I was randomly searching Wikipedia, as I often do, when I noticed that more tracks had been officially announced for The Beatles: Rock Band, so I thought that I’d look back on my suggested track listing from way-back-when to see how many I got right. An asterisk (*) denotes the songs I accurately predicted/assumed would be in the game. This list comes complete with my smart-alleck opinions about certain songs!
1. A Hard Day’s Night*
2. Boys*
3. Come Together – I didn’t put this on my original list because it’s mainly a bass and an electric piano.
4. Dear Prudence* – Bonus Track Suggestions: the Phish version of this song.
5. Don’t Let Me Down – A long time ago, there were rumors that this game would be the first in the Rock Band series to include a piano controller. It sounds like a bad idea, but, come to think of it, a lot of Beatles feature a piano.
6. Drive My Car
7. Getting Better*
8. Good Morning Good Morning* – I was hoping this song would be in the game because it features one of the best Beatle guitar solos. However… the solo is played by Paul McCartney, and I’ll bet the game shows virtual George Harrison playing it.
9. Hello Goodbye
10. Helter Skelter* – Now, this is a good Rock Band song.
11. Hey Bulldog
12. I Me Mine – I hope we get to see a virtual Yoko Ono dancing to this song.
13. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)* – This is currently the longest song in the game. I glad they didn’t leave it out because of its length.
14. I Wanna Be Your Man
15. If I Needed Someone
16. I’m Looking Through You – This 2:27 song features about a total of 25 seconds of lead guitar part.
17. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
18. Something
19. Ticket To Ride*
20. While My Guitar Gently Weeps* – After all my complaining about the wrong Beatle playing the wrong instrument, I will let the game redeem itself by including virtual Eric Clapton on this song. If there is no virtual Clapton this game is a lost cause. UPDATE: 8-21-09; I just watched the third gameplay trailer and it showed the four Beatles playing this song on top of a windy hill. No Eric Clapton in sight… are they even trying to be accurate? I have decided that I won’t buy this game, because I would find too much wrong with it and it would be unplayable for me.
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The Beatles: Rock Band
I wasn’t sure exactly what to do in July… or the rest of my time in Coolton for that matter. After all, I’d made the last upgrade to my house in May; I’d donated enough money to the town fund for a third bridge, a town fountain, and a lighthouse; I’d donated every fossil to the museum. This left me with a big gap. The next “tasks” to accomplish in the game require a seemingly unattainable amount of money: donate 100,000,000 Bells to the town fund and get a “green feather” (700,000,000 gets you a rainbow feather); spend 61,300 points worth of Bells (upwards of 6,130,000 Bells) at Tom Nook’s store to acquire all the gifts from his point system; spend 4,000 Bells at “Red’s” in the City every week, hoping that the painting for the museum that you bought isn’t a fake (which it most likely is). Other tasks don’t require so much money, but instead are impossible: you can only catch certain kinds of bugs/fish during certain months of the year. All this left me at a complete loss for what to do, so I decided to save my money until I figured out what to do.
Eventually, I decided to save my money to buy a complete living room set from Gracie Grace, that high-class store in the city. The interesting thing about Gracie Grace’s living room set is that the most inexpensive item in the set costs 68,000 Bells; the most expensive item is 220,000 Bells. Altogether, the set costs 1,542,000 Bells, but eventually I got enough money and I bought the set.
While I was saving for the living room set, I passed the 1,000,000 Bell mark in my bank account and received a gold shopping card and V. I. P. status at the bank – although my town doesn’t have a bank, just a little machine in the town hall… so, I guess I’m a V. I. P. of the square foot of space in town hall.
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Last night Harmonix released an updated list of the track listing for the Beatles: Rock Band, which gives me another opportunity to look back at my suggested list for the game way back in March when the game was announced to see how many I’ve gotten right. Here’s the full updated list. I add my smart-alleck comments after most of them explaining why it should or shouldn’t be there. An asterisk (*) indicates a song I “called” (i. e. predicted it would be in the game).
1. I Saw Her Standing There* – The same problem applies for this song as with a lot of their early songs: aside from the guitar solo the lead guitar basically plays the exact same thing as the rhythm guitar.
2. Twist and Shout* – A great song, but I predict that it’ll seem very repetitive in a Rock Band format.
3. Do You Want to Know a Secret – I didn’t think of it before, but this song might actually be pretty good in the game.
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand* – This is actually one of my least favorite Beatles songs. A good song, but it doesn’t have much of a guitar part. They probably threw it in because it would appeal to the people who know the words who can sing along without looking at the screen.
5. Can’t Buy Me Love* – They should use the Anthology 1 version because it much more prominently features the guitar and has super-cool backing vocals.
6. I Wanna Be Your Man
7. I Feel Fine*
8. Eight Days a Week – I didn’t include this on my list because I didn’t think they’d include a song that has both a fade-in and a fade-out.
9. Day Tripper*
10. Paperback Writer
11. Taxman – I predict that this will be one of the harder songs in the game – crazy guitar solo. I wonder how the avatars will work this out because McCartney plays bass and lead… virtual double guitar?…
12. And Your Bird Can Sing*
13. Yellow Submarine – Really? How are they gonna manage this. It has no lead guitar.
14. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*
15. With a Little Help from My Friends – While they were making sure that they had plenty of songs that utilized the three microphones they had to neglect the lead guitar in several places… like here.
16. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows – Probably the best song in the game at this point. I suggested that “Within You Without You” should be in the game here, but I didn’t choose the remix that includes “Tomorrow Never Knows” because I wanted to see virtual Ringo playing a virtual tabla.
17. I Am the Walrus
18. Back in the U. S. S. R.* – How will the virtual Beatles work this out?: McCartney plays bass and drums on this one. This game is going to have to be historically inaccurate just so that it makes sense… which in itself doesn’t make sense.
19. Octopus’s Garden*
20. Birthday
21. Revolution* – I’m not sure how I feel about this one being in. On one hand, it’s probably one of their best guitar songs, but on the other hand it doesn’t seem right to try to make money off of Lennon’s major political statement (like Nike did that one time in the ’80s when they got sued).
22. Here Comes the Sun* – This could potentially be the hardest song in the game because the lead guitar part is fairly elaborate. They’ll probably simplify it greatly.
23. Dig a Pony*
24. Get Back* – The drum part in “Get Back” is to The Beatles: Rock Band as the drum part in “Eye of the Tiger” is to Guitar Hero World Tour.
25. I’ve Got a Feeling*
And more…* – I knew it!
My score is 15/25 guessed correctly. If only three more of my predictions could be included in the next announcement of the track listing they’d be: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Eric Clapton avatar included), “Helter Skelter,” and “Norwegian Wood.”
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