What Kind of Music is FALLOUT missing.

I've always liked the prospect of the Fallout series having some sort of rock scene. Like some sort of mix between 60s/70s Acid rock and some other, more tame stuff.
 
Earth said:
Yeah, if Fallout 3 had treated raiders like actual human beings and not target practise then this kind of sub-culture would've been a fun thing to explore.

I recall there were a bunch of hippie protesters in Hopeville in Lonesome Road. This would imply that counter culture very much existed, and that would include music. I'm fine with there being a retro-'50s fashion thing going on just before the war, explaining characters like Dean Domino and Vera Keyes, but otherwise music and culture probably wouldn't be all that different. Maybe songs would make reference to different events and stuff but otherwise the genres would probably be the same. Abba still exists despite the Cold War, same would apply to other weird pop music. Saying culture just stopped after the '50s is a pathetic excuse for lazy writing.

Anyway, rant over. It'd be nice if the games actually did explore post-war music more. The songs in the Aces Theatre were fun but just reiterations of country western songs. As you said, it'd be fun to see "raider" people with their own music. In All Roads Benny mentions an old tribal singer who was part of the Chairmen before they became Chairmen.

It's a very untapped part of the Fallout universe that has a lot to give: tribal music, folk songs, bands, orchestras, stuff like that.
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My opinion of the Fallout universe is that in this alternate universe, the United States deliberately attempted to create a static unchanging 1950s esque culture and enforced it via martial law and censorship. Which would be ridiculous except for the fact that the 1950s were very much a product of attempting to do this exact same thing to the public. They were trying to send women back to the home after so many of them got the experience of working and there were so many other people trying to change existing social blocks. Did they completely succeed?

No, I doubt they did, but I think they probably were very good at making sure the US didn't evolve in the way it did in our world.

It's also possible the 1950s nostalgia was a recent thing and an attempt to turn back the clock to cover up the lack of resources and how so much of the rest of the world had gone to crap. In real life, whole blocks of musics were censored and the government could have just re-released 'classic' music.
 
CT Phipps said:
My opinion of the Fallout universe is that in this alternate universe, the United States deliberately attempted to create a static unchanging 1950s esque culture and enforced it via martial law and censorship. Which would be ridiculous except for the fact that the 1950s were very much a product of attempting to do this exact same thing to the public. They were trying to send women back to the home after so many of them got the experience of working and there were so many other people trying to change existing social blocks. Did they completely succeed?

No, I doubt they did, but I think they probably were very good at making sure the US didn't evolve in the way it did in our world.

It's also possible the 1950s nostalgia was a recent thing and an attempt to turn back the clock to cover up the lack of resources and how so much of the rest of the world had gone to crap. In real life, whole blocks of musics were censored and the government could have just re-released 'classic' music.
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Your theory makes no sense.

No, the 1950s culture was forced because Bethesda has no clue about setting at all.

Stop trying to find excuses for incompetent writing. You're wasting your own time.
 
Given the context of Fallout 4 (Boston, Irish undertones in the Diamond City OST, actual Irish NPCs etc.), it would have been interesting to have 50-60's Irish folk music instead of blues and jazz. Would have been a nice change in the atmosphere, logical, and still in pace with the retro thingy going on.

To give credits where it's due, I liked the Magnolia character, because she shows that there are people still composing new, current music, not just salvaging old tape. Realistically, even after horrible events, humanity would always create new musical genres every decade or so. There will always be composers and artists, even in a post apocalyptic world. That's the thing that bothered me with Fallout 3, nobody created anything new. Music is 200 years old, just like their clothes, food, culture, weapons etc. Realistically, only marginals and nostalgics would stick to such old cultural references, everyone else would have their own, recently recorded tapes, coming from current bands. Instead of just traders and raiders, you'd encounter bands making a tour, with their bodyguards, their team and their groupies. Classical music would be insanely more popular too, given the fact that the instruments don't require electronics and electricity. Violin, guitar, drums and trumpets would be common.
 
Hassknecht said:
As for raiders playing Metal: Yes.
Post-apocalypse has kinda been getting a thing in Metal recently, too. Especially Power Metal.


But it's also been a theme in other genres:

Well, can't go into apocalyptic Metal without mentioning Ulcerate:
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Frankly, power metal seems a lil' too cheesy for raiders. I'd say stuff like Napalm Death or anything where you can do a brutal wall of death or circle/mosh pit would be more fitting for them.
 



There really is nothing nice about NCR
You go to the hospital you have to pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
they don't really bother about the radiation leak

FUCK THE NCR

They keep their secrets undercover
the rich don't bother about those that suffer
this ain't the land of milk and honey
cause all they want is money money money

FUCK THE NCR

Nuclear bombs are fuck all old
you'd better start running when they drop on you
run into a shelter, play hide and seek
cause when you die your body reeks

FUCK THE NCR

There really is nothing nice about USA
You go to the hospital you have to pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
they don't really bother about the radiation leak

FUCK THE NCR
 
I'm including the idea of new music of fallout in my mod fallout Atlanta ;

I'm planing to feature a music shop where records are sold in the forum of holotapes
Also hopefully there will be different music arist through out the game with mix of acustic punk will 50s and 60s type of music and possibly some classical too
 
In all seriousness, Fallout 4 had a terrible soundtrack.

In my F4 review I talked briefly about how even the 'good' tracks needed major improvements. The only 3 I liked were the Diamond City theme (but that's only as good as the setting), 'Regrouped, Reloaded' which needed a bass boost or something to give it umph, then there's the Institute theme which again needed a stronger synthesized sound to make it memorable- instead of the quiet tune we got. Ambient tunes don't have to be <0.05db Bethesda.

I liked raider radio, regret not mentioning it. But there were only ~6 tracks- there's no way I could spin that off as a positive point in a review. Classical music had just the well-known songs (I'm no classical music buff) and radio freedom was the shittiest thing I've ever listened to. DC radio was a fucking joke- I didn't mind Travis bc he sounded like Morty, but why are all the songs about nuclear shit? I love ironic humour, but that was facepalm worthy.
 
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