Help and Suggestions for a Fallout Music list

[SpoonyBard]

I'm putting together a playlist of music for a Fallout game set in the Smokey Mountains region of the US. The title of the game overall is Fallout: The Secret City and is based upon what happened to the nuclear weapons development facilities of Oak Ridge Tennessee in the Fallout universe. I'm using the Savage Worlds rules if anyone is interested.

 

This is what I have at the moment

 

 

Fallout 3 uses mostly 40's big band music. I'm centering around 50's and early 60's county (though some of the recordings may be as late as the 70's)

 

Rocky Top - Osborne Brothers (this is the anthem of the region so of all the songs, this one isn't up for debate. If I was doing a trailer it would be this instead of "I don't want to set the world on fire" or "Blue Moon"

George Jones - White Lightning

Roger Miller - Chug a Lug

Roger Miller - Hot Rod Lincoln

Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue

Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

 

Suggestions or comments welcome.

 

Oh, for those interested, this is the preamble of this particular game

 

 

War.

War never changes.

 

Everything has a beginning. A place of birth. So it was with the bomb which destroyed mankind in the Great War. During the second world war the United States Government founded a city in the hills of east Tennessee to refine the raw materials to build the first bomb and in the century between that war and the great war the majority of the nuclear weapons building capacity was located here. So it was no surprise to anyone that in the two hours of the Great War the Chinese government threw a third of their arsenal at this key point in attempt to cripple the weapon making capacity of the United States. And so the Secret City became too radioactive and poisonous for anything to survive.

 

That was until 6 weeks ago. Something has caused the radiation to subside. Scavengers from across the wastes have converged on the area to find out why and discover what lies within the Secret City...

[MonsterMonkey]

I've replaced original ambient music with these tracks wich change completely the mood of the game with FWE mod and Mart's mutant it's just crazy.

 

 

 

Usual Suspect O.S.T - payback time

and new york's finest http://youtu.be/woxjUXDmEQc good for DC and wastelands

The Sixth Sense O.S.T - Hanging Ghosts http://youtu.be/aIQ5DxlYPEc (So Creepy... the scariest music i know) good for subway, sewers or vaults

Fistfull of Dynamite O.ST - this

and this http://youtu.be/m3VKYYHA7-w for the wastelands

And this http://youtu.be/RFnmH9a2RkE

 

This game has made me searchin' the net musics like jazz and soul from the 50's & 60's and i found some great blogs so i thank fallout for made me discover so many fantastic tunes.

this is my playlist at the moment For GNR radio, i change it sometimes when i get use of hearing same songs.

 

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog http://youtu.be/Q8_k9LEUBeQ

Lalo Guerrero Y Sus Cinco Lobos - Marihuana Boogie http://youtu.be/M7UgLyD1x7Q

Candi Staton - Sure As Sin

The Staples Singers - Long Walk To DC http://youtu.be/-GJNk8cscI8

Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue http://youtu.be/gH7rl0ifDwM

Les Double Six - Au Bout Du Fil (Excellent french vocal jazz from the 60's)

Frank Sinatra - What is this thing called love? http://youtu.be/saG2p3KuUyE

Bo Diddley - I'm A Man

Larry Young - Gettin' Into It http://youtu.be/mRpX07eCfyk

Edited September 14, 2011 by MonsterMonkey

[BenWah]

Great topic!

 

I recommend downloading the 100 songs (all are license free) from "GNR ENHANCED" mod.

It's 4 big zip files, a great starting point.

The volume levels have been normalized in the archives

 

You don't need to install the mod, just download it and listen to the songs directly from the mp3s.

 

Link:

 

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14946