we NEED a better sountrack than fallout 3 Obsidian made NV so we can't really compare FO4 to NV or future fallouts cause it isn't beth's game fo3 soundtrack svcked so i thought about it and here are some ideas i'll post links and titles

Jailhouse rock (Elvis Presley) actually supprised me they didn't put this in NV but they did put in refrence weird...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI

hound dog (Elvis Presley) not saying i'm nerd boning over Elvis but when i did this before people said that modern music from the 60s+ was bad for the theme (even CLUTCH best band ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsQSb9RFo0&NR=1

sing sing sing (Benny Goodman) well of course we got to include some good ol' swing in it ya dig?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
post your ideas below to and don't be a hater
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Because the license for each song cost loads of money, and Elvis music costs [censored]loads of money.

New Vegas is a Bethesda game, but developed by Obsidian using Bethesdas engine, tools, permission and all.

The theme is that the world before the war had a 1950's kind of culture, so of course modern music like metal or hip hop wouldn't fit in.

I like 50's music.... & i'm young..... does that make me weird?

Yes, I allways wished they would have some Elvis.

Hail to to the true King! Not that one in FNV.

.... Why do you have the love Tes not Love Fallout one?

Elvis? No, we need the King of Cool, aka Dean Martin some more.

But to be honest, I'd LOVE to see the nostalgic soundtrack like Fallout 3 make a comeback. Maybe make two 'rival' stations, one plays the more contemporary pop of the 1940's and early 50's and the other a more big bandesque station. That'd be really amazing to me.

I have an idea for a radio station that plays "modern" music (that is, rock music in the 60's up to 1970 at the latest, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgW0eMKXGJA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHK9vj0VE7w, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDv6cf2PBM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG73Pk1yUj8&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJPYAcPkDcc&feature=related. And of course even Elvis, but licensing famous artists is expensive.) That includes that rock music intro of Fallout Tactics, which I actually thought was fitting for that intro, you can't drive a speeding car with Johnny Guitar on the radio. This idea is a way to explain that "inconsistency" which people bring up, that it doesn't have 50's music in the intro. And what do you do with inconsistencies if not try and explain them so that they make sense in the world they're in? Like what people do with Fallout, say with Eden's and Autumn's relationship.

Ok, so before the war, some youth (bunch o' rebels) started to listen to this kind of music, which was outrageous. The parents didn't like it, thought it was too... extreme. There were alot of debate in the media about this, how bad it was for youth to listen to and alot of people were against this "modern crap". Even many youth was against it. So there was this radio station in the Great Lakes area somewhere, not too far away from Chicago. They played this music, and refused to listen to threat letters and phone calls from angry parents, and media's pleads for them to stop to avoid any violence. They didn't, some guy even said he was gonna blow the building up, and then the Great War happened.

Now, in the 2280's-90's, this station is up and running and playing this music that was found here on the radio. Of course there is another (or a few other) radio station(s) that plays the good old 40's-50's-60's music we have heard alot of already, the good old "standard" music of the wasteland and pre-war America. And they don't like the competition of this particular radio station which more and more people listen to. To throw in a little reference to us, they say "it doesn't fit the wasteland atmosphere". So, there is a quest in which they hire you... to blow this station up!

If it were up to me, and money was not an issue there would be three music stations. One Country, one classic and one pop.

The country station would be the Nashville style that was popular back then. Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jim Reeves... etc.

The classic station would feature larger groups, like Artie Shaw and his band, The Ink Spots, Bobby Darin... ect.

Lastly the pop station would basically be a fleshed out version of FO3's GNR, maybe with some artists like Patti Page and Henry Hall

But that's just me.

Honestly, it's better to just accept the truth that Microforte just went full out 'rule of cool' and just goof'd up some stuff. IMO, it's better to just say Tactics made a bit of a boo boo instead of rewriting something as delicate as the 1950's Atomic Age optimism and culture. I'd say 1960's is as far as the game should go in terms of sound and even then only keeping to that Vegas'y sound which was the sort 'retirement years' of the 40's and 50's big band sound that was slowly fading away as rock n roll was becoming more prevelent.

Except I don't think that song was a goof. And note that all the examples of music are from the 60's, there is one from 1970 which is from the Kelly's Heroes film and I just included it because I like it and would like to kill raiders to it.

And I didn't really made that idea to try and cover any inconsistencies, I just made up an idea and then thought it could be used to cover up that one inconsistency of a "too modern" song in the intro. I would have liked the idea either way, that there are several radio stations and one is playing something different that the other stations don't like so therefore you can do the quest to sabotage them.

I mean, it's not a thing that has to be retconned if there'd be a game in the nearby area, it's just some guitar solo that sound like it could be from 70's-late 60's, and I think it's kind of good and fitting for both that scene and the game. There are many things that should be retconned from Tactics though, like all the pre-war stuff that is rather modern (though people saying there's a big lack of 50's in Tactics, well, I see a lot of 50's car wreckages, fridges, signs, stuff like that, but there's loads of modern guns for example. And then there's the hints at gasoline, although the world did run out.)


Oh, and it's not "rewriting something as delicate as the 1950's Atomic Age optimism and culture." There's just one radio station playing music that is a biiit more modern that 40's-50's, and the pre-war people raged against this just because it went against the culture they're currently in. Like I'd expect. Like how parents raged alot against heavy metal music before, because it made teens kill themselves. And if a kid from a prestigious family wanted to be an actor instead of a lawyer, or marrying someone with no good future, that would be outrageous. Well, I guess some are still as backwards and think that is outrageous today...

There was great song in FO3 and FO:NV, i was really disappointed when there was no FO3 songs on FO;NV.....For FO4 there needs to be more new songs but don't forget about the others in 3 and NV

More Songs made just for the game. Just like New Vegas, how J.E Sawyer wrote and preformed the songs of the The Lonesome Drifter.

Have the songs from Fallout and Fallout 2's intro as well.

how bout just some misc. jazz kinda like L.A Noire

Its just shocking that you didn't like Fallout 3's soundtrack. There's no accounting for taste I suppose. I'm just glad I don't have your taste!