The Beatles: Rock Band 'Abbey Road' album DLC detailed

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 19th 2009 3:30PM

The Beatles: Rock Band will have the entire Abbey Road album available for download this Tuesday on Xbox 360 and Wii, followed by PS3 on Thursday. The full album won't be lonely for long, as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will arrive in November, with Rubber Soul walking onto the scene in December.

The full Abbey Road DLC setlist and pricing details can be found after the break.

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: October 20 / October 22 (PS3)

The "Complete The Album Pack" for Xbox 360, PS3 (1360

/ $17). Wii prices are marked individually below.:

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Oh! Darling" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Because" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Entire Abbey Road B-side 16 minute medley, included with Xbox 360, PS3 album purchase:

"You Never Give Me Your Money"
"Sun King"
"Mean Mr. Mustard"
"Polythene Pam"
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
"Golden Slumbers"
"Carry That Weight" and "The End"
"Her Majesty"

The following songs from Abbey Road can also be played as 1-to-3-song sets, based on how they were recorded / composed. Individually priced as sets on Wii.:

"You Never Give Me Your Money" (200 Wii Points)
"Sun King"/ "Mean Mr. Mustard" (350 Wii Points)
"Polythene Pam"/ "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (350 Wii Points)
"Golden Slumbers"/ "Carry That Weight"/ "The End"* (350 Wii Points)
"Her Majesty" (100 Wii Points)

* No additional cost for third song "The End" as it is already included on game disc .

Tags: abbey-road, harmonix, Microsoft, mtv-games, Nintendo, rock-band, the-beatles, The-Beatles-Rock-Band, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (65)

Nice to see some discounted pricing for the Wii owners out there.

was that sarcastic?

The
* "You Never Give Me Your Money"
* "Sun King"
* "Mean Mr. Mustard"
* "Polythene Pam"
* "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
* "Golden Slumbers"
* "Carry That Weight" and "The End"
* "Her Majesty"
Comes out to $11 for PS3 and Xbox if you subtract out the $2 each for the other 3 songs, while on the WII you buy these separately for a total of $13.50 if you want them all. The Wii is screwed again.

Unless i missed something / missed the sarcasm. Its hard to pick up online.

No sarcasm intended. For the full album it should be:

PS360 = $17

Wii = $19.50

versus full markup of all tracks individually = $22

That's how I read it anyway.

That's... More than the 360/PS3. Not discounted. Unless I'm missing something.

Yes, it is more than the other systems, but, unless I'm mistaken, this is the first time Wii owners get to buy ANY songs in a pack format. Up til now everything has been on a track by track basis, even full albums, and that adds up. Which is why I jumped ship to the 360 (at least, for Rock Band purposes).

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. I always got the games on 360 since that's what my friends have. Didn't know Wii users not only got inferior games but also were shafted on DLC.

Doesn't look like a pack format to me. Just looks like something a la "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends." I could be mistaken though..

"1-to-3-song sets" Yeah, I'm not mistaken. They're multiple songs in one playthrough. So the Wii still has yet to get multi-song pack downloads. :/

So when you buy the album, the songs like "Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" are single tracks, like they did with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends"?

But they also give you the option to play "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" as a single track, but The End is also its own song... So can you play them separately? Man I'm confused.

I will finally be able to play my favorite Beatles Album. Maxwell's Silver Hammer will be stuck in my head for weeks.

Does this mean we can play them all as one large song, similar to how you would listen to them on the album?

You are able to play the songs from "You Never Give me Your Money" all the way to "Her Majesty" in one go, but not the whole album.

lmao, they're still supporting this failure.

lawlz whut? this is pretty much the best "band" game out there. what else to say? STFU n00b

TROLL. Ignore.

Don't worry, I'm supporting you with the "-" button.

I'll take The Beatles over this:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/19/full-band-hero-track-list-importable-songs-revealed/

anyday.

Am I the only one that doesn't click on articles that I'm not interested in, let alone comment on said articles.

There is no "good" band game at all.

McCartney should have kept his dignity and kept the Beatles out of this shitty fad.

So angry. Are you Ringo's bastard son or something?

I just bought this album recently. It's quite epic.

Although seeing Her Majesty is a bit odd. Doesn't that song take less than 30 seconds to play?

"Her Majesty" was actually not meant to be in the album, but it was made to be in between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam", but the sound guys weren't allowed to throw away anything, so they put "Her Majesty" at the end of the album, and the band liked it.

Listen to the end of "Mr. Mustard" and "Her Majesty" and the begining of "Polythene Pam", and you'll hear the continuing melody.

It'll make a good three piece set.

Honestly, I'm more interested in the dreamscapes that'll be played out during these songs rather than how the songs will play.

too bad not every song will have a dreamscape :(

@robotoid:
uhh... they will actually.
Which is awesome.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/09/the-beatles-rock-band-dlc-to-include-original-dreamscapes/

1360 points seems steep for this, seeing as most of the songs on side 2 around only around 2 minutes long, less even.

*...are only around 2 minutes...

I wonder how fast the stars fill up in Her Majesty.

bip-bip-bip-bip-bip

Alright guys, I'm gonna use Beatlema--! oh.

That'll be a quiet outing for the drummer.

OH YEAH! OH RIGHT! GUESS WHAT'S GONNA BE IN MY DREAMS TONIGHT!

AND IN THE END, THE LOVE YOU TAKE, IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE, YOU MAKE

Great, so, once we get that 16 minute medley out how about some other marathon songs for Rock Band?

Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

NOFX's "The Decline"?

Rush- "2112" :D

I'll take both please.

how about "The Tain" by The Decemberists?

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

Well this isn't worth 17 dollars. The next album is going to cost approximately eleventy zillion.

I'll probably get Maxwell's Silver Hammer, though.

I'm probably going to sell the beatles soon; I loved the game, its just that I find myself not playing it anymore, and rock band 2 is what I'm back to since it actually offers a challenge. I even liked metallica better, but thats because their my favorite band and the game offers a good challenge.

so, anyone wanna buy my beatles? :D

so, Beatles For Sale?

Do you play with friends (not online)? If not, you should because it makes it 10x better!

so what youre saying is that you need Help selling your game

So you're saying that you were With the Beatles, and after you asked them "Please Please Me" for a Hard Day's Night, you decided to Let It Be, and now need Help! getting your Beatles for Sale.

I'm going to stop there, if I tired any harder, I might just put a Revolver to my head.

@ Durden: Yes I have, but my friends are better at RB than I am, and they tear up expert charts like its nothing. So, in short, unless your looking at the awesome dreamscapes and listening to the awesome music, its a boring game to play. At least for those who like a challenge.

"listening to the awesome music-"

Isn't that why you buy these games? Because you like the music?

If you want totally ridiculous, pain-inducing note tracking, go buy a Guitar Hero game.

Nah, Rock Band has been harder than GH for a while now. And I hate the neversoft GH games, save for metallica.

@Beast

I'm confused. You say it is not a challenge, but you also don't play on expert level?Umm. Anyone else see that obvious solution? Play the challenging difficulties... Like expert...

No I play expert,where did I say I don't?

So I'm interested to see how the dreamscene for Maxwell's Silver Hammer is gonna work.

I mean aside from context, are they going to acknowledge John's absolute hatred of the song and refusal to be a part of it's creation?

It's actually pretty cool. It's a very simple scene, but very well done.

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