Partial Beatles: RB tracklist for E3

By Johnny Minkley Published 11 May, 2009

"We're gonna tease it," says Harmonix.

The slow drip-feed of details ahead of the September release of The Beatles: Rock Band looks set to continue, with Harmonix telling us only a partial taster of the tracklist will be unveiled at E3 next month.

Asked when concrete details were going to be announced, studio rep Alex Navarro, speaking at a recent EA event to show off Rock Band Unplugged on PSP, said: "You're looking at E3. It's not going to be the full tracklist that we announce, but we'll have some info at that point. We're gonna tease it a little bit."

Asked to confirm rumours of three-part vocal harmony support, and whether the game would utilise the remastered Beatles catalogue releasing on the same day, Navarro clammed: "Can't talk about that right now!"

The incomparable Macca revealed the first footage from the game during his recent Coachella show in the US.

The game's out on PS3, 360 and Wii on 9th September - set to be the most cripplingly expensive day in history for Beatles fans - with the limited edition bundle set to retail for £179.99 alongside the band's digitally remastered back catalogue. Buy everything - Paul needs your money.

The full interview with Navarro on Rock Band Unplugged is over on Eurogamer TV.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Sonic_D #1 3 years ago

    The Beatles are so, so overrated. They were no way as important as the rabid masses try to make out. Do I really give a shit about all those screaming girls? And to top it off Lennon and McCartney were/are total nobs.

  • Sir_TimAlot #2 3 years ago

    wow, what a cock!

  • Toothball #3 3 years ago

    I'd probably have bought the bundle, but I don't expect that the drums will keep up with my existing kit. More keen on the new guitars though.

  • Sonic_D #4 3 years ago

    As hard as I try I will never be as big a cock as either Lennon or McCartney.

    Plus added anger over ridiculous pricing and still no RB2 drum kits released in the UK.

  • keyboardmonkey #5 3 years ago

    Sonic_D has obviously sold a couple of million albums, penned a few popular hits and played to more than one sold out gig so knows what he is talking about... what's that mmm mmm you haven't oh...

    However i will agree with you on the price being a little steep

  • Monsta #6 3 years ago

    I didn't like Sonic_d's second album but i thought that the eponymous third release was a return to form and quite possibly a genre defining moment

  • kinky_mong #7 3 years ago

    I think Sonic_D recent output is a shadow of his former glories and he should really have stopped creating music when he was still relevant, rather than cynically cashing in from releasing Best Of compilations every time a song of his is used in an advertisement.

  • Eraysor #8 3 years ago

    I'd rather they churned out more songs each week than making this game, but I suppose if they only did that their coders and artists would have nothing to do.

  • JayScott #9 3 years ago

    Who then, Sonic_D, you massive spanker, do you consider to be artists worthy of your praise and appreciation?

  • Doctor_What #10 3 years ago

    I split up Sonic_D's group. I am his Yoko.

  • geeza2020 #11 3 years ago

    Sonic_D was alright when he was with the rest of the band, but after the split it was never the same. There was also that sad day when his songwriting partner Tails_F was shot by a crazed fan. Dark days for music they were....

  • Monsta #12 3 years ago

    i Hear Sonic_d's next project is a big-band meets hardcore hippy techno house group featuring jarvis cocker, roger daltry and the ghost of Glenn Miller

  • Monsta #13 3 years ago

    "i snorted coke from Sonic_d's belly button" claims Amy Winehouse

  • Sonic_D #14 3 years ago

    Oh ho, what have I started.

    @keyboardmonkey, of course popularity is always the best way to measure musical merit...


    @Jayscott, some bands I like quite a bit are Yo La Tengo, The Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth and Kraftwerk.

    Lennon is the bigger cunt of the two. Fucks off with some mental women and ignores his first son for years. Hey Jude indeed, I'm sure that song cheered the kid up enough so that he could deal with life without his dad.

  • figgis #15 3 years ago

    Sonic D has no understanding of how the Beatles shaped his favourite bands (and all of music). Every single one of those bands you listed owes more to the Beatles than any other group.

    You might not be keen on them but they were more influential than just about anyone else. You wouldn't have albums as a viable form of putting out music for a start.

    (I prefer to listen to Pixies and Kraftwerk myself)
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/09 @ 15:51

  • Sonic_D #16 3 years ago

    Sonic D is fully aware of how some of his fave bands have spoken about The Beatles influence on them and how many would have also been equally well influenced by the mainly black artists that were denied the fame their talent deserved over The Beatles (who borrowed their ideas at the time to make their sound). Bands like Sonic Youth owe more to the likes of Can they ever did the Beatles.

    He also know that the so called debt that many modern bands owe The Beatles is always overstated by twats like yourself.

    Lastly he states Kraftwerk are true pioneers, The Beatles took their sound from other more talented ppl and sanitised it for the masses.

    /Third person mode off.

  • Zomoniac #17 3 years ago

    But the Pixies are shit?! Completely meritless wank. Nevermind. I'm not a fan of 90% of the Beatles catalogue (though when they are good they're incredible), but they certainly do have massive influence. But without Buddy Holly they wouldn't have been the band they were, and this can go back ad infinitum to the first time a monkey rhythmically hit a tree. I'd be inclined to give Chuck Berry the award of Most Important Person To Influence All Modern Music.

  • geeza2020 #18 3 years ago

    "Sonic D is fully aware of how some of his fave bands have spoken about The Beatles influence on them and how many would have also been equally well influenced by the mainly black artists that were denied the fame their talent deserved over The Beatles (who borrowed their ideas at the time to make their sound)."

    hahahahahahaa - those black artists you mention, they were denied their fame by a blatantly racist music industry in the states. If it wasnt for the beatles and the stones (and quite a few other british bands in the 60's influenced by the blues) you wouldnt even know who those black artists are.

  • GreyBeard #19 3 years ago

    @Sonic_D

    You are aware that Hey Jude was a McCartney composition aren't you. And its also fairly obvious from the lyrics that Paul was writing about John not his kid, irrespective of what has been subsequently said about the song.

  • evild_edd #20 3 years ago

    I think, in fairness to Sonic D ( who I have every right to refer to in the third person....I think), The Beatles are massively, hideously overrated.

    Yes they were influential, but they were pure disposable pop. They were influential without being pioneers, just because they attracted future artists to get in to music. It's well known and documented that they cribbed a lot of their sound from others. It's also well known that most of the '60s and '70s bands were getting 'inspiration' from black artists of the time....

    Just because the Beatles were loved by thousands of girls, wrote some basic but catchy tunes, and were then emulated by numerous other groups, don't mistake that for them actually writing good music, please! Otherwise we'll have people on websites in 40 years time praising the wonder of Steps, or S Club 7, or *shudder* some modern day 'rock' groups like Snow Patrol (WHO SHOULD BE F*CKIN' SLAIN IN THEIR SLEEP - MOTHER F*CKIN NNOYING C*NTS!!!)

    If you want '60s/'70s pop rick that's actually good I'd suggest the Stones. Or the Who. They'd have made a much better RB pack track listing wise as well.

    Curse you and your commercial nature EA! Though in a not-very-strong curse kinda way as I love RB and want the DL content to continue please!!! ^_^

    Edd

  • Blackthorned #21 3 years ago

    I'm not interested until they wheel out the Level 42 franchise.

  • TotalBB #22 3 years ago

    @evild_edd

    "It's well known and documented that they cribbed a lot of their sound from others. It's also well known that most of the '60s and '70s bands were getting 'inspiration' from black artists of the time...."
    and
    "If you want '60s/'70s pop rick that's actually good I'd suggest the Stones."

    You mean to say that The Stones were NOT influenced by 'black artists of the time'????
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/09 @ 17:22

  • jonsaan #23 3 years ago

    So the Beatles weren't pioneeers then? Riiiiiiight. :D

    evil Edd. Have you actually listened to the Beatles? Forget Love me Do and delve a little deeper. You might be surprised.
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/09 @ 17:34

  • moggsy #24 3 years ago

    @ evild_edd

    'Yes they were influential, but they were pure disposable pop.'

    Fuck me have you even listened to a Beatles album, especially the later stuff? You seem to be talking about The Monkees rather than The Beatles.

  • Feanor #25 3 years ago

    The Beatles didn't even play their own... etc.

  • makeamazing #26 3 years ago

    The thing with music is that as you get through the years it does age, I still like alot of the beatles music and to be honest they mad alot of hits, something that many of todays manufactured bands cant say the same. I would still listen to a beatles album to most of the rubbish in the charts today.

  • owl #27 3 years ago

    evild_edd

    a day in the life

    invented music

    okay

  • OnlyMe #28 3 years ago

    The Beatles stopped being disposable pop once Rubber Soul came out. At that point forwards, they produced masterpiece after masterpiece. Rubbe Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Let It Be and two of the best albums ever in Abbey Road and White Album. No, I didn't list them chronologically if anyone decides to point that out.

    If you say the importance of The Beatles are overrated, then you simply know nothing about Beatles or music.

  • Sonic_D #29 3 years ago

    Welcome to the fray evild_edd, I'm glad you came. I esp enjoyed yr point regarding how pop music will be looked back upon. The fact is they were a pop band with a few catchy tunes, nothing special. Sanitising their influences into something suitable for the masses.

    You Beatles apologists are fucking sheep. Would you have been there screaming with the girls back then anymore than you would now to todays pop music? I think not.

  • OnlyMe #30 3 years ago

    Seriously, the ignorance in the last two posts are earthshattering. Must be trolls. Must be.

  • ParmaViolet #31 3 years ago

    @sofa

    'the Beatles were the Take That of the sixties. No serious musicologist would ever see them as anything other' - I assume that you've never read any books, magazines or seen any documentaries on popular music?

  • owl #32 3 years ago

    and apart from their popularity with screaming girls they would have faded away along with Herman's Hermits and the like.,

    makes. no. sense. whatsoever.

  • Dreddnaught #33 3 years ago

    My mic awaits Golden Slumbers voraciously.......