Rock Gaming

There ought to be a Sonic Youth-dedicated one. Feedback, scree, general guitarmageddon. Or Boris, or early period Earth - the other end of the concentration scale. Minutes between strums! I have so many ideas, i can't fit them all in, but that's alright 'cos none of them are commercially viable. I'm off to put on Music For Airports and go for a lie down

Sonic Youth - Sonic Old Bastards more like. Where's World music? Vanessa Paradis? This is such a fascist, right-wing list - even Reggae is by racist rastas and Ska is for Nazi skinheads.

If you read this Sonic Youth post out loud, it's quite funny at first, but then it just gets annoying

Surely the long-term vision must be for the user to be able to select his (as it's mainly a boys toy) favourite band online and pay a couple of quid to download a few of his favourite tracks to then murder in Guitar Hero/Rock Band... just like gee-tar geeks used to love going into any overpriced gee-tar emporiums such as Hank's Guitar Shop on Tin Pan Alley (Denmark Street) and buying their favourite band's music books.

Is the Guitar Hero/Rock Band enabled downloadable set to replace the single as a way of promoting bands?

Oh and while I'm on the subject - in the future I want to be able to buy downloadable Rock Band song packs for (EA take note) in no particular order: The Cure, The Fall, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, The Smiths, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, David Bowie, Primal Scream, The Velvet Underground, New Order/ Joy Division, Talking Heads, Blur, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Pixies, Pulp, The Clash, The Beta Band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beck, Scott Walker, The Beach Boys, Richard Hawley, Nirvana, REM, The Pogues, Bruce Springsteen, Arctic Monkeys... err, and a load more I'll think of later on too. I'd also like a special War of the Worlds edition, perhaps as part of a semi-ironic Rock Opera on Rock Band series (Tommy, Quadrophenia etc. also).

Can somebody at EA/MTV/Harmonix please confirm for us this is all in the plan?

I was reading this on the page that doesn't show avatars. And I thought, " Ey up (because I am from Yorkshire, and hate to mess with stereotypes) this guy's got good taste (because I'm a cramps fan)".

Then I realised it was you.

bands that conform to genres piss me off. The best bands I've seen in the last year (and that's a lot I tell you) didn't fit into any of these catagories.
But of course maybe that's why they play in small venues and don't have million selling records.

yeh i love bands in trhe 'no genre' genre.

i also love Jasmin Overlord, Brewsters Millions, Capearnicus Shiz and The Tate Darlings - none of them have a genre or a guitarist neither