List of songs in Guitar Hero Live
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Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. It is the first title in the Guitar Hero series since it went on hiatus after 2011, and the first game in the series available for 8th generation video game consoles (PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One). The game was released worldwide on 20 October 2015 for these systems as well as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS devices including the Apple TV.
The title is considered a reboot of the series; instead of using a five-button guitar-shaped game controller, the game shipped with a six-button controller, arranged in two rows of three aimed to provide more realistic fingering positions than the five-button controller. The game includes 42 songs on the game's disc, presented in sets using full motion video taken from the first-person perspective of the lead guitarist as the background visuals to create an immersive experience. Guitar Hero Live does not use traditional downloadable content to expand the game and is not backward compatible with previous songs from Guitar Hero games. Instead, the game includes the online Guitar Hero TV (GHTV) mode modeled after music video channels that players can jump in or out of at any time, playing through ongoing songs in a curated fashion. GHTV, through in-game rewards and microtransactions, supports the ability to play any song in the library, perform Premium shows where the newest tracks to GHTV will be found, or even unlock all features for a 24-hour period as part of a Party Pass. Two hundred songs were available at the release of the game, with more added over time, averaging about six brand new songs each week.
FreeStyleGames selected on-disc songs from a wider variety of music genres beyond rock music as to provide challenging guitar tracks for players, while their approach to licensing of songs for GHTV enabled them to attract more musical acts to offer their music. Game reviewers found the on-disc soundtrack to be weak as it focused too much on more recent musical acts, while praising the wider variety across a larger time period that GHTV offered.
42 songs are featured on disc as part of the game's main "GH Live" career mode. Players progress through the career mode by playing one of several continuous sets of three to five songs, with each set presented as part of a concert performance. During a set, the game shows the note highway, the on-screen fretboard which represents the notes the player should play in time to the music, and other gameplay elements. This is shown atop live-action footage taken from the first-person perspective of the lead guitar player of one of several fictional bands, performing on stage and watching the reaction of the crowd and their bandmates. The live-action footage is manipulated by the game to reflect how well the player is performing. Once the player has completed a set, all songs from that set are available in a quickplay mode, allowing the player to perform a single song at a time which they can use to practice the song or attempt to achieve a better score.[1][2]
In selecting the on-disc songs, FreeStyleGames recognized that engaging guitar tracks are not strictly limited to rock music, and included other genres into the mix.[3][4] According to designer Jim Norris, their selection process began with identifying songs that would be expected by players to be on a Guitar Hero title, and then determining which of those songs which they could license. Once they had obtained the license, FreeStyleGames would mark up the song for the note highways and determined how much fun these songs would be to play. Finally, they balanced the song selection in the game to give players a combination of songs they know and those they may not recognize but would be enjoyable.[5]
The table below lists the on-disc songs, including the venue and fictional band that are used in the set where the song is included.[6]
| Show/Venue | Band | Artist(s) | Song | Year | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sounddial: Castle Stage | Broken Tide | The Gaslight Anthem | "45" | 2012 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Yearbook Ghosts | Good Charlotte | "The Anthem" | 2002 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Quantum Freqs | Skrillex | "Bangarang (ft. Sirah)" | 2011 | Alternative |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Fighthound | Soundgarden | "Been Away Too Long" | 2012 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Quantum Freqs | Eminem | "Berzerk" | 2013 | Alternative |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Blackout Conspiracy | Of Mice & Men | "Bones Exposed" | 2014 | Metal |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Out-Outs | Rihanna | "California King Bed" | 2010 | Pop |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Quantum Freqs | Kasabian | "Club Foot" | 2004 | Alternative |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | The Jephson Hangout | OneRepublic | "Counting Stars" | 2013 | Pop |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | The Jephson Hangout | Imagine Dragons | "Demons" | 2012 | Pop |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Yearbook Ghosts | Neon Trees | "Everybody Talks" | 2011 | Pop |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Jephson Hangout | The 1975 | "Girls" | 2013 | Indie |
| Sounddial: Castle Stage | Broken Tide | The Black Keys | "Gold on the Ceiling" | 2011 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Jephson Hangout | Elbow | "Grounds for Divorce" | 2008 | Indie |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Out-Outs | Avril Lavigne | "Here's to Never Growing Up" | 2013 | Pop |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | Portland Cloud Orchestra | The Lumineers | "Ho Hey" | 2012 | Indie |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | Portland Cloud Orchestra | Mumford & Sons | "I Will Wait" | 2012 | Indie |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | Broken Tide | Rival Sons | "Keep on Swinging" | 2012 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Our Pasts Collide | Thirty Seconds to Mars | "The Kill" | 2005 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Blackout Conspiracy | Pierce the Veil | "King for a Day (ft. Kellin Quinn)" | 2012 | Metal |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Jephson Hangout | Jack White | "Lazaretto" | 2014 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Vivid Screams | Deap Vally | "Lies" | 2013 | Indie |
| Sounddial: Castle Stage | Broken Tide | Royal Blood | "Little Monster" | 2014 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Our Pasts Collide | You Me at Six | "Lived a Lie" | 2014 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Vivid Screams | Halestorm | "Love Bites (So Do I)" | 2012 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Fighthound | Pearl Jam | "Mind Your Manners" | 2013 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | Portland Cloud Orchestra | Of Monsters and Men | "Mountain Sound" | 2012 | Indie |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Our Pasts Collide | Fall Out Boy | "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" | 2013 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Vivid Screams | Paramore | "Now" | 2013 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Roadblock | Fighthound | Green Day | "Nuclear Family" | 2012 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | VIP Party | The Rolling Stones | "Paint It Black" | 1966 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | Broken Tide | Arctic Monkeys | "R U Mine?" | 2013 | Indie |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Yearbook Ghosts | Blink-182 | "The Rock Show" | 2001 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Fire Pit | Blackout Conspiracy | Bring Me the Horizon | "Shadow Moses" | 2013 | Metal |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | Broken Tide | Wolfmother | "Sundial" | 2009 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | VIP Party | Queen | "Tie Your Mother Down" | 1976 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Castle Stage | Broken Tide | Rise Against | "Tragedy + Time" | 2014 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Castle Stage | Broken Tide | Biffy Clyro | "Victory Over the Sun" | 2013 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Strictland Park | The Out-Outs | Katy Perry | "Waking Up in Vegas" | 2008 | Pop |
| Rock The Block: The Ledges | Quantum Freqs | Linkin Park | "Wastelands" | 2014 | Rock |
| Sounddial: Barn Stage | The Jephson Hangout | The Killers | "When You Were Young" | 2006 | Rock |
| Rock The Block: Cactus Joe's | VIP Party | The Who | "Won't Get Fooled Again" | 1971 | Rock |
