- Being new to the franchise, I don’t have anything to compare the GHIII models to (though I can’t stand the Kiss guy myself - really doesn’t look right when playing Holiday In Cambodia - BTW, do they edit out the N-word in that song for the game?). However, as others have noted, any anachronistic mysogyny/catering to frat boys is ameliorated somewhat by the fact that you don’t have time to look at any of it while playing; gotta outdo that Queens Of The Stone Age guy, after all.

- Great that they have a Hendrix character. Now they can work on getting some Hendrix songs. (Unless they did for GH or GHII, in which case, withdrawn, Your Honor).

- The mention of “Echoes” reminded me of a good “prog rock” song for GH: One Of These Days (I’m Going To…etc.)* BTW, Amanda, though I will continue to respect your musical knowledge, watching you completely misinterpret what “progressive rock” meant was a “feet of clay” moment for me.

- Song I *really* want on GH: Big Sky/Baddest Of The Bad by Reverend Horton Heat. As *one* song. Apparently, there’s a HH song on GHII, but this is the one that would blow the doors off.

* I know the rest of the title, you know the rest of the title. It just seems impolite to write it on a feminist site. I mean, yes, it’s not *explicitly* about a woman, but given that it was written by Roger Waters, would you really bet against it?

I can’t believe that there is no love for power ballads about pottery either.

How many songs from the subgenre do you see on there? I looked at the entire list and there is only one song from the prog rock subgenre. That song is YYZ by Rush.

I just heard yesterday a local radio station interviewing a guitaist from, I think, Queens of the Stone Age, who was complaining that he couldn’t manage to play his own song in the game.

Well, that’s not too alarming, because he already has a very well trained-up procedure for playing that song… it’s going to be really difficult to do something else with precision. It’s like typing on a dvorak keyboard when you’re used to qwerty. If you learn to type on a dvorak keyboard to begin with, it’s no harder than learning to type on qwerty. But, if you already know qwerty, typing on dvorak is going to be nearly impossible.

Of course, if other reports are right that it’s harder to learn the guitar hero version than to learn the real guitar version to start with, then that’s pretty messed up.

Urge to kill… rising….

If you mean progressive as in politics, look again. What has mollified my irritation at the overt and tacked on sexism is that you can see the game beneath that stuff, with the songs they picked. You have “Kool Thing” by Sonic Youth, a song about the link between the struggle against racism and the struggle against sexism. You have “Holiday In Cambodia”, an angry yelp against Western commodification of developing nations. You have the anti-war song “Bulls On Parade”. You have the interesting and progressive song “Cult of Personality”. Interesting political music exploded post-70s, and the game song choice gets that. All the more reason to treat the reactionary elements as tacked on.

This is the funniest thing I’ve read today.

Well done.