» Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:52 am
The oldies music is a part of the old feel of Fallout. The pre-war times, the old times, and what it left behind - old music! Sure, it's a bit weird that no new music was produced between the 1950's and 2077, which is why I want Bethesda to hire unknown musicians to create original songs in the 50-60's feel to add to the next game. To kind of fill the 100+ year gap, so to speak. I doubt rap and hard rock ever got invented in the Fallout timeline, as the 50's mindset remained until the Great War happened. There were no need for that music to be invented, and therefore the stuff you hear on the radio today is out of... the game's world.
I'd also like for these unknown (but of course talented) musicians that Beth hires to create songs that would be something that surfaced post-war. That is, true wasteland music! Music that was composed by wastelanders, and maybe you can hear that stuff be played live in bars in towns, or even folk songs about Deathclaws or the Enclave boogey-men that people sing around campfires or to their children. And in the next Fallout game, there could be a radio station with live performances in the studio of these wasteland bands. Or live studio recordings which they play several times, because radio in Fallout is on repeat and it would be weird hearing the same live performance all the time. Then there could be a quest, similar to that quest you did for The Tops, involving finding wasteland musicians, hearing them out and handing out contracts. Of course, you'd get to decide as to what performers you want to play on the radio, you could give contracts to talentless pricks and drive the radio station into bankruptcy. It wouldn't be like in FNV where you need to find four acts, and you can only find the same four acts in the wasteland everytime. There would be bad talents, good talents, mediocre talents and awesome talents. The bad ones being plentiful, the awesome one being hardest to find and get to sign the contract.
Also, I wouldn't mind early rock music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5oMDlWwQ. And I could totally see raiders listening to this. I imagine that scene from Reservoir Dogs where he tortures the captured policeman to that joyful music.