Pretty good list! Although I think I'd choose U2's The Electric Co. instead of Sunday, Bloody Sunday, as it's more guitar intensive.
 

Did I ever tell you I saw Van Halen live in 1986...Meadowlands arena...East Rutherford, New Jersey.

My list would include:
Van Halen (from 5150)
Anything by Billy Idol
Oh, ya, CCR
Several by Three Doors Down
Anything by ZZ Top
Just about anything by Foreigner, Journey, Styx, REO, Pat Benatar, Asia...and on and on.

I'm thinking just the ones that would have good guitar parts.
 

Good list, here's a few of my picks:

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns and Roses
November Rain - Guns and Roses
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hotel California - Eagles
Fade to Black - Metallica
 

Good list! I'd include songs from Aerosmith, Poison, and Guns 'n Roses,.
 

A special bonus feature I found in Guitar Hero 2 (you have to buy the DVD player in the shop, then buy DVDs) is the TV (and movie? I haven't unlocked any of those) Theme Songs. They're interesting because they're WAY shorter, just a quick challenge. We were watching Trigun, and the theme song almost made me pull out the controller, it's just ideal. I could see the buttons coming down the screen. And of course the Buffy theme. And for a different twist (kind of like the Stevie Ray Vaughn song in Guitar Hero 1), the Firefly theme.

Oh, and I want to see some Rage on there.
 

So there's my picks... What are yours?

How about if it didn't have any songs at all?

Wait! Come back!

The "Music Video Game" genre is relatively new, having largely seen its roots in 1996's Parappa the Rapper. (Of course, music-centric games have existed some time before that -- but I don't think Chris Crawford's early '80s experimentations count.) It's gradually evolved over the years, and we've seen some pretty interesting stuff such as Konami's Guitar Freaks and Harmonix's Karaoke Revolution. What I'm curious about is whether these games can start taking advantage of player creativity?

Playing Guitar Hero doesn't require you to be a musician; nor does it teach you be one. However, I would guess that having a musical background helps; and that playing the game can increase your musicality, insofar as precision is required for a good musical performance. Taken a step further, it might be interesting to see a game that relied more heavily on a player's musical abilities by allowing them to create, rather than simply mimmic.

In present-day music games, the player's role is largely spelled out for him -- executing certain actions at specified times increases the score. In Donkey Conga, for example, players hit their controllers at specific intervals when certain symbols pop onto the screen. But what if the goal was simply to make the drum track "sound good"? A novice player might spit out a simple "[Bass] ... [Snare] ... [Bass] [Bass] [Snare]" (a mainstay of early Rock and Roll) for 1,000 points, while Neil Peart might create a more interesting pattern for ten times that amount. Similarly, in a hypothesized Guitar Legend, the game might play a bass track and require you to create a melody that harmonizes with that.

Ignoring, for a moment, whether it's technically feasible for the game to judge on "interestingness" (algorithmic analysis of music is a subject of some research -- besides, we're good; we can do anything, right?), is it possible for the genre to travel in this direction? Would such games push player creativity, or is the idea too narrow to appeal to more than the handful who were forced to hammer out Für Elise when they were young?
 

Wow - great stuff. Aersosmith almost made my list, as did Queensryche. I didn't even THINK about GNR... I might replace one of the ones on my list with The Jungle or something.

The Buffy theme song is fun to play (and pretty simple too) on a real guitar - but you need 2 guitars. Having special "duet only" songs would REALLY kick butt.

Dejobaan - how about taking it to the next level... and taking it online?

How about a massively multiplayer Battle of the Bands? They've got an MMO dance game now. It could be hard, considering the synchronization issues online... but if you have people prepare their performances in advance in relation to a drummer laying down the drum track, and maybe one person starting with a basic theme... it could get interesting.

Dunno how to make it feasible, but it's an interesting place to explore.
 

What I'd like to see is this title on Xbox 360 and then having LOTS of songs to download, maybe at $0.99 each, a la iTunes Music Store. That would be great!
 

Don't you dare choose a Queensryche song that isn't on Operation: Mindcrime. The rest of their library is middling to good. Something like "The Needle Lies" would be better.

I don't usually like them, but "Spiderwebs" by No Doubt is a great song with a fun guitar part. And your list needs more female lead singer songs.
 

well my playlist would be

Bad to the bone
One Vision
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bat out of Hell
Smells like teen spirit
Lithium
T.N.T
Going Under
Bring me to life
America Idiot
sweet child 'o' mine
live and let die (Guns and Roses)
My Sharona
Eye of the Tiger
Somewhere I belong
cowboys from hell
black betty
mustang sally
wild thing
 

Cowboys from hell is on the first one

Smells like teen spirit would be the shit
 

faith no more-epic we need more mike patton.

Patton is god
 

I can't listen to "Smells Like Team Spirit" anymore without thinking of Weird Al's parody, "Smells Like Nirvana."

"And I'm yellin' / And I'm screamin'
'Cause I don't know / What I'm singin'..."

But admittedly, that would be an excellent song track for Guitar Hero.

I confess I haven't listened to much Faith No More, so I can't comment.
 

i would choose
run to the hills=iron maiden
nothing else matters=mattalica
through the flames and fire=dragonforce
american idiot=green day
nitro=dick dale
 

maybe also some Green Day. Not so much the new stuff, but more like songs from Dookie like Welcome to Paradise and Longview, and Maria from International Superhits. The only exception in the American Idiot album would be the big bursts of power play like St. Jimmy and Letterbomb. those would be great for GH3
 

Paradise City-Guns'N Roses
Freebird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home alabama-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Stairway To Heaven-Led Zepplin
Sweet Child O Mine-Guns'N Roses
Johnny B Goode- Chuck Berry
 

its pretty good but

better songs would be good like

enter sandman-Mattalica
snot-snot and lots of heavy metel song!!
 

i dont know about you guys. but why not go more into some hardcore fast note songs?

like underoath, norma jean, from first to last, drop dead gorgeous.

i was hopeing to find when i got this to be able to if not have already on the game to download a larger variety of genres