A ‘Beatles’ Game Set List?
Author: Rees | Date: October 31, 2008
The upcoming Beatles game from Rock Band makers Harmonix will contain 45 songs, spanning the height of the fab four’s career from 1962 – 1969, it’s been announced by Variety today. That period gave us such classic albums as Please Please Me, A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, and Abbey Road, among many others. So with that knowledge at hand, I’ve compiled a list of 45 of The Beatles’ biggest hits from that era:
- “Love Me Do”
- “Please Please Me”
- “All My Loving”
- “From Me to You”
- “I Saw Her Standing There”
- “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
- “Money (That’s What I Want)”
- “Please Mr. Postman”
- “She Loves You”
- “The Hippy Hippy Shake”
- “Twist and Shout”
- “A Hard Day’s Night”
- “Can’t Buy Me Love”
- “I Feel Fine”
- “Johnny B. Goode”
- “Day Tripper”
- “Drive My Car”
- “Help!”
- “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
- “Ticket to Ride”
- “We Can Work It Out”
- “Yesterday”
- “Eleanor Rigby”
- “Paperback Writer”
- “Taxman”
- “Yellow Submarine”
- “All You Need Is Love”
- “Hello, Goodbye”
- “I Am the Walrus”
- “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
- “Penny Lane”
- “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
- “Strawberry Fields Forever”
- “When I’m Sixty-Four”
- “With a Little Help from My Friends”
- “Back in the USSR”
- “Blackbird”
- “Helter Skelter”
- “Hey Jude”
- “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
- “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
- “Come Together”
- “Here Comes the Sun”
- “Let It Be”
- “Octopus’s Garden”
Of course, that’s not a definitive list, and I’m sure the case could be argued for or against most of these songs. But I assume it’s a pretty good representation of the songs we’ll be playing through when the game releases next year.
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Why is George holding the drums?
I’ve updated it now!
Um, RINGO, is holding the drums. GEORGE is in the very back of the line
It was wrong originally. Hence the “I’ve updated it now” comment above!
Um, ringo is holding the drums, not george, and why is john only holding a mic. paul should be holding a bass and a mic, and john should be holding a guitar and a mic.
I think that would be far too many peripherals for one game. Plus it’d take even longer to Photoshop.
That’s Ringo with the drums idiot.
That’s nice, but from what album exactly would you be getting a Beatles cover of “Johnny B. Goode”?
Also, “When I’m Sixty-Four” has no guitar.
“That’s nice, but from what album exactly would you be getting a Beatles cover of “Johnny B. Goode”?”
That would be ‘Live at the BBC’, disc 1, track 29…
“Also, “When I’m Sixty-Four” has no guitar.”
Good call!
the beatles originally wrote and performed johnny b goode
Marty McFly. 1955. Enchantment Under The Sea dance.
’nuff said.
(Actually it was Chuck Berry)
Please Mr. Postman, The Hippy Hippy Shake, Johnny B. Goode none of these are even orginal Beatles songs, they are all covers…this list is not very good…at all…not even a little bit
Nobody said that they’d all be original Beatles songs. The existing Guitar Hero and Rock Band games have plenty of covers in them, so why not?
I don’t have a problem with covers at all as long as they’re good versions of the song.
Their version of Please Mr. Postman is a fantastic cover, as is Hippy Hippy Shake.
I recently heard a cover of A Whiter Shade of Pale by Black Label Society and I’m telling you…it’s always been one of my fave songs and this cover…it’s better than the original!!!