Rock Band gets Clash, Police and Ramones DLC

by Dustin Burg on Feb 11th 2008 1:15PM

Fresh from the official Rock Band forums comes this week's Rock Band DLC announcement and again we're treated to three master recordings. Available tomorrow for 160 Microsoft points each or bundled together as a three pack for 440 Microsoft points is "Complete Control" by Clash, "Truth Hits Everybody" by The Police and "Teenage Lobotomy" by The Ramones. We also conveniently embedded YouTube videos of each song after the break for your listening pleasure and to let you know we care about you. Because it's true. We care about our fanboys and our Rock Band DLC too. Group hug.

"Complete Control" by Clash

"Truth Hits Everybody" by The Police

"Teenage Lobotomy" by The Ramones

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Tags: ea, harmonix, mtv-games, rock-band, xblm

Reader Comments (34)

poo...

Wow... It looks like the gravy train is starting to run dry. Nothing I'm interested in for the third straight week.

This does not bode well for me...

So instead of getting Bands we need in rock band or more songs of band already in the game that need more songs we get more clash and police..how many songs is that for the police? 5?

LOL at they've "run dry" already. These were probably album bundles that they opted to portion out in bite-sized pieces...if you think they are actually "out of tracks," you're nuts.

LOBOTOMY!

LOBOTOMY!

LOBOTOMY!

LOBOTOMY!

Egads, the Ramones are some of the worst crap ever. Every song has the same beat, same riffs, same shit. And it ALL sounds horrible.

Won't be picking up any of these.

you obviously don't like punk rock then

My god... another week. another bunch of craps... cmon Harmonix! Release some good DLC already!

I've refrained from my protests for the past few Rock Band posts but this is ridiculous. How long will it take before we can get one song by one band with at least one African American member? My dreams of playing James Brown and P-Funk songs on my Xbox have already been deferred. Now I'm just asking for a little tokenism. Please. What's it gonna take, Harmonix? White people didn't invent Rock and Roll. They shouldn't have an exclusive monopoly on the music in the game "Rock Band". It's insulting and presents a revisionist history of rock music.

to be fair, the game isn't called Harmonix presents: a History of Rock. they're just trying to pick songs they think will be popular.
but yeah some james brown or even some lenny kravitz would be a nice break. i want some musical diversity!

sigh, here we go again... but, just to add and fuel to the fire, let's see some Living Colour, Sevendust, Fishbone, Killswitch Engage, or in a showing of racial and genre bending harmony... Anthrax and Public Enemy doing "Bring tha Noise".

with that said... the rolling stones touring bassist is black if it makes you feel any better.

"Rock Band" is about as definitive a "rock and roll game" as you're going to get. I know it's not an educational game but it does present a version of rocking and rolling which is severely and inexplicably white-washed. It would be like if Forza Motorsport didn't have any German cars. Germans would be rightfully pissed. They invented the internal combustion engine, they should be in a game called "Motorsport". And they are. The fact that Harmonix just left black people and black music out of their game is a glaring hole and it'd be awesome if they'd just fix it so I can stop whining about it. One song. One band. One member. That's all I ask.

le crap..... some journey please.....

Personal taste, man. I'll buy this 3-pack, no question. My wife will love it too.

Journey? Don't make me laugh. I think it's such tripe. Doesn't mean I don't want them to release it, though, so that people such as yourself can enjoy it and the game some more.

Come on guys, they can't release gold EVERY week, its just not possible.. And it seems some are already spoiled from the constant DLC. When you get down about it just remember "Hey at least they're still bringing out DLC every week for a cheap price and the ability to choose 1 or all songs. Things are good"

true... so far rock band has been THE game to beat for constant dlc....

i loves my rock band....

Correction - they can't release gold IN EVERYONE'S OPINION every week. I'll bet you that every song they've released, someone somewhere with the game has said "THANK GOD! This song ROCKS!"

@ Viridium

Well that's what I meant basically. Somethings better than nothing though, I'm just glad they're still releasing stuff every week.

Yawn. Pass.

My predictions for next week: more Rush, Coheed and Cambria, and another Ramones song!! YAY! (not!)

Come on! Where's the Jimmie Hendrix? More of the Metallica Black album? There are tons of good rock songs out there. We hear them on the radio and this is some of the best they can come up with? B-52's...that's almost as bad as that crap song Maps in the game. Third week in a row for dissapointment. Guess the bright side is that I'll have tons of points for when they release the good songs.

NO! No more Metallica. It's bad enough they get a whole pack to themselves next month.

ill go for another rush song even coheed so far their songs are one of the best to play

Wah! These are good tracks in my opinion. Also lay off the soap box with the no African Americans in the game crap. Where are all the Chinese musicians? What about all the Spanish muscians? OMG how can they leave out there are no Croatian musicians? What about the unrepresented Dalek musicians? I can not abide a person who must inject racisim into everything, all you do is put force differences and sterotypes. On a side note where is the Bruce Springsteen at? And to appease the race baiter from above where is the Purple One?

The difference is that obviously no one wants to hear those ethnicities. If there were people who wanted to hear it than their opinions would be voiced but there clearly is no desire to hear the asian rockstars or play that type of music. On the other hand, there are legitimate black rockstars that a lot of people would like to see in the game. It has nothing to do with being racial but everything to do with there being a complete lack of diversity within the game we all know and love.

I wonder how many people would buy it if they got such classics as Smoke on the Water or Smells like Teen Spirit...hell even Nickelback would do!

I'll sell my Rock Band if they put Nickelback in there.

Still, "Savin' Me" sounds better than THIS.

I already got the Police song I wanted (Can't Stand Losing You). I don't think this is an issue of "running" dry as much as it's very likely they had to license these songs in packs for remotely good prices for us.

If they're going to rely on standbys so much, they really really really really need more Deep Purple. I know someone at Harmonix loves these guys, so it better happen. I want Space Truckin' dammit.

I cant believe this crap. this game is called ROCK band. if it weren't for the clash and the ramones you'd all be playing disco band. get some respect for the saviors of rock and roll and shut your pie holes.

The Ramones are overrated.

This is a matter of taste. I am waiting patiently for the Grateful Dead to showup, everyone has their favorites. Think of it this way: 3 songs per week, at least 156 songs per year (more when they release albums). Of that 156, there will some that you will buy and others you will not. The point is something for everyone. One persons crap is another's gold. If you look at the releases you will see the pattern: classic rock, punk/new wave, new/old metal, modern pop, etc. They are spreading these songs around, so grow some patience.

yay more clash & ramones!!

now if only they would do some blood brothers or msi, my life would be perfect...

Anybody notice the irony of this Clash song including the shouted line "YOU'RE MY GUITAR HERO!" ?

this makes three weeks in a row of subpar songs... march isn't very exciting either, save for the metal releases

oh well. as long as they stick to the weekly thing, there has to be more good stuff coming at some point

It doesn't matter if YOU (Mr. Commenter) like the choice of songs - it matters if other people like them.

I'm giving away my age here but I'm fine with Police and Ramones tracks. I grew up with them so they mean something to me - regardless if some pompous commenter feels they're inferior to another performer.

Give us Journey and VH!

Rock Band gets Clash, Police and Ramones DLC

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