No, I don't own it. No, I don't plan on owning it. Perusing the setlist, I come across exactly one song that I like - "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden.
On the one hand, I get it. "The Number of the Beast" was great on 3, and apparently there was a cover of "The Trooper" on the Xbox version of 1. But even 3, bad though its setlist was, had a couple of decent songs for every stage.
But 5's setlist is godawful. Rap "music" has no business being on a Guitar Hero game, end of discussion. Screw them and their drop-tuned "riffs" and their disgusting lyrics. Iron Maiden did themselves a disservice by letting their music get associated with this dung pile. It's not like they needed the money.
Okay, okay. "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash isn't bad. Santana, The Stones, Megadeth, Deep Purple, the Police... there are a bunch of decent artists on here. (But... are songs like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Sweating Bullets," which are both fairly long and repetitive, going to really be that much fun? I vaguely recall there being more piano work on "Sympathy" than riffage...) And then there's Attack! Attack! Are you kidding me? They're on the same stage as Dire Straits! "Sultans of Swing!" There are a lot of B+ songs on here... and then there are a handful of truly horrible bands that go and ruin it.
Y'know who else gets a major disservice here? Kurt Cobain, and I don't even like Nirvana. I don't blame Burnt Cocaine and company for "killing" metal, because they didn't- they were just the parasite that crawled into metal's empty shell. Hell, Pearl Jam outsold Nirvana until Kurt blew his brains out. Dead musicians are better (more on that on my next post).
Anyway, Kurt's ex-wife, who we all know is the pinnacle of politeness and decency, has allowed his image to be used in the game. I don't know why they made a big deal about it. I'd be more happy to see Stevie Ray Vaughan or Randy Rhodes in the game if we're going to have a famous dead guitarist. At least these people's deaths were genuine tragedies. I don't respect suicide "victims." And I dare you to find a Cobain solo that trumps a Vaughan one.
Anyway, all of Nirvana's whiny fans got to jizz their pants when the news was announced that yes, Kurt would be in the game.
The word got out that he'd be an unlockable character. Dear God you could hear the complaints from the moon. They'll have him rapping along to Public Enemy or playing a Motley Crue song. Well you got your hero in the game, didn't you? I don't recall people bitching about the fact that you could make Slash play the bad songs in GH3! So shut up.
Also, Courtney Love is stupid for selling Kurt's body like that.
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