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Troglodytic Trouvère
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So I didn't know where to post this question, this section seems to be kind of appropriate.

In a few weeks it is time for the holidays, which means that I will finally be able to write a lot again. I write best when I have music to listen to. Good music can always put me in the writing mood. With that in mind can you guys please suggest songs appropriate to a crime story set in a futuristic fifties/sixties setting. Futuristic fifties meaning, how the people from back then imagined the future to be like.

Thank you so much.
 

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Troglodytic Trouvère
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Thank you Malik, that's exactly the sort of songs I am looking for!
 

Malik

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Or, if he's really feeling blue, check out the Small Change album. Music to kill yourself by.


"He probably left her for a socialite, who didn't love her 'cept at night
And then he's drunk and never even told her that he cared
So they took the registration, her car keys, and her shoes
And left her with an invitation to the blues."

If I could write one paragraph in my life the way Tom Waits writes one stanza.
 
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So I didn't know where to post this question, this section seems to be kind of appropriate.

With that in mind can you guys please suggest songs appropriate to a crime story set in a futuristic fifties/sixties setting. Futuristic fifties meaning, how the people from back then imagined the future to be like.

Thank you so much.

sounds like DieselPunk
 

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sounds like DieselPunk

Kind of, but the world has a higher emphasis on the 60's issues of the Cold war, segregation, American foreign war than is typical for Dieselpunk. But 50s/60s Dieselpunk is easier to say. Thanks.
 

Mythopoet

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Cowboy Bebop sountrack?


It's got a lot of different musical styles.
 
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Try the Ink Dots (resurrected by Fallout New Vegas), there's always Etta James, Billie Holiday, The Supremes, Elvis, Aretha Franklin...let me know if you want a list of more. I listen to this type of music quite a bit and have a decent collection going. :)

 
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Try the Ink Dots (resurrected by Fallout New Vegas), there's always Etta James, Billie Holiday, The Supremes, Elvis, Aretha Franklin...let me know if you want a list of more. I listen to this type of music quite a bit and have a decent collection going. :)


Anything that was in New Vegas or Fallout 3 should be on the list :)
 
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