Wired.com has obtained a partial list of upcoming downloadable songs for Rock Band that includes Queen, The White Stripes, and The Raconteurs.
The list, which comes from a highly-placed source close to Harmonix, features a number of interesting bits of news about the near future of the Rock Band franchise, including confirmation that the songs from the upcoming kid-oriented game Lego Rock Band will be exportable to your hard drive, if you want to play them in your main Rock Band set list instead of having to swap the disc. (Our source says a small fee will likely be attached to this feature, as was the case when exporting the songs from the original Rock Band.)
While Activision primarily releases music on game discs, many of which are incompatible with one another, Harmonix has only released discs and downloads with songs that can be saved on a user’s hard drive and played in one big set list in Rock Band or Rock Band 2. (Beatles Rock Band is the only exception.)
The list of songs is a brief snippet from the company’s competitive analysis — it shows the artists that are available on Activision’s competing Guitar Hero 5 disc that are also available in Harmonix’s large library of songs, which the company says will reach over 1000 by the end of 2009.
Many of the songs on the Guitar Hero 5 disc are already available on Rock Band, with several more on the way. What the list doesn’t point out is that Guitar Hero 5 does have plenty of major artists and songs that Rock Band doesn’t: most notably Dire Straits, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, and of course Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
While Queen’s big hits “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions” will be part of the Lego Rock Band disc, an additional ten-song list of downloadable titles featuring “Under Pressure” is slated for an October release.
The Raconteurs’ “Steady as She Goes” and two other songs will be downloadable later that month. The White Stripes’ DLC pack in November will include “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,” “Icky Thump,” and “Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine.”
Finally, some of the indie bands that will launch with the roll-your-own Rock Band Network are included on the list: Attack! Attack! and The Duke Spirit.
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