Wii Rock Band music store launches

The Rock Band music store is now open for business on Wii. The store (Xbox 360 version pictured) launched today with 50 songs, including Rock Band 2's 20 free bonus tracks. Harmonix notes in the Rock Band forums that more DLC will be released in the coming weeks to "catch Wii users up with other systems."

A list of the released tracks can be found after the break. The free tracks are in bold and the premium songs are 200 Wii Points ($2) each. Welcome to 2007, Wii.

[Thanks, Graham M.]
Ye full list:

30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill"
All-American Rejects - "Move Along"
Avenged Sevenfold - "Afterlife"
Black Tide - "Shockwave"
Blink-182 - "All the Small Things"
Blondie - "Call Me"
Boston - "More Than a Feeling"
Boston - "Rock & Roll Band"
Disturbed - "Inside the Fire"
Fall Out Boy - "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
Jimmy Buffett - "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Simple Man"
Metallica - "And Justice For All''
Motley Crue - "Saints of Los Angeles"
Muse - "Hysteria"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Perfect Drug"
Oasis - "Wonderwall"
Papa Roach - "Time is Running Out"
Paramore - "Crushcrushcrush"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Snow (( Hey Oh ))"
Rush - "Working Man (vault edition)"
Serj Tankian - "Beethoven's C***"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Sex Type Thing"
The Offspring - "Hammerhead"
The Police - "Message in a Bottle"
The Who - "Baba O'Riley"
Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
Weezer - "El Scorcho"
The 88 - "Sons & Daughters"
Authority Zero - "No Regrets"
Between the Buried & Me - "Prequel to the Sequel"
The Cab - "Bounce"
Chevelles - "Get It On"
Cocktail Slippers - "Give it to Me"
Dealership - "Database Corrupted"
Endeverafter - "I Wanna Be Your Man"
Ghost Hounds - "Ashes to Fire"
Hollywood Undead - "Young"
Kutless - "The Feeling"
The Len Price 3 - "If I Ain't Got You"
Lesley Roy - "I'm Gone I'm Going"
Opiate for the Masses - "Burn You Down"
Semi-Precious Weapons - "Magnetic Baby"
Shaimus - "Like a Fool"
thenewno2 - "Crazy Tuesday"
Tickle Me Pink - "The Time is Wrong"
Underoath - "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures"
X Japan - "I.V."

Reader Comments (42)

Took them long enough...

"Welcome to 2007, Wii."

Oh dis.

"Welcome to 2007, Wii."

Well, they were in 1998 before, so it is an improvement!

More like 2001, that's when the Gamecube came out.

well Alexander, you have to release that the Wii can't do DLC without a hard drive, so Harmonix had to contact their local Wizards Club to cast some sort of Occult spell on the system to get it to work. Thats why it took so long.

Or it could be they rushed the first out the door...

Interesting selection.. do you think these are the DLC team's all-time favourites then?

I know Harmonix like Rush but they should have done Limelight first :D

I'd bet most downloaded songs from the 360/PS3. That'd be the only reason I could figure for the crue song.

My opinion is Harmonix's idea to release the game one system at a time was stupid, and the music store wasn't even ready! How hard is it to make a game that saves songs to an SD card Guitar hero did it! But I heard a Disturbed song is on it's music store, I might be hooked. ;)

GHU.weebly.com

...says the obvious troll who includes a link to a poorly spell-checked and proofread fan site.

Ok one I am very good with spell checkng and two that's my site that I work hard on so how bout some respect? Also tell me that's not the fastest way to get GH cheats! (espeially with an itouch...) and I proofread most of my work.

GHU.weebly.com

please be joking

Why be joking?

It's tough for anybody to take your opinions about RB vs. GH with any credibility when you tag your posts with a GH fansite.

www.google.com

I actually don't have anything against Rock Band I am not a one sided person. Actually i'm considering adding RB cheats to my website as well (Now that I have cheats for every GH game on every console.)

Yeah well my website has the cheats for all Guitar Hero games AND Rock Band, beat that

www.gamefaqs.com

mine takes 2 clicks to find what you want, beat that

GHU.weebly.com

"Welcome to 2007, Wii."

Remember, this time it was Harmonix's fault. They claimed it couldn't be done, which was apparently true up until (!) Guitar Hero decided to do it. Then all of a sudden the impossible became possible

Probably required newer infrastructure on Nintendo's firmware too.

Then Harmonix realized there was no excuse for cheapening out on Wii. Still their peripherals suck, if I buy it I will use my world tour drums guitar and mic.

# Serj Tankian - "Beethoven's C***"

It didn't have the same appeal for the 360 and PS3, but something about playing a song with 'C***' in the title on a system called the Wii makes an easy bad joke set-up that I'm shocked no one has taken the time to make yet.

Too little, too late. I've added an XBox to my home mostly because I wanted DLC, and I wanted it yesterday!

So how songs fit on a 2GB SD card?

A lot you'd be surprised, my guess is 30 at the least.

30 - 60.

which is a problem. With imporing the RB1 songs plus the DLC I have on the 360 I am already storing over 80 songs.

The dream of having all the music selectable in game without swaping discs or memory cards is still broken on the Wii.

Seriously, for a $180 game get the $199 Xbox and add the $30 20GB HDD MS is selling and do it right. $230 is still less than a Wii and for so much more capable a system.

Plus, then you have an xbox.

Unfair. They get 9 levels of difficulty (possibly 10 or 11), while we only get 7 (0-5 stars or 5 devil heads).

Note that the post says the screen grab is from the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band. Though I haven't used the music store in RB2 due to not owning the game, I have to assume that this particular screenshot, which has been floating around since the first game's music store was conceived, is indeed from the first game.

Not tryin' to be an ass, just helping out.

Joystiq will reuse the same pictures until Rock Band no longer releases DLC

Does this work with the GH3 controller? *checks infamous compatibility matrix* Sweetness, it does! In that case, I might pick up a copy and just play with the guitar...

Downloading the 20 free tracks as we speak.

RB2 + GHWT = TOTAL WOOTNESS :D :D :D

I think damn near all of those 30 priced songs are available on the Track Pack compilations. If you like to have it all, as I do, why not go that route?

You can't play the track packs online, although it would save some memory

It'll be interesting to see how this pans out. Rock Band seems like a perfect fit for the casual-friendly Wii (At a Christmas party last month, the main draw was playing the Rock Band 2 on the Wii). But with the technical limitations of no real storage, plus other Nintendo-dictated nonsense like friend codes and no discounted song packs, I wonder if that will keep Rock Band from being the runaway success it should be with the Wii crowd.

While I was actually very impressed with how much the Wii version looked and played like my 360 version, things like no working music store and no ability to add the RB1 songs definitely made the experience seem less "complete" on Nintendo's little white box.

Comparing song download figures between the three platforms could be be very intriguing in a few months.

Are you HAPPY NOW????

Rock Band 2 + GHWT drums - the orange cymbol (removable) = awesomeness

the orange cymbal can be used as a blue pad, it even makes a different sound in fills

X Japan made me decide RB2 IS better. At least they know people are more interested in Japanese music then some random spanish/Italians.

hey, it's Hongcouver here.

yeah I agree X-Japan is amazing and so is Japanese music

The song in the picture fits perfectly.
"...And Justice For All" (It's an awesome song too.)

Very cool that its finally happening as Activision has been doing it with Guitar Hero World Tour on the Wii the day it came out!

A question;

If one were to download these songs and one only has Rock Band one for the Wii, would these work?

Wii Rock Band music store launches

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