Somebody tell me if these bands are any good

Submitted by Joe Fourhman on July 24, 2009 – 1:10 am9 Comments

badband The coming of the Rock Band Network, aside from instigating all sorts of snorts about GHTunes, is still rather mysterious. The service will let bands (of any size, amateur to pro) upload their tracks directly to Harmonix to be note-charted and sold on the Rock Band Store.

While we may not know exactly how this audio voodoo will turn garage bands into DLC gold, we do have a growing list of indie bands who have vowed to sign up. The confirmed list has more details, but here’s the roster:

Alchemilla, Anarchy Club, The Cold Goodnight, Father Octopus, Freerider, Full-Source, Giant Target, The Holepunch Generation, Lead the Dead, The Main Drag, Matter in the Medium, Myriad Burial, Oliver Pride, Ploy of Oracle, Rose of Jericho, Sarah VonderHaar, Speck, Steve and Lindley Band, Terrorhorse, Verse Versus Chorus, Wounded Soul

The only one of those I’ve even come close to hearing before is Speck… because, guess what, they’re in Rock Band 2 with the peppy nerdlurve song “Conventional Lover.” Can anybody make some tentative recommendations based on the other confirmed bands?

If you have a band, start watching creators.rockband.com for info. Songs presented through the Rock Band Network will debut on the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band first (why?) but will come to the other consoles eventually.

Source: Rock Band forums
Pic Source (because I knew you’d wonder): Bad Band Photos

Tags: 360, guitar hero loses again, Music, rock band, rock band network

william745

2 things i have never herd of any of those bands and i hate all music games now to much freakin plastic. they ruined it i tell ya.
Harshy

Music games aren't for hardcore gamers anymore. They're for casuals. They buy this stuff like crazy.
As for the bands: who the heck are these people!?! And is that Little Joe playing a Les Paul in the picture? How cute!
Jordan_Snyder

I think there is a small group of Rock Band DLC-buyers that like to hunt for and experience new songs. The majority of buyers, myself included, only like to buy the songs we know. I have a feeling that the Rock Band Network isn't going to be as hot as they think, unless big name bands start uploading their songs.
JoeFourhman

Yep. Although I have run across a bare handful of indie songs that I like via Guitar Hero/Rock Band (read: the tracks from Shaimus, Speck), most of the “bonus” tracks are screamy, embarrassing garbage. (Heck, most of the on-disc playlist is screamy, embarrassing garbage.) At least with this Rock Band Network stuff, you'll be able to preview to see if you like them.

I hope that some established acts crawl up to use this, but I have a feeling they will not. After all, if you're a major enough act to have people want your songs in Rock Band, you probably have lawyers, publishers and copyright payoffs to worry about.

The biggest win for the RBN will be if popular college acts jump in… guys that are either just getting started, or have enough of a campus-to-campus following to make it a success. Imagine being a small band doing a college show and being to announce halfway into the set “You can buy this entire album on Rock Band!”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Sadowski/506807615 Tony Sadowski

Dude, bunch of crap.

I've been looking at the Guitar Hero 5 set list updates some other game site keeps posting…don't recognize or want to play a single song.

They may have officially run out of songs anyone would logically want to own in one of these games. If not in the first few iterations of these series, then certainly with the DLC stuff.

If there's an amazing, killer guitar-driven song that hasn't been included, I can't think of it.

Everyone has different tastes, of course, and I'm sure others will be able to name something. But, really…I got Frankenstein, Godzilla, Free Bird and a few others years ago. There's a whole disc of Metallica stuff, if I feel like blowing some cash on it.

The Beatles are coming soon.

Rock Band/Guitar Hero Sister Hazel is never happening.

So…what's really left to put on the set list for guys like me?

Not interested at all in any of those.

I liked discovering a new cool band or two when there were only one or two new bands in the song list, next to tons of songs by artists with songs I ALREADY LIKE. I'm jumping in blind on lists like these, and not about to do it for the money they're asking.
http://www.aeropause.com mclazyj

Hell-o???? Guitar Hero: GWAR has not been released, and until then, they have not reached all the killer guitar songs that are out there. MAGGOTS! RAINING MAGGOTS?
JoeFourhman

What's to stop Sister Hazel from submitting their stuff to RBN?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Sadowski/506807615 Tony Sadowski

Nothing at all. And I welcome them doing so.

But I'm still sticking with GH or RB having a tough time selling me on a new version of their game with lists of stuff I don't care about.

I'm not like you people. I can't invest in something like that for the possibility of downloadable content that I might enjoy showing up at some point.

The Beatles, like I said, is tempting. I still don't have my debit card at the ready, though.

Wii-only gamers, you know. We don't buy third party stuff very often.
Harshy

So there's an updated list of Guitar Hero 5 songs. This is by FAR the best list of songs they have added. As for me: yeah, it might be enough to have me crawling back to Guitar Hero (since 4 sucked, but Metallica is great).

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php…