some more Rock Band blather

[austin_tycho]

If I sing something on Rock Band, I'll then go download the song if I don't already have it. Because why not? Some songs I can't find at all (Pleymo's "New Wave", though I admit I haven't looked very hard; it's French rap and I just mumbled my way through it) and some I don't really warm up to, like "Welcome to the Neighborhood" (the Libyans) and "Rockaway Beach" (the Ramones).

Some I have a split reaction to. I have always hated the song "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains but that was just a fucking terrifically fun song to sing. It's been competing for space in my head with "Sorrow" by Bad Religion for the last several days; I woke up with both of them in my head this morning. "Sorrow" was a great song to sing. I love how it starts off sounding like a Police song, then veers off and becomes something completely different. Who are those guys? *trots off to Wikipedia* It's a little embarrasing to be introduced to bands via a video game, but I think I want to go find the cd that song's on and give it a listen.

Comments

[in-quinecorners.livejournal.com]

That's OK. For the longest time I was only vaguely familiar with Bad Religion; I had had Stranger Than Fiction for a while before I lost it, and I knew and enjoyed some of their modern rock radio hits well enough, but I didn't really have a strong opinion about them. That all changed after I went in search of their song "You" which I first heard in, you guessed it, a video game (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2). So the moral of the story is, video games can be an excellent place to discover music.

"Sorrow" is awfully damn catchy, even for a Bad Religion song, which is saying a lot. Good choice for the first song in Rock Band from them, Harmonix.