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the music in the fallout games is great bc you're like "oh cool, it's all 'period' accurate" and then you actually listen to the lyrics and you're like "there's no way this is real" BUT THEY ARE. these bitches were really writing songs about getting blown up by bombs and dying of radiation!!!
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Deedee Megadoodoo
@englishhurler.bsky.social
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youtu.be/gkPCmIxv-3k?...
They refuse my calls to put Lucille Bogan in the game though.
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BAJA BLAST BLAINE
@codenamecatbird.bsky.social
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Atom Bomb Baby is one of my personal favourites
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Isaac Erbele
@isaacerbele.bsky.social
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Sadly, unless they do a Fallout: New Orleans, we'll never get "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me"
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Marginally Competent
@margincompet.bsky.social
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Highly recommend the Atomic Platters set. It used to come with a coffee table book discussing the phenomenon, it's a great read and a hell of a listen.
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Plashe
@plashe.bsky.social
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My favorite "THE WORLD IS FUCKED IM GOING TO BLOW UP AND DIE FROM A BIG BOMB" song is Epitah by King Crimson
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Lee Benfield
@lab27.bsky.social
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Only 2 episodes in, but dying to see if they run "bongo bongo bongo".
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Patchouli Woollahra
@woollahra.bsky.social
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If you're happy you listen to the melody. If you want to be outraged you listen to the lyrics.
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my buddy eric
@mybuddyeric.bsky.social
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I have this old CD box set of like hundreds of songs from this era (and the gov’t radio bits about hiding under desks), this one is still one of my faves youtu.be/9RJUYlzgQwU?...
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Bob Geary
@bhobgeary.bsky.social
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My favorite thing about the Fallout games is that you always need to scavenge lead to craft things, and one reliable source of it is baby toys.
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Your Administration Needs Upgradation
@aldokelrast.bsky.social
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youtu.be/ivpXM7mTMC4?...
This is a personal fave that I can't believe they've gotten to.
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Rmmbr
@rmmbr.bsky.social
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In case anyone reading this thread doesn’t know, there was a website called Conelrad that archived Cold War culture. Had a look but seems it shut down :-( They released a compilation of “Red” and “reactionary” music from the time called “Atomic Platters” that has some deranged music.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Yet still not as horrifying as “Bongo Bongo Bongo I Don’t Want To Leave the Congo”
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@holir.bsky.social
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We all go together when we go by Tom Lehrer. Not in Fallout, but good stuff.
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Stiggy Pop
@hamiltonburger.bsky.social
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Look up a movie called The Atomic Cafe sometime. Fascinating documentary about the Atom Age. Hell, I'll find it for you.
youtu.be/i9xQTJ-kbUk?...
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TurtleBee
@turtlebee.bsky.social
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"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" was a song my father used to sing when he was concentrating on whatever, and it's so damn jarring to be in Fallout! Get out of my childhood memories!
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Weird Pyramid in the Distance
@weirdpyramid.bsky.social
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Off and on I'll listen to old radio dramas (specifically sci-fi anthologies like Dimension X and X Minus One) while doing chores, and by those stories it's pretty clear that by the mid-'50s American culture was scared absolutely shitless of nuclear war
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Emile Lastname
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Fallout's true purpose was to show us how out of pocket 50s music was
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@zclaude.bsky.social
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It's like how the first bikini bathing suit was named after the place where they did all those nuclear tests. Sounds like a headline from another world. Must've been a strange time to be alive
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Xan, Keeper of the greater Niagara bog.
@xandariathepink.bsky.social
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The atom bomb song even has period accurate racism.
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David Seaver
@davidseaver.bsky.social
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I've not been watching, but did they play this oldie by the Louvin Brothers? Goddamn creepy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i4...
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@stubobnumbers.bsky.social
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Here's a more recent song about being together as the bombs fall.
youtu.be/xvEgcjbhbx4?...
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@stubobnumbers.bsky.social
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There is a love song about "Crawling out through the Fallout". And there is a gospel song about nuclear war.
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Marc Hirsh
@spacecitymarc.bsky.social
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A commenter on a popular music column pointed out just how many A-bomb songs there were in the '80s, including some I absolutely never twigged to. (see: "There's a room where the light won't find you/Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down" from "Everybody Wants To Rule The World")
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Schroedingercat
@schroedingercat.bsky.social
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It was either make it fun and art or go insane with screaming
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Blue Sky Group
@blueskygroup.bsky.social
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🎶Crawl out through the fallout baby 🎶
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AshR
@ashr202.bsky.social
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I use the conelrad mod for new Vegas and that playlist has some of the most rancid vibes imaginable. About 50/50 "song about getting nuked" and "song about getting nuked (racist)". Plus a couple pro Vietnam war songs which I think are the most rancid of the bunch.
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Dafter Wullie
@daftwullie.bsky.social
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This one hasn't been in Fallout, I think, but has the same insane stuff going on. Just a quaint oldtimey country gospel song about how scary the atom bomb is, but you should be even more scared of God: youtu.be/ffVIQC8pdd8?...
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Girl-Starved Beast
@julesprom.bsky.social
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they would have loved fallout back then so much
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aerostatic observer
@waveform.observer
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watched with my gf, when they dropped “crawl out through the fallout” she cracked up & assumed it had been written for one of the games as a parody & I was like “here’s the thing:”
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Anya Johanna DeNiro
@adeniro.bsky.social
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countless layers of trauma by World War II that were pushed down, soldiers coming back after being jacked up on amphetamines, and then the dawn of the nuclear age.
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Lots42
@lots42.bsky.social
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My mom had the same reaction.
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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i just played "crawl out through the fallout" for my husband and he was like "this is fake." and it's not lmfao
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Mat 🍋 - Lemonade.
@freehogarth.bsky.social
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Don't forget the colonial undertones! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyD...
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ŠequencedLife
@sequencedlife.bsky.social
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And fucking each others brains out, don’t forget that part
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joan
@westvirginia.bsky.social
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siiiiixxxty minute man!
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Shayne from Missouri
@cultofsignal.bsky.social
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Will my kids feel the same way about the 80s? "Future's so bright, gotta wear shades", "99 Luftballoons", several lyric drops by Prince.
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Charles Louis Richter
@richterscale.bsky.social
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the advent of the Weird Al Era has obscured the fact the 50s were a true Golden Age of Novelty Songcraft
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The stars are just old lights, I can see them falling down
@oldlights.bsky.social
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They missed a few, too. I had a mod for Fallout 3 that added several dozen more of them. The 50s were apparently weird. Also, I learned Marty Robbins wrote a song where he called for the US to allow Vietnamese children to die from not getting blood transfusions for being communist. Regrets.
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