Guitar Hero, for all intents and purposes, was finished in 2011. It had released its final DLC pack in April of that year. Then, thee years later, all its DLC was pulled from the store. There wouldn’t really be any news for a while until a leaked screenshot from the proposed “Guitar Hero 7” surfaced. Among the news there was that there was supposedly going to be a sixth button added to the guitar and that there was going to be a focus on microtransactions.

Well, fast forward to April 2015 and Guitar Hero Live was officially announced. Not necessarily a Guitar Hero 7, but rather a re-boot of the whole franchise, Guitar Hero Live radically changed the format by re-arranging the button layout from five in a row to two rows of three, and completely dropping drums and bass. It also did away with the animated graphics of the past and replaced the visuals with a first-person FMV display. The concept of DLC was completely done away with, instead additional songs were delivered via the GHTV service, a streaming music video platform.

The soundtrack for Guitar Hero Live is the smallest on-disc setlist of any main series Guitar Hero game (if the bonus songs from the early games are counted), likely due to the cost of shooting two complete FMV performances of every song. This was made up for, however, with the GHTV service (containing well over 300 songs at the time of writing). There was also a large focus on modern songs, with only 11 of the 42 on-disc songs coming from before the year 2010 and only three of those being from before the 2000s.

Launching in October of 2015, Guitar Hero Live was a direct competitor to Rock Band 4. The setlists, however, only share one song in common: Jack White’s Lazaretto. Despite only sharing the one song, the two games DID share many of the same artists.

Arctic Monkeys

The Black Keys

Fall Out Boy

Halestorm

Imagine Dragons

Mumford & Sons

Paramore

Soundgarden

In addition, Bring Me the Horizon also featured as part of the pre-order DLC for Rock Band 4, albeit with a different song. Speaking of pre-order DLC, however, King for a Day by Pierce the Veil ft. Kellin Quinn was available for people who pre-ordered the digital version of Rock Band 4 on Xbox One. R U Mine? by Arctic Monkeys was also released in January as part of Rock Band’s first DLC in two years. It’s also worth noting that initial screenshots of Rock Band 4 showed that Neon Trees’ Everybody Talks was initially planned to be part of Rock Band 4’s setlist.

As noted in previous Setlist Checklist posts (and all future posts, as well), as the holes are continually filled in by Rock Band’s weekly DLC releases, we will update this post, and keep it linked in the FAQ page above, for future reference.

In total, 13 of the 42 songs are available in Rock Band, meaning (now that the Rock Band 1 export is available) you can currently play 30% of the tracks in Rock Band 4 in all their 5 buttony glory! That percentage, however, is the lowest availability of any main series Guitar Hero game.

The full list is available after the jump.