Love him or hate him – say what you will about Guns N’ Roses frontman, Axl Rose, but the man has the ability to make people talk about him, if nothing else. Who else can you think of in recent memory who continued to be famous specifically because he hadn’t released a new album of material in well over a decade?
Well, MTV Games and Harmonix announced today that the legendary, oft-delayed Chinese Democracy would be the next full album release for download on Rock Band. Due out next week – April 14th for Xbox 360, April 16th for PlayStation 3 – the remaining 13 tracks will join “Shackler’s Revenge”, which was already released on the Rock Band 2 disc.
While I can’t say that every single one of these is going to be a blast, there are more than a handful that I’m already anticipating playing and some nice Buckethead solos for you guitar fiends. However, “This I Love”? Really? The entire song is piano and vocals with like, one guitar solo towards the end. Is this the track where the rest of your friends go to pick up pizza, leaving you to croon a ballad all by yourself? I hope they don’t go the other route in mapping the piano to the guitar, though. That’s just…annoying to me. Hit the jump for the full tracklist.
The remaining tracks from the 2008 release are as follows:
- Chinese Democracy
- Better
- Street of Dreams
- If The World
- There Was a Time
- Catcher in The Rye
- Scraped
- Riad N’ The Bedouins
- Sorry
- I.R.S.
- Madagascar
- This I Love
- Prostitute
Pricing has yet to be announced for the full album, but one can safely assume individual tracks will go for the usual $1.99/160 MS points.
