EDITORIAL: Guitar Hero Song Pack Suggestions
- Scribbled on April 14th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Editorial Content, Microsoft Xbox 360, Music/Rhythm, Xbox Live Marketplace
No, this isn’t going to be an article complaining about the 500 Microsoft Points ($6.25) price point of the current new song packs available on Marketplace (though it seems to go against the early claim of being competitive with iTunes - read as: roughly $1 per song.)
Rather, this will be a suggestion box for the publisher on song packs, using the 3 songs per pack system that’s in place. There were certain qualifications to these picks. The biggest two were that they had a significant guitar presence (why play a song you only strum a few notes of?) and they had to be fairly upbeat and fun. The other qualification had to be they were also fairly cheap to acquire the rights to as well. Let us know what songs you want to play on your guitar.
They Might Be Giants Pack 1
Boss of Me
Don’t, Let’s Start
Purple Toupee
Talking Heads Pack 1
Wild Wild Life
Life During Wartime
Psycho Killer
Soundtrack City Pack 1
Accidentally in Love, Counting Crows (from “Shrek 2”)
Slip Into the Crowd, 39 Steps (from “Hannah and Her Sisters”)
Legacy, Gone Jackals (from “Full Throttle”)
David Bowie Pack 1
Fame
Suffragette City
Rebel Rebel
Weekend Party Pack
Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers
Jukebox (Don’t Put Another Dime), The Flirts
Locomotion, Carole King
Eighties Pack 1
I Ran (So Far Away), Flock of Seagulls
Two Tribes, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Cum On Feel the Noize, Quiet Riot
They Might Be Giants Pack 2
Ana Ng
They’ll Need a Crane
We’re the Replacements
Eighties Pack 2
Dancing With Myself, Billy Idol
Hold On Loosely, .38 Special
The Salt In My Tears, Martin Briley
Soundtrack City Pack 2
Time Warp, Richard O’Brien (from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”)
Seeds of Life, Jan Hammer with Chris Thompson (from “Beyond the Mind’s Eye”)
Rockin’ the Suburbs, Ben Folds (from “Over the Hedge”)
Talking Heads Pack 2
Once in a Lifetime
Burning Down the House
Love for Sale
Eighties Pack 3
Der Kommissar, After the Fire
Stroke, Billy Squier
Ah! Leah!, Donnie Iris
Queen Pack 1
Seven Seas of Rhye
Hammer to Fall
Princes of the Universe
Eighties Pack 4
We’re Not Gonna Take It, Twisted Sister
Owner of a Lonely Heart, YES
99 Luftballons, Nena
Soundtrack City Part 3
Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr. (from “Ghostbusters”)
The Power of Love, Huey Lewis & the News (from “Back to the Future”)
The Hero, Queen (from “Flash Gordon”)
Miscellaneous Pack
Tubular Bells (Part One Excerpt), Mike Oldfield
Waterloo, ABBA
Weird Science, Oingo Boingo
David Bowie Pack 2
Space Oddity
“Heroes”
China Girl
Cat Stevens Acoustic Pack
Wild World
The First Cut is the Deepest
Peace Train
Eighties Pack 5
Jessie’s Girl, Rick Springfield
Rock You Like a Hurricane, Scorpions
Twilight Zone, Golden Earring
Billy Joel Pack
You May Be Right
Sometimes a Fantasy
Pressure
Acoustic Axes Pack
Venus, Shocking Blue
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
Thank You (Falattinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Sly & the Family Stone
Eighties Pack 6
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears for Fears
Mr. Roboto, Styx
867-5309/Jenny, Tommy Tutone
April 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Just give me some Zeppelin and Metallica and I’ll be fine…Some good suggestions in there though. It seems kind of random with the way they packed the last group together. They should try to stick to some kind of theme.
April 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I’m trying to be a little off the beaten path here.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Bowie China Girl? jeez
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
i think there needs to be some bullet for my valentine, another avenged sevenfold song, and some metalica. any other rock that people actually listen to not that gay crap like some of those songs on the game and up for download.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
i agree most of the songs on GH2 360 are not the best songs ever but alot of them are very fun to play even tho i dont like the songs them selves the game play for them is splended
there are some good songs on your list but even the ones there that i dont like i can picture the game play and id be happy with that
lamb of god was a good addition to the game i think they should add more real metal like goat whore
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Damage Inc By Metallica and Tracks 1 & 2 on the John 5 cd entitled ” Songs for Insanity ” Fly away bu Lenny Kravitz & American Woman
May 10th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
[...] With such artists as Ratt and Flock of Seagulls can the song-list possibly be bad? A few songs they’ve let out thus far (including one song suggested here in an editorial): [...]
May 25th, 2007 at 9:59 am
put some respected, but not overplayed, classic rock songs and then some more songs written by tom morello
May 25th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Slip into the Crowd by 39 Steps is an amazing idea! I love that song, it’s the one you see them they do in Woody Allen’s Hannah and her Sisters. How about something from the MC5? How about Shakin’ Street?
October 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I think the song “Life in the Fastlane” by: The Eagles should appear in guitar hero
November 6th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I think Forest King by 3 Inches Of Blood should be in it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I think they need more Meat Loaf and Charlie Daniels. Most definately Bat Out Of Hell, which is the best song ever. That would be awesome to play on Guitar Hero
July 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
A Def Leppard disc and a Queensryche disc (especially Operation Mindcrime) would be cool. Other than that, any popular 80’s metal hair band songs.