From NerdCore god MC Lars, plenty of good chuckles to be had here…

Ryan over at If It’s Movies has been communicating with the keepers of Sublime, hoping that one day the legendary Long Beach band would make its way into his favorite (and mine!) rhythm game, Rock Band 2.  Pre-release of the game everything was looking good for the band’s inclusion, with their management telling him to keep his eyes open for the games release in fall 2008.  As we all know Rock Band 2 saw release, without a Sublime track.  Instead, GH:WT nabbed “Santeria” from the bands eponymous third album.  Fearing the worst, Ryan asked for an update, and quickly got his answer…

Hey Man,

For whatever reason, Rock Band has not figured out just how much people love Sublime.  They had asked the band to be a part of the last version, then pulled out at the last minute.

On the other hand, Guitar Hero is using more songs of Sublime’s in future releases.  Can’t tell you which songs and when, but there will be more.

I’ll pass on the info to the people who do Rock Band and maybe they’ll wise up.

Peace!!
Sublime MGMT

Ugg.  C’mon HMX.  No more Nickelodeon songs!  Bring on the Sublime already!

Over a year after it’s release, every song from Rock Band 1 has been FC’ed by the players of Scorehero.   User ukog-monkey recently did the honors on the final song, Green Grass and High Tides by The Outlaws, which has long been known for it’s extremely difficult “wall of skittles” sections in the charts last solo, which is several minutes long.   His reaction in the video proof below is priceless, and I’m sure parallels the reaction of everyone who has even just simply passed the song, a badge of honor amongst Rock Band players…

You’re going to need the ROM and a NES emulator…

It’s actually pretty damn fun, and also proves the point that 1/2 the fun of these games are pushing buttons in time with music, not necessarily swinging around a controller shaped controller and pretending to “rock”.

Alternately, it could benefit from a longer setlist.