Metal gear solid 5 soundtrack
What song would you like to hear in The Phantom Pain when it's out this Fall? Personally, I'd probably cry tears of elation if The Phantom Pain's end credits rolled and John Carpenter's "Snake Shake" began playing.
METAL GEAR SOLID 5 SOUNDTRACK SERIES
Given the presence of giant robots and other futuristic technology in the sixties and seventies, the Metal Gear series is pretty loose in terms of historical accuracy. Again, this list is entirely speculative, and based on the presence of more recent songs like Garbage's "Not Your Kind of People" and Mike Oldfield's "Nuclear" in trailers for The Phantom Pain, it's not out of the question that Hideo Kojima will make some anachronistic music choices. Until I watched the video, and caught this uncanny similarity: Obviously, Michael Hutchence wasn't the first guy in history to be filmed wearing a leather jacket on a motorcycle at night, so this could always be a coincidence, but stranger things have happened in Metal Gear games than a nod to a piece of pop culture. Digging through songs from 1984 that explored these themes led me to "Original Sin," and I thought maybe I was digging a little bit too far. The first trailer for the game played a song called "Sins of the Fathers" and Big Boss's latest moniker is "Punished" Snake. The Phantom Pain seems to deal with a lot of themes of guilt and repentance, given that Big Boss is undergoing his transition from hero to villain. Nevermind the fact that the members of The Clash could totally pass for Metal Gear Solid side-characters in the video for this fun ditty, it's a song about a Middle Eastern dictator calling in an airstrike on his own people, which seems like the sort of thing a Metal Gear villain might try to pull. It seems like balloons will play a large role in The Phantom Pain, as the Fulton Recovery System has returned. This cheerful pop song is actually about World War III accidentally being started because of cold war paranoia and, uh, balloons. This song is called "Africa." Eh? Ehhhhh?įrancis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now" opens and closes with the Jim Morrison crooning about insane children and snakes in this psychedelic opus, and given that the film itself involved a highly decorated American soldier going rogue and forming his own society deep in the jungle, I think it's earned its spot on this list. You see, part of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain takes place in Africa.
METAL GEAR SOLID 5 SOUNDTRACK FULL
The record is full of politically-charged ballads, touching on post-war America, but with a chorus about starting fires and being a gun for hire, "Dancing in the Dark" in particular fits The Phantom Pain's themes. Bruce Springsteen, a man with a penchant for bandanas who was famously nicknamed "The Boss" released his hit album "Born in the U.S.A." in 1984. While it remains to be seen if Snake will don a white linen suit and some Wayfarers, putting this moody track in the game would be a nice nod to the groundbreaking crime series, which famously played the song in its premiere episode.
![metal gear solid 5 soundtrack metal gear solid 5 soundtrack](https://asset.vg247.com/metal_gear_solid_5_x8E8qKh.jpg)
A good chunk of the style that people associate with the eighties was exemplified by the television series Miami Vice, which premiered in 1984. Back in the original Metal Gear Solid, Otacon asked Snake if he believed love could bloom on the battlefield, but back around when The Phantom Pain takes place, Pat Benatar was dominating the airwaves with this torch song. It's no secret Kojima is a Tarantino fan, and the lyrics about putting out fire with gasoline seem appropriate for Metal Gear's various explosive moments. Aside from the fact that Revolver Ocelot is a metaphorical cat-person, this song was recently used in Inglourious Basterds. I mean, Big Boss's troops are called Diamond Dogs. government's Les Enfants Terribles program - which is, after all, French for "the terrible children."
![metal gear solid 5 soundtrack metal gear solid 5 soundtrack](https://coub-anubis-a.akamaized.net/coub_storage/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/24859683a60/d176b988c18f4ca2febe3/1471647383_image.jpg)
It's hard to tell if there are any deeper meanings to the bubblegum lyrics, but if you want to work in some Metal Gear symbolism, you could argue that kids in America are the clones of Big Boss created by the U.S. In spite of its catchy tune, there's always been something somber about Kim Wilde's pop ditty. Between my love of Metal Gear and music from the seventies and eighties, this seemed like the perfect chance to compile a Phantom Playlist - which you can hear for yourself on YouTube or Spotify. It would stand to reason that one licensed song in a massive open-world video game might suggest more licensed music, and, given that The Phantom Pain is set in 1984, that the music would be from the same time period. Lang tweeted out that he'd come across a boombox in the game that was playing Kim Wilde's new wave pop hit "Kids in America." During this time, AP Entertainment writer Derrik J. Impressions from the bulk of Konami's recent two day preview event for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are still under tight embargo, but members of the press were allowed to tease some of their thoughts about the first hour of game on social media.