Rock Band 2 Video Game Song List Revealed
Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii Game Features Music from Bob Dylan, AC/DC
Song List
Rock Band 2's song list boasts a variety of bands from several decades of music, from the 1960's to the present. Similar to the original Rock Band, the game's developers will be using only the original, master recordings of the songs. The official song list, as announced by MTV and Harmonix, is as follows:
- Abnormality - "Visions"
- AC/DC - “Let There Be Rock"
- AFI - “Girl's Gone Grey"
- Alanis Morissette - “You Oughta Know"
- Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box"
- Allman Brothers - "Ramblin' Man"
- Anarchy Club - "Get Clean"
- Avenged Sevenfold - "Almost Easy"
- Bad Company - "Shooting Star"
- Bang Camaro - "Night Lies"
- Beastie Boys - "So Whatcha Want"
- Beck - "E-Pro"
- Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"
- Billy Idol - "White Wedding Pt. I"
- Blondie - "One Way or Another"
- Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
- Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer"
- Breaking Wheel - "Shoulder to the Plow"
- Cheap Trick - "Hello There"
- Devo - "Uncontrollable Urge"
- Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the Pain"
- Disturbed - "Down with the Sickness"
- Dream Theater - "Panic Attack"
- Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf"
- Elvis Costello - "Pump It Up"
- Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
- Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
- Guns N' Roses - "Shackler's Revenge"
- Interpol - "PDA"
- Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song"
- Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"
- Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
- Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation"
- Journey - "Anyway You Want It"
- Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
- Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
- L7 - "Pretend We're Dead"
- Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
- Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"
- Lit - "My Own Worst Enemy"
- Lush - "De-Luxe"
- Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen"
- Megadeth - "Peace Sells"
- Metallica - "Battery"
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Where'd You Go"
- Modest Mouse - "Float On"
- Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"
- Nirvana - "Drain You"
- Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky"
- Panic at the Disco - "Nine in the Afternoon"
- Paramore - "That's What You Get"
- Pearl Jam - "Alive"
- Presidents of the USA - "Lump"
- Rage Against the Machine - "Testify"
- Ratt - "Round & Round"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Give it Away"
- Rise Against - "Give it All"
- Rush - "The Trees"
- Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
- Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong"
- Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
- Soundgarden - "Spoonman"
- Speck - "Conventional Lover"
- Squeeze - "Cool for Cats"
- Steely Dan - "Bodhitsattva"
- Steve Miller Band - "Rock'n Me"
- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
- System of a Down - "Chop Suey"
- Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
- Tenacious D - "Master Exploder"
- Testament - "Souls of Black"
- That Handsome Devil - “Rob the Prez-O-Dent"
- The Donnas - "New Kid in School"
- The Go-Go's - "We Got the Beat"
- The Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway"
- The Guess Who - "American Woman"
- The Libyans - "Neighborhood"
- The Main Drag - "A Jagged Gorgeous Winter"
- The Muffs - "Kids in America"
- The Offspring - "Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)"
- The Replacements - "Alex Chilton"
- The Sterns - "Supreme Girl"
- The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
Other Opportunities for Music
Rock Band 2's set list includes 84 songs in all. However, players will not only be limited to these songs. In another recent announcement, MTV and Harmonix confirmed that gamers will be able to export songs from the original Rock Band to Rock Band 2 (provided they own both games).
Perhaps more impressively, MTV and Harmonix claim that nearly 500 songs will be playable for Rock Band 2 by year's end, when the many downloadable songs available through the companies' online service are taken into account.
Will Wii Owners Be Able to Download New Music?
This leaves one major question about Rock Band 2. Recently, Activision announced that the newest iteration in its popular Guitar Hero series, Guitar Hero World Tour, will support downloadable content for Nintendo Wii.
However, the recently released Rock Band for Wii did not support downloadable content. Instead, Wii gamers were left with Rock Band Track Pack Vol 1, which included a limited number of songs not available in the original Rock Band.
Thus, the big question surrounding Rock Band 2 is whether it will support downloadable content for Wii, allowing Wii gamers to also access the 500+ song library available to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners. Either way, Wii owners will certainly be able to play the songs listed above.
