I fixed Fallout's music by creating a totally new genre | Unraveled

Fallout's lore has one massive problem: the music hasn't changed in centuries. So Brian David Gilbert unraveled a totally new genre of music that should be heard in the wasteland.
(SLIGHT SPOILER: If you'd like to hear more from the musician who helped create the end song, check out their stuff here: / @skatunenetwork )
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[@AvaBruno]

the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents ska again

[@cassun603]

I can't believe I guessed it right for once.

[@ryanshackelford5374]

We all make mistakes in the heat of passion Jimbo.

[@CastafioreOnYoutube]

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past...

[@maxhendrix8602]

Best mistake ever

[@kavimehta1516]

Did you know that Ska came before Reggae

[@IncredibleMD]

"Did I just invent ska again?" ... How many times have you invented ska before?

[@Silverwind87]

Too many times, friend.

[@fallingskymedia4421]

Everyone does it once at least

[@josecarlosalbarracinsato9504]

There were already three waves, What did you expect?

[@johnwagner370]

Would this be the 76th wave? I’ll see my self out

[@troublewithweebles]

Its been a timeloop but he retains awareness of past timeloops.

[@intrepidmerc4346]

“If you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune!” Can someone PLEASE make that into a 1950s communist propaganda poster

[@wolfofsummerbreeze]

Yes, but it would be in reverse order.

[@ApocryphalDude]

Communism detected

[@WeDwellinaFiefdom]

Red Army Choir recruitment poster?

[@whitemountain_]

More like anti-communist

[@puresprogs5845]

@@ApocryphalDude COMMUNISM DETECTED ON AMERICAN SOIL: LETHAL FORCE: ENGAGED

[@benpurdy7459]

Let's be honest. Johnny Guitar would have become the Wonderwall of the wasteland

[@kevinwillems8720]

Damn, you're right

[@calamaribowl8683]

In every way

[@jaybirdrosewater-holmes7071]

Don't do that to my favorite song, man lol

[@CaravanCzar]

Anyways, here's Johnny Guitar. Yep, it works

[@Spoon80085]

“It’s a fusion of jazz and funk, it’s called junk”

[@arielle5752]

Perfect lol

[@skellorelli2515]

Thank you Fender! 🤖

[@mfC0RD]

For those unaware, this line is from "Robots", that animation film.

[@owenreynolds9599]

"I play junk" "You play with your junk?' "Or crappy music?" "No, Jazz and Funk"

[@KikinCh1kin]

That movie is gold. I cant tell you how many times ive watched that

[@Pikapika-gc2pp]

“If you don’t feel the brotherhood of steel, join the brotherhood of brass” is a line that slaps just so hard

[@0axel078]

Honestly thought he said grass, which works great, too.

[@alalalala57]

@@0axel078 Now that's a xenophobic, technocratic order I'd join!

[@bones3559]

As a trombone player I support this message

[@coriolis07]

Bones TROMBONE GANG RISE UP

[@bones3559]

@@coriolis07 *Angry dci gorilla noises*

[@robertchristian4248]

2021: What is grief if not love persevering? 2019: What is the star-spangled banner if not America's jingle?

[@vickykitty9492]

The moment I heard ‘syncopated rhythms’, ‘marching band instruments’, and ‘unique dancing’ I knew immediately that this would just be Ska. And, you know what? I’m okay with that. Running through a wasteland trying to survive while warring factions and mutated horrors try to kill you. You get your weapon and you start bashing your enemies in the face to the wonderful beats of ska? Hell yeah!

[@artistwithouttalent]

I blame BDG for my war anthem being 2-Tone Army by the Toasters.

[@kevinwillems8720]

@@artistwithouttalent 2-tone army fucking slaps

[@ianpeters1980]

The "Pop Goes the Weasel" setup with a punchline 6 minutes later really flies under the radar here

[@nicestpancake]

No sERIOUSLY THAT SHOULD BE WAY MORE NOTICED OMFG I DIED I HAD TO PAUSE THE VIDEO, TED

[@NerdySweets3]

@@nicestpancake whos ted and where are u hiding him

[@Aelotyola]

Time codes? I wanna experience this too T__T

[@nicestpancake]

@@NerdySweets3 Ted is fine.

[@sleepyfurby]

@@Aelotyola 4:45 and 7:55!

[@ebolapie]

"If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel, join the Brotherhood of Brass" ok but this line slaps, skallout for life

[@Asmusei]

Still waiting for a Ska mod for Fallout 4...

[@captainwilliams1325]

yeah the song is in fact very good

[@evantimm6053]

It's a legit perfect ska lyric. Anti war pro dancing to brass instruments and just pretentious enough in it's barely concealed metaphor to have finished freshmen year at a small liberal arts school. Throw in the mildly obscure nerdy video game pop culture reference and this could just be considered the defining lyric of ska in 2020

[@justintack5205]

This is still amazing. I came back to rewatch for a dose of happiness, and that line really grabbed me.

[@Atherax]

@@evantimm6053 ah but you forgot the whole thing was an obscure nerdy video game / pop culture reference

[@kodeowen9575]

You missed one crucial detail. We are still very much listening to Tubthumping and no matter how many times you knock us down, we will always get back up again.

[@Jake_the_Nerdlax]

We should start a petition for FO5 to have a ska-flavored gang that is voiced and looks like Brian, Jenna and Pat. Like the hockey gang in FO3, but you help them record their ska-song and get it on the radio.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Quest Added: THE WORLD IS BROKEN, BUT I HAVE A TRUMPET

[@DougSalad]

the song should be Skallout War

[@sola_is_chilling]

​@@artistwithouttalentthat's some Tumblr level chaotic goblin thing to say

[@erraticonteuse]

Or in season 2 of the show!

[@SSVCloud]

"Did I just make ska again" is a punchline so good it almost killed me from coughing on my spit.

[@TheOneTrueGhostyBoi]

“Thank god the bombs went off before Wonderwall” is top ten quotes of all time

[@thatguy6577]

Too bad we can invent it

[@MarcusofMenace]

I doubt wonderwall would have been made at all since it was supposed to come out in the 90's and the bombs dropped 80 years after that

[@boundlessgaming6125]

@The Spanish Inquisition, no that guys point is that someone could’ve still thought it up and made it. And even if you think one person thought up wonderwall, no there were probably more people thinking of making it but they didn’t do it first so no one credits or even knows they did.

[@williampark4753]

But the bombs dropped in 2077?

[@Aydrenn]

Brother?

[@BillyCobbOfficial]

In my head canon, I have a theory as to why the music had not changed. Around the 1960s, America invents a new audio format that is designed to be more accessible, easier to listen to, and ultimately sound a lot clearer than the vinyl records they had been using. The trade-off however is that these cartridges are not as durable and will deteriorate after say 100 years (or maybe are susceptible to radiation damage). These become the top new audio format for their ease of use and clarity, but of course after the war happens and the bombs drop all these cartridges are lost with time. Therefore, the only remaining recordings are the ones on the original vinyl format from the 30’s-60’s.

[@rilken2326]

Wow this man knows a lot about music he should make covers of abba songs with the lyrics slightly changed to fit halloween villains

[@alexdavis665]

this man forced me into an abba phase, curse you bdg!!!

[@ElliottR0se]

I thought you were talking about The Merkins for a second but that’s Backstreet Boys, and if BDG truly has done the same thing but with Abba then i need to see this

[@jxnx19]

@@ElliottR0se kzbin.info/aero/PLmLx_S4RsmA7vomqBVRFlpkL_TeBZRkmu&si=HKmPMp6VY7nSVDMZ there’s a playlist someone made

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

​@@ElliottR0se he has :)

[@Leanimal]

This man looks like he’s wearing a disguise.

[@Sofissp26]

i'm starting to believe bdg is always disguised as bdg

[@ivyhoffman5053]

The mustache means he knows what he’s doing

[@PandaXs1]

his mustache has gotten bushier, that's for sure

[@somewierdoonline2402]

He IS a disguise

[@bloodreaver6097]

I don't trust like that

[@WingoEthan]

This was the last 'normal' episode before they started to revolve more around BDG's descent into madness, anxiety, depression, and existential dread. It's also the one where he invents Ska. This is not a coincidence.

[@keylometers6342]

Did you watch the sonic Bible episode? Or the Zelda Timeline episode? Brain hasn't been "normal" for a long time

[@luigivercotti6410]

@@keylometers6342 I would correct you, but in retrospect, I would be wrong.

[@mono.isgtds]

Conclusion: ska is bandersnatch.

[@dustinanderson6021]

He literally peaked emotionally. There was nowhere to go but down.

[@mysticmoondustt314]

brian was never the one doing the unraveling, HE *HIMSELF* was being unraveling this whole time

[@largeoctahedron]

Ok, but who else thought "the man was focused on beating you down, so we're gonna focus on beating you up"

[@Jinrokh]

Rewatching this episode, it's secretly a masterclass in foreshadowing.

[@thewingedporpoise]

2 minutes in he makes a joke about third wave ska and... it's incredible

[@negativeman7716]

Nobody: Every single bard: “if you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune”

[@strangeduckling]

WASTELAND BARDS

[@gomjabbar6246]

If you can shoot slowly, you can shoot quickly...is actually true in fallout

[@CRT.v]

@@gomjabbar6246 I'm so glad Ling Ling survived the apocalypse!

[@silicafrill2706]

the only acceptable way to read this is with gun and tune rhyming

[@elementalturnip]

As a bard, I can confirm.

[@mightywurm]

“That’s garbage, Todd” should be Bethesda’s slogan

[@wheeler68]

Better than their current slogan, "Buy Todd's garbage!"

[@kyletanking]

Wheeler no there slogan is it just works

[@hussainbedair7676]

@@kyletanking no it's you never know when you'll need another hand

[@potatomuffin7177]

Dances not included in Fortnite: -Regency Era Quadrille -Skanking Looks like the list just got shorter

[@emilysmith2965]

You can do a Regency-era quadrille in Fortnite?!

[@dragoncat9153]

Glad that Chekhov's gun finally got a counterpart: Chekhov's ice cream truck

[@IronBridge1781]

It's like my dad always said: "Eventually, everything turns to ska."

[@LA-nx4fv]

Everything eventually turns to scat

[@g.e.9227]

It all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down

[@marinarabandit]

I desperately want to know the context for this

[@eji]

Is your father BRUCE GREENE?

[@444aidan]

@@LA-nx4fv skibidapabaopbabdbdee

[@racg174]

i feel like the script for this was written backwards with the punchline of writing a ska song being the original intention all along

[@Rick586]

My guess is it started with the pun "Skallout" and snowballed into this beautiful mess from there.

[@Baqon42]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@byebyecitybyebye]

right? my eyes kept narrowing further and further as more and more ska references were sprinkled in

[@DeathnoteBB]

2009Bandman [Polygon brainstorming session] Brian, fingers steepled: What if... Skallout?

[@high-levelsimp2379]

Rhys, didn’t BDG already tell you to stop looking at his unravel notes?

[@msp654]

This video made me realize I can just. Make a fallout oc if I want. They don't have to be the protagonist I can just create some guys that exist in this universe. I'm not a smart person. Thank you for opening my eyes, Polygon

[@Lukasaske]

"Ska. Ska never changes" - Mr. House, probably

[@AlexanderTheNerdling]

I SAID TO MYSELF “IS THIS JUST SKA?” MOMENTS BEFORE HE DID

[@Oreostes]

i knew it was coming from the beginning

[@themightysven]

I mean, as soon as he said trumpets and trombones really...

[@Rick586]

Same, dude XD

[@victornochesavila6129]

@@themightysven Exactly, it was a beautiful realization.

[@tellmeimstupid1855]

Idk I’m traumatized. Ska is the music of the heavens

[@FiddlerForest]

"totally new genre" Makes Ska. Seems legit.

[@kavimehta1516]

Did you know that Ska came before Reggae

[@dubbingsync]

Makes another wave of ska... why?!

[@Hyperious_in_the_air]

@@kavimehta1516 thanks Bruce

[@Phytobiogenes]

I knew it was ska

[@gamblorthemonster]

@@kavimehta1516 B for Brave. B for Bruce.

[@Omnicide101]

Okay so obviously "If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel, join the Brotherhood of Brass" is a RAW line but can we just appreciate the sheer ferocious optimism of "We'll eclipse the apocalypse"?

[@General_Nothing]

The Fallout TV show clearly brought a lot of people back here.

[@josephspencer6375]

As soon as I heard Brian say "syncopation" I knew the result would be ska. It's the only thing other than cockroaches to survive the nukes.

[@IncoherentMoron]

i called it when he mentioned "off-beats" and remembered that he already said 'third-wave ska' earlier, but damn that was still a ride

[@Mytube6138]

I heard syncopation and was hoping for djent. Big sad

[@blakelowe1300]

I heard "One Step Beyond" and knew.

[@Mike_Jones1980]

When skanking was one of two dance options...

[@waterlily7343]

As a good brazilian, when I heard "syncopation" I thought "samba" and "pagode". But what was I thinking, it was never going to be.

[@chrisvandergriff504]

About ten minutes in, I was like, "No, I was there in the 90's. He can't be making ska again."

[@kevinwillems8720]

I mean there's a ska revival happening right now so...

[@bellabella852]

You can never escape the ska!

[@user-ue8il6jx3b]

@@kevinwillems8720 and it's beautiful

[@kevinwillems8720]

@@user-ue8il6jx3b it absolutely is beautiful.

[@ciphergacha9100]

You’ve been skaed

[@doomcookies]

♫ Spend your life living in a vault and your mind begins to crack. And when you get outside there's nothing to welcome you back She found me passed out in a rundown shack with a NukaBuzz in my hand She picked me up as she slapped my face and said "C'mon, let's start a band". She said: Start the music. Pick up loot. Get off your ass. If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel join the Brotherhood of Brass She said: Start the new war never changes. That's a bore. You know we'll eclipse the apocalypse with a loud and brassy skallout war. Skallout war. Skallout war. Skallout war. Skallout war.

[@frostfire6579]

14:30 dang that "if you don't feel the brotherhood of steel join the brotherhood of brass" line is just the best

[@Aedi]

"This sounds a lot like ska" "did I just make ska again?"

[@asbestos-freecomedy]

Bruce Greene hopes he did

[@Feoral]

@@asbestos-freecomedy I thought this too!

[@joemontondo9113]

BDG: "I'm gonna make a new Music Genre for Fallout" Me, early in the video: "Is he just reinventing Ska?" BDG: "Have I reinvented Ska?"

[@ItsAlanK]

Yeah same

[@Mad_Oph]

The second he said "pick it up" I was just like okay, so that's where this headed haha.

[@samiaskyers172]

I had a feeling when he mentioned skanking

[@wrong_reginald]

Same, and it was the moment he said "so, no pianos" and started talking about trumpets that I knew for sure - we were all in for it. BDG was reinventing ska.

[@cassun603]

when he said syncopated it seemed obvious

[@shortcircut1sprkplg]

This needs to be an easter egg song that plays on some random radio in a remote location in the next singleplayer fallout game

[@Aerowarrier]

I would absolutely join a gang called the “Brotherhood of Brass” that makes sure to have a band with them at all times to blast out tunes no matter what they’re doing, that would be so great

[@rinarina6247]

“Do you think we would be complacent with eurotechno, synthetic pop, and *third wave ska*?” Oh Brian, your ability to foreshadow never ceases to amaze me.

[@PopeGoliath]

Dont forget that skanking was one of the two dances that he said weren't claimed by fortnight. There's clues all over the place.

[@nathantierney9577]

And there’s also him referencing rude boys

[@Dabednego]

@@nathantierney9577 And the phrase "One step beyond"

[@ozmarichardson6524]

Pick it up!

[@commmander64]

What is ska?

[@peterrisser]

“Skallout War” sounds like the theme song to a Fallout based sitcom.

[@slimepunke]

Peter Risser that is because it absolutely is

[@mrlazarus6778]

And so close to Skeleton War too... Coincidence? I think not! Skeleton war = Fallout Great War confirmed

[@WeaponOfMyDestructio]

ska died when Canadians found out about it.

[@nickknight8692]

That's kinda the joke...

[@casey6556]

“Honey, I’m home!” “A settlement needs our help. I’ll mark it on your map.”

[@SomeA-1]

Skanking is in fortnite now Brian has both predicted and cursed us

[@KameronArcher]

Ska is the cockroach of music in that it will thrive in a nuclear apocalypse

[@Chris_W.]

"If you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune." - US Army Marching Band Motto

[@cass1115]

“Did I just make ska again?” -Brian David Gilbert, Safety Fan and Bureaucratic Wunderkind

[@mayathomas8934]

Cassie Woodard thank you for addressing him as such

[@pharaohbubbles1547]

@@mayathomas8934 goddamn you I was LITERALLY about to say that

[@MoldyCr0w]

4:26 being a stealth subtitle reference to a ska band (Madness, in this case). Magnificent.

[@gorimbaud]

rewatching this vid after years and looking specifically for someone else who caught that one, high-five

[@WaywardBrigand]

There's actually quite a few.

[@Jekler]

I gotta say, I was not prepared for "The Brotherhood of Brass" and how amazing of a band name that is.

[@angieyglesias7307]

halfway through the video: “it’s going to be about ska” bdg: mentions skanking me: “oh yeah, this is about ska.”

[@juneanderson7119]

As soon as the list started I called it.

[@eji]

"Ska is actually long before Reggae. You know, Ska came before Reggae." - Bruce Greene

[@Unch0sen1]

Came down just to find this comment.

[@YuggetNugget]

God bless that brave boy

[@ozmarichardson6524]

Lol. It did actually, but idk how ironic you're trying to be but dont let it dreams be memes

[@sindraoffline3173]

Is that true

[@dilsdoes]

if youll allow me to be a bit of a music nerd for a moment, while the statements "ska came before reggae/reggae came from ska" are technically true the dont exactly tell the whole story. in the current zeitgeist ska is synonymous with ska punk, which in and of itself is a derivative of ska, borrowing the fastpaced nature and melodic basslines of ska, which was a west indian genre that was essentially reggae but with a faster tempo. reggae came before ska /punk/ but ska came before reggae. sorry if this is over explainery, this is a really important distinction to me because i grew up in the west indies and didnt even know ska used to refer to a purely west indian genre instead of being shorthand for ska punk, and it was really interesting and kinda weird to find out.

[@cannabunnyol]

I do enjoy how you shot down Third Wave Ska, then made a One Step Beyond reference, then re-invented ska again. Ska never dies.

[@jaxbeck9550]

Ska is to musical evolution what crab is to biological evolution.

[@nixel1324]

Ska-rcinization.

[@georgelister4866]

“War never changes but music should” is one hell of a quote.

[@all_the_beans1]

until ska is reinvented

[@av.punk.801]

I'm gonna make a patch of that...

[@picklejho69]

"Thank god the bombs went off before Wonderwall" Never have I heard a more relatable statement leave this man's glorious moustachioed lips.

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

No more of those chords with the wrong strum pattern with a cappo because Barre chords are too difficult for him with someone singing "today is gunna be the day..." Completely out of key while teenage girls clap. - I can live with that. Although honestly I think that joke is no doubt dated, much like smoke on the water jokes and stairway to heaven jokes. I don't believe I've heard anyone play wonderwall on guitar irl except me. Even in the early 2000s.

[@picklejho69]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono As someone who worked for far too long in the hospitality industry, I have heard it far too many times and now bleed from my ears at the simple mention of Noel Gallaghers name.

[@dsproductions19]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono I had to play Smoke on the Water nearly every year in high school orchestra in the early 2010s, and even Stairway to Heaven once or twice. Might not have been on the guitar, but it's not exactly a dated reference.

[@junebunchanumbers]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono Earlier this year I agreed to teach a friend guitar and literally the only thing she'd learned was the verse from Wonderwall (sans capo).

[@Minumer]

I dunno, there was a lot of 'could've been worse' during the BOTW one.

[@alexandermeisner5463]

You forgot that the Lonesome Drifter records new songs, depending on whether or not you do the Talent Pool quest.

[@DerBruessler]

True, that was my thought too

[@DustySiren]

womp womp

[@Squids_MacKenzie]

You are referring to Home on the Wastes and Streets of New Reno. I would argue he doesn't create anything new and in fact the songs he plays are fully plagurized with wasteland words inserted. You might say that in the fallout universe he invented them, except the original writers of those songs exist in the fallout world as other songs by them make the radio. Therfore, I say he discovered obscure songs then swapped in wasteland names and stole credit for it. Meaning he did NOT write new music.

[@MercuryIsDumb]

@@Squids_MacKenzieHe mentions remixes should exist in the apocalypse and it does because of the Lonesome Drifter

[@SomeGlasses]

“Science may increase our longevity but art is what makes long life worth living” Brian man sometimes I doubt my choice to want to be a writer/director/video producer guy but these words just gave me all the confidence I need to keep going Thanks Brian

[@acoolusername]

I never want to enter “the mindscape of Todd” ever again

[@stanconnorstan4266]

Well if you're a fan of Sondheim then you already have

[@pedroscoponi4905]

We all say that now, then 2041 comes along with TESVI...

[@majorevangelism]

I just learned Magnolia was a synth.

[@ceoofmilk2756]

Bts sucks

[@peanutbuttercracker1]

Yeah I'd rather enter the mindscape of Club Penguin user Floppyfeet

[@mudkip7251]

“That’s garbage Todd!” -BDG 2019

[@tostadoramagic]

"it just works" -Todd Howard 2015

[@purble1987]

"Information is transmitted verbally" Piper didnt like that

[@andlevi31690]

Revisiting this after the Fallout show has been released, and though the show is critically acclaimed, they should have added some ska to the soundtrack

[@chrisdray5325]

This reminds me of how every so often nature will try to make a new crab. Ska truly is inevitable.

[@rebeccahauer4406]

Skarcinization

[@KetchupRocket]

Your words terrify but peak my curiosity

[@SobiTheRobot]

How often has nature tried to reinvent the crab?

[@justmerc1642]

@@SobiTheRobot Five times, at the last count

[@chrisdray5325]

@@SobiTheRobot en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[@Ashley-ou1nr]

"Thank god the bombs fell before wonderwall" has the same but opposite energy as "Thank god glee finished before X song came out"

[@Bedhed47]

Whats a glee?

[@chunkycheeks9101]

@FalconPunch827 :(

[@GrimmFLawless]

Lithium

[@icegod4849]

4:48 Brian, thank you so much for talking about Ice Cream Truck music. Whenever I hear it, I am filled with nostalgia and want to cry and I'm glad to see that my feelings are reassured.

[@YellowTissueBox]

So sad to see BDG leave polygon, I'll follow him wherever he goes.

[@miasmacaron]

Me: "He's just invented Ska again" Brian: "Did I just make Ska again?"

[@doingmybesthere3940]

ska b4 reggae

[@iamrutabaga7761]

Trashes on 3rd wave Ska at the beginning: I feel personally attacked. The moment he says "Pick it up": This man is a comical genius.

[@johnspinker3579]

I've never felt so proud to still listen to Ska in my life

[@MACHIN3GUNN3R]

Ridley ILY I wouldn’t say all that

[@themardbard9096]

hahahaha

[@TheDarkSatirist]

This one video put more thought into the world building of the fallout universe than Bethesda ever did

[@yurigouveawagner9432]

this episode has probably the best take on videogames i've ever seen. it makes so much sense.

[@Relfar2]

"If you can carry a gun you can carry a tune." Truely inspirational. Like trench warfare the musical level inspiration.

[@lucassmart1473]

I'm already creating my next character entirely around this line.

[@Generalfoley]

We already got marching songs, I can roll with it.

[@Elzilcho87]

"Ska as a genre will never go out of fashion, because Ska is the base essence of all mankind's dreams and aspirations. As long as man lives, Ska can never die." - Bruce Greene

[@bondjames5792]

YES

[@EskimoCreamKing]

What funhaus video is this from? I watch funhaus but don't recognise it

[@cya6109]

Dafouq is ska,is it like when cringy rappers make random sounds like ska ska ska ska

[@jakejutras5420]

@@cya6109 no, it is a style of music that became popular in the 90's. Look up Reel Big Fish. Fusion of punk, reggae, and lots of brass.

[@dinolandra]

@@cya6109 a mix of swing, reggae and punk

[@azariahazariah4493]

In Fallout: New Vegas, you can recruit a man by the name of the Lonesome Drifter to play music at the Tops Casino. The songs that he plays were made specifically for the game and reference many post-war things such as Fire Geckos and Super Mutants. The songs are country/folk ballads about the Mojave Wasteland, New Reno (a location in fallout 2), and the singer was, (I think) Josh Sawyer, the lead developer of FNV.

[@Dirtyblue929]

Fun fact, BDG has gone on to do voice acting for Fallout 76 in its latest updates. He plays the Brotherhood guy who runs a team at the Rust Eagles' arena for supplemental combat training.

[@elizasu7637]

headcanon: they stopped making new music after fnv because they discovered a pre war recording of big iron and couldn't top that

[@andryuu_2000]

Brilliant comment 👏

[@nicoharlan5703]

The swiftness of the ranger is still talked about this day.🐴🐴🐴

[@boxbo7926]

Elizabeth Su best comment on the internet

[@phodder]

𝑩𝑰𝑮 𝑰𝑹𝑶𝑵

[@PuppyLove2468]

What's big iron?

[@canaancasey1715]

"Those time signatures only belong in mathrock, which is to say, in the garbage" Why must you hurt me like this, Brian.

[@mr.nazareth4501]

I know right? Shit hurted

[@Hevvvyyy]

No wonder it gets some hate because nobody likes math

[@mixedexplosion3114]

Isn't one of his own songs (see the day) in 7/4?

[@charliefranklin8523]

@@mixedexplosion3114 Came here to say this

[@cityfey]

@@mixedexplosion3114 to be fair, he's a math-user himself. also a massive nerd.

[@JBaum55]

I have to womder if BDG created this video knowing the punchline would be that he invented ska, or if he venuinely thought about how the new genre should sound and realized it's essentially ska. It's amazing either way.

[@Ziddchs]

Rewatching this in 2024, and I still unironically want a full version of "Skallout War"

[@Draukagrissah]

If no one makes a ska band named "Brotherhood of Brass" after this then there is no justice in this world

[@genderenigma8276]

I can play keyboards and percussion. But we're kinda quarentined...where do I sign up?

[@egg9206]

I sing and I can play trumpet decently well. First rehearsal after the shutdown ends?

[@felixc543]

@@genderenigma8276 I love that this has resulted in enough bored ppl rewatching videos and reading comments that you already have a reply

[@thebrokenmirror5343]

I have done a ska performance on Beale street in downtown Memphis at B.B. Kings. Guitar and Vocals.

[@ladymilliejean4166]

i can play keyboards and the guitar. i can also sing violently

[@crabPEOPLE2000]

he just called math rock garbage as someone who loves math rock he's correct and brave

[@tmthttmnmtthtbtmn6767]

Not my Covet :(

[@yungjuulgod]

not my Chon :((

[@spitgorge2021]

not my Hella :((

[@OversizedSquid]

not my delta sleep :(((

[@clvr51]

Not my toe 😂

[@KegaB3]

"war never changes, but music should!" Is such a banger line

[@equalmonkey4821]

Much like how crustaceans keep evolving into crabs, we keep reinventing 3rd wave Ska.

[@forgotten_frostbite2492]

Remember at the beginning of this season when Brian said “I’m not dancing this season”? Yeah. Me neither

[@denmark1226]

*season

[@forgotten_frostbite2492]

Demnark Balcom you right. My bad lol

[@VekErro]

I would argue that all the artists in the fallout universe just became raiders. They're *very* particular about the placement of body parts and blood splatters around their lairs. It's all very feng shui.

[@eansba88-]

The raider radio from fallout 4s dlc features new... awful, but new music. Its along the lines of punk/rock and roll... but more single guitar and screamy.

[@kevinwillems8720]

@@eansba88- I mean that just sounds like folk punk.

[@eansba88-]

@@kevinwillems8720 you know, youre not wrong actually. Lol.

[@ryanmartin4602]

Come on down to Pickman's Gallery

[@thecomfyshirt]

This is an excellent point!!! Look at the super mutants… it’s just a mess of guts and body parts strewn about randomly. Then look at the raiders; intentional placement. Aesthetic principles are definitely applied. Art isn’t dead, it’s simply devolved into different mediums

[@Camurgladius]

Side-note: there are actually a handful of, if not new songs, at least remixed/lyrically altered songs, in Fallout New Vegas specifically--Green Clouds & Dust Whirls, Streets of New Reno, New Vegas Valley, and Home on the Wastes. All adapted/sung by Joshua Sawyer as the in-universe characters Bruce Isaac and the Lonesome Drifter.

[@trevhoffmann]

I should not have to wait this long for 4th wave ska

[@witchduck2230]

"history repeats itself; first as tragedy, then as farce" - karl marx

[@irregular1430]

cheesy 81 ‘then as ska’

[@candycoated_rage6591]

Communism

[@halleys.comett]

Hannah Kiwi no, Marxism

[@pantalonesdemuerto7960]

@@candycoated_rage6591 Skammunism

[@skydiamsteam6005]

Hannah Kiwi Hannahkiwism

[@dexterbarlow-busch4127]

I'm just gonna say it: a good sea shanty hits all of the definitive purposes of music. Edit: I am so fuckin proud that I singlehandedly summoned the entire youtube sea shanty community to this single post. Lads, I'm impressed.

[@dankit2548]

WAY DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE WHALEFISH BLOW

[@HotCrossJuns]

@@dankit2548 WAY DOWN IN FLORIDA

[@dankit2548]

@@HotCrossJuns I knew there'd be a true hero in here somewhere 🤝

[@RainbowDj7]

What do you do with a drunken sailor....

[@dankit2548]

@@RainbowDj7 well there are several options of increasing severity....

[@HostileHostelry]

“Chain gangs” So you’re telling me that the Powder Gangers are gonna be the musical renaissance in Fallout?

[@pechaberryjuice]

I think my favorite under-rated quote from this video is "yeah, your fists are used for melee, but that leaves your feet and elbows free to fuckin jam!!"

[@augustd1834]

"Thank God the bombs went off before Wonderwall" - BDG, 2019

[@mpsmith9913]

“Making all of your friends call you by a nickname you gave yourself” ACTUALLY BDG if you recall in the first episode of this season you specifically stated that we are not friends, thus negating this callback and breaking my heart into tiny pieces

[@vtario5]

it's okay, he was probably just talking about his co-workers. we can be safe in the knowledge that we do not matter

[@Bustermaniax]

I started reading this comment the exact moment he said that...nice timing xD

[@GoblinModeKnives]

he also said he wasnt gonna damce anymore. that was a lie. keep hope alive in your heart lol

[@racecarcar499]

@@GoblinModeKnives yeah absoulutely #BDGisoverparty

[@speckofdignity2487]

7:39 ... 7/4 you say? Like, I don’t know See The Day from a certain KZbin series with music composed by a guy named Brian David Gilbert??

[@TenemenTTrash]

My biggest gripe with fall-outs music isn't that music stopped being made after the apocalypse, the bombs fell in 2077, there's no music for 111 years leading up to nuclear annihilation nevermind afterward

[@harley7610]

“three: BA N G E r s ONLY”

[@0BucketMask0]

My half asleep mother heard "if you don't feel the brotherhood of steel then join the brotherhood of brass" and mumbled "whoever wrote that line is definitely Irish" and since I'm figuring it was written by Brian and Patrick, whose five names are all Irish, she was right lmao.

[@leeblock9573]

David is technically from the Bible, but it's Anglicized, and also the remaining 80% of their names are Irish, so your point still stands.

[@0BucketMask0]

@@leeblock9573 that's actually a cool little thing to know, thanks!

[@hurgleflurp6089]

“five irish names” has got to be a band or something

[@artistwithouttalent]

@@hurgleflurp6089 _Did you mean_ *Dropkick Murphys?*

[@jobRobbemond]

@@artistwithouttalent Did someone say DROPKICK MURPHY?! My good pal, you are required to tell me your favorite song!

[@DandyBlobber]

The thing is the culture in the fallout is basically halted once it hit the 50s, even in 2077 everything has a similar feel so I feel like that if new music was made after the bombs it would still have a 50s feel as that’s all they have to imitate, or even if we got music that was made just before the bombs dropped it would still feel 50s.

[@adamcarr1387]

Yeah that's lore made to explain the fallout style, which is 50s scifi. But in reality no culture would ever create 0 new music in hundreds of years

[@mesachi0640]

High key the ska was a bop

[@notjohnbruno4482]

“Did I just invent ska again?” is a sentence that no comedy routine or joke could ever top. We should all just top making jokes because BDG has ascended to become the King of Comedy

[@eskidz]

I agree, but I assume you meant "we should all just STOP making jokes"

[@IrismonoYT]

@@eskidz he means we must move to a form of comedy higher then making jokes, only then can we hope to stop global BDG takeover.

[@harleyjohnson2913]

big aristocrat energy

[@TRquiet]

The instant he said “any marching band instrument,” I knew. In my heart of hearts, I knew.

[@Mephiestopholes]

Hahahaha I felt it too... I felt it too..

[@Xsuh]

Yeah... Yeah, same.

[@nemomcgill1576]

Yeah... yeah.

[@Barquevious_Jackson]

5:26 - Ke$ha was trying to warn us about P. Diddy, if only we listened...

[@radishlordrak]

i just realized that there is SO much foreshadowing that ska is gonna be the punchline. even now he name drops One Step Beyond from Madness