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The music soundtrack of the Fallout series is composed of both licensed music from the mid-century's Jazz Age to the Space Age, as well as original scores by Mark Morgan, Matt Gruber, Devin Townsend, Inon Zur, and Ramin Djawadi. The series also features original songs and covers commissioned for the games as diegetic music heard in the world of Fallout.
Much of the licensed music used in the Fallout series includes popular hits recorded in the 1940s and 1950s in accordance with its atompunk retrofuturistic setting influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s United States in a post-apocalyptic version of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd centuries. However, with the introduction of 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, the Fallout series has also featured licensed recordings from each of nine consecutive decades from the 1920s to the 2000s.
Fallout
Original score
| Fallout: The Soundtrack | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by Mark Morgan | |
| Released | 30 September 1997 |
| Recorded | c. 1997 |
| Genre | Video game music |
| Length | 56:17 |
The original score for Fallout was composed by Mark Morgan as an ambient album and includes samples and remixes from other works. The score was released on CD by Interplay Productions in 1997. A selection of tracks was released to fans for free on May 10, 2010, as part of the Vault Archives album.[1][2]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Metallic Monks" | 3:27 |
| 2. | "Desert Wind" | 3:23 |
| 3. | "A Trader's Life" | 4:06 |
| 4. | "The Vault of the Future" | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Industrial Junk" | 3:27 |
| 6. | "Moribund World" | 3:06 |
| 7. | "Vats of Goo" | 3:21 |
| 8. | "City of the Dead" | 3:27 |
| 9. | "Second Chance" | 4:06 |
| 10. | "Underground Troubles" | 3:56 |
| 11. | "City of Lost Angels" | 3:49 |
| 12. | "Followers' Credo" | 3:01 |
| 13. | "Radiation Storm" | 4:00 |
| 14. | "Acolytes of a New God" | 3:20 |
| 15. | "Flame of the Ancient World" | 3:10 |
| 16. | "Khans of New California" | 3:19 |
Licensed soundtrack
Fallout features an additional licensed song by the Ink Spots used in the game's introduction and end credits. The song was later reprised in the soundtracks for Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.
| # | Title | Artist | Recording date | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Maybe" | The Ink Spots | 1940 | 2:56 |
Fallout 2
Original score
| Fallout 2: The Soundtrack | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by Mark Morgan | |
| Released | September 30, 1998 |
| Recorded | c. 1998 |
| Genre | Video game music |
| Length | 58:20 |
The original score for Fallout 2 was composed by Mark Morgan as an ambient album and includes samples and remixes from other works as well as previous tracks from Fallout. The score was released on CD by Interplay Productions in 1998. A selection of tracks was released to fans for free on May 10, 2010, as part of the Vault Archives album.[1][2]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "A Trader's Life" | 4:06 |
| 2. | "Moribund World" | 3:06 |
| 3. | "Khans of New California" | 3:19 |
| 4. | "Desert Wind" | 3:23 |
| 5. | "Vats of Goo" | 3:21 |
| 6. | "City of Lost Angels" | 3:49 |
| 7. | "Industrial Junk" | 3:27 |
| 8. | "Underground Troubles" | 3:56 |
| 9. | "City of the Dead" | 3:27 |
| 10. | "Follower's Credo" | 3:01 |
| 11. | "Beyond the Canyon" | 3:17 |
| 12. | "Dream Town" | 3:19 |
| 13. | "Biggest Little City in the World" | 3:18 |
| 14. | "My Chrysalis Highwayman" | 1:10 |
| 15. | "Many Contrasts" | 3:58 |
| 16. | "All-Clear Signal" | 3:20 |
| 17. | "California Revisited" | 1:35 |
| 18. | "Gold Slouch" | 3:28 |
Licensed soundtrack
Fallout 2 features an additional licensed song by Louis Armstrong used in the game's introduction and end credits. The game also references more modern songs such as a poster prop, also found in the first game, featuring a cropped picture of Maynard James Keenan taken from the liner notes of the rock band Tool's debut 1993 album Undertow. Various non-player characters may quote lyrics from Elton John's 1972 song "Rocket Man", Tina Turner's 1985 song "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (a reference to the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome which heavily inspired the Fallout series), or Sugar Ray's 1997 song "Fly".
| # | Title | Artist | Recording date | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" | Louis Armstrong | 1951 | 3:03 |
Additional Fallout entries
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
The 2001 game Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel features 20 ambient tracks composed by Inon Zur. An official download was released by GOG.com upon purchasing the game. It is the only Fallout title to not feature a licensed 1950s-inspired track.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
The 2004 game Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel features a number of 1950s-inspired background tracks by Matt Gruber (credited for "Additional Ambient Music") as well as more heavy metal inspired background tracks by Devin Townsend (credited for "Ambient and Battle Music"). The main menu theme, "A Nuclear Blast", was composed by Craig Stuart Garfinkle with sung lyrics as a pastiche of a 1950s nuclear-themed novelty song. An official score album has not been released.
In addition, the game features licensed tracks from modern day heavy metal bands mostly used as non-diegetic battle music.
| # | Title | Artist | Recording date | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Temple from the Within" | Killswitch Engage | 2000 | 4:07 |
| 02 | "The Heretic Anthem" | Slipknot | 2001 | 4:19 |
| 03 | "People = Shit" | Slipknot | 2001 | 3:35 |
| 04 | "Slave the Way" | Skinlab | 2002 | 3:15 |
| 05 | "My Last Serenade" | Killswitch Engage | 2002 | 4:13 |
| 06 | "Perpetual Black Second" | Meshuggah | 2002 | 4:39 |
| 07 | "Straws Pulled at Random" | Meshuggah | 2002 | 5:10 |
| 08 | "Beneath the Surface" | Skinlab | 2003[nb 1] | 3:09 |
| 09 | "The Dehumanizing Process" | Chimaira | 2003 | 4:10 |
| 10 | "Pure Hatred" | Chimaira | 2003 | 4:18 |
| 11 | "Stigmurder" | Chimaira | 2003 | 4:38 |
| 12 | "Stay With Me (Unlikely)" | Celldweller | 2003 | 3:41 |
| 13 | "The Last Firstborn" | Celldweller | 2003 | 7:41 |
| 14 | "Hate" | Society 1[nb 2] | 2003 | 2:50 |
| 15 | "All You Want" | Society 1 | 2003 | 2:56 |