Rock Band DLC 'splosion: CCR, Radiohead, Bowie, and more!

by Christopher Grant { Nov 8th 2007 at 6:29PM }

If today's news of downloadable Guitar Hero III Velvet Revolver and Foo Fighters track packs got your motor runnin' (on XBLA or PSN, pick your poison) then you're going to blow a gasket reading the below list of Rock Band downloadable tracks, conveniently extracted from the physical pages of this month's OXM magazine and replaced by beautiful digital bits, helpfully transcribed by the good folks at ScoreHero. We're talking 24 confirmed tracks, from 17 monsters of rock. And that's not to mention the other Rock Band DLC we've already been promised, like The Who, Nirvana, and The Grateful Dead.

Hit that jump for the latest list in all of its glory.

[Big ups, Quastor]

The Police pack:

"Roxanne"
"Synchronicity II"
"Can't Stand Losing You"

Queens of the Stone Age pack:

"3s and 7s"
"Sick Sick Sick"
"Little Sister"

Metallica pack:

Three or six songs, none announced yet

Black Sabbath pack:

"N.I.B." (cover)
"Sweet Leaf" (cover)
"War Pigs" (cover)

David Bowie pack:

"Moonage Dream"
"Heroes"
"Queen Bitch"

Punk pack:

"Ever Fallen in Love" by Buzzcocks (cover)
"I Fought the Law" by The Clash
"Rockaway Beach" by The Ramones

Single Songs:

"Fortunate Son" by Credence Clearwater Revival
"Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner
"My Sharona" by The Knack
"Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways
"Bang a Gong" by T-Rex
"Joker and the Thief" by Wolfmother
"Brass in a Pocket" by Pretenders
"My Iron Lung" by Radiohead
"Buddy Holly" by Weezer

Tags: BreakingNews, DLC, Harmonix, OXM, Rock-Band, RockBand

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Snogrog @ Nov 8th 2007 6:35PM

oh man. Buddy Holly, more Weezer and...::GASP:: JUKE BOX HERO?! OH SWEET LORD YES.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 8th 2007 6:42PM

You have horrible musical taste

Cesaria @ Nov 8th 2007 6:46PM

Last I looked, musical taste is subjective.

colin @ Nov 8th 2007 7:26PM

radiohead + weezer + 311 = win

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 8th 2007 7:34PM

Damn... Im surrounded of possers.

blacklauren @ Nov 8th 2007 7:39PM

@ 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.

blacklauren @ Nov 8th 2007 7:41PM

@myself

*here

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

colin @ Nov 8th 2007 7:50PM

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

Raikage (NDF - PK THUNDER RING) @ Nov 8th 2007 7:56PM

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.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 8th 2007 7:56PM

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 =(

Shockgamer @ Nov 8th 2007 8:02PM

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.

Farseer (GDI) @ Nov 8th 2007 8:04PM

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.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 8th 2007 8:11PM

"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.

Farseer (GDI) @ Nov 8th 2007 8:17PM

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...

gonk @ Nov 8th 2007 8:27PM

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

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 8th 2007 8:46PM

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.

Farseer (GDI) @ Nov 8th 2007 9:06PM

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.

colin @ Nov 8th 2007 9:10PM

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.

samfish @ Nov 8th 2007 11:22PM

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.

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 8th 2007 11:51PM

@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.

colin @ Nov 9th 2007 12:01AM

@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

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 9th 2007 12:39AM

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!

ukickmydog (NDF - Earth) @ Nov 9th 2007 1:44AM

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

colin @ Nov 9th 2007 4:58AM

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?

Victor @ Nov 9th 2007 5:13AM

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!"

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 9th 2007 5:15AM

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.

StrangeBum @ Nov 9th 2007 8:19AM

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.

deaftly @ Nov 9th 2007 9:44AM

songs for the deaf FTW

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 9th 2007 10:09AM

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

Not a song, the whole freaking album.

Jack @ Nov 9th 2007 11:42AM

All on one track!!

Farseer (GDI) @ Nov 8th 2007 6:39PM

The thing that I like to see is a section of "Single Songs". Kudos for not forcing us to buy an entire pack... if only they would offer the songs in packs as single downloads as well...

The only thing I'm waiting for now is the price.

blacklauren @ Nov 8th 2007 7:54PM

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

Farseer (GDI) @ Nov 8th 2007 7:58PM

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. :)