George_Wrisley August 22, 2008 Downloadable 19 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

This was released yesterday:

Harmonix and
MTV Games announced today the addition of the fourth complete album to the Rock
Band ™ Music Store catalog of downloadable content. Available
August 26, the most commercially successful Rush album, Moving Pictures ,
will be added to the Rock Band DLC catalog giving prog fans the
opportunity to build their own Rush setlist for play on their virtual world
tour.

Moving Pictures joins the five other Rush tracks in the catalog including the recent
release of the Rush Masters Vault selections which includes exclusive Rock
Band versions of “Closer To The Heart” and “Working Man (Vault
Edition)” and cover versions of “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight” and “Working
Man.” One of the most successful progressive rock bands in music history,
the Canadian masters of the time signature change have sold more than 40
million albums worldwide and continue to sell out arenas across the
globe.

Moving
Pictures , Rush’s eighth studio album, released in 1981 has sold more than
four million copies and includes the following tracks:

1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red
   Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
5. The Camera
   Eye
6. Witch Hunt
7. Vital
   Signs

Moving
Pictures will be available for $10.99 (880 Microsoft Points) for the album,
or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track.

Moving Pictures joins the influential Pixies album, Doolittle , Judas Priest’s Screaming
For Vengeance and The Cars’ “The Cars ” as the fourth full-album DLC
release available at the Rock Band Music Store.

I’m not sure if they are trying to bring in an older group of people to play or just thinking that these songs are in some sense timeless. Either way, Tom Sawyer (and the rest of the album) is awesome. Rock Band keeps the good stuff coming.

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