This Week in Rock Band: Sgt. Pepper, Dave Grohl & AFI Walk Like Egyptians Edition

Author: Vince | Date: November 16, 2009

sgt_pepper5It’s been a month since The Beatles: Rock Band last saw any DLC loving with the Abbey Road album, but thankfully that drought is set to end this week as the remainder of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released for the game this week.  That means classics like “She’s Leaving Home”, “Within You Without You” and “When I’m Sixty-Four” will soon be playable in game, despite the lack of clarinet, violin or harmonica peripherals…  As Sgt Pepper’s came at the height of The Beatles psychedelic period expect the songs to have some excellent ‘dreamscapes’ to keep the watching hordes entertained, distract you at those critical moments and keep you placated until my personal favorite Beatles album, Rubber Soul, is released as DLC next month.

The fab four aside, we are also treated to 5 tracks from former punks and now full blown emo stars A Fire Inside (AFI for the uninitiated) for the regular Rock Band games.  The first 3 tracks are all lifted from the bands new album Crash Love alongside “Love Like Winter” from Decemberunderground and “The Leaving Song, Pt II,” from Sing the Sorrow.  These are all well an good but I have to ask, where the hell is “Days of the Phoenix”?  Easily their best song and still no RB or GH loving for it!

As if all of that wasn’t enough, joining AFI for this weeks RB DLC will be the timeless (and undeniably cheesy) 80′s classic “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles as well as a track from from RB whore Dave Grohl’s new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, featuring Josh Homme (of QOTSA fame) and John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), who will be contributing “New Fang” from their self titles debut album.

The tracks are all released this Tuesday on Xbox Live Marketplace and Thursday on Playstation Network with the exception of the Them Crooked Vultures track, which won’t see the light of day on the PS3 for another 2 weeks yet.  As for pricing, Sgt. Pepper’s will set you back a hefty 1080microsoftpointslogosmall/£7.49 for the full album and the 5 track AFI pack will cost 680microsoftpointslogosmall/£5.25, alternatively all of this weeks tracks will be available individually for the regular price of 160microsoftpointslogosmall/£0.99 each.

Full tracklisting with video links after the break, and I urge you all to watch the one for “Being For The Benfit of Mr. Kite!” as it’s equal parts awesome and creepy…

“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” – 1080microsoftpointslogosmall/£7.49

“AFI Pack 01″

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