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News Room Contributor  Posts: 2412 Joined: 11 Sep 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 882 Joined: 3 Jun 2008    | For me it's gonna be Band Of Horses and Bob Dylan. Hell, the only reason I am thinking about buying the game is because I love Band Of Horses, and All Along The Watchtower thanks to Battlestar! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3606 Joined: 6 Apr 2009     | CoB will be one of the hardest to play and Blur will be the most fun. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1113 Joined: 24 Sep 2008     | John Funk? Someone tell me there's another one... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2481 Joined: 1 Oct 2008     | John Funk- Is Bad at Street Fighter Ouch, Keane, you don't have to rub it in on him. No need for an inflated ego just because you won the SF4 tourney. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2893 Joined: 28 May 2008   | Thanks for the Blur, Bodom and Dylan Activision. I'm actually pretty convinced that "A-Punk" will be a fun song, even though it's one of the preppiest songs in the world. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1113 Joined: 24 Sep 2008 |
I'm not the only that sees it? Thank god... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1205 Joined: 21 May 2008   | Of all the songs they could choose from Queens of the Stone Age that would be really fun to play, they had to go with Make It Wit Chu? Why? Deep Purple's Woman From Tokyo is good news though. I was hoping for that song to appear in a game for a long time now. |
PROBATION  Posts: 3411 Joined: 19 Mar 2008  |
God yes. They better chuck some better stuff in... User was put on probation for: Perfect Dark, it is out! An XBLA must have!. (3 days) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 571 Joined: 14 Jan 2008     |
But it's the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower, meaning that you are just going to be playing the same three chords for seven minutes. Don't get me wrong, I love the song, but the Hendrix version would be more fun to play on Guitar Hero. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1947 Joined: 22 Jul 2008   |
I think "Is Bad at Street Fighter" will probably be my favourite. It has a bit of slow intro that doesn't really signpost where its going, but once those crashing guitar chords come in, you know you're in for a good time. The bass solo is also nuts, and compliments the vocal scatting perfectly. So yeah, I can't wait for that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1806 Joined: 26 Mar 2009     |
Yeah, so far not imprssed. Went through the list and found myself most excited for John Mellencamp's "Hurts So Good" and then began to cry inside. Well, Blur's "Song 2" might end up being fun to play. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1364 Joined: 28 Apr 2008    | There's NOTHING on that track list that's worth playing. It looks like a list of b-sides from bands I've never heard of. (I have heard of some of them, using hyperbole for effect here.) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 794 Joined: 27 Aug 2008   | It's a good list. Expecially Blur's Song 2. That should have been in there from waay at the beginning. I also saw the John Funk bit :) |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 882 Joined: 3 Jun 2008 |
I know, but it's the original, I will admit the Hendrix version would have been cooler, but still. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1215 Joined: 28 Dec 2008  |
Agreed. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 390 Joined: 3 Jan 2008   | Though "Fame" is one of my least favorite Bowie songs, that should still be pretty good. "Sex on Fire" and "All Along the Watchtower" should also be solid despite preference towards Hendrix's version; and I don't see how far wrong you go with Santana as far as a game playing guitar goes. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 783 Joined: 7 Jun 2008   | You know what would've been a great Elliot Smith song? "Baby Britain" I'm looking forward to Band of Horses, Bob Dylan, and Vampire Weekend. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 571 Joined: 6 Apr 2009     | song 2 should be fun... but that whole list just feel meh to me... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1894 Joined: 26 Apr 2009   | Sorry Activision. I don't know any of those songs. Are they any good? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 174 Joined: 9 Jul 2009   | Customizable soundtracks. A lot of lower budgeted games have the ability to play customized soundtracks in a music game, I don't like a variety of Guitar Hero / Rock Band tracks, so let me use my own. Take Audiosurf for example...so is it that hard? Mods do it all the time with the older games (look up "Guitar Hero Through the fire and flames" for an example). |
Paperboy  Posts: 12 Joined: 18 May 2009 | So far i'm not looking forward to this game at all and honestly i'm tired of buying a new guitar hero every six or seven months, I mean why doesn't RedOctane come out with more DLC more often like Rock Band does? The only reason i play GHWT is because of the Rise Against DLC pack |
Games Editor  Posts: 5806 Joined: 20 Dec 2005     | Dammit, Keane. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 394 Joined: 17 Apr 2009 |
I think Battlestar used the Hendrix version though, which even Dylan says is the better version. The list is kind of strange, for a bunch of the bands I can think of much better songs for them to have picked. Nothing really jumps out at me. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 847 Joined: 12 Feb 2009 |
remember this is only the first 24 songs they released. there are still 61 to go. on the other hand i wish to see more children of Bobdom songs. i would honestly love to see some Rhapsody (i refuse to call them Rhapsody of Fire) on there. Heres to seeing Dawn of Victory :P |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 882 Joined: 3 Jun 2008 |
Hendrix Version, and the BT40 version, and the Hendrix version is the best when you are looking for a more.."Beaty" type of tune, for a classic one, the original one is the best..Kind of obvious there but ah well. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4615 Joined: 30 Oct 2008 |
It's okay Funk, I don't think you're bad at Street Fighter. But Keane DID win... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2417 Joined: 26 Feb 2009   | Beyond Bodom and,beck this looks shit and why the hell would they pick a dylan cover of all along the watchtower??? i hope that`s a type ,or misunderstanding |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2701 Joined: 22 Dec 2008    | Whurz mah Eye Of The Tiger, and Don't Stop Believin'???? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2313 Joined: 14 Apr 2009   | From that list, I'm ashamed to say that I only know Sex On Fire. It's okay, but... |
Copy Clerk Posts: 69 Joined: 28 May 2009   |
thank god someone else agrees, way to drop the ball activision, but i guess when there 900 million music games out now the rights for songs barrel has just about hit the bottom, i cant believe its taken this long to get song 2 on one of these things, and no offense to anyone but id rather hear the jimmy hendrix all along the watchtower |
Muckraker  Posts: 253 Joined: 28 Jan 2009  | Wow... that set list sucks. I like the song "Fame" by David Bowie, but it's really not a song you rock out to, ya know? I'm glad I no longer buy into this franchise. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1761 Joined: 23 Jul 2008  | I still think they need to make Guitar Hero: Metal and no, don't say "oh, GH3 was pretty much metal". No, it wasn't. At the most, it had around 14 sounds that you could call metal (that is including stuff like Disturbed, which isn't really metal in my opinion)... 14 out of 73 isn't enough to call the entire game metal... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2640 Joined: 1 Aug 2008   | Wow the only songs I know are Sex on fire and song 2 |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 14 Apr 2009  | most of these were announced already. |
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Activision Confirms 24 Guitar Hero 5 Tracks
Activision announced 24 of the 85 songs featured in Guitar Hero 5 today, revealing a little bit of something for everyone, from the hipsters to the Britpoppers to the classic rockers and uh, whatever you call people who like Coldplay.
At what point can you have too many damn songs in a music game? Guitar Hero 5 boasts a whopping 85 tracks, and, unsurprisingly, with that many tunes, there's gotta be something in the game for musical tastes of any inclination. Activision's PR arm says that Guitar Hero 5 has "variety of today's rock hits and classic tunes from some of the biggest names in music," and yes, there sure is variety here, provided you're talking about pop music with guitars in it.
There are so many songs here that it's not fair to choose to mention any few in particular and expect everyone to care about them, so I'll just make note of a few of the ones I'll be looking forward to playing and then post the list.
Kings of Leon's "Sex On Fire" is a pretty good song, but should serve more comedy value for drunken requests for somebody to play "Sex On Fire" than anything else. Blur's "Song 2" is a great tune, and should be good raucous fun, same goes for Vampire Weekend's "A-Punk." And Elliott Smith seems like a surprising choice for a party game considering how somber and introspective his music is, but hey, why not.
Which of these songs are you looking forward to playing?
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