'Leaked' Rock Band 2 setlist fails to convince us

by Chris Greenhough { Jul 9th 2008 at 5:00PM }

At first glance, this purported footage of Rock Band 2's entire tracklist could easily pass as the real thing. Fooling the entire internet is a tricky business, however, and closer examination of its contents reveal some glaring inconsistencies. For one -- well, for three -- we found a trio of song names that had been misspelt. Also, what's with the difficulty markers, and the way they move about? Hmm. And again, for effect: Hmmmmm.

Still, if this is true, then it's one hell of a line-up; Comfortably Numb could seal the deal for us on its own (you can see the entire list after the break). But no, we're calling this fake, even if it is several shades of awesome -- what say you?

Warm-up

"If you Wanna Get to Heaven" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
"Gold Lion" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Possum Kingdom" by Toadies
"Black Betty" (could be numerous artists)
"Don't Speak" by No Doubt
"Black" by Pearl Jam
"Drain You" by Nirvana
"Farmhouse" by Phish
"Santaria" by Sublime (actually spelt "Santeria")

Apprentice

"You Oughta Know" Alanis Morissette
"We Got the Beat" by The Go-Go's
"Float On" by Modest Mouse
"Kiss Me Deadly" by Lita Ford
"Atomic" by Blondie (or Party Animals?)
"Heartbreaker" (could be Led Zeppelin, Pat Benatar, or several other artists)
"Piece of My Heart" (various artists)
"Rock the Casbah" by The Clash
"I Wanna be Sedated" by The Ramones

Solid

"Panic Attack" by The Paddingtons
"Chop Suey" by System of a Down
"Give it Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Everlong" by Foo Fighters
"Kids in America" by Kim Wilde
"Ace of Spades" by Motörhead
"Hello There" by Cheap Trick
"Anyway you Want It" by Journey (actual song title: "Any Way you Want It")
"Pinball Wizard" by The Who

Moderate

"Machinehead" by Bush
"Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen
"What's Your Frequency Kenneth?" by REM (actual song title: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?")
"Want To" by ... no idea, frankly
"I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic at the Disco
"The Old Apartment" by Barenaked Ladies
"When I Come Around" by Green Day
"Zombie" by The Cranberries
"Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow

Skilled

"Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer
"Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains
"Ramblin' Man" (could be one of several tracks)
"One Step Closer" by either Linkin Park or U2
"Misery Business" by Paramore
"American Woman" by The Who
"White Wedding" by Billie Idol
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones
"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash

Challenging

"Our Truth" by Lacuna Coil
"Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz
"Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
"Spoonman" by Soundgarden
"Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
"Aqualung" by Jethro Tull
"Double Vision" by Foreigner
"Rodeo" by Garth Brooks
"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits

Blistering

"Magic Man" by Heart
"Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi
"Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" by The Police
"Thnks fr th Mmrs" by Fall Out Boy
"Testify" by Rage Against the Machine (though it could be by other artists)
"Kickstart My Heart" by Mötley Crüe
"I Was Made for Lovin' You" by Kiss
"Bad Reputation" by Thin Lizzy
"Prodigal Son" by Electronic?

Nightmare

"The Bleeding" by Five Finger Death
"Down With the Sickness" by Disturbed
"Hyper Music" by Muse
"Judith" by A Perfect Circle
"TNT" by AC/DC
"Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio
"Anna Molly" by Incubus
"November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd

Impossible

"Feed My Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper
"Peace Sells" by Megadeath
"Fuel" by Metallica
"Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Forsaken" by Dream Theater
"2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden
"Hot for Teacher" by Van Halen
"Cowboys from Hell" by Pantera
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" (again, recorded by various artists)

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nowayx @ Jul 9th 2008 5:29PM

I hope this is not fake!
I always dreamed to play AC/DC!

If this is for real, I will regret all the spending on GH franchise.

ROMaster2 @ Jul 9th 2008 5:55PM

Wow, that's not very convincing.

Eric @ Jul 9th 2008 6:13PM

I just fired an e-mail off to the boys of Barenaked Ladies... we'll see what's up.

Hafk @ Jul 9th 2008 6:22PM

Forsaken? Come on!

Not one of the best DT songs. Just one of the singles off of Systematic Chaos. Oh boy.

Then again, it is the most "digestable" track from them, from a public point of view.

I want Under a Glass Moon, damnit.

klepto88 @ Jul 9th 2008 6:25PM

LOL @ Megadeath

The last tier of songs is just... not happening. Rock Band is known for its relative lack of difficulty when compared with Guitar Hero, and RB2 is not likely to change that. Plus, the whole list is a little too perfect.

Wraith 242 @ Jul 9th 2008 6:26PM

Well looks pretty good but for every good song theres 10 crap songs. I still think guitar hero world tour is totally going to blow rock band out of the water. There for i shall save my money until sometime in october. (fingers crossed)

klepto88 @ Jul 9th 2008 6:27PM

BobTheElephant @ Jul 9th 2008 6:42PM

the typos seem like a huge "this is fake" but, the difficulty bubbles I can believe. With Rock Band, for 360 at least, when you go online to download new content it shows the same style of difficulty rating. There are a few songs on there i find a bit hard to believe but we'll see...e3 is pretty close.

vidGuy @ Jul 9th 2008 6:44PM

The list is fake. Several songs which have been all-but-confirmed or straight-out-confirmed do not appear on it. The menu is slightly different than announced and shown in other previews. The song quality is noticeably poor on some but not all tracks.

Cian @ Jul 9th 2008 7:52PM

This is fake. IGN has confirmed a few songs and Panic Attack is the Dream Theater song in the game... Which would probably remove Forsaken...

That said I would love to see Comfortably Numb, Crazy Train, Head Like a Hole and some others on that list. Who knows, maybe some of it is indeed true. At least those three. >.>

Shadowman @ Jul 9th 2008 9:03PM

One of the songs on there that makes me scream fake is "Head like a hole", Island Records sold the rights to "Pretty Hate Machine" a couple of years back to some completely forgettable label that re-released it. Now what makes it quite tough for it to be in there is that if they won't pay Trent to re-make the songs for a 5.1 uber release (like The Downward Spiral) What sodding chance do they have of going back and asking for it to be redone now? (Unless its one of the live editions)
If it's real, it's looking good, few questionable Emo bullshit choices on there, but everything else looks solid.
Plus Pantera?! If they brought back the one thing that's been missing since GH1, I will seriously jump for joy, (Also the lack of Megadeth love being rectified since GH2 would be a plus.)

metalhead13 @ Jul 12th 2008 2:44PM

this list has a lot of crappy songs, and a lot of very good songs. Chop Suey, Testify, Peace Sells, Fuel, and One step closer are my favs on this list. hope they get rid of a loy of the other songs though.

metalhead13 @ Jul 12th 2008 2:46PM

and Down with sickness

Andrew H. @ Jul 14th 2008 2:50PM

There MUST be more from Soungarden or Audioslave. Black Hole Sun was great on Rock Band, but with Chris Cornell, there's so much more 'rock' left untapped. Chris Cornell is still touring this stuff, too! Any of the newer songs from his solo records would fit in well. His voice screams rock. Spoonman is an obvious choice for Rock Band 2.