Classical Radio Station Song Replacements

Classical Radio Station Song Replacements

This file replaces 17 of the ‘bleh’ songs played on the Classical Radio Station with Classical songs I enjoy more.

I found the Classical Radio Station to have some decent choices in music, but preferred some changes for various reasons.

I made this with only me in mind — but uploaded here for anyone that seeks up some change or variety in the music choices… because maybe you’ll enjoy some of these pieces as much as this dude.

Is this of any use to you?

If by chance you are familiar with this stuff, you can read the song list below, but if that list is a bunch of jibber jabber… this is the logic I used in changing the songs:

1) I’m not really into a dude diddling with himself on a piano or whatever instrument of his choice. I prefer more ‘active’ pieces with more going on. Probably means I’m a moron. I mostly took out the pieces I couldn’t enjoy some strong central melody and replaced with ones that I do hear a strong central melody.

2) Some pieces were replaced due to how they annoying they sound to me after being over used in pop culture/cartoons/media to convey specific moods/atmospheres/situations. Grieg’s Morning Wood is a prime example — I don’t want that ‘everything is peace and tranquility’ feeling in my fallout (even though the irony is not lost on me).

3) Some pieces, while not something I fully disliked for the above 2 reasons still got the cut because I felt something out there was better. The ‘better’ choices, in general, I find to be fun pieces that usually don’t fit into the above 2 problems — though there is some exception, but that is personal bias for you.

Installation

Use NMM or:

Extract contents of .zip file into …\Fallout 4\Data folder so that filepath is …\Fallout 4\Data\sound\fx\mus\radio\institute\.

If you have not already changed your Fallout4.ini for modding purposes:
Go to …\Documents\My Games\Fallout4\ and open Fallout4.ini with a text editor.
Find the line:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=

and replace with:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, INTERFACE\, TEXTURES\, SOUND\, MESHES\, MUSIC\, LODSETTINGS\, SCRIPTS\, VIDEO\

To uninstall, just delete the files you added.

Music I added to the station:

Liszt — Totentanz For Piano And Orchestra: Andante – Allegro – Allegro Moderato (Attacca)
Prokofiev — Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 – Montagues and Capulets
Bach — Suite No. 1 in G Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1007: I. Prelude
Dvorak — The New World: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, Fourth Movement: Allegro Con Tuoco
Beethoven — Sonata No. 3 in A Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 69: II. Scherzo: Allegro molto
Holst — Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade, Op. 35/IV.
Cammille Saint-Saens — Danse Macabre in G Minor, Op. 40
Dukas — The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Symphonic Scherzo
Camille Saint-Saens — The Carnival Of The Animals: Aquarium
Mussorgsky — A Night On The Bare (Bald) Mountain
Beethoven — Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
Handel — Suite de Pièce in D Minor for Keyboard, HWV 437: Sarabande, “La Folia”
Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake, Ballet Suite, Op. 20: III. Dance of the Swans
Bach — Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 “The Little” – Arr.: L. Caillet
Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20: Scène (Lake in the Moonlight)
Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, “Choral”: II. Molto vivace

Default Music I replaced (removed) from the station:

Camille Saint-Saens — Carnivale: Elephants
Camille Saint-Saens — Carnivale: Swan
Chechova — Troi Polkas De Salon, Op 7
Chopin — Introduction and polonaise Brillante in C Major
Chopin — Nocturne in E Flat Major
Debussy — Lamer
Elgar — Nimrod
Elgar — Salut D’Amor
Grieg — Morning Wood
Liszt — Consolations No 3
Masson — Valse Du Diable
Moravec — Ballad in G Minor Op 23
Mussorgsky — Meditation
Scarlatti — Sonata in F Minor
Smetana — String Quartet No 12 in E Flat Major Op 127
Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake Finale
Wagner — Faust Overture

Change Log

1.1 — Removed default music files that I did not replace to reduce size of file. These default tracks will still play in-game.

Disclaimers

1) I’m not a composer, performer, symphony, or even a dude that knows anything about classical music. I have no claim in ownership to these songs or the files contained. But this isn’t Kanye’s newest collection of crap, it is classical music — For the most part, if not all, these songs falls within Public Domain and anyone that legitimately can claim true ownership to these things is long dead. If a specific orchestra wants to cry spilt milk over exposure of these pieces to the general public, they’re likely in the wrong career field. If it makes you feel better, go buy yourself some culture for a little over $2 per 100 songs on Amazon — Rise of the Masters series. Good value.

2) I did not break your computer, your Fallout 4, or your life. You did. Good job.

3) It is very easy to do what I did here if you want to change it up. It is probably easy to add songs if you don’t want to replace — but you’ve got to figure that out. I’m not taking requests for changing, updating this thing, or even providing pseudo-intellectual jibber jabber about how Chopin is always diddling himself — so don’t bother.

Credits

Thanks to the dead dudes that composed this stuff, the orchestra dudes that orchestrated, the dude that made that nifty Skyrim xwm converter I used for the files, and the dude that gave instructions on how to replace songs somewhere around here on the Nexus.