Classic Judas Priest Week

This week we'll play one of the early Judas Priest album ("British Steel", re-released as a live version for its 30th anniversary), plus the 5 regular RBN songs. We'll also improve our worst songs by rank, stars and spread. This will help us move up the "All Songs" Leaderboards. We are 50M points behind 10th place "Ride Sally Ride", plud 9K away from having an average score per song of 1M.

Considering we will see Halford this summer at Heavy MTL 2010, it's nice to see a classic Judas Priest album come out for Rock Band (Rob Halford is Judas Priest's singer).

Here is my top 3 DLC from last week (less detailed this time as I only had time to play them on guitar with the band, plus on solo drums):

3. "Dearest (I'm So Sorry)", by Picture Me Broken: This is a good rockin' hard/soft metal song with lots of variety. The drum chart was quite interesting throughout, including a fun fill at the end. I liked the heavy breakdown, with its melodic keyboard section.

2. "World Go 'Round", by No Doubt: Most of the 9 missing songs from the "Tragic Kingdom" album we got last week were a lot of fun to play, especially the last 5. This particular song had a great reggae feel and had imho the funnest drum chart of the bunch. The band's drummer is really good so that is saying a lot. I liked the variety of drum patterns, for example the alternating number of rolls in one of the main beats, plus the fast left-right-left-right beat about two thirds in the song.

1. "Bodies", by Drowning Pool: This song is fairly simple, but it delivers in spades! It has a nice flow and lots of energy. The drum chart was lots of fun to play. Anyone who's watched ECW before will recognize this song as one of the main themes.

Honorable mention. "Tragic Kingdom", by No Doubt: Although I enjoyed many other No Doubt songs last week (ex: the reggae feel of "Sixteen", the funk of "You Can Do It", the interesting drum patterns of "End It on This"), the last song of the album deserves a special mention due to its uniqueness. The variety of instruments in the background makes the song always interesting. I particularly liked the buildup near the end, with the drum beat accelerating nicely and changing patterns quite often.