My Favorite Song of the Day – MFSD

Okely dokely. Time for a new MFSD. Today, we will honor the Red Hot Chili Peppers with a lesser known jam from Blood Sugar Sex Magik called Mellowship Slinky in B Major. Odd name, yes I know. In fact, I have loved this song for 16 years and never knew the name until today.

As in typical Chili Peppers fashion, it’s a “rap-sings-alot” style, with some awesome rhythm. Bass line is incredible. Fun for the whole band, and a bit challenging too with the stop-start beat.

Check it out on the new Rock Band DLC. You can pick up the entire album for 1600 MS points, or on PSN for $20 or just get this track for 160 MS points or $2 on PSN.

Rock Band DLC: Issues with Red Hot Chili Peppers DLC??

So, you know that Harmonix released the entire Blood Sugar Sex Magik album this morning on Xbox Live Marketplace for Rock Band and Rock Band 2. Did you also know that 24 hours earlier Xbox Live was completely offline for an update? It was down for at least 24 hours. With that said, is anyone having issues downloading the Red Hot Chili Peppers DLC today?

Before heading into work, I headed to the dungeon (aka my basement) and fired up my 360. I logged into Xbox Live no problem (this was at 8:30 am EST). NOTE: I tried doing this at 2:30 AM EST this morning, and Xbox Live was still offline.  That’s how I was able to confirm that it was actually down for at least 24 hours).

After getting into XBL, I fired up Rock Band 2 and went to the Rock Band Store.  Happily, the album art for BSSM was right there and I cliked the buttons to “purchase”.  1600 MS points, BTW.  I won’t share what converts to in lira or dollars.

Also note, the file size is 500MB.  Holy macaroni!!  1/2 a gig!  My 20 gigger drive is gonna be flat on it’s ass in no time.  But I’ll write another post on drive space consumption and next steps later.

The download of BSSM began (remember, that’s what I was trying to do).  It said “download 1% complete”, so I left the dungeon and got ready for work.  After getting ready, I headed back down to shut everything off, and saw the message “download failed”.  Of course I said, “WTF?” and started the download again.  It was at 1% when I left the house, and I’m guessing it will fail again.

Anyone else yet try to get today’s DLC?  Were you successful, or did you have issues?  Let me know, since I want to rock some Chili Peppers tonight.

Six Full Albums Coming to Rock Band

Six, you heard it right, six albums are on their way to take away your MS Points (or cash if you roll the PS3 way).

Officially announced today over at the Rock Band forums, keep an open watch for these tasty morsels.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Foo Fighters – The Colour and The Shape
Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying
Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
No Doubt – special best-of pack

So what do you think? Are they winners, or do they blow goats?

For me, Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a favorite during high school, and an all time favorite.  Sold!  Peace Sells was also big during those days, but I was never huge into Megadeth….but, to be true, I do own the CD used to own the cassette (yes tape), so I’ll likely pick it up.  I will likley pick up them all, but RHCP is the only one that jumps right out at me.