I've played plenty of Band Quickplay on LIVE in my time, and these are my recurring pet peeves when it comes to your average Joe Strummer...well, more like "molten, irrational hatreds," really...
 
6) PIMPMOBILE.
 
5) GAS MASKS. I have never seen one of these rubber monstrosities used in a fashionable or appropriate context. It's always spiked hair, gas masks, a full body's worth of pointless and ugly tattoos and a cape. Here's a tip, kids: develop a theme, then clothe accordingly. Also, color coordinate, for christ's sake! And remember: RETARDED DOUCHEBAG IS NOT A THEME. IT'S A LIFESTYLE.
 
4) TALKING DURING THE SONG. Please, for the love of all that is musical and rad, shut the fuck up. I play this game for two reasons: 1) I want to engage in and enjoy the music, and 2) I happen to be pretty OK at it. When you blabber on and on in the middle of a track, you skullfuck those two reasons. Your idiotic gibbering not only prevents me from hearing all of the song clearly, but it also disrupts my concentration. Especially irritating when it's some sudden, profane outburst because you missed a note or twelve and TOTALLY FC THAT SONG ALL THE TIME FOREVER. Also, I don't care that you passed this or FC'd that or played what-have-you on [INSERT ACTUAL INSTRUMENT HERE]. I just want you to keep that gaping landfill you call a mouth closed and do your job, which is to rhythmically hit a sequence of colored Christmas lights. The more you speak, the more I want to play "Clouds Over California" on the bass pedal that is your face.
 
3) YOUR OBNOXIOUS SUPPORT OF AVENGED SEVENFOLD. I will admit, right now, that I am not a fan of Synyster Gates - god, it hurt me to type that - and the Police Officer and Colonel Mustard and whoever the hell else is in Avenged Sevenfold. I find their music, much like Green Day's, to be just left of listenable, endowed with a whiny aesthetic polished to a mirror shine by sleek production. Yes, these men with their inked-up arms, Hot Topic clothing and goofy pseudo-religious nicknames sure are hardcore. However, that having been said, there is no denying that, in a Rock Band context - or Guitar Hero, if you enjoy mediocre products, the Avenged Sevenfold songs are fun to play and sometimes rather challenging (here's looking at you, "Afterlife" solo). But that does not mean that, when given the opportunity to select the next song, you should pick "Almost Easy." For one, it's a disc song, and chances are very good that everyone in the group has played it over 9000 times. Two, if you're looking for a challenge, there are far harder songs available for your pathetic validation needs. Perhaps I just hate metalcore - this same sort of thing happens with All That Remains, I've found - but I should think that, in a game chock full of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth and...yes, even Metallica...you have an infinite number of better choices when it comes to metal. Why settle?
 
Listen closely, you jerks. You nearly ruined "Welcome Home" for me back in 2007, and you've given me a strong distaste for "Down with the Sickness." I'm horrified to think of what you could do with "Bat Country."
 
2) DAFFODIL.
 
1) BEING POOR. Otherwise known as "not having any DLC." Sure, I've been lucky enough, financially and otherwise, to buy nearly 640 DLC tracks so far, but it's not as if the content is rare or expensive or of a poor quality. In fact, whiplash to the contrary. There are plenty of artists available with plenty of material, and it's all authored with a remarkable attention to detail, but you mean to tell me that you can't find even thirty or so songs that you'd be interested in playing? And that you don't even have the twenty free songs or "Still Alive," "Promised Land," et cetera, all of which - may I reiterate - are fucking free? That's just a willful ignorance of what makes Rock Band so damn good: the sheer, mind-bottling amount of material. It's true that the mechanics might get stale after a while, but fresh music and charts always reinvigorate them in my experience, especially debuts of artists and lesser-seen genres. If you don't have any DLC, I will avoid you under the category of "Doesn't Understand the Game," because that's precisely what you're doing.