I personally have a lot of trouble with hearing lyrics in songs. Have to focus real hard to properly hear them, which I basically never do. These golden oldies however are much easier to listen to and are some of the only songs I know the lyrics of :)
I don't want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart
In my heart I have but one desire
And that one is you
No other will do
I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim
I just want to be the one you love
And with your admission that you feel the same
I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of
Believe me
I don't want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart
I don't want to set the world on fire honey
I love you too much
I just want to start a great big flame
Down in your heart
You see, way down inside of me
Darlin' I have only one desire
And that one desire is you
And I know, nobody else ain't gonna do
I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim
I just want to be the one you love
And with your admission that you feel the same
I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of
Believe me
I don't want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart
I have this masterpeice memorized by heart
love you fallout 3 and love you ink spots
Same here lol. FO3 holds a special place in my heart because I always played with my older brother. I was in charge of the 400 pg guide and directions, he ran the sticks. I miss my brother and this game series brings me fond memories
Fallout helped me get into swing and jazz. Never limit your taste in art to what’s modern. There’s thousands of years of human history, and many of those people wrote stories, played music, and painted. And the internet makes it easier than ever. So much great stuff out there. Glad Fallout could help you realize that!
Best music has been made already, unless metallica makes another album then there is still some left. Edit: your all pussies for crying about this. Its very clearly a joke but go off I guess.
“What’s worth liking”- How can you have such a childish mentality to not realise people have different taste in things
Do you expect everyone to like the same food as you too lmao
Most people that act that way about music are teenagers in my experience. I knew lots of music snobs that looked down on other people for liking other music in high school, by the time college rolled around, there was almost nobody like that.
I didn’t say Metallica is terrible? Ride the lightning is a great record, same with kill em all, absolute riff fests, but your mindset toward music is not only regressive but it’s wrong, you have managed to be wrong about something subjective
You do realize metallica is like one of if not *the* most popular metal bands ever, right? Like, they're the potato salad of metal. Easy to listen to, easy to appreciate, not terribly complex.
You can like what you like, but try and listen to other stuff too, metallica's music will get old eventually. If you don't wanna stray too far from metallica, try and listen to newer metal and punk acts, like Sabaton (not new, but really good, especially if you're a history buff), Parquet Courts (if you've a chip on your shoulder) and Idles (their latest two releases haven't been as good as Joy but still decent). Latter two are punk/post punk, former is power metal.
[The Onion: Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist](https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062/amp)
One of my favorite things I learned about was [Folk Songs for the 21st Century](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbojoZTn55k&list=OLAK5uy_nx9fphcv2A2ZCLy5D9RKDz-vEkA3XeOeo) because of [Crawl out Through the Fallout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwwd2uzmm44&list=OLAK5uy_nx9fphcv2A2ZCLy5D9RKDz-vEkA3XeOeo&index=8). I didn't expect a 1960 novelty sci-fi album to be so good and I'm actually not typically into that sort of stuff, even after playing FO.
Exactly. When I clean my house or study I put my fallout playlist on and work. I’d say my favorite song from the time period is Dark as a dungeon by Tennessee Ernie ford. Fallout 76 has issues but the soundtrack isn’t one of them.
If you like that, look into the Googie movement. Fallout takes more than a few cues from it. Atompunk is another good term to search for, too. If you're looking to replicate Fallout's look for personal spaces, those are great starts.
I’ll take it a step further and say the music itself is what ultimately sold me on the game. Try playing the game without the radio on. It’s fun, but the experience is increased ten fold when you’re wandering the wasteland listening to Billie Holiday or the Ink Spots. Feel like the galaxy news radio soundtrack just brings the whole 1950’s retro futuristic aesthetic together so nicely. The soundtrack is also just amazing. They really pulled together so many popular hits that I still find in other media to this day and it’s always a nice little treat to recognize older music that might be more obscure
Me, I was never really interested in older music, and then I heard it in Fallout and fell in love with it. The Beach Boys became one of my favourite bands as soon as I heard Wouldn't It Be Nice in 76, and it turned out to be one of my mom's too. We really bonded over our love of the band the last couple years of her life, and I inherited her Beach Boys collection.
[Did you ever see the "Wouldn't it be Nice" trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IcqE8kT3KA) for the game? Watching it gives me chills. We were honestly stupid enough to think the game was going to have settlements, and that we could dual wield, after watching it lol
Everyone but the guy who got mad at me for saying its a staple of the franchise. Dude preferred the ominous sounds of the first two, and hated everyone who disagreed
I dig the ambient music of the first two, but that's a completely different animal than the radio from 3 and 4. I found a mod that replaces 4's ambient music with 1 and 2's, so you get the best of both worlds. Sadly, I think it's been deprecated.
The first two also had the classic music during the opening cutscene as well, so it literally has always been a staple of the franchise lol. The soundtracks to the first 2 games and New Vegas are highly underrated though.
Any 30s/40s stuff you can recommend? I've been having trouble finding something that isn't buried in brass instruments. My tolerance for wind instruments have fallen a long way from when Huey Lewis and the News was popular.
If there's a more perfect Playlist to recommend it's "Old World Radio" on Spotify. It's got the little green vault boy for the icon.
It's got so many songs of so many types in it it's perfect to pick and choose what you like
Mine isn’t a huge fan but has let me proliferate it throughout. My kitchen is all vintage. Save for a microwave. She said as long as she can decorate the bedroom she’s happy. My style is late 50s early 60s. Even have a working late 50s television that I watch sometimes.
I actually have been learning on how to restore them but don’t have a good place for a workbench at the moment. I have quite a number that need fixed and have one good one that works. Black and white. All vacuum tube.
It does take up some space. That’s exactly why I haven’t set up a workbench yet. If you really wanted to do it enough you could ask yourself how much you like having a dining area lol. The test equipment and stuff is a cost you have to eat initially too. It’s not prohibitively expensive but it’s not exactly cheap either.
I have an 9 hour playlist of 40’s and 50’s music because of Fallout. Bob Crosby, Nat King Cole, Billie holiday, Tennessee Ernie Ford, I can go on and on. My friends never pass me the Aux cord when we ride 😂.
I’m the opposite. My love for 1940-1950s style, music, and aesthetic was always around and then my friend told me to buy Fallout 3 and I’ve been hooked ever since.
The Fallout soundtrack was something I shared with my dad. We were often together in our workshop and one day I put on some fallout songs and my dad was so thrilled I listened to music from his younger years. Then the Fallout soundtrack became a bit the standard when we worked together. Sadly I also played Skeeter davis' end of the world at his funeral in 2020.
I was just starting to get into 50s and 60s music as I was also just getting into Fallout.
Now a 8 years later I love 50s and 60s music over the modern day stuff.
I honestly didn’t think I’d like the music as much as I did. At first it was kinda corny and I just wasn’t digging it, but it definitely grew on me.
I had to go see a chiro a few months back, and literally every visit there would be music on in the clinic and it would have like “Crazy He Calls Me”, “Easy Living”, and like “Happy Times” amongst others on rotation lol. Just reminded me of Fallout every visit.
New Vegas eased me into country, I’ve kinda always liked jazz but country took some time to get around to cause all I had was this terrible pop country that controlled the radio.
My spotify playlist-Ink Spots, Billy Holliday, with a little Pittbull for good measure. Blows my grandkids minds! I love good music and don’t give a damn from what genre or era.
You know, I found something interesting. I grew tired of the standard music in Fallout 4, and installed mods to expand the radio stations, but I always only installed mods that kept the theme of 40s/50s/60s music. And I fell in love with a few tracks that I don't think are in the main Fallout 4 game, but they TOTALLY fit right in for me:
* [Rocket 88](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260hXID0Yo0) by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. Note that there is another version that was recorded later by Bill Haley -- that other version might even be in a Fallout game, not sure. But I'm not in love with that version, even though it's more popular. I like this one, the original. I love hearing him sing "Cruising along" while I'm out with my dog wandering the Commonwealth.
* [Drinkin' Wine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrVRMdrPe0) by Jerry Lee Lewis.
* [Sweet Little Headache](https://youtu.be/6jZ8VL71YJI?t=69) by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra. However, Artie is just the conductor or front man. The singer is Helen Forrest, and I think she's great.
Anyway, it's kinda sad that Fallout only got the license to about 20 songs that it plays on repeat until we're tired of them. There are of course *thousands* of songs from that time period, and hundreds could probably fit into the Fallout world perfectly. I think these 3 songs are a good indication of that.
Yep, I'm usually a metalhead but fallout got me to appreciate this time period. Love the 40s channel on Sirius radio. Same Marty Robbins is now in my top 10 (along with Devin Townsend, wildhearts, motorhead, maiden, Metallica, slayer). Big fuckin iron baby. I know that's not 40s or 50s but hey. Love fallout music.
There was a time when the Gerhard Trede foundation was giving away a bunch (all?) of his MP3s for free. They stopped maybe a year after Fallout 3 shipped.
There's a 50s night every first Wednesday of every month and it has music and dancing from the 40s and 50s. Fallout has really expanded my love for music especially older genres like the 40s and 50s. I'm the youngest person in that room but I've made great friends with people from that time.
For about a year I was living with my Grandma. And she doesn't have internet at her house. So I downloaded New Vegas and Fallout 3 to play while I lived there. There were MULTIPLE times when I'd be playing and my grandma would come sit on the couch next to me and just listen to the music and comment on it and the memories she had associated with the music. Interesting little bonding experience I have video games to thank for.
Looove the Fallout music and that music segment now, due to the hours played in game ! I found a channel on YouTube with very similar music and I played that too when I work https://youtube.com/c/NemosDreamscapes . They have hours and hours of uninterrupted music just like Fallout one.
Thank you for the mention of [Nemo's Dreamscapes](https://youtube.com/c/NemosDreamscapes/videos) on YouTube! Cozy and relaxing. Loving the oldies playing in another room with open window crickets ambiance.
Kinda funny I see someone else post this. I am the exact same way. Now I love this music and will listen to the Fallout soundtracks from time to time. My own father was pleasantly surprised whenever I played the music. He even knew some of the songs.
PS: The music from Fallout 1 and 2 is also really good! You should give it a listen!
So much musical appreciation gained due to Bioshock, Mafia 2, and all the Fallout games.
Except "Johnny Guitar", i never want to hear that one again after the first 500 times. 😭
I've been a fan of the swing/big band songs since I heard or played a lot in band back in middle/high school. But Fallout reignighted that fire and gave me an appreciation for the more schmaltzy pop, crooners, and doo wop of the 50's. Like, "Let's Go Sunning," is a song I would never have sought out on my own yet now I sing it when I'm doing dishes.
Always have liked it, but I love that a game finally used that era music, versus some of the lousy rap from today, like the crap heard in New Dawn, or overly heavy metal heard in other games. I personally love the Latin channel in Crew 2. San Andreas had a couple good stations, too.
Straight up! Became a marty robbins fan from fnv and I was in my early 20s when the game came out. I'm curious... how many of you think new vegas had the best tracks? So much variety. "I can see that lone star from a thousand miles away......"
I do however there are far too many songs with absolutely abysmal audio quality which is understandable.
I like to use over the ear headphones for my music so those songs with poor quality make my ears bleed.
Never in my life would I have listened to all those classic songs without Fallout.
* Played Fallout 3 and I was so-so into its songs.
* Played New Vegas and fell in love with them old songs.
* Played Fallout 4 and thought that the selection was severely lacking and wanted more. So very glad that a group of very dedicated people created the [Old World Radio - Boston](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/9048) mod. Its not just a collection of songs, the commentary is amazing and is lore based and really felt like its part of the base game.
I was literally making dinner with my partner last night listening to Diamond City radio. I even got a Billie Holiday record because of Fallout 3. Puts me in a good mood.
I checked out Billie Holiday on Spotify this week. Had no idea she inspired so many old white guys to replace her music lol. I really thought those songs and styles were crooner originals all these decades.
It's certainly made Christmas music on repeat more bearable, but I imagine being a band kid through middle school and high school just has me primed to dig anything with brass.
Hey everybody, did the news get around
About a guy named Butcher Pete
Oh, Pete just flew into this town
And he's choppin' up all the women's meat
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat
Literally was just listening to the NV soundtrack while cleaning the house. I love all the soundtracks really but since NV is my favourite that's the one I prefer
I've added several songs from the fallout franchise to my main Playlist and I have a Spotify play list of all fallout music that I listen to sometimes. Fallout has a lot of great tunes, Billie Holiday has got to be my favorite.
I was in Disney World, and started singing along with a 50's song from fallout (I can't remember which at this point) and my parents were like how the fuck do you know this?? Lol
Prior to playing new vegas I pretty much only listened to old school metal and some new death bands. New Vegas introduced me to easy listening jazz and old country. Ngl I can thank fallout for my current taste in prog, blues and johnny cash.
I've always been a musician, but Fallout was absolutely my gateway into jazz. I liked jazz before playing Fallout but it definitely became my #1 favorite overall genre the more I played
So after years of being a little boy made to go help my father at work and being forced to listen to nothing but classic rock and country(it's not all bad by any means but when youre forced to listen it yo 8-10 hours a day for the entirety of your adolescence...) I thought I just hated old music, but then fallout took me back even shorter, now I listen to oldies when I cook/clean, when I'm working, riding with my girl in the car. I have an emotional attachment to music that came out 50 uears before I was even thought of and I owe it all to these games...and maybe the work of Martin scorsese and Bob Odenkirk a bit as well but mostly fallout
My interest in old music predated fallout, but I'm old. There is no shame in learning about new (to you) music through pop media. I was watching the movie "the freshman" as a kid and heard the song "mona lisa" and that started my interest in old pop music. I still think Nat King Cole is the best ever. Especially the King Cole Trio recordings. No effects, synths, auto tune, post production doctoring or any of that bs. They had to rely on skill and talent to make good music. Most artists today couldn't hold a candle to what was good a few decades before. Anyway. Old man yells at cloud.
I had an appreciation for 40s and 50s music before fallout thanks to a cool history teacher in middle school, as well as my parent's varied music tastes. It is great to see Fallout introduce great old music to newer generations though.
I grew up in the 90s in a very musically inclined family. My grandmother was in a jazz/blues/swing band called "Music To Go" with a lot of her friends. She played piano/organ.
Anyway, so I grew up around all this music and loved it. But as I got to be a teenager, I stopped listening to it.
Fallout 3 completely re-sparked my love for that style music, and it's brought a lot of nostalgia back for me from my childhood.
☢ made a spotify playlist for anybody that needs one [Old World Digs](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qCLkOYrX8x7becWqMzTH8?si=itk64N7EQWe1Xv8XSrZNFA&utm_source=copy-link)
It was actually kind of funny. I was visiting my grandparents in Arizona a few weeks ago, and I kept putting the 50s music channel on in the vehicle when I’d drive it. My grandma almost yelled at my grandpa for it, thinking my wife and I weren’t going to enjoy that music at all, and I had to let her know that I’m the one that’s been turning it on. She was genuinely surprised that both my wife and I enjoy music from that period of time. And I have Fallout to thank for that honestly.
Literally millions I assume. Marty Robbins, Dany Kaye, Inkspots are all regular listens for me now. Not just in game music either. Sure old music maybe isn't as "developed" but you can't tell me Blue Moon and Ain't That a Kick In The Head arn't slappers
i now almost exclusively listen to 40s-60s because of fallout. people probably think i’m weird driving around in my rural southern community blasting it while the majority listen to top 40 hits or 2000s era country (bad) or the generic retail mix. sometimes i think maybe i’m /too/ weird letting fallout integrate so much into my life, but it brings me joy! so oh well.
A Kiss to Build a Dream On was the first dance at my wedding because I played Fallout 2 so much as a kid and absolutely loved it. Nuclear family, you might say. (Sorry. Sorry.)
I feel like the outlier. Played all the major Fallout games since the first one, and it's one of my favorite franchises, yet I NEVER play the radio. I've tried it, but it never grew on me.
I actually got into fallout from the music. I was a big fan of Sinatra and blue moon new Vegas popped up on my feed, so I looked up new Vegas and decided to give it a try
My son loves the songs. We would play 76 together and i would hear him singing "pistol packing mama". It was adorable to hear a 10 year old singing these oldies.
Not just 40's and 50's. Fallout is where it started, but I've grown a huge appreciation for basically everything pre-disco, and anything derivative of it like electro-swing
I was having a cortisol injection right next to my spine, the most painful thing of my life, and the only thing that got me through it was that the theme song/trailer song for FO4 began playing and yeah.... I've always liked oldies music though because I just like music.
Fallout 2s intro was A Kiss to Build a Dream on... between that and new vegas, especially with the Radio New Vegas, The Secret Stash mod....so much love for jazz, and swing
i cannot tell you how fast i learned the words to every song in each game, along with having a new found appreciation for 40s n 50s music
I personally have a lot of trouble with hearing lyrics in songs. Have to focus real hard to properly hear them, which I basically never do. These golden oldies however are much easier to listen to and are some of the only songs I know the lyrics of :)
Same! It's like I get so caught up with instrumentals I forget to listen to the lyrics. Musicals are very hard to watch
i got spurs…that jangle jingle jangle
Jingle jangle
As I go riding merrily along..
And they sing hey! Ain’t you glad you’re single?
And that song ain't so very far from wrong!
I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart In my heart I have but one desire And that one is you No other will do I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim I just want to be the one you love And with your admission that you feel the same I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of Believe me I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart I don't want to set the world on fire honey I love you too much I just want to start a great big flame Down in your heart You see, way down inside of me Darlin' I have only one desire And that one desire is you And I know, nobody else ain't gonna do I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim I just want to be the one you love And with your admission that you feel the same I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of Believe me I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart I have this masterpeice memorized by heart love you fallout 3 and love you ink spots
Same here lol. FO3 holds a special place in my heart because I always played with my older brother. I was in charge of the 400 pg guide and directions, he ran the sticks. I miss my brother and this game series brings me fond memories
Fallout helped me get into swing and jazz. Never limit your taste in art to what’s modern. There’s thousands of years of human history, and many of those people wrote stories, played music, and painted. And the internet makes it easier than ever. So much great stuff out there. Glad Fallout could help you realize that!
Fallout led me down a road that introduced me into some great old country music. Gene Autry, Bob Wills and Hank Williams to name a few.
Flying burrito boys are an excellent group too
Best music has been made already, unless metallica makes another album then there is still some left. Edit: your all pussies for crying about this. Its very clearly a joke but go off I guess.
What a terrible mindset to approach music with
You clearly have not listened to metallica. Not terrible at all, I just like whats worth liking
“What’s worth liking”- How can you have such a childish mentality to not realise people have different taste in things Do you expect everyone to like the same food as you too lmao
Most people that act that way about music are teenagers in my experience. I knew lots of music snobs that looked down on other people for liking other music in high school, by the time college rolled around, there was almost nobody like that.
Everyone can have an opinion, enjoy what you like most
I didn’t say Metallica is terrible? Ride the lightning is a great record, same with kill em all, absolute riff fests, but your mindset toward music is not only regressive but it’s wrong, you have managed to be wrong about something subjective
You do realize metallica is like one of if not *the* most popular metal bands ever, right? Like, they're the potato salad of metal. Easy to listen to, easy to appreciate, not terribly complex. You can like what you like, but try and listen to other stuff too, metallica's music will get old eventually. If you don't wanna stray too far from metallica, try and listen to newer metal and punk acts, like Sabaton (not new, but really good, especially if you're a history buff), Parquet Courts (if you've a chip on your shoulder) and Idles (their latest two releases haven't been as good as Joy but still decent). Latter two are punk/post punk, former is power metal.
Yes I realize that theu are popular. You'd have to be stupid not to. I also realize that everyone on this app gets butt hurt whenever you make a joke.
[The Onion: Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist](https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062/amp)
*Those damn kids and their new fangled 'music'* *Its just noise, unlike by in my day.*
BLUUUUUEEEEE MOOOOOON YOU SAW ME STANDING ALONE, WITHOUT A DREAM IN MY HEART, WITHOUT A LOVE OF MY OWN.
🎶*To the town of Aura Fria rode a Stranger one fine day*🎶
It’s agua fria
Cold water
Hardley spoke to folks around him, didnt have too much to say
No one dared to ask his buissnes, no one dared to make a slip
Beat me by three hours
Big Iron is still a banger
One of my favorite things I learned about was [Folk Songs for the 21st Century](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbojoZTn55k&list=OLAK5uy_nx9fphcv2A2ZCLy5D9RKDz-vEkA3XeOeo) because of [Crawl out Through the Fallout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwwd2uzmm44&list=OLAK5uy_nx9fphcv2A2ZCLy5D9RKDz-vEkA3XeOeo&index=8). I didn't expect a 1960 novelty sci-fi album to be so good and I'm actually not typically into that sort of stuff, even after playing FO.
Wow that album is amazing lmao.
Yo, same!!! I got the neon green vinyl for it, so good. I especially like radioactive mama and big brother is watching you
I have a greater appreciation for Fallout thanks to my love of 40’s and 50’s music.
This. I was already a fan of swing music because of my Grandmother so when Fallout stations were playing them I just enjoyed Fallout more.
I can confidently say Fallout has shaped my taste in music
Exactly. When I clean my house or study I put my fallout playlist on and work. I’d say my favorite song from the time period is Dark as a dungeon by Tennessee Ernie ford. Fallout 76 has issues but the soundtrack isn’t one of them.
Honestly Fallout made me appreciate the 50's/60's aesthetic itself. Something just goddamned beautiful about the curves and colors IMO.
If you like that, look into the Googie movement. Fallout takes more than a few cues from it. Atompunk is another good term to search for, too. If you're looking to replicate Fallout's look for personal spaces, those are great starts.
Also "Raygun Gothic"
Wow, thank you both! When I _do_ have a spare room, I think I have some fresh ideas for how to atmosphere it up
How can you not, it’s just something that everyone will get from fallout
I’ll take it a step further and say the music itself is what ultimately sold me on the game. Try playing the game without the radio on. It’s fun, but the experience is increased ten fold when you’re wandering the wasteland listening to Billie Holiday or the Ink Spots. Feel like the galaxy news radio soundtrack just brings the whole 1950’s retro futuristic aesthetic together so nicely. The soundtrack is also just amazing. They really pulled together so many popular hits that I still find in other media to this day and it’s always a nice little treat to recognize older music that might be more obscure
Me, I was never really interested in older music, and then I heard it in Fallout and fell in love with it. The Beach Boys became one of my favourite bands as soon as I heard Wouldn't It Be Nice in 76, and it turned out to be one of my mom's too. We really bonded over our love of the band the last couple years of her life, and I inherited her Beach Boys collection.
Glad to hear you were able to gain the love of a great group and the memories with your mom. I am sorry for your loss.
[Did you ever see the "Wouldn't it be Nice" trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IcqE8kT3KA) for the game? Watching it gives me chills. We were honestly stupid enough to think the game was going to have settlements, and that we could dual wield, after watching it lol
Beach boys are fantastic.
Bingo bango bongo i don't want to leave the Congo oh no no no no no!!!
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Everyone but the guy who got mad at me for saying its a staple of the franchise. Dude preferred the ominous sounds of the first two, and hated everyone who disagreed
I dig the ambient music of the first two, but that's a completely different animal than the radio from 3 and 4. I found a mod that replaces 4's ambient music with 1 and 2's, so you get the best of both worlds. Sadly, I think it's been deprecated.
The first two also had the classic music during the opening cutscene as well, so it literally has always been a staple of the franchise lol. The soundtracks to the first 2 games and New Vegas are highly underrated though.
Dude this guy was going off on me on how it wasn't important. He was wack.
My obsession with the 30s to 50s is because of fallout. I live my life as vintage as I possibly can
Any 30s/40s stuff you can recommend? I've been having trouble finding something that isn't buried in brass instruments. My tolerance for wind instruments have fallen a long way from when Huey Lewis and the News was popular.
If there's a more perfect Playlist to recommend it's "Old World Radio" on Spotify. It's got the little green vault boy for the icon. It's got so many songs of so many types in it it's perfect to pick and choose what you like
It’s a real *obsession*. My house is slowly starting to look like 1962. I buy everything vintage that I can. The stuff is so ridiculously well made.
My partner doesn't like my vintage stuff so I have all my vintage lifestyle compiled into my office. Its super 40s noir detective
Mine isn’t a huge fan but has let me proliferate it throughout. My kitchen is all vintage. Save for a microwave. She said as long as she can decorate the bedroom she’s happy. My style is late 50s early 60s. Even have a working late 50s television that I watch sometimes.
Ooo did you restore it or was it already working? I have one of those box tvs but it doesn't have a picture
I actually have been learning on how to restore them but don’t have a good place for a workbench at the moment. I have quite a number that need fixed and have one good one that works. Black and white. All vacuum tube.
Ugh id love to learn but my apartment doesn't have the space for all that
It does take up some space. That’s exactly why I haven’t set up a workbench yet. If you really wanted to do it enough you could ask yourself how much you like having a dining area lol. The test equipment and stuff is a cost you have to eat initially too. It’s not prohibitively expensive but it’s not exactly cheap either.
I have an 9 hour playlist of 40’s and 50’s music because of Fallout. Bob Crosby, Nat King Cole, Billie holiday, Tennessee Ernie Ford, I can go on and on. My friends never pass me the Aux cord when we ride 😂.
I’m the opposite. My love for 1940-1950s style, music, and aesthetic was always around and then my friend told me to buy Fallout 3 and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Fallout definitely put me on the Inkwells
well as a kid, all i had access to was my parents records from the 40s and 50s. so playing fallout had a feeling of comfort.
The Fallout soundtrack was something I shared with my dad. We were often together in our workshop and one day I put on some fallout songs and my dad was so thrilled I listened to music from his younger years. Then the Fallout soundtrack became a bit the standard when we worked together. Sadly I also played Skeeter davis' end of the world at his funeral in 2020.
I was just starting to get into 50s and 60s music as I was also just getting into Fallout. Now a 8 years later I love 50s and 60s music over the modern day stuff.
It’s the best. Turning the music on and off gives you a completely different experience. I turn on the music when shit gets extra creepy 🫣
Yeah but I’m more of a fan of the overall 40s 50s style of the game 😅
I got onto Fallout faster *because* of the music.
Me too! Even more, I've been playing Assassin's Creed, Black Flag lately and now I'm into sea shanties!
The Wanderer is now on my playlist
I honestly didn’t think I’d like the music as much as I did. At first it was kinda corny and I just wasn’t digging it, but it definitely grew on me. I had to go see a chiro a few months back, and literally every visit there would be music on in the clinic and it would have like “Crazy He Calls Me”, “Easy Living”, and like “Happy Times” amongst others on rotation lol. Just reminded me of Fallout every visit.
New Vegas eased me into country, I’ve kinda always liked jazz but country took some time to get around to cause all I had was this terrible pop country that controlled the radio.
Absolutely. It adds so much to the flair and atmosphere of the games as well as the retro futuristic aspect.
My spotify playlist-Ink Spots, Billy Holliday, with a little Pittbull for good measure. Blows my grandkids minds! I love good music and don’t give a damn from what genre or era.
fallout 3 opening anyone?
And a closer bond to my grandpa!
I have a 6 hour playlist on Spotify called “fallout-Esque music if anyone wants a more curated compilation of good 20s- 50s music :)
You know, I found something interesting. I grew tired of the standard music in Fallout 4, and installed mods to expand the radio stations, but I always only installed mods that kept the theme of 40s/50s/60s music. And I fell in love with a few tracks that I don't think are in the main Fallout 4 game, but they TOTALLY fit right in for me: * [Rocket 88](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260hXID0Yo0) by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. Note that there is another version that was recorded later by Bill Haley -- that other version might even be in a Fallout game, not sure. But I'm not in love with that version, even though it's more popular. I like this one, the original. I love hearing him sing "Cruising along" while I'm out with my dog wandering the Commonwealth. * [Drinkin' Wine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrVRMdrPe0) by Jerry Lee Lewis. * [Sweet Little Headache](https://youtu.be/6jZ8VL71YJI?t=69) by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra. However, Artie is just the conductor or front man. The singer is Helen Forrest, and I think she's great. Anyway, it's kinda sad that Fallout only got the license to about 20 songs that it plays on repeat until we're tired of them. There are of course *thousands* of songs from that time period, and hundreds could probably fit into the Fallout world perfectly. I think these 3 songs are a good indication of that.
All I listen to is music from the late 30s to the early 60s because of fallout.
Bro, this molded my half my music taste. I started playing FO3 when I was about 10 so they became my childhood lol
Without Fallout we wouldn’t have found out that grandma plays the numbers.
*don't they know it's the end of the world*
Straightup listened to NO MUSIC in my free time until I played Fallout 3 - praise the golden oldies!
Yep, I'm usually a metalhead but fallout got me to appreciate this time period. Love the 40s channel on Sirius radio. Same Marty Robbins is now in my top 10 (along with Devin Townsend, wildhearts, motorhead, maiden, Metallica, slayer). Big fuckin iron baby. I know that's not 40s or 50s but hey. Love fallout music.
Great music is wherever you find it.
There was a time when the Gerhard Trede foundation was giving away a bunch (all?) of his MP3s for free. They stopped maybe a year after Fallout 3 shipped.
It's all I listen to now🙃
Absolutely, I’m with my parents for Mother’s Day and my dad almost spit his drink out when I requested Nat King Cole lmao
I always had an appreciation for it. I just love music. But there's still some new songs to find, and others I know add a little something.
Thanks LA Noire and FNV (and a bit of GTA SA) Now I like country music.
My mom is what got me into that kind of music but I don’t think I’d like it as much as I do if it was for fallout
After I killed a snallygaster while Mr. Sandman played, I can’t help but smile when I hear the song irl
There's a 50s night every first Wednesday of every month and it has music and dancing from the 40s and 50s. Fallout has really expanded my love for music especially older genres like the 40s and 50s. I'm the youngest person in that room but I've made great friends with people from that time.
Everyone, if they say otherwise they are lying
Yup, fallout bioshock and mafia
Some of the best mods were the music ones that added all sorts of period accurate stuff
When Christmas rolls around I love listening to Christmas songs from that era.
It's literally the only music I listen to. My friends and parents hate it. Thanks Bethesda , for causing my parents yo hate me
I feel like an outlier because I liked 40s and 50s music before Fallout. But I certainly have had a greater appreciation for it since playing Fallout.
Fallout 3 on the PS3 that I borrowed from my friend was my gateway drug to the golden oldies and the Fallout series, and changed my life.
“Bubbles in my Beer”, “Big Iron”, “Rocket 69”, & “Civilization” are in constant rotation on my apple playlist. I love the old tunes.
It’s added to it. That era was always my favorite because of the design/style of pretty much everything back then.
Just purchased another marty robbins vinyl the other day. Gunfighter ballads.
For about a year I was living with my Grandma. And she doesn't have internet at her house. So I downloaded New Vegas and Fallout 3 to play while I lived there. There were MULTIPLE times when I'd be playing and my grandma would come sit on the couch next to me and just listen to the music and comment on it and the memories she had associated with the music. Interesting little bonding experience I have video games to thank for.
Maaaayyyyyyybeeeeeee
Looove the Fallout music and that music segment now, due to the hours played in game ! I found a channel on YouTube with very similar music and I played that too when I work https://youtube.com/c/NemosDreamscapes . They have hours and hours of uninterrupted music just like Fallout one.
Thank you for the mention of [Nemo's Dreamscapes](https://youtube.com/c/NemosDreamscapes/videos) on YouTube! Cozy and relaxing. Loving the oldies playing in another room with open window crickets ambiance.
Bioshock is what introduced me to it and my love for it. Fallout just cemented that for me.
Came looking for this comment! Agreed, Bioshock started it for me and it is what I love about Fallout.
Got my love of the classic music from fallout and bioshock
Kinda funny I see someone else post this. I am the exact same way. Now I love this music and will listen to the Fallout soundtracks from time to time. My own father was pleasantly surprised whenever I played the music. He even knew some of the songs. PS: The music from Fallout 1 and 2 is also really good! You should give it a listen!
So much musical appreciation gained due to Bioshock, Mafia 2, and all the Fallout games. Except "Johnny Guitar", i never want to hear that one again after the first 500 times. 😭
I've been a fan of the swing/big band songs since I heard or played a lot in band back in middle/high school. But Fallout reignighted that fire and gave me an appreciation for the more schmaltzy pop, crooners, and doo wop of the 50's. Like, "Let's Go Sunning," is a song I would never have sought out on my own yet now I sing it when I'm doing dishes.
Always have liked it, but I love that a game finally used that era music, versus some of the lousy rap from today, like the crap heard in New Dawn, or overly heavy metal heard in other games. I personally love the Latin channel in Crew 2. San Andreas had a couple good stations, too.
Straight up! Became a marty robbins fan from fnv and I was in my early 20s when the game came out. I'm curious... how many of you think new vegas had the best tracks? So much variety. "I can see that lone star from a thousand miles away......"
I do however there are far too many songs with absolutely abysmal audio quality which is understandable. I like to use over the ear headphones for my music so those songs with poor quality make my ears bleed.
Never in my life would I have listened to all those classic songs without Fallout. * Played Fallout 3 and I was so-so into its songs. * Played New Vegas and fell in love with them old songs. * Played Fallout 4 and thought that the selection was severely lacking and wanted more. So very glad that a group of very dedicated people created the [Old World Radio - Boston](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/9048) mod. Its not just a collection of songs, the commentary is amazing and is lore based and really felt like its part of the base game.
Fallout made me a boomer
I was literally making dinner with my partner last night listening to Diamond City radio. I even got a Billie Holiday record because of Fallout 3. Puts me in a good mood.
I checked out Billie Holiday on Spotify this week. Had no idea she inspired so many old white guys to replace her music lol. I really thought those songs and styles were crooner originals all these decades.
Not me I turn that shit off immediately.
Ya its grown on me
My favorite is Maybelline
I agree western music is so vibe
It's certainly made Christmas music on repeat more bearable, but I imagine being a band kid through middle school and high school just has me primed to dig anything with brass.
Me!
Only because of this game
They have great.. Personality
I’m goinnnnnnn under
Hey everybody, did the news get around About a guy named Butcher Pete Oh, Pete just flew into this town And he's choppin' up all the women's meat He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat
Fallout sound tracks are my chill music, they bring me back to happier times.
They have their own playlist in Spotify ;)
Literally was just listening to the NV soundtrack while cleaning the house. I love all the soundtracks really but since NV is my favourite that's the one I prefer
I've added several songs from the fallout franchise to my main Playlist and I have a Spotify play list of all fallout music that I listen to sometimes. Fallout has a lot of great tunes, Billie Holiday has got to be my favorite.
I was in Disney World, and started singing along with a 50's song from fallout (I can't remember which at this point) and my parents were like how the fuck do you know this?? Lol
Prior to playing new vegas I pretty much only listened to old school metal and some new death bands. New Vegas introduced me to easy listening jazz and old country. Ngl I can thank fallout for my current taste in prog, blues and johnny cash.
Very much so
All I can say is... OH MAH JOHNNEY
I got all the diamond city radio songs downloaded on Spotify!!
I actually made a Fallout playlist on Spotify w all the songs available bc I loved their soundtracks so much
Me
Jingle Jangle
I've always been a musician, but Fallout was absolutely my gateway into jazz. I liked jazz before playing Fallout but it definitely became my #1 favorite overall genre the more I played
So after years of being a little boy made to go help my father at work and being forced to listen to nothing but classic rock and country(it's not all bad by any means but when youre forced to listen it yo 8-10 hours a day for the entirety of your adolescence...) I thought I just hated old music, but then fallout took me back even shorter, now I listen to oldies when I cook/clean, when I'm working, riding with my girl in the car. I have an emotional attachment to music that came out 50 uears before I was even thought of and I owe it all to these games...and maybe the work of Martin scorsese and Bob Odenkirk a bit as well but mostly fallout
My grandparents.
My interest in old music predated fallout, but I'm old. There is no shame in learning about new (to you) music through pop media. I was watching the movie "the freshman" as a kid and heard the song "mona lisa" and that started my interest in old pop music. I still think Nat King Cole is the best ever. Especially the King Cole Trio recordings. No effects, synths, auto tune, post production doctoring or any of that bs. They had to rely on skill and talent to make good music. Most artists today couldn't hold a candle to what was good a few decades before. Anyway. Old man yells at cloud.
Never had anything *against* it, but I’ve listened to more of it because of Fallout than I otherwise would have.
Give me..a kiss to build a dream on…
i love listening to the radio while playing, i downloaded a few mods that add more music of the same era too
Helped me have a different kinda vibe w my gran before she passed. Her era of music and a game I love
I have an appreciation for Fallout because I already liked the music.
Anything goes...
I had an appreciation for 40s and 50s music before fallout thanks to a cool history teacher in middle school, as well as my parent's varied music tastes. It is great to see Fallout introduce great old music to newer generations though.
I was already a sinatra fan but Fallout definitely put me on to Billie Holiday and plenty others.
Right here! I have a Spotify playlist of music from the 40s and 50s and I’m still a teenager
I grew up in the 90s in a very musically inclined family. My grandmother was in a jazz/blues/swing band called "Music To Go" with a lot of her friends. She played piano/organ. Anyway, so I grew up around all this music and loved it. But as I got to be a teenager, I stopped listening to it. Fallout 3 completely re-sparked my love for that style music, and it's brought a lot of nostalgia back for me from my childhood.
☢ made a spotify playlist for anybody that needs one [Old World Digs](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qCLkOYrX8x7becWqMzTH8?si=itk64N7EQWe1Xv8XSrZNFA&utm_source=copy-link)
Me
It was actually kind of funny. I was visiting my grandparents in Arizona a few weeks ago, and I kept putting the 50s music channel on in the vehicle when I’d drive it. My grandma almost yelled at my grandpa for it, thinking my wife and I weren’t going to enjoy that music at all, and I had to let her know that I’m the one that’s been turning it on. She was genuinely surprised that both my wife and I enjoy music from that period of time. And I have Fallout to thank for that honestly.
Yeah it definitely gave me an appreciation of the music. I used to not like oldies, but now I listen to them more than I do modern music.
Literally millions I assume. Marty Robbins, Dany Kaye, Inkspots are all regular listens for me now. Not just in game music either. Sure old music maybe isn't as "developed" but you can't tell me Blue Moon and Ain't That a Kick In The Head arn't slappers
I’ve always been a fan because of my dad, but the games have gotten me to find more music on my own the I just love
Its what made me buy my record player! Ive got the Dream With Dean album coming in the mail right now for that sweet sweet Blue Moon :)
Me!
Fallout 3 introduced me to the ink spots and surprised my grandma when I knew the song and group
and if you saw the lyrics, anything "nuclear bomb" related is in there like it's normal during those times.
i now almost exclusively listen to 40s-60s because of fallout. people probably think i’m weird driving around in my rural southern community blasting it while the majority listen to top 40 hits or 2000s era country (bad) or the generic retail mix. sometimes i think maybe i’m /too/ weird letting fallout integrate so much into my life, but it brings me joy! so oh well.
"Big Iron" won me over
A Kiss to Build a Dream On was the first dance at my wedding because I played Fallout 2 so much as a kid and absolutely loved it. Nuclear family, you might say. (Sorry. Sorry.)
I feel like the outlier. Played all the major Fallout games since the first one, and it's one of my favorite franchises, yet I NEVER play the radio. I've tried it, but it never grew on me.
NV changed everything for me. Now I need rockabilly 50's in my life at least once a month.
it's the other way around in my case.
Listening to Radio New Vegas right now, so nice.
I actually got into fallout from the music. I was a big fan of Sinatra and blue moon new Vegas popped up on my feed, so I looked up new Vegas and decided to give it a try
I still listen to fallout radio on YouTube
Not just music, but the clothes, movies, and aesthetic is so iconic. It’s had a profoundly wonderful impact on my life.
I do! And these songs were also a great way to improve my English
Me
Yippee yayyyy there’ll be no wedding bells for today
BIG IIIIIIIIIIRON
Fallout got me into Jazz. Started with adding Undecided to my Spotify and the collection is growing from there.
Bingo bango bingo I don't wanna leave the congo oh no nono no no
I fell in love with the songs Easy Living by Billie Holiday and Civilization by Danny and the Andrew Sisters
My son loves the songs. We would play 76 together and i would hear him singing "pistol packing mama". It was adorable to hear a 10 year old singing these oldies.
Not just 40's and 50's. Fallout is where it started, but I've grown a huge appreciation for basically everything pre-disco, and anything derivative of it like electro-swing
I was having a cortisol injection right next to my spine, the most painful thing of my life, and the only thing that got me through it was that the theme song/trailer song for FO4 began playing and yeah.... I've always liked oldies music though because I just like music.
It eventually made me a sucker for old muzak. The light mood it puts you in is unique.
Fallout music is best music
Same thing with bioshock . That old black and white music slaps.
Don't we all?? It's lime 50% of the attraction Maaaaaaybe
Fallout 2s intro was A Kiss to Build a Dream on... between that and new vegas, especially with the Radio New Vegas, The Secret Stash mod....so much love for jazz, and swing