10 Songs Crying Out To Be In Guitar Hero 4
By christ, Guitar Hero has taken over our lives in a bad way – to the extent that our left hand is now nothing more than a withered arthritic stump.
But something worries us – the next Guitar Hero expansion pack is going to be about Aerosmith alone. And, obviously, the trouble with that is that Aerosmith are a giant sack of donkey bums. By copping out this badly, Neversoft had better pull its finger out and make sure that Guitar Hero 4 is full of songs that don't make us want to lose the will to live. Songs like these.
You might not agree with some of these choices – and you definitely won't agree with all of them – so feel free to leave any other suggestions you have in the comment box. Meanwhile, here's our massively subjective list of songs that deserve to be included in Guitar Hero 4…
10 – The Bronx, White Guilt
Part of the appeal of Guitar Hero undoubtedly comes from flouncing around your living room with a gruesome pout plastered across your face, and White Guilt is a song that'd let you do that in spades. Like a distilled, updated Guns 'N Roses, it's got enough strut to please the hair metal fans, enough rawness to please the punks and exactly the right tone to fit Guitar Hero's classic rock mandate. And if completing it could unlock a homeless rabbit costume then that'd be even better.
9 – Steely Dan, Reelin' In The Years
Steely Dan. You heard. Now, before you start threatening to string us up by our nutsacks for blaspheming in such an awful way, just hear us out. There's a certain type of Guitar Hero 3 player – let's call them 'wankers' – who enjoy nothing more than going online and filling up their side of the setlist with Through The Fire And Flames again and again even though a) the song's shit and b) they're horrible BO-stinking metal fans who know that they'll beat you because they never do anything else. The best weapon to retaliate with? That's right, the sodding Dan. Plus, you can't deny that you secretly want to have a go at the solo two minutes in.
8 – Beck, E-Pro
Not Beck's best song by a long stretch, but it's easy and beginner-friendly – and it beats the shit out of Slow Ride, wouldn't you say?
7 – Duelling Banjos
The song that multiplayer Guitar Hero was made for, frankly. Plus, if you play Guitar Hero as much as some of the people we know do, there's a strong chance that you're probably starting to look quite inbred. Hacked here for Guitar Hero 2, but surely it’s time for an official release.
6 – Lou Reed, White Light White Heat (Live) Hear sample
No, not the Velvet Underground original – the live version from 1974's Rock N Roll Animal. The version where Lou Reed takes everything that was good about the original, throws it in the bin and covers whatever's left with widdly guitars. And yodelling. We feel the widdly guitars/yodelling combination has been sorely overlooked on Guitar Hero thus far.
5 – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
We've always though it'd be nice if Guitar Hero had a long multipart song in it that wasn't One by Metallica because, you know, it's One by Metallica for God's sake. Nobody wants to listen to that more than a couple of times a decade. So instead, why not use the title track from Stephen Malkmus' new album? Starts off fiddly and quiet, quickly turns into a tendon-snapping wig-out and then collapses into an exhausted heap at the end. Probably like you would if you managed to get a perfect score on expert with it.
4 – Love, Orange Skies
Guitar Hero shouldn't be exclusively about neck-snapping rock, and Orange Skies would offer the lushest of pace-changes. It's laid-back, not insultingly easy to play and, well, just listen to it. It's bloody lovely.
3 – Iron Maiden, Run To The Hills
Not exactly giant Iron Maiden fans around here, but even we can't shake the suspicion that Guitar Hero fans travelled back in time and gave Run To The Hills to Iron Maiden just because it'd be so much fun to play on Guitar Hero. And, yes, we know it's on Rock Band. But we haven't bloody got Rock Band, have we?
2 – Dinosaur Jr, Almost Ready
Quite honestly, any Dinosaur Jr song ever recorded would make us play Guitar Hero until our arms fell off, but after a long period of contemplation we've decided to offer Almost Ready – the opener to last year's comeback Beyond album. You'd have to be an idiot not to see why – the intro alone would test the fiercest Guitar Hero player, not to mention all the freefalling solos. Look at David Letterman's face at the end – if he likes Almost Ready then Guitar Hero definitely would.
1 – Magazine, Shot By Both Sides
How this hasn't made it onto a Guitar Hero instalment yet beggars belief. Listen to that solo. Listen to it. Now imagine hitting a bunch of coloured buttons in time along with it. Feels good, doesn't it? And then there's the chorus – tricky, but not tricky enough to stop you windmilling your arms around with one foot on the coffee table at the same time. Guitar Hero people – we urge you, stick this on Guitar Hero 4. We'll love you forever for it. And isn't our love the reason why you got into this crazy business in the first place?
i think waking the demon by bullet for my valentine should be on it
i agree with Robert Evans
I think they should put on some boston tracks…”Peace of mind” or “more than a feeling”. “Peace of mind” was downloadable for guitar hero 3 but they should put it on this one.
Awesome, the dregs of society continue to fail to electrocute themselves by drooling on their computers while posting comments about the totally bitchin’ soundtrack to their weekly Dungeons and Dragons game.
I swear I’ll kill you for this one Stuart.
I think we need to lose the stuff that’s just a bunch of chords and put in shit like As I lay Dying, Lamb of God, maybe even another AFI tune like Days of the Phoenix, I wouldn’t mind seeing a ballad either (such as Warmness on the Soul by A7x) but I pray that the song The Darkest Nights by AILD is on gh4
u guys rreeeaaalllyy need 2 put sum tool songs on there or even chevelle mudvayne would be kewl 2 but pppllllzzzzzzz put a couple of tool songs on there that wuld b tha sickest thing ever
u guys need 2 put sum 90’s or 2000 songs no more 80’s rock that started 2 get lame aftr tha 1st 2nd n 3rd 1
ok lets say stop w tha 80’s music n howa bout we throw n sum
chevelle
tool
korn
a perfect circle
afi
avenged sevenfold
breaking benjamin
disturbed
evanescence
fall out boy
flyleaf
godsmack
good charllote
hoobastank
incubis
killswitch engage
kittie
lamb of god
linkin park
metallica
mudvayne
my chemical romance
nickel back
our lady peace
ozzy ozbourn
papa roach
peeping tom
p.o.d
saliva
smashing pumpkins
staind
static x
story of the year
system of a down
lost prophets
3 days grace
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who duznt agree w those songs??? plz put this generation rock 4 once 80s r over 20 years ago
ughhhh! papa roach atreyu
any metal ,punk, rock,and stuf that sounds good
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“Is it just coincidence that the people with the absolute worst taste in music want to see it all included in a Guitar Hero game?
Dragonforce? Seriously? As if it’s not nerdy enough that you’re playing a video game about playing the guitar.
Listen up people, because I’m only going to say this once: Metal is for nerds. The reason it does not have a mainstream following is that only obsessive shut ins with the time and desire to examine retarded minutiae about excessively masturbatory instrumentation to the exclusion of all else (including basic personal hygiene) can achieve the insularity necessary to convince themselves that they “get it†and that their favorite terrible band is “goodâ€.
A bit of interesting trivia, furry porn is attributable to this selfsame effect. Way to go, metalheads, as a psychological case you are virtually indistinguishable from a dude in a rabbit costume fucking a hole cut in a teddy bear.”
God I write such amazing stuff.
I’m a metal head and I fucking rule while everybody else is stupid! So there. Told you.
they should definatly put bullet for my valentine on there.
80’s is the shit. But come on Atreyu, System of a Down, Killswitch Engage, and Disturbed deserve to be in a fucken garbage can. There music sucks and it would not be good for Guitar Hero 4. Killswitch Engages songs in it are torture enough. Anything but those bands and crappy bands like it would be perfect for me. Nickelback, My Chemical Romance and Fallout Boy are NOT guitar hero bands either, you might as well put The Offspring in it for christ sakes. Guitar Hero is ment for awesome riffs and amazing solos, not shitty lyrics and copied beats. Anything that has solos that anyone could rock out to would be good for it.btw. Avenged Sevenfold, Korn And Slipknot are just Slayer Wannabes. =)
Also. Hoobastank come on, Who wants to rock out to the love song of The Reason.. Come on admit it NO ONES Does. Ive Found Outta A Reason For Me, To Change Who I Used To Be..And The Reason Is You…. WOOT Thats Fucken Guitar Hero Lyrics Right There LMAO
Im agreeing with some songs on here, like a few people have mentioned its ‘guitar hero’, clues kinda in the name, music isnt just one genre its a variety. its awesome that bands have commisioned some tunes for the game in recent years but yeah lets not say boo to particular types of music cos i bet ur bottom dollar if your rawkin out to with your mates u’ll forget why ur hating the song, cos your not listening, your playing (especially now you dont have to wait your turn for the guitar when you can play drums and vocals). Wether its metal, punk, country, or freakin pop, once you get a few beers and pick up the preverbial axe u’ll lose yourself in a rawktacular moment….just a thought
You’re choices are a bag of crap…there’s no songs on there that I’d enjoy playing.
It needs to be HERO’S!!!!! I agree with Corv and his choices
Hey,
To “gir”
What the hell kinda comment is that?
metal is for nerds? what a stupid thing to say..
I love metal music..but i am not a nerd, keep the stupid comments to yourself a
ANYWAYS id like to see some of THESE bands
on GH4..
TRIVIUM
Slipknot
Killswitch Engage
Korn
System Of A Down
Bullet For My Valentine
Metallica (more)
DragonForce (for a real challenge)
Machine Head
Yes, Gilbert3, you are a nerd. Just because you don’t know it does not make it untrue.
Does anyone know good music any more,
MY LIST:
Disturbed(any song is great)
Three Days Grace/Riot
Linkin Park(any song)
Paramore/Misery Bisness
Daughtry/What I want
Godsmack/(any song)
Nickelback/Animal
This message is for the makers of GH,
could you all PLZ PLZ PLZ make a DISTURBED version of GH, like you did with Aerosmith, PLZ im beggin you Disturbed is my favorite rock band, make it happen PLZ
“Does anyone know good music any more,”
It is apparent that you do not. My evidence is presented below:
“Disturbed is my favorite rock band,”
whats yur fav band, gir
My favorite band is the one that writes the song that convinces you how empty your life is and that you ought to just end it all.
Are you listening, terrible Myspace bands? I swear I’ll buy a million copies of album that contains that single.
As for Disturbed, it takes something special to cover a song by fucking Genesis and make it WORSE.
Wow takes alot of balls 2 talk 2 people like that are u a guy or girl, I have 2 know cause if ur a girl u have GOT to b 1 ugly son of a bitch
Oh god, the dude with a tenuous grasp on the English language and terrible musical taste called me ugly oh woe is me. I’m crying over here seriously.
dude u usck ass. there is absolutely no metal cept maiden. we need some slayer slipknot some korn maybe some bfmv, definetley we need some bodom, ABSOLUTELY NO Nickleback, that was for Rocker-Boy who wanted it, now im beginning to question his sexuallity cause hes a dude and listenes to nicleback ok hes not gay lol. and no dragon! im tired of fuckin 11 year olds sayin “woah im so metal i like dragonforce” and the only song they no is through the fire and flames. and they have millions of better songs. and we need WAY MORE METALLICA! i hear their making a guitar hero for only metallica.
Afterlife-Avenged Sevenfold
Is it just me or does anybody else think there should be some Frank Zappa or Bob Dylan or something?
Some classics like “Hurricane” or “I’m The Slime” or “Cosmik Debris”
I think that the new Rise Against song would kick ass on it too “Re Education Through Labor”
Good choice Amy! I was just about to type the same thing!
My my, there have been some fights breaking out in here, haven’t there?
So I’ve already seen the list, guess that means there’s not much point asking for songs to be on GH4… But I thought I’d post my two cents anyway. Join in the fun.
- Where in GOD’S name is the AC/DC?
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. The harmonies are awesome to sing. Believe me, I had to cover them.
Failing that, Xanadu would be lovely. Although your hands would ache like hell after it, I feel. But I’d be willing to put up with that ^_^.
- I would also feel giddy if Red Hot Chili Peppers made an appearance, that isn’t only on downloadable content. I guess I’d pick maybe Fortune Faded, This Velvet Glove or Slow Cheetah?
- You can Do Magic by America would be a nice little ditty.
- Try Honesty by Billy Talent would be awesome.
- Of course more Metallica is always awesome, though probably best kept for the Metallica Guitar Hero, now? Can’t wait for that, ftr.
- More Megadeth would be good also.
- I am upset that there is nothing by The Headstones or Moist.
- House of the Rising Sun, anyone?
- Also: no Whiskey in the Jar =
- I want some Can’t Explain by The Who, though that’s purely for sentimental reasons
- Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. What a fantastic song, would be amazing to sing along to.
- 2112 by Rush. A seriously long shot, with it being a 20 minute song… But if they just chopped out Temples of Syrinx and banged it on there it would be awesome. (Again, that would be UNbelievable to sing to
- Just once, JUST ONCE, we should have some Black Mages in there? I would scream all over the place if I saw Clash on the Big Bridge on a Guitar Hero.
- Kingdom for a Heart by Sonata Arctica would be amazing. Though Letter to Dana or Shy would be even better singing-wise.
- Debaser by Pixies should definitely be somewhere on there. That would be many lots of fun to play.
- Tie your Mother Down by Queen, fo’ totes.
- All the Way to Reno by REM.
- Death From Above by Smashing Pumpkins. I believe they need to be in every forthcoming game, let’s keep it that way.
- Another A7X song would be just peachy, ta.
- Also: a Ukelele hero would OWN. Who wouldn’t feel on top of the world playing a tiny computer game-based Ukelele? Happiness squared XD.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head… I guess most people won’t like my taste in music. But ah well, I’m not asking you to. I’d just quite like it if a few of those songs turned up ^_^.
11 days and I shall have GH4… 3 Tool Songs… Ahhh, if I were a man I’d be staining my pants.