Rock Band Weekly: Journey, Pat Benatar, and ... Spongebob Squarepants!

by David Hinkle on Mar 27th 2009 1:30PM

Rock Band has taken fake band-ing to a wondrous new level, with everyone's favorite karaoke song, "Don't Stop Believing", becoming available to download. Also, that Pat Benatar rumor panned out, as her classic track, "Heartbreaker," is also in the Rock Band store. Check out the full list below, then shred past the break to sample each track.

Individual tracks (available 3/31/09)

"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey (160/ $1.99)
"Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar (160/ $1.99)
"Geraldine" by Glasvegas (160/ $1.99)
"C'Mon C'Mon" by The Von Bondies (160/ $1.99)

Spongebob Squarepants Pack 01 (240

/ $2.99 - available 4/2/09)

"I Can't Keep My Eyes Off of You" by Spongebob Squarepants (80/ $.99)
"The Best Day Ever" by Spongebob Squarepants (80/ $.99)
"Where's Gary?" by Spongebob Squarepants (80/ $.99)

[All tracks are original master recordings]

Tags: dlc, ea, Electronic-Arts, glasvegas, harmonix, Microsoft, mtv-games, music, pat-benatar, rhythm, rock-band, rock-band-weekly, spongebob-squarepants, the-von-bondies, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (71)

Ach, the joy of April Fools tracks.

A true April Fools track would likely be Sponge Bob doing "Don't Stop Believing"

@Markez, the problem with "selling something" is that they would actually had to release it, not to be accused of false advertising etc. They cannot publically claim that they will release something that they won't.

Those Spongebob joke tracks are releasable but still tongue-in-cheek.

is the joke that they were announced, or that they will be released? cuz its not an april fools joe if it happens.

Geez, guys. Grow a funny bone or something.

It's a release IN THE SPIRIT of that day.

Also, jeff. I can call you "April Fools Joe" from now on if you want.

ack, you just made it a meme

This isn't an April Fools Joke, I imagine there's still a lot of folks with bad tastes in their mouth after being conned into the Zelda movie joke and you're afraid to buy into Spongebob but I'm pretty sure a company wouldn't be falsely promoting content for a universally known IP (sponge bob) and then trick everybody and say, HAHA.

Now when you see the Spongebob Squarepants vs Gears of War title announced on IGN on April 1st, you can scream bloody murder

Fecking right doggy, C'mon C'mon! I swear the people at Harmonix has my room tapped.

If the spongbob tracks are actually coming out, then im totally gonna go onto a friends xbox and purchase one of these songs for a joke.
Imagine playing rockband, going into a random list of songs and then spongebob comes up

Oh my God.

The songs are actually on the marketplace...

I want to go Van Gogh on my ears without even downloading them.

Strange, I thought for sure they'd counter Guitar Hero Metallica with some of their own Metallica but I guess not.

They are probably waiting for when guitar hero gets it bad scores for same shit different smell gameplay.

Not to stick up for guitar hero, even though I am getting GHM, but how do you expect them to change the gameplay? It's a music game, they're always going to be the same. I don't see people knocking RB2 for being exactly the same as 1.

WHAT?!

how is RB1 like RB2, RB2 actually had improvements... dozens of them!

drum/fills trainer
SP World Tour
Online Co-Op
Backwards Compaible DLC songs + 45 transferable tracks from RB1
Managing system
the whole User interface and menu's

Rock Band 2 pawns GH:WT only innovation - MIDI Ringtones Costume Tracks Maker

and not 1 of those changes changed the gameplay. The only real change to the gameplay in any of these music games is when RB1 added 2 other instruments, but other than that it's been the same since GH1.

Metallica is exclusive to Guitar Hero now anyways.

PR0F3TA - It was actually 55 songs that were exportable out of Rock Band 1 (all but 3 of the songs on the disk).

Actually, I would argue that adding in the ability to continue to pick up Overdrive when Overdrive is active was the biggest gameplay change that the Fischer Price genre has seen since it started.

It greatly increases the possibilities when trying to find the optimum overdrive path. And i've been in plenty of ranked matches that ended 100% vs 100%, with the only difference *being* the overdrive path.

Battery in RB2 says hai.

Spongebob PWNS Metallica

The Viacom association is leading to some strange stuff...

I know, right? >.>

BOOOOO!!!
I so wanted "Love is a Battlefield."

http://twitter.com/johntdrake/status/1391420057

what, they have spongebob and no FUN song. that song is great. lol

OK, it took me a second, but the second one from the left in the back, that's Pat Benatar right?

SpongeBob FTW!!!

... someone had to say it. :-)

no, they didn't

I don't give a DAMN what anyone else says... this is amazing.

Amen! My four-year-old's going to love it.

And as a bonus, since I'm raising a little geek, he's also going to love "Don't Stop Believin'." Almost as much as Dad.

AAAAhhhhh ya spongebob!! Kids will love it.

April fools BTW... my kids would like it but doubt it's real.

I don't really see this as being particularly implausible. It wouldn't be the first time Nickelodeon stuff showed up on the Rock Band store at any rate.

Oh man, that chick on the far right in the Baywatch swimsuit is so hot! I'd hit it.

Extra yummy...

I get it.

That Best Day Ever indeed.... that song is super catchy... and yes I am a proud spongebob squarepants viewer :')

No Goofy Goober Rock? Ah, I guess they'd probably have to work out the rights with Twisted Sister...

I will never get why they won't use Weird Al on April Fools... I wanna play Albuquerque!

Or since it looks like we'll never get "Smells Like Teen Spirit", how about "Smells Like Nirvana"?? ;)

Weird Al would be sweet! 'though, there've been too many songs in which I heard his parodies first and the actually song second. We need a new generation of confused music listeners!

Also, we'd need an accordian peripheral =]

Probally not real, but me and my son would bug out on the spongebob tracks!

Best Day Ever would get played everyday for a week at least.

I'm sitting here on my computer right now waiting for the UPS guy to show up with my RB2 bundle that I was finally able to buy as a result of birthday money and being on sale on newegg.

I read this now and think "Hell yeah, do I have good timing or what."

Digging the thought of Playing C'mon C'mon

Is that the song that features in Rescue Me and now on MLB Network? If so then I have to get this for my wife - she loves that song.

Oh, I don't have volume, in case you were wondering why I don't just watch the video.

@natureboy

The song you're thinking of is actually "Into The Fire", by 13 Senses.

Bad ass song!

Yeah, its the opening theme song. Come on, come on, Come on, Come on...

Cant wait to rock hardcore to Spongebob!

It panned out, other than Joystiq guessed the incorrect song?

"Geraldine" by Glasvegas f'n sweeeet!

Awesome songs!

Needed the Spongebob Squarepants theme song though.

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