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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. Re:Why not? by arth1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't knock your music taste, and I would prefer it if you didn't knock mine.
    Many people are fans of 80s music of various genres, and that should be fully acceptable.

  2. This is awesome news. by cowscows · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is good, it means another potential revenue source for musicians, since the era of selling truckloads of plastic discs with songs encoded on them for 15 bucks is coming to an end. The ability to "rock out" along side of a song is the sort of added value that musicians and even the record companies should be offering people to keep us buying their product.

    But selling tracks online isn't the only way they could do this. Why not sell your CD in stores, and include with the disc a code that lets you download all the songs into Rock Band/GH? That would go a lot further towards convincing me to shell out 20 bucks for it.

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  3. Re:The doctor don't feel so good these days by geekoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WHen I was a teen late 70's, early 80s, we would talk about what music would be like i 20-30 years. We had a lot od thoughts but no one expected it to be the exact same music.
    I laugh whenever I see a 30 year old punk rock shirt on some teen. I mean, really can't this generation create there own rebel music?

    Ob. XKCD
    http://xkcd.com/339/

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  4. Re:The doctor don't feel so good these days by jslarve · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That was my era too, and I used to feel the same way. But after I watched "End of the Century" (the Ramones thing that's been on cable lately), the late (GREAT) Joey Ramone was remarking about how their fan base spans several generations, etc. It got me to thinking how arrogant that kind of attitude is. Some of that early punk was just plain great (if not terrible at the same time). We can't claim it. We were just lucky to have had it when we were growing up. Really lucky. Would a hippie from the '60s laugh if I were wearing a Beatles t-shirt. Hell no. Same idea.