Songs on the list are thrown into distinctive difficulty "tiers" for each instrument ranging from Tier 1 to Tier 7, with Tier 7 being the hardest.
Song Name: Artist name [Guitar Tier/Bass Tier/Drum Tier/Vocals Tier/Combined Tier]
Primary Setlist
"Ace of Spades": Mot?rhead [Guitar 6/Bass ?/Drums 7/Vocals 4/Combined ?]
"Alabama Getaway": Grateful Dead
"Alex Chilton": The Replacements
"Alive": Pearl Jam
"Almost Easy": Avenged Sevenfold
"American Woman": The Guess Who
"Any Way You Want It": Journey
"Aqualung": Jethro Tull
"Bad Reputation": Joan Jett
"Battery": Metallica
"Bodhisattva": Steely Dan
"Carry On Wayward Son": Kansas
"Chop Suey!": System of a Down
"Colony of Birchmen": Mastodon
"Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)": The Offspring
"Cool for Cats": Squeeze
"De-Luxe": Lush
"Down with the Sickness": Disturbed
"Drain You": Nirvana
"E-Pro": Beck
"Everlong": Foo Fighters
"Eye of the Tiger": Survivor
"Feel the Pain": Dinosaur Jr.
"Float On": Modest Mouse
"Girl's Not Grey": AFI
"Give It All": Rise Against
"Give It Away": Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Go Your Own Way": Fleetwood Mac
"Hello There": Cheap Trick
"Hungry Like the Wolf": Duran Duran
"I Was Wrong": Social Distortion
"Kids in America": The Muffs
"Lazy Eye": Silversun Pickups
"Let There Be Rock": AC/DC
"Livin' on a Prayer": Bon Jovi
"Lump": Presidents of the United States of America
"Man in the Box": Alice in Chains
"Master Exploder": Tenacious D
"Mountain Song": Jane's Addiction
"My Own Worst Enemy": Lit
"New Kid in School": The Donnas
"Nine in the Afternoon": Panic at the Disco
"One Step Closer": Linkin Park
"One Way or Another": Blondie
"Our Truth": Lacuna Coil
"Painkiller": Judas Priest
"Panic Attack": Dream Theater
"PDA": Interpol
"Peace Sells": Megadeth
"Pinball Wizard": The Who
"Pretend We're Dead": L7
"Psycho Killer": Talking Heads
"Pump It Up": Elvis Costello
"Ramblin' Man": The Allman Brothers Band
"Rebel Girl": Bikini Kill
"Rock'n Me": Steve Miller Band
"Round and Round": Ratt
"Shackler's Revenge": Guns N' Roses
"Shooting Star": Bad Company
"So What'cha Want": Beastie Boys
"Souls of Black": Testament
"Spirit in the Sky": Norman Greenbaum
"Spoonman": Soundgarden
"Tangled Up in Blue": Bob Dylan
"Teen Age Riot": Sonic Youth
"Testify": Rage Against the Machine
"That's What You Get": Paramore
"The Middle": Jimmy Eat World
"The Trees": Rush
"Today": Smashing Pumpkins
"Uncontrollable Urge": Devo
"We Got the Beat": The Go-Go's
"Where'd You Go" : Mighty Mighty Bosstones
"White Wedding Pt. I": Billy Idol
"You Oughta Know": Alanis Morisette
Bonus Songs:
"A Jagged Gorgeous Winter": The Main Drag
"Conventional Lover": Speck
"Get Clean": Anarchy Club
"Neighborhood": The Libyans
"Night Lies": Bang Camaro
"Rob the Prez-O-Dent": That Handsome Devil
"Shoulder to the Plow": Breaking Wheel
"Supreme Girl": The Sterns
"Visions": Abnormality
Discuss. Also, you are welcome to post DLC that you'd like to see.
I said it once and I'll say it again. Best setlist I've ever seen.
Guns N' Roses DLC. I see Chinese Democracy in the album DLC future. Hopefully some older stuff will get thrown out there.
Rush. More Rush. Best of Rush, please, no Rush album has more than two hits on it.
Metallica would be good, but Death Magnetic is coming out as full album DLC on GH:WT. So, uh, dunno if it'll happen on RB2. Older Metallica would be good; the Black Album, mayhaps? Kill 'Em All would be cool, too, but we'll probably get Some Kind of Monster. >_>
AC/DC. Thunderstruck, Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shook Me All Night Long? Some of the popular ones would just be fun to play. And sing.
Also, Rock Band instrumentals. Please. Who gives a flying intercourse about the singer half of the time; the real instruments are where it's all at. That could bring some of the best Rush (YYZ, La Villa Strangiato) and some virtuoso guitarists (Steve Vai, Satriani, etc) to the Rock Band lineup.
Van Halen. Eruption + You Really Got Me. Just for the lulz. Then we could bring out some other good Van Halen, Runnin' With The Devil, Panama, Hots for Teacher, etc. etc.
Trogdor. For epic lulz.
Yes. Because prog is awesome, and Rock Band needs Roundabout.
Blue Oyster Cult. We need some of the other good ones, Godzilla, Burnin' For You, Cities on Flame.
Finally, DEEP PURPLE. SMOKE ON THE WATER IN ROCK BAND, COME ON.
Now, an idea pitch. GIANT CO-OP BANDS. I'm not talking GNR-style five piece bands. I'm talking singer, two back-ups, a lead, rhythm and bass guitar, drums and extra percussion. Multitasking is destroyed. It would just be hilarious. Band vs. Band is good, but, really, giant bands for RB3. You wouldn't pick what you get, because no one would want to play backup or rhythm guitar, or extra percussion. Randomly picked every song. It's a hard-to-reach idea, because it would take a, uh, WHILE to chart all the instruments.
As for the setlist, pretty good. They picked good songs and songs people wanted to hear for the most part. Ace of Spades, American Woman, Any Way You Want It, Battery (that song will be HARD), Carry on Wayward Son, Livin' on a Prayer, Peace Sells, Pinball Wizard, Ramblin' Man, Shakler's Revenge, and The Trees sound good to me. But, I mean, out of all the AC/DC to pick from, they pick Let There Be Rock? It's a good song, but not one of the most popular ones. And Dream Theater... THEY DIDN'T PICK PULL ME UNDER. NO ONE HAS HEARD OF A DREAM THEATER SONG BESIDES PULL ME UNDER. *facepalm* Anyways, it looks great.
EDIT: About the Dream Theater song, Panic Attack... well, they picked it just for an insanely difficult song. ;_; LISTEN TO IT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQtK9QwWrw
We will all get our arses owned by that song. DOUBLE BASS PEDAL PLEASE.
I said it once and I'll say it again, this setlist is poop. WORLD TOUR FTW.
DLC should feature more secondary rock bands like My Chemical Romance and Death Cab For Cutie. Hopefully. Anyway, the setlist looks pretty good.
Quote from: LightningSword on July 17, 2008, 03:20:20 PM
DLC should feature more secondary rock bands like My Chemical Romance and Death Cab For Cutie. Hopefully. Anyway, the setlist looks pretty good.
Actually, it shouldn't, because no one would buy it. ^__^
Who knows, though, look at that MTV2 pack.
Yes, Carry on Wayward son! Why has it taken them long to get Kansas in there? I wonder if the guitar part will be the same as on gh2 on here for that song. How about Master Exploder? Is it gonna be some cheap cover like on Battle of the Bands that says "My voice is Freakin'" instead of Fuckin? Not too much they can do but cover in a rated E or T game with a song that swears.
D: No Boston!?
Quote from: thunderhero4 on July 20, 2008, 03:42:41 PM
D: No Boston!?
There's 7 boston songs you can import in from dlc+rb1, I think we can manage.
Quote from: maniakc on July 20, 2008, 02:36:36 PM
Yes, Carry on Wayward son! Why has it taken them long to get Kansas in there? I wonder if the guitar part will be the same as on gh2 on here for that song. How about Master Exploder? Is it gonna be some cheap cover like on Battle of the Bands that says "My voice is Freakin'" instead of Fuckin? Not too much they can do but cover in a rated E or T game with a song that swears.
No, they can edit the master track--they did so with Welcome Home in the original RB.
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on July 21, 2008, 06:08:45 PM
Quote from: maniakc on July 20, 2008, 02:36:36 PM
Yes, Carry on Wayward son! Why has it taken them long to get Kansas in there? I wonder if the guitar part will be the same as on gh2 on here for that song. How about Master Exploder? Is it gonna be some cheap cover like on Battle of the Bands that says "My voice is Freakin'" instead of Fuckin? Not too much they can do but cover in a rated E or T game with a song that swears.
No, they can edit the master track--they did so with Welcome Home in the original RB.
Yeah, they'll probably edit to be very instead, that's what they did on Creep
Also, needs more Three Days Grace/Nickelback. D:
Only a few good ones. :-\
Quote from: sonicdude164 on July 21, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
Quote from: thunderhero4 on July 20, 2008, 03:42:41 PM
D: No Boston!?
There's 7 boston songs you can import in from dlc+rb1, I think we can manage.
Ah, ok, I never had Rock Band, so i never knew. Thanks!
Yeah, assuming that the leaked /b/ setlist for GHWT is true, it's a lot better than RB2's.
Speaking of which, another thread's been added for GHWT's setlist.
i would be more into guitar hero and rockband and stuff if they had more than just mostly metal songs. I'm goin to try to get rockband eventually since you can download stuff.
Quote from: tibar21 on August 15, 2008, 08:40:52 PM
i would be more into guitar hero and rockband and stuff if they had more than just mostly metal songs. I'm goin to try to get rockband eventually since you can download stuff.
Not really... there is a good mixture of songs in all of the games, especially rock band with all the DLC, if you ask me.
http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/rock-band-2-special-edition-/901371p1.html
Shows the difficulty order for songs on guitar, vocals, and drums.
Wow, I didn't expect that Steely Dan song to be last tier. And The Trees is different version? Should be interesting.
Quote from: Felldohs_wrath on August 21, 2008, 07:07:16 AM
Wow, I didn't expect that Steely Dan song to be last tier. And The Trees is different version? Should be interesting.
For guitar? Yeah, that song is supposedly the hardest guitar song ever in Rock Band. I'm not sure it's that hard, but the solos in it are quite ridiculous.
Quote from: sonicdude164 on August 21, 2008, 09:49:22 AM
Quote from: Felldohs_wrath on August 21, 2008, 07:07:16 AM
Wow, I didn't expect that Steely Dan song to be last tier. And The Trees is different version? Should be interesting.
For guitar? Yeah, that song is supposedly the hardest guitar song ever in Rock Band. I'm not sure it's that hard, but the solos in it are quite ridiculous.
I've seen the guitar duel of that song. And yes, the solo (the solo was the only thing showed) was quite intense. I guess we'll see.
Steely Dan only has 1 other song that I know with really good guitar solos. That's Reelin' in the years.
Oh jeez. I just heard the song (Bodhisattva) on itunes (never knew I had it D: ) And oh my g's that was insane. It deserves last tier.
Uncontrollable Urge and Teen Age Riot? OH MY GOD.
Holy DLC announcement batman!
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/rock-band-2-ful.html
-Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
-Jane's Addiction (Nothing's Shocking)
-Megadeth (Peace Sells... But Who's Buying)
-Stevie Ray Vaughn (Texas Flood)
-A specially-compiled No Doubt Best Of collection
Also, Rush's Moving Pictures album, set to be released this past Tuesday was delayed for an unknown amount of time, due to technical difficulties.
Quote from: sonicdude164 on August 28, 2008, 01:38:19 PM
Holy DLC announcement batman!
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/rock-band-2-ful.html
-Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
-Jane's Addiction (Nothing's Shocking)
-Megadeth (Peace Sells... But Who's Buying)
-Stevie Ray Vaughn (Texas Flood)
-A specially-compiled No Doubt Best Of collection
Also, Rush's Moving Pictures album, set to be released this past Tuesday was delayed for an unknown amount of time, due to technical difficulties.
I hate HMX. <#
At least yay for Peace Sells... But Who's Buying...
Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) by Stephen and the Colberts was released as free DLC today in commemoration of 9/11. Go get it.
Moving Pictures released today on the Xbox marketplace.
Harmonix must love us.
RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magik album as DLC this coming tuesday.
Quote from: sonicdude164 on September 26, 2008, 02:11:10 PM
Harmonix must love our cash.
Fixed. ;D But yeah, they really are good with releasing DLC.
I wonder If you can buy songs separately with the albums. I won't get DLC Unless I get the ps3 and the ps3 version (Or a 360, but I'm wanting a ps3 more now) But I really want to download 'They're Red Hot' On that album. It's crazy on vocals. The more I listen to the RB2 setlist, the more I like It (Just like WT's, oddly enough @_@ )
Quote from: Thirdkoopa on September 27, 2008, 07:51:04 AM
Quote from: sonicdude164 on September 26, 2008, 02:11:10 PM
Harmonix must love our cash.
Fixed. ;D But yeah, they really are good with releasing DLC.
I wonder If you can buy songs separately with the albums. I won't get DLC Unless I get the ps3 and the ps3 version (Or a 360, but I'm wanting a ps3 more now) But I really want to download 'They're Red Hot' On that album. It's crazy on vocals. The more I listen to the RB2 setlist, the more I like It (Just like WT's, oddly enough @_@ )
Yes, you can buy tracks from the album separately, but you save $12 by buying BSSM as the whole album as opposed to them all individually.