History YMMV / RockBand

** The drums in Rock Band 2 suffer from a general difficult spike in the Impossible tier. The first few songs ("[[Music/{{Motorhead}} Ace of Spades]]", "[[Music/{{Mastodon}} Colony of Birchmen]]", "[[Music/{{Rush}} The Trees]]", etc.) are fairly easy for impossible songs, but then the difficulty shoots up significantly with "[[Music/FooFighters Everlong]]" and "[[Music/{{Megadeth}} Peace Sells]]". ''But'' then it gets '''even worse''', with FIVE songs that all qualify as NintendoHard ([[Music/{{Metallica}} Battery]] (thrash metal), Shoulder to the Plow ([[GenreMashup southern-fried-stoner-pirate-death metal]]), [[Music/JudasPriest Painkiller]] (speed metal), [[Music/DreamTheater Panic Attack]] (progressive metal), and Visions (death metal) (see a pattern?).

* GoddamnedBats: Some songs require you to just hit the same note over and over again. Really. Really. Quickly. There's no real skill involved, just you strumming/flailing on the drums faster than you ever thought possible. (You do need skill to actually keep the rhythm while doing this, but for most people, full-comboing these sections is a write-off anyway). Of note is [[Music/{{Evile}} "Thrasher"]] on bass, "[[Music/{{Slayer}} Black Magic]]" on guitar, the latter part of "[[Music/{{Megadeth}} My Last Words]]", and the outro of "[[Music/{{Rush}} The Camera Eye]]" on drums. This was changed in ''Rock Band 4'', where everything above a certain but rather high speed threshold is automatically converted to a slower speed with fill lanes underneath, even on songs made before fill lanes were a thing.

** Needz moar metal or Music/{{Rush}} or Music/DreamTheater or {{Music/Muse}} (the last three becoming very common on Scorehero given those three's absence in the ''Rock Band 3'' setlist). It doesn't help that people from Harmonix PR itself have pined for more Muse.

** ''Rock Band 4'' gets hit with this compared to its predecessors due its weaker on-disc soundtrack[[note]]Despite some noteworthy additions to the franchise (e.g. Music/TheProtomen, Music/{{U2}}, Music/VanHalen, Music/ElvisPresley), several songs are either by little known [[MusicOfThe2010s 2010s artists]] or {{One Hit Wonder}}s, and songs from the series' returning artists (e.g. Music/AvengedSevenfold, Music/FooFighters, Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, Music/{{Rush}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/TheWho, etc.) are either deep cuts or new material, since most, if not all, of their most well known songs were already released either as on-disc songs in prior games or as DLC[[/note]], shallow character and band customization[[note]]Presently, players can't adjust a character's body shape (e.g. height, weight, muscle tone, etc.); there are a limited number of faces; there is an overall limited selection of clothes; accessories and shoes are not separate items from tops and bottoms respectively; and there are no assets for creating band logos, custom t-shirts, or tattoos[[/note]], the absence of both online play and practice mode at launch[[note]]Practice mode was added in for free in a title update while online play requires the paid ''Rivals'' expansion[[/note]], and the removal of keys and pro guitar. Harmonix stated that several missing features may be added in later updates to the game; however, keys and pro guitar ''won't'' make a return in ''[=RB4=]''.

** This is a constant issue for weekly DLC releases. Fans either liked the variety in genres or they trashed it for not catering to what ''they'' wanted; this is especially prominent during the [=RB4=] era, with the release of many [[MusicOfThe2010s 2010s pop songs]], and lesser-known artists and bands after the buyout of Harmonix by Creator/EpicGames.

** This is a constant issue for weekly DLC releases. Fans either liked the variety in genres or they trashed it for not catering to what ''they'' wanted; this is especially prominent during the [=RB4=] era, with the release of many [[MusicOfThe2010s 2010s pop songs]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** Freezepop's "Brainpower". The original song already sounded borderline psychedelic to begin with, but Freezepop's addition of the guitar for Rock Band's version of "Brainpower" cranked the song's trippiness all the way up to a positively ludicrous level that it had previously lacked, giving it the edge that it needed in order to become [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome epic-sounding and awesome]]. The same song is claimed in-universe to be named as it is because the writer was drunk at the time.
** The dreamscapes on ''The Beatles: Rock Band'' and music videos in ''Rock Band 3'' (particularly the one that plays in Jimi Hendrix songs). Prior main games had their moments as well, such as "If 6 Was 9" from The Music/JimiHendrix Experience. [[RuleOfThree Speaking of The Experience]], the vocals for Third Stone From the Sun are charted.
** In ''Rock Band 3'', during the menus, you get clips of your band hanging out. Sometimes, like on the train tracks, they are clearly tripping out, as evidenced by the sky occasionally changing into all sorts of psychedelic colours.
** In all of the background clips, actually, including the song selection ones (where the landscape outside the vehicles' windows changes from normal to trippy from time to time). Also happens when your band performs in a music video, with different chroma-key backgrounds depending on the song. Come to think of it, there's still cheering at the end. Were they really performing a music video, or were they tripping the hell out on-stage? You decide.