I do not believe Bethesda anticipated that GNR would be so successful. They didn't know if everybody would enjoy listening to 40's-50's music. So they played it safe with like 15 or so songs.
I believe that now, knowing how popular GNR was with the fans, the music stations will have many more songs.
That makes since, I certainly hope that is the case. I've always loved the 40s-50s (and 30s) music myself, ever since I was a kid, and I would dig through my grandparents records and play them on an old turntable. I can see some people's frustration if they
don't like this style and genre of music, but they shouldn't expect the Fallout universe to change its lore because of it. I'm not particularly found of country music as a whole, but I don't think cowboy movies should switch to rock. (I do love some Willie Nelson, though, and select country songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ counts as one of my all time favorite songs.) So I'm not sure how much time I'll spend listening to the Jacobstown radio, but if its the older country songs, I'll probably like it okay.
"(I Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle", is just one big innuendo about a promiscuous cowboy. Why do you think his spurs are jingling in the first place? (Because cowboys didnt take their boots off during six). Why will there be no wedding bells for today? (because the cowboy wants to screw all the girls he lists without the strings attached). Older music was a lot better at innuendos and suggestive lyrics than they are today.
Yeah, too many of the songs that want to be dirty today just take the lazy way out and spell out the vulgarity. The best of the old songs are ones you could listen to with your children without embarrassment, but would be embarrassed to listen to with your own parents. Those old songs were lyrical and poetic, not just content to rhyme words or spell things out. It was probably the second time I was listening to Butcher Pete, having loved it the first time, that I suddenly stopped in the middle of the wasteland and went, "Oh, my God! Pete isn't a serial killer!"
And BTW the music wasn't "found" in the Fallout universe that was the music that was out and popular when the War happened. I suggest you open your mind to new things. Listening to one genre of music is like only being able to read a little bit. Sure you can read, but you aren't getting the full experience and you know so little. There's so much knowledge in reading you are missing out on if you can only read a little bit. Just keep your mind open to new things my friend. :foodndrink:
Yes, these songs remained timelessly classic, like Elvis songs in our own time. It it likely however, that new songs in the same style and genre were produced continuously and listened to up until the bombs fell, but we can't accurately show that, because the developers would have to write new songs that are in the same style and capture the same greatness as those they have chosen in the 40s, and 50s. So it is implied that other songs exist that we have never heard in our timeline,
in the same style as the songs already present, but we just don't hear them because Bethesda would have to write and record an entire album of hit songs!
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