Final Guitar Hero II tracklist confirmed

RedOctane names 40 songs for upcoming sequel, says there will be an additional 24 unlockable tracks.

When GameSpot went hands-on with Activision subsidiary RedOctane's PlayStation 2 encore to last year's cult hit Guitar Hero, the game's tracklist was still in flux. When the game was originally announced, RedOctane said only that it would include "more than 55" songs, but now a spokesperson for the publisher has said that the game will have 64 tracks in all, with 24 of those being unlockable bonus tracks.

A list of the game's 40 default songs started circulating on the Internet last week after a Guitar Hero II video preview on MTV.com included legible shots of the carefully guarded tracklist. RedOctane has since confirmed the accuracy of the list, which follows below, separated by difficulty level.

Opening Licks
Danzig--"Mother"
Cheap Trick--"Surrender"
Motley Crue--"Shout at the Devil"
Wolfmother--"Woman"
Encore: Spinal Tap--"Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight"

Amp-Warmers
Kiss--"Strutter"
Nirvana--"Heart-Shaped Box"
Police--"Message in a Bottle"
Van Halen--"You Really Got Me"
Encore: Kansas--"Carry on Wayward Son"

String-Snappers
Alice in Chains--"Them Bones"
Foo Fighters--"Monkey Wrench"
Iggy Pop and the Stooges--"Search and Destroy"
Pretenders--"Tattooed Love Boys"
Encore: Black Sabbath--"War Pigs"

Thrash and Burn
Butthole Surfers--"Who Was in My Room Last Night"
Mathew Sweet--"Girlfriend"
Rolling Stones--"Can't You Hear Me Knockin'"
Warrant--"Cherry Pie"
Encore: Guns N' Roses--Sweet Child O' Mine

Return of the Shred
Primus--"John the Fisherman"
Rage Against the Machine--"Killing in the Name Of"
Sword--"Freya"
Thin Lizzy--"Bad Reputation"
Encore: Aerosmtih--Last Child

Relentless Riffs
Allman Brothers--"Jessica"
Heart--"Crazy on You"
Stone Temple Pilots--"Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
Stray Cats--"Rock This Town"
Encore: Jane's Addiction--"Stop"

Furious Fretwork
Anthrax--"Madhouse"
Lamb of God--"Laid to Rest"
Living End--"Carry Me Home"
Reverend Horton Heat--"Psychobilly Freakout"
Encore: Rush--"YYZ"

Face-Melters
Avenged Sevenfold--"Beast and the Harlot"
Dick Dale--"Misirlou"
Megadeth--"Hangar 18"
Suicidal Tendencies--"Institutionalized"
Encore: Lynyrd Skynyrd--"Free Bird"

Guitar Hero II is rated T for Teen and will be released for the PS2 November 7. An Xbox 360 version of the game has been announced for release next year.

311 Comments

  • gta_bandit

    Posted Oct 23, 2006 6:17 pm PT

    5 songs I would have liked to see.

    1.Judas Priest: Painkiller 2.System Of A Down: BYOB
    3.Metallica:Nothing Else Matters
    4.Green Day: Longview
    5.Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train

  • shawn787

    Posted Oct 23, 2006 3:07 pm PT

    If you know anything about Van Halen, then you know why they don't have one of their original songs on the game. David Lee Roth will never let the rest of Van Halen use any of the songs he sang for, and for whatever reason, Sammy Hagar doesn't do it for most VH fans. Personally I think the Sammy-led VH is just as good, if not better, than most of the early VH. Let's be glad they found a way to get at least one of their songs in the game, and lets hope there is more in the bonus tracks.

  • aknutrimekpox

    Posted Oct 23, 2006 12:25 pm PT

    NO METALLICA!?!??!?! WTF!!???!
    They practically invented metal. UGH!
    I might not even buy this I'm so pissed at them...

  • Soldier_Shadow

    Posted Oct 22, 2006 8:51 am PT

    whats with everyone wanting dragonforce on GH? they're ok, but still, it would be impossible to play their songs because the solos and stuff have no melody, just rampid finger tapping. BTW like the song list, FREEBIRD!!!

  • UnknownPerson55

    Posted Oct 21, 2006 9:00 pm PT

    i would have liked to see spirit of a radio by rush; playing that would be pretty impressive

  • Millionaire134

    Posted Oct 21, 2006 12:26 pm PT

    Ehhh it's ok... No Sublime, or DragonForce.

  • hirachio

    Posted Oct 21, 2006 12:11 pm PT

    Play GH1 and you'll get Jimmi and Cream, but Zeppelin and Metallica wouldn't give up their rights to the music, and neither would Jethro Tull - the devs kept on that one until the last minute. Pink Floyd would've been nice, though.

  • godigoshin

    Posted Oct 20, 2006 6:23 pm PT

    alice in chains - them bones = jesus. literally, jesus

  • Stickyfgz

    Posted Oct 20, 2006 6:39 am PT

    MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guitar Hero will take my life, I'll not sleep for weeks

  • goat_god_3

    Posted Oct 20, 2006 1:18 am PT

    not too concerned with the convo below at a glance, but its definaitly nice too see that the gaming community at large (for the most part) appreciates GOOD ole' fashion rock and bastard roll

    yeah shame about the lack of floyd, zeppelin, maiden, jimmi, jethro tull, 'tallica, cream..... and... well the list goes on and on, but i deffinaitly appreciate the list they pulled togather.... looking forward too seeing more from those guys.

  • Killian420

    Posted Oct 19, 2006 10:39 pm PT

    wow, avenged sevenfold, nice, megadeth, lamb of god. Can't wait for this.

  • timmy1312

    Posted Oct 19, 2006 5:44 pm PT

    ummm im sure youve hearrd this before but led zeppelin is a bizatch about giving away there musci the only movie i think there music has been in is school of rock and it was still hard to get it

  • arawk

    Posted Oct 19, 2006 9:35 am PT

    what! no limp bizkit?

  • Ebin

    Posted Oct 19, 2006 2:53 am PT

    its "Killing in the Name" no "of"......glad they have some rage though.
    Stone Temple Pilots too

  • youmustbemad

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 9:48 pm PT

    everyone needs to stop fussing over iron maiden and ac/dc and metallica
    and led zep. red octane said that the bonus unlockable songs are gonna be by more well known artists and that the music community was much more generous this time around regarding the bonus songs.

    There's still hope!

  • ROckEr5869

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 5:04 pm PT

    omfg do they know who LED ZEPPELIN IS????? but i like it that they have spinal tap lol

  • jgoucher12

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 2:22 pm PT

    Can anybody please tell me if this one or the last one (guitar hero 1) had PINK FLOYD at all??? Thank you all

  • BrownKid1018

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 9:33 am PT

    The lineup seems really decent, especially better than the first game with the exception of Avenged Sevenfold's NEW stuff.

    Although...I don't know why, whenever I imagined this game, I thought of Children of Bodom--they should strongly consider that band for GHIII.

  • LaceRGunn

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 5:45 pm PT

    -.- Black Sabbath is Ozzy, kenshinhimura.

  • kenshinhimura16

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 4:29 pm PT

    Ozzy should have been here

  • game_killer2028

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 1:01 pm PT

    Well can,t redoctane give us guitar hero earlyer than Nov 7....it would be great...and i think that they should put a tout le monde instead of hanger 18
    put metallica in the bonus

  • FightingGuyX4

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 12:11 pm PT

    ITS GOT MEGADETH!!!
    im FN there

  • Supperdude9

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 9:35 am PT

    I wish The Offspring was in it. "The Kids Aren't Alright" would have been a kickarse song to play in GH2.

    Maybe next time then.

  • 1OneWingedAnge1

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 9:34 am PT

    Great playlist, better than the first one in my opinion.

  • Brutalus7

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 8:42 am PT

    I hope the unlockable songs are crap like in GH1. There were maybe 3 decent songs in all of them, and at least 10 complete and utter waste of my time songs. In the After Hours movie, he made it sound like they were going to be real songs, not weird junk.

  • Fantasy-7

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 7:33 am PT

    What a great line up, i'm surprised they have nirvana or alice in chains(great bands)

  • evil_pickle

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 4:29 am PT

    Hanger 18! awesome I thought megadeth wouldn`t be on there, favorite band.

  • DirtyRotten

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 3:02 am PT

    Wow they got The Sword on here? Awesome!

  • WarHasChanged

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 6:58 pm PT

    I totally agree with Wasup_Chucks list. With the exception of Rammstein.
    I'm happy they put Thin Lizzy on the list. Just wish it was Whiskey In The Jar or Emerald instead. But nice list. Hope the bonus rocks.

  • DarthLeo

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 4:28 pm PT

    adding to the list below:

    Pantera,
    Slipknot,
    more Guns n Roses
    more metal,
    and many more

    but as he said that would make it M

  • Wasup_Chuck

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 2:57 pm PT

    Guitar Hero 2 is rated T for teen which means there will be no bands that apeal to actual rock/metal fans. well, most of us anyway.

    the bands that are missing, and the ones that should have been in the first game are;

    KORN
    METALLICA
    COLD
    MUDVAYNE
    CHILDREN OF BODOM
    DISTURBED
    GODSMACK
    SLAYER
    LINKIN PARK
    TRIVIUM
    DIMMU BORGIR
    GOD FORBID
    SYSTEM OF A DOWN
    BREAKING BENJIMEN
    RAMMSTEIN
    .........
    the list goes on and on, but they are never gonna put these bands in because then it would be rated M.... but thats exactly what we want from a game of this nature, not some stupid teenager paradise of boy bands and soft rock......

  • Dr_Swordopolis

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 1:32 pm PT

    i just hope they give us the full version of each song... i want a freakin 10 minute long skynyrd rift!!!

  • Nintendo_Ownes7

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 11:57 am PT

    I love most of these songs.

  • tr00k

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 3:14 am PT

    OK I'm going to admit that being quite young, I haven't heard of many of these bands and i enjoy punk, alternative, bit of metal and emo music. This is simply my personal taste, and everyone is entitled to their own music tastes so no slagging off please.

    Would have loved to have seen a My Chemical Romance - Thank You For The Venom, Green Day - Basket Case, and Bullet for my Valentine - Hand of Blood/4 Words (To Choke Upon) or actually anything from Bullet would have been mad.

    But it's a pretty good tracklist. I haven't heard of most of those bands though lol. Rapt to see The Living End and Wolfmother on there! SUPPORT AUSSIE TALENT!

  • cvmnJesus_basic

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 9:33 pm PT

    not that i'm a huge fan, but sort of cool that the living end got on there.

  • Awakening124

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 9:31 pm PT

    Wow...I hope they have some killer bonus tracks, 'cause there's a bunch of stuff missing. Still, it's a pretty good track list.

  • Inu7

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 6:49 pm PT

    Heavy

  • jackle2071

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 5:12 pm PT

    Rage Against The Machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • zero_simoleans

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 4:54 pm PT

    yay!! rage!!

    no shelter would've been better, but ah well...

  • balleralex90

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 3:33 pm PT

    Can't wait to play Free Bird!!!! Hope the game is released early January.

  • TMGiovanella

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 1:41 pm PT

    No Hendrix this time

  • Frieki7

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 10:04 am PT

    Doesn't everyone know they tried to get all those bands you are complaining about like metallica, zeppelin ac/da ect. but couldn't becuase they either asked for to much money to have there song up there(metallica) or wouldn't give up the rights to their songs (zeppelin) so if you want to complain, try going to their messages boards.

  • Masta-O

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 11:38 pm PT

    Bad Bad Bad Tracklist!!!
    Where Is Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Slipknot, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin,AC/DC???!?!?!!?!?

  • ragnawave

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 11:16 pm PT

    My favorite songs on the first one were the bonus songs. I hope they're as awesome on this one as on the first.

  • commonlogic

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 10:32 pm PT

    What's up with the Van Halen version of You Really Got Me? Van Halen's got great tunes of their own. I'd love to see Hot For Teacher on this, and then have the original version of You Really Got Me. The Kinks are awesome.

  • gdayz33

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 8:46 pm PT

    critius0
    I WANT EXPLOSION BY VAN HALEN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    you idiot. its called eruption. anyway, dream theater should be in this. and where did pantera go. and where did ozzy go. cemetary gates and and crazy train would have been perfect for this. that or mr crowley.

  • FF7AdventGuy

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 8:13 pm PT

    Man, after seeing that vid for Free Bird, i could just tell it was gonna be the next Bark at the Moon. I cant wait to play it.

  • critius0

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 6:53 pm PT

    I WANT EXPLOSION BY VAN HALEN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • squirlnuts2005

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 6:11 pm PT

    where are all the good bands with the memorable guitar riffs.....that u know when u just here it for a second......no slayer "raining blood".....has the best guitar ever....no metallica. none of that.????? ......u have the time to put on avenged sevenfold which suck but no real good bands.?? shame shame

  • Blitz14

    Posted Oct 14, 2006 3:06 pm PT

    Where's the Led Z, Metallica, and The Scorpions. OMG, why isn't my favorite band, AC/DC, on the list. What have they done to this game.

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