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Remember ''[[Guitar Hero]]''? The hours you spent wailing away on [[Your Little Dismissive Diminutive|your little plastic guitar]], [[Rhythm Game|pretending to be a musician]]? Well ''Rock Band'' takes that feeling and cranks it [[Up to Eleven]] with the introduction of [[Rock Band/Trivia|vocals, drums, keyboards, and pro modes]]. And it allows you to do it with up to 6 of your friends.

** And "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)" by [[The Colbert Report|Stephen and the Colberts]].

** And now two songs by [[The Naked Brothers Band]].

** Counting Lego Rock Band, there are 15 songs from [[This Is Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap.]]

** Also on Rock Band Network? [[Left 4 Dead|The Midnight Riders.]]

** Of course, all songs released prior to Rock Band 3 will not immediately feature keyboard parts, harmonies, or Pro mode support (besides drums) within Rock Band 3, but there has been word HMX is seeking fan input on what past songs should be updated with these features.

* [[One Game for the Price of Two]]: Played straight hardware-wise in that you need to buy instrument controllers to play the game, and there are a lot to buy; drums (optional cymbals), a keyboard, a USB microphone, and two distinct types of guitars. In the case of drums and keyboard, a real instrument can be used but requires the purchase of an adapter. So, unless you can get a good deal on old controllers, it's a costly game to have everything in (though "getting off the ground" simply requires a $20 copy of the game and any USB mic).

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Some songs have '''very''' long big rock endings, to the point where it goes from fun to boring to, "This is going to end, right?" "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB7N7hEMmfI Iron Maiden (Live)]" takes the cake, with a big rock ending that lasts ''a minute and twenty seconds''. That's about a quarter of the song. Nearly every song from the AC/DC live track pack too.

** You want a LONG Big Rock Ending? Try out "Let There Be Rock (Live)" from the AC/DC pack, with a Big Rock Ending lasting '''NEARLY TWO MINUTES''', and is quite possibe to rack up 50K of bonus points on ''one instrument''. Unlike Iron Maiden (Live), the song itself is over 9 minutes long, making it 'somewhat' justified.

** When Harmonix was developing the Rock Band Network, they code-named it "Rock Band: [[Nickelback]]" specifically to divert press attention (both have the same acronym: RBN). [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|It became less funny]] when [http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194216 they actually put Nickelback in the DLC store].

** Not so much a Take That as much as simply a cheeky move, [http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/09/17/psn-exclusive-rock-band-dlc-sale-next-week/ Harmonix announced a 50% off sale for the PS3] (hopefully to counter the arguments for their apparent 360 favoritism). Amusingly these were made-up entirely of albums and packs containing songs that had been announced for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock along with several singles<ref>[[REM]]'s "''Losing My Religion''", [[Flyleaf]]'s "''Again''", [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s "''Bat Country''", [[Anberlin]]'s "''Feel Good Drag''", [[Stone Temple Pilots]]' "''Interstate Love Song''", and a cover of [[The Runaways]]' "''Cherry Bomb''" (the version on WoR is a re-recording) to name only the singles</ref> as though to say "Look at the size of our library". Some of these packs were purely in response to Warriors of Rock's setlist:

They have three [[Megadeth]] songs, well we have ''Rust In Peace'' which contains one of them. <br />

They have "[[Rush|2112]]"? We have ''Moving Pictures''. All of it.<br />

** Their store on the web used to sell quite a lot of things you wouldn't expect to, including figurines of the characters you created, as well as tee-shirts, mousepads and coffeemugs of your bands. With the new site revamp, the ability to take new pictures of your Rock Band 2 band was removed, although existing pictures are still there. No word on a Rock Band 3 equivalent for this, though.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: From ''Rock Band 3'': La Pesadilla Mexican Restaurant.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Most of the outfits are either harmless or mildly sexy or badass looking. A few choices however are straight up BDSM clothing that would not be out of place in something really...well, not for kids.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: The Rock Band Network's song compilation tool is called Magma. [[Word of God]] [http://vimeo.com/7706836 states] (about six minutes into the video) that this is "'cuz it's where rock comes from."

** Some of the clothes and instruments have very punny descriptions. Probably the worst one was the microbone in Rock Band 2. "[[John Lennon|You may say it's a femur, but it's not the only one]]". Yes, you just read the in-game description.

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: During some Big Rock Endings, your guitarist will not only smash his guitar against the stage, but also elbow drop on it (see the studio version of "Let There Be Rock" in ''RB2'' for an example).