As the Fallout universe is all about being stuck in the 50s era and not moving on like we did when the other decades came, I say in order to keep that feeling which is essential to that universe there should be music from that time. Even if the music happen to come from our world. Anything else won′t bring the correct feeling into the game.

Oh, no. Creativity died only after the 80's.

After watching Mad Max i want a freak playing rock guitar on a giant stereo mounted on a car racing around the desert, lol. Honestly, that would actually be a sweet easter egg and also good combat music. As soon as the guns come, the guitar starts wailing =)

Either the 30's, 40's, 50's music is the only music that survived the great war, or people in the radioactive future are very nostalgic and are dreaming of what once was and therefore only playing these tunes.

I love the music in the Fallout games and want more Billie Holiday, on the other hand I do agree that music would have evolved in the years leading up to the Great War. Plus, it's been 200 years, are there no means of making music in the wasteland?

Sure, people have bigger problems than recording tunes, but music is an important part of life and for people to lose that in the 280 years since the war is rather sad. I mean, we had musicians in New Vegas, and we have radio stations... so, why can't some "new" sound spread or be heard? I have no idea what it would be, but the roots should be in the 40's/50's and just adding sounds of available instruments (guitars, steel drums etc.)

I would not assume that it was actually playing in the game world at the time... But neither would I assume that it had to be, to reflect the culture. In Fallout and Fallout 2, the ambient tracks gave the character and environment of the locations they were played at. They were certainly not part of the sounds in the area; audible to those present there, but it was indicative none then less, and it would be strange to think that the tribal natives in huts would be playing renditions of 'Hot Rod Lincoln', instead of the tribal music that the player hears when exploring the tribal lands. Not all of the Fallout 1 & 2 tracks were literal examples of music from those areas, of course. The Brotherhood Bunker had a technological feel to it, (to go with the technological environment. The Necropolis was a hellish track that instantly evoked the kind of irradiated stressful nature of the place; just as The track played in the West-Tek evoked its own radiated, but sterile and stressless feeling.

We are all talking about that. But do you envision tribals around a campfire singing "Rock Around The Clock"?

People have this odd notion that the Fallout series is stuck in the 1950's (Bethesda's fault IMO). The Fallout world wasn't shown to be obsessed with the 50's, it was shown to have a future that mirrored the expectations of the 1950's. Robots for instance, were described to the artists as like the ones in Forbidden Planet ~not Terminator. Forbidden Planet had the 50's idea of the far future ~it didn't look styled like the 1950s. Bethesda is styling like the 50's ~that is a deliberate mistake I think, for easy consumption by a broad audience. The houses in FO3 looked like houses from the 1950's not the 1950's idea of a house from the future. I'll give you another example... The laser rifle in FO3, looks like it was made from 1950's electrical components. It does not look like a 1950's concept for a future weapon; it looks like a laser rifle built in the 50's.... BIG difference. Everything in Fallout that looked from the 1950's, was pre-war. The village temple was not pre-war, and did not at all look styled after 50's architecture.

This is the Laser Rifle from Fallout: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Laser_rifle_(Fallout)
This is a pulse pistol from Fallout 2: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulse_pistol_(Fallout_2)
This is a genuine 50's prediction of a house from the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCCO3GKqWY

Is it? Does this look like a world stuck in the 1950's? http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/Fallout1amp2NPCs_zpsf1uapi01.png

You said it though (just now) that the music could sound ~like tunes from the 50's... but they wouldn't (and shouldn't) actually and exclusively BE the exact tunes from the 1950's. There would (among other), be new music in the style of the 50's; and it could even exist on an [MP3 equivalent] portable player.

I'd actually like them to produce new music that sounds like its a golden oldie, it doesn't make sense that all music stopped being made after 1960.

True, some 80's classics would sit very well in Fallout 4...

"Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you"

Actually no.

There are a ton of classic standard tunes from the 40's and 50's that would suit Fallout's tone perfectly.

Most of them will be largely unknown to players.

Probably the radio will have some more 50's american music, and i for one don't mind

But the background themes must include https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qt_70iGk4

In fact, why not hire Mark Morgan to do the soundtrack? He did great work for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEynzyZVe5c&list=PL1Uj0cNo6vn3N8cfcsPMXDdTnOqMTf9bi. (Personal Favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1PnQBHYhww&index=12&list=PL1Uj0cNo6vn3N8cfcsPMXDdTnOqMTf9bi.)

Speaking of being stuck in the past, I may have missed something, lore-wise, but how the hell did anyone go back to being tribal after the war? I mean, I'm assuming no one lived like that before the war so someone had to make a real effort to go back to living, looking and talking like that because it sure wasn't around before the war.

After a reset like a nuclear war you'd just default to your lowest level of technology and standard of living, not jump a couple of thousand years back in time and go all tribal on it. What happened?

I'm sorry op, but I'm going to try and politely say ...NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

That is a horrible idea.

Wow, I thought 50's music is modern music. If it happened in my lifetime, I consider it modern.

Perhaps not the best musical fit, yeah.

Although, Fallout has traditionally had a relatively strong footing on the 80's punk aesthetic. But that's off the topic...

Of course not, but I also don't expect tribals to be having functioning radios or holotapes that they listen to.

I'd say if you're basing the looks on the 50s' idea of what the future looks like, you're still stuck in the 50s to a certain extent. Also, those far future elements only really applied to the sic-fi elements. The fashion and whatnot of Pre-War America doesn't look like its far future. I don't remember them dressed like http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/05/Votf.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width/220?cb=20110116001328 in Forbidden Planet.

Not at all. But then again, I was talking about Pre-War culture. Not Post-War. The Great War took 90% of the stranglehold the 50s had on the culture and smashed it to pieces.

they will stay with the 40-50's music and they should as the mentality of the game is set in the 50's

modern music would make me dislike the game and turn off the music

since the started with the ink spots that should show you where its headed

I just want them to allow me to make a custom soundtrack. Maybe a quest line involving making your own radio station?

I'd support that. WL2's soundtrack is a tad weaker that what Mark had going for Fallout, but it's still a thousandfold more atmospheric and fitting for Fallout than what can be heard in the FO4 trailer.

you dont have to worry about music if your on ps4 you can play your own music in game any way just put you music on a usb stick and play what you like

Classic all the way because it adds to the atmosphere. About 90% of all modern music is crap and a Fallout game doesn't deserve that kind of risk. Obviously we all have different tastes when it comes to music, but there is one constant. Most of it comes from old music. Not everyone listens to music from the 40's and 50's, this is why the choice of this kind of music is so perfect. If they were to implement some newer music, I'd like to see instrumental only in form of guitar or saxophone, leaning towards the jazz genre. It would at least not break the feeling of the game. Maybe some jazz on a jukebox in some old diner or something would be ideal.

All I'm certain of, is that IF Bethesda chose to alter the radio music themes from their previous Fallout channels, it will be controversial, no matter what they do... Probably the best way would be to have more channels with new anddifferent music genres on them, and I'm not meaning ones with a solitary violinist, or bongo drum player.

The Beatles are something i see being part of the music in fallout 4, but im not sure if it will, they are the number 1 people to sell more albums then any musician. I think fallout 4 should have some great music, unless you want to listen to the same line over 10 million times, i would not if the music is that great then all i got to do is turn on my pc and play music from my pc, i just want classic and some modern songs, like there are so many modern songs that could fit with fallout 4, plus classic music could fit in as well, even bostons own music would fit, its what they chose.

it better stay with the current trend of 50s and 60s music as that's where there culture and architecture pretty much stayed while there technology of course was what you expected for the time the bombs dropped which was about 2080.

As far as radio stations, how about some classical music?
Boston, even if known for hooligans at the same time, is known for culture.

I would also like some original music. No reason there can't be people making some music, if you've got androids flyin' out of your butt.
I've pitched it to no response so many times, but Mutato Muzika (Mark Mothersbough) would be glorious for this.
Think "the bar scene from Heavy Metal the movie".

Screw Three Dog, bring back Agatha!

Not this time. I liked her quest, but she can have her radio station.

I mean things like Moonlight sonata or Requiem in Dm

They should do like GTA and add a custom radio channel, which plays the musics that you put yourself on a folder.

Whatever abomination that you want to play in the Wasteland, you could do it.