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The following artists and their primary influences can carry their own game edition of Guitar Hero or Rock Band similar to the recent Guitar Hero Aerosmith edition.

The top five must-have Guitar Hero Editions with the songs they must contain at a bare minimum are:

  1. Pink Floyd Must Have Songs: Another Brick in the Wall (part 2), Any Colour You Like/Brain Damage, Comfortably Numb, Coming Back to Life, Corporal Clegg, Dogs, The Dogs of War, Echoes, Eclipse, Hey You, High Hopes, In the Flesh, Keep Talking, Learning to Fly, Money, Mother, Not Now John, One Slip, Pigs (Three Different Ones), Pigs on the Wing (Parts 1 and 2), A Pilow of Winds, Remember a Day, Seamus, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Sheep, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX), Signs of Life, Sorrow, Time, Us and Them, Waiting for the Worms
  2. Jimi Hendrix Must Have Songs:  Born Under a Bad Sign, Can You See Me?, Catfish Blues, Dolly Dagger, Ezy Rider, Hey Baby (New Rising Sun), Freedom, Hey Joe, Highway Chile, Litte Wing, Machine Gun (please, please, please!), Message of Love, My Friend, Mannish Boy, Purple Haze, Red House, Power of Love, Room Full of Mirrors, Spanish Castle Magic, Stepping Stone, Stone Free, Voodoo Chile Blues, Who Knows, The Wind Cries Mary
  3. Tom Petty Must Have Songs: American Girl, Angel Dream (No.4), The Apartment Song, Baby’s a Rock’n’ Roller, Big Boss Man, Casa Dega, Change of Heart, Cracking Up, Depot Street, Don’t Bring Me Down, Don’t Do Me Like That, Don’t Come Around Here No More, Even the Losers, Free Fallin, Here Comes My Girl, Hometown Blues, I Can’t Fight It, I Won’t Back Down, Into the Great Wide Open, It’s Good to Be King, Jammin’ Me, King’s Highway, The Last DJ, Learning to Fly, Listen to Her Heart, Lonesome Sundown, Mary Jane’s Last Dance, Rebels, Refugee, Runnin’ Down a Dream, Southern Accents, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, Too Much Ain’t Enough, Trailer, Turning Point, The Waiting, Walls (Circus), You Got Lucky, You Don’t Know How it Feels
  4. Bob Marley Must Have Songs: Bad Card, Buffalo Soldier, Caution, Coming in From the Cold, Concrete Jungle, Could You Be Loved, Crazy Baldheads, Easy Skanking, Exodus, Get Up Stand Up, Hammer, High Tide or Low Tide, I’m Still Waiting, I Shot the Sheriff, Iron Lion Zion, Jah Live, Jammin’, Johnny Was, Judge Not, Keep On Moving, Lick Samba, Lively Up Yourself,  Mr. Brown, Natty Dread, Natural Mystic, No Woman No Cry, One Drop, Real Situation, Redemption Song (preferably Live Mix), Ride Natty Ride, Simmer Down, So Much Trouble in the World, Soul Rebel, Soul Shakedown Party, Three Little Birds, Trenchtown Rock, Waiting in Vain, Who the Cap Fit, Zimbabwe
  5. Jimmy Buffett Must Have Songs: Boat Drinks, Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes, The Christian, Coconut Telegraph, Come Monday, Desperation Samba, Elvis Imitators, Fins, Five O’Clock Somewhere, Fruitcakes, Grapefruit Juicy Fruit, Havana Daydreamin’, He Went to Paris, Jolly Mon Sing, If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me, Kick It In Second Wind, Knees of My Heart, Livingston Saturday Night, Love and Luck, Manana, Margaritaville (the record version, not the live one currently available on Rock Band), Nautical Wheelers, One Particular Harbor, Pencil Thin Mustache, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Spicolli’s Theme, Take It Back, Tin Cup Chalice, Treat Her Like a Lady, Volcano, The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful, Why Don’t We Get Drunk, The Wino and I Know,

The next 15 groups that should have their own Guitar Hero/Rock Band editions but which I’m too lazy to list the songs:

  1. Black Sabbath
  2. Metallica
  3. Eric Clapton
  4. Rush
  5. Led Zeppelin
  6. Beatles/John Lennon/Wings/George Harrison
  7. U2
  8. Rolling Stones
  9. R.E.M.
  10. Queen
  11. The Eagles
  12. Grateful Dead
  13. AC/DC
  14. Bob Dylan
  15. The Doors

The following 66 artists should at least have Track Packs of five songs.

  1. Tool
  2. Prince
  3. Van Halen
  4. The Allman Brothers
  5. Alice in Chains
  6. Pearl Jam
  7. Nirvana
  8. NoFX
  9. Misfits
  10. Black Flag
  11. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  12. Green Day
  13. The Offspring
  14. Good Charlotte
  15. Sublime
  16. Fleetwood Mac
  17. Steve Miller Band
  18. Smashing Pumpkins
  19. Red Hot Chili Peppers
  20. Rage Against the Machine
  21. The Police/Sting
  22. Pantera
  23. Nine Inch Nails
  24. Neil Young
  25. Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young)
  26. Muddy Waters
  27. B.B. King
  28. Robert Johnson
  29. Robert Randolph
  30. J.J. Cale
  31. Kenny Wayne Shepherd
  32. Joe Bonamassa
  33. Dire Straits
  34. Lenny Kravitz
  35. Johnny Cash
  36. John Mellencamp
  37. John Mayer
  38. Jim Croce
  39. James Taylor
  40. Jackson Browne
  41. Jack Johnson
  42. Huey Lewis
  43. Chuck Berry
  44. Duane Eddy
  45. Elvis
  46. Buddy Holly
  47. George Thorogood
  48. Genesis/Phil Collins
  49. Bush
  50. G. Love & the Special Sauce
  51. Everlast
  52. Everclear
  53. Doobie Brothers
  54. Death Cab for Cutie
  55. Dave Matthews
  56. Danzig
  57. CCR
  58. Counting Crows
  59. Concrete Blonde
  60. Bruce Springsteen
  61. Bob Seger
  62. Blues Traveler
  63. Black Crowes
  64. Billy Joel
  65. Barenaked Ladies
  66. Audioslave

Feel free to suggest additional artists and their songs or fill in songs for the above artists in the comments–if we don’t tell the manufacturers what we want to play, they’ll only give us what they think we want (not that they haven’t done a superb job of this so far).

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