Guitar Hero 5 features 85 tracks, no Beatles. Image courtesy Activision.

Guitar Hero 5 features 85 tracks, no Beatles.
Image courtesy Activision

How do you compete with the biggest band of all time? You counter-program.

Activision will ship Guitar Hero 5 on Sept. 1, a mere eight days before The Beatles: Rock Band launches. And while John Lennon once said his band was “more popular than Jesus,” there are still some people on the planet who aren’t all that crazy about the Fab Four.

The just-revealed final set list for Guitar Hero 5 shows how Activision intends to counter-program against The Beatle: They’re looking to mop up all the people who haven’t been swept away by Beatlemania. With a grand total of 85 songs, Guitar Hero 5 casts a wide net, but has heavy appeal to younger players and the ScoreHero crowd.

We’ve already known a good number of the songs that would appear in Guitar Hero 5, and we’ve had a clue about what the rest of the lineup would look like thanks to a viral video that Bill O’Reilly doesn’t approve of. Here are the final stragglers — a near-even mix of bona fide classics and new blood.


· 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
· Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm”
· Blink-182 – “The Rock Show”
· Dire Straits – “Sultans of Swing”
· Jimmy Eat World – “Bleed American”
· Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
· Megadeth – “Sweating Bullets”
· Mötley Crüe – “Looks That Kill”
· Muse – “Plug In Baby”
· Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
· Queen & David Bowie – “Under Pressure”
· Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”
· The Killers – “All the Pretty Faces”
· The Raconteurs – “Steady as She Goes”
· TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me”

These songs join an epic list of previously announced tracks:

· A Perfect Circle – “Judith”
· AFI – “Medicate”
· Attack! Attack! UK – “You and Me”
· Band of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
· Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
· Beck – “Gamma Ray”
· Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself”
· Billy Squier – “Lonely Is the Night”
· Blur – “Song 2”
· Bob Dylan – “All Along the Watchtower”
· Bon Jovi – “You Give Love a Bad Name”
· Brand New – “Sowing Season (Yeah)”
· The Bronx – “Six Days a Week”
· Bush – “Comedown”
· Children of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die for Nothing”
· Coldplay – “In My Place”
· Darker My Love – “Blue Day”
· Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
· David Bowie – “Fame”
· Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (’99 Remix)”
· The Derek Trucks Band – “Younk Funk”
· The Duke Spirit – “Send a Little Love Token”
· Duran Duran – “Hungry Like the Wolf”
· Eagles of Death Metal – “Wannabe in L.A.”
· Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
· Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting)”
· Face to Face – “Disconnected”
· Garbage – “Only Happy When It Rains”
· Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
· Gov’t Mule – “Streamline Woman”
· Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re an American Band”
· Iggy Pop – “Lust for Life (Live)”
· Iron Maiden – “2 Minutes to Midnight”
· Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
· John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
· Kaiser Chiefs – “Never Miss a Beat”
· King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man”
· Kings of Leon – “Sex on Fire”
· Kiss – “Shout It Out Loud”
· Love and Rockets – “Mirror People”
· My Morning Jacket – “One Big Holiday”
· Nirvana – “Lithium (Live)”
· No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”
· Peter Frampton – “Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)”
· The Police – “So Lonely”
· Public Enemy featuring Zakk Wylde – “Bring the Noise 20XX”
· Queens of the Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
· Rammstein – “Du Hast”
· The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil”
· Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
· Rush – “The Spirit of Radio (Live)”
· Santana – “No One to Depend On (Live)”
· Scars on Broadway – “They Say”
· Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You”
· Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
· Sonic Youth – “Incinerate”
· Spacehog – “In the Meantime”
· Sublime – “What I Got”
· Sunny Day Real Estate – “Seven”
· T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
· The Sword – “Maiden, Mother & Crone”
· Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak”
· Thrice – “Deadbolt”
· Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
· Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
· Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
· Weezer – “Why Bother?”
· The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
· Wild Cherry – “Play That Funky Music”
· Wolfmother – “Back Round”

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