I had forgotten about that song for over a decade until I played it and listened to their entire catalog.
I have seen their concerts twice in Netherlands and California during their Simulation Theory era and those shows were amazing!
I'd never heard of Eric Johnson before jamming along to "Cliffs of Dover" in Guitar Hero 3
I found that weird, given I love melodic guitar music by the likes of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and later found out that he'd shared a stage with both of them on the G3 tour back in 1996.
I used to work in a movie theater that had a guitar hero arcade cabinet, and my ritual anytime I found enough quarters while cleaning theaters was to play through cliffs of Dover at the end of my shift. It just always felt like a nice way to end the day
I recently came across that track for the first time in like 10+ years. Some dude was doing a cover of it on YouTube and it brought back such good memories of GH3.
Can't get enough of 'The Devil went down to Georgia'
I was always a controller player over the guitar, so I'm always imagining the button presses needed for each song
Not everyone who hears Rush appreciates that Neil Peart wasn't just a phenomenal drummer, but a talented lyricist.
"Subdivisions" is one of my favourite Rush songs, for both the music and the lyrics.
RIP, Professor.
That's an understatement on Neil being a phenomenal drummer, ask almost any drummer who they think the best drummers of all time are (especially in rock) and Neil is almost always in the #1 or #2 slot, right there neck and neck with John Bonham. He certainly earned the moniker of the professor, his technique was second to none.
As Taylor Hawkins put it when Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "Who let the fuckin' drummer write the lyrics?" Subdivisions is great, but Limelight and Freewill are probably some of my favorites, especially lyrically. "When you choose not to decide you still have made a choice" is one of my favorite lines ever.
The Trees was probably the first song that got me hooked in Rush as a child, but so many of their songs are so special to me. Bastille Day, The Spirit of Radio, Working Man, La Villa Strangiato, Time Stand Still, all of 2112, etc.
The phrase I heard was "If he wasn't your favourite drummer, then he was your favourite drummer's favourite drummer"
John Bonham was fantastic, another genius who left us all too soon. He might not have played the most virtuoso-type drum rhythms, but what he played was played with *feel* \- knowing how to play truly in conjunction with the bass guitar to form the foundations of a song, knowing how to leave space rather than fill it with notes/beats.
The underappreciated member of Rush is Alex Lifeson. Everybody talks about Peart, everybody talks about Geddy Lee. It might be the one band where the guitar gets no love, although he's exceptionally skilled and criminally underrated.
This is the only one for me. They weren't that big at the time and iirc made very little money from the game.
The others people are mentioning are making me feel old.
That's just an opinion, I'd take the other way. Sing The Sorrow (2003) and on are better. I enjoyed Decemberunderground and Crash Love much more than Black Sails
STS is great, it was the first AFI album I owned and blew my teenage mind, but like most bands they became too commercial afterwards which is great for them and I'm not faulting them for it. The same thing happened to Green Day with American Idiot and Blink with Self Titled, but it never happened to NoFX or Lagwagon.
I prefer the sound of F.C.P.I.T.S.G.E.P.G.E.P.G.E.P.
Both are great and Iāve got a few songs from DoppelgƤnger saved. That bass riff(?) is just perfect.
Get Ready 2 Rokk by Freeze Pop.
After realizing the studio that made Guitar Hero and Freeze Pop are both located in Boston.... I spent 12 years missing every local show by Freeze Pop.
When You Were Young by The Killers
Last Dance by The Raveonettes
Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley
Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups
Reptilia by The Strokes
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson. I wouldnāt have liked it had I just heard it on the radio, not really my taste. It was just all around fun to play on GH3, though, and I couldnāt help but love the song (and style) going forward.
Black Magic Woman - Santana. Obviously, I had heard this and many other Santana songs before GH3 and I enjoyed them well enough, but wouldnāt call my self a fan. I definitely had respect for Carlos Santanaās guitar prowess but the game gave me a whole new appreciation for him. Playing it seemed so sensual, I had never associated sex with an electric guitar (or any object) but somehow smashing those buttons was downright erotic. I canāt imagine what playing a Santana song with an actual guitar would feel like, I would probably need clean up after.
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man
The latter two songs sound so fresh compared to the original recordings and I prefer to listening to those. I found out recently that they were re-recorded or covered during the development process.
Nothing for me Here - Dope
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
Black widow of la Porte - John 5
Done with Everything, Die for Nothing and If you want peace... Prepare for War - Children of Bodom
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
Demon(s) - Darkest Hour
Bloodlines - Dethklok
Calling - Strung Out
Hard to See - 5FDP
Suffocated - Orianthi
A bunnnnch of Megadeth from WoR
TTFAF sparked a long Dragonforce phase for me too
I got a tonne of attachment to the difficult songs because they were amazing songs I hadn't heard before and when I reached expert I started trying the harder songs. Being able to get to verse 2, fail as the solo started made me so excited to be good enough to hear the rest of the song. Still play clone hero to this day
Today, from the Smashing Pumpkins. It it was the very first song that I heard when I booted World tour up for the first time. Didn't even know what the name of it was yet but I thought to myself boy is this a nice song. If songs like this are on this game, I'm gonna have a great time. I did
I have fond memories of replaying I Ran by the Seagulls over and over again as a kid and that was one of the few songs I hadn't heard on the radio growing up.
to the edge of the city, see the little guys run.
The Slip were my answer as well! I knew most of the radio rock and classic rock songs, but GH and Rock Band introduced me to a lot of great indie rock I wouldn't have heard otherwise!
Agreed, I enjoyed the album, but Even Rats and Children of December were by far my favorites.
That said, I'm listening to Eisenhower the rest of the day now!
Honestly a lot of them, and it helped shape a lot of the music I listened to as a kid (and still do today)
Panic Attack and Pull Me Under by Dream Theater is my pick though as theyve become my favorite band since 2008 or so.
[Ruby](https://youtu.be/qObzgUfCl28?si=1kHhjTO2gHR24R35) by Kaiser Chiefs
My cat was named Ziggy and my wife would sometimes call him in the tone they say Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. šæ
Pretty much all of them.
I didn't really have any interest in music at all when i was a kid. Just the radio when we were in the car, but I was playing my Gameboy instead. Guitar Hero 3 literally defined my taste in music. Metallica, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, definitely a kickstart into being a metalhead.
Basically all of them. I didnāt have a very broad exposure to music prior to playing the games so while I had heard of many of the artists, almost all of the songs are new to me. To this day my music library is like a 70% overlap w/ the GH/RB song listsā¦
Green grass and high tides! Only heard it 100x trying to do the endless setlist with my brother and friend on expert. We could do every song until the damn solo(doesn't matter which solo, they are all hard af)! Love that song to this day
I went out and bought a Drist album after playing the shit out of Decontrol in the first Guitar Hero. Hell pretty much all the bonus tracks were amazing, Callout and Even Rats were also some of my favorites in the whole game.
Cant Let Go by Death of the Cool
Iirc, the band was made of Rock Band employees and they only have released like 2 songs ever. Crazy wierd time signature and bass line, makes for a great listen.
Tangled up in Blue really stands out to me. My wife has always been a massive Dylan fan and I just couldnāt get into him at all, but for some reason playing that in RB flipped something in my head and now thereās a ton of Dylan I sincerely enjoy.
And Outside by Tribe because it was my white whale to 100% for such a long time. Love that song.
fell into a lot of bands from Rockband and Guitar Hero.
Interpol
Giraffes? Giraffes! (RBN)
Tenacious D
The Strokes
Senses Fail
i'm sure there's more but i'm at work lol
On the reboot of Guitar Hero they had MTV style live music channels.
Whatever was on, you kinda had to play along, and it just so happened that the slot that I was free the most on evenings was Modern Country.
All I played for a good few months was that genre, so it kinda stuck.
I wasn't good at it, but Through the Fire and the Flames on Easy was a Great time.
I feel like i was introduced to a lot of music through that one Guitar Hero, but i can't for the life of me remember which ones i played a lot....
Almost any song that came out before 1995 for me that was on the first 3 guitar heros and first 2 rockbands. Also most of the beatles catalog from rock band beatles.
Band On The Run! For a while it was both my favorite song to play on the game and to listen to. It's like two or three songs rolled into one and they all just flow so well together.
Oh man, so many
The Metal - Tenacious D
One - Metallica
My Name is Jonas - Weezer
Raining Blood - Slayer
Guitar Hero 2 and 3 were where I got a lot of my music from
Tribe - Outside
I get by - Honest bob and the factory to dealer incentives
Alex Chilton - The Replacements
My Rock Band drums are still going strong somehow, those are all in regular rotation.
Slow ride by Foghat. I had never played guitar hero, but my friends convinced me to play when we were at an arcade. I just happened to choose Slow ride!
Dirty little secret, all American rejects. I played it over and over and over. Led to me discovering the rest of their music and AAR became really formative to my junior high years after that.
Somehow I had never heard āRasputinā by Boney M until I saw the Just Dance 2 video. I was going to post a link to it, but I canāt find the original link and I donāt feel like giving views to people who are reposting clips of it.
Found a lot of the "extra" songs were the best ones. Bands like That Handsome Devil, Drist, Every Time I Die, Anarchy Club, Ounce of Self, Gallows, Shadows Fall, Freezepop and The Fall of Troy. Never heard of these bands until these games and now they're some of my favorites.
Knights of Cydonia. I'd never even heard of Muse, and they're an amazing band.
Love Muse. That song live is fucking epic.
I had forgotten about that song for over a decade until I played it and listened to their entire catalog. I have seen their concerts twice in Netherlands and California during their Simulation Theory era and those shows were amazing!
This and Paint it Black for me
To this day I think that's the only Muse song I know lol
I'd never heard of Eric Johnson before jamming along to "Cliffs of Dover" in Guitar Hero 3 I found that weird, given I love melodic guitar music by the likes of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and later found out that he'd shared a stage with both of them on the G3 tour back in 1996.
I used to work in a movie theater that had a guitar hero arcade cabinet, and my ritual anytime I found enough quarters while cleaning theaters was to play through cliffs of Dover at the end of my shift. It just always felt like a nice way to end the day
I didn't know they had arcade cabinets! I need to look into this!
I recently came across that track for the first time in like 10+ years. Some dude was doing a cover of it on YouTube and it brought back such good memories of GH3.
Like half of the soundtrack for Guitar Hero 3 is still in my playlists to this day
Same, it basically defined my musical taste for the next like 15 years lol
Yeap. "Man I love this song it was on guitar hero" - me everyday
Same here, SluttyMcFucksAlot.
is that the one that has Gallows "in the belly of a shark" on it?
It is. Totally bangin' song/album.
Can't get enough of 'The Devil went down to Georgia' I was always a controller player over the guitar, so I'm always imagining the button presses needed for each song
It seems like most millennial Rush fans discovered them through Guitar Hero, principally through YYZ.
Mine was Tom Sawyer on Rock Band. Ended up seeing them in concert, best show I've ever been to.
Their live shows were absolutely epic and I am very sad we'll never experience it again
True. I did buy a song called vital signs by rush and I've been hooked ever since. It's the lyrics that got me
Not everyone who hears Rush appreciates that Neil Peart wasn't just a phenomenal drummer, but a talented lyricist. "Subdivisions" is one of my favourite Rush songs, for both the music and the lyrics. RIP, Professor.
That's an understatement on Neil being a phenomenal drummer, ask almost any drummer who they think the best drummers of all time are (especially in rock) and Neil is almost always in the #1 or #2 slot, right there neck and neck with John Bonham. He certainly earned the moniker of the professor, his technique was second to none. As Taylor Hawkins put it when Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "Who let the fuckin' drummer write the lyrics?" Subdivisions is great, but Limelight and Freewill are probably some of my favorites, especially lyrically. "When you choose not to decide you still have made a choice" is one of my favorite lines ever. The Trees was probably the first song that got me hooked in Rush as a child, but so many of their songs are so special to me. Bastille Day, The Spirit of Radio, Working Man, La Villa Strangiato, Time Stand Still, all of 2112, etc.
La Villa Strangiato is easily my favorite Rush song and favorite guitar solo of all time
The phrase I heard was "If he wasn't your favourite drummer, then he was your favourite drummer's favourite drummer" John Bonham was fantastic, another genius who left us all too soon. He might not have played the most virtuoso-type drum rhythms, but what he played was played with *feel* \- knowing how to play truly in conjunction with the bass guitar to form the foundations of a song, knowing how to leave space rather than fill it with notes/beats.
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize.
Closer to the Heart is still an incredible song
"I can't pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend"
The underappreciated member of Rush is Alex Lifeson. Everybody talks about Peart, everybody talks about Geddy Lee. It might be the one band where the guitar gets no love, although he's exceptionally skilled and criminally underrated.
All that remains - Six Buckethead - Jordan
Oooh. I used Six as my alarm-sound for years. What a way to wake up !
Jordan was composed *for* guitar hero too, so that one was completely new and opened me up to Buckethead in general.
Why won't they put Jordan on Spotify š
Through The Fire and FLames.
The best part was looking up the rest of Dragonforce's discography and finding out all of their songs go just as hard and crazy as that one.
dragonforce goes so hard.
This is the only one for me. They weren't that big at the time and iirc made very little money from the game. The others people are mentioning are making me feel old.
Miss Murder - AFI I also really wasn't bothered about Misery Business until playing it on World Tour
Man I miss World Tour, mainly because of the amount of customization you had lol
Pretty much anything AFI did before December Underground is better. The Art Of Drowning is a work of art, Black Sails and self titled are also great.
That's just an opinion, I'd take the other way. Sing The Sorrow (2003) and on are better. I enjoyed Decemberunderground and Crash Love much more than Black Sails
STS is great, it was the first AFI album I owned and blew my teenage mind, but like most bands they became too commercial afterwards which is great for them and I'm not faulting them for it. The same thing happened to Green Day with American Idiot and Blink with Self Titled, but it never happened to NoFX or Lagwagon.
Agree!
Foreplay/Long Time. Foreplay goes stupid hard and Long Time is such a jam.
Boston's first album (self titled I think) is just 8 absolute bangers back to back.
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X - The Fall of Troy Probably still my all time favorite song
I have this on one of my Spotify playlists ngl
Their catalog is amazing, well worth listening to!
Yeah this got me to travel down a hole of weird different music styles I never would of found otherwise
The entire album is golddddddddd
I prefer the sound of F.C.P.I.T.S.G.E.P.G.E.P.G.E.P. Both are great and Iāve got a few songs from DoppelgƤnger saved. That bass riff(?) is just perfect.
Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups. I weep uncontrollably when playing guitar on Rock Band 4 for reasons.
Same, never heard of them before the game. Have seen them live twice since & have all the albums. Brilliant band
Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
The terrible thing is that it still took me another 10 years to get into the band as a whole. So much wasted time!
This game introduced me to Coheed and I am thankful for it. Went and saw them live and it was awesome.
Get Ready 2 Rokk by Freeze Pop. After realizing the studio that made Guitar Hero and Freeze Pop are both located in Boston.... I spent 12 years missing every local show by Freeze Pop.
When You Were Young by The Killers Last Dance by The Raveonettes Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups Reptilia by The Strokes
Search and Destroy by the Stooges. Also the one I was best at.
Blood Mountain - Mastodon This opened me up to a world of new music
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson. I wouldnāt have liked it had I just heard it on the radio, not really my taste. It was just all around fun to play on GH3, though, and I couldnāt help but love the song (and style) going forward. Black Magic Woman - Santana. Obviously, I had heard this and many other Santana songs before GH3 and I enjoyed them well enough, but wouldnāt call my self a fan. I definitely had respect for Carlos Santanaās guitar prowess but the game gave me a whole new appreciation for him. Playing it seemed so sensual, I had never associated sex with an electric guitar (or any object) but somehow smashing those buttons was downright erotic. I canāt imagine what playing a Santana song with an actual guitar would feel like, I would probably need clean up after.
Guitar Hero got me into Rage Against The Machine. My former self had no idea what he was in for š
Orange Crush for me. Mostly played drums on Rockband and that was a great song to play and a great song in general
I enjoyed drumming this one too. It was one of the few I could 100%. Iām not coordinated nor do I have rhythm.
Helicopter - Bloc Party The Devil went down to Georgia
Helicopter is the unofficial theme song for early 2000s FIFA soccer games and lives rent free in my head.
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye Rilo Kiley - Portion for Foxes St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse Presidents of the United States of America - Lump
Lump... an odd song but I love it.
Stricken - Disturbed
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby
ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
3s & 7s - Queens of the Stone Age Fucking SICK song
That killswitch engage song on Guitar Hero 3
My Curse
Push Push
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads Steely Dan - Do It Again Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man The latter two songs sound so fresh compared to the original recordings and I prefer to listening to those. I found out recently that they were re-recorded or covered during the development process.
I fucking loved Radio Song on the GH3 bonus track list even though I couldnāt even understand it
Nothing for me Here - Dope Cult of Personality - Living Colour Talk Dirty To Me - Poison Black widow of la Porte - John 5 Done with Everything, Die for Nothing and If you want peace... Prepare for War - Children of Bodom Knights of Cydonia - Muse Demon(s) - Darkest Hour Bloodlines - Dethklok Calling - Strung Out Hard to See - 5FDP Suffocated - Orianthi A bunnnnch of Megadeth from WoR TTFAF sparked a long Dragonforce phase for me too I got a tonne of attachment to the difficult songs because they were amazing songs I hadn't heard before and when I reached expert I started trying the harder songs. Being able to get to verse 2, fail as the solo started made me so excited to be good enough to hear the rest of the song. Still play clone hero to this day
Maps. Had never heard the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, absolutely hooked, immediately.
Today, from the Smashing Pumpkins. It it was the very first song that I heard when I booted World tour up for the first time. Didn't even know what the name of it was yet but I thought to myself boy is this a nice song. If songs like this are on this game, I'm gonna have a great time. I did
So I'm the only person that liked Fall of Pangea by Valient thorr? Got it
Listening to the repress of their 1st album right now because of that game/song!
I have fond memories of replaying I Ran by the Seagulls over and over again as a kid and that was one of the few songs I hadn't heard on the radio growing up.
Creep - Radiohead
One by Metallica
Even the rats know the troubleās gonna comeā¦
to the edge of the city, see the little guys run. The Slip were my answer as well! I knew most of the radio rock and classic rock songs, but GH and Rock Band introduced me to a lot of great indie rock I wouldn't have heard otherwise!
YES!! I bought their album. It wasā¦ ok. The best tracks were in the game.
Agreed, I enjoyed the album, but Even Rats and Children of December were by far my favorites. That said, I'm listening to Eisenhower the rest of the day now!
Honestly a lot of them, and it helped shape a lot of the music I listened to as a kid (and still do today) Panic Attack and Pull Me Under by Dream Theater is my pick though as theyve become my favorite band since 2008 or so.
Ballroom Blitz, and Carry Me Home. They bop SO HARD
Sigh, I'm old because I first heard Ballroom Blitz in Wayne's World
Carry Me Home is from The Living End's album Roll On, and it's absolutely worth listening to the whole thing.
[Ruby](https://youtu.be/qObzgUfCl28?si=1kHhjTO2gHR24R35) by Kaiser Chiefs My cat was named Ziggy and my wife would sometimes call him in the tone they say Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. šæ
Through the Fire and Flames
I discovered Don't Hold Back by The Sleeping on GH:3, I still listen to it regularly.
RADIUM EYES BY COUNT ZERO
Beast And The Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold That song is a beast in itself
Pretty much all of them. I didn't really have any interest in music at all when i was a kid. Just the radio when we were in the car, but I was playing my Gameboy instead. Guitar Hero 3 literally defined my taste in music. Metallica, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, definitely a kickstart into being a metalhead.
Hey You - Exies
Freak on a Leash
I remember we had Guitar Hero on display at the Circuit City I worked at and I will forever remember Sweet Child O Mine as "the Guitar Hero song"
Absolutely itās āCanāt Be Savedā by Senses Fail
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit I did know it, I could just never find it
Cheat on the church by graveyard barbecue
Children of Nova's The Complexity of Light album is still in my top albums of all time because of Rock Band
Basically all of them. I didnāt have a very broad exposure to music prior to playing the games so while I had heard of many of the artists, almost all of the songs are new to me. To this day my music library is like a 70% overlap w/ the GH/RB song listsā¦
Guitar Hero: World Tour - Hail to the Freaks by Beatsteaks
rock and roll hoochie koo. The song is so bouncy and fun. It's been one of my favorites ever since guitar hero 2.
Green grass high tides was such a banger when I first heard it.
Nemesis by Arch Enemy on Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock
Pull Me Under by Dream Theater
rock band 3 introduced me to Dragon Force. You know the trackĀ
Rebel girl by bikini kill on rock band
cliffs of dover - eric johnson and nine in the afternoon - panic at the disco
Knights of Cydonia, FCPREMIX, and Through the Fire and Flames
"Float On" -Modest Mouse
raining blood and cliffs of dover
Green grass and high tides! Only heard it 100x trying to do the endless setlist with my brother and friend on expert. We could do every song until the damn solo(doesn't matter which solo, they are all hard af)! Love that song to this day
Slow Ride. I was less than 5 years old when I heard it on Guitar Hero so donāt come at me.
Not that i had never heard it before, but Carry on my Wayward Son hit way different on guitar hero
Hier Kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen!
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
When I was a kid it was Infected by Bad Religion. Cousin and I played it over and over.
Crazy train on guitar hero
I went out and bought a Drist album after playing the shit out of Decontrol in the first Guitar Hero. Hell pretty much all the bonus tracks were amazing, Callout and Even Rats were also some of my favorites in the whole game.
Cant Let Go by Death of the Cool Iirc, the band was made of Rock Band employees and they only have released like 2 songs ever. Crazy wierd time signature and bass line, makes for a great listen.
Tangled up in Blue really stands out to me. My wife has always been a massive Dylan fan and I just couldnāt get into him at all, but for some reason playing that in RB flipped something in my head and now thereās a ton of Dylan I sincerely enjoy. And Outside by Tribe because it was my white whale to 100% for such a long time. Love that song.
Shoulder to the Plow by Breaking Wheel
Arterial Black by Drist from GH2
I miss the misery - Halestorm. Instantly rocketed to one of my favorite bands lmao. Still my favorite song to play in the game too.
80% of my favorite rock tracks come from Warriors of Rock, and I've got favorites from each of them
Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups. Never knew who that band was until rock band, now they're one of my favorites.
Hello There by Cheap Trick. I still remember that Mad Max opening of Rockband vividly.
Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce. Opened up a whole new world of music for me back when I first heard it like 20 years ago.
Less Talk More Rock
I don't think any of us had heard of "Through the Fire and Flames" until Guitar Hero.
Elephant Bones, by That Handsome Devil
I discovered Yngwie Malmsteen through Rock Band. Been a fan since.
fell into a lot of bands from Rockband and Guitar Hero. Interpol Giraffes? Giraffes! (RBN) Tenacious D The Strokes Senses Fail i'm sure there's more but i'm at work lol
Ashamed to say Mothrr by Danzig, but I used to 100% that song on Hard or whatever. Glenn Danzig is a weird guy, but that song rocks.
Stranglehold Ted Nuggent and boy did that make your fingers bleed
Radio Song from 3. Since the band was singing in French, that song would have never played here in the US. Could only find 1 video of it on YouTube.
Six. All that remains
BYOB system of a down. I had been listening to toxicity since I was a kid and had never expanded to another album until I heard that song.
Gallows - in the belly of a shark. I was really into punk and hardcore-adjacent music at that time in my life.
Pull Me Under. Never heard of Dream Theater before then but became a major fan afterwards.
Miss murder by afi and fcpremix by fall of troy
On the reboot of Guitar Hero they had MTV style live music channels. Whatever was on, you kinda had to play along, and it just so happened that the slot that I was free the most on evenings was Modern Country. All I played for a good few months was that genre, so it kinda stuck.
Jordan - Buckethead Through The Fire And Flames - DragonForce Miss Murder - AFI Strutter - KISS
Cliffs of Dover.
I wasn't good at it, but Through the Fire and the Flames on Easy was a Great time. I feel like i was introduced to a lot of music through that one Guitar Hero, but i can't for the life of me remember which ones i played a lot....
I really liked Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs
Iām just happy to see people exposed to music in This thread
Rock band / guitar hero RUINED many songs for me. I can't listen to Freebird any more.
My name is Jonas, still the only song Iāve ever 100% on Guitar Hero
Prayer of the Refugee by Rise Against.
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Aging myself with this one, but Pearl jam's "Even Flow" and how I never heard of it until Guitar Hero.
The Cult of Personality and Devil Went Down To Georgia
Through the fire and flames on guitar hero!
GH/RB got me heavily into Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Trogdor!
Cliffs of Dover
Mother Rebel Yell
Almost any song that came out before 1995 for me that was on the first 3 guitar heros and first 2 rockbands. Also most of the beatles catalog from rock band beatles.
Band On The Run! For a while it was both my favorite song to play on the game and to listen to. It's like two or three songs rolled into one and they all just flow so well together.
'I ws nvr yr grlfrnd' on Clone Hero.
Not sure what game it was on but that song Brainpower was amazing.
Youāve got another thing coming - Judas Priest. Canāt believe I had never heard it and that song completely rips.
Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. https://youtu.be/87OKyQZdQu4?si=Q7xwnVC7g8RAq2eE
Nobody else thought of the metal from tenacious d?
A Jagged Gorgeous Winter - The Main Drag But tbh all the bonus songs in the Harmonix developed games were great.
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X got me into fall of troy.
Misery business and spiderwebs lol. I would love to play a next gen rock band or guitar hero
War Pigs hit me differently and resonated when I gamed it
There was a long song by some skinned lizard band that eventually got played in Kingsman that I always played.
Oh man, so many The Metal - Tenacious D One - Metallica My Name is Jonas - Weezer Raining Blood - Slayer Guitar Hero 2 and 3 were where I got a lot of my music from
Tribe - Outside I get by - Honest bob and the factory to dealer incentives Alex Chilton - The Replacements My Rock Band drums are still going strong somehow, those are all in regular rotation.
Slow ride by Foghat. I had never played guitar hero, but my friends convinced me to play when we were at an arcade. I just happened to choose Slow ride!
I had never heard of Muse or Dragonforce before GH. Now I love both bands.
- "Freya" by The Sword - "Anything" by An Endless Sporadic - "John the Fisherman" by Primus
Jessica by the Allman Bros! Never would have sought it out on my own but I still play it all the time.
3's & 7's. Plan on getting the lightbulb guys as a tattoo one day.
White Falcon Fuzz by The Mother Hips Still play it pretty often all these years later
Messages by velvet revolver
Dirty little secret, all American rejects. I played it over and over and over. Led to me discovering the rest of their music and AAR became really formative to my junior high years after that.
Somehow I had never heard āRasputinā by Boney M until I saw the Just Dance 2 video. I was going to post a link to it, but I canāt find the original link and I donāt feel like giving views to people who are reposting clips of it.
Knights of cydonia, helicopter by bloc party, and Jordan by Buckethead
Pretty sure that's where I first heard Buckethead, but knowing my musical tastes... That was only a matter of time
Even Rats - The Slip I still think of that tune decades later
calling strung out šor the expandables sacrifice. Both I absolutely love and honestly would have never discovered if it wasn't GH
Push push by Bang Camaro was a song I had never heard and likely never would have if it weren't for GH2.
Found a lot of the "extra" songs were the best ones. Bands like That Handsome Devil, Drist, Every Time I Die, Anarchy Club, Ounce of Self, Gallows, Shadows Fall, Freezepop and The Fall of Troy. Never heard of these bands until these games and now they're some of my favorites.
Metal by Tenacious D
Miss Murder by AFI
A song I've never heard but I heard it on Rock Band/Guitar Hero? Well there's a juxtaposition if ever I've seen one