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[Magik]

Charts for the Locksley pack are up! Screw you, PS3 owners!

All Over Again (guitar and drums

She Does (guitar and drums)

Don't Make Me Wait (bass and drums and just guitar)

I'm surprised; these tracks look like a *lot* of fun.

Wow, they actually do look quite fun to play especially Don't Make Me Wait.

 

[Tiduz]

bought the locksley pack.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

WHOOPS.

Wrong thread.
:lol

 

[Costanza]

I'm gonna defend Costanza on the principle that Megadeth is shit and knock-off Metallica (who has been shit for almost twenty years).

Though, Costanza, if you can honestly tell me you like any other Weezer album after Pinkerton, I might just have to rescind this defense. >:|

I like Red :\

Maladroit, Green and Make Believe aren't very good.

4. George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
5. Blink 182 - Dammit
12. Pennywise - The Western World
14. Sublime - Santeria
19. The Killers - Somebody Told Me

nice

 

[DuckRacer]

So basically Locksley is the Pac-Man CE of Rock Band.

 

[M3wThr33]

So basically Locksley is the Pac-Man CE of Rock Band.

Last minute replacement that's better than what it was replacing?

 

[TheGreatDave]

I like Red :\

Maladroit, Green and Make Believe aren't very good.

When was the last time you listened to Maladroit? It's got such TASTY riffs that it can not be ignored. Lyrically it doesn't do much for me (I find Slob somewhat painful), but I find it much more interesting musically than Red.

 

[Hop]

Someone on the rockband forums said that these were annoucned at PAX as the 20 free songs.

Did pax even start yet?

I don't think that list is legit, but it was likely created through the leaks and rumors and everything so it looks incredibly likely.

I'm just gonna wait 'til PAX actually starts. I wouldn't be surprised if they do announce it then.

 

[Costanza]

When was the last time you listened to Maladroit? It's got such TASTY riffs that it can not be ignored. Lyrically it doesn't do much for me (I find Slob somewhat painful), but I find it much more interesting musically than Red.

A couple months ago I think.

The whole thing just feels forgettable to me.

 

[TheGreatDave]

A couple months ago I think.

The whole thing just feels forgettable to me.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic for it; it's the first Weezer album I bought the day it came out, and I listened to it constantly for weeks. My love for it will live forever.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Sony forced all future games to be compatible and an announcement was coming for current games.

oh. I guess I should have said "something more". thanks anyway.

re: new albums - I'm excited about 1/2 of those so that's good.

ROCK BAND™ ADDS ROCKING THE GREAT DAVE POSTS TO DOWNLOAD CATALOG

Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of The Great Dave to the Rock Band™ Music Store catalog of downloadable content. The Great Dave pack three-pack includes the forum-posting thrills of "Yearly Disc-Based Updates Rock," “Stop Posting Fake Shit” from his conceptual 3453th GAF post, and “I Love Guitar Hero” from his 2008 hit thread. The Great Dave was pivotal in the development of trolling, contrarianism, and bad music taste in the various music game threads. Each post will be available for $1.99 per post (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) or $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the three-pack.

Tracks: The Great Dave 3-pack
“Yearly Disc-Based Updates Rock”
“Stop Posting Fake Shit”
“I Love Guitar Hero”

Price: $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for Sly and the Family Stone 3-pack
$1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per individual post

Locations: Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and PLAYSTATION®Network

:lol :lol

You listened to a full album in just 4 minutes, that's impressive.

I know, right?

Brian Bright needs to seriously shut his mouth. He's getting near Dyack territory.

every interview I've read with his name in it has made me want to punch him. Is he the idiot with the pony-tail?

oh yeah, can't forget to add this again:

We have a new product coming out in the fall called Guitar Hero World Tour, which is the first time you'll have multiple instruments -- drums, mic, bass, a different guitar ...

Harvey Danger - Cream and Bastards Rise - no shit? awesome. I remember saying this would be a great song in Rock band back when M3wThr33 said he talked to the band. Great stuff.

 

[DuckRacer]

Last minute replacement that's better than what it was replacing?

Something that was originally a disappointment and thought to suck when first known, and then it turns out to actually be really good.

 

[TheGreatDave]

If I had my 360, I'd play Pacman CE right now.

 

[Costanza]

You listened to a full album in just 4 minutes, that's impressive.

No, I just listened to a song called Peace Sells... :\

It's not my fucking type of music, jesus christ.

 

[TheGreatDave]

Peace Sells is gonna be amazing to sing. That song + alcohol = GOTY material.

What do you mean, I dont support your system?!
I go to court when I have to!
What do you mean, I cant get to work on time?!
I got nothing better to do!

 

[Costanza]

Oh BTW Dave, I listened to Blue in it's entirety today for the first time in a while. I'm not really sure what I was thinking putting Red above it....

 

[Hop]

Something that was originally a disappointment and thought to suck when first known, and then it turns out to actually be really good.

Like Red Tandy!

 

[TheGreatDave]

Oh BTW Dave, I listened to Blue in it's entirety today for the first time in a while. I'm not really sure what I was thinking putting Red above it....

I think I over rated Red when it came out. I still like it more than Green and Make Believe, but I think my previous claim that it contains the greatest songs the band has made since Pinkerton may have been ever so slightly off the mark...

Blue is perfection. When I was a teenager with a crush on a girl, Pinkerton was my favourite Weezer album. Now I'm older and I've been with the same girl for ages it just can't touch me like Blue. Perhaps when I have my heart broken I can go back to singing Falling For You.

 

[TAJ]

Like Red Tandy!

Eh... great first half, but the second half is complete shit. I can't remember the last time I played all the way through.

 

[Hop]

Eh... great first half, but the second half is complete shit. I can't remember the last time I played all the way through.

On drums the other way around is correct.

 

[AMUSIX]

I always laugh at this image, because it's SO obvious that the person who set this up has never looked at a real drum kit.

 

[TheGreatDave]

On drums the other way around is correct.

On guitar too. I love playing that jam section at the end.

 

[Hop]

On guitar too. I love playing that jam section at the end.

I'll believe someone not liking the guitar jam. Plus if you're a vocalist there's nothing to do. It's really a drummer's song.

Anyway. I'm curious how Locksley came to be in the game. Ill admit I've been poking a few indie bands, trying to get them interesting in being in the game. I'm just kinda wondering if Locksley went to Harmonix or Harmonix went to Locksley.

 

[TAJ]

On drums the other way around is correct.

I have a really hard time playing songs that are completely unlistenable. That's why I can only beat Freya on GH2 with the sound turned off.

 

[Wired All Wrong]

I'll believe someone not liking the guitar jam. Plus if you're a vocalist there's nothing to do. It's really a drummer's song.

Anyway. I'm curious how Locksley came to be in the game. Ill admit I've been poking a few indie bands, trying to get them interesting in being in the game. I'm just kinda wondering if Locksley went to Harmonix or Harmonix went to Locksley.

I think someone on the Rock Band forums said Locksley is the MTV band of the week of September 8th.

 

[Hop]

I think someone on the Rock Band forums said Locksley is the MTV band of the week of September 8th.

Ahh. Got bumped up two weeks, it looks like. Bet when Moving Pictures does arrive it won't be alone.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

got my new bank card today. just spent $50 on Rock Band tracks that I've missed since I stopped buying and I don't even have a third of what I want.

And of course The Who pack was the first thing I downloaded.

 

[dave is ok]

8. Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
14. Sublime - Santeria
16. The Breeders - Cannonball
18. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
19. The Killers - Somebody Told Me


AWESOME

 

[Belgand]

I think I over rated Red when it came out. I still like it more than Green and Make Believe, but I think my previous claim that it contains the greatest songs the band has made since Pinkerton may have been ever so slightly off the mark...

Blue is perfection. When I was a teenager with a crush on a girl, Pinkerton was my favourite Weezer album. Now I'm older and I've been with the same girl for ages it just can't touch me like Blue. Perhaps when I have my heart broken I can go back to singing Falling For You.

It's probably because I'm a Kubrickian robot with absolutely no empathy, but songs don't give me an emotional response. Nor do, well, just about any form of media. I mean, I form an emotional attachment to them, but media, and most especially fictional media, doesn't make me feel.

I mean, I'll acknowledge mood, but emotion? Just not in it for me.

In most music I tend to think of the vocals as simply an instrument. A bit of pleasing melody that works well. I certainly appreciate songs with clever, interesting, well-written lyrics (c'mon, I'm a TMBG fan) or that are trying to make a point about something (again, I'm a fan of good, non-pop punk and classic metal), but detached appreciation is usually as far as it goes for me.

I have a really hard time playing songs that are completely unlistenable. That's why I can only beat Freya on GH2 with the sound turned off.

While I hated the song with a deep passion in GH2 when I saw the video of it on YouTube I found that I liked it a bit more. The repetitive part was terrible to play and mind-numbingly boring in the game, but in the video it had this sort of fun, head-banging, almost moshy feel to it. Not my favorite song by any means, but I was able to see why someone would like it.

 

[RocketDarkness]

Charts for the Locksley pack are up! Screw you, PS3 owners!

All Over Again (guitar and drums

She Does (guitar and drums)

Don't Make Me Wait (bass and drums and just guitar)

I'm surprised; these tracks look like a *lot* of fun.

These...these are actually really catchy. I may have to buy them.

 

[TheGreatDave]

It's probably because I'm a Kubrickian robot with absolutely no empathy, but songs don't give me an emotional response. Nor do, well, just about any form of media. I mean, I form an emotional attachment to them, but media, and most especially fictional media, doesn't make me feel.

I mean, I'll acknowledge mood, but emotion? Just not in it for me.

In most music I tend to think of the vocals as simply an instrument. A bit of pleasing melody that works well. I certainly appreciate songs with clever, interesting, well-written lyrics (c'mon, I'm a TMBG fan) or that are trying to make a point about something (again, I'm a fan of good, non-pop punk and classic metal), but detached appreciation is usually as far as it goes for me.

To be honest I'm more that way now. But you know...teenagers can be awkward. I...don't like to dwell on it. Lets just say Rivers spoke to my HEART.

 

[Hop]

You.... you don't find any emotional movement in music? Like, at all?


Is that what it's like to be British?

 

[acevans2]

Holy shit I love just about all of those 20 free songs. Hope they're for real.

I'm bummed that Rock Band 2 isn't doing a guitar/game bundle like Guitar Hero World Tour. It saves like $30.

 

[Flynn]

Did everybody see the Rock Band 2 intro yet?

 

[Sp3eD]

Texas Flood is going to be the greatest guitar album of all time in Rock Band.

Listening to it all day long.

 

[Struct09]

Did everybody see the Rock Band 2 intro yet?

Yeah, it's in the OP.

The intro isn't bad, but it doesn't have the same impact the intro from RB1 had. I wish they would have differentiated it more - rockers on top of cars in the desert again really?

 

[Affeinvasion]

Agreed...it should have been fighter planes or speedboats or something

/mocking

 

[AstroLad]

Agreed...it should have been fighter planes or speedboats or something

/mocking

They could have done a lot of different, even non-vehicular, things though. Ah well.

 

[M3wThr33]

Can't download All Over Again.
I'll try again later.

(I refuse to buy $2.99 packs)

 

[DuckRacer]

They could have done a lot of different, even non-vehicular, things though. Ah well.

Like a band fucking around in various stadiums. Focus on the Band World Tour again, and document their success, going from a small club with few fans to a massive stadium with tons of fans and the guitarist rocking out on top of a castle or something. It's not that hard to do something different, I've thought of that in literally less than a minute.

 

[Johnkers]

So, who else wants the Locksley pack more then the Rush one?

 

[AMUSIX]

Jury's out on the Locksley pack for me. Might get one of the songs, though.

Bites that there's no music this week for 360, but it does mean we're getting double the number of tracks next week, which is cool.

 

[Eric Hall]

So, who else wants the Locksley pack more then the Rush one?

Not me. I like listening to the Locksley songs, but all of the guitar charts look like they aren't fun to play at all. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't have the money or space to waste on songs I have no interest in playing (I spent my useless song quota on My Curse, Sleepwalker, and Constant Motion this month)

 

[Johnkers]

If I had my 360, I'd play Pacman CE right now.

You might have beat me in Rock Band but my Pacman CE score is better then yours, and really, isn't that all that matters

Not me. I like listening to the Locksley songs, but all of the guitar charts look like they aren't fun to play at all. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't have the money or space to waste on songs I have no interest in playing (I spent my useless song quota on My Curse, Sleepwalker, and Constant Motion this month)

Mmm funny cause I'm not huge (more indifferent) to the songs but the charts look mighty fun.

I also spent my useless song quota on Sleepwalker and Constant Motion though.

 

[Belgand]

You.... you don't find any emotional movement in music? Like, at all?


Is that what it's like to be British?

Nope, I'm not British... I just don't bother to go to sleep so I'm usually up with the Brits despite living in California.

It's not just music though. I don't find emotion in movies or books either. My emotions come exclusively from me and outside influences simply don't affect them. I find it bizarre how they could influence other people even though I realize this is often the case.

I'm detached. I don't care how the singer feels. Why would I? It's just a song to me.

 

[Belgand]

Yeah, it's in the OP.

The intro isn't bad, but it doesn't have the same impact the intro from RB1 had. I wish they would have differentiated it more - rockers on top of cars in the desert again really?

QFT. My first thought when I saw it was that it just reinforces the opinion many of us have that this is just RB1.5 rather than a proper sequel. Even the intro is just minor change.

Like a band fucking around in various stadiums. Focus on the Band World Tour again, and document their success, going from a small club with few fans to a massive stadium with tons of fans and the guitarist rocking out on top of a castle or something. It's not that hard to do something different, I've thought of that in literally less than a minute.

Very true. I'm not sure about everyone else, but Band World Tour actually made me feel less like I was progressing as a band than previous games. I felt like I played a few songs and then I was immediately shoved out the door and told to go somewhere else specifically. I'd play a few more songs and then they kept insisting that I complete the next challenge to move on to a new tier. I didn't just let me go my own way and maybe eventually get around to it. I felt like I was always being pushed to go on to the next big thing rather than actually building towards something. I barely even have any idea what level of success I'm supposed to be at now, but I feel like we've barely even started out and we already have our own tour bus and if I wanted to we could have roadies. There should be a lot longer of a slog between events so I really feel like I'm going around in a van trying to build a fanbase. As it is I'm getting thousands upon thousands of fans for each gig. It just feels crazily excessive. Not spending a few years gigging and spending hard time on the road before the demo we could barely afford to produce gets noticed by a regional indie label. Maybe a zine or blog does a review of that release and we finally start to get noticed by a few hardcore genre fans on the other side of the continent. Save the tour bus and such for when our mainstream label debut (sellouts!) is ignored by the mainstream music press.

Maybe my rock star dreams of being able to make a living by playing a series of mid-level venues are too modest and realistic for the game, but I still feel like I'm being shuttled around very quickly, never given any time to explore each city and build up, and constantly badgered to move on to the next big unlock gig.

Then again, maybe it wasn't intended for us to get five stars whenever we play a show.

 

[McBradders]

Pleasantly surprised by Locksley... they'll certainly do until we can get some real Libertines in there.


HAW!

 

[McBradders]

Nope, I'm not British... I just don't bother to go to sleep so I'm usually up with the Brits despite living in California.

It's not just music though. I don't find emotion in movies or books either. My emotions come exclusively from me and outside influences simply don't affect them. I find it bizarre how they could influence other people even though I realize this is often the case.

I'm detached. I don't care how the singer feels. Why would I? It's just a song to me.

So you're telling me that music does -nothing- for you on an emotional level?

At all?

Really?

 

[Belgand]

So you're telling me that music does -nothing- for you on an emotional level?

At all?

Really?

I don't understand how it would. Why would something be able to manipulate me like that? I mean, if I'm listening to "Panama" then yeah, I wanna jump around and rock the fuck out, but I'm not going to listen to some Weezer where Rivers is being all emo and say that I feel for him and it really speaks to me. It certainly doesn't provoke a sympathetic response. When I hear "Folsom Prison Blues" I mainly just think that it's an interesting story with the sub-thought that Johnny Cash has never actually done hard time and I cannot believe he's badass enough to get away with playing for actual prisoners without getting 31 distinct varieties of shit beaten out of him for pretending he knows how it feels... no matter how sympathetic he's being.

I can acknowledge the mood of a song, but that has far more to do with the tempo than anything else.

 

[Ten-Song]

Looking at the vids, and the Locksley stuff looks pretty fun, I may grab one or two of the songs... that is, when they're actually UP for purchase (stupid 360 getting shafted this week).