Hey, I want to know is they any more music that you would think that would suit New vegas?

Personally I think nearly all popular music of the 30's, 40's and 50's fit in FNV....the game has that retro feel throughout and the music is one of many reasons for that type of atmosphere. There is a ton of well known and obscure music from those decades.

Lady Gaga!

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Dispite WWIII happening.. what, 100 years after the 1950s, they still listen to 50s music? Improbable and implausible. Even in an alternate "permanently 50s era" scenario, music would still evolve, simply because the artists would grow old and die!

Personally I wouldn't mind 60s music making it into the game. At least pre-psychedelic 60s. But I would stretch it to early punk too (lots of "punks" in the games") I would probably draw the line at rave and disco type tunes though - pre WWIII people were a bit too austere to get into that.

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Ontopic: Glenn Miller?

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Lady Gaga is a boy?

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He suddenly just became more attractive to me. :3

Fallout (the original) had zero 50's songs. Fallout 2 had one ~by technicality; "A Kiss To Build A Dream On" was written in 1935. I truly wish that Fallout 3 had had none; just superbly fitting ambient tracks ~as the series always had.

IMO the whole 50's thing is way off base for the series, in the way its been handled recently; and [IMO] misinterpreted.

I agree but its not going to go away. People are going to want the Radio in future games and on that radio would be music from the 1950s down. Anything from after the 1950s would be out of place but technically not against canon. Just because the timeline changed does not mean Johnny Cash never became popular. Music by a popular singer in the 1940s-50s but writen or preformed by them in the 60s outward would not be out of place IMO.

I like how in New Vegas there was original music, but it was not on the radio :sadvaultboy:

I would like to see the 1950s theme return to the past "the before time" and see more people making new cultures like in the Originals. New Vegas did a good job with that.

yeah, some of the country music in New Vegas was modern, not 50s stuff (although you could argue country is country is country, so it doesn't matter)

To answer the original post, there is a mod over on the New Vegas Nexus (or was) that added all the music that inspired the quest titles in the game - Eddy My Love, Abu-Dabu Honeymoon, Back In The Saddle, Come Fly With Me, Volare!, I don't hurt anymore, GI Blues etc. Think it's called The Secret Stash or something. Goes well with Radio New Vegas. (assuming you can use mods)

If they ever made Fallout:Detroit i would assume lots of classic Motown would make the playlist, and why not?

My guess [and it is just a guess], is that Woodstock never happened, and perhaps Motown never emerged.

Most of the music in FO3 is from the thirties and forties, not the fifties - think Cole Porter, and the Ink Spots. And the Ink Spots' 'Maybe' was the title music for the original game - it would've been 'I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire' but for a licensing issue, and iirc in the game there was a character who'd 'sing' that song to himself.

I always assume in the FO universe that the counterculture never happened (and prior to NV I would've said rock 'n' roll too), so anything prior to that's fair game I reckon. So Bing Crosby's fine, but probably not Motown.

ah BUT: there are references to "hippies" in FO3, and ban the bomb signs in NV (and other peace and love graffiti), plus the Khans are more-or-less Hells Angels, plus the "punk" tribals. So some kind of counter-culture(s) happened.

Wondering if the whole 50s thing was engineered by the Vault Designers - get everyone in the vaults, play them 40-50s music, hark back to the "golden age" of sodapop and jukeboxes. After all, any "counter culture" in a vault situation would be a fuse waiting to be lit.

Dunno, we'll see what FO4 and FO5 brings

Didn't the nuclear war take place in 2077? So wouldn't historical events as we know it today exist in the Fallout universe? That would mean that hip hop or death metal could theoretically be available to inhabitants of the game if one could actually find it, whether it be a holodisk or CDs buried in a vault.
Not saying I would want that because I love the 40's/50's retro feel as it is in the current games, but if that type of music isn't what truly fits, what music would really be an alternative? Not counting ambient music!

There was a timeline split after the 1950s. Technology stayed in the past but yet at the sametime it advanced, IE Robots with AI but built using vacuum tubes and so on. The 1950s mindset did not go away. It stayed all the way up till October 23, 2077. Historical events may not have happened, such as the Vietnam war. Notice how there was no Vietnam war memorial in Fallout 3?

Lore says the Soviet Union did not collapse in the Fallout universe.

Fallout is what the people of the 1950s thought the future would look like, then nuked to Hell :fallout:

Found this in the Fallout Bible, a comment from Chris Avellone:


Hey, Rob - the basic theme of the Fallout games is that the world of 2077 had a retro-50s feel when the nukes dropped - sort of a "what people in the 50s imagined the future (and post-holocaust future) would be like." This theme translates into the "look" and the actual physics of the world (Torg-style, if you've ever played Torg) - so anyway, you get giant radioactive monsters, pulp science with lasers, blasters, vacuum tubes, big expensive cars with fins, Art Deco architecture, robots with brains in domes atop their heads, lots of tape reel computer machines, the whole "atomic horror" feel, and it explains the artistic style of the interface.
So there you go.


I think music from the 30's, 40's and especially the 50's would apply. :nod: