VAULT NUMBER 76 | 2024 REMASTER | Fallout 76 Song!

It's remaster time once again! I've always loved this track for this rather divisive game! Beyond broken at launch but Bethesda still managed to pull through and almost 6 years on the game still has a thriving community!
And with Amazon's fantastic new Fallout series still fresh in everyone's minds what better time to give this track a little fixing up after it's first release? Given the game it's about, that seems rather fitting...

The original track was for sure a prime example of 'Stupes was pressing buttons and pretending they knew what they were doing' when I originally mixed this song myself. I certainly didn't properly know how to handle barbershop harmonies! So I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to give this one the professional remaster treatment.

As always, I don't doubt this remaster will split opinions like the Atom! Whilst it's objectively better from every technical standpoint, the original is still there for those of you who prefer it!

I'll be back in a couple of weeks with an all new music video! It's a fun one, folks! Stay tuned!

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Lyrics and vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium
Beat produced by Sinima Beats
Mixing and mastering by @OxygenBeats
Joe played by @rustage

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LYRICS:

CHORUS:
Do you think the world can ever be fixed?
Is America buried? Did it ever exist?
We’re you hoping for a life of heavenly bliss?
When you stepped out of Vault number 76
Feels like we've waited forever for this
Dust off those chips and selection of dips
Rehydrate those ancient celery sticks
‘Cause we're gonna have a party down in 76

VERSE 1:
Today's a day for celebration
We've been locked away but we've been making preparations
Sweep away decay and all the waves of devastation
Now we're at the dawning of the day of reclamation
Preservation of the nation
Is a fate that we’ve waited every day in dedication

To build a haven - pave the way for generations
Of what's left of Vault-Tec participation
Deep beneath the wastes of Virginia’s A place
where we could have stayed safe for millennia
But tensions get frayed after just a few decades
So we're certain that the surface oughta be a little friendlier
Shine your shoes because the hour is at hand for
Joining hand in hand with fellow man to save the land, so
I packed some dandy apples in a satchel with some BlamCo
Stepped out of the gate to meet the neighbours and it's BLAMMO

Oh.

CHORUS:
Can the world ever be fixed?
Is America buried? Did it ever exist?
We’re you hoping for a life of heavenly bliss?
When you stepped out of Vault number 76
Are you lost in awe? Well you'd better be quick
Build a hovel from the rubble whilst the reverie sticks
'Cause you've gotta build a heaven using death as the bricks
If you want to have a life out of 76

VERSE 2:
I don't want to se the world on fire
But your house will do just fine
Got you thinking maybe now's a prudent time
Add some traps to send the rowdy mutants flying

Now I’m an optimist but was it a bad decision
To make a mission out of living in a vicious cataclysm?
Sitting in the wilderness and killing for provisions
A Vault may have it's faults but all the halls were air-conditioned
Every dweller went from level-headed fella to a villain
So forgive me if it's not what I envisioned
But with citizens selected out of brilliant civilians
I thought that some decorum whilst exploring was a given
Hi Joe! How you doing today?
I haven’t seen you since the vault barbeque last May!
Alright!
Awh, jeez.
Okay!
You can keep the carcass - I’ll be on my way!

BRIDGE:
So country road, take me home
To a place that won't irradiate my bones
Hear a silly little ditty with a playful tone
Transmitting from the middle of the danger zone
So country road, take me there
To a pretty little crater in the open air
It's a bright new future so don't be scared
Because everything glows with a bright green glare

CHORUS:
Can the world can ever be fixed?
Is America buried? Did it ever exist?
We’re you hoping for a life of heavenly bliss?
When you stepped out of Vault number 76
Is murdering suburbians getting your kicks?
Well we ask you to refrain ‘til population is fixed
Rest assured that every resident was carefully picked
To be remembered as a member of 76

VERSE 3:
Vault-Tec reminds you
Your purpose on the surface is to work to survive through
Adversity by working with the persons beside you
Nah, I never liked you - I'm gonna craft some ammo and fight you
There was a time when I'd smile and pretend that I liked all my friends
When society ends, tell me why the pretence?
Bring a violent end to that white picket fence
You missed my recital again!
Now there's no keeping up with the Joneses
I've broken their noses
I’ve stolen their clothes and fed them to the roaches
That ought to show him for mowing his lawn whilst I'm trying to focus
On my crosswords
Cross words are through now
Domestic disputes now descend into shootouts
Truth is Dianne - I hate your pecan pie
This is for bringing one round to my luau!
Everyone's had that fantasy to be the last of humanity
You might think that it's rad to see
What we'll grow from this rad disease
The mutations are past belief
Who'd have guessed these nuclear arms
Would give me literally nuclear arms?
I hear ground zero has some loot we can farm
So what is the harm? If we drop another couple of bombs?
Who'd have thought the horrors of war could be awesome?
When chalking them up against the boredom
Before things were torched and
We’re forced to reform from assortments of morons
A quarter century's quarrels laid dormant
Pip boys and torches - Blood in the porches
Squash clubs and potlucks and nuclear launches
Setting the Scorched on my mother-in-law is
More fun than anything before the war was!
From Boston down to the Mojave
You gotta get a hobby
Like slaying all your neighbours
And displaying all the bodies
So let's all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat

[knuxenglish]

Wasn't expecting this song to be remastered in... ever, really.

[RedRobster]

The lines “I don’t want to set the world on fire, but your house will do just fine” and “ Country Road take me home to a place that won’t irradiate my bones” are perfection

[FloridaMan]

I know this song probably wasn't very popular but it's one of my all time favorites from you

[Roddy-gd]

I love how the song sounds *sharper* it adds a nice touch of hopelessness yet ambition to the song. Perfectly encapsulating fallout.

[CabooseVsBlueTeam]

That nuclear arms giving literal nuclear arms line lives rent free in my head when I play anything with nuclear equipment

[zoebowie]

this song has given me brain rot. I wake up and the first thought in my brain is " I dont wanna set the world on fire, but your house will do just fine" ive just had it on repeat for like three days

[bubbasbigblast]

I love the irony: Fallout 76 wasn't really like this song at all, but it's almost exactly on point for the TV show, so it's actually Bethesda that ultimately came around to Stupe's point of view.

[benzicol]

0:12 Love how you captured yourself singing the chorus 3 times instead of copy and pasting the same recording. It feels like an actual 3 person band instead of one guy and his other projections

[ARTIFICION]

Ah, finally, a remastered soundtrack for our post-apocalyptic party plans! 'Dust off those chips and selection of dips' still hits home like a radroach in the kitchen. And who would've thought 'rehydrating ancient celery sticks' would become a survival staple? But if we're going to reconstruct America, might as well do it with flair and a catchy beat. Now, excuse me while I fine-tune my mutant-slaying dance moves to this remastered bop!

[WolfHagenSdW]

Playerbase according to expectation: Well equipped raiders and troublemakers.
Actual playerbase: Supplying noobies with stims, food and guns till they are overencumbered.

Defenatly glad to freshened this one up as well. <3

[SyckoMode]

You know it's a good day when The Stupendium uploads another masterpiece!

[joshuabrock]

I like how this version is a little bit clearer in the vocal parts compared to the original version. It definitely feels like I can understand what the lyrics are saying and the references they include.

[Raventheserg]

We are going back to the enclave with this one!!

Amazing as always stupes, and just like the old one, the layered voices in the chorus are so good, and the mix of dark humor and commentary that fallout has is hit square on the nails head

[xyddum]

The rhyme schemes on this are absolutely insane. Just look at this! 1:09
They just casually throw in a deep line like "'Cause you gotta build a heaven using death as the bricks" in a four syllable scheme. Like damn, a lot of mainstream rappers can't even maintain a four syllable scheme for two lines, much less a whole chorus.

[MrTree-xowb]

This is one of my favorites and I can’t believe this remaster came out perfectly on my birthday! Now that’s a great gift

[ethantrueman]

As someone who was listening to the old one just recently this sounds heavenly in comparison thanks for the remaster of it especially with all of the fallout things going on at the moment

[RockingSpaceDragon]

A REMASTER OF THIS ONE!

I've always been a big fan of this one, it's got such an interesting flow with a bunch of clever wordplay, and I love how it devolves from the optimism and ideallistic view at the beginning to a more grounded and opportunistic wasteland survivor view near the end, it feels like there's a proper story being told over the course of the song!

also I've always loved "Country road, take me home, to a place that won't irradiate my bones" it's such a fun twist on the original song

[Malincoo]

Through the remasters it has become apparent how much better you've gotten at pronouncing all words clearly and distinctly when rapping fast. I didn't even need the lyrics this time.

[AnimatedTerror]

Thanks for remastering this one!

And thanks to Bethesda for always delivering quality pro-

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