Report: Only 35 songs from Guitar Hero World Tour work with GH5 [update]

by Ben Gilbert on Sep 1st 2009 7:30PM

Update: It appears as though Activision itself has answered the question of what songs specifically are importable into Guitar Hero 5 from World Tour (35 songs) as well as Smash Hits (21 songs), via the Activision Customer Support Center. The full list of songs available from each game has been dropped after the break -- thanks to everyone for sending this in!

We can't lie to you, friends -- when Activision claimed songs from last year's Guitar Hero World Tour would be playable in this year's Guitar Hero 5, we were skeptical. It seems that skepticism proved right, as USA Today reveals that a hair over one third of GHWT's tracks can be downloaded into the new game. Specifically, just 35 of World Tour's 86 tracks are playable in GH5, with an unspecified amount of Guitar Hero Smash Hits tracks available "later this Fall." The licensing fee for those 35 tracks is 280

/$3.50 for Xbox 360 and PS3, though it remains unclear whether or not that fee would include Smash Hits' tracks when those are released.

We've asked Activision for clarification of which tracks specifically are available in GH5 and when Smash Hits will be ready for download, but unfortunately were told that we'd get a release tomorrow with "tons of details." So this is where we crowdsource things -- Guitar Hero 5 owners in the Joystiq Biomass™, please let us know which 35 of Guitar Hero World Tour's 86 tracks are playable! Our inbox is always open!Guitar Hero World Tour:

"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" – Beastie Boys
"Dammit" – Blink-182
"Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi
"Sweet Home Alabama (Live)" Lynyrd Skynyrd
"L'Via L'Viaquez" – The Mars Volta
"About a Girl (Unplugged)" – Nirvana
"Spiderwebs" – No Doubt
"Re-Education (Through Labor)" – Rise Against
"Do It Again" – Steely Dan
"Demolition Man" – Sting
"Love Spreads" – The Stone Roses
"Santeria" – Sublime
"Are You Gonna Go My Way" – Lenny Kravitz
"Band On The Run" – Wings
"Heartbreaker" – Pat Benatar
"Hollywood Nights" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
"Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups
"Never Too Late" – The Answer
"Obstacle 1" – Interpol
"One Armed Scissor" – At the Drive-In
"One Way or Another" – Blondie
"Our Truth" – Lacuna Coil
"Overkill" – Motorhead
"Shiver" – Coldplay
"Soul Doubt" – NOFX
"Stranglehold" – Ted Nugent
"The Joker" – The Steve Miller Band
"The Kill" – 30 Seconds To Mars
"Up Around The Bend" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Everlong" – Foo Fighters
"The Middle" – Jimmy Eat World
"Today" – Smashing Pumpkins
"Toy Boy" – Stuck in the Sound
"You're Gonna Say Yeah!" – Hushpuppies
"Stillborn" – Black Label Society

Guitar Hero Smash Hits:

"Caught In A Mosh" – Anthrax
"Cult Of Personality" – Living Colour
"Free Bird" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Freya" – The Sword
"Heart-Shaped Box" – Nirvana
"Hey You" – The Exies
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" – Pat Benatar
"I Love Rock 'N Roll" – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
"I Wanna Rock" – Twisted Sister
"Message In A Bottle" – The Police
"Miss Murder" – AFI
"Monkey Wrench" – Foo Fighters
"No One Knows" – Queens Of The Stone Age
"Nothin' But A Good Time" – Poison
"Play With Me" – Extreme
"Psychobilly Freakout" – Reverend Horton Heat
"Rock And Roll All Nite" – Kiss
"Shout At The Devil" – Mötley Crüe
"The Trooper" – Iron Maiden
"Woman" – Wolfmother
"Yyz" – Rush

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Tags: activision, digital-download, dlc, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-5, guitar-hero-smash-hits, guitar-hero-world-tour, Microsoft, neversoft, Nintendo, song-importing, usa-today, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (172)

Because they're fueled by sorrow and anguish? That's just a guess, by the way.

The Rip off merchants are at it again.

R.I.P rip off bastards

Guitar Hero can kiss my ass

EPIC WIN for the Rock Band platform. Instead of coming up with one-offs like GH: Van Halen or GH: Aerosmith, they should have been thinking ahead -- people want to play a whole library of games, not groups of 50 at a time.

Oops, I meant a whole library of SONGS. Damn you, lack of edit button!

You do know rock band does the same thing? Rock band:AC/DC, Rock band: The beatles.

Why? I don't have my Rock Band tracks imported over. I just put in whatever disc I want to play (same with Guitar Hero and GH: Metallica).

AC/DC Track Pack for Rock Band isn't a one off. Its exportable free of charge

The Beatles: Rock Band is only a "one off" because of liscensing. And even then, Harmonix will release EVEN MORE Beatles songs instead of just putting out the disc and being done with it

jrod, why not import them over? it costs $5 to import RB1, and AC/DC and the track packs are free. it makes the experience a lot better.

This is slightly unfair. The Beatles is standalone with no plans for cross-support with RB2.

On the other hand, the list of Guitar Hero games is about a foot long and until now none have been compatible with one another. If you can call this shambles 'compatibility'.

@Kleptomaniac:
As said above AC/DC one doesn't count as it was just a track pack which consisted entirely of AC/DC songs and was freely exportable.
Another point to note is that while, yes, The Beatles: Rock Band is a separate game based on one band, unlike the GH: Metallica etc games it consists of ONLY songs by The Beatles and will feature more DLC solely from The Beatles back catalogue...
While if we look at GH: Metallica for example, only 28/49 songs on that disc were by Metallica! Which is a pretty lame idea, even though I'm not really a Metallica fan, but if I was I wouldn't expect to buy a game named after them and find out nearly half the tracks are from other bands!

Im one that want to export RB1 music, but dont!

Because that stupid 20gb (or 13gb whatever) HDD for xbox ¬¬

NO SPACE!!!

I pretty much only play DLC and RB2 songs these days.

But having just looked through the setlist to point how little you're missing I've found quite the treasure trove:

Highway Star
Detroit Rock City
Black Hole Sun
Cherub Rock
Dani California
Don't Fear The Reaper
Epic
Flirtin' With Disaster
Foreplay/Long Time
Go With The Flow
Green Grass and High Tides (only fun on guitar though)
Mississippi Queen
In Bloom
Next To You
Learn To Fly
crap cover of Tom Sawyer (go download the whole of Moving Pictures NAO!)
Train Kept A-Rollin'
Welcome Home
Won't Get Fooled Again

For the last few months I'd been under the impression that the original had a pretty bland setlist but shit, there's some fun stuff to play there. Shame Enter Sandman and Paranoid don't transfer across.

ACTIVISION FTW

GTFO, TROLL!

IN YOUR YOUR FUCKIN FACE

Sorry, what?

I'm proud to be a Rock Band fanboy and not a Guitar Hero fanboy :)

Fucking Activision... you ruined one of my favorite franchises back in 2005

If you went over to the GH5 site, they actually have lists of this:

GHWT exporable tracks:
• “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” – Beastie Boys
• “Dammit” – Blink-182
• “Livin’ on a Prayer” – Bon Jovi
• “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)” Lynyrd Skynyrd
• “L'Via L'Viaquez” – The Mars Volta
• “About a Girl (Unplugged)” – Nirvana
• “Spiderwebs” – No Doubt
• “Re-Education (Through Labor)” – Rise Against
• “Do It Again” – Steely Dan
• “Demolition Man” – Sting
• “Love Spreads” – The Stone Roses
• “Santeria” – Sublime
• “Are You Gonna Go My Way” – Lenny Kravitz
• “Band On The Run” – Wings
• “Heartbreaker” – Pat Benatar
• “Hollywood Nights” - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• “Lazy Eye” - Silversun Pickups
• “Never Too Late” – The Answer
• “Obstacle 1” – Interpol
• “One Armed Scissor” – At the Drive-In
• “One Way or Another” – Blondie
• “Our Truth” – Lacuna Coil
• “Overkill” – Motorhead
• “Shiver” – Coldplay
• “Soul Doubt” – NOFX
• “Stranglehold” – Ted Nugent
• “The Joker” – The Steve Miller Band
• “The Kill” – 30 Seconds To Mars
• “Up Around The Bend” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Everlong” – Foo Fighters
• “The Middle” – Jimmy Eat World
• “Today” – Smashing Pumpkins
• “Toy Boy” – Stuck in the Sound
• “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!” – Hushpuppies
• “Stillborn” – Black Label Society

GH Smash Hits Exportable Tracks:
• “Caught In A Mosh” – Anthrax
• “Cult Of Personality” – Living Colour
• “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
• “Freya” – The Sword
• “Heart-Shaped Box” – Nirvana
• “Hey You” – The Exies
• “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Pat Benatar
• “I Love Rock 'N Roll” – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• “I Wanna Rock” – Twisted Sister
• “Message In A Bottle” – The Police
• “Miss Murder” – AFI
• “Monkey Wrench” – Foo Fighters
• “No One Knows” – Queens Of The Stone Age
• “Nothin’ But A Good Time” – Poison
• “Play With Me” – Extreme
• “Psychobilly Freakout” – Reverend Horton Heat
• “Rock And Roll All Nite” – Kiss
• “Shout At The Devil” – Mötley Crüe
• “The Trooper” – Iron Maiden
• “Woman” – Wolfmother
• “Yyz” – Rush

35 tracks from GHWT and 21 tracks from S.Hits, so less than half of each game.

Why do they keep Bestie Boys in this games? Why?

No Tool?

Well, fuck this then.

That's absolutely horrible. I guess this is why Guitar Hero isn't a platform

Now if they would release the songs from GH1 thru GH5 on Rock Band, we can go home, pop a cold one, and never have to deal with Activision again.

"Why do they keep Bestie Boys in this games? Why?"

Them being my favorite band,I hate to break it to you,but maybe it's because they are actually GOOD?

You do realize they started off as a punk band,right? They play all their own instruments aside from rapping.

No TTFAF???

Really???

REALLY??????

don't hate on the beasties because they rap. it's a nice change of pace. but i do agree, this is just stupid. no hendrix or tool FTL. they were the main reasons i bought GH:WT!

@False

shocking, isn't it?

Its funny because the tool level was probably the best thing about WT... man that game sucked.

So how do you pass the songs to the Wii version?

According too this thread - http://hub.guitarhero.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=239&p=5155

About A Girl, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Band on the Run, Dammit, Demolition Man, Do it Again, Everlong, Heartbreaker, Hollywood Nights, The Joker, The Kill, L'Via L'Viaquez, Lazy Eye, Livin' On a Prayer, Love Spreads, The Middle, Never Too Late, No Sleep Till Brooklyn, Obstacle 1, One Armed Scissor, One Way Or Another, Our Truth, Overkill, Re-Education Through Labor, Santeria, Shiver, Soul Doubt, Spiderwebs, Stillborn, Stranglehold, Sweet Home Alabama, Today, Toy Boy, Up Around The Bend, You're Gonna Say Yeah

There's a picture of it too.

So I can personally prevent you from buying this turd I present you this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuAoEW5MbI

It might actually encourage some of you the buy so thank me either way...

I knew what you were going to link before I even clicked it.

I think thats a big fuck you to Kurt Cobain and even Johnny Cash, moreso than Matt Bellamy

"YEEEAAAAAH BOOYYEEEEEE"

^ Absolutely priceless.

So... a dead artist singing, A scantaly-claded chick playing bass, an Xbox Avatar on guitar, and a skeleton on drums... playing Bon Jovi...

Right... I'll stick with Rock Band.

wow...rolling over in his grave...

Well of course you would Peter Moore! You only WORK for EA.

Fuck you, I am EA.

http://hub.guitarhero.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=940

"* Will I be charged for future games? Will I need to download again for each new Guitar Hero game tahtthat supports this feature?

No. This is a one time re-licensing fee. Once the songs are on your Hard Drive (or SD card) all future games that support this feature will automatically access them."

Well, that settles that. It's still a major fail that we can't have all the songs out of the box, though.

Not to mention a major fail on that typo. Yeesh!

Word from Activision is that the import list isn't definitive. While these 35 tracks are the ones available right now, the list will be updated as licenses for songs are cleared and the tracks are updated to take advantage of Guitar Hero 5's new features

http://www.destructoid.com/guitar-hero-5-s-world-tour-import-feature-is-bullsh-t-147094.phtml

I'm not supporting them just thought I would clarify.
Since this is still pretty lame compared to what Rock Band did

Agreed. They've had plenty of development time. No reason ALL OF IT shouldn't have been ready to go by launch.

They're just rushing it to beat Beatles Rock Band to market.

Guitar Hero 5!

*songs sold separately.

Is it wrong for me to laugh?

oh well

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hey its Creepy Abby Road commecial Lennon!

...Ouch.

Good job, guys. Bravo.

On a related note, I'm glad that Guitar Hero 5 is Neversoft's best yet. Too bad its too late and a dollar short. Hopefully next time they actually branch off from trying to compete directly with Rock Band

But in a way, aren't they?

Rock Band 2 has the rock star experience down pat, while Guitar Hero 5 looks to be more about letting you play however you want with whatever instrument setup you want. It isn't even fair on some level to compare it to RB2, just because it looks to be somewhat of a different animal this time around while Guitar Hero World Tour's main focus was on trying to be Rock Band Lite.

You make a good point, I admit. It still feels like Guitar Hero is playing catch-up, but its good to bring in the "party play" for more diverse band game other than "Guitar Hero: We're Rock Band Too!"

But from what I've seen of GH5, it still doesn't look like enough to warrant a purchase as I already have Rock Band. Once Guitar Hero will do something completely outfield (in a good way of course - by no means am I saying bring back another dead celebrity) that is completely different than what Rock Band is doing is when I'll purchase another Guitar Hero.

But the only thing to really come out of that catagory recently was Rock Band Network, and seeing as thats Rock Band... I think I'll be waiting a while for "that" Guitar Hero.

Baby's First Rock Band, imo

do guitar hero fanboys just hate looking at their own money?

My pile of money had eyeballs and was just staring at me. It started to creep me out. Then some guy came to me and said, "This is the money you could be saving with Rock Band."

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