Fallout: Music of 2077

[Tenebris]

Why would a society who imagines a great future to come, imagine that their music and cultural tastes would remain stagnant. When they imagined a future car, they did not expect it to be a 57' Chevy, they expected it to be a design of the future ~with 50's aesthetics. The same goes for housing, and architecture. Look at Chicago in FO:Tactics; it's not 50's high rises and bungalows, it's silver spires. It's closer to The Jetsons.

So why would their future descendants want the musical equivalent of a 57' Chevy (songs they've replayed for decades) instead of futuristic new music ~with a 50's aesthetic.

The (in world) music that Fallout ~should~ have had should not be pre-60's music; which was used in the game intros as a remembrance of the world as it existed deep in the past.

The music of 2075 should have been from new artists with their own ideas; not archaic cover songs from the 1950's, not 150 year old relic tunes from the past. Their music would still be in a noticeably 50's style, but noticeably NOT from the actual 1950's.

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i think there will be more grim music, they probably wake up every morning knowing any time the nukes will drop, but they didn't speak up for it because of the government and the censorship make it harder so it is without lyrics, it is good example of show don't tell

 

[Gizmojunk]

If you look (listen) at Fallout 1 & 2, the only 50's music in the games are the two intro tracks. The rest is atmospheric, and importantly representative of the inhabitants of the given areas. Brotherhood, Necropolis, Shady Sands, the Village, NCR. They are all culturally different; new cultures at that. The Children of the Apocalypse might wear a 50's bomber jacket, but might have a neon green mohawk, and face piercings; Sulik has a bone through his nose. These are not 50's cultures, and neither is the music they create. The 50's aesthetic is mostly pre-war from the old world.

 

[PaxVenire]

If you look (listen) at Fallout 1 & 2, the only 50's music in the games are the two intro tracks. The rest is atmospheric, and importantly representative of the inhabitants of the given areas. Brotherhood, Necropolis, Shady Sands, the Village, NCR. They are all culturally different; new cultures at that. The Children of the Apocalypse might wear a 50's bomber jacket, but might have a neon green mohawk, and face piercings; Sulik has a bone through his nose. These are not 50's cultures, and neither is the music they create. The 50's aesthetic is mostly pre-war from the old world.

I agree with this but this playlist is specifically focusing on the prewar era, not the post war. Post war, I’d imagine music to sound for the most part similar to Beyond the Canyon (Arroyo). But furthermore we aren’t trying to say the prewar is just listening to 1950s music, but rather speculating on what new genres or twists on genres would emerge in the diverged retrofuturistic world. The playlist is analogous not literal, for example I take songs like Blue Moon by Frank Sinatra and add a modern rendition of it to the playlist in order to capture the flavor of crooner revival the prewar might’ve listened to. Similarly we’re taking synth music that fits the retro aesthetic of Fallout. Folk music is timeless and works well with any decade, same with Country.

 

[Iprovidelittlepianos]

Thanks for the link. I think the addition of Space Age Pop works much better as an outlet for electronica-type music.

Lol at the Seth MacFarlane in there. Imagine he was a huge music star in the Fallout universe instead of doing comedy.

And that cover of the highwayman theme is amazing.

 

[PaxVenire]

Lol at the Seth MacFarlane in there. Imagine he was a huge music star in the Fallout universe instead of doing comedy.

Say what you will about his comedy, he's a good singer. And yeah that would be funny, he'd probably be less successful since modern crooner singers are niche, but he'd definitely be amongst the top of them.

And that cover of the highwayman theme is amazing.

Check out her other covers, she did more of Mark Morgan's tracks, they're all very good.

 

[ZooBis]

If there were a recreation of classical music that was made during pre-war or fits Fallout retrofuturism, I would think of this which I came across, and was interesting to mention.

 

[PaxVenire]

That track sounds good, I added it to the electronica section of the playlist. What do you think of this one?

 

[ZooBis]

That track sounds good, I added it to the electronica section of the playlist. What do you think of this one?

Sounds pretty fitting for Fallout, I get the impression this was created around the region of the US southwest or even Mexico, with its guitar, giving a Spanish feel to it. Now that I think about it, maybe some people during the pre-war period would listen to Spanish music perhaps.