Rock Band Deficiencies

Posted by pookzilla on December 30, 2008

Rock Band. It is good. It could be better, however. For starters, the following:

• Queen. Any Queen will do. Lots of Queen would be better
• Flathead by the Fratellis
• the entirety of the Silversun Pickups album Carnavas
• Grinderman or some crunchier Nick Cave
• pre-Purge Bif Naked
• Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murpheys
• a best-of Talking Heads album
• Peruvian Skies by Dream Theatre – the drums in this are so fantastic
• The New Pornographers, particularly something with Neko on vocals. All For Swinging You Around comes to mind

I wonder if it wouldn’t be better if they could provide some tool that would allow artists to provide their own tracks. Really open the store up for any artist to participate, perhaps with some fee for vetting and classifying the track. This game has a lot of life in it – a lot more than the original Guitar Hero held for me at any rate – but I’m finding the selection of music a bit disappointing. As the difficulty increases the songs that are unlocked increasingly move towards the screaming metal affair which I just don’t have any use for.