Motley Crue Single Does Better On Rock Band 127
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."
Re:Why not? (Score:5, Interesting)
Many people are fans of 80s music of various genres, and that should be fully acceptable.
This is awesome news. (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:It's Crüe, not Crue (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:It's Crüe, not Crue (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The doctor don't feel so good these days (Score:5, Interesting)
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/ [xkcd.com]
Re:The doctor don't feel so good these days (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:The doctor don't feel so good these days (Score:4, Interesting)
Or maybe any artform has a natural lifespan, and Rock and Rolls was semi-miraculously extended a few more times than likely as it is. Even jazz stopped innovating at some point.
And just maybe radio and the record industry aren't what they were once, so you're not going to hear edgy bands without looking for them.
Maybe there is rebel music. It's called hip hop, and a lot of emerging scenes in the 3rd world. Maybe there's still good rock and roll out there because kids are going to play the music they love whether or not they're showing up late to the party. Maybe garages and basements are alive and well and you wouldn't know because you haven't participated in any culture that doesn't require buying a ticket or subscription in two decades.
And who says rebellious = new. The bits of 70s and 80s punk that weren't safe enough to be marketable are still *totally* fair game for lashing out when you're 17. The best music of the past 30 years has all come out of that stuff, why stop?
Anyway, rock's older. It's got more cruft. That's just the way things go. Look at the movies. But the kids are all right. And all this spineless pitchfork crap will pass.