Soundtrack

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Helping contribute to BioShock's immersive atmosphere is a rich and varied soundtrack featuring an original score composed by Garry Schyman and real world licensed music reminiscent of Rapture's time period.

On August 24, 2007 2K Games released the orchestral score soundtrack composed by Garry Schyman for free on their official homepage.^[1] Available for download in MP3 format^[2], it contained 12 tracks from the game.

Various people on the official BioShock forum have assembled a list of known licensed tracks in the game.^[3]

The Limited Edition came with a three tracks by Moby.

Contents 1 Original score tracks by Garry Schyman 2 Licensed tracks 2.1 Appearing in-game 2.2 Other songs 3 Limited Edition tracks by Moby 4 References

[edit] Original score tracks by Garry Schyman

1. BioShock Main Theme (The Ocean on His Shoulders)
2. Welcome to Rapture
3. Dr. Steinman
4. The Docks
5. The Dash
6. Step Into My Gardens
7. Dancers on a String
8. Cohen's Masterpiece (Cohen's Scherzo #7)
9. The Engine City
10. Empty Houses
11. This Is Where They Sleep
12. All Spliced Up

[edit] Licensed tracks

[edit] Appearing in-game

Song title	Artist	Year	Location(s) in game
"La Mer"	Django Reinhardt	1949	Welcome to Rapture
"If I Didn't Care"	The Ink Spots	1939	Welcome to Rapture, Neptune's Bounty
"The Party's Over Now"	Noël Coward	1931	Welcome to Rapture, Olympus Heights
"The Best Things in Life"	The Ink Spots	1947	Medical Pavilion
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"	Bing Crosby	1931	Medical Pavilion
"It Had to be You"	Django Reinhardt	1938	Medical Pavilion
"God Bless the Child"	Billie Holiday	1941	Medical Pavilion, Olympus Heights
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"	Bing Crosby	1933	Neptune's Bounty, Apollo Square
"Bei Mir Bist du Schön"	The Andrews Sisters	1937	Neptune's Bounty, Fort Frolic, Hephaestus
"Jitterbug Waltz"	Django Reinhardt	1942	Arcadia
"Night and Day"	Billie Holiday	1939	Arcadia
"Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)"	Django Reinhardt		Farmer's Market
"Twentieth Century Blues"	Noël Coward	1932	Farmer's Market
"Beyond the Sea"	Bobby Darin	1959	Fort Frolic
"Waltz of the Flowers"	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	1892	Fort Frolic
"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"	Patti Page	1952	Fort Frolic, Prometheus Point
"It's Bad for Me"	Rosemary Clooney	1955	Hephaestus
"Please Be Kind"	Django Reinhardt		Hephaestus
"Papa Loves Mambo"	Perry Como	1954	Olympus Heights
"You're the Top"	Cole Porter	1934	Olympus Heights
"Danny Boy"	Mario Lanza	1952	Olympus Heights

In addition to these songs, the 1955 song "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me" performed by Buddy Rich and Harry "Sweets" Edison is featured during the installation sequence for the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

A note to iTunes users: several BioShock iMixes have been made, but one titled "The Music of Rapture (BioShock)" has low-fi versions of the songs used in the game to simulate the sound of being played on a record. These songs are also the versions used in the game, not from other artists or remixes. If songs from the game are not available on iTunes, they are not included on this mix nor are versions of the same song but by another artist included.

[edit] Other songs

The following songs, while not appearing during gameplay, can be found in the game's PC files or were perhaps otherwise intended for inclusion in the game before being cut from final release.

• Johnnie Ray - Just Walking in the Rain
• Stanley Black - Academy Award
• Noël Coward - World Weary
• Faux Frenchman - Wild Ride

There are even more songs that appear to have been licensed for the game but don't appear in the final version or in any of the game files.

• Django Reinhardt - Avalon
• Lee Morgan - Just One of Those Things
• Lee Wiley - Let's Fly Away
• Noel Coward - This is a Changing World
• Bing Crosby/Harry Edison - You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (Different than the PS3 instrumental version)

[edit] Limited Edition tracks by Moby

1. Beyond the Sea
2. God Bless the Child
3. Wild Little Sisters

WOMP

[edit] References

1. ↑ Cult of Rapture Orchestral Score Released for Free
2. ↑ Cult of Rapture Download the Orchestral Score
3. ↑ Cult of Rapture Forum BioShock Soundtrack Thread

• Full list of Music licensed for the game http://majornelson.com/archive/2007/10/11/bioshock-music-list.aspx