Swing Era/Big Band music and Fallout

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Eternal

Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Music from the 30s-50s are pretty strongly tied to Fallout, despite the fact that in the original 2 fallouts there is (as far as I know) only a song in the opening.

Fallout 3 had a station, that you could listen to some songs but there was only a couple that I really liked.

What songs from that era do you think would be good fits for the fallout world? I like to think that a dark sort of irony in some of the songs when compared to the wasteland around you is part of the charm. Something remembering the good times, love songs, or the occasional blues song.

Here are a couple of my picks.

Benny Goodman and Martha Tilton - Thanks for the Memory

Annette Hanshaw - Don't take that black bottom away

Sunnyland Slim - Broke and Hungry

This is one I'm not sure about because it might be too late due to the date of its release but I feel that the message and sound is too perfect not to use:

Nina Simone - Don't smoke in bed
(this song came out in 1957)
 
The thread is about something entirely different though, its about the ambient music used in the environmental areas of the games. And some similarities to other music.
 
Nice picks.
Can't think of any really good ones of the same sort.

Something like this might work tho', since it'd be a nice contrast between the happy song and ruined wasteland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bK8O_z5bs

Would maybe work better as an intro song like Maybe and A Kiss To Build A Dream On.
 
Wow that is an amazingly perfect one. I can already imagine a video using it.

I mean to be honest this song is better than ANY of my picks O_O

Here is what I picture when I listen to it.

Watching the world go by -
Picture of the pre-war world
under a sunny sky -
the picture suddenly crackles with snow and static and shows the same image in a post-war form as the camera pulls slowly back revealing it to be a TV
strolling 'round the park on sunday afternoon -
starts showing a war news reel (with graphic images.)
o' how the moments fly, watching the world go by. -
Starts showing war propaganda (similar to the opening of FO1)
When you're with your love, life is a beautiful tune -
Shows a happy family circa 1950
Even if are clouds are there way up above
Shows a nuke going off
For us the day is always fair cause we're in love
Shows charred skeletal bodies
Others may have some tears
Shows another family wearing the Vault-Tec suit
Darling not you and I
Shows the family entering one of the Vaults
We'll spend years and years and years watchin the world go by
Vault doors close


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Just realized how similar this is to the entire FO1 opening, but I'll be damned if it doesn't fit.
 
Eternal said:
I mean to be honest this song is better than ANY of my picks
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Oh, I don't know... Pretty much everything by Benny Goodman is a good choice, and 'Thanks For The Memory' is especially good.

I can't take credit for my pick, unfortunately. :P
Found it through a fan-made trailer a while back. Can't find it on youtube or nma though...

Anyone remember the one I'm talking about?
Had some spinning newspapers and random bomber airplanes, stuff like that.
 
Apparently the original version of the Thanks for the Memory song was sung by Bob Hope. But I kind of like the Benny Goodman version better.
 
Slim Gaillard's "Atomic Cocktail" comes to mind. Pretty much straightforward.

These are some pretty great picks. For some reason I can't think of any songs right now, which is odd since this is basically the music I listen to, and sometimes I'll come by a song that would just remind me of Fallout. When they come to mind, I'll be sure to post.
 
Looks like in FOOL, Interplay chose to go with public domain music instead of licensed music, like "Slave to the Blues" by Ma Rainey on the teaser website. Pretty wise choice given their financial situation. The copyrights to music by people who died before 1940 have now expired, so they can use it freely.
 
Ausir said:
Looks like in FOOL, Interplay chose to go with public domain music instead of licensed music, like "Slave to the Blues" by Ma Rainey on the teaser website. Pretty wise choice given their financial situation. The copyrights to music by people who died before 1940 have now expired, so they can use it freely.
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Smart choice and kinda begs the question why this doesn't happen more often. Especially seeing as how the song you give as an example is actually pretty sweet and fits the setting.
 
Well not big band but
Louis Armstrong What a wonderful world is an obvious choice,as for big band
Benny Goodman- Sing Sing Sing
Glen Miller-In the mood
...and those
 
good retro songs:

Whatcha Know Joe by Jo Stafford
Mr. Five by Five by Ella Mae Morse
Midnight, the Stars, and You by Al Bowlly
It's All Forgotten Now by Al Bowlly
26 Miles (Santa Catalina) by the Four Preps
I Remember You by Slim Whitman
Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Stand By Your Man by Patsy Cline
Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline
...alot of Frank Sinatra's stuff...
 
Ausir said:
Looks like in FOOL, Interplay chose to go with public domain music instead of licensed music, like "Slave to the Blues" by Ma Rainey on the teaser website. Pretty wise choice given their financial situation. The copyrights to music by people who died before 1940 have now expired, so they can use it freely.
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Ah this makes me want to have a gramophone :D
 
can't beat a bit of Ella...( Fitzgerald that is.. )

"what a difference a day makes" is ideal intro / trailer music for Fallout..
 
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