I want to listen to "Who's Sorry Now" while mowing down raiders

Ring of Fire -- Johnny Cash

https://youtu.be/8fn4tnYonpw?t=162

Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -- Ennio Morricone

I can imagine it playing during a 3 way showdown with gunslinging raiders, I'd be tempted to call my character Tuco!

Chuck Berry - Promised Land

Buddy Holly - Everyday

Bo Diddley - Pills

Nina Simone - Sinner Man

Bob Dylan - "The times they are a-changin'" would be great when first getting out of cyro stasis.

Also they should through in a beat radio station that plays jazz and has poetry readings like Allen Ginsburg reading Howl.

Al Jolson - toot toot tootsie goodbye

Billie Holiday - god bless the child

Glenn Miller - moonlight serenade

All three of these would be great to have. That Billie Holiday one is absolutely perfect.

Jimmie Roddgers - Bimbombey

That would be cool, would make the world seem less stagnant.

I think I've posited these in another thread but:

Tom Leher: All Go Together When We Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI

Skeeter Davis: The End of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcy-V6YIuI

To go along with Skeeter Davis: The End of the World

Eve of Destruction -- Barry McGuire

Would be interesting. But they'd have flesh out pre-war counter-culture or else I think hippie protest sounds would sound out of place. Which I wish they kinda would do. Lonesome Road hinted at it: http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Sunflower_Summers Hidden Valley graffiti too.

Would make the pre-war world a little more complex.

I'm Surprised they have never used Pennies from Heaven (not particular about artist version).

And Really am I going to have to be the one to suggest The Kingston Trio and "MTA"? Its in Boston for Blanks sake!

Edit: and if we are doing hippy songs, you have to get "One Tin Soldier" by Covenant.

Oh boy, this thread looks like a gold mine of older music . I've been listening to Atom Bomb Baby non stop since yesterday. Even bought it on itunes this morning .

Apeman -- The Kinks "I don't want to die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and act like an apeman.".

atomic by blondie would be perfect.

https://youtu.be/g50RXOYW_Co

Nat King Cole - Pretend

Picked some cool ones out of a few of my playlists (Some of these are from the 60's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4kPGcmyPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_YSZ9GorUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuAaH446wes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4oFrXx8ogI

It'll be interesting to see what general "themes" show up in the music selection.

FO3's songs had general themes of longing for lost homes/the past, goofy happy stuff for the contrast with the nuked world, and stuff that mentioned fire/nukes/anarchy/etc.

(with some overlaps.... Civilization fits 2 & 3, for instance....)

NV had a combination of cowboy songs and Vegas lounge stuff.

I have one for you E3 Fallout vets,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSScW4WeSss

I can't believe it didn't make it into the final game, Fallout 3.

I found a fascinating site including a compilation album (no longer available on Amazon aside of scalper rates):

• Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security (http://www.atomicplatters.com/)

Some tracks have already played in the Fallout universe.

Here are some of the tracks from that listing and shared on youtube - see those pages for copyright).

A serious piece of work by those who researched these tracks.

They are cold war tracks that don't all fit the Fallout universe as several focus on the Russians (not fitting the FO world's Chinese antagonists.)

The remainder range from mockery to rock tunes to country, gospel and religious pleas for survival.

Some of the civil defence spots are fascinating.

1. CONELRAD Radio Alert 'Real Thing' (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGLhpVrxECg
2. Bob Hope: Civil Defense Spot: Pattern of Survival (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOJPTy0YGa0
3. Groucho Marx: Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTlCWa7hMCE
4. Civil Defense Spot: How Much Time Do We Have (Keep Working) (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3_8veVMPw
5. Art Linkletter: Civil Defense Spot: Don't Use the Phone! (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUKk8NvyFu0
6. CONELRAD: Civil Defense TV Spot (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ddfKzUrVI
7. Tony Bennett: Civil Defense Spot: Nuclear Attack (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_uqziHRME
8. Civil Defense Spot: Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ZnNsVyWMA
9. Civil Defense Spot: Family Fallout Shelters (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gfV6Q86KE
10. Civil Defense Spot: Guarding North America (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_pkWFOhq8
11. Pat Boone: Civil Defense: Warning Signals (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QG6vrEWU8U
12. Mitzi Gaynor: Civil Defense Spot: 640-1240 (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomKDPExf4k
13. Civil Defense Spot: Psychiatrist (Shelter Signs) (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIl7M0k1zq4
14. Howard Duff: Civil Defense Spot: Remember, 640-1240 (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmrf_uhKBsM

15. Connie Francis: Civil Defense Spot: Be Prepared Today, for Survival Tomorrow (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dadmm4Zp0k

16. Joni James: Civil Defense Spot: Every Living Thing (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7aWKKXaW1A

17. Johnny Cash: Civil Defense Spot: Help Ourselves (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJEglPDrZPs

And the songs:

1. Slim Gaillard Quartette: Atomic Cocktail (1945) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXqRqW5xyoU
2. Fay Simmons: You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-oHgck3UY
3. The Kavaliers: Get That Communist, Joe (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKW-oz1Lbw
4. The Buchanan Brothers: Atomic Power (1946) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGy6WET0cAg
5. Amos Milburn: Atomic Baby (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZt2PMQieQ
6. Doris Day: Tic, Tic, Tic (1949) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caBRGOoJrWM
7. The Five Stars: Atom Bomb Baby (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSUEU7ISfQ
8. Carson Robison: I'm No Communist (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMskjKZ4r4E
9. The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda: Atomic Nightmare (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7-a39L0jU
10. Skip Stanley: Satellite Baby (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lMjwirgxGc
11. Wanda Jackson: Fujiyama Mama (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMSfTyytQE
12. Bill Haley and His Comets: Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town) (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSGEEswmqQ
13. Hank Williams: No, No Joe (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDpqUeth14
14. Hawkshaw Hawkins: When They Found The Atomic Power (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3INw0E2ig
15. Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb4UQDzJTPU
16. Josephine Premice: Leave De Atom Alone (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAsi0kaoVM
17. Billy Chambers: Fallout Shelter (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkiadQeX80
18. Sheldon Allman: Radioactive Mama (1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91zqE8YxxY
19. Teresa Brewer: Satellite (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxV_gt-R7Ns
20. Walker Edmiston as Barky: I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (In A Pink Cadillac) (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNiD_19HY-k
21. Al Rex: Hydrogen Bomb (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck0NmJvivP8
22. Jackie Doll and his Pickled Peppers: When They Drop The Atomic Bomb (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7V4tOdboWA
23. Sir Lancelot: Atomic Energy (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eY1W7Ezw4
24. Homer Harris (with Muddy Waters): Atomic Bomb Blues (1946) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeHTeMfCYWw
25. Eddie Hill: I Changed My Mind (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56OfKVgqtg
26. Lowell Blanchard and the Valley Trio: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_SXbJE69Y
27. Floyd Tillman: This Cold War With You (1949) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbT8BOOfRc
28. dike 'Two Ton' Baker: Bert The Turtle (The Duck And Cover Song) (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inh6h3r_Eik
29. Sheldon Allman: Crawl Out Through The Fallout (1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPzICHxXoQ
30. Karl & Harty: When The Atom Bomb Fell (1946) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdV5DT25pgE
31. Jim Eanes: They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ljAbcg7YGw
32. Sammy Salvo: A Mushroom Cloud (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTstk36-3Ak
33. H-Bomb Ferguson: Rock H-Bomb Rock (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Z5w8QiaLQ
34. Roosevelt Sykes: Sputnik Baby (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOOoIebD0E
35. Sonny Russell: Fifty Megatons (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekbk8Ac4bp8
36. Linda Hayes with the Red Callender sixtette: Atomic Baby (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aJj3bwgdm4
37. Ray Anderson: Stalin Kicked The Bucket (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMEkBH34CE
38. Warren Smith: Uranium Rock (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJA4CMzZsMc
39. The Louvin Brothers: Great Atomic Power (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xB7usNSPo
40. Tom Lehrer: We'll All Go Together When We Go (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
41. The Cuff Links: Guided Missiles (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7q3J8jM1lg
42. Ray Anderson and the Homefolks: Sputniks And Mutniks (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTXu6hkCm0
43. The Commodores: Uranium (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrZuXhV530
44. Jack Holden & Frances Kay: The Fiery Bear (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZP7Vk6-ojo
45. The Crown City Four: Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) (1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0OVHcIMh0
46. Al Rogers and his Rocky Mountain Boys: The Hydrogen Bomb (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYohiKctW0
47. Elton Britt: The Red We Want Is The Red We Got (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWmzNA2iiLU
48. Mike Fern, Mike (aka Mike Fernandez): A Bomb Bop (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBZaJKRe_0
49. Carl Mann: Satellite No. 2 (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB9Vgbhu7Dw
50. Mike & Bernie Winters: Fallout Shelter (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJFtTh0wvOY
51. Hank King with Bud Williams and his Smiling Buddies: Your Atom Bomb Heart (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt48m8n4Tq8
52. Glenn Barber: Atom Bomb (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9IFs5ROcBc
53. Elton Britt: Uranium Fever (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acMqxcdxE0E
54. Spencer and Spencer: Russian Bandstand (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1oPbvL8f40
55. Boris Karloff: Civil Defense Spot: Protect Your Home (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ySXX4Bw30
56. Swan's Silvertone Singers: Jesus Is God's Atomic Bomb (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z73S_JscM1M
57. The Pilgrim Travelers: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13-exDYdf3I
58. Sam Hinton: Old Man Atom (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU3Njv640Nw
59. The Sons Of The Pioneers: Old Man Atom (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-oJLq5rWo
60. Roy Acuff: Advice To Joe (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFU6fyTx3eQ
61. Dore Alpert: Fallout Shelter (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7N9JeH3SzE
62. Fred Kirby: When That Hell Bomb Falls (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-sDnmF_3zE
63. Ann-Margret: Thirteen Men (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvL_GiQJ5wY
64. The Buchanan Brothers: There's A Power Greater Than Atomic (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Sss8Y_Ge0
65. Louisiana Red: Red's Dream (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KgxZbOMUOg
66. Little Caesar and the Red Callender sixtette: Atomic Love (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYIgzfNrvIc
67. Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks: Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High On The Hog (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trumcn-BWpc
68. The Spirit of Memphis Quartet: Atomic Telephone (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0WtbNYaed0
69. The Goons (Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan): A Russian Love Song (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_A96PETNHw
70. Red McCoy with the Sons of the Soil: Rock And Roll Atom (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8oy6-knnJ4
71. Mike Russo: Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3q9ExRobeQ
72. Bo Diddley: Mr. Khruschev (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GQdlkaikxU
73. Toni Fisher, and the Wayne Shanklin Orchestra: West Of The Wall (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAXjq-FK9s
74. Chris Cerf: (My) Fallout Filly (With The Atomic Kiss) (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqULdK4pbNk
75. Jay Chevalier: Khrushchev And The Devil (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIvpNbaeqo
76. Sammy Cahn & Paul Weston: Civil Defense March (Heads Up America) (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWTj1Ge4BI
77. Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos: Atomic Sermon (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb63FWL6R3k
78. Golden Gate Quartet: Atom and Evil (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siH6BNYy-e8
79. Tommy Duncan: Relax And Take It Easy (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oyjY9dsJQ
80. Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhL5R3hE5uc
81. Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang: Atom Bomb Baby (1948) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlhLl4ATC8
82. Jimmie Driftwood: The Bear Flew Over The Ocean (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGyrRAqB5PM
83. Dexter Gordon: Bikini (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kegz_pHIE
84. Red River Dave (Dave McEnery): Trial Of Francis Powers (1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GgS-SwKPxU
85. Don Meehan: An Open Letter To Khrushchev (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7TE3si1jyA
86. The Jewels: B. Bomb Baby (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lc4zNYdzNo
87. Bradley Kincaid: Brush The Dust From That Old Bible (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LII4ZOW9rOo
88. Al Barkle with the Tri-Tones: Sputnik II (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcu-5GPPOXI
89. The Buchanan Brothers: When You See Those Flying Saucers (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrIcZjIvQM0
90. Loy Clingman: Uranium Blues (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOvLKalrLcc
91. The Louvin Brothers: Weapon Of Prayer (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mXvPhjfME
92. George McKelvey: My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJUYlzgQwU
93. Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos: Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip4Ge-xwxvE
94. Bobby Marchan and the Clowns: Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36U_bXnaCA
95. Prescott Reed: Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHh_Z7RgCEk
96. Carl Perkins: Tennessee (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtasZJJFf1o
97. Don Windle: The Iron Curtain Has Parted (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93fYmHQJA2Q

Dang that's a goldmine, good find

Entering Diamond City, a cutscene begins in slow motion, moving through the city showing NPCs going about their day, set to Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears.

This got me thinking of movie scene music but yeah that tune, The Ecstacy of Gold, would be much cooler.

The Ecstacy of Gold is an awesome song from the movie as well. Thanks for reminding me of it Vault0!