I just love the music in Fallout 3!

Of course I'm talking about the radio stations, but the regular wasteland, dungeon and town music as well. It all fit in so nicely with the atmosphere. Heck, it creates the atmosphere! It has the right feel and everything

Nowadays I'm like so many others though, I have to have GNR playing whilst scavving the wasteland for things to shoot and things to pick up! So many good songs from the 50s and thereabouts I never thought I'd learn the lyrics to songs like I'm Tickled Pink, Let's Go Sunnin', Crazy He Calls Me and A Wonderful Guy. Not to mention I never thought I'd sit-dance to a song with "bongo bongo bongo" thrown in it!


Anyways, feel free to share your thoughts about music from any of the Fallout games!

The music score and the sound effects in Fallout 3 are great. The 50's songs are so good! That song about Johnny is the only one I like from NV. Otherwise I hate everything there. Oh no, here comes mALX.....

Sometimes when I get bored with Fallout 3 (like once every 5 years) I like to add the Stalker music into the game to completely change things up. It certainly does give the whole wasteland a different vibe. And that is also the reason why I do not mod the weather in my Fallout 3. The cloudy northern sky is perfect with the Stalker tune. I dream of the north, a destroyed New York and Boston. A journey across country like those kids in 'The Stand' (Stephen King).

For the most part the radio station music in the Fallout games does not do anything for me. Though I do love the irony in some, like "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". There are a few songs I genuinely like, and I think they are all from FONV - "Big Iron", and "Ain't That A Kick In The Head". I have always thought the theme from the old tv show Paladin would have been perfect for FONV.

Ironically I do like Frank Sinatra, but I think there is only one Sinatra song in the FONV soundtrack, and it isn't one of the big ones, like "The Lady Is A Tramp", or "It Was A Very Good Year".

The regular music is good. I am pretty sure it is Jeremy Soule again, like in Oblivion and Skyrim.

Heh, well you know me Crow, I never have game music on in any game I play, except older ones like TES 1 Arena.

That being said, I actually love the music we get on our Pipboys, including the traditional music station. I forget the name of the station, but it's the one that has the "president" guy chatting on it. John Henry Eaton or whatever his name is. Normally, this sort of traditional American music just goes in one ear and out the other, but what I love is the context that this music is portrayed in.

Because traditional music (horns and such) is supposed to be played in front of people who are proud of their country. But in the context of the game, this music is being played in to people who live in complete disarray and destruction. See what I mean? I love this juxtaposition.

A few years ago I thought of replacing the radio songs with more modern music. Things like Black Sabbath's Mod Rules, Metallica's Four Horsemen, and Judas Priest's Electric Eye. But it just did not feel right for the setting.

Today I am thinking old Blues songs might be just the thing though. Imagine BB King's The Thrill Is Gone. Or Nat King Cole and Unforgettable. Or Albert King's Born Under Bad Sign. Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightning. While not really Blues, Frank Sinatra's My Way would be perfect I think as well. I think songs like just might fit the whole feel of the Wasteland, and work in the pre-war setting.

Did someone call me?

I love those squirrel pixies


I cannot understand why someone would mute or replace these amazing songs. But to each his/hers own and all that jazz....

I like the American songs too and for awhile I only listened to those. Pretty good melodies I think I just prefer THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-DAWWWWWWWWWWWWWG over Mr. Eden

Same here, but I'll listen to Eden over Agatha, lol.

Yeah, but she´s so greatful and all..

But her station is the least listened to by me. Not that I don´t like classical music but her songs are a little too much on the mood´s downside.

I love the one bit where Three Dog impersonates Eden.

Yes, same here. I have done enough by risking my life to bring her the violin and sheet music; but listening to just mediocre violin music - no.

I like hearing the Dashwood and Argyle stories a LOT, they are hysterical - Dashwood seems to introduce Slavers every where he goes by throwing wild parties and inviting them to come; Argyle always saving him from someone killing him for it, lol.

Really like that little quest there too - kind of aggravating they messed up that quest by leaving the stealing mark on the safe after he gives you the key as a reward so he immediately attacks you if you use it; and even if you sneak into it, the game gives you bad karma for something you were freely given as a reward.

That should have been patched, but that whole Tenpenny Tower is messed up; whoever was in charge of developing it really fell down on the job.







Yes; even if his impersonation isn't fooling anyone, it is funny!

We should just consider ourselves lucky that Dukov didn't get his hands on a radio set-up. Just imagine the clown-shoes abuse we would have had to put up with all game. Lol.

Thanks for the squirrel pic mALX. I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes.

My family officially thinks that I am mad.

Oh my goddess! It would be Mr. New Vegas all over again, but worse!

Well, I got my GNR song replacer working. I kept three of the original songs: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire, the Jazzy instrumental (because it is the intro for the Herbert Dashwood shows), and Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall.

The other songs for Galaxy Blues Radio are:

Albert King-Born Under A Bad Sign
BB King-The Thrill Is Gone
Marvin Gaye-I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Smokey Robinson-Tracks Of My Tears
Dean Martin-Ain't That A Kick In The Head
Edwin Starr-War
Frank Sinatra-My Way
Howlin' Wolf-Smokestack Lightnin'
James Taylor-Fire And Rain
Jim Croce-Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Jimmy Dean-Big Bad John
John Lee Hooker-Boom Boom
Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Last Goodbye
Muddy Waters-Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole-UnforgetableThe Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion
The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter

Ok, so they are not all Blues. But Frank and Deano are from the era, and some are Motown - which is close to the era. James Taylor is one of the newest, but I think it suits the game perfectly. Kenny Wayne Shepherd is by far the most recent song, but he's as much a Blues man as he is a Rocker, and that song also works so well for the Fallout world. I have been playing this evening with Galaxy Blues Radio, and so far I am loving it.

If anyone else wants to do this, all you have to do is add your mp3s to the Fallout 3\Data\Sound\Songs\Radio\Licensed folder. It probably won't exist, so you will have to make it. Then rename your songs with the same names the game uses for its songs:

mus_billieholiday_crazy
mus_billieholiday_easy
mus_bobcrosby_happy
mus_bobcrosby_way
mus_coleporter_anything
mus_dannykaye_civilization
mus_ellafitzgerald_into
mus_generic_boogie
mus_generic_fox
mus_generic_jazzy
mus_generic_jolly
mus_generic_rhythm
mus_generic_sunning
mus_generic_swing
mus_generic_swingdoors
mus_inkspots_idont
mus_inkspots_maybe
mus_roybrown_butcher
mus_roybrown_mighty
mus_texbeneke_guy

That is all you have to do. But you can go an extra step, and use a sound editor like Audacity to flatten down the stereo tracks to a single output (mono). Then save that seperately as both an .mp3, and a .wav file, and add the _mono to the names of the new files. That gives you 3 sound files for each song, the original .mp3 in stereo, one .mp3 in mono, and one .wav in mono. Like this:
mus_billieholiday_crazy.mp3
mus_billieholiday_crazy_mono.mp3
mus_billieholiday_crazy_mono.wav

Apparently the game will use the mono versions sometimes if you have them there, to simulate circumstances where it is harder to hear the radio. But so far as I know, you don't absolutely need them. I tested this a few days ago, and the game uses the first, stereo mp3 when you play a song on your pipboy. If a song is playing on a radio set it plays one of the mono files, I am not sure which. So if you only replace the stereo mp3, you will hear your custom songs on your pipboy, but the originals on the radios out in the game world. This can be strange when you have your pipboy radio playing and there is a regular radio playing the same station. However, that is just for FO3.

New Vegas is funky. It still uses the stereo mp3 for the music you hear on your pipboy. But for radio sets in the world it plays a mono file that is in the .ogg format. So you will have two files for every song:

Song.mp3
Song_mono.ogg

I did have a lot of trouble getting it to work though. I would find that sometimes it would start a new song, and it would not play. Instead the game would slow down dramatically, so slow and choppy that it was unplayable. I knew it was the song because as soon as I turned GNR off, the game was fine again. I tried all the suggested fixes I could find, and nothing worked. Finally I downloaded GSpot (great name btw ). I used it to check every single song file to make sure my comp's codecs would play it. All you have to do is load the song with GSpot, then at the bottom click the MS A/V button, and it will tell you if you if there is a problem with the codecs. I found 4 songs that had issues. The funny thing is, I could play them just fine with winamp. But obviously these were what was causing the bug in the game. So I opened each with Audacity, exported them as .wav files, then opened them again, and exported them as .mp3s, re-encoding them. A check with GSpot on the new files showed them fine. After that the radio in the game has played just fine.

Dukov!

Aw, I'm glad you liked my squirrel pic! Now that makes me happy !!!!

@SubRosa - Going through all that just to replace the already awesome songs? Thanks, but no thanks


But whatever sails your ship

The frightening thing is that if you watch the 'making of' videos the guys at Obsidian are praising the 'big name' voice talent and writing they have put into the game. And then when you add the worst music list in the history of gaming to it, well, the result is a dog's breakfast. Even a song like 'Blue Moon' is ruined after the 700th listen-to, something I never noticed with any of the cool songs in FO3.

3Dog may indeed be annoying, but at least he has a certain charm.

I'll have to play it again to remember, maybe they just needed more music than they used so it wouldn't be so repetitive?

Anyone having some good tunes they like from Fallout 4?

I like most of them, but I could stand some more variety. I tend to play with the radio off, but I hear it a lot when I watch my son play.

I like:
Butcher Pete - by Roy Brown
Crawl Out Through the Fallout - by Sheldon Allman
and everything by the magnificent Ink Spots, especially...Maybe!

I quite enjoy the radio in Fo4...

When I'm out wandering I tend to only have the soundtrack by Inon Zur on...He seems to have had the "Make it like Skyrim" brief with this one, as there's more than a few that hark back to that game...Which is no bad thing...

But any settlement I've built up, or even in anywhere I've gone exploring and the radio's on...Makes me laugh...

"OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!..."

...

I think my fave song is Bongo Bongo Bongo...so relentlessly cheery... ...

But you really can't beat the soundtrack as you're wandering around...

I'm sure I should be listening to Radio Freedom as I'm "The General"™...But you know, given how many times you end up being sent off to other settlements when it's on...*Sigh*...Nah...I'm good ta...

Oh, my. Quite some Fallout 3 songs in Fallout 4 then

I've been updating my Galaxy Blues Radio mod with some more songs.

The Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There)

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion

The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter

Speaking of Fallout Music, what are your Fallout character's theme songs?

Warrant Officer Holland Smith is easy - The Marine Corps Theme (The Halls of Montezuma)

Loviatar is Blue Oyster Cult - The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria

Hecate I am not sure about. Maybe Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son I will have to think about that one.

Molly Hatchet is easy as well (She has an entire band making theme music for her!) - Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster


I was thinking that a good song for Deeno (Rest In Pieces) would have been The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

The Hobo might be Whiskey Man? Or maybe Alice Cooper - The Ballad of Dwight Fry

Paint it Black is an awesome choice for Deeno

I'll listen to other songs later, but the one which comes to my mind for the Hobo is I'm a rover.

I think Hecate's song is Victory by Oomori Kinuko. A while back I was thinking Persephone, but I think it suits Hecate better. That is the song of the woman who watched her father die, and who went on to destroy the Enclave.

Persephone of course has an entire album of theme songs (I literally made a cd for my car).

01-John Williams-Born On the Fourth Of July Soundtrack-Prologue
02-Blue Oyster Cult-The Siege And Investure Of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Wisseria
03-Blue Oyster Cult-In The Presence Of Another World
04-CCR-Bad Moon Rising
05-Matthew Good-Weapon
06-Edie Brickell-A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
07-Black Sabbath-Falling Off The Edge Of The World
08-Enya-Evening Falls
09-Diana Ross-Reflections
10-John Mellencamp-Human Wheels
11-Green Day-Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
12-Linkin Park-Somewhere I Belong
13-Sarah McLachlan-Out Of The Shadows
14-Live-Overcome
15-Queen-The Show Must Go On
16-Santana & Everlast-Put Your Lights On
17-Led Zeppelin-In The Light
18-Pink Floyd-On The Turning Away
19-Enya-Anywhere Is



Thinking of other characters, Matty's theme might be Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars, or The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter