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Rock Band DLC to hit 1000 tracks by holiday with help of Queen, Nirvana & Elton John

by Ben Gilbert on Aug 19th 2009 8:20PM

Aside from announcing the first three Beatles albums to be released as DLC for upcoming tear-jerker The Beatles: Rock Band, MTV Games and Harmonix today revealed intentions to bring the Rock Band DLC count to 1,000 songs by this holiday. At the current rate Harmonix is releasing songs for the franchise -- without factoring in the Rock Band Network -- that's roughly 500 songs per year.

Additionally, the companies have revealed a number of the artists that will be contributing to the holiday goal, including Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn, and The Raconteurs, as well as the ever elusive "and more." You can always find out what new tracks are coming to Rock Band as DLC (and what's on the way) by using our Rock Band Weekly feature.

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Queue Adrian Paul's "Highlander Intro". I would love for that song to be in RB.

WHERES MY MUSE!?!?!?!

I like when HMX pulls something out that was in a previous GH game back when it was Guitar-only. It's the same thing NS did with GH:SH, but it works. Since the early incarnations were mostly covers it's nice to get the original stuff.

It need to be said:
Talking Heads FTW

It needs to be said:
Talking Heads FTW

But just once.

still no Rolling Stones :(

but yay for Queen and Iggy

I love Iggy.

Sounds like a lot of those groups are already in Guitar Hero. I wouldn't be surprised it they were the same tracks, too. I picked up GH:WT, Smash Hits, and GH5 is on pre-order. Those have saved me from using up some of my free Pepsi Rock Band awards.

The Beatles Rockband fan page just listed the 4 potential songs that could be the last unannounced song. My money is on Help!

Check it out http://www.facebook.com/TheBeatlesRockBand

YAY!!!

So Queen WASN'T exclusive to Guitar Hero like Jimi and Tool are? Jesus, where has Harmonix been?

Hopefully planning a Queen 12-pack!

:)

Maybe Queen was a timed exclusive? It would be hard for me to imagine any label agreeing to pure exclusivity for life - there's too much money out there to be made. However, it's possible a lot of these artists are inking one- or two-year deals with Activision or HMX to get a nice bonus of cash up front.

I decided to read the entire announcement and came across something that made me laugh. In this statement, Harmonix totally disses Guitar Hero, saying that Rock Band is "completely dominating its closest competition". At least they were smart and made it subtle, right?

Well it sure as hell wasn't Rock Revolution, but for 5 bucks at Best Buy, I might pick it up for a laugh.

Yeah, the Stones were a notch on the GH belt, hopefully HMX will get some too.

I assume that this will include the Beatles DLC, and Lego (if it has it's own.) If that is the case then I'm not really suprised.

well we are getting rock band network soon

All I gotta say is:
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better than guitar hero...

As much as I love these bands, it's sad to see that most of them I can already play songs by them on either Guitar Hero or Rock Band.

I was so excited about FINALLY seeing Pantera that I almost missed Talking Heads. Holy shit.

Who's the clown on drums?

Very excited to see White Stripes mentioned. I just read the GI article on the RBN, which has me really stoked. I guess that goes in to beta this month, which could mean that by this holiday a number of labels will start pumping out new songs and back-catalog into the game through the Rock Band Network. Very exciting.

I'M FREE

FREE FALLIN'

C'mon Harmonix ... Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater has basically given you full access to their library. Use and abuse!

http://www.rockband.com/zine/mike_portnoy_interview

Wow, great announcement, Talking Heads and some other bands. I'm hoping for Stop Making Sense, Full Album

Queen + Talking Heads = A lot more money going into Microsoft Points instead of food.

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