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.

Veteran's Day

Going to work today, which is unusual for anyone who does government work. But so it goes when you are short a man and expected to the do the work of two. I'd complain to my boss, but hell, I'm really enjoying the work. Another rare situation that.

There is a good chance I'll be testing to my next belt level in shaolin next week. Possibly. I probably could have tested months ago, but I'm not the kind of guy that is there just to jump through the ranks and make black as quick as possible. But now the instructor has been hammering on me to test . . . so I guess I'm going to do it. Assuming I pass, that leaves just one more level of brown and then I test to black. Which honestly means that much, except that the real training starts at black. Whatever the case, I've really been enjoying it and man, such a great stress reliever.

Oh yea, as a follow up to that interview that I failed a few months back. Well, I have heard through various third parties that my name is actually a bad word at that company ?!?! How is that even possible, they didn't even hired me, I never filled out an employee application. I swear, that was the weirdest interview I have ever done.

Ann Coulter on the election results

A good read,

Historic victory for Diebold!

The most important quote is comparing the results of this election to previous 6th year election results,

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Unfortunate Results. Possibly.

It could be an unfortunate day for mankind. That is if an America barely under the control of Democrats does end up pulling out of Iraq and backing away from the war on Islamic Terrorism. Hell, we even have a Muslim in congress now with ties to the Nation of Islam and other Islamic groups that support terrorism. Awesome.

But as with all elections, it's a lose - lose situation. Anyone who knows me has heard how I feel about politicians in general. R is just as corrupt as D and vice versa. Power corrupts and all that.

That said, I'm still a bit surprised. Only so much though, I've found that terrorism is not only a complex subject, but also an uncomfortable one for most Americans. I don't think most people understand the value of America's presence in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. So this is what we get.

And let's not forget the MSM influence. Another vastly unfortunate, I'd say even anti-American, mechanism is our country. I watched of a bit of the news as the election results came in and it was like they were throwing a party. My, so non-partisan *sarcasm*.

Ultimately, I am going to hope for the best, as pointless as that may be. I had heard a rumors that some of the Democrats were a bit more conservative and I am going to hope level headed. Time will tell.

In other news I am massively overloaded with work and under a lot of stress. As always, I go from doing practically nothing to do far too much. The nature of the business I suppose? It's starting to get old.

mid-term elections

Ahh, it's people like Mr. Anonymous in my last post who will be out shouting "CHEATERS!!!" once the election results are in. Hell, they are already planning on it. It's funny how the Silent Right ends up sending the lunatics on the left into a foaming frenzy.

http://thenaturaltruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/either-we-win-or-you-cheated.html

Personally, I agree with the common sentiment I am seeing all over the conservative blogosphere, most Americans aren't will to go with the Democrats and initiate a full on retreat from radical islam.

Kerry . . . what an idiot

If you haven't been following the latest news in regards to modern democrat thinking, you need to do some reading. Apparently, only the dumb and poor enlist in the military. Amazing, I never knew, thank you John Kerry for enlightening us. Asshole.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23187&only&rss