Why is all the music in the Fallout universe 40s/50s/60s music?

[MaiYass]

I mean yeah I know it's to keep you immersed in the 1950s style environment, but did no one make music between the 1960s and 2070s before the world ended???

[raubrey]

2077 = Futuristic 50s Style
This is a fantasy timeline, not like ours.

[Rogue]

Recordings that were made with electronics, ie: Tape, CD's etc did not survive the electronic pulses from the bombs. Only recordings made with mechanical means, such as Records survived.

I don't really know, only guessing but hey, it sounds Fantastic!

[raubrey]

Originally posted by RoadHog:

Recordings that were made with electronics, ie: Tape, CD's etc did not survive the electronic pulses from the bombs. Only recordings made with mechanical means, such as Records survived.

I don't really know, only guessing but hey, it sounds Fantastic!

This never happened though. The Apocolypse happened in the 50s but an advanced 50s. No one developed CDs and such, that is why all the pre-war tech doesn't show any of this. It's not like people sat around in the Fallout developing this either. The Insititute had non-musical goals apparently.

Also musical development coincides with cultural progress. There was little of that for many decades and is only now starting to pick up a bit in Vegas/ Fallout 4, but even those are regional and rather limited.

There was no Woodstock.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Nostalgia: 50% of the Fallout brand success.
Fear being the other half.
Remember, this was the nuclear Cold War at that time. The upmost possible Apocalypse...

[raubrey]

Originally posted by ForevaNoob Wonemorturn:

Nostalgia: 50% of the Fallout brand success.
Fear being the other half.
Remember, this was the nuclear Cold War at that time. The upmost possible Apocalypse...

That's a good point or points rather.
I still recall the tail end of the Cold War. In the 70s in school we'd talk about how many Kilos (Warheads) were aimed at X destination and feared the Russians. The 50s had a lot going for it though, and what a sense of style!

[just.nuke.em]

Originally posted by RoadHog:

Recordings that were made with electronics, ie: Tape, CD's etc did not survive the electronic pulses from the bombs. Only recordings made with mechanical means, such as Records survived.

I don't really know, only guessing but hey, it sounds Fantastic!

Actually, lots of tapes survived the bombs. Do you never look around your environment in the Vaults? There are tape reals everywhere that work (in the places with working electronics).

[Ladez]

Bethesda heard The Ink Spots and went with it. Now we're stuck with it. Not that I don't like the music, but the whole idea is getting a bit old at this point.

[CanisProxima]

i think the fear of the cold war makes the music evolution in america quite slow, or even stopped.

[Vassago Rain]

Real fallout music has very little to do with the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNsJI_fDoR8

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by raubrey:

Originally posted by RoadHog:

Recordings that were made with electronics, ie: Tape, CD's etc did not survive the electronic pulses from the bombs. Only recordings made with mechanical means, such as Records survived.

I don't really know, only guessing but hey, it sounds Fantastic!

This never happened though. The Apocolypse happened in the 50s but an advanced 50s. No one developed CDs and such, that is why all the pre-war tech doesn't show any of this. It's not like people sat around in the Fallout developing this either. The Insititute had non-musical goals apparently.

Also musical development coincides with cultural progress. There was little of that for many decades and is only now starting to pick up a bit in Vegas/ Fallout 4, but even those are regional and rather limited.

There was no Woodstock.

What? The apocalypse happened in 2077, not the 50s.

[Boneyard Bob]

It could simply be that these were the only intact recordings NV DJs could get their hands on ~200 years after the apocalypse.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by R2-3PO From Star Trek | Trade.tf:

I mean yeah I know it's to keep you immersed in the 1950s style environment, but did no one make music between the 1960s and 2070s before the world ended???

Did you think the end of the world meant the end of the RIAA?

[fоreskin feta]

Technology has advanced, however nothing more efficient than the vacuum tube exists hence the oil crisis and subsequent inflation

[Valden21]

The setting's tech advanced, but it was culturally frozen in the late 50's-early 60's. That's why all the music in the game is from that time period. The basic culture never changed, and since music is part of culture, the music didn't change either.

[Boneyard Bob]

Originally posted by Valden21:

The setting's tech advanced, but it was culturally frozen in the late 50's-early 60's. That's why all the music in the game is from that time period. The basic culture never changed, and since music is part of culture, the music didn't change either.

Music. Music never changes...