Bad news for Freezepop fans (like us here at Joystiq) -- the synthpop trio, of which Kasson Crooker, Senior Producer at Rock Band creators Harmonix, is a member, does not have a song in their latest game, Rock Band 2. And that's a shame -- they've had a new song on the disc in every Harmonix game since FreQuency (including Phase, their iPod game), which makes this the first Harmonix game without a new Freezepop tune.
Shocked at this revelation, we confronted Harmonix at the Rock Band event this evening, and they confirmed that yes, there is no Freezepop song on the disc in RB2. The reason given to us was that Freezepop hasn't recorded any new music lately, and that they didn't have anything new to put out. But our source at Harmonix did say to look out for some Freezepop DLC -- they may be planning, we were told, a two or three-song downloadable pack of "sweet and cold and fruity and plastic-y" music.
There's a rub, though: there is a new Freezepop song in the recently released Guitar Hero: On Tour DS game. Guitar Hero, as you may know, was originally created by Harmonix, but since GH3 has been owned by Activision and developed by Neversoft. Are Liz Enthusiasm and her two compadres jumping ship?
Update: Commenter skie reads Liz' livejournal. Apparently the band never got paid for any of their songs in the Harmonix games since Guitar Hero, but they did get paid for the GH:OT appearance. They say they want to open themselves up to as many different fans as possible, and that means showing up in other companies' games.
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I like Freezepop. It's a slight shame that they're not on the RB2 disc, but, hey, we still have the songs from RB1! I'd like to see Ready 2 Rokk and Less Talk More Rokk from GH1 and GH2 in RB, also.
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What hurts though is knowing bands I like are on GHWT. I just never liked the gameplay for GH that much and WT seems to be more of the same. Oh well. DLC for the win...
Oh and WTF decades? The game is out 3 weeks and already there is a sequel/expansion?!?
Freezepop's music isn't really "rock" anyways. The songs featured in guitar hero and rockband have all been remixes or exceptions to the rest of their music.
Dant~ out!
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However... for future DLC... here's a few that I'd love to see in Rock Band/Rock Band 2.
Classics:
Bike Thief
Science Genius Girl
Freezepop Forever (Although for accuracy it'd require three vocalists...)
Slower for something different:
Duct Tape My Heart
Emotions and Photons
Plastic Stars
Newer Stuff:
Less Talk More Rokk (Come on, this is a no brainer at this point, right?)
Do You Like My Wang?
Ninja of Love
Please? :)
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Or 29 Fingers by the Konks.
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Hey, at least the guy who said "in before good riddance" was right.
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Definitely won't be mourning their loss.
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Now its time for me to say how much a band sucks just because I personally don't like music/genre they play. I can't keep my dislike for the music and the band separate. I'm simple like that.
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cant stand that song on guitar hero on tour.
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seriously...i love them
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"Freezepop is very excited to announce our involvement with the new Guitar Hero: On Tour videogame for the Nintendo DS. Our song “I am not your GameBoy” which originally appeared on our album Fancy Ultra*Fresh seemed a perfect fit for the DS platform so we amp’d it up a bit to play well in the game! Freezepop has now released songs in 8 different games, from a variety of Harmonix titles to other games like DDR, FFR, and Downhill Domination. We are of course truly the most excited to be involved with Harmonix and the amazing music games that they create (we’re sure you can understand the bias ;-) ) but we are also interested in reaching new fans from around the world and want to be open to many different opportunities as they arise. In terms of “selling out” to GH or any other game, we were kindly paid, but have made no more money on GH:OT than we did for Amplitude which was published by Sony way back in 2003. FWIW, we didn’t get paid at all for our tracks in GH1, GH2, and RB1. For us, we just love being involved with videogames. Involving all of you fans and gamers with our music and letting you interact with our songs in the new and innovative ways that these games provide is extremely gratifying for us. See you at PAX!"
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Source : http://community.livejournal.com/freezepop4ever/167761.html
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Just thought I'd point that out.
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Speaking of... Think ever in a million years Harmonix would develop a new Frequency sequel? Could work well for a XBLA arcade or something. Call it a dream?
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