"The Beatles: Rock Band" Adding Entire "Abbey Road" This Week

As promised, Abbey Road will be available in its entirety for The Beatles: Rock Band starting this week, Harmonix and MTV Games announced in a press release. Even though six of Abbey's most famous tracks were included on the in-game track list — "Come Together," "Something," "Octopus's Garden," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Here Comes The Sun" and "The End" — the remaining songs will be made available on October 20th for Microsoft XBox 360 and Nintento Wii gamers and October 22nd for Playstation 3.

Look back at all the LPs in the Beatles catalog, with their RS reviews.

For PS3 and XBox 360, the tracks will be offered up in two ways: Fans of Side A but not Side B — if those people actually exist — can buy "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Oh! Darling" and "Because" as standalone download. However, if you want those three songs and all 16 glorious minutes of the Abbey Road medley, plus all 23 seconds of "Her Majesty," you can purchase the complete album pack for $16.99. Wii will offer up the three songs plus "You Never Give Me Your Money" as $2 a la carte downloads ("Her Majesty" will run $1) except for the medley, which will be divided into three multi-song downloads at $3.50 each.

A day in the life of the Beatles: photos from 1963.

More good news, Beatles fans: Harmonix and MTV Games say the entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available for download in November, with Rubber Soul hitting TB:RB in December. Read RS' review of The Beatles: Rock Band here.

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“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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