"A Trader's Life" from Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role Playing Game on Windows, MS-DOS, mac OS (1997)
Composer: Mark Morgan
Album: Fallout, & Fallout: The Soundtrack
Label: GOG [discontinued], & Interplay Productions
Publisher: Interplay Productions
Developer: Interplay Productions
It's been a while since I last played Fallout, so 10 years. If you had asked me yesterday I would have said that this was the music played either in every settlement except for the vaults and Necropolis or during the randomized encounters while out wandering the wasteland. I likely would not have guessed that it played exclusively in The Hub, although The Hub itself is a sprawling five-map area that is a central trading hub of what was the Southern California basin. And I know I didn't count "A Trader's Life" among my favorite songs from Fallout when I last played nine years ago, but listening to this now does bring back memories of that trimetric wasteland of brahmin feces and death. I also want to bring attention to the instrumentation, using a lot of instruments that could hypothetically have been played during the time of this game: flutes, drums, sitar-adjacent string instruments, brake drums, didgeridoos (maybe?), some kind of electronic instrument-thing.
You could probably also guess that we're featuring music from Fallout because of the release of the Fallout series on Amazon Prime tomorrow (Wednesday, April 10th, unless you already watched it on Twitch), and I have high hopes for that series because of course I do.
P.S. "A Trader's Life" is also featured in Fallout 2
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