Guitar Hero Tunes on iTunes

October 23, 2007 10:45 AM

Prepping for the console launch of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, X360) this Sunday, Activision has made "nearly all" of the Guitar Hero series' tracks available on iTunes. Called Guitar Hero Essentials, the iTunes landing page brings together songs from Harmonix's Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s, as well as Neversoft's Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Guitar Hero Essentials comprises mostly the master track recordings featured in the games, but also includes some Guitar Hero exclusives, like the Sex Pistol's totally anti-corporate re-recording of "Anarchy in the U.K."

The Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock soundtrack CD retails in stores today as well, and includes a code for acquiring three additional in-game tracks. Purchasers of the Guitar Hero III tracks on iTunes will be out of luck, but soundtrack buyers can redeem the pack-in code at Interscope's website and obtain an Xbox Live code for AFI's "Carcinogen Crush," Flyleaf's "Tina," and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner's remix of Marilyn Manson's "Putting Holes in Happiness."

Carlos Bergfeld

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Chris Faylor

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October 23, 2007 10:59 AM

I hope these are the real songs, not just the covers they put in some of the games.
- Chris Faylor
  
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  October 23, 2007 11:01 AM
  
  Just checked, they're all the real tracks ):)
- Masem
  
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  October 23, 2007 3:48 PM
  
  yea, the press release says, whenever they were masters in the game, they're masters on itunes.
  
  Question as I can't check the ITMS right now, but is there (for example) a GHII compilation that has all the songs in GHII (beyond a handful) or is it broken up into a number of sets?