Balled of a Comeback Kid - The New Pornographers
Suzie Q Sailaway - Self
Bigger Than The Both of Us - Fluid Ounces (utilising the Ben Folds piano controller)
Truck On - Simple Kid
My Only Offer - Mates of State
Building - On

MacArthur Park sung by Richard Harris
Simon and Garfunkel (can't choose, probably all of)
Bowie (as above)
Roy Orbison (again as above)
Don McLean (all the Orbison tracks he covered, also Vincent and American Pie, naturellement)

Suspicious Minds is on Singstar, Dimrill.

I've just run out of reasons not to get that now.

Together in electric dreams by phil oakey
any they might be giants tracks
some smiths stuff

That 'Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's Cunt' song, obviously.

Ok, let's see what I can come up with before I get bored. There won't be much old stuff on it though, that's SHIT.

Alice in Chains - "Rotten Apple"
At The Drive-In - "Arc Arsenal"
Blood Brothers - "Burn Piano Island Burn"
Botch - "C Thomas Howell As The Soul Man" or "Man The Ramparts"
Boy Sets Fire - "Rookie"
Bush - "Little Things"
Candiria - "300% Density"
City of Caterpillar - "When Was The Last Time We Painted Over The Blood On The Walls?"
Converge - "Last Light"
Counting Crows - "Mr Jones"
Deftones - "My Own Summer (Shove It)"
Dillinger Escape Plan - "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things"
Dog Fashion Disco - "Acid Memoirs"
Earthtone9 - "Binary 101"
Evanescence - "Going Under"
Faith No More - "Ashes To Ashes"
Fallout Boy - "Dance Dance"
Glassjaw - "Pretty Lush"
Guns n Roses - "November Rain"
Incubus - "A Certain Shade of Green"
Iron Monkey - "666 Pack"
Isis - "So Did We"
Kyuss - "Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop"
Life of Agony - "Weeds"
Papa Roach - "Between Angels And Insects"
Machinehead - "Davidian"
The Mars Volta - "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt"
Meshuggah - "Straws Pulled At Random"
Monster Magnet - "Power Trip"
Mudvayne - "Death Blooms"
Norma Jean - "Songs Sound Much Sadder"
Pantera - "Cemetary Gates"
Pixies - "Bone Machine"
Poison The Well - "Ghostchant"
Rammstein - "Feuer Frei"
Refused - "New Noise"
Skunk Anansie - "Weak"
Slayer - "Altar of Sacrifice"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Bodies"
The Smiths - "This Charming Man"
Therapy? - "Screamager"
Thursday - "Understanding In A Car Crash"
Tomahawk - "101 North"
Tool - "The Grudge"
White Zombie - "Supercharger Heaven"
Will Haven - "I've Seen My Fate"

Yes, it's a tad heavy

Some Fear Factory and more George Thorogood (if only to prove there's more to him than 'Bad to the Bone') would be nice too. Oh, and Rage's 'Back in Time' would work pretty well too.

I'll see you that and raise you: the whole of Troublegum as entire-album DLC. There's not a slack second on that album.

It's not a contest you know. Unless I'm winning of course.

Starting to like you. Needs more Kerbdog though.

[edit] 'C Thomas Howell' and 'Pretty Lush' - very good things. earthtone9 song should be 'Tat Twam Asi' though.

I'd add Angry Tree to that LOA selection.

Fucking 'Weeds' - didn't even see that. Albino Kid - give me my personal history back! I taped the video off Superrock, and played it back constantly. The single was delayed - and delayed - and then the album came out. What a fucker of a song that is. I need to go to Damnation again. 'This Time' and 'How It Would Be' also slay.

And Dimmers: the end of the 'Angry Tree' solo into the vocal return = godlike.

Have you voted in the mod elections yet?

As a rule on that list I was trying to give as much consideration as possible to which songs would be interesting for at least 3 of the 4 parts to play, and not to just go "yeah that song is awesome!" and stick it on the list. My Earthtone9 choice might have been one of the instances where I didn't manage it though, on reflection I'd prefer "Tat Twam Asi" or "Grind And Click".

Fuck Beatles: Rock Band* I want Bill & Ted's: Rock Band

"Join Bill S Preston Esquire & Ted Theodore Logon and they journey through time, heaven and hell on this most excellent of Rock Band adventures." It would be ace.

* Not really me wants.

It's annoying how similar our taste in music is. I think there's only about three songs on there that I don't like or know.

Well it saved you a lot of effort then didn't it?

You sicken me.

Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort.

Papa roach too?

I don't know. Raise your hands if you have bought Papa Roach RB DLC.

I have never knowingly bought Papa Roach DLC.

Do you know that you have bought it though?

Btw, don't deny "Rollin" is fun to jump around to. It's on the track list to lure the nu-metallers into buying the game so they will be exposed to REAL MUSIC!!!!!11!!!111

One night, while a bit drunk, I bought a whole load of songs, and then when I went into the downloaded song list, I found Papa Roach. I don't know what I meant to buy, but I can guarantee it wasn't that.

I do deny "Rollin" is fun to jump around to. Firstly as I don't really like jumping around to music and secondly because it's shit. And thirdly as it contains Fred Durst being a twat.

The words "being a twat" constitute hyberbole in that sentence, no?

I shall now proceed to move in and then subsequently move back, elevating and lowering my hands

Yeah, that was one of the three songs I don't know or like. I think something off the first album might be ok, at a push.

No, it's a tautology.

Yes, that is exactly the word I had in my head, but for some reason my fingers typed a different one

All this talk of Fred Durst must be making me thick(er).

It worries me that when I read that, I didn't think you were refering to him making you more stupid, but rather that he turned you on and made your man-organ thicker.

I think that says more about you, Dave.

I love it when you talk dirty Mr Dave. Please continue, I'm at the cusp of ecstasy.

Of course I just realised that I can probably never forgive "Rollin" for being used as The Undertaker's theme music instead of his classic entrance during that ghastly American Badass phase, so I'm going to wipe it from the playlist. I've edited the original post to include its replacement.

That's a crap replacemeny.

I quite like Limp Bizkit, they're stupid, but insanely catchy. I'd listen to them over.. well just about any metal that Dimrill likes. or anything the Milky Bar Kid put in his list. The Smiths, please fuck off now.

Better than replacing a 't' with a 'y'.

And you didn't look at the spot where Limp Bizkit used to be

Good lord. I could almost forgive 10010101001001001010111101010010101 for his Mudvayne obsession now.

All I see are crumbs and jizzy lips.

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