>Here’s my original guess at the Beatles: Rock Band set list, from February.
- She Loves You
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand
- Love Me Do
- Help!
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Please Please Me
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- Eight Days a Week
- Ticket To Ride
- Yesterday
- I Feel Fine
- Paperback Writer
- Rain
- We Can Work It Out
- Revolution
- Get Back
- Drive My Car
- The Word
- In My Life
- Taxman
- She Said, She Said
- And Your Bird Can Sing
- Doctor Robert
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Getting Better
- Good Morning Good Morning
- A Day In the Life
- Hello Goodbye
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- All You Need Is Love
- Back in the U.S.S.R.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Birthday
- Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
- Helter Skelter
- Come Together
- Something
- Octopus’s Garden
- Here Comes The Sun
- Mean Mr. Mustard -> Polythene Pam -> She Came In Through The Bathroom Window -> Golden Slumbers -> Carry That Weight -> The End
- Get Back
- Dig a Pony
- I’ve Got A Feeling
- The Ballad of John and Yoko
It was noted in the comments to that post that I’d included “Get Back” twice, so that was dumb. And I knew, at the time, that “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey” was never going to get in – I don’t even necessarily like that song. But I had my iPod with me when I was making this list, and I was scrolling through my Beatles albums, and it occurred to me that the instrumental tracks for that song would be pretty fun to play – each instrument is doing something interesting.
Anyway, I bring this up because 25 of the game’s 45 songs have been confirmed by EA. As Kotaku reported this morning, those songs (with appropriate “nailed it” / “missed it” commentary) are:
- “Back in the U.S.S.R.” [yes]
- “Can’t Buy Me Love” [yes]
- “Day Tripper” [how did I miss this?]
- “Eight Days a Week” [yes]
- “Get Back” [yes, twice]
- “Here Comes the Sun” yes
- “I Am the Walrus” [I left this out on purpose, b/c I had no idea how they’d do it. this is one of my favorite Beatles songs!]
- “I Feel Fine” [yes]
- “I Saw Her Standing There” [yes]
- “I Want to Hold Your Hand” [yes]
- “Octopus’s Garden” [yes]
- “Paperback Writer” [yes]
- “Revolution” [yes]
- “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” [yes]
- “Taxman” [yes]
- “Twist and Shout” [didn’t guess this, for some reason – but I’m not crazy about their early, pre-Rubber Soul stuff]
- “Within You Without You” [didn’t think this would make it since it’s so unconventional, but they are using the drumbeat from Tomorrow Never Knows, which is awesome
- “Yellow Submarine” i’d guessed there’d only be one Ringo song]
- “With A Little Help From My Friends” [so i definitely didn’t think there’d be 3 Ringo songs]
- “Birthday” [yes]
- “I Got a Feeling” [yes]
- “Dig a Pony” [yes]
- “Do You Want To Know A Secret” [not even sure I’ve heard this song before]
- “I Wanna Be Your Man” [see #23]
- “And Your Bird Can Sing” [yes]
I’m already off by 6, but I’ll take it. If they can include “I Am The Walrus”, they can do anything. In any event, this is moot – at E3, Harmonix revealed that the entire catalog would eventually be available to download, starting with all of “Abbey Road.”
Can’t. Fucking. Wait.
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