Setlist Checklist: Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II was the first in a line of many successful sequels and spin-offs to the original Guitar Hero title. Released initially for the Playstation 2 in November 2006, Guitar Hero II landed a few months later on the Xbox 360 in April 2007, along with additional songs and downloadable content availability not included in the PS2 version.
In terms of gameplay, not much changed from the original title, but the sequel did bring with it 40 songs (48 on the Xbox 360 version) for the main setlist, 24 bonus songs (26 on the Xbox 360 version), and for the Xbox 360 version only, an additional 12 songs of downloadable content not featured in the previous title (24 total DLC songs, half of which were songs from the original title).
While the main setlist included mostly cover tracks of popular songs, a few of the tracks did use master recordings, unlike the original game which used all covers for the main setlist. The Playstation 2 version used masters of “John the Fisherman” by Primus and “Stop!” by Jane’s Addiction, and the Xbox 360 version added master recordings of “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies and “Dead!” by My Chemical Romance.
As noted in the previous Setlist Checklist post (and all future posts, as well), Rock Band 3′s setlist creation tool allows us to create, save, and share setlists, so we have included a Rock Band 3 setlist below that you can save to your profile if you would like to check out any or all of the songs! And as the holes are continually filled in by Rock Band’s weekly DLC releases, we will update this post, and keep it linked in the FAQ page above, for future reference.
Main Setlist
Guitar Hero II features 48 popular rock songs spanning five decades of rock, from the 1960s through the 2000s, in addition to 26 bonus tracks. Not including the bonus songs, Rock Band has 16 of the 48 songs currently in game, or about 33%. If you factor in the bonus songs, the percentage drops down to 24%. The songs included in the main setlist are included directly below.
| Artist - Title | Rock Band |
|---|---|
| Aerosmith - Last Child * | N/A |
| Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies * ** | 5/19/2009 *** |
| Alice in Chains - Them Bones * | N/A |
| Anthrax - Madhouse * | 9/28/2010 *** |
| Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot * | 10/26/2010 |
| Black Sabbath - War Pigs * | 12/4/2007 * |
| Cheap Trick - Surrender * | 9/6/2011 |
| Danzig - Mother * | N/A |
| Deep Purple - Hush * ** | N/A |
| Dick Dale - Misirlou * | N/A |
| Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench * | 11/11/2008 |
| Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine * | N/A |
| Heart - Crazy on You * | N/A |
| Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy * | N/A |
| Iron Maiden - The Trooper * ** | 6/9/2009 |
| Jane's Addiction - Stop | N/A |
| Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son * | 9/14/2008 |
| Kiss - Strutter * | 4/26/2011 *** |
| Lamb of God - Laid to Rest * | 11/25/2008 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird * | 10/26/2010 |
| Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend * | N/A |
| Megadeth - Hangar 18 * | 2/9/2010 |
| Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil * | N/A |
| My Chemical Romance - Dead! ** | N/A |
| Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box * | 9/20/11 |
| Pearl Jam - Life Wasted * ** | N/A |
| Primus - John the Fisherman | N/A |
| Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name * | N/A |
| Rancid - Salvation * ** | N/A |
| Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout * | N/A |
| Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo * ** | N/A |
| Rush - YYZ * | 9/23/2008 |
| Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight * | 8/4/2009 |
| Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart * | 10/19/2010 |
| Stray Cats - Rock This Town * | N/A |
| Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized * | N/A |
| The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica * | N/A |
| The Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night? * | N/A |
| The Living End - Carry Me Home * | N/A |
| The Police - Message in a Bottle * | 4/15/2008 |
| The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys * | N/A |
| The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin' * | N/A |
| The Sword - Freya * | N/A |
| Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation * | N/A |
| Toadies - Possum Kingdom ** | N/A |
| Van Halen - You Really Got Me * | N/A |
| Warrant - Cherry Pie * | N/A |
| Wolfmother - Woman * | 10/27/2009 |
* Denotes a cover song in the original title.
** Denotes a song exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II.
*** Denotes a live version of the track.
Guitar Hero II Main Setlist for Rock Band 3
Bonus Songs
| Artist - Title | Rock Band |
|---|---|
| Drist - Arterial Black | N/A |
| Anarchy Club - Collide | RBN - In Process |
| Ounce of Self - Drink Up ** | N/A |
| That Handsome Devil - Elephant Bones | N/A |
| Valient Thorr - Fall of Pangea | N/A |
| VAGIANT - FTK | N/A |
| Brian Kahanek - Gemini | N/A |
| Buckethead - Jordan | N/A |
| Noble Rot - Kicked to the Curb ** | N/A |
| The Acro-Brats - Laughtrack | N/A |
| Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk | 9/2/2009 |
| The Amazing Crowns - Mr. Fix It | N/A |
| The Breaking Wheel - One for the Road | N/A |
| The Neighborhoods - Parasite | N/A |
| Bang Camaro - Push Push (Lady Lightning) | 3/4/2010 |
| Count Zero - Radium Eyes | N/A |
| The Last Vegas - Raw Dog | N/A |
| Megasus - Red Lottery | N/A |
| All That Remains - Six | N/A |
| Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - Soy Bomb | 8/18/2011 |
| Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds | N/A |
| Every Time I Die - The New Black | N/A |
| Dethklok - Thunderhorse | N/A |
| Strong Bad - Trogdor | N/A |
| Voivod - X-Stream | N/A |
| Made in Mexico - Yes We Can | N/A |
** Denotes a song exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II.
Guitar Hero II Bonus Songs for Rock Band 3
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I want Van Halen!!!!
shena Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 9:36 am
OH, and RockGamer (RBN author) lists Soy Bomb by Honest Bob as coming soon
RockBandAide Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Added above. Thanks!
I really hope “Who Was in My Room Last Night?” ends up as RBN or something. Also, we need Suicidal Tendencies in Rock Band.
Only 33%, eh? Man, there are so many of these songs I want in RB…Let’s start with Crazy On You. You can do that one soon, right HMX?
Craig Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
It’s been confirmed heart is coming to rockband… Maybe this is the song on the way? Fingers crossed!
Plutarch Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 11:27 am
If we are only getting one Heart track, Crazy On You would be my first choice. But honestly, they deserve more. A six-pack would be great!
Toad3000 Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Seriously. But sadly, it looks like we’re only getting one song at this time. I would think Crazy on You is practically a shoo-in, but who knows? Harmonix may have a surprise waiting for us.
I forgot about a bunch of these. Misirlou would be crazy for Pro Guitar. Would also love to see Search and Destroy, Heart-Shaped Box, Psychobilly Freakout, Rock This Town, and Institutionalized eventually make it’s way to RB.
I would love Search and Destroy, Sweet Child Of Mine, Who was in my room last night?, Institutionalized, Psychobilly Freakout, Crazy On You, Heart Shaped Box, John The Fisherman, Mother, and a studio recording of MAdhouse!!!!
Doing in-game DLC as a seperate listing? (By that I mean, GH2′s DLC?)
RockBandAide Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 10:51 am
None of the in-game DLC from GH2 made it into Rock Band. Looking at the the list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Guitar_Hero_II), it was pretty sub-par. Doubtful that it will be done for future titles, but there’s always a possibility.
diego Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 11:55 am
but Killer Queen actually made it.So did Ace Of Spades.
“Sin Documentos” sounds fun. That song was huge in South America. I hope they do more songs like that even thou now MTV is out of the picture it’s not likely.
RockBandAide Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 11:59 am
I know, which was noted above. They were included on the first title, which is where they were already matched against the Rock Band library in the previous Setlist Checklist.
diego Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
ah sorry didn’t see it.
I would absolutely love to get all the bonus tracks from GH2 in RB. Personally, I remember playing the bonus tracks much more than the main set list.
GH2 is also to blame for my fake-guitar (can’t really say plastic any more, mine are all wood replicas now) obsession. Sorta sad GH really ran off the rails after GH3.
Keep up the setlist checklists… You keep pointing out ones I’ve missed in my own lists.
~Locke
Yes, I had no idea we were getting Soy Bomb. I loved that song. And once again, really great feature RBA.
“Collide” is also coming to RBN (authored by Kariocharts).
RockBandAide Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Updated above. Thanks!
Thedave Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
TheDave is happy!!!
Really want “Surrender”, “Search And Destroy”, and “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
I started to list my top five of these that I’d like to see in Rock Band, but there’s just too darn many that I want. It’s impossible for me to pick. I will say number one for me is “Radium Eyes”. I just loved that song.
There’s a lot of these songs that would be great in RB… Starting with Sweet child o’ mine !
Soy Bomb had the best loading screen. I am bomb.
There are actually way less songs in common than I expected. It’d be cool to have a bunch of these songs in Rock Band; some of these songs I barely remember!
GH2 was the first guitar game I played. Awesome memories looking over this setlist. They all need to come to RB….glad more will be arriving on the RBN. Score!!
Honestly, the song I want most from this we don’t have yet is Trogdor. I mean, yeah, Cheap Trick, Rage, Heart, Nirvana, Van Halen, etc, but seriously. How is that not on RBN by now?
Plutarch Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 11:29 am
That and “Because it’s Midnite” would be great!
Charza Reply:
July 29th, 2011 at 11:29 am
TROGDOOOOOOOOOR!!!
give us van halen, jordan & real gnr!!! I know that would only happen in my dreams but make it happen!
BUCKETHEAD!!!!
Gemini was announced as coming to RBN over a year ago. Since then… nothing.
RockBandAide Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Yeah… the error on this link doesn’t look too promising: http://www.electricflannel.com/brian-kahanek-joins-the-rock-band-network/
Dogmatic Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Definitely not. Get RockGamer on the phone!
DragoonXD Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
They also had the two Drist songs.
I’d really like to see the original version of “Girlfriend” make it to Rock Band. That cover version did not do the song justice.
Choz Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Would make for some nice Pro drum, too.
RJ K Reply:
July 27th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Agreed. Girlfriend is an amazing song, and would be great for RB.
I remember playing that Drist song over and over… That and Raw Dog.
Man, the bonus songs for GH2 were just as good as the normal setlist
I will be shunned for this but I actually prefer the cover of Life Wasted. (not in the face!!!)
supposely Drist was confirmed for rbn
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186231&page=1
but that was a year ago…
RockBandAide Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 11:35 am
I chatted with Electric Flannel over email, and they said while they themselves are no longer producing RBN content as originally planed, the work for artists they had lined up have been turned over to another author, although content for this or “Gemini” has yet to be seen in the RBN pipeline.
Rock Band needs to follow in the steps of GH2 and get some Protest the Hero as dlc!
My top 5, not just for the songs but what they would mean for DLC.
The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Deep Purple – Hush
Heart – Crazy on You
The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica
Toad3000 Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 7:12 am
What, no Van Halen?
Soy Bomb is coming to RBN?! That song needs to be released for PS3, you X Boxers better buy the shit out of it so that HMX will see it as popular enough to bring over *shakes fist*.
There are really a TON of great songs from GH2 that are not in RB yet, Looking over the list again just reminded me how utterly amazing the setlist was in that game.
Jesus, I want ALL of them songs. And a bunch more, so what’s the point of me whining…
It should be noted that, even though it’s EXTREMELY NOT user friendly, these songs can be imported in their original format (aka just Guitar and Bass charts) on the Wii in RB2 using RawkSD and the 360 in RB3 utilizing RawkSD and a few other tools.
Yes, I know it’s very hard and theoretically dubious, but I feel that it should be noted.
Dude why dont we have Rock N Roll Hoochie Coo in Rock Band yet like really!? That song would be amazing on every instrument and a blast on vocals!