Rock Band - Xbox 360

The winning triumvirate of inspired music-game designers at Harmonix, the music industry moguls at MTV and the gaming industry behemoth that is Electronic Arts have brought us what could well be the ultimate music creation/rock god-aping title, the simply and ingeniously entitled Rock Band.

Rock Band is a game in which up to four players - be they in the same room or online together in cyberspace - can jam on drums, lead guitar, bass guitar and vocals. In short, it's the full band experience (unless you have a hankering for fruity rock stuff like pianos or violins).

The game comes with a whopping great song list, predominantly made up of original master recordings, and doesn't stop there. There's also a constantly evolving library of songs available to download.

1960s
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

1970s
Aerosmith - Train Kept a Rollin'*
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Mountain - Mississippi Queen*
The Police - Next to You
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Black Sabbath - Paranoid*
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Deep Purple - Highway Star
KISS - Detroit Rock City
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
The Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides*
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz*

1980s
Rush - Tom Sawyer*
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Faith No More - Epic
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills*

1990s
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Nirvana - In Bloom
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Radiohead - Creep
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

2000s
The Hives - Main Offender
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow
The Strokes - Reptilia
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home
Fallout Boy - Dead on Arrival
The Killers - When You Were Young
New Pornographers - Electric Version

European Exclusive Tracks

Blur - Beetlebum (English)
Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star (English)
Tokio Hotel - Monsoon (English)
Muse - Hysteria (English)
Les Wampas - Manu Chao (French)
Playmo - New Wave (French)
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex (German)
Juli - Perfekte Welle (German)
H-Block X - Countdown to Insanity (German)

*Indicates a cover version.
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