Honestly, my biggest complaint about this game is the soundtrack. Now, I love hackin' and whackin' and smackin'. I do. But I've been hackin' and whackin' in smackin' for 200+ hours ever since Fallout 3 came out. Now, I understand that there's only so much innuendo-laden, safe pop music from the swing era...so why must we be slaves to it?
Examining the other tracks on the playlist for Diamond City Radio, the new tracks lay on the atomic age paranoia theme. Now, thematically I understand why I'm not going to get Kyuss or The Velvet Underground or something. And, it's not as though these tracks don't deserve to be in the game, but what I confess I was really hoping for were more radio stations with distinctive sounds. Fallout 4 uses the radio as a means of conveying exposition for quests in vicinity of the player, and additionally has some factional radios that play instrumental tunes. The most prominent of these alternative stations is the classical radio managed by...someone. I listened to this station for about an hour and soon grew weary of listening to a continually rising string section as I stalked through the wilderness with nothing but my nightclothes and a rusty machete.
I admit, this is probably a case of me having an overly specific taste in music. I wouldn't expect them to make something to match everyone's tastes, after all, the flavor behind the music in the game is that it's what survived the war (how did Travis get all those ink spots songs though? Are there a lot of copies of these or did 3Dog mail them to him?), but come on, odds are more unique music would have survived than just stuff with a specific subset of a genre. I'm sure as the game opens up to modders we'll eventually get a radio station capable of playing tunes from our hard drives, but it would have been nice to hear something else. Elvis? Chuck Berry? The Beatles?
God they would have to pay so much for that, nvm I understand now.