more Fleetwood Mac in "Rock Band"

[rezamatic]

Just announced that "Don't Stop" and "World Turning" will be available next Tuesday for download for "Rock Band".

Personally I think "Don't Stop" is a poor choice because it doesn't really seem the type of song that'd be a blast to play (repetitive drums, etc.) but it's a good party-song choice that everyone will know.

"World Turning"? Brilliant. They went with one that not everyone would know and the guitar part is going to be fun and challenging for those who play on expert. Could turn a lot of new people onto the band!

I'm still rooting for "The Chain", which seems to me would be the best song in the Mac catalog for the game, but this is good nonetheless!

http://www.rbdlc.com/news/?p=2715

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by rezamatic

"World Turning"? Brilliant. They went with one that not everyone would know and the guitar part is going to be fun and challenging for those who play on expert. Could turn a lot of new people onto the band!

I do applaud this choice, precisely because it's not an obvious one, like you said.

Michele

[nailatixela]

Cool - world turning is a great choice! It would be cool if you could get Mick's drum solo in there, huh?

[michelej1]

From Gamervision:http://www.gamervision.com/gamer/sar..._dlc_tom_petty

Next week, Rock Band gets another healthy dose of classic rock, with Tom Petty making his debut in the game. I'm actually glad that "Runnin' Down a Dream" will now remind me of another video game, because everytime I hear that song I'm reminded of driving around the streets of San Andreas. Joining Petty are Fleetwood Mac and Billy Idol, and for the kids, Jet. Interestingly, Rock Band Unplugged gets a double dose of the undead with The Zombies and White Zombie.

Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Aug. 25) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Aug. 27):

· Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”
· Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
· Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”
· Fleetwood Mac – “World Turning”
· Jet – “She’s a Genius”
· Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
· Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”

Additional tracks available for Wii (Aug. 25):

· Blind Melon - “No Rain”
· Blur - “There’s No Other Way”
· Dropkick Murphys - “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”
· Eve 6 - “Inside Out”
· Foo Fighters - “All My Life”
· Foo Fighters - “I’ll Stick Around”
· Foo Fighters - “Lonely as You”
· Kaiser Chiefs - “I Predict a Riot”
· Belly – “Feed the Tree”
· Ghost Hounds – “Wind Me Up”
· Godsmack – “I Stand Alone”
· Grateful Dead – “Cold Rain & Snow”
· Grateful Dead – “Doin’ That Rag”
· Grateful Dead – “Don’t Ease Me In”
· Grateful Dead &nd ash; “Fire on the Mountain”
· Grateful Dead – “Hell in a Bucket”
· Grateful Dead – “Uncle John’s Band”
· James Gang – “Funk #49”
· Mute Math – “Typical”
· Rob Zombie – “War Zero”
· Turbonegro – “Wasted Again”
· White Zombie – “Black Sunshine”
· White Zombie – “More Human Than Human”

Tracks available for Rock Band Unplugged (Aug. 27):

· The Zombies – “She’s Not There”
· White Zombie – “Black Sunshine”

[Enchanted_Stevi]

THATS AWESOME!! Too bad I have PS2 and cant download them =(

[WildHeart69]

Any word if they are up for Wii?

[rezamatic]

Originally Posted by WildHeart69

Any word if they are up for Wii?

Not yet, Wii is always a little behind. I'll post when they are.


"Don't Stop" is fun on vocals of course. Bass is bouncy and fun throughout the entire song. Guitar is alright - I forgot how little Lindsey actually plays in that song, just accents the piano parts. Drums, however, are boring and majorly repetitive, unfortunately. I'm not really happy they picked this song, "Chain" would have been SUCH a better choice. Although "Don't Stop" is great for parties I'm sure.

"World Turning" - INSANE on guitar. Very difficult yet fun - that riff is killer. Drums, again, are fairly repetitive and simple but you feel like you're really complimenting the song by playing. Bass part is a beast - you don't have anything to do for the first half of the song then it kicks up - there's a lot more going on there than I ever realized. And vocals are great too - emphasis on Christine's higher part during the 'world turning' harmonies.

The game's forums are riddled with requests for "The Chain" and "Dreams", so hopefully they'll work on getting those out sometime!

[Musicman408]

Anyone know how much money they make by having their songs in the game?

[michelej1]

The Independent UK, September 7, 2009

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...i-1782715.html

Tim Walker: 'In Guitar Hero, a virtual Kurt Cobain can appear on stage with Bon Jovi'

Where have Fleetwood Mac been all my life? Or, more precisely, where has the guitar solo at the end of "Go Your Own Way" been all my life?


Since I got my hands on a copy of Guitar Hero: World Tour, I must've tapped it out on my undersized plastic axe a good 100 times or so. I'm now sufficiently competent (on the "medium" difficulty mode, at least) to start perfecting some rock-star moves, such as the "Springsteen Air-Punch" or the "Wilko Johnson Machine Gun".

You might consider rocking out to Fleetwood Mac a guilty pleasure but, guilt-wise, it's nothing compared to one feature of Guitar Hero 5, which is due for release later this week. Like many an axeman before him (Slash, Billy Corgan, Ted Nugent, the list goes on ... ), Kurt Cobain's digital likeness has been incorporated into the gameplay, to render Nirvana's signature grunge anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which will doubtless become a treasured addition to the Guitar Hero playlist.

Cobain is not the first dead guy to be featured in the game. More than once have I taken up my faux instrument and picked through "Purple Haze" in time with Jimi Hendrix's re-animated form. Guitar Hero 5's biggest rival in the music game charts this autumn will be The Beatles: Rock Band, which features at least two late musicians in its line-up.

Will Rock Band, however, do John and George the disservice that Guitar Hero does Kurt? Thanks either to a designer with a decidedly sick sense of humour, or to an unintended quirk of the software, the Kurt avatar, once unlocked, can be used to sing or play along to other songs. Which is why YouTube has begun to fill up with clips of poor Kurt being forced to imitate Flavor Flav, or – worse – join Bon Jovi on stage for a performance of "You Give Love a Bad Name".

If, like me, you're not much of a gamer, you may imagine this all to be a bit of a niche concern, nothing to worry about in terms of maintaining Cobain's memory in the wider culture. But in 2007 Guitar Hero and Rock Band between them made £100m more than all conventional digital music sales from iTunes and its competitors combined. So successful is the genre that even traditionally technophobic acts such as The Beatles and Metallica have succumbed to the guitar game's charms and released their own versions.

The key to its popularity, I would suggest, is the desire of dads with disposable income to see their sons develop an appreciation of, say, Creedence Clearwater Revival. Watching his seven-year-old strum along to Santana is a source of unbounded joy to a man of a certain age. Thus the various editions of Guitar Hero and Rock Band have sold well over 35 million copies.

So Cobain's posthumous humiliation is no trifling matter. Grunge fans the world over will have to watch their fallen idol crotch-rocking with Richie Sambora. It's like forcing Willie Nelson to duet with Jessica Simpson, or Iggy Pop to advertise car insurance. The living are more than welcome to sell their souls to the man – or their likenesses to the games manufacturers – if they so wish. I'll be very glad to strum along to "Paperback Writer" while Paul McCartney counts the royalties. But is it fair to impose the same arrangement on the deceased? Cobain once wrote in a song that he'd "rather be dead than cool". Perhaps he finally got his wish.

***

One of the earliest virals I remember seeing, back in 2005 – or about three generations ago, in internet time – was the (unofficial) Volkswagen ad, "Suicide Bomber". A terrorist pulls up outside a crowded café in a VW Polo and detonates his bomb vest, yet the explosion is nothing but a muffled thump from inside the "small but tough" car. It spread like digital swine flu.

Perhaps this is what someone was thinking of when they created their unofficial commercial, "Tsunami", for the World Wildlife Fund. It begins with a digital re-enactment of the Twin Towers' destruction on 9/11, and goes on to show dozens of planes heading for Manhattan's skyscrapers, to illustrate the vast number of lives lost in the 2004 Asian tsunami. WWF has denied any responsibility for the video, but recently confessed its involvement (along with advertising agency DDB Brazil) in a press advertisement featuring the same scene. Viral ads like "Suicide Bomber" may appear to thrive on bad taste, but they require something other than edginess to succeed: wit. "Tsunami" was, in more ways than one, totally witless.

[michelej1]

There were some comments on this blog

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1353834.html
from players who tried World Turning. Asked if it was "a nightmare of no fun."

One guy commented:

It pretty much was, yeah. It was just a lot of weedling, no groove. Where's the good Mac, man?

The reply:

I know. For a great band, they have really picked some crappy songs for Rock Band from them.