Amazon Deal of the Day: Beatles: Rock Band for under $30

Standalone but there's 3 downloadable albums for it

Thanks man.

That's what I was wondering but my guess is no....it can't....if it could I would just Gamefly it like I did the RB1 disc, pay the $5 copy fee and send it back.....

It's standalone (no way to export) as it includes features that are unavailable in Rock Band (like up to 3 vocalists at the same time singing harmonies). Also Beatles music is too expensive to licence like this and it's pretty much a miracle that this game actually exists in the first place. It is also awesome. Definitely the best music game out there (because of the songs if you like the Beatles and on the technical and gameplay layer if you don't).

I appreciate the information. Think I will pick this up today then.

So buy the bundle, then sell the copy of the game it comes with.

Wow zoot suit YOU ARE THE MAN!

Life must feel so empty for you.

The mic stand is cool though. Is that sold as a stand alone peripheral? That would be a deal.

That special Beatles Kool-Aide that every baby boomer drank 40 years age? Yeah, stay away from that shit. It's obviously poison. Poison that lets you live well into old age.

So basically you don't like it because everyone else does?

Try here - http://www.americanmusical.com/ItemList--Microphone-Stands--m-681

I know they aren't the mic stands you were looking for, but you should be happy to get any information at all considering you have no soul.

Actually, the mic stand is incredibly crappy. Completely unadjustable. You can't "pose it" in any way, as it can only point upwards, there's no joints, or whatever you call them. It's all a single piece of pipe. No way to use it if you want to sit down or sing while playing drums.
I prefer the $10 ones I use in the studio.

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Let me guess.

You think talent only exists in the form of blistering solos, constant double-bass, and being an unknown.

How's this? Mike Portnoy, regarded as a great drummer, cites Ringo Starr as one of his influences. "But I'm an all knowing douchebag, and I say no talent so how can this be?" you may be asking yourself. Well, this is why. Once you get past the part where you, like every other cliche music "expert", cite one of their early bubblegum pop songs, you should probably decide to listen to albums that most musicians regard as the best albums of all time? The Beatles didn't do anything amazing outside of what, let me emphasize this with caps, THEY wanted to do. Write an over the top song about death, which no one had ever really done? Check. Change their image to throw away "The Fab Four" to come back with songs that sounded nothing like before and were inventive and revolutionary as one of the first popular concept albums? Check.

You think the Beatles were good because everyone liked them? People hated the Beatles. Americans burned their albums in a religious protest. The Beatles were internationally adored in an age before you could just log-in to your new fix of music. Many people were adored for a little and then later forgotten. The Beatles have been a mainstay for almost 50 years, not because they were a bunch of no-talent cheeseballs, but because they took chances musically, lashed out at their government, and did things that other bands, who didn't last because of this, wouldn't do. They didn't care what anyone wanted but themselves, and their music flourished because of it.

You can argue that they weren't musically amazing, and no, they weren't amazing guitarists (although George wasn't bad at all), and Ringo wasn't the best drummer on Earth. You'd be right there. Compare them to the Backstreet Boys or the Jonas Bros., but you tell me with a straight face if you think either of those bands will be so highly regarded in 45 years. No.

@Zac LaCombe

Your assessment of my musical taste is slightly off. My favorite band of all time is Pink Floyd. If you were to ask me what I'm listening to now, I would respond with names like Muse, Arcade Fire, Rolling Stones, Dragonforce, and Vivaldi. I accept and enjoy all forms of music.

What bothers me the most about The Beatles, is the hyperbole that is always used in conjunction with them: the greatest of all time. Wrong.

Music is cumulative. Their foundation of their music was built on the work that was done by Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. How often does someone refer to Chuck Berry as the greatest musician of all time? Before him it was Charles Brown and Nat King Cole. To call The Beatles the greatest, spits in the faces of these other, more talented and influential musicians.

Yes. They may have "zigged" when others "zagged," but they were not, and are not the only ones to have done so. The aforementioned Pink Floyd did many things musically that, at the time, were progressive; hence the genre to which they are most commonly associated. Rush. Hendrix. Zeppelin. The list of musical pioneers is limitless. Each possesses specific talents that made them all great. Who is to say they were not the greatest? Furthermore, who is to say that The Beatles are?

Don't take my dislike of The Beatles as ignorance. I own all of their albums. They have some songs that are good in my opinion. Helter Skelter rocks. Blackbird is great. Greatest of all time? No.

Wow...

"Nobody but Michael Jackson and Elvis can truly compare to the beatles."

Maybe if you are talking about the levels of pure fanaticism. There are MANY bands that exceeded their levels of talent, both musically and conceptually.

PS - Don't think I didn't notice the Freudian slip of not capitalizing "the beatles." They were not as great as the other two that you mentioned.

For someone who uses an avatar of a character who is wise, benevolent, and all knowing you don't know jack s$#% about music.

@zoot:
It's not freudian unless it's sexual, get it right "grammar hammer". And name some bands that you think exceed their levels of talent

@ Dartin

Misuse of the term "Freudian slip" is not a grammatical error, just a misunderstanding of the word. So take your quotation marks and stick them up your ass.

As for comparable talents, see my response above.

@zoot
They are both incorrect usages of the english language, think about that next time you complain about someone's grammar. good to see you keeping it classy.

By the way Dartin...

A Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious ('dynamically repressed') wish, conflict, or train of thought. The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.

No mention of sex there, superstar. So I guess I was right both times. Huh, who would have guessed?

I like Muse, but indeed I have painfully noticed how pretentious 'scene' kids seem to think that they're so 'edgy and cool' for liking Muse, and sometimes they think that 'Knights of Cydonia' was their first single or something.

I stopped listening to them after Absolution, they're good, but I doubt we'll be talking about them in 10-15 years.