The setlist for "Rock Band," the full band version of the "Guitar Hero" videogame, was announced today by MTV Games and Harmonix and it looks pretty fun, for the most part. Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," The Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation," New Pornographers' "Electric Version" and Hole's "Celebrity Skin" (above) should keep fans busy once the game is released on Nov. 20 for Xbox and PS3. Long Island Music Hall of Famers Mountain, who made the cut with the great "Mississippi Queen," and Blue Oyster Cult, with "Don't Fear the Reaper," will both surely get a nice bump in sales once "Rock Band"-ers discover them.
However, while there are plenty of songs that would have been great to play, did they have to pick OK Go's "Here It Goes Again" for the game? That song's pretty annoying, unless the game-makers are going to make players jump on synchronized treadmills while they play it. Maybe that's in the "Rock Band" deluxe edition.
Full list on the jump, along with a clip of what it looks like doing "Wave of Mutilation"
Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter"
1970s
Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”*
The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"
Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
Mountain "Mississippi Queen"*
The Police “Next to You”
David Bowie "Suffragette City"
Black Sabbath "Paranoid"*
Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"
The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"
Deep Purple "Highway Star"
KISS "Detroit Rock City"
Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides”*
Sweet “Ballroom Blitz”*
1980s
Rush "Tom Sawyer"*
Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead or Alive"
The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Faith No More "Epic"
Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills”*
1990s
Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly"
Metallica "Enter Sandman"
Nirvana "In Bloom"
Stone Temple Pilots "Vasoline"
Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock"
Radiohead "Creep"
Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
Hole "Celebrity Skin"
Garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid"
Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"
2000s
The Hives "Main Offender"
Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
The Strokes "Reptilia"
Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
OK Go "Here It Goes Again"
Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
The Killers “When You Were Young”
New Pornographers “Electric Version”
* Indicates a cover song, all others songs are original master recordings
Pixies, "Wave of Mutilation" (Rock Band version)