Rock Band Spinal Tap-ped

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jul 31, 2009 10:22 am PT

Rerecorded versions of 11 songs from This Is Spinal Tap arrive next week for Wii, PS3, 360; new Black Sabbath and Foo Fighters DLC also available.

Last month, faux metal pioneers Spinal Tap released three new songs from their latest album, Back From the Dead, onto Rock Band for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii. But just like the bands they parody, most fans would rather hear the old stuff.

Not exactly the Jonas Brothers.

To that end, the band is offering a compromise. Next week's Rock Band downloadable content releases will include 11 songs from the original soundtrack to Rob Reiner's original mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap. However, the Rock Band tracks will be the rerecorded and reimagined versions of the songs included on Back From the Dead.

Next week will also see the Wii version of Rock Band continue playing catch-up, as two more track packs already available on the other editions of the game make their Nintendo downloadable debut. The original Black Sabbath three pack of covers will add sound-alikes of "N.I.B.," "Sweet Leaf," and "War Pigs" to the store, as will the entire Foo Fighters album The Colour and the Shape.

All songs will be available separately for $1.99 (160 Microsoft points, 200 Wii points), and the 11 Spinal Tap tracks will be bundled together on the Xbox 360 and PS3 as part of the "Tap Ten Pack" for $17.99 (1,440 Microsoft points). The full list of tracks follows below.

Spinal Tap "Tap Ten Pack"
(Funky) Sex Farm
(Listen to the) Flower People (Reggae Stylee)
America
Big Bottom
Cups and Cakes
Gimme Some Money
Heavy Duty
Hell Hole
Rock 'n' Roll Creation
Stonehenge
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

Black Sabbath covers
N.I.B.
Sweet Leaf
War Pigs

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Doll
Enough Space
February Stars
Hey, Johnny Park!
Monkey Wrench
My Hero
My Poor Brain
New Way Home
See You
Up in Arms
Walking After You
Wind Up

39 Comments

  • Andraus

    Posted Aug 3, 2009 10:22 am PT

    Foo Fighters!!!! Kick Ass!!!

  • crock

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 7:57 pm PT

    SillySkeleton Posted Jul 31, 2009 6:57 pm PT Spinal Tap?? Awesome!
    It's too bad that Rock Band doesn't have a piano peripheral, so we could play "Lick my Lovepipe".

    Its Lick my Lovepump!

  • faceman420

    Posted Aug 1, 2009 8:04 pm PT

    how bout Dio Black Sabbath?

  • raev92

    Posted Aug 1, 2009 8:45 am PT

    "Not exactly the Jonas Brothers"

    LOOL

    cool...might get this...

  • punkpunker

    Posted Aug 1, 2009 1:37 am PT

    dang still no iron man

  • g1rldraco7

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 10:46 pm PT

    very interesting.

  • lightman3000

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 9:05 pm PT

    lovepump SILLYSKELETON

  • SillySkeleton

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 6:57 pm PT

    Spinal Tap?? Awesome!
    It's too bad that Rock Band doesn't have a piano peripheral, so we could play "Lick my Lovepipe".

  • Champ78

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 4:38 pm PT

    SWEET! I love Spinal Tap! Big Bottom and Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight ftw!!!!

  • polsci1503

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 3:44 pm PT

    Loving the Sabbath additions but wish they weren't covers, remasters please!

  • jediknight52501

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 3:38 pm PT

    if they are remixes, then i will pass on the Spinal Tap songs, i want the Original songs.

  • jediknight52501

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 3:31 pm PT

    i am so getting the Spinal Tap songs.

  • Oleg_Huzwog

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 3:10 pm PT

    It's part of a trilogy; a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it and I don't know why. You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really.

  • ldonyo

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:49 pm PT

    I couldn't listen to more than 30 seconds of the new version of Sex Farm. That was awful!

  • megagood GameSpot staff member

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:47 pm PT

    "This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock band psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?' "

    But man - I sure wish it was the original tracks. The new versions are fun updates but they are no substitute for the classics.

  • ldonyo

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:47 pm PT

    They should have used the original recordings, not the lame do-overs. Flower People is NOT a reggae song! Anyone who has seen the movie knows this. Sex Farm as funk? Heresy!

  • Narutofan30

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:12 pm PT

    Never heard them.... Foo Fighters AWESOME but I dont have any Microsoft points.

  • mrklorox

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 2:05 pm PT

    Sadly this is the heaviest music available on these games, except for christian metalcore, which negates itself.

  • almightybob14

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 1:59 pm PT

    Wait wait, how is Cups and Cakes going to work?

  • tremor33

    Posted Jul 31, 2009 1:12 pm PT

    @BladeSoldier39

    oops. that's probably why i shouldn't come to work high

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