Rock Band gets track list

By Robert Purchese Published 30 October, 2007

Five decades' worth.

EA and MTV have finally unravelled the track list for Rock Band.

It's made up of music from as far back as the 1960s up to tracks from the current day, weighing in at 58 diverse recordings in total. What's more, 51 of those are based on original master tracks, so covers are kept to a minimum.

Presumably that helps you believe you actually are Jon Bon Jovi with your lovely blonde hair and really very tight trousers on. Helps you get the high notes or something.

So far we are only being shown 45 of the final line-up, with 13 said to be secret unlockables from both established and up and coming bands as you progress through the game. Harmonix is also working hard on producing albums that you will be able to download after the game comes out here early next year.

Without further ado, the track list is as follow (asterisks denote a cover song):

1960s

  • Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter"

1970s

  • Aerosmith "Train Kept a Rollin'"*
  • The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"
  • Boston "Foreplay/Long Time"
  • Mountain "Mississippi Queen"*
  • The Police "Next to You"
  • David Bowie "Suffragette City"
  • Black Sabbath "Paranoid"*
  • Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"
  • The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"
  • Deep Purple "Highway Star"
  • KISS "Detroit Rock City"
  • Molly Hatchet "Flirtin' With Disaster"
  • The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides"*
  • Sweet "Ballroom Blitz"*

1980s

  • Rush "Tom Sawyer"*
  • Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead or Alive"
  • The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
  • Faith No More "Epic"
  • R.E.M. "Orange Crush"
  • Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills"*

1990s

  • Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly"
  • Metallica "Enter Sandman"
  • Nirvana "In Bloom"
  • Stone Temple Pilots "Vasoline"
  • Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
  • Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock"
  • Radiohead "Creep"
  • Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
  • Hole "Celebrity Skin"
  • Garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid"
  • Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"

2000s

  • The Hives "Main Offender"
  • Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
  • The Strokes "Reptilia"
  • Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
  • OK Go "Here It Goes Again"
  • Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
  • Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
  • Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
  • Fallout Boy "Dead on Arrival"
  • The Killers "When You Were Young"
  • New Pornographers "Electric Version"
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Comments (37) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • ram #1 5 years ago

    that is a great list

  • Tenaflyviper #2 5 years ago

    Say it Aint so, yay!

  • Der_tolle_Emil #3 5 years ago

    I prefer GH3's song list I think.

  • Duckula #4 5 years ago

    Technically Pixies should be under 90's

  • Tricky #5 5 years ago

    God, I wish they'd stop using The Hives' Main Offender in these games (Singstar as well). It's such a banal song. Something much more fun to play (and sing) would be Two Timing Touch or Walk Idiot Walk.

  • bivith #6 5 years ago

    Tom Sawyer!

    can't wait to drum to that :)

  • bivith #7 5 years ago

    "Technically Pixies should be under 90's "

    the album that Wave of Mutilation is from came out in 1989, so technically it's 80's!

  • NoCodeNed2 #8 5 years ago

    @bivith - glad you spotted that - given they split up in early 90s how did they manage to become a 2000's band??

    Don't. Mess. With. The. Pixies.

  • Brogan #9 5 years ago

    only two good songs on that list Gimme Shelter and wave of Wave of Mutilation. every thing else crys out of the game to be called Rock bland. see what i did there. anyway i think i'm sticking to GHIII

  • OllyJ #10 5 years ago

    not many there I love but then again there wasn't on GH1 or 2 and I've found some real gems on there!

    Carry on wayward son, love it :D

  • Brogan #11 5 years ago

    'spose sabotage and paranoia are good too just doesn't seem enough

  • ecureuil #12 5 years ago

    Orange Crush, nice. It's one of the my favourite (and most underrated) R.E.M. songs.

  • AcidSnake #13 5 years ago

    Dani California?
    That's about powerful enough to ruin the whole game for me...

  • Der_tolle_Emil #14 5 years ago

    Dani California?
    That's about powerful enough to ruin the whole game for me...

    There really aren't many bands out there that I despise as much as RHCP and their California fetish. There are two good RHCP songs which are Fortune Faded and Love Rollercoaster, everything else is pretty much shit.

  • AcidSnake #15 5 years ago

    @Der_tolle_emil:
    You said it...Hearing that guy sing gives me suicidal tendencies...
    Well not really...It makes me want to bludgeon people actually...
    Far more dangerous than manhunt 2 I'll tell you...

  • Moz #16 5 years ago

    Does anyone have a link to american versions track listing?

    Currently holding off on GH3 as something just didn't seem right in the demo.

  • Sulphur_Man #17 5 years ago

    No Zep???

    Good to see 'Wont Get Fooled Again'....

    As for Rush...

  • jambolio #18 5 years ago

    Wont get fooled again, yay! I dont even like the Who but that has got to be an inspired choice, one of the best rock songs of all time! As for the RHCP they write 3 kinds of songs, Songs about california, songs about Sex and songs about having sex in california.

  • sailesh #19 5 years ago

    i like this list a lo'.

  • JunoBlaster #20 5 years ago

    track list looks good. orange crush a definite plus. as for crap song putting you off? try Ruby on GH3... ahhhhhh ahh ahhh ah-ah ugghhh

  • Tricky #21 5 years ago

    Not sure what people didn't like about the GHIII demo. I mean I was playing it on a pad ('cos I only have the PS2 versions of GHI and II) and I was still getting into it just fine.

  • mgns #22 5 years ago

    Dave Grohl brings it home with three credits. Could have been 4, if only Reznor had let him drum on THTF.

  • sanctusmortis #23 5 years ago

    I'm counting 32 songs I can't wait to play on that.

    How could anyone prefer the GH III list over this? It's one of the worst I've ever seen!

  • Corben_Dallas #24 5 years ago

    THEY HAVE A PIXIES TRACK ON THIS!!!!!!!!!! :o

    *tho could have picked 'Here comes My Man' or 'Debaser' as a more 'rock' track.

    lot of really good 70's tracks........ The Police didnt release anything in the 70's surely?

    Nice.

  • Ace_McCloud #25 5 years ago

    Feeling a bit 'meh' about this. But that's probably because I'm a shit ignorant mug and barely know any of them...

    And a Hi-Five goes out to OllyJ! Carry on Wayward son!! LOVE IT!

  • Darren #26 5 years ago

    There's only three songs I actually like in that list: David Bowie, The Police and The Clash ones, most of the other stuff I've heard makes my ears bleed. Sorry. I realise that the music itself isn't "crap" as such, it's just down to individual musical tastes but I've never been able to tolerate loud, screechy rock music. Thus Guitar Heroes and Rock Band hold no interest for me alas. Why can't they make a Keyboard Heroes or something, and pack it full of classic 80s songs? Now that's what I call music... ;)

  • reality_cheque #27 5 years ago

    Bit of a small 80s collection there. Considering that Hair Rock was quite big at the time (almost as big as the hair) I'm quite surprised.

    Not many songs that get me jumping with joy either :(

  • reality_cheque #28 5 years ago

    Only one band I'm really curious about now - which Freezepop song is on the bonus track list? :)

  • PierrePressure #29 5 years ago

    Yay for QOTSA - Shame it wasn't something like Song for the Dead, that would have given drummers a proper work out!

  • urban #30 5 years ago

    LAME 2000's songs truely shit. that isn't rock! thats INDIE. lame.

  • bigbadbeasty #31 5 years ago

    OMG! You guys are some grumpy bastards. The track list looks good, especially after the shocking choice of songs used in GH2

  • trooper6 #32 5 years ago

    I remember in interviews a while back, they were talking big about wanting to have the early rock'n'rollers in there. That they wanted to have the foundations of rock as well as the current stuff.

    And looks like someone nixed that idea. Which is too bad. I don't see any Elvis or Chuck Berry. The Rock'n'Roll Era (1954-1964) is completely unrepresented, and their coverage of the 60s (Birth of the Rock Era 64-71) is really sad with just one song.

    Ah well.

  • Mike1980 #33 5 years ago

    If songs like Cherry Pie and statements like "You Really Got Me made famous by Van Halen" didn't ruin GH2, then the dodgy songs on this won't ruin the game.

  • jdhaigh #34 5 years ago

    Shame there are'nt more 60's songs. Then again Gimme Shelter is an absolute classic.

  • PES_Fanboy #35 5 years ago

    Creep is going to fuck a lot of strum bars up.

  • FortysixterUK #36 5 years ago

    POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR GH3 in here.


    So far every guitar hero game has only had a handful of tracks that have appealed to me personally, and now rock band looks to be going the same way...£60.00 or £70.00 worth of game for around 10 tracks that really interest me.

    I think not little puppy.

    I've said it once, I'll say it again, release the track converter for 360 ( and PC ?) so you can make up your own sound track. It's the only way this type of game will ever really please everyone.

    The tracks you convert yourself should only work in single player mode.

    Money could then still be made from selling pre-convertetd albums at a reasonable price(£6.99 per album ) with all the multiplayer sections in them as WELL as the single player module.

    I simply won't buy the games as they stand. ( I've only bought GH1) .

    Rent them for a weekend, play them through, feel dissapointed at the track listing, feel pleased I didn't pay for them. This goes for GH2, Rock the 80s and GH3 .

    SPOILER ALERT DO NOT READ ON

    Incidentally, GH3 has the best game dynamic of them all by the way, truly refreshes the genre, but again, a fairly sucky list of tracks, but arguably the best selection since GH1 and even on medium the duel with the Devil is a bitch. But still not worth buying, fortunately, GH3 was lent to me on PS2 so have played thru all the way on medium, so I know of what I speak.

    To sum up, except GH1 all GH games very dissapointing due to track listing.

    Shutting up now.

  • covfan #37 5 years ago

    Would be nice to know the reason why we're having to wait potentially nearly 4 months after the US release for an EU release. Would be double nice if we found out whether the 360 version is region free or not.