What we've seen of Rocksmith, Ubisoft's unfortunately-titled first foray into the admittedly dicey realm of non-dancing music games, has so far been... questionable. The game itself, which retails for $79.99 and includes a specialized quarter-inch-to-USB dongle that allows you to plug any electric guitar into your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or PC, actually sounds like it could be pretty cool. But when your initial marketing video looks like an accidental parody of bad marketing videos, and repeatedly claims to be the first "real guitar game" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you might have a little work to do when it comes to convincing players of your product's credibility.

One good way to go about fixing that problem would be to include a great soundtrack full of both major classic rock artists and burgeoning modern rock acts. After all, one of the best things about the early Guitar Hero games was the mixing of songs you automatically recognize and stuff you discover through the game itself. Hell, it's all Guitar Hero II's fault that I discovered both The Sword and Dethklok.

Today, Ubisoft went a long way toward rekindling that classic feeling by announcing a slew of new tracks set to be featured on Rocksmith's soundtrack. It's actually quite a good list that runs the gamut from old school behemoths like The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, alternative bastions like The Pixies, Radiohead, and Soundgarden, and modern artists like The White Stripes, Spoon, and The Black Keys.

Since there is absolutely nothing worse than a list of songs with no accompanying audio, I went ahead and tossed in some YouTube links to all 23 announced songs in the list below. No need to thank me, this is what I'm paid to do for you people.

• Best Coast – When I’m With You
• Blur – Song 2
• The Black Keys – Next Girl
• The Boxer Rebellion – Step Out Of The Car
• Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
• The Cribs – We Share The Same Skies
• The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
• Jenny O – Well OK Honey
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
• Nirvana – Breed
• Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
• Radiohead – High and Dry
• Red Fang – Number Thirteen
• The Rolling Stones – The Spider and the Fly
• Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
• Soundgarden - Outshined
• Spoon – Me and The Bean
• Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
• Taddy Porter – Mean Bitch
• Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
• White Denim – Burnished
• The White Stripes – Icky Thump
• Yellow Moon Band - Chimney

And, just for funzies, here are the six songs previously announced.

• The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
• The Black Keys – I Got Mine
• David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
• Interpol – Slow Hands
• Nirvana – In Bloom
• The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

What we've seen of Rocksmith, Ubisoft's unfortunately-titled first foray into the admittedly dicey realm of non-dancing music games, has so far been... questionable. The game itself, which retails for $79.99 and includes a specialized quarter-inch-to-USB dongle that allows you to plug any electric guitar into your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or PC, actually sounds like it could be pretty cool. But when your initial marketing video looks like an accidental parody of bad marketing videos, and repeatedly claims to be the first "real guitar game" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you might have a little work to do when it comes to convincing players of your product's credibility.

One good way to go about fixing that problem would be to include a great soundtrack full of both major classic rock artists and burgeoning modern rock acts. After all, one of the best things about the early Guitar Hero games was the mixing of songs you automatically recognize and stuff you discover through the game itself. Hell, it's all Guitar Hero II's fault that I discovered both The Sword and Dethklok.

Today, Ubisoft went a long way toward rekindling that classic feeling by announcing a slew of new tracks set to be featured on Rocksmith's soundtrack. It's actually quite a good list that runs the gamut from old school behemoths like The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, alternative bastions like The Pixies, Radiohead, and Soundgarden, and modern artists like The White Stripes, Spoon, and The Black Keys.

Since there is absolutely nothing worse than a list of songs with no accompanying audio, I went ahead and tossed in some YouTube links to all 23 announced songs in the list below. No need to thank me, this is what I'm paid to do for you people.

• Best Coast – When I’m With You
• Blur – Song 2
• The Black Keys – Next Girl
• The Boxer Rebellion – Step Out Of The Car
• Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
• The Cribs – We Share The Same Skies
• The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
• Jenny O – Well OK Honey
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
• Nirvana – Breed
• Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
• Radiohead – High and Dry
• Red Fang – Number Thirteen
• The Rolling Stones – The Spider and the Fly
• Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
• Soundgarden - Outshined
• Spoon – Me and The Bean
• Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
• Taddy Porter – Mean Bitch
• Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
• White Denim – Burnished
• The White Stripes – Icky Thump
• Yellow Moon Band - Chimney

And, just for funzies, here are the six songs previously announced.

• The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
• The Black Keys – I Got Mine
• David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
• Interpol – Slow Hands
• Nirvana – In Bloom
• The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Interesting. There are quite a few songs on there I like. But I am not going to buy this.

quest? 
 
EDIT: Balls.

I love the rolling stones...

OOO Pixies!

Interpol and Best Coast in a video game, oh my..

Awesome, thanks for the links too Alex

If this is compatible with the Rock Band Pro stuff I'm definitely checking it out.

on my first glance at that picture, it looked like a topless girl, but then I realised... oh, it's chris cornell.

Not the Black Keys songs I would've chosen, but I'm happy just the same.

Panic Switch makes everything better.

I'm cautiously optimistic about this, despite my strong urge to ignore it because I already have Rock Band 3 and a pro guitar.  I also have an electric in my closet, so if the game's any good I might give it a whirl.

The first sentence of this article.... nailed it!

Cheers for all the links!

on my first glance at that picture, it looked like a topless girl, but then I realised... oh, it's chris cornell.

Kind of all over the map.  Just add a Phish song and maybe a Dead tune and I'm sold.

pretty good selection but ... you know ... that really makes no difference at this stage

Good soundtrack I guess, a lot of indie... still don't know about the game though. I'm more of a singer type.

Weird Stones song choice. The Spider and the Fly isn't one of their most popular songs, unlike Satisfaction.

Wow, that's actually a great list.

No one is more authentic than Ubisoft. 
NO ONE!

Man... if it were three years ago I'd be stoked.

Just wondering - who is the band/pair-of-weirdos (weirdo meant in the best possible way) in the thumbnail image for this article?  Can't even use TinEye because I can't grab the image's url from a right click context menu...

Panic Switch makes everything better.

That's a really good set list. I am excited for this game.

holy shit, that's actually one hell of a fucking list....

I love Rock Band 3 but I have to admit that it's a lot easier to just buy this and plug in my current guitar (which I know plays well) instead of looking far and wide and spending hundreds of dollars on a Rock Band Pro Guitar.

I have to admit that is amazing touch adding the links to youtube!!! Hazza Alex

Holy crap.   I may have to buy this just for "A More Perfect Union."

Spoon? This has gotten much more interesting!

I understand why they chose Icky Thump but as a massive White Stripes fan and long time guitarist I wish they had chosen Ball and Biscuit instead. Ah well, thats a great list of songs.

This game isn't going to work. 
 
The USB to guitar jack tech just isn't there. there is no way of them registering more than one single note at a time, so how it would do chords is beyond me. 
This Is know because being a guitarist ive tried every method of Guitar To Midi available....

Not the Black Keys songs I would've chosen, but I'm happy just the same.

That is a pretty nice list. But I don't know if the people they are aiming for here will be into this game.

If that dongle works with Rock Band 3 then SOLD!

First music game since the original rock band where they put bands and songs I actually like on. Pretty interested now. 
 
Also, Cornell looks like he has small breasts there.

I'll pick this up when it hits the bargain bin (an inevitable fate) just to check it out.  If the gimmick of using any electric guitar with the game actually works, then I'll have another game to play with my Squier Rock Band Strat,  Some of those tunes are impressive, but I don't hold much hope for the game itself.  At least it's bound to better than the car wreck that was Power Gig.

Oh God Radiohead and Nirvana, awesome! Still, doubt i'll be buying this, I prefer to just listen to my music.

I already have Rock Band.

Silversun Pickups = sold

Argh, they picked the single worst Radiohead song post Pablo Honey! 
 
What do I care anyway, I'm not buying this game.

Spider and the Fly is an awesome choice. It's tied with Memo From Turner in the top of my list of favorite Stones songs.
 
While it's a great list of tracks, I'd rather have them in RB3 though.

Radiohead has made this a day one buy.

Fucking great track list, but i'm done with music games.

I know you're paid but thank you anyways.

I'm glad you mention guitar hero II, Alex. That stands apart as my favorite music game of all time, still, after playing through a bunch of Rock Band and Guitar hero sequels. Not sure about this one though.

Thanks Alex, useful list :D 
 
I promised myself Rockband 3 was the end. Sorry Rocksmith :)

If this works as well as it's supposed to it'll save me from having to buy the $250 Rockband3 pro guitar.

Wow alex amazing fucking job linking to the youtube pages. I know not to thank you but what other website would take the time to do something so helpful 5 stars to this news post =D