"Rock Band" Sequel Plans Full Album Downloads By Foo Fighters, RHCP, Jane's Addiction

If a new Guns N' Roses song and a massive track list wasn't enough to lure you over to Rock Band 2, the game also plans on rolling out a ton of playable full album downloads in the months following the game's release in September. Among the albums reportedly getting the video game treatment are the Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Jane Addiction's Nothing's Shocking. MTV Games opted to add more full albums this time around after the first installment of Rock Band found post-release success after making Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance and Pixies' Doolittle after for download. "We're surprised by how many people opted to get full albums," said MTV Senior Vice President Paul Degooyer. "Talk about something that's been lost and forgotten." The battle of the music video games is expected to reach fever pitch within the next few months, as both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour hit stores this fall.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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