LEGO Rock Band and Band Hero

Anyone else looking forward to one or both of these titles? I certainly am. Here are the song lists for both:

LEGO Rock Band:

• All American Rejects - “Swing, Swing”
• The Automatic - “Monster”
• Blink 182 - “Aliens Exist”
• Blur - “Song 2”
• Bon Jovi - “You Give Love a Bad Name”
• Boys like Girls - “Thunder”
• Bryan Adams - “Summer of 69”
• Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
• The Coral - “Dreaming of You”
• Counting Crows - “Accidentally in Love”
• David Bowie - “Let’s Dance”
• Elton John - “Crocodile Rock”
• Europe - “The Final Countdown”
• Everlife - “Real Wild Child”
• Foo Fighters - “Breakout”
• Good Charlotte - “Girls & Boys”
• The Hives - “Tick Tick Boom!”
• Iggy Pop - “The Passenger”
• Incubus - “Dig”
• Jackson 5 - “I Want You Back”
• Jimi Hendrix - “Fire”
• Kaiser Chiefs - “Ruby”
• Katrina & The Waves - “Walking on Sunshine”
• The Kooks - “Naïve”
• KoRn - “Word Up!”
• KT Tunstall - “Suddenly I See”
• Lostprophets - “Rooftops”
• P!NK - “So What”
• The Police - “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
• The Primitives - “Crash”
• Queen - “We Are The Champions”
• Queen - “We Will Rock You”
• Rascal Flatts - “Life is a Highway”
• Ray Parker Jr. - “Ghostbusters”
• Razorlight - “Stumble and Fall”
• Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”
• Spinal Tap - “Short & Sweet”
• Steve Harly - “Make Me Smile”
• Sum 41 - “In Too Deep”
• Supergrass - “Grace”
• Tom Petty - “Free Fallin”
• T-Rex - “Ride a White Swan”
• Vampire Weekend - “A-Punk”
• We the Kings - “Check Yes Juliet”
• The Zutons - “Valerie”

Band Hero:
Console Song List:

• The Bravery - "Believe"
• Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silences"
• The Dashboard Confessional - "Hands Down"
• Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
• Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
• Hilary Duff - "So Yesterday"
• Jesse McCartney - "Beautiful Soul"
• The Kooks - "Naïve"
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Impression That I Get"
• OK Go - "A Million Ways"
• Robbie Williams and Kylie - "Kids"
• Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
• Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"
• The All-American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
• Alphabeat - "Fascination"
• Aly and AJ - "Like Whoa"
• Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
• Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me" (Live)
• Don Mclean - "American Pie"
• Duran Duran - "Rio"
• Jackson 5 - "ABC"
• Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
• Katrina and The Waves - "Walking on Sunshine"
• Lily Allen - "Take What You Take"
• Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
• No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
• Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
• Snow Patrol - "Take Back the City"
• Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
• Taylor Swift - "Picture to Burn"
• Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"
• Tonic - "If You Could Only See"
• Village People - "YMCA"

DS Song List:

• The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
• Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
• Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
• The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
• Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"
• The Vines - "Get Free"
• Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
• Blink-182 - "First Date"
• Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
• Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
• Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"
• The Killers - "Spaceman"
• KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
• No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
• P!nk - "So What"
• Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
• Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
• Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"

NOTE: I think the DS song list will be part of the console song list as well, although I haven't seen anything confirming that as of yet, but hopefully that's the case.


45 tracks for LEGO Rock Band and 65 for Band Hero.

When these titles were first announced, I wasn't expecting much. But after seeing the song list for both, I was surprised to see many of my favourite bands that I've long wanted to see in (or in some cases more of) one of the many iterations of Guitar Hero and Rock Band there have been.

What do you think about these two spin-offs? Do you think they're good expansions of their respective series, or merely cash-ins? What songs do you like and dislike? Discuss (:

Lego Rock Band will probably be my first Rockband related purchase.

Why not buy like... real Rock Band? I mean, it's all a waste of money, I wouldn't buy it, but if you're going to blow like a hundred dollars...

Because I grew up with Legos?

There's only two songs in that whole list that I like.

Originally Posted by Alex

Why not buy like... real Rock Band? I mean, it's all a waste of money, I wouldn't buy it, but if you're going to blow like a hundred dollars...

I've got both Rock Band and Rock Band 2, as well as Guitar Hero's 3, World Tour and Greatest Hits (I did have 5, but the song list was terrible in my opinion), so I have no need to buy the whole band sets or guitars. Plus I live in the UK, so dollars won't even come into it . I'll only need to spend between £30 - £40 on each for the standalone game, which is well worth it considering how many of the songs I like on each.

I've wasted something like 400 dollars on music games.

Really makes me think... I could have Fallout 3 and Dead Space right now. And still have a bunch of money left over. Deeepressing.

It depends on what you like really. I find spending an evening playing some of my favourite songs on Rock Band / Guitar Hero to be a very fun and relaxing thing to do, so I'm willing to shell out a bit of cash for it.

Originally Posted by the LEGO one

Spinal Tap - “Short & Sweet”

Spinal Tap? Pretty awesome. Free Fallin's an awesome song too, but I don't think the other songs on the set list are worth buying the game for.

Originally Posted by Band Hero

- Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
- Taylor Swift - "Picture to Burn"
- Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"

What the hell...

And all the other songs on the setlist are ****. Don't think I'll be getting this one anytime soon.


And I guess these companies have a huge stiffy for The All American Rejects, The Foo Fighters, Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy, because every music game has at least one of these bands.

Only in the other games it was balanced out by bands like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

LEGO earns some points for sticking a Tom Petty song in there, even if it's just Free Fallin'.

HEY ITS BAND HERO

IT'S LIKE ROCK BAND AND GUITAR HERO IN ONE
ONLY WORSE

So. It is my humble opinion that one Rock Band/Guitar Hero game should be released per system. Expansions, maybe. Downloadable content, yes. Beatles Rock Band, Lego Rock Band, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Decades, Smash Hits, whatever. It's all **** that wastes your money when you really only need one.

I wouldn't go with lego style.

Points for finally doing an Incubus song, even if it is a faggy one like Dig.

Originally Posted by Alex

Why not buy like... real Rock Band? I mean, it's all a waste of money, I wouldn't buy it, but if you're going to blow like a hundred dollars...

Or even better; Why not buy like...a real musical instrument and be a real musician, not a rock star.