LEGO Rock Band (check out our comprehensive preview), due out this holiday season, will offer over 40 songs. In keeping with Harmonix’s music platform ethos (and confirming an earlier rumor), most of the on-disc tracks will be exportable to PS3/360 hard drives for use in Rock Band or Rock Band 2. And they mean “most” — speaking to me at a recent demo of LEGO Rock Band, Harmonix publicist John Drake took a thinly-veiled jab at Activision:
When we say we’re exporting a disc, we mean that we’re exporting, like, ninety-plus percent of the disc, not thirty-plus percent of the disc.
Of course, Drake was referring to Guitar Hero 5 and its compatibility with merely 35 of the 86 songs on the Guitar Hero World Tour disc. (Actually, John, that comes out to just over 40%, but we’ll let the semantics slide since you’ve got a valid point nonetheless.) He noted that he could confirm only “ninety-plus percent” because Harmonix is still working licensing the rest of the songs; they hope to allow for exporting all of the on-disc tracks.
[Update: Drake just confirmed to me on Twitter that Harmonix has secured licensing for 100% of the game’s 45 songs, so you’ll be able to play them all in Rock Band or Rock Band 2!] However the export key will cost twice as much as exporting Rock Band.
Check out the full set list below:
Console versions:
All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
The Kooks, “Naïve”
The Automatic, “Monster”
KoRn, “Word Up!”
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Blur, “Song 2”
Lostprophets, “Rooftops”
Bon Jovi, “You Give Love a Bad Name”
P!NK, “So What”
Boys like Girls, “Thunder”
The Police, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
Bryan Adams, “Summer of ’69”
The Primitives, “Crash”
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
Queen, “We Are The Champions”
The Coral, “Dreaming of You”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Counting Crows, “Accidentally in Love”
Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”
David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”
Elton John, “Crocodile Rock”
Razorlight, “Stumble and Fall”
Europe, “The Final Countdown”
Spin Doctors, “Two Princes”
Everlife, “Real Wild Child”
Spinal Tap, “Short & Sweet”
Foo Fighters, “Breakout”
Steve Harly, “Make Me Smile”
Good Charlotte, “Girls & Boys”
Sum 41, “In Too Deep”
The Hives, “Tick Tick Boom!”
Supergrass, “Grace”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin”
Incubus, “Dig”
T-Rex, “Ride a White Swan”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
The Zutons, “Valerie”
Katrina & The Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
Nintendo DS version
All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
P!NK, “So What”
The Automatic, “Monster”
The Primitives, “Crash”
Blur, “Song 2”
Queen, “We Are The Champions”
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Counting Crows, “Accidentally in Love”
Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”
David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters”
Europe, “The Final Countdown”
Spin Doctors, “Two Princes”
Good Charlotte, “Girls & Boys”
Sum 41, “In Too Deep”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Supergrass, “Grace”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin’”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
Katrina & the Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Published: Oct 12, 2009 08:00 am