Rock Band 3 (8/20/10 - All Songs Confirmed)

**espher** · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:05 pm Post subject:

I almost wanted to start a new thread for this, but I'm not entirely sure if it's really a poll thread or not, but I was curious as to which songs you people found to be your hidden gems (i.e. songs that weren't on your radar before the setlist came out and/or that you thought you'd hate but you really like on at least one instrument). Try to limit yourself to three, I guess.

For me, it'd be...

Dover - King George
Ida Maria - Oh My God
The Raveonettes - Last Dance

All three were pleasant surprises *shrug*.

**fUNC** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Milwaukee

Roxette- The Look (a one-hit wonder from my childhood that I'd completely forgotten about- turns out it's just as catchy as I remembered)
The Sounds- Living in America (bought the CD based off hearing this one song back in the day- turns out it aged beautifully. Keys are really fun)
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi... (loved the song already, but it's easy and wonderfully weird to play in the game)

I'll second the King George and Ida Maria mentions, too. Fantastic songs. The best part? If you have an even fair amount of DLC, there's little to no repetition in the setlist when playing through the career.

Need You Tonight on drums can go DIAF though.
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**Blehgopie** · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 1218

Antibodies, Living in America, and The Look are all awesome songs I wasn't expecting to be awesome.

Well, I was kind of expecting Living in America to be awesome, because I have that one DLC cover of Song With a Mission from way back in the day.
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**NoThru22** · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 221 Location: Bel Air, MD

Dover and Saturday Night were surprising for me.

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**machetemonkey** · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 3043 Location: Minneapolis, MN

My hidden gems... hmm...

1) False Alarm by The Bronx. I've always been aware of the Bronx, but to see a straight up hardcore song by them appear on the setlist was really a pleasant surprise.

2) Oye Mi Amor/Me Enamora by Mana/Juanes: I wasn't really excited about the spanish songs too much, but both turned out to be pretty darn fun to play, and Me Enamora even had a pretty cool solo. Definitely more enjoyable than I had anticipated

3) Viva La Resistance! by Hypernova: Never heard of the band, never heard of the song, yet just plain awesome all the way around. High energy, not terribly repetitive, challenging but not insanely hard... Definitely one of my favorite setlist tracks now.

Honorable Mention: Humanoid by Tokio Hotel. I've never been a fan of Tokio Hotel, and while this song isn't terribly interesting to play, it's far and away the best song of theirs (playability wise) in the RB platform, as well as being a surprisingly awesome song to listen to, in my opinion.

Similarly, here are my 3 disappointments:

1) Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Dead by The Riverboat Gamblers. I've been hearing about The Riverboat Gamblers for a good couple years now, as a "great return to punk music" but I had never gotten a chance to listen to them. Perhaps this is my fault for not listening to the song beforehand, but I was really excited to play it in RB3 to see what all the fuss was about, but when I finally did I realized they just sounded like Fallout Boy. Not bad, per-se, but not nearly as great as my friends had lead me to believe.

EDIT: The more I listen to this track the more I can see their distinction from other pop-punk bands. They still aren't my favorite but I approve. Also this track is pretty fun on drums.

2) Midlife Crisis: I can only speak for guitar and keys so far, but this song was a huge disappointment. I love the song, but sustained chords for pretty much the entire thing? Occasionally there was a little guitar lick that was enjoyable but that was pretty rare. I'd still say a good addition to the setlist, but still disappointing to play compared to Epic from RB1.

Edit: Not terrible on drums. But not great either.

3) What do you know? I can't think of a 3rd one. Every other song I played I either knew not to expect much going into it (IE: Last Dance) and hence wasn't disappointed, or matched/exceeded my expectations on at least one or more instruments.

I'd say that's a good setlist to me.

NOW A QUICK NOTE ON AMY WINEHOUSE: Beat me up for it if you will, but I'm a huge fan of Rehab on-disc. It may not be the most fun to play, but it's not only a popular song (great for parties), but a song in a style/genre that isn't really present in rock band at the moment. Basically, love it or hate it, there's nothing else like it in the game, and that's why I appreciate it.

Edit: Played drums some more and found something cool. The stock sounds you play in fills or at the beginning/end of songs are a lot better. They haven't quite gotten to the GH standard of taking samples from the songs, but in RB3 they change to best fit the song itself. A great example is they switch to Electronic Drum samples in Need You Tonight. I think this makes playing fills a lot more enjoyable.

**Bront** · Joined: 09 Oct 2010 Posts: 929

Antibodies is cathy, and the Bass chart is fun, but I can't pass the bugger on Bass or Guitar (I only tried once on bass though, died at the large HOPO poart towards the end.)

Always loved Heuy Lewis and the News, but Power of Love is more fun to play than I expected. Not difficult, but a lot of movement for a chord-fest-esque song, and a fun solo. I hope we get more too, because I think some of the do-wap harmonies will be a blast to sing.

Break On Through (To the Other Side) is more fun on guitar than I expected.

Been surprised by the songs I haven't hated either. Didn't expect to like some of the 2000s stuff either, but Combat Baby, Rehab, In a Big Country, and Viva La Revolution aren't bad (Though Viva's guitar chart isn't the most fun thing in the world). This is more musically than chart driven, which is more of how I play.

I still have to hit a lot of the set list though. Given how busy I'll be, might be a week or two before I hit every song at least once.
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Quick bump- GameStop has new listings for the Mustang.

11/3- PS3
11/9- 360
11/22- Wii

ALKGFFFASLKFADSULFASKF. Please let the Wii date be sooner. >.>
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**CyberRaiza** · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1194

i dont want to start a new thread for this so what peripheral is used for pro keys is it the standard 70 dollar keyboard?
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For the love of god will someone tell me how to play keyboard on guitar?
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**thespike** · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 3198 Location: Illinois

Surprises for me were Dover - King George, Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Something Brighter and Tegan and Sara - The Con. I discovered The Con back when it was announced and for some reason I really liked it.

Antibodies was disappointing, not that fun to play. It's fun to sing though, kind of. Rehab is bad but not as bad as I thought it would be.
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