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New! U2 7-pack (Ollie)

U2 – “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”



U2 – “New Year’s Day”

U2 – “One”

U2 – “Pride (In the Name of Love)”

U2 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

U2 – “Where the Streets Have No Name”

U2 – “With or Without You”

New! Singles



Cursive – “The Martyr” (thewinnerisgeeg)

(thewinnerisgeeg) Fall Out Boy – “Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today” (uSound)

(uSound) Nightwish – “Nemo” (RyanHYK)

A red X denotes Pro Guitar/Pro Bass, a blue M denotes full multitracks, and a blue K denotes a “karaoke” multitrack (separated vocals).

Many websites and magazines have compiled lists of the most famous / greatest / best-selling / most-panties-thrown rock bands of all time. Harmonix steadily worked its way down those lists, and by the end of DLC, we had the lion’s share of them. But licensing is a bitch, and certain bands always proved tenaciously out-of-reach. One of C3’s informal goals is to fill in those gaps, and U2 is one of the last — if not THE last — huge bands to get at least one song in Rock Band.

Ollie has stepped up to make U2’s debut an explosive one, and brings seven of their greatest hits in a huge pack that easily tops 100 courics. From 1983’s War, the album that put U2 on the map in Europe, we’ve got “New Year’s Day” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. That album was followed by The Unforgettable Fire, from which Ollie has provided the mega-hit “Pride (In the Name of Love)”. U2’s biggest hit, though — and the one that made the most waves in America at the time — is The Joshua Tree, which proves that burying children in the desert produces child trees. The Joshua Tree is certified Diamond in the US, and you can now play “With or Without You”, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, and “Where the Streets Have No Name”. U2 has released a bunch of successful albums since The Joshua Tree, but the most successful was 1991’s Achtung Baby, which rounds out the pack with “One”. Check the download links for some additional authoring credits for this pack.

In case U2’s not your thing — or even if it is! — we’ve got some singles this week, too. thewinnerisgeeg has authored Cursive’s “The Martyr”, one of those songs and bands that are hard to pin genres on. Hardcore? Post-hardcore? Alternative? Emo? thewinnerisgeeg settled on “Rock”. You can download it and make your own call. (Personally, I’d put them in the same genre as Brand New, but Wikipedia seems to disagree.)

uSound fills out Rock Band’s Fall Out Boy catalog with “Tell That Mick He Made My List of Things to Do Today”, FOB’s shot in their long-song-title war against Panic at the Disco. This song is the opening to their very first album, the one that gave us “Dead on Arrival”, and doesn’t sound as much like their later songs. If anything, it’s a bit more Dashboard-Confessional-y. Did you know that “mick” is a racial slur against the Irish? Now you do!

Finally, RyanHYK brings some Nightwish, a band that was frequently requested for Rock Band’s entire run. We got “Amaranth” as official DLC, but many Nightwish fans were dissatisfied with the choice. Perhaps you’ll be happier with “Nemo”, from their 2004 album Once. Also, for what it’s worth, RBN has a bunch of Nightwish-like artists. Check out the band Amberian Dawn, who have a ridiculous number of songs on RBN.

As usual, we encourage you to check out our forums to get involved with the RB customs scene. If you don’t see your favorite songs, you can author them yourself!

See you next Friday!



New! U2 7-pack (Ollie)

Additional authoring credits: espher (vocals tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: RyanHYK (bass, venue), espher (vocals tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: espher (vocals tweaks), farottone (drums tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: espher (vocals tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: espher (vocals tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: farottone (drums), espher (vocals tweaks)

Additional authoring credits: farottone (keys), pksage (vocals tweaks)

New! Cursive – “The Martyr” (thewinnerisgeeg)

New! Fall Out Boy – “Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today” (uSound)

Additional authoring credits: Internal Divide

New! Nightwish – “Nemo”