Comments on: How to get the proper Bioshock soundtrack (i.e. Beyond The Sea et al)

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:05:55 +0000

I’ve finally managed to identify the actual artist of You’re The Top as used in the game – although written and originally performed by Cole Porter, this version is by “Hal Kemp and His Orchestra”. Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Youre-The-Top/dp/B004CEVZNG/

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:04:46 +0000

Bollocks, it’s the Darin original.

By: Armandeus

Armandeus — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:11:01 +0000

The vocal version of Beyond the Sea used in BioShock is not by Bobby Darin, but Robbie Williams.

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[...] they’ll be some sort of BioShock-style hack for the rest of us to get the tunes anyway, once the game is out, and then you stinky [...]

By: Jouvieje

Jouvieje — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:09:14 +0000

@DarthCat: Go to the MusicPlayerEx homepage and download the ‘Full Installed’ version of the player to convert in mp3/ogg formats.

By: Sucram

Sucram — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:56:25 +0000

There was a tracklisting in an interview at Music4games:

BioShock Song Tracklisting:
It Had to Be You – Django Reinhardt
Please Be Kind – Django Reinhardt
Avalon – Django Reinhardt
Wild Ride – Faux Frenchmen
Liza – Django Reinhardt
Jitterbug Waltz – Django Reinhardt
World Weary – Noel Coward
Best Things in Life Are Free – The Inkspots
20th Century Blues – Noel Coward
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand) – The Andrews Sisters
It’s Bad For Me – Rosemary Clooney
Just One Of Those Things – Lee Morgan
Let’s Fly Away – Lee Wiley
The Party’s Over Now – Noel Coward
This Is A Changing World – Noel Coward
You’re Getting To Be A Habit – Harry Edison
La Mer (Beyond the Sea) – Django Reinhardt
La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) – Bobby Darin
Just Walkin’ in the Rain – Johnny Ray
How Much is that Doggie – Pattie Page
You’re the Top – Cole Porter
Papa Loves Mambo – Perry Como
Danny Boy – Mario Lanza
Night and Day – Billie Holiday
Brother Can You spare a Dime – Bing Crosby
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams – Bing Crosby
If I Didn’t Care – The Ink Spots
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday
The Waltz of the Flowers – Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
Academy Award – Stanley Black

from: http://www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=177

By: rob

rob — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:38:38 +0000

hi, i was sent here from a chain of sites. i was wondering how to get music player to work… it keeps talking about a property files missing. any help? thanks.

By: DarthCat

DarthCat — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:08:33 +0000

Ah, terribly sorry – I’d omitted a step. Silly me! Well, being a classical music afficionado and operatic singer, I’d listened to a lot of these before, and found myself singing along as I played through the game. Fantastic findings – thanks!

By: DarthCat

DarthCat — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:04:29 +0000

I’m getting a “could not load output_mp3 plugin” from MusicPlayerEx. Am I missing some file(s)? Drat.

By: Gabriel Frochtzwajg

Gabriel Frochtzwajg — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:31:54 +0000

Hey thanks a ton Alec! I downloaded a weird version of God Bless the Child that was unlike the one in Bioshock, but found the correct one. Thanks again.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:24:12 +0000

I’ve edited the post to include a line about folk requesting the songs, as I suspect they’ll continue to dribble in. Unfortunately the staff of RPS are simply far too poor to buy off the Music Police should they come knocking as a result of our readers swapping copyrighted material via our comments threads. If we were infinitely rich, it’d be another matter.

By: Gamma

Gamma — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:14:35 +0000

Could someone upload these tracks somewhere? I’ve got the xbox version and I’d really like the REAL soundtrack, not the moby crap-fest we go instead.