Rock Band Weekly: Bowie's 'queen bitch' has 'moonage daydreams' about 'heroes'

by Alexander Sliwinski { Nov 27th 2007 at 12:00PM }

We're a little under pressure this week as David Bowie becomes the DLC content on XBLM and PSN for Rock Band. Why under pressure? Well, we're sure that the covers for Heroes and Queen Bitch are of the highest Harmonix quality, so we're having pre-stress in case Bowie has a The Romanics nutter and sues everyone because the covers are too good! We're gonna watch that man. This week's Rock Band DLC is:

Bowie Pack - $5.50:

Moonage Daydream ($2)
Heroes ($2 *Cover*)
Queen Bitch ($2 *Cover*)

We're hoping everything willl be hunky dory with Bowie about these covers, but can he justifiably complain about anything being married to a goddess like Iman?

Tags: bowie, dlc, rock-band-weekly, rockband, songs

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

psyborg @ Nov 27th 2007 12:06PM

I'm a huge Bowie fan, downloading ASAP.

Larz @ Nov 27th 2007 1:47PM

I am too, but I wish they would have picked some better songs. Heroes is definitely not one of my favorites. I mean, come on Harmonix, no Ziggy?

FidliousWong @ Nov 27th 2007 12:06PM

David Bowie will not sue. He has the entire resources of the Guild of Calamitis Intent at his every whim. He's not trying to live off a cashiers wage from Walmart.

Neon Jebus @ Nov 27th 2007 12:23PM

Go team Venture!
Good form sir, good form!

I'll wait to hear the quality of covers before I buy them though.

gonk @ Nov 27th 2007 12:23PM

no major tom?

plyx @ Nov 27th 2007 12:50PM

It's called "Space Oddity".

gonk @ Nov 27th 2007 2:00PM

no shit

FidliousWong @ Nov 27th 2007 2:09PM

OR Ashes to Ashes. Major Tom, like Ziggy, did show up in more than just one song, you know.

gonk @ Nov 27th 2007 12:25PM

btw, does anyone else notice the crappy layout of the menus for this dlc on xlive? after a few months of weekly releases (especially when broken into singles) that list will take a long time to scroll through

KrazyIan @ Nov 27th 2007 12:27PM

So how come Moonage Daydream (which has a sweet solo) is the original master, but the other cuts are covers? Label problems? Also I can't imagine ever getting worked up about 'too good' cover. Of course I didnt think there would even be problems getting the rights to the original masters of all his songs, either.

jsn @ Nov 27th 2007 12:40PM

probably no masters available for those songs.

JJ Rooster @ Nov 27th 2007 12:31PM

I still feel sorry for the PS3 fans who bought the full kit (or worse, just the game) to find out that GH3 guitars don't work with PS3 Rock Band. That is some serious bullshit!

gonk @ Nov 27th 2007 12:36PM

and now a lot of rock band guitars aren't working with rock band either, lol

Steve @ Nov 27th 2007 1:26PM

Who in his right mind would pay money to download a cover of a song? There is no reason whatsoever that a cover should be priced the same as an original.

Also, "Queen Bitch"? WTF? Wouldn't something like Ziggy Stardust make a little more sense?

CJ @ Nov 27th 2007 1:38PM

for the record... queen bitch is one of the best bowie songs out and ziggy stardust is played out. i would have been happier with five years of perhaps life on mars, maybe even starman. either way this game having 4 bowie songs on it makes me want it even more.

Neon Jebus @ Nov 27th 2007 1:46PM

@ CJ

Have to agree on Starman. I would love to see that. I'll take all the Bowie I can get on that game.

Gordo @ Nov 28th 2007 10:31PM

Yes, Starman needs to happen along with Soul Love, Hang Onto Yourself and, of course Ziggy Stardust. I'm guessing that since 'Daydream' is a master track all these others would be too. I would hope.

Shmil @ Nov 27th 2007 1:44PM

son of a bitch
now i have to buy rockband
god damnit

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 27th 2007 5:11PM

If MTV is to be believed, its only going to get harder to resist.

Larz @ Nov 27th 2007 1:56PM

Back in those days, studios wouldn't always keep the masters intact.

Larz @ Nov 27th 2007 2:00PM

Uh, I'm a PS3 user who bought Rock Band. I couldn't give a crap whether the GH controllers work.

a) I never bought a GH game.
b) The RB guitar is soooo superior to those GH toys.

Shmil @ Nov 27th 2007 2:19PM

yes guitar hero 1, 2, and the 80's edition are completely lame

you do realize that harmonix made rock band?
so are you high or just an idiot?

JJ Rooster @ Nov 27th 2007 2:27PM

Larz, good for you, but not good for MANY people who expected to use their GH3 axe in Rock Band. Seriously, how can they even explain selling the stand-alone game with no compatible guitars on sale?

Burritoclock @ Nov 27th 2007 2:38PM

I agree whole heartedly that the rock band strat is FAR superior to the les paul and especially the explorer. The down side is the build quality is shit. After my strat started to miss down strums I switched to my xplorer (les paul was being used by the bassist) and the thing just feels so small and lame it will shock you. After someone snapped the kick petal I bought another set.

Couple of steel reinforcement beams and a y-adapter and I now have a $360 Rock Band set.... but it has double bass pedals that can no longer break at least.

Not to mention the bassist is now forced to try for the upstrum achievement, heh.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 27th 2007 5:49PM

But Shmill, GH 80's really WAS lame.

Larz @ Nov 27th 2007 2:02PM

That was to JJ Rooster.... why isn't 'reply' working?

FidliousWong @ Nov 27th 2007 2:12PM

It works, it's just tricky. For example, your first reply gets the info no prob. But if you reply directly afterward, it biffers out the reply info. So you HAVE to double check to make sure the reply command took if you're replying to more than one message per thread.

WhatIsThatThing @ Nov 27th 2007 4:50PM

Give us TMBG! We (I) want TMBG! They Might Be Giants FTW.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 27th 2007 5:13PM

I'd buy me some Particle Man right now, if I could.

KilgoreTrout XL @ Nov 27th 2007 5:49PM

Hunky Dory- what a fantastic record. Can't wait to see what Grateful Dead content they have lined up.

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