Fallout Season 2 Premiere: Every Song in Episode 1’s Soundtrack
Hunting the tracks behind Fallout Season 2 Episode 1? The series blasts back into the wasteland, unlocks New Vegas, and every needle drop — from dusty jukebox croons to apocalyptic bangers — is in the full soundtrack list.
If you watched the Fallout Season 2 premiere and thought, wow, this feels like getting nuked by a jukebox, you’re not wrong. The show doubles down on its retro soundtrack flex while taking us deeper into the wasteland and teeing up a big swing: New Vegas. Yep, the series is now playing in the neon-soaked sandbox fans know from the 2010 game. Episode 1 is called "The Innovator," and it dropped December 16 on Amazon Prime Video, with creators Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet still steering the vault door.
Fallout has always used music like a mood machine, and the Season 2 opener leans hard into mid-century hits to lace the end of the world with a little sugar. Here’s everything that plays in Episode 1:
- "Cheek to Cheek" by Peggy Lee (1959)
- "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins (1959)
- "Make the World Go Away" by Eddy Arnold (1965)
- "Come Go With Me" by The Del-Vikings (1956)
- "It’s All Over But the Crying" by The Ink Spots (1947)
- "Working for the Man" by Roy Orbison (1962)
You can find the tracks on Spotify, iTunes, and the usual platforms if you want to build your own wasteland playlist.
Worth noting: the show isn’t just preaching to the gamer choir anymore. Frances Turner, who plays Barb, talked about why the series hooked people who’ve never touched a Pip-Boy. She gave credit to the world-building and the way the production backs up the scripts with texture and detail that actually feels lived-in.
"Our writers get it right. It’s all there in the production design. It’s all there in the costume design. As soon as we step into it, we’re there and we’re in the truth of the story and in the truth of these character’s lives."
Aaron Moten, aka Maximus, is just happy they get to go bigger in Season 2. He called the first season a strong launchpad and says this one feels like the big, loud follow-through.
"Our first season always felt like such a good start to me. It’s so wonderful to have the reception that it’s had because now we get the opportunity to really expand and play, and it feels like a crescendo this second season."
So yes, the vibe is classic Fallout: doomsday by day, vinyl by night. And now that New Vegas is officially in play, expect the stakes (and the soundtrack needle drops) to keep ratcheting up. Episode 2 lands next week on Amazon Prime Video.