Para acalmar os gamers enquanto esperam pelas férias de julho, a RedOctane divulgou 30 canções que estarão em Guitar Hero: Rocks the '80s, que cobrirá as músicas que marcaram esta década.
Algumas dessas canções já haviam sido reveladas anteriormente, como WrathChild da banda de heavy metal Iron Maiden e Holy Diver do DIO.
- Caught in a Mosh (as made famous by Anthrax)
- Balls to the Wall (as made famous by Accept)
- Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
- Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
- Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
- We Got the Beat (as made famous by The Go Go's)
- (I Think I'm) Turning Japanese (as made famous by Vapors)
- Seventeen (as made famous by Winger)
- Because, it's Midnite (by Limozeen)
- Hold On Loosely (as made famous by .38 Special)
- No One Like You (as made famous by Scorpions)
- Only a Lad (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)
- Ballroom Blitz (as made famous by Krokus)
- The Warrior (by Scandal)
- What I Like About You (as made famous by The Romantics)
- WrathChild (as made famous by Iron Maiden)
- I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister)
- I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls)
- Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt)
- Metal Health (as made famous by Quiet Riot)
- Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio)
- Heat Of The Moment (as made famous by Asia)
- Radar Love (as made famous by White Lion)
- 18 and Life (as made famous by Skid Row)
- Bathroom Wall (as made famous by Faster Pussycat)
- Lonely is the Night (as made famous by Billy Squier)
- Nothing But a Good Time (as made famous by Poison)
- Play With Me (as made famous by Extreme)
- Shaken (as made famous by Eddie Money)
- Synchronicity II (as made famous by The Police)