The Original Guitar Hero Songs: Where Are They Now?
Hard to believe it’s been almost six years since the release of the original Guitar Hero. Remember struggling to complete your first songs on easy? Remember how mind-bendingly impossible hard difficulty seemed, much less expert difficulty? Remember hitting that last Bark at The Moon solo and failing instantly? Ah, memories. Now we get to marvel at how difficult Dragonforce’s Through the Fire and Flames is on a REAL FREAKING GUITAR.
The original Guitar Hero soundtrack is a true classic. But short of booting up the original 2005 game on a Playstation 2 — can we experience these 30 classic tracks in a modern rhythm game? Let’s see:
| Song | Available in … |
| I Love Rock And Roll – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | Rock Band 3, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits* |
| I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones | Rock Band 3 |
| Thunder Kiss ’65 – White Zombie | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple | Rock Band 3, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Infected – Bad Religion | none |
| Iron Man – Black Sabbath | none |
| More Than a Feeling – Boston | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| You Got Another Thing Comin – Judas Priest | Rock Band DLC |
| Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top | Guitar Hero 6 |
| Killer Queen – Queen | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Hey You – Exies | Guitar Hero: Smash Hits* |
| Stellar – Incubus | Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Heart Full of Black – Burning Brides | none |
| Symphony of Destruction – Megadeth | Guitar Hero DLC |
| Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie | Rock Band DLC |
| Fat Lip – Sum 41 | Guitar Hero DLC |
| Cochise – Audioslave | none |
| Take It Off – The Donnas | Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Unsung – Helmet | Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Spanish Castle Magic – Jimi Hendrix | Rock Band DLC |
| Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers | none |
| No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age | Rock Band 3, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits* |
| Ace of Spades – Motörhead | Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: Metallica* |
| Crossroads – Cream | none |
| Godzilla – Blue Öyster Cult | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero Smash Hits |
| Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan | Rock Band DLC |
| Frankenstein – The Edgar Winter Group | none |
| Cowboys From Hell – Pantera | Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
| Bark at the Moon – Ozzy Osbourne | Rock Band DLC, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |
(* indicates the song is exportable to be used as DLC in current Guitar Hero games. All Rock Band songs are exportable with very rare exceptions.)
By my count, out of the original 30 songs in Guitar Hero, that’s …
| 7 | songs only playable by booting up Guitar Hero on a Playstation 2 |
| 14 | songs playable in Rock Band 3 |
| 18 | songs playable in a Guitar Hero game |
Here’s hoping we eventually get to play all these classic songs in one form or another without being anchored to a PS2!
In the interests of completeness, of the 17 Guitar Hero bonus songs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Guitar_Hero#Bonus_songs
The following 5 are available as Rock Band DLC, largely on RBN:
Jeff Atwood
June 12, 2011 at 6:01 am