24 of Guitar Hero 5‘s “85 songs by 83 artists” have been confirmed today. The initial set list includes hit tracks from the likes of Beck, Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Coldplay, Tom Petty, Wolfmother and more. Hit the jump to see some of the songs you’ll be rockin’ out to when the game ships September 1st for PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.
· Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
· Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
· Beck – “Gamma Ray”
· Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
· Blur – “Song 2”
· Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
· Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
· Coldplay – “In My Place”
· Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
· David Bowie – “Fame”
· Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (’99 Remix)”
· Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
· Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life (Live)”
· Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
· John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
· Kings Of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
· Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
· Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
· Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
· The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
· Thrice – “Deadbolt”
· Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
· Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
· Wolfmother – “Back Round”
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It is still amazing to me that it has taken this long to get Jeff Beck represented .. .and that he just got added to the R&R Hall of Fame. Here is someone who is one of the original ‘rock gods’ of the early 60’s, a true genre-bending innovator in rock and fusion, and the only one of his contemporaries who didn’t stop innovating and releasing creative material more than 20 years ago …
Oh – and a nice song list. 😀
I’m really not surprised it takes this long to get certain artists in these types of games. Licensing all these songs and artists is much harder than I think a lot of folks realize. Which is why even though I find DLC songs too pricey for me at $2 a pop, I can’t get mad at the publishers for charging that much because it’s a fair price based on what they have to do to license the songs for the game.