MIDI Week Singles: "Johnny Guitar" - Fallout: New Vegas (PC)

 

"Johnny Guitar" from Fallout: New Vegas on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows (2010)
Composer: Victor Young
Performed by: Peggy Lee
Album: Johnn Guitar Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, and Songs from the Mojave Wasteland - Music as Heard in Fallout: New Vegas
Label: Citadel (3), and X5 Music Group
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment

I've never seen the film Johnny Guitar and likely like a lot of people who played Fallout: New Vegas, this was my introduction to this song.  Where I am currently in New Vegas, there are only a couple of accessible radio stations to listen to, and it seems like "Johnny Guitar" gets air time easily twice an hour, maybe more as I haven't tabulated it out.  Aside from being bathed in Peggy Lee's vocals, this song sounds like it could easily be used in either a Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez flick.

I just really like the mellowness of the whole song and how it fits in well with my usual play style.  Wandering the Wasteland alone, surrounded by nothing but rolling hills and dust.  Until of course, Juanita is ambushed by the Khans or the Legion who must have all been hiding behind a solitary tumbleweed.  I've honestly not paid very close attention to the words to apply the song's meaning to my in-game predicament and that would probably be reaching for an analysis that isn't there.

So let's just appreciate "Johnny Guitar" while we do our thing out in the Wasteland.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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