Here's The First Round Of Songs Confirmed For Guitar Hero Live

Where's the pants metal at?!!

Didn't think about this before honestly, but it looks pretty good. May well have a go at this!

I must be getting old because I have heard of literally zero of these songs or artists.

Not using the old controllers is a deal breaker for me. I already have multiple controllers from Rockband & Guitar Hero. I'm not about to run out and rent a storage locker for a new round of controllers.

@CaviarMeths It's not just you. I've only heard of one of the artists (Alter Bridge). And that's literally just heard of. I've never heard any of their songs.

"Guitar Players Live" may be a better name, b/c I don't see any heroes on that list. Is this the British version or something?

This isn't guitar hero, ED-FREAKIN'-SHEERAN?!

@CaviarMeths I'm only 16 and I've never heard of these songs or artists.

My Wish(hope)list:
The Clash
The Hives
MGMT
Modest Mouse
Nirvana
TMBG (Hah, one can dream!)
The White Stripes
Weezer
Beck
The Flaming Lips
More Hives!

All you metalheads can fill in the gaps, Alt-punk-rock is my scene.

@DJStarstryker Upon closer inspection, almost all of them are English artists under 25 years old. I guess that explains it.

Alter Bridge appears to be a US 'post-grunge' rock band that's been around for over 10 years though, so a little surprised I've never heard of them. Maybe because almost every American rock band since Nirvana has been Nirvana Junior and they kinda run together after awhile.

Gary Clark Jr. sounds like he might be my jam though, will have to check out some of his songs.

Not looking good so far. Can't use the equipment I have and have no clue who any of those artists are..

@PvtOttobot - after all the lawsuits from Courtney Love over Cobain's use in Guitar Hero, I doubt Nirvana is gonna be on this one.

If the guitar was new but they still had the option of using the drums and mic I might consider this but just the guitar, a new one at that, it just doesnt seem like the party game it was before.

I've seen Alter Bridge live before and they are meh. The band consists of former members of Creed minus the lead singer.

Great, I really like the song Little Talks. I am looking forward to this game.

Never could get into playing these games. It just made me wanna play my actual guitar. My brother got hella good at them though. I like watching other people play. I wondered when they'd start this series up again.

You had me at Ed Sheeran! ;D

@CaviarMeths

"Maybe because almost every American rock band since Nirvana has been Nirvana Junior and they kinda run together after awhile."

I've seen some dumb stuff posted on this site before, but this quote might take the cake!

@CaviarMeths - Alter Bridge is Creed with a different lead singer

@CaviarMeths
It's not just you, it's because the music listed here is for little girls.

@HollywoodHogan Ok, which American rock bands since Nirvana haven't been majorly influenced by Nirvana? What hidden gem of the post-grunge scene have I been missing out on?

@CaviarMeths

I'm not the one who made the ridiculous statement, so why am I the one supposed to give you the examples?

Give me your list of American post-Nirvana bands which are nothing more than Nirvana rip-offs. It should be easy since there are so many, right?

@CaviarMeths

Also, the fact that you haven't even heard of Ed Sheeran, who love him or hate him (I hate him) is one of the most popular solo artists right now, doesn't give me much hope that you even know many of the current bands you think you are aware of

I hope ed sheeran is as poppy as this gets,but I have a terrible feeling Taylor swift will be in the game.

@HollywoodHogan You should choose TotalRecall for your next account/name, because it is also a great example of a remake full of pointless dialogue and nothing worth watching.

I am still waiting out for cowbell hero

@CaviarMeths

Still waiting on your long list of all those 'Nirvana Jr' American rock bands you alluded to! Where are they?

Combined with these songs I've never even heard of with the new controller being neccesary, I still ain't finding a valid reason to pick this one up. I

Ed Sheeran tortures me enough while my girlfriend is driving. Why Activision..... Whyyyyyyyyyy??

Of Monsters and Men "Little Talks" is an amazing song...but it's not really much of a guitar jam. Same with The War on Drugs "Under the Pressure"... both great songs.

After the gut wrenching badness that was the 00's, I'm glad to see there's some quality indie/alternative rock being made again, and that some of it is even breaching the mainstream, but I think the age of "guitar rock" ended sometime in the late 90s...

@CaviarMeths Alter Bridge came from the corpse of Creed. So you may have heard of them (I liked Creed better but then again I was listening to them in highschool).

Ed Sheeran's album X is great music, Hope he gets some more songs on there

Surprised no one has mentioned the triforce like icons

@Action51 Come on, what about The White Stripes

Only heard of Ed Sheeran, Of Monsters and Men and Biffy Clyro out of all these, don't particularly like any of them but then again I wasn't so much into the songs on the original Guitar Hero game on PS2 back in 2005 and on playing the game over and over, the songs all grew on me.

Maybe the same may happen here but definitely won't happen with the Ed Sheeran song! Like how they have shown a mixed bag of songs from different difficulty levels aswell.
Hopefully better songs/artists get revealed at a later date because this first reveal is not too hopeful.

Snoozeville. No drums and, so far, no noteworthy songs. Looks like I'll be sticking with Rock Band 4.

@PvtOttobot After seeing your post and not recognizing any of these I went to my wife - my go to for all things bad music related - and she has heard of Ed Sheernan, but thats it.

Turns out one of those is in an oft played Tytoa PRius commerical.

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7T5y/2013-toyota-prius-best-day-song-by-american-authors

Have to say though - Toyota Prius commercial is not really a good selling point for a game called Guitar Hero Live. Maybe they should have saved it for the sequel, "GH: The TV Ads".

Eh, Ed Sheeran for Guitar Hero? WTF? I'm hoping for some Queens of the Stone Age, personally.

I'm glad I'm not alone in not recognizing most of these but I admit I don't follow the current music scene much.

I think this will flop. I'll avoid. It's crazy to not whack on some vocals to market to the singstar crowd.
I'll just get Rockband on Xbox One and use all my 360 DLC and my 360 Beatles Rockband gear, I might buy a new guitar because I only have the one guitar though.

Mostly good music, mostly not rock. I don't care if Ed Sheeran's a good artist, because it doesn't make him any more fitting. It's like playing Radiohead at a celebration - poorly suited.

Almost every rock band that came after Nirvana and Chilli Peppers is garbage (they're both awesome though). I'm more of a classic rock kind of guy. Can't stand that grungy stuff or the mellow alt-pop bands. A small few like Maroon 5, Owl City, Black Eye Peas, or Bruno Mars are worth the odd CD or two but by no means legendary. In no particular order...

ACDC, Van Halen, ZZTop, Heart, Joan Jett (yes, I dig females too! ), Kiss, Ozzy, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Steve Miller Band, George Thurgood, Led Zeplin, Linnard Skinnard, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Rush, and a ton of other rockers too innumerable to name them all...

Shameless plug, if you've got a satellite radio, tune it to Ch 25 Classic Rewind or Ch 38 Ozzy's Boneyard for real rock music. 39 Hair Nation is also good.

@Gerbwmu lol you've got to be joking. Or deaf?

Having cry of achilles form alter bridge there is awesome, to be honest. I like the fact that gary clark gets some attention too.

So far, they're doing great on the music aspect of the game for many different people.

@erv - If you are referring to the Creed with a different singer that's what they are. Myles Kennedy is the only difference. They don't sound the same but the band members are the same.

If you are speaking of something else then I'm lost?

@Gerbwmu yeah I misinterpreted the sentence and thought it to mean "sound like" which is, luckily, nothing of the sorts - miles (lol) better haha.

I wonder if some of the more specialist players will make an appearance, like a satriani, or a tosin abasi or something? I'm not too familiar with how these games are set up from the library perspective, as I don't play them myself.

@erv - Myles is a better Axl Rose currently then Axl too. At least when I caught Slash in concert a few years ago.

They usually do a wide variety of songs and I would guess Satriani might make an appearance if they truly have the 100's of songs they claim will be part of it. I assume the 1st list of artists is to get a new generation excited for the game knowing they can draw in the former fans closer to release

Not one classic rock song in the line up, yuck. Sorry, todays musics just sucks in general, post-Simon Cowell, post-MTV becoming RealityTV.

I don't recognize a single one of those songs :-/

I don't know ANY of those songs...I must be getting old, or something -_- Sounds like it's all new music, and sorry to say, but most music now really sucks lol