Speculation on The Beatles: Rock Band tracklist
Like a lot of people, I’m a big fan of The Beatles. Like still a lot of people, but probably a smaller number of people, I’m also a big fan of the video game Rock Band, so I’m eagerly anticipating the Beatles: Rock Band game when it comes out in September. I thought it might be fun to try to guess at the initial tracklist given that we know there will be 45 songs on the disc, ten of them are sure things (noted with an asterisk), and another three (“Twist and Shout”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, and “Paperback Writer”) show up in the introductory cinematic. Additionally, “All You Need Is Love” won’t be on the disc; it will be a download to benefit Doctors Without Borders. Here’s my guess thus far:
1. She Loves You (single, 1963)
2. Love Me Do (Please Please Me, 1963)
3. * I Want to Hold Your Hand (single, 1963)
4. * I Saw Her Standing There (Please Please Me, 1963)
5. Twist and Shout (Please Please Me, 1963)
6. All My Loving (With The Beatles, 1963)
7. Can’t Buy Me Love (A Hard Day’s Night, 1964)
8. A Hard Day’s Night (A Hard Day’s Night, 1964)
9. * I Feel Fine (single, 1964)
10. Eight Days a Week (Beatles for Sale, 1964)
11. Help! (Help!, 1965)
12. Another Girl (Help!, 1965)
13. Ticket to Ride (Help!, 1965)
14. I’m Looking Through You (Rubber Soul, 1965)
15. Nowhere Man (Rubber Soul, 1965)
16. * Day Tripper (single, 1965)
17. Paperback Writer (single, 1966)
18. Rain (single, 1966)
18. * Taxman (Revolver, 1966)
20. And Your Bird Can Sing (Revolver, 1966)
21. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (Sgt. Pepper, 1967)
22. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Sgt. Pepper, 1967)
23. Strawberry Fields Forever (single, 1967)
24. Good Morning Good Morning (Sgt. Pepper, 1967)
25. * I Am The Walrus (single, 1967)
26. * Back in the U.S.S.R. (The Beatles, 1968)
27. Glass Onion (The Beatles, 1968)
28. Oba-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles, 1968)
29. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles, 1968)
30. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles, 1968)
31. Yer Blues (The Beatles, 1968)
32. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey (The Beatles, 1968)
33. Helter Skelter (The Beatles, 1968)
34. Lady Madonna (single, 1968)
35. Revolution (single, 1968)
36. Hey Bulldog (Yellow Submarine, 1969)
37. Come Together (Abbey Road, 1969)
38. * Octopus’s Garden (Abbey Road, 1969)
39. * Here Comes The Sun (Abbey Road, 1969)
40. Oh! Darling (Abbey Road, 1969)
41. Two of Us (Let It Be, 1970)
42. Dig a Pony (Let It Be, 1970)
43. I Me Mine (Let It Be, 1970)
44. I’ve Got a Feeling (Let It Be, 1970)
45. * Get Back (Let It Be, 1970)
I tried to capture a wide variety while keeping in mind that the song has to be more-or-less suitable for Rock Band (so no “Yesterday” or “Revolution 9″) and that this may have a similar structure to previous GH/RB games where every fifth song is going to be a bigger name song. Chronology, of course, is also key here; although the singles that may have been recorded at the same time as an album did not appear on those albums, so they may be interspersed accordingly.”Hey Bulldog” and “Rain” are arguably the least likely to show up, but they’re the two that I’m hoping for the most. Aside from “Yellow Submarine” (which I’m hoping doesn’t make the cut; see last post), are there any other glaring omissions from this list? Or any songs that you wish would make it in?
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