Comments on: The Beatles: Rock Band: Top 10 Desired DLC Tracks

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:32:51 +0000

Your list is pretty awesome! It’s got a lot of the same songs I’m thinking. The early songs did get shafted, and they’re my favorites. I think A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, and Revolover need to be DLC as full albums though, and some more tracks from Beatles For Sale would do it. It is ridiculous that “The End” made it into the game three times (if you download the full Abbey Road album). The Ballad of John and Yoko would be a great song for bass. But I know I’m asking a lot. Nice post!

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:25:29 +0000

Hi Cara,

I’ve been away from here too long!!!!

I’m in sync with you with most of your list. “She Loves You” is a cultural classic, and “Boys” is not. And most on your list are, as you note, no-brainers for being included in the game. “What You’re Doing” is the bomb. And “Things We Said Today” might make my list also.

As for “Please Please Me”, the single, it went to #1 on more than one chart in the UK, most notably New Musical Express and Melody Maker.

It was also the first song (r&r song, maybe) to use the same word twice in a title in two grammatical forms.

For more, see here.

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:04:50 +0000

Yeah, sadly (because Abbey Road is already announced as DLC and we already have 5 of 17 tracks in the game), I’m expecting the final song to be The End. The unannounced song, I’m absolutely convinced, is going to be the last song in the game. And I don’t think anything here would be used as the last song.

If I got to personally pick the last song in the game given all the information we’ve currently been given, I would actually choose Free As a Bird. And I’m still holding out some sort of small hope that it might be, but it’s probably unlikely.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:58:28 +0000

But remember that they only announced 44 of the 45 tracks. Hopefully one of the songs you listed will be that 45th “secret” track. And if it isn’t, I am sure we will see it as DLC (I hope).

By: Cris

Cris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:07:54 +0000

The trouble with doing “I’m Down” at Shea Stadium is that to do it right, you have to play the keyboard with your elbow.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:14:37 +0000

Thanks Cara

I always enjoy your Beatles posts

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:42:45 +0000

Aha! Should have known that obsessive me wouldn’t have been able to stop thinking about where I’d read that. It’s Northern Songs, a great and well-researched, if dense, book. Page 15:

…it reached number two in the ‘official’ Record Retailer chart but topped the ‘unofficial’ New Musical Express chart which, according to Stephen James, meant that “as far as we were concerned it went to number one”…

Again, if you watch the Anthology, etc., you’ll see it referred to as their first number one, as being a number one hit, etc. That’s why, even though it “officially” only made it to number two.

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:39 +0000

Paul — I can’t remember where I read it at the moment and don’t have the time to look it up, but while it reached #2 in the official UK Singles Chart, at the time that wasn’t the chart that anyone actually payed attention to. The one that was payed attention to, and popularly referenced when talking about “having a number one” was a particular radio airplay chart. That I can’t remember the name of at the moment, as I don’t live in the UK and therefore wouldn’t be familiar with it :) The Beatles, George Martin, et al., always talk of it as their first number on hit. It was actually only quite recently that I learned it wasn’t “really” number one.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:16:29 +0000

Which chart did Please Please Me reach number one on – i looked at Wikipedia and couldnt find out