Rock Band Weekly: Coheed and Cambria, Rush and Smashing Pumpkins

A cover of a Coheed song... Why? I love Coheed, but why would they use a cover version of a song from a band that they already have another song from?

How nostalgic and thankfully un-"Zwan"(or however it's spelled).

I'm trying desperately to not want rock band. It's not working.

lol

Maybe is because of my age, but every time I see Billy Corgan with hair I giggle like a school girl.

I'm just wanting Harmonix to release the 200-piece Neil Peart drumset from the Working Man video above.

As much as I like the DLC (and definitely don't want them to stop putting it out), I wish most of the new songs weren't covers. With every cover I download, I feel like I'm somehow diminishing the overall quality of Rock Band's soundtrack (which, before DLC, is like 95% master tracks).

I'm more impressed that you found a picture of a rock band... smiling! I thought it was illegal for a rock band to smile in any photos.

Hmm...another week where they stick to bands that are already in the game. I guess thats cool. Still holding my breath for some Jimi Hendix though. Sigh...

Sadly, the Rush song is from their debut album, which was without godly drummer Neil Peart, so there should be easier drums than normal.

My wife brought up a good point last night while we were browsing the DLC; there's very little 'chick band' content in the game (think there's one Garbage, and one Hole song).

Which, while it's not disatrous, she brought up a good point; if we have a Rock Band party, the most likely person to pick up a mic and sing will be one of my buddies non-gamer wives. They'd be much more all about getting into it if they're not signing Metallica or Rush.

Thankfully, my wife is all about monopolizing the guitar, I just have to convince her to move up from Easy...

I GUESS WHAT'S WHY THEY CALL MEEE, THEY CALL ME THA WORKIN MAN! they call me the workin man, I guess that's what I am...

Holy crap I thought they would never put my favorite song of all time into the game. I hope it's not as bad as everybody's complaining about.

Loved my decision to buy Rock Band over Guitar Hero every week.

"This week the Rock Band downloadable content brings us the song Siva, which hails from way back when The Smashing Pumpkins actually looked like this."

...and when they were all still, how do you say...alive.

I've seen all three of these bands live and all three are amazing(if you dig their style.) Working man live is an experience you can not live without. I saw Coheed live not to long ago and they're new drummer from the band "Dilinger Escape plan" is brilliant. Any songs off their new album would be pretty challenging. I'm so glad I got Rock band.

Does anyone know what next weeks lineup is? I too like the fact that every week there is a new song to look forword to!!

no new Smashing Pumpkin songs for GH3? this makes me sad

Actually, that's not what Smashing Pumpkins looked like when Siva came out. That's a Siamese Dream era picture and Siva was on the album before it. Billy and James both had long hair and Jimmy had reddish brown hair.

Next week's lineup:

She Sells Sanctuary, The Cult

Reverence, Jesus & Mary Chain

Crystal, New Order

... in my dreams :/

Covers = poop

Every contemporary song recorded in a studio has a (multitrack) "master recording" unless it was recorded live to 2-track, which is not really done anymore.

The reason there are covers is due to money and/or approval. Sometimes the publishing rights are owned by someone else, etc... it's complicated.

But I will never pay for cover DLC. The focus on original recordings is what drew me to Rockband in the first place.

Am I the only one who groans at the release of yet another Rush song? The Rock Band DLC needs to grow up and move out of its mother's basement in the suburbs.

I love the downloadable content surprise every monday. I really dont have a big opinion against covers since most of them are pretty listenable. If you think about it as a whole have you ever listened to a karaoke cd. nightmarish music and vocals. After looking at one of them versus the quality covers it's not even close to how bad it could be. I dont know if I will be downloading this pack as I love SP but don't care to sing, play, or hear this one. The Coheed song might as well be some forgettable 80's track, I do like some of there stuff. I think i'll snag the Rush song. The glory of it is someone will love the fact that they did release these tracks. Man its awesome to have choices, I've purchased so much DLC for this game.

Down side is, my strum bar(going downward) died pretty early the star power doesnt work unless you murder it and the little switch for echo can slit your wrist if your not careful.
Be careful with your drums also, they dont work too well cause when you hit them they actually break. I have put mine to some use, not extreme use but some fun times, I dont think I can get crap in a row due to some misfire, last week the drums on each side started to rock then finally broke. I ended up using drumstick as support. I think thats a major design flaw to not have a metal brace. I wont buy any more until I see a variation of that. I ended up putting long screws in angled directions to hold it in place but seriously weak stuff so be careful.

btw Dramarama - Anything, Anything would be a hoot.

as well as below:

V.A.S.T - Touched ( monk chants and all)
The Cult - Firewoman(smoke gets..)
Metallica - Stone cold crazy(queen cover)
The Offspring - Have you ever?
ATDI - one arm scissor(in my dreams also)
Portugal the man - everything they have!

That rush song is gonna be awesome

Man when i heard there would be a DLC Coheed song i was so pumped, but a cover? really? No on can capture Claudio's voice, at least not well enough that you wouldnt notice the difference, and on the subject of that, why TEN SPEED? Its a good song, but MOTHER MAY I and FINAL CUT would be better, or IN KEEPING SECRETS OF SILENT EARTH would really rock.

FAVOR HOUSE ATLANTIC ftw though