Band Hero Song List, Export Features, and Demo Impressions
Quite a bit of Band Hero news for you today. We've been curious about whether Band Hero songs would be importable to Guitar Hero 5. Turns out 61 out of 65 of them are, for a fee of $5. Songs from World Tour, Smash Hits, and Guitar Hero 5 will be importable into Band Hero, as well. Confusing? Yes, but at least the feature is being offered.
The entire songlist has been released too, and as you'd expect, it is quite pop heavy. I was expecting the entire list to be newer songs for the kiddos, but that's not the case. Looks like a few tunes were included for moms and dads as well.
The Band Hero demo is now available, and shows off Party Play as well as a new "Sing Along" mode. "Song Along" is exactly like generic karaoke, so if you're into that, great. I'm not sure why you wouldn't just sing in normal gameplay, though. The three songs in the demo are about as varied as they come, which seems to be the order of the day for Band Hero.
- 3 Doors Down - "When I'm Gone"
- The Airborne Toxic Event - "Gasoline"
- The All American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
- Alphabeat - "Fascination"
- Aly and AJ - "Like Whoa"
- Angels & Airwaves - "The Adventure"
- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - "Steal My Kisses"
- Big Country - "In a Big Country"
- The Bravery - "Believe"
- Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
- Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me (Live)"
- Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry"
- Corinne Bailey Rae - "Put Your Records On"
- Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silences"
- Culture Club - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"
- Dashboard Confessional - "Hands Down"
- David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
- Devo - "Whip It"
- Don McLean - "American Pie"
- Duffy - "Warwick Avenue"
- Duran Duran - "Rio"
- Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
- Everclear - "Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)"
- Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
- Filter - "Take A Picture"
- Finger Eleven - "Paralyzer"
- The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
- Hilary Duff - "So Yesterday"
- Hinder - "Lips Of An Angel"
- Jackson 5 - "ABC"
- Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
- Jesse McCartney - "Beautiful Soul"
- Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation"
- Joss Stone - "You Had Me"
- Katrina and The Waves - "Walking On Sunshine"
- The Kooks - "Naive"
- KT Tunstall - "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"
- The Last Goodnight - "Pictures Of You"
- Lily Allen - "Take What You Take"
- Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
- Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "The Impression That I Get"
- Nelly Furtado - "Turn Off The Light"
- N.E.R.D. - "Rockstar"
- No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
- No Doubt - "Don't Speak"
- OK Go - "A Million Ways"
- Papa Roach - "Lifeline"
- Parachute - "Back Again"
- Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
- Poison - "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
- Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - "Kids"
- The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
- Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
- Santigold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
- Snow Patrol - "Take Back the City"
- Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
- Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
- Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
- Taylor Swift - "Picture To Burn"
- Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"
- Tonic - "If You Could Only See"
- The Turtles - "Happy Together"
- Village People - "YMCA"
- Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"
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My favorite moments in games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero is where everyone hits the Overdrive at the same time, or every nails their parts during the solo, because then the song sounds incredible, and we've all got something to pat ourselves on the back about ("Did you see how fast those stars came during that 8x? Awesome. We gotta do that again."). Those songs would do the same, I think, but maybe it's just me -- I guess I don't think I'd feel that as strongly with some of those songs.
But I still want that Yellowcard song. My friends and I would love that.
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Alot of those songs don't exactly scream "This song needs to be played as a band." There's plenty of pop songs, just seems a little unusual for a series of games that built itself on notable rock songs.
I guess they're trying to broaden the target market for the game by trying to appeal to a larger group.
I like the plethora of 80s songs, but they're not enough to get me to buy the game, since I'd be having to play through all the songs I don't like just to get to the few that I do.