Songs that should've been in Fallout 3

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jamesmcm

It Wandered In From the Wastes
I quite like the soundtrack as is - but I think it could do with some more songs like:

We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn (I prefer the Johnny Cash version but it's too new?)
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

There's gotta be others too... anyway of adding these in with the G.E.C.K? Editing radio stations perhaps?
 
Yazman said:
Did they have "maybe" in it? I can't seem to remember... heh.
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Yeah but it sounds so similar to I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire it's hard to tell them apart on the radio
 
Yea they did, though I don't listen to the radio stations much as I find it jarring that they are playing 40s music in the 2270s.
Worked in the intros to provide atmosphere but dosen't make a whole lotta sense ingame.
Do listen to Agatha's station though as I likes me some violin music. :P
 
Fallout music to me is not 50's music like Kiss to Build a Dream On or Maybe. It helps to build the setting, but the real music in Fallout is ambient. Mark Morgan did superb work in both Fallouts on creating specific musical works for each town, and it set the mood of each town remarkably.
 
TheRatKing said:
Fallout music to me is not 50's music like Kiss to Build a Dream On or Maybe. It helps to build the setting, but the real music in Fallout is ambient. Mark Morgan did superb work in both Fallouts on creating specific musical works for each town, and it set the mood of each town remarkably.
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The ambient music in Fallout 3 is pretty decent too - listening to the soundtrack on YouTube atm.

Anyway, here we suggest '40s/'50s songs.
 
Oh I didn't realize that the thread was only about 50's music. I guess I liked A Kiss to Build a Dream On then, is it in the game? I don't really know of any 50's groups or songs other than from Fallout :P .
 
Should have the Horst Wessel, the song of the SS as Bethesda proved to be real Nazis in the way they gassed and fried Fallout.
 
Commiered said:
Should have the Horst Wessel, the song of the SS as Bethesda proved to be real Nazis in the way they gassed and fried Fallout.
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Can we keep the endless complaining out of this thread please?

No-one cares what you think about the game, this thread was for suggesting other apt songs not for your self-pitying rants. Take it somewhere else.
 
13BEAST said:
jamesmcm said:
IWhat A Wonderful World - Nat King Cole
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I believe What a Wonderful World was performed by Luis Armstrong, not Nat King Cole. And I do like it for Fallout, but it was about 20 years too late to fit the Fallout era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk2LtK680w
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Oh thanks, fixed it. Yeah it is a bit too recent but it fits well - tbh I think the advantages of it fitting the environment well outweight the fact that it was recorded a decade or so too late. It's not like the story follows humanity perfectly - The War wasn't until 2170 so why couldn't they have recorded in 1950? (Yes, I know it's based off the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Asimov-style story).
 
jamesmcm said:
13BEAST said:
jamesmcm said:
IWhat A Wonderful World - Nat King Cole
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I believe What a Wonderful World was performed by Luis Armstrong, not Nat King Cole. And I do like it for Fallout, but it was about 20 years too late to fit the Fallout era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk2LtK680w
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Oh thanks, fixed it. Yeah it is a bit too recent but it fits well - tbh I think the advantages of it fitting the environment well outweight the fact that it was recorded a decade or so too late. It's not like the story follows humanity perfectly - The War wasn't until 2170 so why couldn't they have recorded in 1950? (Yes, I know it's based off the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Asimov-style story).
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Not sure if you've ever read an Asimov book.
 
M-26-7 said:
jamesmcm said:
13BEAST said:
jamesmcm said:
IWhat A Wonderful World - Nat King Cole
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I believe What a Wonderful World was performed by Luis Armstrong, not Nat King Cole. And I do like it for Fallout, but it was about 20 years too late to fit the Fallout era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk2LtK680w
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Oh thanks, fixed it. Yeah it is a bit too recent but it fits well - tbh I think the advantages of it fitting the environment well outweight the fact that it was recorded a decade or so too late. It's not like the story follows humanity perfectly - The War wasn't until 2170 so why couldn't they have recorded in 1950? (Yes, I know it's based off the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Asimov-style story).
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Not sure if you've ever read an Asimov book.
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I've read The Complete Robot - and the whole domestic robot/ Mr Handy thing is similar.
 
Alphadrop said:
Yea they did, though I don't listen to the radio stations much as I find it jarring that they are playing 40s music in the 2270s.
Worked in the intros to provide atmosphere but dosen't make a whole lotta sense ingame.
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I had the same feeling, and especially when the music is announced by a DJ, who's voice fits more to some techno-hip-hop radio station from 90's.
 
Alphadrop said:
Yea they did, though I don't listen to the radio stations much as I find it jarring that they are playing 40s music in the 2270s.
Worked in the intros to provide atmosphere but dosen't make a whole lotta sense ingame.
Do listen to Agatha's station though as I likes me some violin music. :P
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If Beth really wanted to show that the USA stayed in a 50's 'utopia' then instead of just playing 50's music that was 'old' at the time anyway, they should have put in rock and roll tracks or even better, make up some rock and roll inspired tunes, such as what the Raveonettes are doing now for example.

It seems it was too much of an effort to think for themselves so they just ripped off Fallout's idea of using an old song for an intro and then just filled the stations ingame with the same stuff, even if it makes no sense.
 
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