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Motley Crue Single Does Better On Rock Band

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the strike-while-the-iron-is-hot dept.

Erik J writes "Remember about six weeks ago when Motley Crue and Rock Band partnered to release a new single premiering first in the game before anywhere else? Come to find out their song 'Saints of Los Angeles' was downloaded over 47,000 times on the Xbox version alone, beating out digital services iTunes and Amazon, which were tapped only 10,000 times for the single."

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  1. Why not? by MrHanky · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Motley Crue are a fairly old-fashioned band. While not being something you'd listen to, it's very suitable for a game. Consider GTA: Vice City's soundtrack, filled with extremely gay 80s tracks. Very few people with any self respect will listen to that kind of crap, but within the context of the game, it fits perfectly. A Flock of Seagulls, a fast car, 4 stars of cops coming after you ... perfect. Actually listeing to it? Not so.

    1. Re:Why not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      This site is the stomping ground of old fuck men like you.

  2. itunes? crew? by ihatethetv · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most real Motley Crew fans aren't on iTunes. They're buying their CDs at walmart. The rockband purchasers are just being ironical. -G

  3. That's because.. by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Motley crue is terrible. I think I heard that song on Sirius, and it's just laughable crap. That kind of music wasn't even that good in the 80's, not it just sounds like someone's goofing on them by writing a "world's most crapulific song" parody of what a Motley crue song might sound like now.

    So nobody wants to listen to the music. But people who play to a game like that don't care if the music is horribly terrible, so they downloaded it.

    New rule: If your song gets downloaded more as part of a music game than by people wanting to listen to the song, your song sucks.

    Did I mention the song is just horrible?