Rock Band Weekly: Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Joan Jett

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 30th 2009 at 11:30AM }

Next week's Rock Band DLC could have been a little Dave Grohl fiesta, offering up tracks from his days back in Nirvana and now with Foo Fighters, but it turns out that he wasn't with the genre defining grunge band until after Bleach, which happens to be part of next week's DLC. But, we're pretty sure Grohl was with Foo Fighters during the time they recorded the tracks that make up the band's third DLC pack for the music game.

Completely unrelated to Grohl (maybe there's a six degrees of separation in there?), there will also be one track from Ms. Joan Jett thrown in the mix. Check out the update after the break, along with what portable players can expect from Rock Band Unplugged's DLC.

Select a platform below to view complete DLC listing:

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: November 3 / November 5 (PS3)

Foo Fighters Pack 03* (560

/ $6.99):

"Best of You" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"The Pretender" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Wheels" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Word Forward" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Nirvana Bleach Pack* (440

/ $5.49):

"About a Girl" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Blew" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"School" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Individual songs:

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "Fake Friends" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

*Track packs not available for purchase on Wii; all tracks sold individually.

PSP
Available: November 5

Bullet For My Valentine – "Waking the Demon" ($1.99)
System of a Down – "Toxicity" ($1.99)

Tags: dlc, foo-fighters, harmonix, joan-jett, mtv-games, nirvana, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-weekly, rock-band-wii, rock-band-wiikly

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Koenn @ Oct 30th 2009 11:31AM

More Foo Fighters, eh?

...welp.

mywhitenoise @ Oct 30th 2009 11:55AM

Seriously, they should have named Rock Band, "Foo Fighters: Rock Band"

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Oct 30th 2009 11:59AM

Rock Band: Dave Grohl

Spike (GT: SitriStahl) @ Oct 30th 2009 2:54PM

well the game IS called foo fighters: the video game(with a little bit from other bands too)

Hafkie @ Oct 30th 2009 11:33AM

I've got another confession to make.
I'm your fool.
Everyone's got their chains to break
Holdin' you.
Were you born to resist or be abused?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST.......

Hafkie @ Oct 30th 2009 11:36AM

For my real comment. The 4 foos songs are all great, but I really hope this is the last Foo Fighter pack for a long time. Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters both have over 25+ songs, and theres more Pearl Jam live tracks rumored too. No thank you, there's other bands.

The Nirvana songs are great. Not the "Big Three" that everyone wants, but nice to see some more Bleach.

GewurztraminerX @ Oct 30th 2009 11:49AM

I find it interesting that I keep getting their songs in Rock Band. I don't own a single Foo Fighters album and yet I know more of the songs than I would have thought.

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Oct 30th 2009 11:54AM

There is a whole lot of Foo Fighters, but they're kind of an awesome band. I can't lie, I'm glad to finally get The Pretender. My daughter loves that song. And Best of You...don't even get me started.

At the same time, I'm sure we could all name a dozen bands with great songs that are being overlooked. I guess that's life.

Bobby Kotick 2: Echoes @ Oct 30th 2009 2:07PM

It's not their fault that the Foo Fighters is a good band. Can't say the same for Pearl Jam after the Ten album, though.

Still waiting for Long Road to Ruin. Rock Band 3 maybe?

WiredKnight: Keeper of Threads @ Oct 30th 2009 3:15PM

Would those "big three" be Smells Like Teen Spirit, Lithium, and Come as You Are?

I know those are the ones I'm holding out for. I keep making the joke that the only ones on Rock Band are the ones I skip when listening to their albums.

pibs @ Oct 30th 2009 4:46PM

@Troy Powers: Frank Sinatra "That's Life" confirmed ;D haha I wish! That will probably be on Activisions new Big Band Hero coming Summer 2010!!!

Oh wait, I shouldn't give them any more ideas huh

VaultBoy @ Oct 30th 2009 5:26PM

"Best of You" is one of my favorite Foo Fighters songs, I was disappointed that GH Van Halen got it first considering the sub-par quality (even for a Guitar Hero game). A good band can have their whole catalog on the game for all I care. Why the hell is GH getting more Kiss and we have to wait on the RB end, they need their own RB title, or at least an extensive pack (think Iron Maiden). Yeah, the BIG THREE Nirvana songs are annoying and why the hell did GH have to get it first! RB needs to get the BIG 3, hopefully in RB3 (hehe coincidence? I think not.) and get off of this grunge kick. Nothing against the Foo Fighters, but enough already with them, Pearl Jam, etc. More Offspring wouldn't be bad. Bad Religion, Pennywise, Bullet for my Valentine, or one up GH again and do a Misfits pack.

Riley @ Oct 31st 2009 3:42AM

Maybe because Kiss's music is terrible?

Fane [Grammar Police - Power Of Pedantry] @ Oct 31st 2009 5:52PM

@Halfkie

You forgot to mention the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who also have around 20 songs in the game.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at the full Californication album, though.

Demaar @ Oct 30th 2009 11:35AM

Finally got Best of You up there. I really don't need more Foo Fighters though...

Tann @ Nov 1st 2009 11:14AM

I LOVE TEH FOOS

now i need MORE ms points -_-!

LeadBoxx @ Oct 30th 2009 11:38AM

Dave aint playing with the Foos right now. He is playing with Josh Homme again and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. They are *THEM CROOKED VULTURES*

VIEW THE EPICNESS--
http://www
.themcrookedvultures.
com/

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Oct 30th 2009 11:57AM

Yeah, I hope some of their songs pop up in RB when the album is released. I saw these guys in Chicago. It was...uhhh...pretty fucking good.

VaultBoy @ Oct 30th 2009 5:38PM

Thanks for the link, I heard about them a while back and forgot all about it. Fucking awesome though. The Queens of the StoneAge music that has been popping up in games lately has been less than thrilling.

Gaucho @ Oct 30th 2009 11:39AM

:/ I was hoping for Lithium or Heart Shaped Box

baby sea tuna @ Oct 30th 2009 11:52AM

Yeah, I thought maybe they finally put up the remaining Nevermind holdout songs. Not that I don't like Bleach, I'm just too old to scream that much.

Gaucho @ Oct 30th 2009 12:58PM

Ha, I hear ya. I tried doing the vocals to Children of Bodom's Are you Dead Yet... Needless to say I failed out and my neighbors came to complain about the noise... at 7pm.

dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 30th 2009 11:41AM

Let's play the guessing game. How long will it be until the next Foo Fighters pack? My guess is... ... ... 7 months.

Go!

Brambler @ Oct 30th 2009 11:43AM

I can NEVER get enough FOO! This is awesome!

CLShortFuse @ Oct 30th 2009 11:49AM

BLEACH!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Martin @ Oct 30th 2009 11:57AM

I like Foo Fighters as much as the next guy, but really? Let's try to get some bands that *don't* have an entire album and then some already in the store.

And what's up with RBN? I haven't heard anything out of that camp lately.

Ravnos @ Oct 30th 2009 11:58AM

Dave Grohl and Joan Jett are connected through Pat Smear. Dave and Pat played together in both Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, and Joan Jett produced The Germs' only full-length, (GI). Pat Smear was the guitar player for the Germs, for those of you who may not know.

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Oct 30th 2009 12:01PM

Six Degrees of Dave Grohl.

Jimmy Hendrix. GO!

dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 30th 2009 12:01PM

An excellent, informative post!

Judd @ Oct 30th 2009 12:06PM

Also, two years ago Joan Jett played with Motörhead and Alice Cooper. And Lemmy from Motörhead sang on a Dave Grohl album which came out 5 years ago.

I'm not a music buff. I just use Wikipedia.

Neebs @ Oct 30th 2009 12:14PM

Troy:
Jimi played guitar.
Dave plays guitar.

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Oct 30th 2009 12:21PM

@Neebs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

rcf1105 @ Oct 30th 2009 12:10PM

The Foo Fighters pack is THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST....

Jim @ Oct 30th 2009 12:13PM

@Troy Powers,

Norton rules

@Foo Fighters haters,

Yeah, right now a lot of FF songs are popping up... just like Rush a year ago.
Seems like a trend to me. If they are working on various bands and some offer deals and tracks faster than others... it stands to reason that a lot of tracks from each band would end up for sale at or around the same time.
Of course, I am speculating and could be entirely wrong. they could just be posting FF songs just to piss YOU off. It seems to be working too.

WiredKnight: Keeper of Threads @ Oct 30th 2009 3:19PM

It's really just that there's so much of it. We'd be annoyed if it was any band getting so much more attention than the others. One of the big selling points of Rock Band is the variety, you don't really get that by having 30 songs by the same artist.

KIMP @ Oct 30th 2009 12:15PM

Classic Jett!
Awesome!

And some Nirvana from "Bleach"!!!

:)

Zamn10210 @ Oct 30th 2009 12:18PM

You can never have enough Dave Grohl.

Nicholas Muldoon @ Oct 30th 2009 12:31PM

I don't think it's really fair to call them "Foo Fighters Haters" just cause they're complaining about how much Foo Fighters there is, I mean they have more tracks in the game than anyone else. I just think 24 tracks for one band is alot unless they're gonna put out a Beatles-style game. I actually like the Foo Fighters, they're not my favorite band but I do love The Colour and The Shape and bought the full album about a year or however many months ago it was. It's just with all these track packs every week people are hoping to see artists new to the series.

I for one am personally hoping for more Radiohead seeing as if you ask most Radiohead fans they'd probably tell you they hate or are ambivalent to Creep and that while My Iron Lung was a nice step in the right direction, we're still hoping to see some OK Computer stuff.

Baanu_Rass @ Oct 30th 2009 1:03PM

With the release of L:RB we'll have the same number of Foo Fighters songs in RB as GH:VH has Van Halen. Wish we would have got Generator though.

Peter Moore [Planeteer | Power of Fucking Your Mother] @ Oct 30th 2009 1:09PM

I don't get it.

Why are people complaining about more songs for download?

If it's a band you don't like, don't download it, no one's forcing you, and it's not like they had to cancel other songs to get these out there.

I thought the "dream" was for almost all songs to be available on one platform. Why would you guys be complaining about that?

mywhitenoise @ Oct 30th 2009 2:23PM

"If it's a band you don't like, don't download it, no one's forcing you, and it's not like they had to cancel other songs to get these out there."

Yes it does. By taking time to chart those 3 Foo songs, they could have spent that time on more varied artists.

Peter Moore [Planeteer | Power of Fucking Your Mother] @ Oct 30th 2009 2:24PM

They have more than 3 people charting songs, dude.

absolutfireman @ Oct 30th 2009 1:23PM

IS SOMEONE GRABBING THE BREAST, THE BREAST, THE BREAST, THE BREAST OF YOU?

Tyger @ Oct 30th 2009 1:41PM

So when is Poker Face coming to RB?

Tyger @ Oct 30th 2009 1:42PM

So when is Poker Face coming to RB?

Tyger @ Oct 30th 2009 1:43PM

ugh...

Matt @ Oct 30th 2009 10:28PM

Hopefully never. But the part in this week's South Park where the guys are playing that on GH is hilarious.

The Commenter Formerly Known as (kbomb1upc) @ Oct 30th 2009 2:04PM

I'm a black man that loves me some Foo Fighters... I've been waiting for these two songs for a while. They are probably my two favorite Foo Fighter songs. Don't get me wrong, My Hero is good but mostly because of its movie reference and I fell in love with Everlong when I played it on Rock Band 2, but I loved these two for a long time. When I finally saw the two songs on Tap Tap 3 (for the iPhone), I knew there was hope. Thank you Rock Band for giving me all the Foo Fighters I want/need....

The Commenter Formerly Known as (kbomb1upc) @ Oct 30th 2009 2:14PM

I just freaked out... the Foo Fighters greatest hits CD is comes out next week (Nov. 3) and its only 10 bucks at Amazon. I can't tell you how I've been waiting to get a Greatest Hits CD because their good songs are on so many different albums. I'm still sad I don't see DOA but can you say Pre-ordered.... http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-Foo-Fighters/dp/B002OFWG7E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1256926101&sr=8-3

boogienites @ Oct 30th 2009 2:25PM

The Foo Fighters are fantastic and am really pleased that the Best of You is finally on there. They definetly need more Radiohead though, Paranoid Android, 2+2=5, There There, Climbing up the Walls, The Bends, Street Spirit, High and Dry etc. I could just go on and on and I bet the number of downloads would be huge.

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