"Big Iron" from Fallout: New Vegas on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows (2010)
Composer: Marty Robbins
Performed by: Marty Robbins
Albums: Big Iron and Saddletrap, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, and Songs from the Mojave Wasteland - Music as Heard in Fallout: New Vegas
Label: Columbia, and X5 Music Group
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
I don't know why it hadn't registered when "Big Iron" played during the first episode of season 2 of Fallout, when The Ghoul and Lucy had a shootout in Novac. I really like this song for a couple of reasons, and despite The Ghoul shooting people in this shootout, it felt more improvised weaponry than him using his actual gun. A little boot pistol here, a shotgun there, a grenade here, exploding rounds there. But we're here for New Vegas.
"Big Iron," along with "Johnny Guitar," (and maybe "Jingle Jangle Jingle"), was one of the more frequently heard songs on several of the radio stations throughout the Mojave wasteland, and I love a song that tells a story, because it's easy to let your mind wander with music in the background. "Big Iron" also reminded me a lot of "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, not so much musically or thematically, but more in its telling of an unnamed focal point of the song with a red hand/big iron being the defining trait that's sung about frequently, although significantly less dark and forboding tone overall.
It also sounded similar to something that would be played in a Tarantino film, circa Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. It's just got that vibe to it, I find. Maybe if Tarantino directed an El Mariachi short.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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