I'm a huge fan of Guitar Hero and I've put a fair amount of time into playing both 1 and now 2. I've been feeling kind of "meh" about the new Guitar Hero, so I thought I'd do a side by side comparison of the two and see what I turned up. Ratings for songs as follows,

"-" I rarely play the song, just not into it, boring, etc.
"+" Good to Great song that I play often.

Guitar Hero
1. Opening Licks
- "I Love Rock & Roll" - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
- "I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
+ "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
- "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
+ "Infected" - Bad Religion

2. Axe-Grinders
+ "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
+ "More Than a Feeling" - Boston
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest
+ "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
- "Sharp Dressed Man" - ZZ Top

3. Thrash And Burn
+ "Killer Queen" - Queen
- "Hey You" - The Exies
+ "Stellar" - Incubus
- "Heart Full of Black" - Burning Brides
- "Symphony of Destruction" - Megadeth

4. Return of the Shred
+ "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
- "Fat Lip" - Sum 41
+ "Cochise" - Audioslave
- "Take It Off" - The Donnas
+ "Unsung" - Helmet

5. Fret-Burners
+ "Spanish Castle Magic" - Jimi Hendrix
- "Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
+ "No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age
- "Ace Of Spades" - Motörhead
+ "Crossroads" - Cream

6. Face-Melters
+ "Godzilla" - Blue Öyster Cult
+ "Texas Flood" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
- "Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group
- "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera
+ "Bark at the Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

Bonus Tracks
+ "Fire It Up" - Black Label Society
+ "Cheat on the Church" - Graveyard BBQ
+ "Caveman Rejoice" - The Bags
- "Eureka, I've Found Love" - The Upper Crust
- "All of This" - Shaimus
- "Behind The Mask" - Anarchy Club
+ "The Breaking Wheel" - Artillery
- "Callout" - The Acro-brats
- "Decontrol" - Drist
+ "Even Rats" - The Slip
- "Farewell Myth" - Made in Mexico
- "Fly on the Wall" - Din
- "Get Ready 2 Rokk" - Freezepop
- "Guitar Hero" - Monkey Steals The Peach
- "Hey" - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
- "Sail Your Ship By" - Count Zero
+ "Story of My Love" - The Model Sons


Guitar Hero II
1. Opening Licks
- "Shout at the Devil" - Mötley Crüe
- "Mother" - Danzig
- "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
- "Woman" - Wolfmother
+ "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" - Spinal Tap

2. Amp-Warmers
- "Strutter" - KISS
- "Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana (note - they overpowered the bass line and made this song suck)
- "Message in a Bottle" - The Police
- "You Really Got Me" - Van Halen
+ "Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas

3. String-Snappers
+ "Monkey Wrench" - Foo Fighters
- "Them Bones" - Alice in Chains (note - they used the new very un-Lane Staley singer, song sucks)
- "Search and Destroy" - Iggy Pop and The Stooges
- "Tattooed Love Boys" - The Pretenders
+ "War Pigs" - Black Sabbath

4. Thrash and Burn
- "Cherry Pie" - Warrant
- "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" - Butthole Surfers
- "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet
- "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" - The Rolling Stones
+ "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses

5. Return of the Shred

- "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine (note - another replacement singer, this one sucks especially bad)
+ "John the Fisherman" - Primus
+ "Freya" - The Sword
- "Bad Reputation" - Thin Lizzy
- "Last Child" - Aerosmith

6. Relentless Riffs
+ "Crazy on You" - Heart
+ "Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart" - Stone Temple Pilots
- "Rock This Town" - Stray Cats
- "Jessica" - The Allman Brothers Band
+ "Stop" - Jane's Addiction

7. Furious Fretwork
- "Madhouse" - Anthrax
- "Carry Me Home" - The Living End
+ "Laid to Rest" - Lamb of God
+ "Psychobilly Freakout" - The Reverend Horton Heat
- "YYZ" - Rush

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

Bonus tracks
- "Arterial Black" - Drist
- "Collide" - Anarchy Club
* "Elephant Bones" - That Handsome Devil
* "Fall of Pangea" - Valient Thorr
* "FTK" - Vagiant
* "Gemini" - Brian Kahanek
* "Jordan" - Buckethead
* "Laughtrack" - The Acro-brats
+ "Less Talk More Rokk" - Freezepop
+ "The Light that Blinds" - Shadows Fall
- "Mr. Fix-it" - The Amazing Royal Crowns
+ "The New Black" - Every Time I Die
- "One for the Road" - Breaking Wheel
* "Parasite" - The Neighborhoods
* "Push Push (Lady Lightning)" - Bang Camaro
* "Radium Eyes" - Count Zero
* "Raw Dog" - The Last Vegas (Winner of the "Be a Guitar Hero" Contest)
* "Red Lottery" - Megasus
+ "Six" - All That Remains
- "Soy Bomb" - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
+ "Thunderhorse" - Dethklok
- "Trogdor" - Strong Bad
- "The X-Stream" - Voivod
- "Yes We Can" - Made in Mexico

So that's . . .

Guitar Hero
25 -
22 +

Guitar Hero II
31 -
22 +
11 Neutral, guess i haven't played them enough

So weirdly enough, I like the exact same number songs from both games. Wierd to me, because I thought Guitar Hero II was severely lacking in good songs. I think part of it might be that a bunch of those songs on the first game I have marked "-" are actually more enjoyable to play than the "-" songs from Guitar Hero II. Most of the opening songs for Guitar Hero II just really suck.

And this new beta of blogspot sucks. Thanks for bolding half my post and the not being able to fix it.