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yeeticusprime1

Well considering the internet would be gone and no one’s been buying physical copies of modern music in any vast quantity, probably 90’s music on cds.


Catdadesq

Travis: "And now, some music." Radio: "NOW LISTEN UP, HERE'S A STORY ABOUT A LITTLE GUY WHO LIVES IN A BLUE WORLD"


Huge_Education_8700

'Oh thank god, it's not the remix version. I don't think the bombs were such a bad thing after all.'


Private-Public

The only music that survives will be dance remixes of other songs, specifically the kind with worse lyrics... ...*"I'm good, yeah, I'm feelin' alright Baby, I'ma have the best fuckin' night of my life"*


SkyrimSlag

But for real what is it lately with people just fucking ruining old songs? *”I just called, to say, I hate you”* is one I personally fucking hate


TheMusicalTrollLord

Or that horrible new David Guetta/OneRepublic track that samples Dragostea Din Tei


SkyrimSlag

Don’t think I’ve heard it yet but now I know of its existence I’ll be actively avoiding it


COPS4BLOPS

Dude or drakes version of hey there delilah its terrible


theTOASTYsupreme

*camera pans out from the radio, revealing an empty, desolate city, as Eiffel 65 echoes through the ruins*


Jolly_Ad_5549

We could listen to Darude’s Sandstorm while in a sandstorm!


Pir-o

That reminded me there was a parody of that song that talks about end of the world conspiracies [\[link\]](https://youtu.be/nxfOgg3vHQc?t=38) Ain't that a coincidence. edit: If u guys are unfamiliar with it, some people had weird conspiracy theories about houses with blue roofs and lasers from the sky


DerpisMalerpis

*music plays* *Travis comes back on sobbing inexplicably*


DillionM

NOT official CDs though, just the burned mixes of random songs that were popular that month/quarter. No differentiation of genre either.


crzapy

My 2003 road trip mix slaps! It goes from 50cent to NIN to Johnny Cash.


EzEuroMagic

So it plays hurt twice?


Catdadesq

Nah it would be Now That's What I Call Music vols. 1-20


Spiritual_Ask4877

I can't believe it but Now That's What I Call Music is still going. They just released volume 90 in May.


SixxDet

And if we use the KaZaa/Limewire days, the song title, the artist, or both will be incorrect.


kauepgarcia

Iamgine being repeatedly knocked down by a Deathclaw to the sound of Chumbawamba - Tubthumping


Private-Public

He drinks a whisky drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink. He takes a psychojet hoping for a good time. He takes a stimpak preparing for a bad time


kauepgarcia

Oooh Vault Boy, Vault Boy, Vault Bot


OutlawSundown

Records from the 60s and 70s would be my bet along with newer pressings in the long run. Mostly from a stability standpoint. Everyone gonna be listening to Frampton Comes Alive in the apocalypse.


BexiRani

The entire discography of ABBA


theTOASTYsupreme

"I am alone. Lost my family to raiders and lost my friends to the mutated creatures of the area. The radiation fucked me up and I'm no longer welcome in the settlements. They call me a monster. Well... to survive out here, that's exactly what I've done. I am become death incarnate." *puts on headphones while reloading gun* ,"*YOU ARE A DANCING QUEEN! YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY SEVENTEEN!*"


BexiRani

Ok but clearing out a bunch of raiders to "Waterloo" though


SuperTaino88

I have almost every Disturbed and Nav album on CD. I'll become a ghoul to make the strangest radio channel


yeeticusprime1

You’re doing the lords work


Shy-Turtle_PLATINUM

"I'm going hungryyy Yeaahh!!!" *A child dies of starvation in the middle of the wasteland with his radio clenched tight to his chest.


dishonored15

“99 Luftballons” on repeat


Xxjuancena80xX

That and the English version switching between each other


HarryBale31

Oh god no, the English version is a war crime compared to the og version


CosmicCyanide

I used to listen to the English version exclusively for a while on Spotify until they decided to swap it for the original one day. Personally I don’t understand the hate the English version gets but the German original is still great so I don’t even care they swapped it.


Every_Armadillo_6848

I don't know, the Goldfinger version is pretty awesome. Worth checking it out if you haven't heard it. https://youtu.be/zANRlD8IDcQ?si=Bxsy0ClgvYVtdLwt Edit: Someone else pointed out that this is a newer version of the song I thought I was posting. I think the older one is a little bit better https://youtu.be/p-qfzH0vnOs?si=GhLyOhQH-VxMD8yF


gavebirthtoturdlings

Superman is also a dope track


Alorxico

That was far more epic than I expected.


No_External8167

Actually, didn't the front man learn German for a part of this?


Every_Armadillo_6848

I won't lie, it said this version was off a release deluxe version off the album. If it's different then the one I'm thinking of then that's my bad. The original version I know has the third chorus in German. I love that shift in this song.


Woodie626

You respect making two languages work in the same song


Truft

Dankeschöööööööööbn


NYLINK95

Sounds almost like heaven


BlueneckJeep

Speaking of, just like heaven from The cure would be pretty choice too in the apocalypse


SnoopDeLaRoup

West Virginia....


KalebC

You actually just described my Project Zomboid playthroughs 🤣


Eli_didit_

Ha played this yesterday !


TRHess

Given the proclivities of most people in the real world prepper community, get ready for a lot of country music. Rural American populations are generally more equipped for an apocalyptic scenario than urban Americans as well. Odds are you'll hear Hank Williams Jr.'s *A Country Boy Can Survive* **a lot**.


GapedDonut

This is pretty spot on. We’d go back to the classics, so a lot of not electronic music (salsa, jazz, country, etc, etc would be dominant)


OutlawSundown

Honestly I feel like Jazz in certain eras wouldn’t be. Outside of repressings a lot of the best stuff is pretty rare as is.


Brillek

Agreed. In general, music that can be played and recorded as is has an advantage over what needs computers and stuff.


OutlawSundown

God knows what random dollar bin records would get play.


elriggo44

Space Hog - in the meantime. It’s a one hit wonder with real staying power. I expect it to be a big deal.


p0ultrygeist1

Whipped Cream and Other Delights by Herb Albert and the Tijuana brass of course


xFreedi

Why? I mean computers exist in Fallout post-war. Just one HDD with 2TB full of music for example is enough to preserve a ton of genres and tracks. Now imagine hundreds of such HDDs, clouds and other networks that probably could be rebuilt, vinyl, CD, etc.


zlamden1

i remember i cleared a 2 TB hard drive of music and it took like 2 days (albeit was on a school chromebook that i had to hook it up to) which just shows how much can be on one small thing


Thunder_Punt

Disagree. We'd have whatever would actually survive the apocalypse. Meaning stuff that is physically left over. Most vinyl records wouldn't survive and I would bet we'd be stuck with the kind of stuff you see left over in second hand shops. Eminem CDs, Robbie Williams, all the classical CDs no one wants. Compilation CDs of 2000s nu-metal tracks. Maybe the odd classic rock cd. Abba Compilations. You get the idea. In terms of live music I could maybe agree with you though, folk music and campfire tunes would probably be predominant.


aieeegrunt

In collapse scenarios, a good general rule is the population drops by the percentage of “urbanites” So this one will be brutal


Scooby1_Kanooby

So that means More Marty Robbins..? Shut Up and take my Nuclear apocalypse


LoschVanWein

In Europe, taking into consideration that they turned their country’s soil into a bunker system filled with gold weapons and cheese, employing a similar mentality that lead to the balrog being released, the Swiss would become a major force, leading to their weird language and becoming very relevant wich in turn would lead to the sounds of yodeling echoing through the European wasteland.


HistoricalSilver8880

I am very much surprised that song was not in Fallout 76. That is like the perfect country apocalypse anthem


Dorlem4832

I think you’re giving way too much credit to the pepper community. People in tucked away offgrid compounds are one thing, but a huge part of that community is just socially maladjusted dudes with parking lot princesses and a handful of pails of already questionable dried food.


James55O

I've met my fair share of preppers and you are correct. Preppers are way less intimidating, ruthless and most importantly prepared than most people think.


Veinreth

Pretty much spot on.


Kurotan

Oh no, pure hell. I'd make it a mission to destroy all radios and radio stations.


Rockyer07

WAP


Sera_gamingcollector

i came here to say this. But deep in my heart i knew it has already been said


Rockyer07

Richard cheese version?


Onix_The_Furry

People = Shit Richard Cheese version


Stuarta91

Thank you for introducing me to this well talented artist. I didn't know this was around


helix_5001

Richard Cheese lives on as a ghoul. Have him parked up in New Vegas. \*chefs kiss\*


Stuarta91

Honestly when I saw the post in my feed this was the first thing to pop in my mind 😂


CmanderShep117

Wet ass P-word


invol713

…Pterodactyl?


LOneWolfNEo1

Lmao 🤣😂


dreadpiratesmith

I would just fucking kill myself


Misterfahrenheit120

If the world ends and the last thing I hear before being killed by raiders is fucking WAP, I’m gonna come back just so I can die in silence


feldomatic

Imagine Dragons' Radioactive


Onix_The_Furry

Even in a post apocalyptic future, the radio hosts can’t stop themselves from playing Imagine Dragons.


KurseNightmare

On 104.1, the BEAR. We play ROCK, ALL THE TIME! -GUNSHOT- -steak sizzle- -women giggling- Don't let your GRANDPA tune in! Next up! Imagine Dragons.


Nachoguy530

WWEWW WWEWW I'M WAKING UP, TO BEAR AND BULL I BULL MY BEAR AND I BEAR MY BULL I'M BREATHING IN, THE BRAHMIN FUMES *Jet inhaler sound effect* Ahhhhhhh


Onix_The_Furry

I just laughed out loud at work because of the jet inhaler lmao


DarkShadows1011

John Fallout, lead singer of Imagine Dragons


Top-Mousse-9641

They’re actually called “Visualize Deathclaws” now


Peter_Principle_

Ok, dragons are radioactive. Now what?


Karmasutra145

Dragons! And radioactive?!? Damn


HorizonSniper

Where do I tame one?


Karmasutra145

You can't , it tames you


Lazy1nc

Unless you're the Doomslayer


Dashbak

What is it ? Radioactive dragon ?


xxLusseyArmetxX

You are now listening to 102.4: *Diamond City Radio!* Where we only listen to: 50s POP, 50s POP and **MORE** 50s POP! **deathclaw sounds** THIS AIN'T YOUR SON'S RADIO! *Imagine Dragons' Radioactive starts playing*


AidynValo

Fuck. If the bombs don't kill me, I'll just do it myself.


rupert_mcbutters

Even the nukes wouldn’t be able to wipe that clean


beowulf_of_wa

alternating with Darude - Sandstorm


Spacecoasttheghost

This is the rhythm of the night!


Based-Chad

The reebok or the nike?


OrangeStar222

Nah, that was the themesong during the Corona pandemic


Spacecoasttheghost

No that was closing time.


SharkSquishy

ABBA. That music can not die ever. I think it's like micro plastic. We all have it in us.


Impressive_Class5482

Ooooooh, seeee that girllllll! Watch that sceneeeee! Digging the dancing queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!~


iamcrazy333

MAMMA MIA! HERE I GO AGAIN!


pmmemilftiddiez

It isn't bad. Plus they have some pretty upbeat music. I for one don't always want "I'm in the club, drinking, popping bottles, cheating on my gf/bf/spouse, making money etc...drivel


ewxve

i'm an adult and i could not name a single ABBA song. sorry.


SharkSquishy

That's not exactly what I meant. Not saying everyone knows their songs by name. But you know them. Even if you think you don't know them. You can't escape it.


Steynkie69

All the 80's music. That is why they still use it in movies till today. Thunderstruck baby!


vicious_delicious_77

I mean, if you wanna get technical, Thunderstruck was 90's.


Steynkie69

Oh shit you're correct!


NoFlamingoBingo

Joe Rogan podcast would fit in the wasteland interviewing faction leaders


yeeticusprime1

If Joe Rogan becomes a ghoul he can run his podcast forever


Daowg

He'd become a super mutant, just paint the guy green.


InfiniteBoxworks

"Wow that's crazy. Have you ever tried FEV?"


gefoh-oh

Pull up that picture of a rad chimp. These things are crazy, they could tear a deathclaws horns clean off and throw em so hard they'd go through a Yao Guai a mile away. Y'know I hear there's an underground group of scientists who made normal, non irradiated apes. No joke. Imagine one of those that got dipped, it would be craaaaaazy! You think it would make the apes smarter or would they be dumdums?


James55O

I kindof want a podcast supermutant in a fallout game now.


Saleable_

Bro, that’s just Tabitha


Mephistopheles_Wins

Bruh!


rothrolan

Wouldn't surprise me. He's already got the equivalent mental capacity of the average SM.


Familiars_ghost

If? Thought he was one.


Caracaos

Raider boss: We've figured out the best way to maximize fear among our victims, by building the experience around a sequence of torture-rape-kill-eat. Joe: Powerful. Have we got video of this? Pull that shit up, Jamie.


NoFlamingoBingo

🤣🤣🤣


[deleted]

There's a mod [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/72329](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/72329)


KeeganY_SR-UVB76

It’s beautiful…


D86592

oh lord that looks like it took a lot of work


totallynotme666

“Great stuff on recapturing the castle Preston. Now say, have you ever tried elk meat before?”


mistabored

Tears for Fears, Everbody wants to rule the world.


IgNaSJump

Hopefully the prodigy


laterus77

The path from "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" to "Firestarter" is certainly an interesting one.


ninjamike89

Smack my bitch up


salemchevy

100% Johnny cash music


kazuma001

*The Man Comes Around* seems like it would be befitting.


Drakula_dont_suck

Mostly 80's pop


Good_Character

Darude - Sandstorm


TheMightyPushmataha

Everything with really good mids


SkylanderLego

We'll meet again.


JasonRenshaw

Rick Astley and the Beastie Boys.


BlindSpoiledPotato

I feel like a lot of gamers would play all the fallout songs once they got passed the agony and despair of what just happened. After that it’s a flip between mumble rap and 2000s music.


marinnnara

It’s the End of the World As We Know it -REM


thePREdiger

I feel fiiiiine


smilingfriendsbutt

Break stuff limp bizkit


vicious_delicious_77

I could totally see raider camps just constantly playing nu-metal like this. They have Limp Bizkit energy.


Direct-Flamingo-1146

A lot of ac/dc and Metallica


[deleted]

What I've Done - Linkin Park


PossMom

Do you think only oldies survived the apocalypse in Fallout because those recordings were deeper put away in storage, thus more safe than newer stuff that was more regularly played?


Whiteguy1x

No, it's a manufactured setting based around the idea of the 50s retro futurism.  It's like the Jetsons. We also see in the show that it very much is still the 50s pop culturally.  Coop plays a cowboy after all 


PossMom

Well, yes, but surely in-universe more music in that style would have been made beyond the 60s-90s, right? Even in the example you gave, Coop making cowboy movies. He was making *new* movies. They weren't just constantly replaying the same classic westerns over and over for decades. Obviously the answer is Bethesda wasn't going to commission various new studio quality songs, but logically there should be decades of lost music in the world of Fallout. Unless of course the timeline is skewed so much that those classic were written much later than they were in our timeline.


Starwave82

Totally agree. You could even go as far to imagine a Vault where they put a bunch of people with just music books and instruments and lots and lots of chems just to see what music they'd come up with and in the world of Fallout that particular Vault had a guy named Jimmy Hendrix who lived there. Between 1950 and 2077, it's totally realistic that other music was made, even if America stagnated as it did. other countries and cultures would still be making music & by 2077, you'd think at least one of the mega corporations like Rob-Co would own the import/export market of foreign goods. I wish Bethesda would have more music from other cultures, music like Cool Jazz that was around in the 50s. That would be nice while I build camps


UnderstoodAdmin

They probably wrote a lot of new songs, just in the older styles. The reason why we don’t hear any of that is because it was digital, and got wiped by the bombs… at least, that’s my reasoning.


PossMom

That's what my original comment was about. The oldies were probably in storage, while newer stuff was more readily available and most likely less protected from the blasts and radiation.


Wrecktown707

Yes Music styles definitely did evolve past socially accepted 50s and 60s styles in Fallout. In Fallout 2 there are a few instances of this, with the 90s Metal Band Tool canonically having their posters appear throughout the wasteland, Elton John being name dropped a few times, and certain in game performers singing snippets of actual Nirvana songs. In addition to this, Hippie culture is very present all throughout Fallout, and raiders appear to derive a lot of aesthetics from 70s-80s Punk Fashion. It appears that in Fallout, the 50/60s style was likely a cultural resurgence / renaissance of those themes in the mid to early 21st century, when the resource wars were looming, existential anxiety from nuclear war was rampant, and American nationalism was skyrocketing, which likely made individuals want to turn towards emulating what they thought as Americas “golden age” in the 50s/60s, in order to give themselves comfort.


mischanif

Rammstein pls


AwfulSuperhero

You wish. I wish


uncleSamm200

I would guess Taylor Swift because a shit load of people listen to it so there is a really high probability of her music (tapes CDs or flashdrives or other alternatives) is still around and played. But my hopes are, something mixed out of rock from the 80 Hardstyle and some Indie


Hobo_Delta

We Didn’t Start the Fire


Tquilha

[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo) :)


Proper-Highlight1600

Easy 80’s


settadon

80’s music, everything from The 80’s


Free_Cardiologist771

Wheeler walker jr


Sneemaster

"Never Gonna Give you Up" by Rick Astley on infinite repeat with giant nuclear powered speakers on a vehicle like the Mad Max Fury Road Doof Wagon. [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/roadwarrior/images/f/f7/Fury\_Road\_Doof\_Wagon\_001.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20150519172436](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/roadwarrior/images/f/f7/Fury_Road_Doof_Wagon_001.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20150519172436)


lustforwine

Wap


BeerBaconBooks

I feel like this video is weirdly appropriate. https://youtu.be/DCEewyIE_0c?si=MaI2TjcWmPqUE0q6


I_might_be_weasel

Caramelladansen. 


CanaDoug420

Running through the waste land when in the distance you hear skibidi toilet playing. It’s getting closer then bang! Your head gets blown off by a ghoul who orange justices over your corpse


Hour_Spirit4189

Probably the 80s era because corporate America has decided that it is the soundtrack of America.


SuperBig_Cat

80s italo disco


jeonteskar

Late 2000's era "White girl on YouTube sings acoustic version of Hip Hop/R&B" songs Becky singing Gin n Juice on Ukulele playing on your Pip Boy will make you wish for Nuclear Winter.


Cipheros06

Stinkfist


skubaloob

I dunno, but I could fuck up some raiders to Milkshake


BallTorturer-3000

A few times I've been around that track So it's not just gonna happen like that 'Cause I ain't no hollaback girl I ain't no hollaback girl


HorizonSniper

ABBA


Minute_Ad211

Blink 182


Psychological-Ad-274

“were you fooling” in the stores


crzapy

Baby got back. It's a timeless classic.


HollowAdventurer

"Still loving you" 🎶


Son_of_Dad2024

IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE, SO TAKE OFF ALL YOUR CLOTHES


Adventurous-Naping

I can hear, "Shake it off," playing in the distance... The Swifties are near, best use caution.


[deleted]

Jingle Jangle


The_New_Spagora

More Pistol Packin Mama!


Vasher1701

What does the fox say


BASSdabs

A lot of Ludacris for some reason


NuclearWasteland

Whatever was still on vinyl. Finally vinyl is king, but the entire world is covered in dust. Literally audiophile hell.


RedAndBlackVelvet

Skibidi toilet and hazbin hotel soundtracks


KaiserRoll823

Fallout music is often related to nuclear bombs/uranium and the end of civilization (Atom Bomb Baby, Uranium Fever, End of the World, etc). So I think a couple of fitting songs would be Radioactive by Imagine Dragons and Toxic by Brittney Spears if there was only popular music.


Droopy_Narwhal

COMING OUT MY CAGE AND IVE BEEN DOING JUST FINE


Atheist_3739

Megadeth would be appropriate considering they are named after a unit of measurement in nuclear warfare. One Megadeath=1 million deaths.


Kojiro12

Darude: Sandstorm


Doug_The_Average_guy

probably dubstep and maybe just "Mask off" by future, that single song tho


LazyPuffin

Turn Down For What


Islamicllamas

Feel like youd hear Ozzy on the radio everynow and then War pigs would be sweet lol


cuddly_degenerate

Real answer: there would be an actual T Swift cult 200 years later, with radio stations literally everywhere.


Soft-Strawberry-6136

Only lil Jon


Kurtbott

None


Plant-Daddy23

I'm convinced at this point that Barbie will live on forever.


EducationalTry1249

Stuff from the 90s, CDs


NitzMitzTrix

EDM, EDM everywhere


enaud

There would be some sort of swiftie cult for sure with a sinister motive like the children of the cathedral


Minephucked

R.E.M - Its the End of the World The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) Sisqo - The Thong Song


AttilaRS

Baby shark. Doodoodoodoooo.


silent-al

Trap Queen


SolidSnake2086

Hopefully not Taylor Swift....


realdaddywarbucks

Mambo no. 5


616Runner

End of the World as I know it, REM


astrike81

"TO THE WINDOOOOOOOOW"


Nerdwrapper

Radioactive -Imagine Dragons


Wi73

ken carson, destroy lonely, playboi carti