Let me just start this by saying how incredibly thankful I am that Rocksmith exists and is constantly putting out new DLC for us. Any of you born before the Internet (shhh I’m old), know how hard it was to advance on guitar with Tablature books and no teacher encouraging you with “amazing performance”.

All compliments aside I wanted to ask the community what noticeable holes are in our official Rocksmith DLC playlists. The following is just my opinion and please tell me how wrong I am and what I missed in the comments (but more importantly, request songs!)

Obviously I’m leaving out the obvious Led Zepplin, Pink Flloyd, The Beatles, Metallica etc., so don’t even bother commenting about that.

60s and Earlier:

The Beach Boys

Sure we have surf rock, but it’s a travesty we don’t have the pioneers of surf rock to play through.

Dream 5-Pack:

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Surfin’ USA

I Get Around

California Girls

Kokomo

Chuck Berry

Since we’re playing Rocksmith and the word “rock” is in it, shouldn’t we learn from its great-great grandfather?

Dream 5-Pack:

Johnny B. Goode

You Never Can Tell

School Day

Roll Over Beethoven

Route 66

Grateful Dead

OK, OK, I know American Beauty technically came out in the 70s, but they formed and began hippie jamming in the mid 60s, so it counts. Regardless, we could use some jam bands in our sets, and who better than Jer Bear to teach us?

Dream 5-Pack:

Friend of the Devil

Touch of Grey

Truckin’

Box Of Rain

Fire On The Mountain

Simon and Garfunkel

I would also love, love, love just a Paul Simon pack. Did you see his performance on the 40th Anniversary of SNL?

Dream 5-Pack:

Mrs. Robinson

Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Boxer

The Sound of Silence

Scarborough Fair

The 70s

Fleetwood Mac

I’d especially love a few of their bluesy early, early tracks before Stevie Nicks joined up, but I mean c’mon, how do we not have Landslide yet?

Dream 5-Pack:

Landslide

Go Your Own Way

The Chain

Rhiannon

Never Going Back Again

Black Sabbath

I mean. C’mon.

Dream 5-Pack:

Paranoid

Iron Man

War Pigs

Black Sabbath

Children of the Grave

Steve Miller Band

With a crazy amount of hit’s and a whole lot of fun guitar technique, it makes me sad we’re missing out on some of these grooves.

Dream 5-Pack:

The Joker

Take the Money and Run

Rock’n Me

Fly Like An Eagle

Jet Airliner

The Bee Gees

I am absolutely terrible at funk guitar or whatever you wanna call this style of playing, but I’d love to have a challenge of playing some disco and singing crazy falsetto to prove it’s not dead (Actually, just checked on Wiki; still dead).

Dream 5-Pack:

Stayin’ Alive

You Should Be Dancing

More Than A Woman

Night Fever

Jive Talkin’

The 80s

Edit: When I originally wrote this, I had The Cars here too. Hooray!

Huey Lewis and the News

Probably one of my favorite bands ever. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up with him, or if it’s because Back to the Future is easily the best movie of the 80s (fight me about it) but Huey is by far my #1 “wish it was on Rocksmith” band.

Dream 5-Pack:

If This Is It

The Heart of Rock and Roll

Hip to Be Square

I Want a New Drug

Heart and Soul

(Bonus song) The Power of Love

Talking Heads

While I was not a fan of them while they were actually making music, I have grown to love them and have their entire discography on vinyl. Anyone who hasn’t seen “Stop Making Sense” watch it and tell me it’s not the best concert film of all time.

Dream 5-Pack:

Psycho Killer

This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)

Burning Down The House

And She Was

Life During Wartime

Van Halen

This band might be on the “too expensive/hard/impossible” to license list, but screw that, they are 80s rock. Even the Sammy stuff I love and being able to tap through “Eruption” would be simply the best.

Dream 5-Pack:

Panama

You Really Got Me

Runnin’ With the Devil

Eruption

Runaround

Journey

We have Foreigner, we have Boston, we even have Styx. It’s time to pay tribute to the incredible vocals and equally fun guitar work of Journey.

Dream 5-Pack:

Don’t Stop Believing

Any Way You Want It

Wheel in the Sky

Lights

Ask the Lonely

The 90s

My decade for music is sadly primarily filled with one-hit wonders and 90s voice guy alt-rock (also the best damn hip-hop ever) but there’s still some good guitar work at play. Of all the decades represented, I feel the 90s are the most represented, but still these would all be welcome additions.

Goo Goo Dolls

Roll your eyes all you want, but listen to the guitar in these songs and tell me it’s not worthy of a DLC.

Dream 5-Pack:

Iris

Slide

Black Balloon

Name

Fallin’ Down

Live

Sure they pretty much have only one good album, but it’s nearly a perfect album with plenty of guitar to have fun with.

Dream 5-Pack:

Lightning Crashes

I Alone

All Over You

Selling the Drama

The Dolphin’s Cry

Third Eye Blind

There might not be a more 90s band.

Dream 5-Pack:

Jumper

Semi-Charmed Life

How’s It Gonna Be

Never Let You Go

Graduate

Nine Inch Nails

Yes I know Trent Reznor is super busy scoring David Fincher movies, but in the 90s you couldn’t be stuck at a stop light without hearing those familiar warbles.

Dream 5-Pack:

Closer

The Hand That Feeds

Hurt

Head Like A Hole

Only

The 2000s and Beyond

Arcade Fire

A crazy popular band who have an epic, full sound that would be a blast top play through.

Dream 5-Pack:

Wake Up

Ready To Start

The Suburbs

Reflektor

Rebellion (Lies)

Jimmy Eat World

Kinda like Weezer-lite, but still they have so many songs that would be welcomed additions to anyone’s playlist.

Dream 5-Pack:

The Middle

Pain

Bleed American

Blister

My Best Theory

Brand New

K, my last emo pick I promise. Seriosuly though, really awesome guitar and bass in these songs if you can get past all the sadness.

Dream 5-Pack:

Sic Transit Gloria… Glory Fades

The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows

Jude Law and a Semester Abroad

Seventy Times 7

Sowing Season (Yeah)

Slipknot

This is for all you metalheads out there. I don’t even like this band, but I can respect technique.

Dream 5-Pack:

The Devil In I

Wait And Bleed

Before I Forget

Duality

Psychosocial

So that’s it. Let me know how wrong I am in the comments and what your picks are. And as always request songs people!

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