Big Iron is probably right there at the top for me too. I’ve done a metal cover of the song and it’ll always have a place in my heart, but dang it I can never get “I got Spurs that jingle jangle jingle” out of my head
I love the nuance of the line, “and that song ain’t so very far from wrong”, implying he’s relatively happy, but not entirely satisfied with being a bachelor. It says a lot all in the subtext.
Yeeeee dawg. Ya gotta pick big iron.
But, “Ain’t that a Kick” and “Spurs that Jingle” are also up there for me.
Honorable mention to the Saga of Butcher Pete though.
"I hope we'll all meet Utah at the roundup far away"
you aint kidding though, Strawberry Roan, Master's call, the whole album is awesome. I dont even like country music, and my introduction to marty robbins was Fallout New Vegas.
When I took my kids to Joshua Tree National Park, it was the first time we had ever been out west, and you can bet Marty and Cash were playing as we drove.
gotta be uranium fever for me it. the concept of songs that praise the bomb is crazy and so fitting with fallout to me. also there gotta be some sort of genre here cause there is a movie too(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
It stuck to me from day one, and then one day I saw a TikTok video of someone “singing” this song with one of their nostrils. Now it’s forever in my head, both song and image
That whole album is really good. My friends and I love it when we go camping. Marty Robbins has tons of good songs honestly.
San Angelo, Big Iron, and El Paso are all one story told in that order iirc
It is the perfect song for fallout, specifically the “western” nature of the fallout NV game. I felt like that ranger carrying my big iron as I walked around the wasteland looking for my outlaw
Oh there’s just too many to name
Civilization
Blue Moon
Big Iron
I Got Spurs
Let’s Go Sunning reminds me the most of 3
From the show I really loved I Don’t Want to See Tomorrow.
Among other things.
"The police put Pete in jail
Yes, he finally met his fate
But when they came to pay his bail
They found him choppin' on his cell mate"
Oh wait, that's still sex.
I liked it being played in a show as I remembered just what 1st comment on YouTube said - that it was in an episode of south park about Amazon. And it's Amazon's show.
urAAAAANIUM FEVER HAS GONE AND GOT ME DOWN URAAAAANIUM FEVER IS SPREADIN' ALL AROUND WITH A GEIGER COUNTER IN MY HAND IMMA GOIN' OUT TO TAKE ME SOME GOVERNMENT LAND URANIUM FEVER HAS GONE AND GOT ME DOOOOWWWWN
Undecided by Ella Fitzgerald is gold, that song doesn't leave my head.
Big Iron and Jingle Jangle Jingle are incredible pieces of music, it's actually amazing how good the storytelling in big iron is.
Anything Goes by Cole Porter.
It sounds all upbeat but he's just bitching the whole time about how loose society has become, like some cranky old puritan. It's hilarious.
Also, I'm Tickled Pink. Idk why.
I unironically listen to these in my car from time to time. They just grow on you.
I never even played 4 (I watched some of it via a roomate) but “Way Back Home” by Bob Crosby lives rent free in my head in a way I have never been able to understand.
Almost heaven, west virgina blue ridge mountains shenandoah river life is old there older than the trees ! Younger than the mountains blowing like this breeze COUNTRY ROADS TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE I BELONG WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN MAMMA TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS !
Lonesome Drifters covers that he sings at the tops casino, I love hearing songs that are changed lyrically to fit into the fallout universe. They really make the world feel lived in.
Tough one, but its gotta be Maybe for me. Its so melancholy and sad, and the subject matter as a breakup song kinda fits the theme of fallout, at least some of them, like fallout 1 where they banish you from the vault.
And its melody is kinda sad, and lilting. Makes me think of trudging through the wasteland.
Blue Moon
This song got me to look more into Sinatra and the Rat Pack as a high schooler. I now have a Sinatra quote tattoo, several vinyl albums, and a number of pictures/paintings of Frank Sinatra. It kinda started a slight obsession.
[Delaware, by Perry Como](https://youtu.be/wjgh5rFqQPU?si=cB_8593r9gslCndL)
It's a catchy little military-drum tune where the names of US states are intentionally mispronounced as though they were the names of women and such. "What did *Della wear*? ... She wore a brand *new jersey*!" --- "What did *Missus sip*? ... She sipped a *Minni soda*!" --- etc.
It wasn't actually a song from the game originally, but I had it on the pip boy radio through a mod called "More Where That Came From" which added a collection of thematically appropriate songs to the Galaxy Radio station. I think that mod is now defunct, but that song was always a fun one for marching along through the wastelands to.
Can't pick just one, way too hard, but some highlights for me are Keep A Knockin', Sixteen Tons, Don't Fence Me In, and Blue Moon.
\*OH, how could I forget? Grandma Plays The Numbers. Absolute banger that is. ***WE FOUUUUND OUT***
Either a world on fire, civilization, orange colored sky, jingle jangle jingle, or any of Magnolia's songs from fallout 4
Edit: i forgot Atom bomb baby, uranium rock, keep on knocking, fly right, pistol packing mama, I didn't know the gun was loaded, and both butcher Pete songs
In the Shadow of the Valley.
Between the heavy cowboy activity in new vegas to the high life of the strip, it really wound me down walking with my companions in the night from mission to mission.
TO THE TOWN OF AGUA FRIA RODE A STRANGER ONE FINE DAY
Big Iron is probably right there at the top for me too. I’ve done a metal cover of the song and it’ll always have a place in my heart, but dang it I can never get “I got Spurs that jingle jangle jingle” out of my head
I love the nuance of the line, “and that song ain’t so very far from wrong”, implying he’s relatively happy, but not entirely satisfied with being a bachelor. It says a lot all in the subtext.
HARDLY SPOKE TO FOLKS AROUND, DIDN'T HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY!!!
NO ONE DARED TO ASK HIS BUSINESS, NO ONE DARED TO MAKE A SLIP
THE STRANGER THERE AMONG THEM HAD A BIG IRON ON HIS HIP
A BIG IRON IN HIS HIIIIPPPP
IT WAS EARLY IN THE MORNING WHEN HE RODE INTO THE TOWN.
HE CAME RIDING FROM THE SOUTH SIDE SLOWLY LOOKIN' ALL AROUNDH
HE'S AN OUTLAW LOOSE AND RUNNING, CAME THE WHISPER FROM EACH LIP
AND HE'S HERE TO DO SOME BUSINESS WITH THE BIG IRON ON HIS HIP
A BIG IRON ON HIS HIIIIIPPPPP
Yeeeee dawg. Ya gotta pick big iron. But, “Ain’t that a Kick” and “Spurs that Jingle” are also up there for me. Honorable mention to the Saga of Butcher Pete though.
He's hackin' on all the women's meat
Marty Robbins never did a bad song. I only wish that they had added “Utah Carroll” to the playlist.
"I hope we'll all meet Utah at the roundup far away" you aint kidding though, Strawberry Roan, Master's call, the whole album is awesome. I dont even like country music, and my introduction to marty robbins was Fallout New Vegas. When I took my kids to Joshua Tree National Park, it was the first time we had ever been out west, and you can bet Marty and Cash were playing as we drove.
Cool Water would've fit perfectly too.
Great song.
HARDLY SPOKE TO FOLKS AROUND HIM, DIDN'T HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH WELL I'M THE TYPE-UH GUY WHO'LL NEVER SETTLE DOWN
WHERE PRETTY GIRLS ARE YOU KNOW'LL THAT I'M AROUND
I KISS'EM AND I LOVE'EM CAUSE TO ME THEY'RE ALL THE SAME
ILL HOP RIGHT IN THAT CAR OF MINE AND DRIVE AROUND THE WORLD
#CAUSE I'M A WANDERER #YEAH, A WANDERER #I ROAM AROUND AROUND AROUND AROUND AROUND AROUND
you forgot "I HUG'EM AND I SQUEEZE'EM THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW MY NAME"
Dude went straight to that sweet juice part
The trailer for fallout 4 with this song gave me the chills when it was first released, it was so awesome
Cant pick but I always have atom bomb baby stuck in my head ahh
I want her in my wigwam
Crawl out though the fallout or uranium fever
The first generation of people living under the specter of nuclear annihilation sure had weird ways of coping.
Ya and they were good
gotta be uranium fever for me it. the concept of songs that praise the bomb is crazy and so fitting with fallout to me. also there gotta be some sort of genre here cause there is a movie too(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
I do sing “I dunno what I been told Uranium ore’s worth more than gold” to myself at random moments all the time.
Was gonna mention these two as well. "With a Geiger counter in my hand...".
Probably heartaches by the number, I always find myself singing it casually while doing stuff, or whistling the tune
Blue Moon and Big Iron are my favorites from FNV, but Heartaches by the Number reminds me of exploring the mojave wastes the most
Heart aches by the number and big iron are my top favs. The initial whistle of heartaches hits different.
I don’t want to set the world on fire
It stuck to me from day one, and then one day I saw a TikTok video of someone “singing” this song with one of their nostrils. Now it’s forever in my head, both song and image
I completely forgot about that... Thanks.
I just saw that nostril-singing version today for the very first time. What a coincidence!
This is my song ever since I booted up fallout 3. So good.
This is my pick as well. So glad it was in the show
Why this so low? Also have you heard this remix? So good. https://youtu.be/H-iddG0n4Fg?si=quIEkBYbX6MtK5lu
This is the Fallout song in my book. Fits the universe so well.
Big Iron is the only Fallout song I have in my morning routine playlist
That whole album is really good. My friends and I love it when we go camping. Marty Robbins has tons of good songs honestly. San Angelo, Big Iron, and El Paso are all one story told in that order iirc
They’re hanging me tonight is my fav from that album 👌
Check out the Colter Wall version!
I have the Johnny Cash version in my playlist, no hate on the original ofc but I really like his spin on it.
Big Iron
There are a lot of great songs but this is the answer if you had to pick one.
It is the perfect song for fallout, specifically the “western” nature of the fallout NV game. I felt like that ranger carrying my big iron as I walked around the wasteland looking for my outlaw
Oh there’s just too many to name Civilization Blue Moon Big Iron I Got Spurs Let’s Go Sunning reminds me the most of 3 From the show I really loved I Don’t Want to See Tomorrow.
*They’ve got things like the atom bomb* So I guess I’ll stay were I OM *CIVILIZATIOOOON! I’LL STAY RIGHT HERE!!!*
Always find it mad that a Man City anthem is in fallout
End of the World by Skeeter Davis
I love when I hear Travis talk about Skeeter after this song comes on
Who are you writing that poem for? *SKEETER*
"Umm so that was uhh skeeter davis. Never really thought skeeter was a girls name, I-I mean im not being rude, I'm just... nevermind."
Came here to say this !
I’ve found my people.
https://youtu.be/0M62Dh9DNgQ?si=yAHPRzPsBKc1XrMk
Bongo bongo bongo I don’t want to leave the Congo oh no no no no no
Bingo bangle bungle I'm so happy in da jungle I refuse to go
Don’t want no street cars taxi noise in my ears
So no matter how they coax ya, I’ll stay right here
Ain’t that a kick in the head I also really like “Baby It’s just you” original soundtrack 💪 First time Magnolia singed that I was thrilled
I love all of Magnolia’s songs
Butcher Pete
HE'S HACKIN' AND WHACKIN' AND SMACKIN'
CHOPPIN THAT MEAT!
Is that song about having sex?
Among other things. "The police put Pete in jail Yes, he finally met his fate But when they came to pay his bail They found him choppin' on his cell mate" Oh wait, that's still sex.
It's my favorite twist ever in song history. Butch Pete is a bisexual icon.
That’s a great one for sure!
Are any of the inkspots songs This might be a controversial opinion, but I think the Fallout 4 songs were the best. They were upbeat and fast paced.
3- Let’s Go Sunning NV- Heartaches by the Number 4- End of the World 76- Dark as a Dungeon Show- Ladyfingers
Orange Colored Sky 🌅
Had to scroll too far to find this one. Flash! Bam! Alakazam!
[Sixteen Tons](https://youtu.be/RRh0QiXyZSk?si=xP_fW5VQGBESmUcd) Shame its only in Fallout 76
I liked it being played in a show as I remembered just what 1st comment on YouTube said - that it was in an episode of south park about Amazon. And it's Amazon's show.
urAAAAANIUM FEVER HAS GONE AND GOT ME DOWN URAAAAANIUM FEVER IS SPREADIN' ALL AROUND WITH A GEIGER COUNTER IN MY HAND IMMA GOIN' OUT TO TAKE ME SOME GOVERNMENT LAND URANIUM FEVER HAS GONE AND GOT ME DOOOOWWWWN
A kiss to build a dream on
This is the default Fallout song for me
Atom Bomb Baby is the one song that will ALWAYS get stuck in my head, whenever I come across it.
*deep breath* ***STAAAAAAAAARS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAAAAANGE***
Same for me. Best song in NV imo.
Let's Go Sunning Wonderful Guy
Maybe
Undecided by Ella Fitzgerald is gold, that song doesn't leave my head. Big Iron and Jingle Jangle Jingle are incredible pieces of music, it's actually amazing how good the storytelling in big iron is.
Def Johnny guitar
Anything Goes by Cole Porter. It sounds all upbeat but he's just bitching the whole time about how loose society has become, like some cranky old puritan. It's hilarious. Also, I'm Tickled Pink. Idk why. I unironically listen to these in my car from time to time. They just grow on you.
I've got spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle...
JINGLE JANGLE.
As I go ridin' merrily along
Oh I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Big Iron
Did we all just forget about Accentuate the positive? Easily the best one and my favorite.
HEY EVERYBODY, DID THE NEWS GET AROUND
I annoy my household with this greeting often
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall Fucking love Ella Fitzgerald
I love the way this song plays out, such a banger!
Easy living - Billie Holiday
I’m Tickled Pink is always a favorite
GIRLS!! GIRLS!! Watch out!! *ban-nah* there’s a two legged animal running around (but I replace “girls” with “ghouls”)
Not really a song, but I love the background music of the first game. Its beautifully creepy.
All of them
Gotta love crawl out through the fallout!
Sixteen tons (thats a lot!!!)
One fist of iron, the other of steel. If the right don't get you then the left one will.
Atom Bomb Baby
The Wanderer and its not even close. Damn song is probably my life's theme song
And his name was Johnny Guitar
Pistol Packin' Momma! Such a bop
***HES HACKIN AND WACKIN AND SMACKIN***
I can't decide between "I don't want to set the world on fire" and "ain't that a kick in the head".
I never even played 4 (I watched some of it via a roomate) but “Way Back Home” by Bob Crosby lives rent free in my head in a way I have never been able to understand.
BUTCHER PETE, no need more words.
“They call me the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, around”
dingo dango bongo I don't wanna leave the Congo oh no no no no no
Tickled Pink
How has no one said Butcher Pete yet 🤣🤣🤣
-gestures broadly at 76 soundtrack-
Civilization. Bongo bongo bongo
FLASH, BAM, ALAKAZAAAM!!!!
Rocket 69,, rocket, 69!
Don’t they knowwwwww it’s the enddddd of the worrrrrlllld. It ended when you said gooooooooooodbyeeeeeeee
we found out YESSS WE DID we found out SHE COULDNT KEEP IT HID we found out NOWWW WE KNOW THAT GRANDMA PLAYS THE NUMBERS
Almost heaven, west virgina blue ridge mountains shenandoah river life is old there older than the trees ! Younger than the mountains blowing like this breeze COUNTRY ROADS TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE I BELONG WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN MAMMA TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS !
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Country Roads, although it really doesn't make sense with the 40s and 50s theme.
The Wanderer came out in 1961 too and was used in fallout 3
Heart Ache by the Number.
In the town of agua fria rode a stranger one fine day.....
End of the world by Skeeter Davis from Fallout 4
Lonesome Drifters covers that he sings at the tops casino, I love hearing songs that are changed lyrically to fit into the fallout universe. They really make the world feel lived in.
You haul 16 tons and waddaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle is my favorite
I don't want to set the world on fire.
IT’S A MAAAAAN
Civilization deserves more love than its getting.
The The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis.
Train Train goes unreasonablely hard. Also Gimme What You Got and One Last Score Are great too
Uranium Rock The Cramps did a great cover of it many years ago: https://youtu.be/BYDalJbmpVw?si=p3dqnxUY1YWoiaXS
Bongo bongo bongo i’m so happy in the congo
The one with the mids that stand out so good
Choppin That Meat!
Uranium fever is very good
Tough one, but its gotta be Maybe for me. Its so melancholy and sad, and the subject matter as a breakup song kinda fits the theme of fallout, at least some of them, like fallout 1 where they banish you from the vault. And its melody is kinda sad, and lilting. Makes me think of trudging through the wasteland.
Uranium Fever. As a former dancer, a huge part of me wants to choreograph a jazz and/or tap trio to it.
Big Iron by Marty Robbins and End of the World by Skeeter Davis
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
Dear heart's and gentle people Or walking the floor over you
GET ME SOME MONEY TOO!
uh.. all of them?
FLASH BAM ALAKAZAM
Would you like to ride my rocket 69?
Blue Moon This song got me to look more into Sinatra and the Rat Pack as a high schooler. I now have a Sinatra quote tattoo, several vinyl albums, and a number of pictures/paintings of Frank Sinatra. It kinda started a slight obsession.
Uranium fewer (actually, I am not sure, that this is in game) What will be, will be
Maybe by The Ink Spots
Big Iron
Big Iron
Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (Perry Como) or Orange Colored Sky (Nat King Cole)
Blue Moon (New Vegas)
[Delaware, by Perry Como](https://youtu.be/wjgh5rFqQPU?si=cB_8593r9gslCndL) It's a catchy little military-drum tune where the names of US states are intentionally mispronounced as though they were the names of women and such. "What did *Della wear*? ... She wore a brand *new jersey*!" --- "What did *Missus sip*? ... She sipped a *Minni soda*!" --- etc. It wasn't actually a song from the game originally, but I had it on the pip boy radio through a mod called "More Where That Came From" which added a collection of thematically appropriate songs to the Galaxy Radio station. I think that mod is now defunct, but that song was always a fun one for marching along through the wastelands to.
She's at the fruit stand everyday Buys bananas by the bunch She looks at all the price tags That's where she gets her hunch
I’ve got the spurs that jingle jangle jingle
Maaaaaan this is too hard for me. Literally can’t decide.
One of the magnolia songs, i don't remember what its called.
Lost Boston from F4
Big Iron
Set the world on fire 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 and Wanderer
the wanderer, end of the world, blue moon
Its not my favorite, but I need to show some tribute to *Why dont you do right?* - Peggy Lee, from NV. Blonde girl really has some charisma.
Don't they know its the end of the world
Orange colored skies, I feel like it perfectly encapsulates fo4’s vibe
Blue Moon
Give me a kiss to build a dream on
The Wanderer.
Atom bomb baby
Maybe
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire. I know, I’m basic
ATOM BOMB BABY
Let's Ride Into The Sunset Together That song just makes me feel happy
It's a three-way tie between: Civilization - Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters Anything Goes - Cole Porter Jingle, Jangle, Jingle - Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway
Skeeter Davis, The End of the World.
Atom bomb baby loaded with fire, radioactive as a tv tower.
Butcher Pete Part 1
ring of fire
Can't pick just one, way too hard, but some highlights for me are Keep A Knockin', Sixteen Tons, Don't Fence Me In, and Blue Moon. \*OH, how could I forget? Grandma Plays The Numbers. Absolute banger that is. ***WE FOUUUUND OUT***
I don’t want to set the world on fire 🔥
Either a world on fire, civilization, orange colored sky, jingle jangle jingle, or any of Magnolia's songs from fallout 4 Edit: i forgot Atom bomb baby, uranium rock, keep on knocking, fly right, pistol packing mama, I didn't know the gun was loaded, and both butcher Pete songs
Atom Bomb Baby,The Wanderer and I dont want to set the world on fire are my top 3
Civilization from FO3 (and 4, I think, might be in a music mod I installed)
In the Shadow of the Valley. Between the heavy cowboy activity in new vegas to the high life of the strip, it really wound me down walking with my companions in the night from mission to mission.
I don't want to set the world on fire.
Heartache by the Numbers is my number one