Yeeeahh, shoulda been born in 1950, imagine living through the hippie era, Woodstock, Jimmie Hendrix, all that! Or just born 1970 even so I could have seen Pixies or The Cure live back in the day when they were young...

Even if it fit the game, i would not like the 80's tunes in fallout.
I dislike a whole lotta 80's tunes. Don't get me wrong, i am not sayin the entire decade svcked.. just most of it.

And i know that even if the fallout universe had a retrofuture 50's feel, there would still be undergound stuff that didnt fit that society that could essentially be any style of music that is derived from jazz and early rock. But i like the tunes they have well enough.
On day sthat I dont wantto listen to fallout music, i can play whatever I want from my playlists.
I find that Gen Patton Vs the X-ecutioners goes well with videogames.

The only good thing about being born in the 80s was being old enough to enjoy the early 1990s music

I enjoy that [censored] right now as we speak, and I'm a 90's kid!

I'm very much a 21st century kid, but as it happens, I listen to early 90's stuff far more than anything else.

Ok if fallout is set in a retro futuristic 50's that was never evolved into what it was today that means that the 50's kind of stayed the same all the way until 2077 so it would still have the same type of music. The closes you can get to 80's with out stepping over anything would be 50's rock music.

the only 80's music that i would want to see put in there is some metallica or slayer and thats just not fallout music so imo there should be no 80's music

I can understand the concept of the 50's theme in fallout, with the 50's being the "nuclear propaganda" era it is sort of a clever idea.

But the problem is that they wrote the end of the world in 2077, which is twelve decades in the future, It would make sense for modern music to exist!

And there are weapons that exist in the fallout universe that are modern. So really, why can't there be music that's modern? If they explained it in a way that's simple and understandable as to why modern music hasn't been introduced to the fallout world if modern music is to ever be introduced, I'd absolutely love it!

Regardless of whether or not the possibility of modern music will ever be considered, the music department does need to be improved drastically. Add more and diversify, fallout is a huge world with alot of exploration and there needs to be alot of music to keep it fresh. The music in Fallout 3 and New Vegas got old quickly, long before I even beat my first play through.

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As much as I'd love to be jamming to Whitesnake while carrying a .44 Magnum and exploring the fallout world, it wouldn't make sense for it to just appear randomly without explanation as to why the sudden alteration or modification of musical theme. Explain it, and ease it in. For example: Explain to the player that a musical archive has been discovered, and that they've only got limited access to a portion of the library and are working to uncover and study the progression of music before the war. In that game title introduce music from the 60's and early 70's... In the next title or as DLC delve into the late 70's and early 80's as time progresses in the universe's story line.

I always thought that things changed too despite the 50's mindset, history still evolved. Even with the change, I felt that after the bombs fell it all went chaotic and the 50's mindset was all in the past, and I always had this dystopian future vibe from Fallout like you would see in the 80's movies ala Mad Max(hence the jacket and character and setting similarities), or even Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Running Man, Escape from New York/LA, just as far as the vibe is concerned. To me the whole 50's thing is just an afterthought of how things used to be and used as a contrast to the harsh new reality. It is actually a bit of a turn off for me in the new games, how far they pushed the whole 50's theme.

edit: as far as actual real commercial music is concerned from the 80's, then I'd probably avoid it, I never listened to the radio in the new games anyway, I preferred the ambient (almost 80's) style background music from the previous games.

you just have to blame the CD record!
the old vinyl/stone-cake records have survived the 2-300 years of wasteland wen the CD stopped work within 20 years..... so its simple mathematics what music that survived.

I disagree.


CMON BRING SOME REAL [censored] IN FALLOUT I DONT WANNA BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO ANOTHER STATION FILLED WITH [censored] THAT WAS MADE 400 [censored] YEARS AGO.

No, thanks. I liked the music in Fallout 3, though there needed to be more of it so it wouldn't get repetitive. I'd like to feel the 50's vibe in the next game, not throw it out the window for newer (worse) music. I could definitely see some (British) 80's music work well in a post-apocalyptic setting, but not in Fallout's universe.

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60's music please.

The closest to heavy metal in Fallout would be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3Ei_yoI4c, IMO.

Holy crap that works.


"Yeeeahh, shoulda been born in 1950, imagine living through the hippie era, Woodstock, Jimmie Hendrix, all that! Or just born 1970 even so I could have seen Pixies or The Cure live back in the day when they were young..."

SavageBeatings


January 1991 Concert line up. Pixies, Alice in Chains, Van Halen. That rocked! What a fallout station that would be.

*Giving credit for quote*

DAMN IM JUST GONNA [censored] OFF. SERIOUSLY I CANT WORK WITH THIS [censored].

A Fallout game with 80's music would remind me too much of GTA: Vice City. More Ink Spots and Glenn Miller would be dope...

What CD record...?
CD was invented in our timeline.... but most likely never saw the light of day in the FO timeline...
All media which survived is (as far as the games show) saved on holotape..
Even if you take your argument.... and run with it... it still doesn't make sense. CD's were made available to the public as late as 1982... And did not become the prime audio medium until the mid and late 80's... (and even now LP's are still being produced and actually rising in sales)

On topic: 80's music doesn't fit the setting.. thus No..

Indeed it does. That song is said to be THE song that inspired heavy metal.


Ah, but you see, I am a child of '92, that would have been impossible for me :/ My parents weren't into that music either, so it's nothing I grew up with.

1st: CDs don't exist in the Fallout Universe.

2nd: There is no evidence of vinyl records surviving. Fallout does have Holotaps and super computers/AI like Mr.New Vegas that did survive, the music is most likely coming from them.

Unless I missed a bunch of vinyl records in GNR, there is no proof they survived.

Same here, in fact I like most music from the 1930's through the early 90's, plus a few modern alternative rock singers/bands. Having listened to most of the different genres of music while playing Fallout games, I can definitely say that, for me at least, the 40's-50's era music is really the only genre that fits. There are a few exceptions, one of them being "You Really Got Me," which SavageBeatings posted a link to, and also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w by the Beatles, which I thought could fit for your character towards the beginning of the game, but then it really isn't 80's music either... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM is also a good song that could fit on a Fallout radio station imo; it makes for good exploration music.

A good song is you really got me(posted thrice now)

Another-sympathy for the devil, rolling stones

And third-mr. Brightside, the killers

Weather they work or not is up to you i think they fit the scene

Hell i could think about rap [censored] that would fit New Vegas (kinda make sense the lyrics and might fit the story in multiple ways LOL) Anyways old ass music just gets old... GIVE ME RAP, ROCK OR SOMETHING BADASS.

The closest 80's music I could see fitting I guess would be The Clash.. Although.. They were mid-late 70's and barely mnade it into the 80's before breaking up, so only slightly and only the subject matter of the songs.