# Artists you really, REALLY want to to see on Rock Band (I or II) or the Guitar Hero s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997 "2008-11-10T05:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/1 "2008-11-10T05:17:08Z")
FOrgive me if some of this gets unlocked later in the game… where I’m at now it’s not there so I’ve been assuming that it won’t be. I’d love some pink Floyd in there. What about Weird Al? How fun would THAT be?? Screaming Blue Messiahs “55 the Law” would be so cool. Cyndi Lauper could contribute a lot. Til Tuesday would be good. More Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, whoever that Samantha (?) Fox chick that was who was blonde and hot and we liked her music even if we can’t remember it. Violent Femmes would be great. Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson… some of Sting’s stuff like Desert Rose… More R.E.M., way more Scorpions, and how about some classic Linda Ronstadt? Sinead O’Connor had several songs that would fit the format well, I think. For hilarious punk stuff there’s bands like The Toy Dolls that would be so much fun. I think they’d fit well with todays video game playing audience… What about this as a venue for emerging artists? American Idol could team up–we could have David Cook doing Billie Jean on there–how fun would that be? They’ve got one Jethro Tull song–does that mean more to come? They have an amazing catalog. Depeche Mode? How about Duran Duran’s “Come Undone”? How cool would that be? So what are your wish list items? (Oh and I’m hoping they can get Trogdor! from Guitar Hero over to Rock Band since we almost never play GH anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/2 "2008-11-10T05:27:00Z")
Acid Mothers Temple. I obviously don’t play GH or RB myself; I really just want to see the people who would try to play AMT crash & burn. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/3 "2008-11-10T05:45:38Z")
The Doors. I would be Jim on sooooo many levels. “At first flash of eden, we race down to the sea. Standing there on freedoms shore. Waiting for the sun.” I would also like The Animals: "My mother was a tailor She sewed my new bluejeans My father was a gamblin’ man Down in New Orleans " ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/4 "2008-11-10T14:58:00Z")
Since I’ve been getting back into my old Dixie Dregs CDs lately, I’d suggest them. Not that anyone would ever be able to play their stuff, but at least it would be fun to watch. Also, _The Bothy Band_, and _Earth, Wind, and Fire_, and _Planxty_. RR ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/5 "2008-11-10T15:01:40Z")
More Skynyrd. Stevie Ray Vaughan. But they’re going to release the entire _Texas Flood_ album before year’s end. Whoo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/6 "2008-11-10T15:16:10Z")
They need some Yes on there (especially Roundabout) and I’d kill for Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull, but if they did the whole thing my arm would fall off. ---
**Author:** ![JackofHearts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@JackofHearts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackofHearts)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/7 "2008-11-10T19:32:40Z")
More Billy Idol. White Wedding on RB2 and Rebel Yell on GH4 are both awesome and tons of fun…I would love to see a nice collection, especially including the old Generation X stuff. Ready Steady Go or Kiss Me Deadly are made for this game. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/8 "2008-11-10T20:09:54Z")
I always hoped they would start doing genre Guitar Hero disks. So I could buy a country version of it, for example. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/9 "2008-11-10T20:21:54Z")
We like playing a game at our house called “make horrible suggestions for Rock Band songs”… it’s not like an officially organized game or anything, just that if something is playing that totally wouldn’t work on Rock Band (or if we just happen to think of one), we’ll say “hey, they should totally put that on Rock Band!” You know, songs that are nothing but piano and voice, or for whatever other reason just would not work. It can be entertaining. Like the Rufus Wainwright version of “Hallelujah”… or for that matter, Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus”. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/10 "2008-11-10T20:35:22Z")
> [@villa](#): > > I always hoped they would start doing genre Guitar Hero disks. So I could buy a country version of it, for example. Actually I’d like to see them open the source the code for making songs in the GH/RB formats so that bands can release GH/RB versions of their albums, widening the consumer base for their product. This could either help defeat piracy if you include the game disc in the packaging with the CD so people are forced to buy the physical copy or this could give bands a great angle in negotiating contracts with record companies and helping them collect additional publishing monies if they elected to do it as a download only thing. These games could be a huge boon to both the record companies and the bands. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/11 "2008-11-10T20:52:00Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > …Laurie Anderson… People would return it, thinking the drum track from _Sweaters_ was actually from a different song. How 'bout some Shonen Knife? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/12 "2008-11-10T20:58:10Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > You know, songs that are nothing but piano and voice, or for whatever other reason just would not work. I for one appreciate the fact that they used lots of material from Panic(still with the !) at the Disco’s _Fever You Con’t Sweat Out_ album, featuring tightly-arranged upbeat pop-punk songs, rather than their (bangless) followup Pretty. Odd. Which featured less upbeat-paced songs with lots of non-rock band instrumentation (even periods at the ends of certain songs that IF they were in Rock Band would totally make you bored for about a minute.) Cause, it totally wouldn’t work if they did that…wait :smack: ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/13 "2008-11-10T21:10:14Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Actually I’d like to see them open the source the code for making songs in the GH/RB formats so that bands can release GH/RB versions of their albums, widening the consumer base for their product. That probably would have been my answer if I had the first idea how computers worked (other than little pixies running around inside once I pressed the on button) and therefore knew what this mystical “source code” was. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/14 "2008-11-10T21:14:09Z")
As far as I can tell there has not been a single Led Zeppelin song for either series, even in downloadable content. I’m not a big Led Zep fan, but they should really be there. Whoever’s holding that up (and I’d bet that it’s Robert Plant pulling some kind of suck attack over money) needs to get over themselves. Looking over the song lists for both series it’s kind of surprising how few major artists haven’t made an appearance. Hell, there’s even a Michael Jackson song on GH:WT (which amuses me as **tygre** guessed that that there would never, ever be one because of song rights). Right around the time I was thinking, “It’s strange that there aren’t any Beatles songs on Rock Band,” Harmonix goes and announces an entire Rock Band Beatles game. Anybody I’d suggest would be welcomed with open arms by about me and three other people–well, maybe a bunch of people in Canada would like to see a few songs by Sloan in there. But I’d like to see a couple of songs by The Flaming Lips, too, just to mess with Wayne Coyne’s head a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/15 "2008-11-10T21:27:53Z")
> [@villa](#): > > That probably would have been my answer if I had the first idea how computers worked (other than little pixies running around inside once I pressed the on button) and therefore knew what this mystical “source code” was. Basically the software and programming that make the stuff look and work like GH/RB. It can’t be that hard, as there are tons of pirate songs out there that were done by smart teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/16 "2008-11-10T22:07:38Z")
I was actually a huge Aerosmith fan, but won’t buy that GH until I know my Rock Band 1 controllers will work with it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/17 "2008-11-10T22:11:53Z")
Zappa. I want some Zappa. An all-blues version would be cool too. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-really-really-want-to-to-see-on-rock-band-i-or-ii-or-the-guitar-hero-s/471997/18 "2008-11-10T22:22:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > People would return it, thinking the drum track from _Sweaters_ was actually from a different song. She actually has a fair number of songs that I think would work well. Not all of them, obviously. O, Superman would not be a Rock Band candidate…