Dec. 15: Rubber Soul Coming To The Beatles: Rock Band

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December 11, 2009 - New York - Apple Corps, Ltd., MTV Games and Harmonix, the world's leading developer of music-based games and a part of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced The Beatles' album Rubber Soul (1965) will be available in its entirety for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles™: Rock Band™ Music Store beginning Dec. 15, 2009.

Rubber Soul is the third album from The Beatles to appear in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store since the video game's launch Sept. 9, 2009. Previously Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) was released in the Music Store on Nov. 17, and Abbey Road (1969) on Oct. 20.

With "Drive My Car," "I'm Looking Through You" and "If I Needed Someone" already included on The Beatles: Rock Band game disc, players will now be able to play songs from, and complete, the entire Rubber Soul album, including:

* "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
* "You Won't See Me"
* "Nowhere Man"
* "Think For Yourself"
* "The Word"
* "Michelle"
* "What Goes On"
* "Girl"
* "In My Life"
* "Wait"
* "Run For Your Life"


Rubber Soul Album DLC for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system (Dec. 15) and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system (Dec. 17):

Available as:

* Individual Rubber Soul singles

* "Complete The Album Pack"


Price:

* $1.99 USD, .99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each individual track

* $17.99 USD, 9.19 UK, €11.25 (1440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for "Complete The Album Pack"


Rubber Soul Album DLC for Wii (Dec. 15):

Available as:

* Individual Rubber Soul singles


Price: $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per each individual track

The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content is available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE online entertainment network, PlayStation Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii using Wii Points purchased through the Wii Shop Channel.

Yay! This should be great!
(I wonder if the backing vocals' lyrics on 'Girl' will be spelled out...)

Yay! Talk about Merry Christmas I hope they release more in the New Year -- any news about that?

Originally Posted by Esmirelda

Yay! This should be great!
(I wonder if the backing vocals' lyrics on 'Girl' will be spelled out...)

I sure hope so! Those naughty boys...

Originally Posted by Esmirelda

Yay! This should be great!
(I wonder if the backing vocals' lyrics on 'Girl' will be spelled out...)

From what I understand, the "official" lyrics for the backing vocals are "dit dit dit...", even if they are saying "tit tit tit..."

Since the game is supposed to be a family friendly game, you can be sure that they'll spell it with a D.

As far as more releases in the new year go, we might hear something from The Spike Video Game Awards tomorrow. Last year they announced a Pearl Jam album for Rock Band 2 DLC at the VGAs so maybe we'll get some insight for TB:RB before the weekend is over.

I was wondering if they would use dreamscapes for pre-pepper songs. After seeing that they would for about half of the album, I'm glad. They look cool as usual! It wouldn't be as interesting visually if you had to play the whole album at Shea.
I really hope they do Revolver next. I can see them doing something similar, half dreamscapes half Budokan.

Thanks for posting this JL. I appreciate you always being on top of things when it comes to Beatles Rockband/ Beatles on TV

Revolver would be fabulous.

http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Rub..._Available_for

My pleasure mluque! As a lover of Rock Band and The Beatles, I feel as though it is my honorable responsibility to share the great news with all of my fellow Beatle fans, and it's a joy to do so for sure!

Originally Posted by JonnyLytnin

From what I understand, the "official" lyrics for the backing vocals are "dit dit dit...", even if they are saying "tit tit tit..."

Since the game is supposed to be a family friendly game, you can be sure that they'll spell it with a D.

In fact they spell it with a T

nice catch taxman! Thanks for the info!

I still have to buy Rubber Soul. Any reviews from those of you who bought it? Are any of the songs challenging?

Well mluque, this is a question that I have to answer on the curve. In my case, an expert Rock Band guitar player, I have yet to find a song on the game that I can't 5 star, including DLC. That being said, this album has quite a few songs that I have yet to gold star.

"Norwegian Wood" has some interesting jumps between playing rhythm guitar and sitar that are frustrating me and thus causing the gold to evade me.

"What Goes On" is flat out one of the harder guitar songs with a bunch of hammer ons and pull offs.

I've still not been able to gold "I'm Looking Through You".

"In My Life" is fairly basic and the only part that gives me trouble is George Martin's piano part that has been charted for the guitar player to play.

"Run for Your Life" is a fast little strummer. Lot's of rhythm playing with many opportunities to blow a gold star performance.

All of the songs on this album are fun and is my favorite album as a guitar player so far due to the amount of songs where the guitar player just plays the guitar and is not forced to play notes from other instruments.

Originally Posted by mluque125

I still have to buy Rubber Soul. Any reviews from those of you who bought it? Are any of the songs challenging?

They all seemed to me somehow easy, but that's because I only play the Easy mode

Anyway, this is how they are ranked in terms of difficulty (guitar):

BEGINNER
You Won't See Me

APPRENTICE
Nowhere Man
Girl
The Word

MODERATE
Wait
Think For Yourself

SOLID
Michelle
Run For Your Life

TRICKY
Norwegian Wood
In My Life
What Goes On

No Changelling or Demanding songs with the guitar

Seriously within the hour of my last post in this thread, I wound up getting gold on Norwegian Wood and Run For Your Life.

Originally Posted by taxman

In fact they spell it with a T

I love this game. I'm addicted. I can't get enough, and I can't friggin wait til they release "Help!"