Rock Band Downloadables

[Dioneo]

This two weeks worth of announcements:

Despite published reports, next week's DLC isn't actually the Pixies (that comes the week of June 24th). Instead we have two tracks from Avenged Sevenfold, a track from The Offspring, and a track from Crooked X.

Release date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)

Thursday, June 19, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)



Tracks:

“Afterlife” (Avenged Sevenfold)

“Critical Acclaim” (Avenged Sevenfold)

“Hammerhead” (The Offspring)

“Rock N Roll Dream” (Crooked X)



(All tracks utilize the original master recordings)



Price:
$1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track for the Avenged Sevenfold songs and The Offspring song.

Crooked X’s “Rock N Roll Dream will be $0.99 (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).

[Details for the Pixie's album release "Doolittle"]

Release date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)
Thursday, June 26, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)

Tracks:
“Crackity Jones”
“Dead”
“Debaser”
“Gouge Away”
“Here Comes Your Man”
“Hey”
“I Bleed”
“La la Love You”
“Monkey Gone To Heaven”
“Mr Grieves”
“No 13 Baby”
“Silver”
“Tame”
“There Goes My Gun”

(All tracks utilize the original master recordings)

Price:
$18.99 (1520 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the Album or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track.

[Dioneo]

Harmonix slipped this one past me!

In addition to Pixies "Doolittle" (click for the Pixies announcement), we are also offering a three pack from Weezer, straight off of their new album!

Weezer Pack 01:

Dreamin' (Master)
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Master)
Troublemaker (Master)

All three tracks will be available individually for $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points) or as a pack for $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points).

I wouldn't call myself a fan of Weezer. I loved their Blue album, but have cared little for the stuff they have released since then. However, the new "Red" album tracks remind me of "Blue" a lot. I was quite happy with the purchase, even though the difficulty level isn't very high.

[Drainc]

Happy Canada Day!

Tracks:
Crüefest Pack:
“Down At The Whisky” – Mötley Crüe
“Time Is Running Out” – Papa Roach
“Who’s Going Home With You Tonight” – Trapt

“Promised Land” - Vesuvius
(All tracks utilize the original master recordings)

Price:
Crüefest Pack:
$2.99 (240 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the entire collection of tracks or 99¢ (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

“Promised Land” – Free!

[Dioneo]

On the heels of the official annoucement of Rock Band 2, and assurances that all existing and future DLC will be compatible for both versions of the game (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/885/885168p1.html) comes news about The Who's DLC.

Whatever happened to Who's Next being the first full album DLC? Someone stole some of the master tapes!

http://kotaku.com/5014229/boo+hoos-for-the-who

Harmonix is trying to make it up to it's customers with a 12 song "best of" pack of original master recordings by The Who:

http://kotaku.com/5020682/massive-do...band-july-15th

It sounds like "Baba O'Reilly" can't be included. Can you really call it a "Best Of" whithout that track?

[prufrock]

IGN: Once RB2 is out, can you still download and play new tracks on RB1?

Teasdale: Absolutely! We've been working hard with Microsoft and Sony to develop a way to share content between games, and we're really happy that we'll be the first game to support fully functional cross-title DLC.

As far as Harmonix is concerned, there's no difference between "Rock Band 1 DLC" and "Rock Band 2 DLC" – we're just releasing awesome songs every week onto the Rock Band platform, all of which are playable by the Rock Band titles that support DLC.

Awesome news.

[prufrock]

Originally Posted by Dioneo

It sounds like "Baba O'Reilly" can't be included. Can you really call it a "Best Of" whithout that track?

From IGN.com

July 1, 2008 - Rock Band will get an infusion of classic rock 'n roll this month when a 12-song collection of tracks by The Who makes its way onto Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

The tracks, including three live recordings from the band's Live at Leeds album, were chosen by MTV Games and Harmonix in consultation with Who members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Here's the full list of songs:

"Amazing Journey"
"Baba O'Riley"
"Behind Blue Eyes"
"Eminence Front"
"Going Mobile"
"Leaving Here"
"My Generation" (Live at Leeds – Rock Band edit)
"Real Good Looking Boy"
"Sea & Sand"
"Summertime Blues" (Live at Leeds)
"Who Are You"
"Young Man Blues" (Live at Leeds)

What a great song list!

[Ham.Clan]

Outstanding!

[Drainc]

New content for July 8th:

Coming at you a day early with the announce as we are closing the office tomorrow and celebrating our independence from something or other (something about a tea party in there too). What do we have for you? How about two tracks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers? That not good enough for you? How about two songs by the one band most people seem to be able to agree upon, Rush? What if I told you they were both masters? Yes, one of the songs is "Working Man" which we have put out as a DLC cover a few months back. This version (the Vault Edition), however, is an alternate-take master from the same session they recorded the hit with an alternate solo. It has never been released. Some days it is really amazing to have this job. Seriously.

Release Date

Tuesday, July 8th (Xbox 360 Marketplace)

Thursday, July 10th (Playstation Store)



TRACKS

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby

Rush - Closer to the Heart

Rush - Working Man (Vault Edition) alternate-take master


All tracks are masters

PRICE:

All tracks are $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points).

[Dioneo]

Real Rush masters! W00t!

[Ham.Clan]

+1 on the W00t

[Dioneo]

Searching around for info about the new DLC, I found mention of a Game Informer "rumour" column that says Moving Pictures would be the next DLC album release.

That would be, to quote Cartman, freakin' sweet.

[prufrock]

Some of the songs for RB2 have surfaced. Here's my take.

Good Songs:
* "Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains
* "American Woman" - The Guess Who? (or Lenny Kravitz) [better NOT be Kravitz!]
* "White Wedding" - Billy Idol [awesome!]
* "Aqua Lung" - Jethro Tull
* "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett
* "One Step Closer" - Linkin Park
* "Peace Sells" - Megadeth
* "Testify" - Rage Against The Machine
* "Spoonman" - Soundgarden
* "Chop Suey" - System of a Down
* "Give It Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers [finally a good bass song!]
* "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
* "Ace of Spades" – Motorhead [awesome!]
* "Any Way You Want It" - Journey
* "Pinball Wizard" - The Who

Meh Songs:
* "We Got The Beat" - The Go Go
* "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
* "Hello There" - Cheap Trick
* "Kids in America" - Kim Wilde
* "Panic Attack" - Dream Theater (or Finger Eleven)

[Richard Travale]

Originally Posted by prufrock

Some of the songs for RB2 have surfaced. Here's my take.

Good Songs:
* "Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains
* "American Woman" - The Guess Who? (or Lenny Kravitz) [better NOT be Kravitz!]
* "White Wedding" - Billy Idol [awesome!]
* "Aqua Lung" - Jethro Tull
* "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett
* "One Step Closer" - Linkin Park
* "Peace Sells" - Megadeth
* "Testify" - Rage Against The Machine
* "Spoonman" - Soundgarden
* "Chop Suey" - System of a Down
* "Give It Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers [finally a good bass song!]
* "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
* "Ace of Spades" – Motorhead [awesome!]
* "Any Way You Want It" - Journey
* "Pinball Wizard" - The Who

Meh Songs:
* "We Got The Beat" - The Go Go
* "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
* "Hello There" - Cheap Trick
* "Kids in America" - Kim Wilde
* "Panic Attack" - Dream Theater (or Finger Eleven)

Does anybody know if these songs will be available as downloadable content for the original Rock Band? I would love a lot of these songs but don't really want to fork out $60 to get them.

[prufrock]

I am guessing no, as they are supposedly the set list songs. Any further DLC you could use, but I think you'll end up buying the disc to play these ones. That seems to be the way it is for these kinds of games.

[Richard Travale]

Ahh, I guess I'll be buying the game then.
Such a good sign to see more Foo Fighters...now if they would do a couple of Foo packs on DLC I would be very very happy.