Setlist Checklist: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
Unbeknownst to music game fans at the time, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, released in September of 2010 by developers Neversoft (360, PS3), and Vicarious Visions (Wii), would be the final yearly release for the Guitar Hero series, as Activison chose to put the franchise on hold in early 2011.
The biggest addition to the series with Warriors of Rock, was the new Quest Mode, which took a cue from Harmonix’s original pitch for Guitar Hero 3, introducing a fantastical story to the standard tour/career mode from previous games. In the story, narrated by KISS bassist Gene Simmons, players must play through the songs on the disc to recruit characters, each of which has their own unique power that effects gameplay, for a final battle against the Beast, in an effort to save the Demigod of Rock.
While the story mode was generally looked at by most fans as a gimmick, one related announcement that garnered much interest was that mid-way through the Quest Mode, players get to play through the entirety of Rush’s 2112, featuring narration by members of the band, and special venues inspired by the song.
Additions from Guitar Hero 5, including the Party Mode, and the competitive modes all return, plus the addition of a Quickplay+ mode, which allows users to pick from any song in their library, and be presented with a number of different challenges, including those that use the characters from the Quest mode, with their special powers. Completing challenges unlocks more content such as venues, and additional outfits.
The soundtrack for Warriors of Rock is the largest of any game in the franchise, featuring 93 songs on the disc. However, despite the visual asthetic of the game leaning towards the metal genre, the songs were mostly chosen to fit in the Punk, Alternative, and Classic Rock genres. While retaining the band format introduced two years earlier, the songs were also chosen to lean back towards the roots of the series, with a larger focus on lead guitar.
Launching in September of 2010, Warriors of Rock was in direct competition with the third main game in Harmonix’s Rock Band series, and as such, the two games do have a few songs in common. However, because of Guitar Hero’s decision to shift focus back to the guitar as a main instrument, the overlap is only for four songs:
- Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
- Phoenix – Lasso
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Vines – Get Free
In addition, Warriors of Rock shares the most songs of any Guitar Hero disc with the releases on the Rock Band Network, also coming in at four:
- Arch Enemy – Nemesis
- Band Of Skulls – I Know What I Am
- Drowning Pool – Bodies
- Five Finger Death Punch – Hard To See
As noted in previous Setlist Checklist posts (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.
With 42 of the 93 on disc songs currently being available in Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock ties Guitar Hero III’s 45% of songs being available, second only to World Tour in the highest percentage of songs available.
The incredibly lengthy full list is available after the jump…
| Artist - Title | Rock Band |
|---|---|
| A Perfect Circle - The Outsider | N/A |
| Aerosmith - Cryin' | N/A |
| AFI - Dancing Through Sunday | N/A |
| Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy | N/A |
| Alter Bridge - Ties That Bind | N/A |
| Anberlin - The Feel Good Drag | 04/06/2010 |
| Anthrax - Indians | 09/28/2010 |
| Arch Enemy - Nemesis | 09/14/2011 |
| Atreyu - Ravenous | N/A |
| Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country | 09/01/2009 |
| Bad Brains - Re-Ignition (Live) | N/A |
| Band Of Skulls - I Know What I Am | 03/18/2010 |
| Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave | N/A |
| Blind Melon - Tones Of Home | N/A |
| Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You | N/A |
| Bush - Machinehead | 02/07/2012 |
| Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? | N/A |
| Children Of Bodom - If You Want Peace... Prepare For War | N/A |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son | 11/20/2007 * |
| The Cure - Fascination Street | N/A |
| Deep Purple - Burn | N/A |
| Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live) | 08/09/2011 |
| Dethklok - Bloodlines | N/A |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan - Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants | N/A |
| Dire Straits - Money For Nothing | N/A |
| DragonForce - Fury of the Storm | N/A |
| Drowning Pool - Bodies | 03/17/2010 |
| Edgar Winter - Free Ride | 01/17/2012 |
| Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance | 08/16/2011 |
| Five Finger Death Punch - Hard To See | 07/02/2010 |
| Flyleaf - Again | 04/27/2010 |
| Foo Fighters - No Way Back | N/A |
| Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time | 06/30/2009 |
| George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Move It On Over (Live) | N/A |
| The Hives - Tick Tick Boom | 11/03/2009 |
| Interpol - Slow Hands | N/A |
| Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing | 10/26/2010 |
| Jethro Tull - Aqualung | 09/14/2008 |
| John 5 - Black Widow Of La Porte | N/A |
| KISS - Love Gun | N/A |
| Linkin Park - Bleed It Out | N/A |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze (Live) | N/A |
| Megadeth - Sudden Death | N/A |
| Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due | 02/09/2010 |
| Megadeth - This Day We Fight! | N/A |
| Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid (Live) | 11/20/2007 ** |
| Muse - Uprising | N/A |
| My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise) | 09/28/2010 |
| Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World | N/A |
| Nickelback - How You Remind Me | 11/22/2011 |
| Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America | 12/01/2009 |
| Nine Inch Nails - Wish | N/A |
| The Offspring - Self Esteem | 10/07/2008 |
| Orianthi - Suffocated | N/A |
| Pantera - I'm Broken | 05/19/2011 |
| Phoenix - Lasso | 10/26/2010 |
| Poison - Unskinny Bop | 06/28/2011 |
| Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody | 10/26/2010 |
| Queensrÿche - Jet City Woman | N/A |
| Rammstein - Waidmanns Heil | N/A |
| The Ramones - Theme From Spiderman | N/A |
| Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe | N/A |
| R.E.M. - Losing My Religion | 03/10/2009 |
| Rise Against - Savior | 07/21/2009 |
| The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues | N/A |
| The Runaways - Cherry Bomb | 11/20/2007 ** |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 1 - Overture | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 2 - The Temples Of Syrinx | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 3 - Discovery | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 4 - Presentation | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 5 - Oracle: The Dream | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 6 - Soliloquy | 12/31/2011 |
| Rush - 2112 Pt. 7 - Grand Finale | 12/31/2011 |
| RX Bandits - It's Only Another Parsec... | N/A |
| Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year | N/A |
| Slash featuring Ian Astbury - Ghost | N/A |
| Slayer - Chemical Warfare | N/A |
| Slipknot - Psychosocial | 12/08/2009 |
| Snot - Deadfall | N/A |
| Soundgarden - Black Rain | N/A |
| Steve Vai - Speeding (Vault Version) | N/A |
| Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song | 01/08/2008 |
| Strung Out - Calling | N/A |
| Styx - Renegade | 04/21/2009 |
| Sum 41 - Motivation | N/A |
| Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy | N/A |
| Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues | N/A |
| Third Eye Blind - Graduate | N/A |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart | N/A |
| Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It | N/A |
| The Vines - Get Free | 10/26/2010 |
| The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army | 03/09/2010 |
| ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (Live) | N/A |
* – Cover version. Master track version released on 07/06/2010
** – Cover version.
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Main Setlist for Rock Band 3
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Oh, Stray Cat Blues. Criminal that there’s only one Stones song in all of Rock Band.
So many good songs in this one. But there are also so many songs that I’m indifferent about. And Dragonforce is a big no no for me. It’s a weird song list, that’s for sure. Not sure where I’d rank it among the other main series GH games.
Wait, what? There is a Foo Fighters track that is NOT in Rock Band?
ARE WE SURE THIS IS CORRECT?!?!
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 11:20 am
I double & triple checked. I couldn’t believe it either.
Been wondering, now that we’re done with the main Guitar Hero games, what would people like to see next for this?
I have an idea for the next feature (which is so big, it will probably need to be split into a few parts), but after that, what does everyone want?
– Other rhythm games (Rock Revolution, RockSmith, Power Gig, etc)
– The spin off GH games (DS games, single band games with the bonus songs from other artists)
– Other music games (like dance games for example)
– Non-music video games with well known soundtracks (like GTA for example)
I’m open to other ideas as well, but I feel like my list above kind of spells out most of the main ones.
Nathan Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 12:50 pm
I think the best method for continuing this is to simply update the lists constantly, and post an update every year or so to see how many more songs are used from Guitar Hero that are now in Rock Band.
Craig M. Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:05 pm
I second that. I use these lists to see what I can buy in rockband, so having an updated list would be great.
The next logical step would be other music games on consoles, though
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
The lists do get updated when new songs come out.
I just recently updated the GH:80s list to reflect that ‘I Ran’ was released, and updated one of them (I think World Tour?) when the 311 pack was updated.
A regular article like Nathan suggested (either once a year, like he said, or maybe every six months) that points out the updates is definitely something I could do if people are interested.
That would give me something easy to put up while I work on my next checklist.
LolMunnchy Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I missed that. Sounds good
OsagaTheGreat Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:52 pm
I’d personally love a GTA list. Some of my favourite soundtracks.
DVD Smith Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 6:18 pm
This. With the 10th anniversary of Vice City coming up next weekend, I would love a VC checklist (although maybe limit it to the four main stations – V-Rock, Flash FM, Emotion 98.3 and Wave 103 – since the rest were rap/samba and unlikely to feature in RB any time soon).
This list, out of all of them, has the most songs on it that I want in Rock band. There are at least another twenty on here that I would happily pay for.
From this, I’d still like to see Cryin’, No More Mister Nice Guy, Re-Ignition, Children of the Grave, Tones of Home, Burnin’ for You, What Do I Get?, Fascination Street, Burn, Money for Nothing, No Way Back, Move It On Over, Slow Hands, Love Gun, Bleed It Out, Call Me the Breeze, Sudden Dearth, Uprising, Rocking in the Free World, Wish, Jet City Woman, Waidmanns Heil, Theme From Spiderman, Lunatic Fringe, It’s Only Another Parsec…, There’s No Secrets This Year, Chemical Warfare, Deadfall, Black Rain, Modern Day Cowboy, Scumbag Blues, Graduate, Listen to Her Heart, We’re Not Gonna Take It, and Sharp Dressed Man.
Let’s see… that’s 34 songs I still want from this game. Like Rock Band 3, the setlist is better than I remember.
LolMunnchy Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 2:31 pm
You’ve hit the nail on the head with this list. It’s pretty much what I want here as well…. Plus bloodlines.
Rock Band 3 Wireless Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar Controller is 59.99$ for ps3 & 69.99$ for xbox 360 on Amazon.com
Just sayin’ xD
The Outsider, Suffocated, Tomes of Home, Graduate, Children of the Grave, Fascination Street, Money for Nothing, Uprising, Love Gun, Sharp Dressed Man, Burnin For You, Wish, Scumbag Blues, Motivation, Bloodlines, Sudden Death, This Day we Fight.
Theres enough there for me to keep popping in the WoR disk from time to time to play those 20ish songs. I wish they would all come to Rock Band PARTICULARLY money for nothing, Children of the Grave and Burning For you
I wish HMX were the ones that licensed Aerosmith and we got a huge pack. I’m cryin’ (pun intended).
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 5:02 pm
It’s possible that we still could. I have to imagine that exclusive license has expired by now.
I shake my fist at the fact that THEY got Money for Nothing and Fascination Street while WE got Walk of Life and Just Like Heaven. I find it astounding that we still only have one song by The Cure, and that we didn’t get it until RB3. I’ve heard nothing about The Cure being an “off the table” band.
Plainclothes Man Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 9:00 pm
I agree we need more Cure!!!
Ospero Reply:
October 23rd, 2012 at 5:35 am
Don’t forget that THEY also got Sultans of Swing in GH5, which in my opinion is the far bigger hole to fill.
As for the Cure songs, I at least knew Just Like Heaven. Why Fascination Street, Activision? Were there so few iconic Cure songs? Lullaby, A Forest, Boys Don’t Cry, Friday I’m In Love, Lovecats…and that’s just off the top of my head, and I’m not even a particular fan of this band.
No Neil Young, Burning for you and hardly any rolling stones in RB, what a shame.
Also, this list got me thinking: locomotive breath would be an epic song for rock band. The masters obviously exist because the 40th anniversary edition is completely remastered and makes the song a shining example of how remasters can truly perfect older songs.
Great post, I appreciate the work that goes into compiling it. I think it might also be worthwhile to go through the DLC that was released for the GH from 2 onward and noting which of it has come to Rock Band.
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:27 am
Shhhhhh… There was a reason I didn’t mention that in the list of what to do next.
Though I think I’ll skip GH2 DLC, because if I remember correctly, it was all songs from GH1, which has already been covered.
IA Rocker Reply:
October 23rd, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Actually, only the first 4 packs were GH1 tracks. There were 4 other packs released after that. I don’t think any of them are RB DLC, but it’s worth a look to see if one snuck through the RBN.
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 23rd, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Thanks for mentioning that. I’ll look them up, and add them to the already gigantic list.
paul Reply:
October 23rd, 2012 at 2:56 pm
This. I would like to see the DLC released compared to what’s available in Rock Band as well.
I still can’t believe Rock Band still doesn’t have any Dethklok songs.
Lots of songs on here I would like, but “Burn” is the one that really stands up. WE GOTS TO GET THAT ONE. HMX seems to be able to afford about one Deep Purple song a year, maybe we’ll get lucky.
A little late to this, but for me, the setlist that even got me listening to music has to be from Cold Case. Sure, a CBS procedural, but every episode had about 5 songs in it, reminiscent of the time. Its catalog is simply enormous and probably the reason why it hasn’t been seen on DVD. A full list is here: http://www.coldcasepedia.com/artist-list
Still no Queensryche in RB. Sigh.
What about some articles that show songs featured in films? I can see a few, the one that sticks to my mind is that this game has a few songs from the transformers series of films: green day’s 21 guns, and lynkin park’s what I’ve done and New divide. Back to the future’s The Power of Love, and there must be more.
Mcmax3000 Reply:
October 26th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
I can definitely look into something like that in the future as well.