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Beatles Rock Band Game Coming In September

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-think-i've-heard-of-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that The Beatles: Rock Band has gotten a release date: Sept. 9th. Today's announcement also included details about the contents of the game. Quoting Kotaku: "The Beatles: Rock Band will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and 'experience The Beatles extraordinary catalog of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career,' according to the release. The game will also have a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career."

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  1. Re:Set list? by Roger+Wilcox · · Score: 2, Informative

    The game will feature music from every era of the Beatles' musical career.

    Their revolutionary and influential material began appearing in 1965, so I'd expect to see more content from that period foreward...

  2. Re:john lennon would never allow this by symes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know about that - it seems like a great way of breathing life back into his music, bringing it to a new generation with no obvious drawback.

  3. Will it be fun? by Canazza · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As much as I love the Beatles they weren't really known for their Raging Guitar solos or 8 minute Drum twatting sessions, and for me the best bits in both GH and RB were the difficult but rewarding sections that I really just don't seem to remember the Beatles having.

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    1. Re:Will it be fun? by cowscows · · Score: 3, Interesting

      For me the best bits in RB is having some friends over to play, and going through all the fun songs that everybody knows. I think the Beatles have plenty of those.

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  4. Re:FFS! by Chabil+Ha' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Must...not...feed...the...trolls...

    So I'm not even pushing my 30s yet, but I grew up on this stuff. As a kid I would go through my dad's vinyl collection and dub them to tape (yar, I be a pirate at a young age!). It's interesting that in my teenage years I still listened to them and noticed a lot of influences from the Beatles in some of the more contemporary music of the day.

    Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, for example, attempted a Sgt. Pepper's-esque album with Machina, and though I don't think it had the same effect, you could see him trying to take the band in a new direction by being this fictional psuedo-band like the Beatles did to get a refresh thirty years earlier.

    And that's what makes them culturally significant--that thirty years after their disbandment and half of quartet are dead, their music still has a major impact.

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  5. Re:Set list? by multisync · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Beetles have stood the test of time.

    The Beetles?

    Turn in your music-geek card.

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  6. Re:Set list? by nnet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Comparing The Beatles to Spears is like comparing giant squashes to snow peas. Please. I don't dispute your assessment of their level of risque, just the comparison to a singer targeted for a specific demographic, mtv pupz. Spears will never, ever achieve the longevity, and breadth/quality of creativity The Beatles did. Amen.

  7. I give em another 2000 years by ZirbMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're bigger than Jesus you know.