Guitar Hero II’s tracklist means face-melting solos

Guitar Hero II won’t be out till spring of 2007, and that is such a long time away, what with all the snow and all that still has to come before it gets here. In an effort to keep warm though, you might as well practice doing your air guitar solos while you wait for the snow to melt and for Guitar Hero II to come to the Xbox 360.

RedOctane has released the tracklist for the PS2 version set to come out in November, but you can pretty much expect this to be a part of the Xbox 360 repertoire of rock goodness. Hopefully, they’ll add a few more tracks in 360 version that won’t need unlocking, but 40 seems like a solid number to think about in the meantime. Personally though, without anything by OK Go or Dolly Parton, this is more like Guitar Hero-in-training than anything else.

In any case, here are the songs you’ve got to prepare for, divided into eight levels of difficulty. Get to practicing!

Opening Licks:
Motley Crue – Shout at the Devil
Danzig – Mother
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Wolfmother – Woman
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
Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son

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Guitar Hero II won’t be out till spring of 2007, and that is such a long time away, what with all the snow and all that still has to come before it gets here. In an effort to keep warm though, you might as well practice doing your air guitar solos while you wait for the snow to melt and for Guitar Hero II to come to the Xbox 360.

RedOctane has released the tracklist for the PS2 version set to come out in November, but you can pretty much expect this to be a part of the Xbox 360 repertoire of rock goodness. Hopefully, they’ll add a few more tracks in 360 version that won’t need unlocking, but 40 seems like a solid number to think about in the meantime. Personally though, without anything by OK Go or Dolly Parton, this is more like Guitar Hero-in-training than anything else.

In any case, here are the songs you’ve got to prepare for, divided into eight levels of difficulty. Get to practicing!

Opening Licks:

Motley Crue – Shout at the Devil
Danzig – Mother
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Wolfmother – Woman
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
Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son

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

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

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

Relentless Riffs
Heart – Crazy on You
Stone Temple Pilots – Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Stray Cats – Rock This Town
Allman Brothers – Jessica
Jane’s Addiction – Stop

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

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