August 25, 2009
The Beatles: Rock Band First DLC
The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content details have arrived! There will be one full Beatles album released every month until the end of the year.
October 20, 2009: Abbey Road (1969)
Come TogetherSomething- Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
- Oh! Darling
Octopus’s GardenI Want You (She’s So Heavy)Here Comes The Sun- Because
- You Never Give Me Your Money
- Sun King
- Mean Mr. Mustard
- Polythene Pam
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
- Her Majesty
Being the first DLC album hot on the heels of the September 9th release of the full game, the pricing for Abbey Road was also revealed. It’s $16.98 for the whole album (not bad for 1712 tracks) or $1.99 per individual track.
Additionally, if you buy the whole album, you get a little bonus: you can play the entire 16 minute b-side medley (from “You Never Give Me Your Money” to “The End”) as a single continuous track! Wow!
November 2009: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club BandWith A Little Help From My FriendsLucy In The Sky With DiamondsGetting Better- Fixing A Hole
- She’s Leaving Home
- Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite
- Within You Without You
- When I’m Sixty Four
- Lovely Rita
Good Morning Good Morning- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- A Day In The Life
December 2009: Rubber Soul (1965)
Drive My Car- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
- You Won’t See Me
- Nowhere Man
- Think For Yourself
- The Word
- Michelle
- What Goes On
- Girl
I’m Looking Through You- In My Life
- Wait
If I Needed Someone- Run For Your Life
(The crossed out tracks are already in The Beatles: Rock Band track list out of the box)
To sweeten the deal even further, the always-excellent RockBandAide notes that these tracks aren’t just your run of the mill DLC — they come with a perk unique to The Beatles: Rock Band.
As a side note, I talked with HarmonixSean this weekend at the Fest for Beatles Fans in Chicago, and he told me that all Beatles DLC will have NEW DREAMSCAPES (costumes, environments, etc.)! I think this makes the $1.99 per DLC track price a pretty darn good deal.
I can’t wait to see what comes in 2010; I have my heart set on The White Album, as it’s my favorite Beatles album.
The monthly Beatles album DLC releases are every bit as exciting as the Rock Band 2 weekly DLC track (and occasionally full album) releases! We’ve got a lot to look forward to over the next few months. Oh, and if you haven’t already, get your The Beatles: Rock Band order in — what the heck are you waiting for?






So what I want to know is if the instruments are all wireless. For the price I would hope so, but the product description doesn’t really say.
Jeff Martin
August 25, 2009 at 8:14 am