No Doubt now available on Guitar Hero III

by Justin McElroy on Feb 28th 2008 12:30PM

It seems that Aerosmith isn't the only band staking their rhythm game claim with Guitar Hero III: Gwen Stefani's semi-ska/pop outfit No Doubt is set to hit the game ... well, today. It should be available on Xbox Live now as a matter of fact, and on PSN later today.

500 points will net you three songs from the band's Tragic Kingdom album, "Don't Speak", "Excuse Me Mr" and "Sunday Morning." Admittedly we're not hardcore fans, but these seem like weird choices. No "Just A Girl"? No "Spiderwebs"? Oh well, at least they're master tracks. Song choice aside, is this something you'll be picking up?

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Tragic Kingdom was good, but Return of Saturn was their best, I thought.
...but ugh. After that, they just sorta became Gwen Stephani & Her Backup Boys.

Such a pity.

Some say the break-up didn't have anything to do with it... but c'mon, they even based a song about it - one of their more popular hits.

They have always been 'No Talent'.

What's a pity is that we see these songs on GH3, not Rock Band.

Hopefully, No Doubt (especially the Tragic Kingdom album) was not bought up exclusively by Activision. If that was so, it would be more of a pity.

To combat this Rock Band should release a Sublime Pack outta no where.

Some slight signs of life from Activision. About time.

I sold my GH3 rig after Activision screwed me by forcing Harmonix to make my guitar incompatible. And on April 1, I can have two Harmonix guitars and Activision's opportunities to make money off me for rhythm games will be gone for good.

Yeah, it really sucks too because Activision patched GH3 so that it won't even let you play the game if the RB guitar is plugged in.

Activision will not be getting any money from me, GH related. All my DLC belongs to Rock Band.

Agreed. Guitar Hero is dead to me, and this DLC is too little, too late. Why buy songs with just guitar, when you can buy them for Rock Band and play guitar, drums and vocals? Fuck Guitar Hero!

In Soviet Russia, it is YOU who are dead to Guitar Hero.

Pfff. Kids and their music today.

Don't you mean "Twenty-somethings and their music of 15 years ago?"

Fernando, do we have to go through the whole "My music is better than yours" bullshit everytime there is an update to GH3 or Rock Band? We get it already, in your warped fanboy mind your music is topps. Please, just STFU already.

"... Fernando, do we have to go through the whole "My music is better than yours" bullshit everytime there is an update to GH3 or Rock Band?... "

Yes, until they release good music. You know "rock" music.

ummm what? No Doubt was fucking awesome in the 90s.

Fernando you should get them to release some Mana and Molotov on RB/GH. That would be awesome.

I don't like Mana or Molovot =(

Dear Fernando,

Go to hell.

Sincerely yours,
Joystiq Community

I can't believe i'm agreeing with fernando but yes, no doubt is complete shit.

Thats too bad, but ok I guess.
We all have different taste.
I bet you like Rebelde huh ;)

"No Doubt was fucking awesome in the 90s."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

That is all.

Rock Bands NEEDS Me Vale... I love that song...

How do you go from a ska band to a wannabe hiphop whore? ugh. She was so much hotter back then.

Fucking agreed.

I mean.. she's still PRETTY hot though, right?

Oh, definitely. I would.

The real question is why the hell are they in Guitar Hero 3? For that matter does anyone even care now that Rock Band is out?

Except it's not in the UK.....

:-(

Poseur punk music FTL.

It was ska, not punk. Enlighten me, what would you consider real punk?

Ska is just punks retarded cousin.

Same beats, only on the off beat.

I always thought of ska music having a lot more brass in it...

And playing scales.

My punk and ska-liking friends won't let me call No Doubt punk or ska. They insist I call it pop, which it isn't. Although Gwen did a lot of pop stuff later.

If you ask me, No Doubt is punk. Hook-based poppy punk, but punk. As mentioned above, ska requires quite a bit of horns, and No Doubt typically has none.

@why?

Yeah No Doubt is much more punk than it is ska.

No Doubt is more ska than anything else.

Yes, part of ska is the horns but the reggae influence is essential, too. No Doubt has a VERY heavy reggae influence...especially their first 2 albums.

So they aren't PURE ska or punk or reggae one way or the other...but pound for pound, ska is what they come closest to sounding like.

They considered themselves ska. Their first album had much more brass in it. Still, kinda sucky ska.

If anything, No Doubt is pop rock and ska. I may not know much about ska, but I know that they (especially Gwen) sure as hell ain't punk.

Oh, and as for "real" punk bands, I would recommend Black Flag, Minor Threat, Reagan Youth, and of course, the Ramones.

And if you require ska punk, I'd recommend checking out Operation Ivy, Leftover Crack, or even Rancid.

Damn, now I have "Don't speak" stuck in my head.

DON'T TELL ME 'CAUSE IT HURTS!

Okay... this just shows Neversoft has no CLUE what they are doing. If this was Rock Band, maybe SLIGHTLY more appropriate. But these aren't exactly Guitar songs... might as well throw Hella Good on the collection.

Fid: I seriously doubt Neversoft is the one negotiating song rights for the game. They're just the poor guys who take the rap for what the Guitar Hero franchise has become. I don't blame them. They would have been stupid to turn down that gig.

also, I won't buy these songs. I haven't played Gh3 in ages and have no desire to.

please theyve buried tony hawk and spiderman as well. No Doubt is trash music for nerdy highschool girls living in the later years of the 90s IMO. Just dont like em hows about gh just giving up.

Weird. I totally agree on the song choices. I dislike No Doubt with a passion, but Spiderwebs and Just A Girl I could just about live with, not this other junk.

What do you mean "Song choice aside..."? Song choice is the whole POINT.

And no, this choice of songs won't be getting my money.

They're not the best guitar songs, but I'm overjoyed to see Sunday Morning included. I don't care how callous and musically obtuse you are, Tragic Kingdom was fucking great. >:(

I think this is the first time I've ever been jealous to any degree over DLC being in GH3 but not Rock Band.

whymog, finally someone said what you did. Tragic Kingdom is one of the most complete ska/pop albums i've ever heard and it's even better that besides "Don't Speak", they didn't just include the hits but instead put the lesser known songs on.

This is the first piece of DLC I will be buying for GH3 and I am happy about it.

Sunday Morning is a great song. I'd have chosen Just a Girl, Sunday Morning and End It On This personally. But these would all be far better in Rock Band. Why would I get these for GH?

"Sunday Morning" is great, as is the whole of Tragic Kingdom. I think the No Doubt complainers forget that sometimes it's okay that music is fun, which No Doubt is in spades. It doesn't always have to challenge your mind.

No, and you outlined the exact reason why. Weird song choices.

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