The first album to christen this development first for a videogame, let alone any media industry? Why none other than The Who's 1971 perennial classic - and arguably, also their best - Who's Next?.
But that's not all. Secondly, in a purely 'awesome' sense, Harmonix has also unveiled a partial list of 16 of the confirmed artists and songs that will ship with Rock Band on release. Spanning decades of nostaligic head-banging and soothing guitar rhythms, perhaps the perfect example of the benefits of an EA and MTV partnership is the inclusion of (probably) everybody's favourite Metallica anthem, "Enter Sandman".
With only a slight few tracks bearing the burden of being a cover version, not unlike the 'as made famous by' Guitar Hero routine, four man bands can nevertheless expect to be thrashing out the classic likes of the following come later this year:
- 1970s
- Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" (cover)
- Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
- David Bowie - "Suffragette City"
- Mountain - "Mississippi Queen" (cover)
- The Ramones - "Rockaway Beach"
- The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
1980s
- Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive"
- Rush - "Tom Sawyer" (cover)
1990s
- Foo Fighters - "Learn to Fly"
- Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
- Nirvana - "In Bloom"
- Stone Temple Pilots - "Vasoline"
- Weezer - "Say It Ain't So"
2000s
- Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow"
- The Hives - "Main Offender"
- The Strokes - "Reptilia"
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