As I listened to these songs, many of them reminded me of a video game that I played about two or three years ago, called Fallout 3. It is set in the year 2277, however it is set in an alternate time line where the lifestyle of the 1940s and 1950s stayed and only technology became more advanced. And in the year 2277, tensions between the United States of America and China reached a climax and the two countries dropped nuclear bombs on each other and the world essentially became a wasteland.The plot follows a boy on a search for his father in a nuclear wasteland. This game is a sandbox style game, meaning the player has free reign as to where they go. The only way to travel is by running and it is not uncommon to run for a good bit around this wasteland, only hearing your own footsteps and this music. It is quite unnerving and quite peaceful at the same time.
All throughout the game, the music played is from the 1940s which sound very similar to the ones that Baba listened too. The one song that caught my attention was Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. The song is about how the singer feels when he was in love and after his love left him. This song instantly made me remember of the song Ì Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire by the Ink Spots. The song is about a person who wants to be the only one that his significant other loves, and `he just wants to start a flame in [her] heart”. These songs both use the images of fire to represent love, which I found interesting as well.
If you are interested in more music from Fallout 3, here is a track list of the songs played in the game.
Mighty, Mighty Man by Roy Brown
Let's Go Sunning by Jack Shaindlin
Anything Goes by Cole Porter
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire by The Ink Spots
Way Back Home by Bob Crosby & The Bobcats
Butcher Pete (Part 1) by Roy Brown
A Wonderful Guy by Tex Beneke
Crazy He Calls Me by Billie Holiday
Civilization by Danny Kaye with the Andrews Sisters
Easy Living by Billie Holiday
Happy Times by Bob Crosby & The Bobcats
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall by The Ink Spots featuring Ella Fitzgerald
Maybe by The Ink Spots
I'm Tickled Pink by Jack Shaindlin
Boogie Man by Sid Phillips
Jolly Days by Gerhard Trede
Fox Boogie by Gerhard Trede
Swing Doors by Allan Gray
Rhythm For You by Eddy Christiani
Jazzy Interlude by Billy Munn
Very imaginative blog! Good work.
ReplyDeleteGOOD entey, btw just wondering how the game creaters set such a old-fashioned song into a game which is in year of 2277 and product such image. (by old-fashioned, i don't mean not good, just a matter of time.)
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