You have horrible musical taste

Last I looked, musical taste is subjective.

radiohead + weezer + 311 = win

Damn... Im surrounded of possers.

@ F. Rocker

I realize English isn't your first language, but I believe the word you're looking for is 'posers'.

And, while I've been watching comments in joystiq for a bit and know you love attacking Sony and putting Nintendo on a pedestal, I'm surprised you'd attack people for musical TASTE (actually no, I'm not).

By the looks of it hear you're the one lacking in taste, not us.

@myself

*here

(Now I know why you guys beg for an edit button...)

enlighten us, FRock ... what kind of music do you like so that we may stereotype you?

Come on Rock, music doesn't need blazing fast guitar solos to be good, heck give me a guitar and I'll play really really fast for you.

Also =w= is the win.

I just played this game at best buy today(then read about the Galaxy thing when I got home...DOH), the drums rock, the guitar is great to hold but the flat buttons are teh ghey. Oh and yelling "Say It Ain't So" is priceless.

I like rock, not shitty rock like the bands you hear in MTV.

Where's Dio, Dokken, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Styper... where are the high pitch voices liek Sebastian Bach, the guitar solos, the virtuosity in the instruments, the long hair.

I guess there are no more people like Wayne and Garth and Bill and Ted =(

Then I suppose it's good that Rock Band isn't showing up on the Wii for a long time, not even mentioning the DLC.

Looks like Fernando is all about the 80's hair-bands. Wow. Fernando, for you to criticize ANYONE'S musical taste after that list...


BTW =w= rocks! One of the best bands out there today.

"Looks like Fernando is all about the 80's hair-bands"

Yes, but Im more like classic heavy metal: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple (favorite band), AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Tangerine Dream, Uria Heep (excellent band), I like Peter Frampton too, Journey (I have the look of Steve Perry), skid Row, and a lot of bands in spanish, Rata Blanca, Mago de Oz, Coda, Heroes del Silencio.

Right on Fernando. You're redeeming yourself a bit by bringing in the classic rock. :)

IMHO, rock music reached a crescendo by the end of the seventies, then crashed in the 80's. It became over-commercialized, and the "glam" culture crapped all over it. Luckily, the grunge movement helped revive rock music in the early 90's, and there has been some seriously good stuff released as a result.

Speaking of classic rock, I really hope to see some Zep and Floyd tracks for download on RB. I would give my left nut to play Comfortably Numb with three other people. Not really. But it would kick ass...

still no beatles or zeppelin or even pink floyd?

and not "paranoid android" from radiohead?

and all the sabbath is covers?

bleh :(

one creedence song though, so that's something. creedence has a few dozen other great songs too though

I disagree. 80's in general was awesome as far as the real metal went, but grunge absolutely killed the rock genre until around 2000.

Thats why the best rock of the 90's comes from Scandinavian countries. They didn't have grunge fuck things up.

And seriously, the only song I've managed to 5 star on GH2 Expert is Nirvana's.

Let us not forget all the top 40's trash of the 90's that you're not comparing with the top 40's trash of the 80's. Heads up. Top 40's in the 80's was hair metal, top 40's in the 90's was absolute trash.

Crono, I guess that's where we disagree. :)

The problem, I think, is that there too many sub-categories of rock.
I can't seem to get into heavy metal, so I think that puts us at odds. On the other hand, I hear people call Zep heavy metal. In my opinion Zep is classic rock and in a totally different genre than Megadeath or 80's Metallica (what I consider metal).

Anyway, no matter what decade you put it in, Top 40's music is usually junk. The best talents don't tend to be easily exploited by record companies.

fernando, the last time a radiohead video was on mtv was probably paranoid android. I saw radiohead at bonnaroo and it was indescribable.

weezer goes in and out of popular fads, but rivers cuomo is an amazing lyricist (and i'm not talking about beverly hills) there is hardly a bad song on any of their albums.

311 is a guilty pleasure of mine along with incubus. some people like them, some people don't ... but you can't say that their fans are posers ... have you been to a show?

and widespread panic is the best concert that i have no memory of, whatsoever.

Nothing good musically came out of the 80's, and that's a fact. I would say the Ghostbusters theme, but even that was ripped off from another song, sadly...What a shameful period in music history!

I wasn't planning on buying Rock Band, but I'd buy it over Guitar Hero if I had to choose by virtue of them having Radiohead, 311, QotSA and Weezer alone.
Although I agree that they should definitely have Paranoid Android over My Iron Lung. That song would be far, far more fun to play.

@samfish, you're fucking nuts.

I can name A BILLION good bands from the 80's. I don't want to clog the internets by typing that list though.

@Rubang B, yeah like Real Life ...
"send me an angel, oh wee ohhh, right now"
RAD is the best movie from the 80's, maybe even of all time. It is the only movie ever that has two people dancing together on bmx bikes. plus that chick from full house is hot. the rest of the movie is like a bad porn that doesn't have any nudity or sex. i love the 80's, they were so bad that they were good

I agree with everything you said.

But aside from the "so bad it's good" aspect of the 80's... which is a flavor of music/film/fashion of EVERY decade, there was a lot of genuinely amazing music in the 80's.

...Big Audio Dynamite, the Butthole Surfers, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Devo, early Flaming Lips, Goblin, Human League, early King Missile, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen's badass comeback album, Negativland, New Order, Nick Cave (both with the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party), Nick Lowe, the first NIN album, Oingo Boingo, Peter Gabriel, Pixies, Police, Prince, Queen, Residents, Robyn Hitchcock, Sonic Youth, Sparks, Sugarcubes, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Tom Petty, Violent Femmes, Yellow Magic Orchestra...

Those bands are all amazing and not "so bad it's good," and that's not even including the birth of hip hop, or the birth of They Might Be Giants!

i agree with fernando, alot of the more modern bands do suck, but the 80's did define much of what we listen to now

and yes, i do believe musical taste is subjective, to each his own

rubang,

you are a pretty cool guy. i thought i was the only one who thinks "send me an angel" is golden. (as queer as it is). but i guess that we probably grew up in different eras ... your 80's metal music = my early 90's music (offspring smash, weezer, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, green day (before they turned pop), early foo fighters (though i like new stuff too), puff daddy and B.I.G. (yeah that's right). from your previous response, i would place you at age 32 ... exactly 9 years older than me.

howdido?

Okay, there's a basic difference between musical quality and personal taste, and I'm sorry if FRock doesn't like bands like Radiohead or Weezer, but to say they're bad just because we had good bands in the 80 is just stupid.
and btw, FRock, good bands on MTV is a rare thing to see, they mostly playing fucking emo bands or stupid "i ThInK i'M gAnGsTeR rAp!"

What the hell? I'm 24! Ahahahaha!



P.S. I used "Send Me an Angel" as the end credits jam for my final film in a film class I once had. I got an A on it, and I've always thanked Real Life.

I have to say that QotSA is a major selling point for me, despite the fact that I didn't really like Era Vulgaris that much. (I prefer Rated R)

But also getting CCR and David Bowie in there kicks ass. Now all we need is some Pink Floyd. A little Hendrix. Maybe some Stevie Ray Vaughann. The Beatles.

songs for the deaf FTW

This game would destroy all if they released Pink Floyd's "The Wall" as DLC.

Not a song, the whole freaking album.

All on one track!!

Sounds like you can also download individual songs out of the packs if you don't want all three, according to GameLife.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/11/police-metallic.html

Well then there's an immediate leg-up over GH III for me.

Granted, I'll probably end up with both eventually, but RB is sounding like a better package as the details are revealed. Also, after playing a bit at my local Best Buy the other night... a preorder is getting tempting. :)

THAT ONE GUITAR

FElT GOOD IN HIS HANDS!

Oh man, I didn't want to spend all that money for Rock Band, but "My Iron Lung" clinches it.

I better make room for more fake plastic instruments.

all this fake plastic? ... it wears me out. - get it?

btw, you guys mispelled Creedence :P

Is that Kimbo Slice?

yes, yes it is. kimbo is the scariest man on the planet

I played a custom Master of Puppets on some disc (an expert hack you couldn't fail) - wow....my hands hurt after it.

One is pretty hard on GHIII too