Band Hero

Console Setlist

• 3 Doors Down, 'When I'm Gone'
• All-American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret" ******
• The Airborne Toxic Event - "Gasoline" 
• Alphabeat - "Fascination"    
• Aly and AJ - "Like Whoa"
• Angels & Airwaves, 'The Adventure'
• Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, 'Steal My Kisses'
• Big Country - "In a Big Country"
• Boys Like Girls, 'The Great Escape'
• The Bravery - "Believe"
• Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
• Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me" (Live)
• Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry"
• Corinne Bailey Rae, 'Put Your Records On'
• Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silences"
• Culture Club, 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me'     
• Dashboard Confessional - "Hands Down"
• Duran Duran - "Rio"
• David Bowie - Let's Dance
• Devo - "Whip It"
• Don McLean - American Pie
• Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
• Everclear by 'Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)'
• Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Going Down
• Filter, 'Take a Picture'
• Finger Eleven - “Paralyzer”
• The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
• Hilary Duff - "So Yesterday"
• Hinder - 'Lips Of An Angel'
• The Jackson 5 - ABC
• Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
• Jesse McCartney - "Beautiful Soul"
• Joan Jett, 'Bad Reputation'
• Joss Stone, 'You Had Me'
• Katrina and The Waves - "Walking On Sunshine"
• KT Tunstall - Black Horses & The Cherry Tree
• The Kooks - "Naïve"
• The Last Goodnight, 'Pictures of You'
• Lily Allen - Take What You Take
• Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
• Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Impression That I Get"
• Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light
• N.E.R.D., 'Rockstar'
• No Doubt - 'Don't Speak", "Just a Girl"***
• OK Go - "A Million Ways"
• Papa Roach, 'Lifeline'
• Parachute, 'Back Again'
• Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
• Poison - Every Rose has its Thorn
• Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - "Kids"
• The Rolling Stones, 'Honky Tonk Women'
• Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
• Santigold, 'L.E.S. Artistes'
• Snow Patrol - "Take Back the City"
• Spice Girls, 'Wannabe'
• Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
• Taylor Swift - "Love Story", "Picture to Burn", "You Belong to Me"
• Tonic - "If You Could Only See" 
• The Turtles, 'Happy Together'
• Village People - "YMCA" 
• Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"

DS Set List

• The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
• Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
• Black Eyed Peas - "Let's Get It Started"
• Blink-182 - "First Date"
• Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
• Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf" *
• Eagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A."*
• Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
• Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
• Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench" **
• Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot" ***
• The Killers - "Spaceman"
• Kings of Leon - "Manhattan"
• KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
• Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth" *******
• No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
• Pink - "So What" ****
• The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
• The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
• Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
• Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows" *****
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"
• The Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb (live)"
• Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"
• The Vines - "Get Free"
• Weezer - "Troublemaker"

* Appeared in the setlist of Guitar Hero 5 
** Appeared In setlist of Guitar Hero 2 & Guitar Hero Smash/Greatest Hits
*** Appears as DLC for Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock 
**** Appears as DLC for Guitar Hero World Tour
***** Appeared in the setlist of the original Guitar Hero game.
****** Appeared in the US version of Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades  
******* Appeared in the setlist of Guitar Hero World Tour

Song Importing

for 480 / $5.99 / 600 Wii Points (Xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii). In addition, 61 tracks from Band Hero 

an be imported into Guitar Hero 5 for 420 / $4.99 / 500 Wii Points.

All of the previously announced forward-compatible tracks from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits will also be available for Band Hero for 280 / $3.49 / 350 Wii Points. For more on how importing works, read the

• "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" – Beastie Boys
• "Dammit" – Blink-182
• "Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi
• "Sweet Home Alabama (Live)" Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "L'Via L'Viaquez" – The Mars Volta
• "About a Girl (Unplugged)" – Nirvana
• "Spiderwebs" – No Doubt
• "Re-Education (Through Labor)" – Rise Against
• "Do It Again" – Steely Dan
• "Demolition Man" – Sting
• "Love Spreads" – The Stone Roses
• "Santeria" – Sublime
• "Are You Gonna Go My Way" – Lenny Kravitz
• "Band On The Run" – Wings
• "Heartbreaker" – Pat Benatar
• "Hollywood Nights" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• "Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups
• "Never Too Late" – The Answer
• "Obstacle 1" – Interpol
• "One Armed Scissor" – At the Drive-In
• "One Way or Another" – Blondie
• "Our Truth" – Lacuna Coil
• "Overkill" – Motorhead
• "Shiver" – Coldplay
• "Soul Doubt" – NOFX
• "Stranglehold" – Ted Nugent
• "The Joker" – The Steve Miller Band
• "The Kill" – 30 Seconds To Mars
• "Up Around The Bend" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Everlong" – Foo Fighters
• "The Middle" – Jimmy Eat World
• "Today" – Smashing Pumpkins
• "Toy Boy" – Stuck in the Sound
• "You're Gonna Say Yeah!" – Hushpuppies
• "Stillborn" – Black Label Society

• "Caught In A Mosh" by Anthrax
• "Cult Of Personality" by Living Colour
• "Free Bird" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Freya" – The Sword
• "Heart-Shaped Box" – Nirvana
• "Hey You" – The Exies
• "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" – Pat Benatar
• "I Love Rock 'N Roll" – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• "I Wanna Rock" – Twisted Sister
• "Message In A Bottle" – The Police
• "Miss Murder" – AFI
• "Monkey Wrench" – Foo Fighters
• "No One Knows" – Queens Of The Stone Age
• "Nothin' But A Good Time" – Poison
• "Play With Me" – Extreme
• "Psychobilly Freakout" – Reverend Horton Heat
• "Rock And Roll All Nite" – Kiss
• "Shout At The Devil" – Mötley Crüe
• "The Trooper" – Iron Maiden
• "Woman" – Wolfmother
• "YYZ" – Rush

Compatible DLC

All DLC that is compatibe with Guitar Hero 5 is comatible with Band Hero 
 

Celebrity Avatars

Like Following its predecessors, Band Hero will feature new celebrity musicians joining the cast of characters for players to rock out as.

•   Taylor Swift
• Adam Levine
• No Doubt (the whole band appears in the game and not just one member of No Doubt)

The No Doubt Controversy

"Some of the world's most popular and iconic artists have been featured in Guitar Hero as playable characters, and we are proud to count No Doubt among them. Activision has a written agreement to use No Doubt in Band Hero – an agreement signed by No Doubt after extensive negotiations with its representatives, who collectively have decades of experience in the entertainment industry. Pursuant to that agreement, Activision worked with No Doubt and the band's management in developing Band Hero. As a result, Activision believes it is within its legal rights with respect to the use and portrayal of the band members in the game and that this lawsuit is without merit. Activision is exploring its own legal options with respect to No Doubt's obligations under the agreement."  

The Reception Of Band Hero From The Crtics

Band Hero received mixed reviews from gaming critics. Most recognized the game as having the same feature sets as Guitar Hero 5, including any benefits or flaws that may come from that. Reviewers praised the reuse of the Guitar Hero 5 features such as the Party Play mode that allows for players to jump in and out, the improved Career mode, and the improved GHTunes. Some identified that the target market of the game appears to be towards teenage girls, such as the featuring of Taylor Swift, the color schemes used in the game (Purple, Pink & Light Blue) and other parts of the song selection. Reviews noted that setlist would be the strongest measure of whether players should purchase the game, as it contains a diverse list of songs including some that, for anyone outside of the teenage girl set, would be difficult to appreciate. The reviewers also commented on the smaller setlist, containing only 65 songs compared to Guitar Hero 5's 85.

Review did note that the "Top 40" songs do not always make for challenging songs, as many featured simple chord repetition throughout the song or simply following pre-programmed electronic keyboard or drum beats. However, most songs were found to feature at least one difficult instrument portion that would be fun to play. Reviews also noted that the censoring of songs in order to affirm a family-friendly rating is awkward, such as removing the word "whiskey" from one line in "Americain Pie", and can ruin the enjoyment of some songs. Some reviews saw Band Hero as a good addition to the Guitar Hero franchise, and pointed out the strength of the game is improved in part due to the ability to import and export songs between Band Hero, Guitar Hero 5, and content. One critic in consideration of the equivalent nature of featured, considered that players now had a choice of "'Top 40' Band Hero or 'Hard Rock' [Guitar Hero 5]" skins to select for playing the music on, and positive direction for the series. However, others saw the simple rebranding of the game, and that some may see the product as little more than a "full-price track pack"  . 
  

The Censoring Issue

The Family-Frendly Ethic Is Questionable