Rock Band Weekly: Gorillaz, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Who

Oh my, too many good tracks in next week's Rock Band Weekly to play off of for the basis of this post. Do we ask about breaking off a piece of our heart because of the Janis Joplin track, or do we go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall? Ask her what? Exactly! A perfect psychedelic question. Now, feed your head by checking out the full list of tracks for all of the various Rock Band games after the break -- oh yeah, there's also the Gorillaz next week.

Select a platform below to view complete DLC listing:

Xbox 360 / PS3
Available: August 11 / August 13

Gorillaz Pack 01 (440

/ $5.50)

"Clint Eastwood" (160 / $2)
"Feel Good Inc" (160 / $2)
"Re-Hash" (160 / $2)

Individual songs (160

/ $2)

Janis Joplin -- "Piece of My Heart"
Jefferson Airplane -- "White Rabbit"
The Band -- "Chest Fever (LIVE)"
The Who -- "Magic Bus (Live at Leeds )"

Wii
Available: August 11

Blink-182 -- "Dammit" (200 Wii Points)
Blink-182 -- "Down" (200 Wii Points)
Blink-182 -- "Feeling This" (200 Wii Points)
Blink-182 -- "The Rock Show" (200 Wii Points)
Damone -- "Out Here All Night" (200 Wii Points)
Fratellis -- "Creeping Up the Backstairs" (200 Wii Points)
Fratellis -- "Flathead" (200 Wii Points)
Fratellis -- "Henrietta" (200 Wii Points)
KISS -- "100,000 Years (LIVE)" (200 Wii Points)
KISS -- "Deuce (LIVE)" (200 Wii Points)
KISS -- "Parasite (LIVE)" (200 Wii Points)
Lenny Kravitz -- "Are You Gonna Go My Way" (200 Wii Points)
Lenny Kravitz -- "Freedom Train" (200 Wii Points)
Lenny Kravitz -- "Let Love Rule" (200 Wii Points)
Lenny Kravitz -- "Mr Cab Driver" (200 Wii Points)
Pat Benatar -- "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (200 Wii Points)
Steve Miller Band -- "Space Cowboy" (200 Wii Points)
Steve Miller Band -- "Take The Money & Run" (200 Wii Points)
Steve Miller Band -- "The Joker" (200 Wii Points)
Thin Lizzy -- "The Boys Are Back in Town (LIVE) (200 Wii Points)"
Thin Lizzy -- "Cowboy Song (LIVE)" (200 Wii Points)
Thin Lizzy -- "Jailbreak (LIVE)" (200 Wii Points)
Weezer -- "My Name is Jonas" (200 Wii Points)
Weezer -- "Pork & Beans" (200 Wii Points)
Weezer -- "Undone – The Sweater Song" (200 Wii Points)

PSP
Available: Aug 13

Iron Maiden -- "The Number of the Beast" ($1.99)
Iron Maiden -- "The Trooper" ($1.99)

Reader Comments (79)

@LaughingTarget

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7_ZwgoeJM

Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc. are mostly rapping so that should be fun.

Feel Good Inc. is the greatest Singstar song ever.

"Yes isn't even at this concert!"

Fuck yeah, White Rabbit.

I've been waiting for White Rabbit and Piece of My Heart to be in a rhythm game forever. This is the best week of DLC since the Zombies pack.

But what's up with the labeling? Piece of My Heart should be listed as being by Big Brother and the Holding Company. Saying it's by Janis Joplin would be like releasing Stairway to Heaven and saying it's by Robert Plant.

awesome

i never thought id see the band in a videogame, but this is huge.

i now hate RB for what they are doing. I reserved GH5 knowing all the good tracks they have. Now RB is going to lose GH's business by releasing tracks onto RB. Don't get me wrong, I do like that they put other songs by Gorillaz, I now despise RB.

So then just cancel your reserve?

Well that made a lot of sense...

I read this 3 times and am still not quite sure wtf he's talking about

You're misunderstanding my comment. I don't want to cancel my reservation of GH5, but RB getting tracks from GH5 into its own game that it makes me mad at Harmonix for what they are doing.

Yes, I am sure that they have to get the licenses from the artists, but still couldn't they get other songs other than the ones from GH5? Why all the competition? They are just over saturating it own network with previous released tracks. The way Harmonix is treating its RB catalog, its killing off interest in its music store in this matter.

I just hate when people say that the GH franchise is being milked to the bone when really the only franchise that is getting hurt is RB. Every GH game ranges to about $60-$50 and decreases in price over the matter of months. The price is justifiable because you get 85 songs for $60 in GH5. If you were to buy the whole catalog from the RB music store, at $2 per track, you have to pay about $170! That's not good!

But still, because its in the music store, it makes me feel like I wasted money but in reality I haven't and I saved instead with the bonus of getting new features.

This is why I'm mad! More people cannot understand to reason and go off running their mouth on how RB is better than GH when it isn't and actually is in poor quality compared to GH. Thats it!

This may very well be the dumbest series I've posted I've tried to understand all week.

Congratulations.

Jesus Christ, so dumb I can't even type my own thoughts coherently. You really outdid yourself, bud.

Could not be more wrong.

I think you should rethink your logic. Its GH that requires you to purchase a new version of the game all over again instead of extending the exisiting library. While there are only 2 RB titles (and that mostly due to incomplete pieces of the first) there are 5 iterations of GH not including all the band specific releases. Activision and Neversoft would love it if they could release a new GH title every quarter just to keep requiring a $60 purchase.

i got sunshine in a bag

Do you have some sweeties for the young ones as well, mister Bear?

Can I take a peek inside your bag? *whoosh* Hey, where are you taking me?...

I'm all for Rock Band and this awesome DLC but you guys annoy the hell out of me with all this hypocrisy. When the setlist for GH5 came out everyone was complaining that the song had little to no guitar and that it was a stupid choice. Yet as soon as RB does it, they're heroes. I love RB and I know it's better but I think GH should be crucified for the right reasons.

What a snappy response.

You sure weren't squirreling around with that one!

sweet! i'll definitely get the Gorillaz pack, and White Rabbit too! Here's hoping Gorillaz joins the elite 02 pack club. yeah they are less traditional rock band type songs, but I still bet they'd be fun to play!

Next is week is going to be a really fantastic bit of DLC. I bet the version of Clint Eastwood we get is the radio edit, however, and will be missing the awesome 3 minute jam at the end.

OOooh Gorillaz? Awesome!

They need another Who pack...period. The one they put out I felt was only 50% essential. They have more great stuff that should be put out there: "The Seeker", "I can See for Miles", "The Real Me", and the list goes on...

No Dare (Gorillaz) = no happy.

:'(

Dare sometime soon pzl Harmonix? :D

I would love to see "The Ox" or "Cobwebs and Strange", they would be nuts to play (although there's no whistles or trumpets in Rock Band)

the drummer for Gorillaz has to be Amir from The Roots, right?

Reeeememberrrrr what the doooormouse saiiiiiiddd!!

"Feed your heeeadddd!" "Feeeed yooourr heaaaaaaadddd!!"

Anyone mind telling me the star level for guitar on the Gorrilaz songs?

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