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oznerol

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Originally posted by: torpid
So, I'm finally up to the fall out boy song on expert drums. Why does such a god-awful song have to be so hard? It's double torture because I have to listen to arguably the worst song in Rock Band while trying to get through it.

In that group, I cannot finish that song or Detroit Rock City. Both songs are eh, and with a band helping me out I can beat any song on Expert, so that's where I stopped on the solo tour.
 

jdport

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Detroit Rock City and Dead on Arrival are *both* a bitch on drums.. lol. I got past them after a bit of practice, but they were tough. Now I'm stuck on Don't Fear the Reaper though, and honestly I'm not sure I'll ever get any further on the drums solo career.

The An-I-Mal and platinum artist achievments are all that stand between me and 1000/1000 on this game... which is an extremely unusual thing for me. There are generally a few achievements in every game I can't possibly do... if I could get past Reaper I'd only have 5 more songs to squeak by in order to get An-i-mal though.

The endless setlist should be doable eventually... the problem with that one is that I don't have anybody to play with locally which means my only way to play BWT is to sing and play guitar... I am a lousy singer. I can pass everything on expert with some effort, but not blind. When I'm playing guitar I can't look at the words or the pitch indicator and I'm nowhere near good enough to pass some of those songs like that. Not yet anyway. I'm pretty sure I could do the endless setlist on hard, but it's such a time investment I am not sure I want to do it twice (once for hard and again for expert) so ... i haven't taken the time to do it on hard.
 

CKDragon

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Originally posted by: jdport
The endless setlist should be doable eventually... the problem with that one is that I don't have anybody to play with locally...

Same issue here. I can pass every song on Expert lead guitar easily but all my local friends max out at Hard for bass/drums/singing.

Make a road trip to Virginia and we'll knock it out in ~4.5 hours (I believe that's the runtime for all the songs).
 

ShOcKwAvE827

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When I was going through expert I had the most trouble with the start of Foreplay/LT and then mid of DFtR too. Eventually DFtR gets a lot easier, the pattern at the end is actually not as hard as it looks, but the middle roll part is still a bit tricky. Of course, it took me a while to get good enough to beat Run to the Hills, but if you have a decent drumset that can pick up the notes it can be done. jdport CK, we should start a band up one day and play through some songs. The hardest songs in the game for me are Run the the hills, next to you, I get by beginning part, outside, and DoA. I just finally 5 starred DoA a couple days ago. I will never be able to 5 star Run to the Hills, even 4 stars seems hard.

oh and jdport if you are looking for fun songs on drums particularly, I recommend, Working Man, Limelight, all boston songs, joker and the thief, message in a bottle, move along, ten speed, and and justice for all.


edit: oh... from that list.. my bad. I'd say crushcrushcrush is really fun but pretty simple on drums. edit... sweet i finally got 4 stars on run to the hills on the big rock ending
 

Oyeve

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Im stuck on "One" on expert guitar. Nailed all other songs in all the other levels. I really hate that song too, must be a subconcious thing.
 

CKDragon

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Originally posted by: Oyeve
Im stuck on "One" on expert guitar. Nailed all other songs in all the other levels. I really hate that song too, must be a subconcious thing.

LIES!
 

ShOcKwAvE827

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Originally posted by: Oyeve
Im stuck on "One" on expert guitar. Nailed all other songs in all the other levels. I really hate that song too, must be a subconcious thing.

no one plays that game anymore!#
 

VashHT

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I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.
 

CKDragon

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Originally posted by: VashHT
I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.

???

I downloaded that song and found that there is no "God" nor "Damn" in the chorus. I DLed it for the 360 on the Tuesday it came out. How about you?
 

bigrash

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Originally posted by: warcrow
I made the mistake of trying to sing "More Than A Feeling" over the weekend.





Man those long notes in that song are hard to hit.
 

VashHT

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Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: VashHT
I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.

???

I downloaded that song and found that there is no "God" nor "Damn" in the chorus. I DLed it for the 360 on the Tuesday it came out. How about you?

Its not in the chorus actually, but the parts where he sings "This ain't a scene its a god damn arms race" they just blank out god at those parts. I dled in on 360 as well last Saturday, its definitely censored I have the real CD and its pretty obvious once you hear it.
 

oznerol

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Originally posted by: VashHT
Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: VashHT
I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.

???

I downloaded that song and found that there is no "God" nor "Damn" in the chorus. I DLed it for the 360 on the Tuesday it came out. How about you?

Its not in the chorus actually, but the parts where he sings "This ain't a scene its a god damn arms race" they just blank out god at those parts. I dled in on 360 as well last Saturday, its definitely censored I have the real CD and its pretty obvious once you hear it.

You are 18 or under?
 

CKDragon

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Originally posted by: VashHT
Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: VashHT
I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.

???

I downloaded that song and found that there is no "God" nor "Damn" in the chorus. I DLed it for the 360 on the Tuesday it came out. How about you?

Its not in the chorus actually, but the parts where he sings "This ain't a scene its a god damn arms race" they just blank out god at those parts. I dled in on 360 as well last Saturday, its definitely censored I have the real CD and its pretty obvious once you hear it.

I consider that part of the chorus. Actually, the whole darn song is pretty much chorus other than a few lines.

I've heard the song both censored and uncensored. In the part where he repeated chants the phrase with "Goddamn" in it, there is neither a "God" nor a "Damn". I played it last night to verify.
 

jdport

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I don't have the song so can't comment on what is or isn't censored... but I can say it is pretty normal in radio edits and stuff on TV to edit out the word "God" and allow the word "Damn".... like somehow "goddamn" is more offensive than "damn". I guess it is in a way... but really if you're going to censor something then just censor it... take out the whole word. Or better yet just leave it and if it bothers people they can listen to something else
 

oznerol

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Originally posted by: jdport
I don't have the song so can't comment on what is or isn't censored... but I can say it is pretty normal in radio edits and stuff on TV to edit out the word "God" and allow the word "Damn".... like somehow "goddamn" is more offensive than "damn". I guess it is in a way... but really if you're going to censor something then just censor it... take out the whole word. Or better yet just leave it and if it bothers people they can listen to something else

If you want to get technical, damn is an acceptable word for public TV/radio. However, god damn is different in that it directly breaks the 3rd commandment from the bible.

It's the whole "taking the lord's name in vain" that offends people - not the word damn.

Stupid, I know, but whatever. I'm offended by people buying anything involving Fall Out Boy.
 

VashHT

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Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: VashHT
Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: VashHT
I dled the new FO boy song on there this weekend only to find out its censored, really pissed me off. They censor out "God" in God damn but leave damn its totally retarded. That being said I wish they had more songs off of take this to your grave, Dead on Arrival is one of my fav songs in the game.

???

I downloaded that song and found that there is no "God" nor "Damn" in the chorus. I DLed it for the 360 on the Tuesday it came out. How about you?

Its not in the chorus actually, but the parts where he sings "This ain't a scene its a god damn arms race" they just blank out god at those parts. I dled in on 360 as well last Saturday, its definitely censored I have the real CD and its pretty obvious once you hear it.

I consider that part of the chorus. Actually, the whole darn song is pretty much chorus other than a few lines.

I've heard the song both censored and uncensored. In the part where he repeated chants the phrase with "Goddamn" in it, there is neither a "God" nor a "Damn". I played it last night to verify.

I'll have to check again tonight, but its still kinda annoying I wish they wouldn't censor stuff like that the cd doesn't even have a parental warning on it.

Oh yeah, I'm 23 to answer you ducci, 24 in a few weeks, and I know a ton of people who like fallout boy who are over 18. I like their old stuff a lot more, its a lot more "pop" now, but I still like some of their newer songs.
 

ShOcKwAvE827

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May 20th

Beetlebum as made famous by Blur (cover)

Hier Kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen (master)

Countdown to Insanity by H-BlockX (master)

Perfekte Welle by Juli (master)

Manu Chao by Les Wampas (master)

Hysteria by Muse (master)

Rock N Roll Star by Oasis (master)

New Wave by Pleymo (master)

Monsoon by Tokio Hotel (master)
 

Plumcuda1

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Originally posted by: bigrash
Next week's DLC is:

Hanging on the Telephone by Blondie (master)
Train in Vain by The Clash (master)
Kool Thing by Sonic Youth (master)

meh, I think I'll pass

Not that I want any of these .... but they are nowhere in the rockband store ...
 

jdport

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man it's been a while since they've released a song I have even heard before... oh well, maybe next week.
 

torpid

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Go through "Dead on Arrival" on expert drums finally. Practiced the chorus enough so that I could gain a bit during that, then got the first two energy phrases and kept my overdrive unused until the end of the song. Was much easier that way. I did fail a couple of times with unused overdrive but the strategy paid off. I ended up with 85%.

Now working on Cherub Rock and Foreplay. I assume those two are relatively easy compared to Don't Fear The Reaper, which tricks you with easiness and then slams you right in your body cavities after the break.

Enter Sandman and Highway Star were crazy easy. I think they are in the wrong group. I got over 90% and 5-starred both on the first try.
 

Oyeve

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I wish more people would play the bass guitar online. Its lonely out there waiting for a bassist.
 

oznerol

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Originally posted by: Oyeve
I wish more people would play the bass guitar online. Its lonely out there waiting for a bassist.

Is this a joke or are you just slow?

When playing online, bass is just a 2nd guitar - they choose bass once you pick a song.
 

ShOcKwAvE827

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He probably means tug of war or score duel I guess.

congrats torpid. Dead on Arrival gave me fits, but it's actually fun once you get the beat down. If you download Siva, it has a simlar beat but I think its more fun than DoA. Can't wait for Hysteria, I might actually pick up the guitar to play the bass line.

Anyone out there have any DLC? I can't find anyone online with anything and i'm sick of the same songs.... (everyone picks enter sandman 90% of the time)
 
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