More Beatles: Rock Band tracks revealed

By Robert Purchese Published 21 July, 2009

Yellow Submarine! Get Back! Et Cetera!

MTV Games and Harmonix have confirmed a further eight tracks for The Beatles: Rock Band.

These are, in alphabetical order (I hope): "Can't Buy Me Love", "Eight Days A Week", "Paperback Writer", "Revolution", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Twist & Shout", "Within You Without You" and "Yellow Submarine".

Update: EA has announced more! These are: "Do You Want To Know A Secret", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Birthday", "Dig A Pony" and "I've Got A Feeling".

Last week, Eurogamer went to Abbey Road studios to sing "I Am The Walrus", just like the real Beatles. But we were better, and there are pictures to prove it.

MTV and Harmonix, a modern day PJ & Duncan, are betting big with The Beatles: Rock Band. From unreleased recordings and real-life Beatles appearances to new instrument peripherals and glamorous peripherals, this will be a game with wide-reaching appeal.

Enough to topple Guitar Hero 5 and get the Rock Band IP on an evening footing? That's another matter.

The Beatles: Rock Band launches here on 9th September for PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

  • "I Wanna Be Your Man"
  • "And Your Bird Can Sing"
  • "With a Little Help from My Friends"
  • "Birthday"
  • "Dig A Pony"
  • "I've Got A Feeling"
  • "Back in the U.S.S.R."
  • "Can't Buy Me Love"
  • "Day Tripper"
  • "Eight Days a Week"
  • "Get Back"
  • "Here Comes the Sun"
  • "I Am the Walrus"
  • "I Feel Fine"
  • "I Saw Her Standing There"
  • "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
  • "Octopus's Garden"
  • "Paperback Writer"
  • "Revolution"
  • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
  • "Taxman"
  • "Twist and Shout"
  • "Within You Without You"
  • "Yellow Submarine"
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • ron_aldo #1 3 years ago

    Within you without you ???!!!! Replica sitar availalel from all good stockists

  • Toothball #2 3 years ago

    Competing with Guitar Hero 5? That might work if they actually manage to produce any copies this time. My band and I got to our local Gamestation early on the morning Rock Band 2 was launched. They had received five copies, and we walked out with four of them by 9:30. And I think the fifth was put aside for a staff member. I expect that made a huge impact on the sales figures.

    Still, I don't much care whether other people get one as long as I do. Need to remember to pre-order just in case, and also book the day off work. We take our Rock Band quite seriously.
    Edited by 1 at 21/07/09 @ 09:44

  • McBradders #3 3 years ago

    Good lord, LESS RINGO, not more D:

  • Eighthours #4 3 years ago

    "Evening footing"?

  • Zomoniac #5 3 years ago

    What's wrong with Ringo?

  • schnide #6 3 years ago

    I'd bet a lot on this too if I were them - this is going to be huge. Absolutely huge.

  • MyAfroAndMe #7 3 years ago

    "Get the Rock Band IP on an equal footing"

    Ahahaha. GH:WT was very poor by comparison to RB/RB2. I actually felt a bit bad when I played it a mates house as he'd sp-ent alot on GH:WT and it just felt a bit crappy. RB2 on the other hand has better note charts, better visuals, much better songs and a nicer less cheesy feel. Equal footing how?

  • varsas #8 3 years ago

    It would be good if MTV/HMX/EA actually bothered to release the RB games on time. Still no RB2 on Wii outside of the U.S.!!!!

  • andywilkie35 #9 3 years ago

    Easily my most anticipated game for the remainder of 09, can't wait! Looking forward to seeing what other tracks are going to be made available too on the disc

  • ron_aldo #10 3 years ago

    God, I hope they don't include Don't Pass Me By (dreadful Ringo song from the White album)

  • Zomoniac #11 3 years ago

    MyAfroAndMe, equal footing in the charts. Anybody who isn't a complete muppet is well aware that Rock Band is light years ahead of Guitar Hero in absolutely every possible regard, but GH still sells more because it's the recognised brand for the fucktards. If enough people buy this because it's the Beatles, then hopefully they will realise the core game is much better than the GH they've been playing, and then go buy RB2 instead of GH5 for Christmas.

  • RexRunti #12 3 years ago

    Any news on song transferness with this game?

    And oh @Zomoniac: "What's wrong with Ringo?" I refer to this well known conversation

    Inteveiwer: Do you think Ringo Starr is the best drummer in the world?

    John Lennon: Ringo Starr isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

  • schnide #13 3 years ago

    Typically acerbic of Lennon, but anyone who disses Ringo is missing the point.

    Ringo Starr was one of the four unquestionably definitive members of the band whether it was for his drumming, looks, personality or history with the other three. Without Ringo, you wouldn't have had The Beatles - the biggest (and arguably best) band of all time.

    So basically, job done.

  • Zomoniac #14 3 years ago

    @RexRunti, yes, it's a well known conversation. However it was either tongue-in-cheek (as I suspect), or Lennon was a cretin. You find me a great drummer anywhere in the world who doesn't cite Ringo as a major influence. A lot of today's "standard" rock beats didn't exist until Ringo played them. Not having the chops and flair of Buddy or Bonham doesn't lessen his achievements as an innovator. Go away and play drums for ten years, then go listen to some pre-Ringo pop-drumming and then listen to what came after, and try making those claims again.

  • figgis #15 3 years ago

    Which ones Gringo?

  • schnide #16 3 years ago

    He sits between Juan, Paulo and Jorge at the back.
    Edited by 1 at 21/07/09 @ 14:22

  • Killdare #17 3 years ago

    For anyone who doesn't believe in Ringo as a drummer (and yes, maybe sometimes he's getting the beat from Macca's base rather than vice versa) go out and buy the Love album, which really brings the great man's drumming to the fore.

    As to the new tracks - great stuff. I love "Within You, Without You" but presumed it would be left off the track list for being very, very unmainstream. Well done Harmonix!

  • greenthumb #18 3 years ago

    no Helter Skelter?

  • Flabio #19 3 years ago

    "Equal footing how?"

    Sales. GH has comprehensively outsold RB so far.

  • schnide #20 3 years ago

    This isn't the definitive list greenthumb. There'll be plenty more tracks than this - withholding it for now is probably part of the drip-feed anticipation PR campaign.

    And it's bloody working. I want that track list! I want the game! I want it NOW!

  • Moz #21 3 years ago

    Looking forward to this, but still no mention of "Strawberry fields", "Hay Jude" or "Lusy in the sky with dimonds". - which are surly key tracks that should be on there. Will only be a must buy for me with at least 2 of those on there.

  • jaxon58 #22 3 years ago

    What's with all the drummer bashing on EG? The same happened to Lars when GH:M came out.
    Don't understand.

  • InsoFox #23 3 years ago

    I agree, Ringo doesn't get nearly enough respect as a drummer and I'm mystified as to why. Most people seem to think he's a bad drummer because someone told them so.

    Interesting to speculate on how Within You Without You might work ... heh.

  • Zomoniac #24 3 years ago

    What's with all the drummer bashing on EG? The same happened to Lars when GH:M came out.

    Ringo is a low-key drummer who sits at the back and drives the songs, offering incredible creativity that inspires my playing to this day. Lars has an ego the size of Russia, despite not being particularly creative and not being particularly technically able by the standards of high profile hard rock and metal drummers. He wasn't doing anything with his hands that Paice and Bonham hadn't already done much better, and nothing with his feet that Baker and Lombardo hadn't already done much better, yet saw himself as the second coming. Lars has no real claim to greatness beyond being a member of a very successful band. Coupled with the fact that he's a complete and utter cunt and a hypocrite, I can fully understand why people hate him.

  • ron_aldo #25 3 years ago

    Given that they are going to release all the Beatles albums, it will be intersting to see how they handle something like Tomorrow Never Knows which is just one chord (C). I assume Revolution 9 wont be done

  • Doctor_What #26 3 years ago

    They should try fixing the framerate on the PS3 version of RB2 before they move on and do something else. Please, can we have a patch to tone down the background visuals and get the lyrics scrolling smoothly?

    It's pretty f'ing shocking that the band and crowd (which are pretty but pointless) have such a big impact on the framerate - probably the most important aspect of optimisation for the gameplay.

  • RexRunti #27 3 years ago

    Sorry about the Ringo comments but all I know about drummers is that they're the people who hang around musicians and you can tell when they're at the door because the knocking speeds up.

    Anyway will definitly be using the drum mode on this... on easy.

  • McBradders #28 3 years ago

    Funny that people assumed I was ragging on Ringo's drumming when, in fact, it was about the shitty songs he got thrown by the rest of the band.

    No thank you, sir, no thank you.

  • schnide #29 3 years ago

    Or rather, you got a caning for it and are trying to pretend otherwise..

    GET BACK!

    GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ONCE BELONGED!

  • varsas #30 3 years ago

    @Doctor_What: Are you sure it's not your HDTV? I tried out RB on 360 in a HMV Gamerbase and the framerate was erratic but I thought it looked like a TV like when you watch the broadcast of a football match on some sets.

  • RobotRocker #31 3 years ago

    For those confused about the framerate.

    Amazingly enough. The game runs at an absolutley constant 60FPS in the PS3 and 360 versions, including the background animations. Where many people get confused is where they think the game is slowing down on them when its actually video filters in the background creating an illusion of a slower framerate. There is no slowdown at all, just some peoples heads process the filters as slowdown and it affects their preception. Compared to GH3 and World Tour which do have actual gameplay affecting slowdown. Its not bad at all really.

    Interesting to note that Within You Without You will be the Within You Without You/Tommorrow Never Knows meledy from "Love" instead of the album version as well.