Lego Rock Band details released

CB Droege 12 Oct, 2009 at 1:35pm ET Article published in Gaming

You're a Lego man, Bowie... A Lego man.

Lego Rock Band is coming out for the holidays this year, and Warner Bros. has finally released the track list, along with some other details. It seems that more than anything else, the new game can be described as a new, flexible Rock Band engine. Players will be able to play any of their current Rock Band songs (with the exception of The Beatles Rock Band playlist) inside Lego Rock Band, or they can export the Lego Rock Band playlist to be played in Rock Band 2 for no additional fee. As expected, all of the standard Rock Band instruments will be compatible with Lego Rock Band. Those who were afraid that the playlist for the new MTV Games production would be mostly kid stuff will be relieved to hear that the playlist looks to be more for those who grew up playing with Lego, rather than just for those who play with Lego now. Notable inclusions are offerings from Queen, Bryan Adams, Carl Douglas, and Jimi Hendrix.

Here is the announced Lego Rock Band playlist for Wii, XBox 360, and PS3:

All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
The Automatic, “Monster”
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
Blur, “Song 2”
Bon Jovi, “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Boys like Girls, “Thunder”
Bryan Adams, “Summer of 69”
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
The Coral, “Dreaming of You”
Counting Crows, “Accidentally in Love”
David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Elton John, “Crocodile Rock”
Europe, “The Final Countdown”
Everlife, “Real Wild Child”
Foo Fighters, “Breakout”
Good Charlotte, “Girls & Boys”
The Hives, “Tick Tick Boom!”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Incubus, “Dig”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
Katrina & The Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
The Kooks, “Naïve”
KoRn, “Word Up!”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Lostprophets, “Rooftops”
P!NK, “So What”
The Police, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
The Primitives, “Crash”
Queen, “We Are The Champions”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”
Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”
Razorlight, “Stumble and Fall”
Spin Doctors, “Two Princes”
Spinal Tap, “Short & Sweet”
Steve Harly, “Make Me Smile”
Sum 41, “In Too Deep”
Supergrass, “Grace”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin”
T-Rex, “Ride a White Swan”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
The Zutons, “Valerie”

Comments

12 Oct 2009 ~ 1:53pm UPSLynx Hmmm...

Spinal Tap, Queen, Lostprophets, Jackson 5, Elton John, Bryan Adams..

Those are some impressive names. This sounds cool.

And the frigging KOOKS?! Naive is a GREAT song!

I just hope the game is difficult. I played the Beatles Rock Band last night for the first time. Sweet game, but WAY to easy. Every single song I played that had drums rated at 5 stars (hardest) and played on Expert, I averaged a 95% on sightreading.

That's WAY too easy.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 1:55pm Thrax How can we milk two franchises harder? I KNOW. COMBINE THEM.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 2:05pm mdsteele47 There better be an unlockable Lego GOB Bluth for Final Countdown. That's all I'm sayin'.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 2:17pm Naim @Thrax: Wake me up when Lego Grand Theft Auto comes out.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 2:25pm Thrax @Naim: Or Lego Metal Gear Solid? Lego Final Fantasy? Lego Mario?
12 Oct 2009 ~ 2:26pm SPIKE09

Thrax wrote:

How can we milk two franchises harder? I KNOW. COMBINE THEM.

WTH Noobs Spike skulks of to play the Peggle WoW edition
12 Oct 2009 ~ 2:57pm wahay I can't add the umlaut to "Spinal Tap"
12 Oct 2009 ~ 3:09pm Linc SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap?
12 Oct 2009 ~ 4:10pm MAGIC Its not an umlaut when it is over an n.

Nothing in that set list makes me want to play the game. Except maybe T-Rex.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 4:29pm primesuspect It's called a diaresis. Also, the official name of SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap also removes the dot from the i.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 6:41pm Linc

MAGIC wrote:

Its not an umlaut when it is over an n.

If it's a METAL UMLAUT.

primesuspect wrote:

Also, the official name of SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap also removes the dot from the i

Mine didn't have one.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 8:11pm primesuspect

Lincoln wrote:

Mine didn't have one.

Calm down, honey, I wasn't confronting your copypasta skills. I was addressing:

wahay wrote:

I can't add the umlaut to "Spinal Tap"
12 Oct 2009 ~ 9:09pm ardichoke P!NK?!?!?! Seriously?!

The guitar hero series just jumped the shark (IMO)
12 Oct 2009 ~ 10:25pm lunchb0x

ardichoke wrote:

P!NK?!?!?! Seriously?!

The guitar hero series just jumped the shark (IMO)

I thought the franchise jumped the shark when they made a Lego version.

That being said, Lego Star Wars is a fun game. I will be cautiously optimistic.
12 Oct 2009 ~ 10:30pm UPSLynx The Lego theming is stupid, but I don't really care about it. Band customization is nice and all in Rock Band, but I'm there to play a challenging rhythm game, not play dress up or watch the video in the background. It's primarily why Beatles Rock Band's presentations means naught to me. I don't pay attention to it.

If this has new, challenging songs, then cool. If it's attempting to ride the (tired) Lego brand to glory, then I won't care about it.
13 Oct 2009 ~ 10:08am Gate28 I played the game at PAX. I was unimpressed with the song list. I did get to play Kung-Fu Fighting on guitar, and I must say it is challenging, but not in a fun way.