Comments on: Rock Band is for Boys

By: jlkbp

jlkbp — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:49:17 +0000

You have to remember in a game like this the song not only has to be somewhat good for the vocalist but also for the bassist, guitarist and drummer…some of the songs that have been mentioned above for female vocalists do not have that.

And for the fact that there are people that think that Rockband should have pop etc, there is a reason it is called ROCK band…not music band. Personally, 99% of the reason I like it is because when I am playing I dont feel like I am in a club. If you want to listen/play with that music play dance dance revolution, they have those types of songs. And on that play list there are several more women vocalists…

By: nik

nik — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:19:12 +0000

After playing for a few days, I have to say that I’m disappointed in the lack of female leads. I can sing a lot of the more atonal stuff (Ozzy), but songs like Creep are in too low a range for me, and I have to totally switch keys mid-song (which sounds like crap) to hit half this stuff.
Boo!

I still dig the game, but am definitely disappointed with the lack of Blondie, Pat Benatar, Heart, The Gossip, or even Melissa Etheridge (while not my cup of tea, she’s undoubtedly heartland rock). Where are Annie Lennox, Concrete Blonde, Stevie Nicks, The Cranberries, Liz Phair, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Throwing Muses, and No Doubt?

By: bs angel

bs angel — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:40:32 +0000

Perhaps one day I will. That one song you mentioned sounds awesome fun!

By: Glitch AxS

Glitch AxS — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:23:37 +0000

Okay, so there’s ONE more female song, woohoo! I’m still majorly upset with the lack of female vocals on that puppy, but if I really wanted to sing that badly I’d just get sing star and belt it out xD. But the other female song is “I’m so sick” by Flyleaf. Good band, good song, and hearing people trying to hit some of the screamer notes is hilarious! I’d say drums are the most fun thing to play on Rock Band, but just being with all your friends and taking turns on the vocals is hysterical, especially at 2 in the morning. I’d say buy it just to have a great time with your friends :)

By: bs angel

bs angel — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:47:00 +0000

You’ll have to come back and let me know what you think of it after spending some time on it! Have fun. :)

By: Alanna

Alanna — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:39:22 +0000

Let’s face it, Rock Band isn’t going to bomb. I was bummed that the songs were nearly all male songs as well, but after I downloaded all the songs to check ‘em out, almost all of the songs, whether they’re male or female sung, are good for any voice range. They picked songs that were sung high enough for girls to sing as well, for after all, the person that was in charge of picking out the songs for this game is in fact, female. So although this selection of songs is seriously lacking some ‘Heart’ (lol) I still think will game will be extremely fun and I can’t wait to get it in a few days :)

By: Queen Whinge

Queen Whinge — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:53:08 +0000

Thank you for that list. I’m now going to force my friends to get Rock Band (sadly lacking both Xbox and time for Xbox). Curious mix of songs, I think. I love the recent things, but the earlier stuff seems a little too much towards the GHII era metal stuff, you know? I’m not a hardcore player, but I have a lot of the songs from it, and I just can see myself massacring the notes. Honestly, I could go without seeing my friends doing David Bowie or KISS. (Ballroom Blitz would be hilarious, I’ll admit.)

Perhaps it’s less the industry’s fault that there are few female singers, rather the other industry’s fault (the music industry.) It’s just so hard to make a career, you know? All these female rock singers just up in the mainstream flow doing pop and crap like that.

Oh well.

By: Pyto1

Pyto1 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:42:43 +0000

I think that list needs more Janis Joplin =P

Or sonic youth >_>

By: Tortacular

Tortacular — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:52:15 +0000

I’m surprised they didn’t throw some Evanescence or No Doubt or Avril Lavigne on there… Emily Haines (Broken Social Scene/Metric) would be a nice selection. Stevie Nicks would’ve been a fine choice too.

The bottom line is that you have to search harder because there’s simply less female vocalists out there in rock music.