Rock Band Weekly: The Clash, The Police and The Ramones

this upsets me that they have a good pack coming out this week and my damn 360's optical drive cannot read any of my game disc :( and I don't feel like dropping $99 to get it fixed yet... I went broke with GH III and Rock Band... dang it... I would have loved to play the Ramones "Teenage Lobotomy"

I'm not usually one to gripe about song choices, but this is two weeks in a row that I won't be picking up a single track.

Hopefully next week's releases make up for it.

I wish that Harmonix would release the songs individually more. iTunes has spoiled me.

jesus the garbage in this game is starting to pile up faster than a NYC landfill

Yeah, there's nothing there that really interests me...
Bummer. It seems like their catalogue of available artists is limited to bands that we've pretty much seen in the game already. Not terrible, but it dimishes the hope of seeing some of the bands that I want in there.

But at least they're still releasing stuff every week. That's never a bad thing.

I love the Ramones and I'm probably going to get this song, but I'd like to see some new/different artists in here.

I think If I see another police/rush/ramones song next week, I'm probably not going to be motivated to check up on the weekly releases in the future.

That Ramones video is from a TV show they played in Germany. I have the whole thing on videodisc - it isn't a music video, that is them actually playing their instruments, with their (then recently acquired) drummer Marky Ramone.

Anyway, any week with "Complete Control" and a Ramones song, is a good week to me. Especially when I think of all of the metal rock crap I won't be buying next month.

- Scott

In for the Ramones track. They've been dull on guitar but quite fun on drums and vocals, which my friends and I enjoy doing more anyway.

i dont know what clash songs are available to d/l but of the clash i would much prefer straight to hell, or clampdown, or death or glory.

Such odd choices for Clash songs. I Fought the Law and Should I Stay or Should I Go are probably some of the worst songs they did besides Rock the Casbah.

Complete Control is a good start, but how about London Calling, Rudie Can't Fail, Guns of Brixton or Train in Vain? Actually, pretty much anything off of London Calling would be great. Straight to hell would be a great one too.

this is the first time i really wished i had rock band.

No complaints about "Complete Control" or "Teenage Lobotomy", but increasing the variety of available artists would be nice. Hopefully the next classic punk downloads will include any number of other groups not currently featured in Rock Band instead of more Clash or Ramones.

Speaking of which, "Marquee Moon" would be amazing on Rock Band. Hell, make it one of the full album downloads, whenever they actually start doing those.

I can't admit to being thrilled by this week's picks, but I'll probably buy the Clash and Police tracks - not really a fan of the Ramones. As for artist variety, there actually is a ton of artists now represented by at least one song in Rock Band. However, I can see how it doesn't feel that way when they release several songs from the same artists each week. To soften the blow a bit, it would be nice if Harmonix could release at least one new artist per week. I have no clue if they have the catalogue to do that though. I just hear so much from them about portfolio management and game balance. It's hard to see that balance week-to-week like this.

However the March info came out, at least you have a larger slice of content to examine at one time and you can see a larger strategy unfolding through the month. It would make a lot of us feel better (not their top priority, admittedly) to release, even tentatively, a bigger snapshot of what the DLC offerings will be - like monthly, or quarterly. If they could say "Hey, this quarter you'll be seeing stuff from great artists like X, Y, and Z, none of which are in the game, as well as new songs from artists like A, B, C, all of which are in the game" then it would alleviate the repeated slamming of the Rock Band site every Monday and perhaps the cries of dread from the masses that inevitable follow.

D. U. M. B. Everyone's accusing me!!!

i'll be getting that for sure.

also to all those arguing about what songs suck/rock... this is a video game blog, don't expect a majority of people here to have any music taste.

pretty meh.., in my opinion

This makes me want to buy Rockband.

I was expecting the Clash's next DLC song to be Lost in the Supermarket since the song selection team mentioned it in an interview.

Is it just me or Clash & Ramones are the only songs in these bloody games?Either that or some bands that only Hardcore Rock Fans know about.

I'm not a big fan of RB/GH but if they had songs like Smoke on the Water or Smells like Teen Spirit, I'd go straight on Ebay to buy it!

TOO MUCH POLICE

IMO, none of the recent few weeks tracks are appealing. I did however have some family over last friday night and we played the game for hours. My aunt whose tastes are different than mine was surprised that alot of her favorite bands (Cars, Styx, Eagles) weren't available. I had to explain to her several times that there could eventually be but not as of then. So we went online and I let them pick a few songs that I'd skipped over (again due to my taste) and they had fun with them. Thats what the DLC is about right? - getting everyone involved.

I love the Police song, but I do not like that live version. The master track in the game will sound like it should.

please harmonix some songs popular in the last 5 years


and seriously the ramones are the worst band ive ever heard, a million songs that sound the same