It’s been a while since I last fired up Rock Band, so I checked out the latest new songs via the store previews. A lot of them didn’t really interest me, but in the end I did wind up picking up Kool Thing (Sonic Youth), Zero (Smashing Pumpkins), and Song With A Mission (cover of The Sounds).

Kool Thing seems to be different than I remember from the Guitar Hero version, and a bit harder. There are a lot of spots where it’s really obvious where notes are missing on the lower difficulty charts, making it feel like it doesn’t quite match up, so it’ll probably be better at the higher difficulties. If I ever get there… Song With A Mission is pretty short and easy, but fun. And Zero is also pretty short, but much trickier with rapid shifts all the way across the frets.

There’s already rumours of a Rock Band 2, but if so, they’d better let us use the songs we’ve already downloaded in it. I’m already up to something like 50 or so downloaded songs…