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Band Hero Track Lists Revealed

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Posted October 20, 2009 - By Jake Gaskill

 

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Activision has released the track lists for the console and Nintendo DS versions of its upcoming family-centric music game, Band Hero, and they includes quite a variety of genres and sounds (But not nearly enough Taylor Swift if you ask me. Just three songs?! Come on Activision. Don’t skimp on the Swift!) And while the majority of the tracks are clearly designed to make the game more family-friendly, there are quite a few solid songs on the list from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, and Pat Benatar. Since I don’t know enough about the game at this point to say if it’s going to be a quality title or if it’s just Activision’s attempt to further milk the music game genre for all it's worth. So for now, track lists will have to do:
  • 3 Doors Down – “When I'm Gone”
  • The Airborne Toxic Event – “Gasoline”
  • The All American Rejects – “Dirty Little Secret”
  • Alphabeat – “Fascination”
  • Aly and AJ – “Like Whoa”
  • Angels & Airwaves – “The Adventure”
  • Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – “Steal My Kisses”
  • Big Country – “In a Big Country”
  • The Bravery – “Believe”
  • Carl Douglas – “Kung Fu Fighting”
  • Cheap Trick – “I Want You to Want Me (live)”

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  • Cold War Kids – “Hang Me Up to Dry”
  • Corinne Bailey Rae – “Put Your Records On”
  • Counting Crows – “Angels of the Silences”
  • Culture Club – “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”
  • Dashboard Confessional – “Hands Down”
  • David Bowie – “Let's Dance”
  • Devo – “Whip It”
  • Don McLean – “American Pie”
  • Duffy – “Warwick Avenue”
  • Duran Duran – “Rio”
  • Evanescence – “Bring Me to Life”
  • Everclear – “Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)”
  • Fall Out Boy – “Sugar, We're Goin' Down”
  • Filter – “Take a Picture”
  • Finger Eleven – “Paralyzer”
  • The Go-Go's – “Our Lips Are Sealed”
  • Hilary Duff – “So Yesterday”
  • Hinder – “Lips Of An Angel”
  • Jackson 5 – “ABC”
  • Janet Jackson – “Black Cat”
  • Jesse McCartney – “Beautiful Soul”
  • Joan Jett – “Bad Reputation”
  • Joss Stone – “You Had Me”
  • Katrina and The Waves – “Walking on Sunshine”
  • The Kooks – “Naïve”
  •  KT Tunstall – “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
  • The Last Goodnight – “Pictures of You”
  • Lily Allen – “Take What You Take”
  • Maroon 5 – “She Will Be Loved”
  • Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
  • Nelly Furtado – “Turn Off the Light”
  • N.E.R.D. – “Rockstar”
  • No Doubt – “Just a Girl”
  • No Doubt – “Don't Speak”
  • OK Go – “A Million Ways”
  • Papa Roach – “Lifeline”
  • Parachute – “Back Again”
  • Pat Benatar – “Love Is a Battlefield”
  • Poison – “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
  • Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue – “Kids”
  • The Rolling Stones – “Honky Tonk Women”
  • Roy Orbison – “Oh Pretty Woman”
  • Santigold – “L.E.S. Artistes”
  • Snow Patrol – “Take Back the City”
  • Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
  • Styx – “Mr. Roboto”
  • Taylor Swift – “Love Story”
  • Taylor Swift – “Picture to Burn”
  • Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
  • Tonic – “If You Could Only See”
  • The Turtles – “Happy Together”
  • Village People – “YMCA”
  • Yellowcard – “Ocean Avenue”

Nintendo DS:

  • The All-American Rejects – “Believe”
  • Avril Lavigne – ”Girlfriend”
  • Black Eyed Peas – “Let's Get It Started”
  • Blink-182 – ”First Date”
  • Boys Like Girls – “The Great Escape”
  • Duran Duran – “Hungry Like the Wolf”
  • Eagles of Death Metal – “Wannabe in L.A.”
  • Evanescence – “Call Me When You're Sober”
  • Fall Out Boy – “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs”
  • Foo Fighters – “Monkey Wrench”
  • Kaiser Chiefs – “I Predict a Riot”
  • The Killers – “Spaceman”
  • Kings of Leon – “Manhattan”
  • KT Tunstall – “Suddenly I See”
  • Lacuna Coil – “Our Truth”
  • No Doubt – “Excuse Me Mr.”
  • Pink – “So What”
  • The Presidents of the United States of America – “Lump”
  • The Pretenders – “Boots of Chinese Plastic”
  • Queen – “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
  • Queens of the Stone Age – “No One Knows”
  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – “You Better Pray”
  • The Rolling Stones – “Under My Thumb (live)”
  • Spin Doctors – “Two Princes”
  • Sublime – “All You Need”
  • Sum 41 – “In Too Deep”
  • Ugly Kid Joe – “Everything About You”
  • Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
  • The Vines – “Get Free”
  • Weezer – “Troublemaker”

What do you think of the track lists? What, if anything, do you think Band Hero brings to the table that other music games don't?

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  • poker909

    lame. no metal.

    Posted: October 26, 2009 9:11 AM
    poker909
  • pipspoolcleaning3

    WTF? I thought this was a joke at first. I wasn't going to jump on the Activision-is-destroying-music -games bandwagon, in fact I was going to try and stay as far from it as possible but now I have no choice. May Activision and all of its glorious greed be struck down by the gods of music. I will be speechless if I find out anyone I know actually buys this garbage. Note to Activision: You can't just take the same exact game and call it something different to try and make some extra sales. If you had gone the more legit way and called it, Guitar Hero: Family Edition or something like that, I wouldn't have been able to complain as much. But in all seriousness, the new Guitar Hero just came out. IT JUST CAME OUT! You guys do know that DLC exists right? Hell even if you just made a track pack on disc like Rock Band does from time to time at half the cost, I could see it being done but this is just sad. An obvious lunge towards unsuspecting consumers wallets. How shameful. God I hope COD gets bought by another publisher, because if that happened I could happily say, "Go screw yourself," as I would no longer be playing games from that company. Ugh.

    Posted: October 22, 2009 12:05 AM
    pipspoolcleaning3
  • lookatthisguy

    I'm holding out for the Middle Eastern version, presumably named "Qatar Hero." The chance to play an oud? Can't wait!!

    Posted: October 20, 2009 5:17 PM
    lookatthisguy
  • jalapenowonmil

    BAND HERO=SUPER MEGA UBER EPIC FAIL.

    So did activisions last meeting go something like, "hey let's make a game that obviously shows we're selling out all of our original fans by using songs everyone knows and have heard plenty of times so at least when we make our next game or more DLC they'll be totally ready to kick aside these terrible tunes."

    ACTIVISION=EPIC FAIL

    Posted: October 20, 2009 1:38 PM
    jalapenowonmil
  • hybrid_theory

    ugh theres like four songs i want. now im gonna end up probably picking up this in addition to getting lego rock band to import those songs into rb2. maybe sell that one off to a friend of mine if he wants it.

    Posted: October 20, 2009 12:55 PM
    hybrid_theory
  • asudevil2

    Fall Out Boy=EPIC FAIL

    Posted: October 20, 2009 12:47 PM
    asudevil2
  • squarewannabe

    Wow Band Hero has a better soundtrack than Guitar Hero 5. Thats funny.

    I would rather get Lego Rock Band where I can transfer my songs over and continue to grow my massive library :)

    Posted: October 20, 2009 12:32 PM
    squarewannabe
  • CALiiGeDDon

    this game is just like guitar hero but with kids more in mind. i know some people who like this style of music but i prefer to play rock band 2 with all of my songs :P

    Posted: October 20, 2009 12:26 PM
    CALiiGeDDon
  • lycan137

    @ sterling, you are correct.

    but really, this playlist makes me want to gag. I feel sorry for the masses who buy this game and dull their music senses. I think I saw a total of five ish good songs total on that list

    Posted: October 20, 2009 12:15 PM
    lycan137
  • G4Sterling

    For those wondering why this (and Lego Rock Band) exist, there's a simple answer:

    They're family games. They're not made for those of us who want to rock (and be saluted).

    Posted: October 20, 2009 11:48 AM
    G4Sterling
  • Socalmic47

    Explain it to me. Isn't this just Guitar Hero 6? It has the same features of GH5 and GHWT with an equally weak playlist. Why is this suppose to be so special that Activision thinks gamers should $60 for it?

    Posted: October 20, 2009 11:33 AM
    Socalmic47
  • badgarok725

    i don't get the point of this game when Guitar Hero V just came out. Is there anything new in this game?

    Posted: October 20, 2009 11:30 AM
    badgarok725
  • SpillTheBlood

    Why don't they do a full-on, metal-only game? Like Guitar Hero: Metallica metal with less Metallica. I want a game loaded with good songs by Behemoth, Lamb of God, Carcass, Machine Head, Alice in Chains, Amon Amarth...stuff like that. They put out a game full of pop-rock and junk, so why can't the appease the metal community with a game oriented towards good metal and bands?

    Posted: October 20, 2009 11:09 AM
    SpillTheBlood
  • SmarterThanYou

    Way to try to be something you're not, Band Hero (aka Huitar Hero with drums). I'll stick with Rock Band.

    Posted: October 20, 2009 11:05 AM
    SmarterThanYou
  • LarcenousLaugh

    So it's a POP Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Interesting.

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:13 AM
    LarcenousLaugh
  • BONERJAM

    Thats a pretty weak list, there is maybe 3 songs on there I like and haven't already been used in another game.

    How does BAND Hero make any sense? Doesn't hero refer to one person not more than one? A band is a group of people, right? I fail to see how you could have a BAND Hero unless its refering to just one person in that band. Name Fail!

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:10 AM
    BONERJAM
  • saxybeast418

    Why does Band Hero get American Pie???

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:04 AM
    saxybeast418
  • Lalo666

    BAND HERO SUCKS!!!!

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:04 AM
    Lalo666
  • MrKrinklez

    Personally I doubt this game will be nearly as entertaining as any other Rock Band/GH game.

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:02 AM
    MrKrinklez
  • mengplex

    I recognise more rock songs in band hero than i do in Guitar hero 5 or World Tour.

    (also. Papa Roach - Lifeline?! YAAASSSSS)

    Posted: October 20, 2009 10:02 AM
    mengplex

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