Add “Space Oddity” to the Rock Band 3 Setlist
Last night, Game Informer put up their weekly podcast featuring both Rock Band 3 and Dance Central. HMXers John, Sylvain, and Daniel are on hand to talk about the game, and in a conversation about transitioning from fake to real instruments, Daniel casually tossed out that you can learn to play real guitar on “Space Oddity.” While this is not an official confirmation, it’s the closest thing that we can get to an official confirmation.
And yes, you’re welcome for not making a “Ground control to Major Tom” reference that always seems to find its way into anything related to “Space Oddity.”
What’s also interesting to note is that “Space Oddity” was also on the mystery leaked list from a few weeks back. Man, that list is looking more and more accurate every day!
UPDATE: I guess it’s official confirmed after seeing @MrPope’s tweet:
New RB3 song announced! RT @RockBand Check out the @GameInformer Podcast featuring RB3 goodness and @JohnTDrake! http://bit.ly/bww5K7
Go to GameInformer to listen to the whole thing, as it is very entertaining!
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Woo hoo!
This is amazing I was just in the car an i was thinking “i fuckin hope that space oddity is in” so YES
Chicks in white blouses that are open to the navel exposing their black bras is always an instant buy in my book
On a serious note, I am really looking forward to playing this song.
So we may see The Beach Boys!?!? Awsome:)
Excuse me for a moment, as what is about to happen may be a little…reactionary. However.
HOLY CRAP, YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!! SPACE ODDITY!!! DAVID BOWIE!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! GAME OF THE FOREVER, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!!!!!!!!!!!
…Sorry about that.
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE this song. But I have my doubts as to how well it’ll transfer to the Rock Band format
Listening to it now and noticed that they mentioned a couple new things like the option to disable navigation on a instrument to instrument basis so that for instance only the leader can choose songs.
RockBandAide Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 10:21 am
I know. I’ve got a post coming about that and a few other new Rock Band 3 features in a little bit.
YES! Amazing song.
While I’ll keep a healthy dose of skepticism, this practically confirms that rumored setlist. If true, this will be the greatest rhythm game setlist ever, for me.
Xzyliac Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 10:26 am
All that this guy said. Just as exciting as the song itself is the possible confirmation of that rumored chunk of the setlist.
Warren Zevon and Amy Winehouse! These are a few of my favorite things! Kinda hope the metal choices are a bit better though. And I’m still waiting to see the Prog choices.
Alas, Space Oddity is in Rock Band 3. That sentence is all you should need to sell ANYONE!
Drpepperfan Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Thirded!
James! Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
I don’t think we should get ahead of ourselves. One confirmed song does not verify a rumored setlist.
RockBandAide Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
It’s not just one, sir. So far, FIVE have been officially confirmed. And another TWO have been corroborated through other reliable rumors. While I’m no quantitative methods expert, nailing FIVE out of thirty songs confirmed thus far is pretty statistically significant.
James! Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 1:06 am
If you’re talking about the Gamefaqs leak, than this is actually the sixth. But you have to consider that those first five (Def Leppard, B-52′s, etc.) came after those bands were already confirmed to be in the game via Rock Band’s Facebook page. And with all of those, save Def Leppard, all you had to do was pick a huge hit from the band and ask yourself “Is it in Rock Band yet?” If you haven’t seen the setlist, than Space Odyssey comes as a bit of a surprise.
James! Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Woops *Oddity
And the release of Jesus Built My Hotrod, which was on the rumored setlist, says that the setlist isn’t exactly for RB3.
LordRM Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 12:45 am
No, the GameFAQs list was actually posted long before those bands were announced as being in the game.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/971478-rock-band-3/55302659
Posted 6/22/2010
http://rockbandaide.com/6871/new-rock-band-3-songs-announced-at-comic-con/
Bands announced via Twitter/Facebook on 7/23/2010
Also, Jesus Built My Hotrod was not on that list.
RockBandAide Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 12:12 am
James, that Gamefaqs list was posted in June… nearly a full MONTH before those bands were confirmed on Rock Band’s Facebook page. You would have seen that if you read the source of the leak in the RB3 Setlist page. Here’s a link, in case you missed: http://rockbandaide.com/6859/huge-rock-band-3-setlist-rumor/
Xzyliac Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
As the bloke who runs this site has already said it’s quite a few more than one.
From the tracks we saw in the RB3 trailer itself right on through to this confirmation it seems like every announcement so far has done a little bit more to prove the rumor true.
I’m certain that leak is a proper one, but don’t forget that we don’t know which ones are DLC and which ones are on-disc.
Still very happy to see most of that list, though!
RockBandAide Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 11:28 am
This is an excellent point. I recently took “Jesus Built My Hotrod” off the RB3 rumored setlist, so anything can happen prior to release.
Well I think this songs weird but very innovative for it’s time.
I also don’t know how well this will transfer to the game..
But still, who won’t love singing this?
skydog Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
W/o the music the lyrics are so sad.
lol
Just had to point that out!
The piano in space oddity is pretty hard to play, and the rest of the instruments are pretty sparse in that song… hmm.
Well, if your instrument is “sparse”, then just have fun singing along with this incredibly epic song! One of the best sing-along songs of all time (some others that come to mind are Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You, both by Queen, and both either in or soon to be in RB).