The music soundtrack of BioShock

Bioshock

BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...

 is composed of licensed music from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, as well as an original orchestral score by Garry Schyman

Garry Schyman

Garry Schyman is an American film, television, and video game music composer. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such television series as Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team. By...

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BioShock Score

The original score for BioShock was composed by Gary Schyman. It was released to consumers in the special edition of the game under the name, Sounds From The Lighthouse (Official BioShock 2 Score) on February 9, 2010 on CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

. The score soundtrack features all 26 tracks from the game.

Track listing

1. "Pairbond (BioShock 2 Theme)" - 2:33
2. "Waking Up In 1959 (Multiplayer Main Menu)" - 1:31
3. "Ten Years Later" - 1:46
4. "Protecting His Charge" - 1:07
5. "Welcome Back" - 2:20
6. "Cult Of Lamb" - 1:18
7. "Out The Airlock" - 1:41
8. "How She Sees The World" - 2:46
9. "Grace Under The Ocean" - 1:51
10. "The Abyss" - 1:24
11. "Big Sister On The Move" - 2:00
12. "Send Him Howling Back To Hell" - 2:06
13. "Eleanor's Darkness" - 1:42
14. "That Symbol On Your Hand" - 2:00
15. "Drained Memories" - 2:40
16. "Entrance To Eden" - 1:37
17. "Persephone" - 1:07
18. "Cell Block" - 1:14
19. "Lockdown March" - 1:28
20. "Welcome To The Drop (Alt. With Vocal)" - 1:38
21. "Under The Tracks (Unused With Vocal)" - 2:43
22. "Research" - 1:11
23. "Destroying The Lobby" - 1:09
24. "Gil's Entertainment" - 1:48
25. "Escape" - 3:32
26. "Eleanor's Lullaby" - 1:39

Licensed music

While playing BioShock and BioShock 2

BioShock 2

BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The sequel to the 2007 video game BioShock, it was released worldwide on February 9, 2010....

, phonograph

Phonograph

The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

s will occasionally play music from the 1930s, 40s and 50s as the player explores. Following is a list of licensed songs that appear in BioShock and BioShock 2

BioShock

• "La Mer
  La Mer (song)
  Trenet wrote the lyrics of "La Mer" on a train in 1943 while travelling along the French Mediterranean coast, returning from Paris to Narbonne. He supposedly wrote the song in ten minutes, on toilet paper supplied by SNCF. He was assisted with the tune by Leo Chauliac. It was originally published...
  
  " - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  
• "If I Didn't Care
  If I Didn't Care
  "If I Didn't Care" is a song written by Jack Lawrence that was originally sung and recorded by The Ink Spots in 1939. According to Lawrence, he mailed the song before showing it to some of his friends. His friends' reaction to the song was almost universally negative, but he remained positive on it...
  
  " - The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
  
  
• "The Party's Over Now" - Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  
• "The Best Things in Life Are Free" - The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
  
  
• "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
  "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists...
  
  " - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  
• "It Had to Be You
  It Had to Be You (song)
  "It Had to Be You" is a popular song written by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Gus Kahn, and was first published in 1924.The song was performed by Priscilla Lane in the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties and by Danny Thomas in the 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams. The latter film was based loosely upon...
  
  " - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  
• "God Bless the Child
  God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)
  "God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939, first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in...
  
  " - Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  
• "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", also sung as "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?", is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1931 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical New Americana; the...
  
  " - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  
• "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" - The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...
  
  
• "Jitterbug Waltz" - Fats Waller
  Fats Waller
  Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
  
  
• "Night and Day
  Night and Day (song)
  "Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists....
  
  " - Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  
• "Liza" - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  
• "Twentieth Century Blues" - Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  
• "Beyond the Sea
  Beyond the Sea (song)
  "Beyond the Sea" is a 1946 contemporary pop song with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence.Trenet had composed "La Mer" with French lyrics totally different and unrelated to the English language version that Lawrence composed...
  
  " - Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...
  
  
• "Waltz of the Flowers
  The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
  
  " - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  
• "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  " That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song written by Bob Merrill and Ingrid Reuterskiöld in 1952. The best-known version of the song was recorded by Patti Page on December 18, 1952 and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70070, with the flip side being "My Jealous Eyes". It...
  
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "It's Bad for Me" - Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...
  
  
• "Please Be Kind
  Please Be Kind
  "Please Be Kind" is a 1938 song composed by Saul Chaplin with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.-Notable recordings:*Mildred Bailey - *June Christy - Cool Christy *Ella Fitzgerald - Songs in a Mellow Mood and the MCA release "Ella & Ellis"....
  
  " - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  
• "Papa Loves Mambo
  Papa Loves Mambo
  "Papa Loves Mambo" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Bix Reichner and published in 1954.The best-known version was recorded by Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra in New York City on August 31, 1954. The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number...
  
  " - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "You're the Top
  You're the Top
  "You're The Top" is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other...
  
  " - Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  
• "Danny Boy
  Danny Boy
  -Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...
  
  " - Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
  
  

(In PC version only)

• "Just Walking in the Rain" - Johnnie Ray
• "The Ballroom Waltz" - Cliff Eidelman
• "World Weary" - Noël Coward
• "Wild Ride" - Faux Frenchman

In Beta Version Only

• "Avalon" - Django Reinhard
• "Just One of Those Things" - Lee Morgan
• Let's Fly Away - Lee Wiley
  Lee Wiley
  Lee Wiley was an American jazz singer popular in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.Wiley was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. While still in her early teens, she left home to pursue a singing career with the Leo Reisman band. Her career was temporarily interrupted by a fall while horseback riding...
  
  
• This is a Changing World - Noel Coward
• You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Bing Crosby/Harry Edison

Names been in PC sourse files.

• "Rosalie" - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
• "I loves you, Porgy" - Billie Holiday
• "Lil` Darlin" - Count Bessie
• "Jive to Five" - Count Bessie
• "Happy Feet" - Cab Calloway
• "Too Young" - Nat King Cole

In addition to these, the song "You're Getting to be a Habit With Me

You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is a popular song.The music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1932. It appears in the backstager Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street...

" by Buddy Rich

Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

 and Harry Edison appears during the installation sequence for the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

BioShock 2

The licensed music featured in Bioshock 2 was officially released as an Amazon MP3 and CD on demand service album on April 15, 2010, entitled Bioshock 2: The Official Soundtrack - Music From And Inspired By The Game (Special Edition). It contains 18 tracks spanning 52 minutes

Full Tracklist:

• "Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogeyman" - Henry Hall
• "You Always Hurt the One You Love" - The Mills Brothers
• "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  " That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song written by Bob Merrill and Ingrid Reuterskiöld in 1952. The best-known version of the song was recorded by Patti Page on December 18, 1952 and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70070, with the flip side being "My Jealous Eyes". It...
  
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "Nightmare" - Artie Shaw
  Artie Shaw
  Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings....
  
  
• "Sweet Madness" - Adrian Rollini & His Orchestra, including Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, etc.
• "Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home" - Annette Hanshaw
• "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" - Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
  
   & His Orchestra With Martha Tilton
  Martha Tilton
  Martha Tilton was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. She was sometimes introduced as The Liltin' Miss Tilton.Tilton and her family lived in Texas and Kansas, relocating to Los Angeles when she was seven years old...
  
  
• "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" - The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...
  
  
• "The Boogie Man" - Todd Rollins & His Orchestra with Chick Bullock
• "Twentieth Century Blues" - Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  
• "Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition" - Kay Kyser
  Kay Kyser
  James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin...
  
   & His Orchestra
• "Dawn of a New Day" - Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
• "Night and Day" - Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  
• "My Heart Belongs To Daddy
  My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on Nov 9, 1938. It was performed by Mary Martin who played Dolly Winslow, the young protégée of an elderly ambassador, Alonzo P. Goodhue...
  
  " - Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra, featuring Mary Martin
• "Chasing Shadows" - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
   ; Stéphane Grappelli ; Quintette Du Hot Club de France
• "Jitterbug Waltz" - Fats Waller
  Fats Waller
  Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
  
   & His Rhythm
• "I Cover The Waterfront" - Connie Boswell
• "Mental Strain At Dawn" - Jack Purvis, trumpet solo, with rhythm accompaniment
• "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" - Ink Spots
• "I'm Making Believe" - The Ink Spots ; Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  
• "It's Only a Paper Moon" - Ella Fitzgerald
• "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" - Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  
• "Pennies from Heaven" - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  
• "Paper Doll" - The Mills Brothers
• "Ten Cents a Dance" - Ruth Etting
• "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" - Bessie Smith
• "Memories of You" - The Ink Spots
• "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - Cab Calloway
  Cab Calloway
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....
  
  
• "Daddy's Little Girl" - The Mills Brothers
• "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" - Django Reinhardt
• "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat" - The Ink Spots
• "It's Bad for Me" - Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...
  
  
• "It Had to be You" - Django Reinhardt
• "Dream" - The Pied Pipers
• "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" - The Ink Spots

In addition to these, the song "Dream

Dream (song)

"Dream", sometimes referred to as "Dream ", is a jazz and pop standard with words and music written by Johnny Mercer in 1944...

" by The Pied Pipers

The Pied Pipers

The Pied Pipers were a popular singing group in the late 1930s and 1940s. Originally they consisted of eight members who had belonged to three separate groups: Jo Stafford from The Stafford Sisters, and seven male singers: John Huddleston, Hal Hopper, Chuck Lowry, Bud Hervey, George Tait, Woody...

 was played over the Teaser Trailer for BioShock 2.

The song "Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home?" by Annette Hanshaw is used in a trailer, it can also be heard in one of the early levels of the game.

The BioShock EP

The BioShock EP (also known as The Rapture EP) is a CD included with the limited edition version of BioShock and contains remixes by Moby

Moby

Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

 and Oscar the Punk. The three remixed tracks on the CD include "Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea (song)

"Beyond the Sea" is a 1946 contemporary pop song with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence.Trenet had composed "La Mer" with French lyrics totally different and unrelated to the English language version that Lawrence composed...

," "God Bless the Child

God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)

"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939, first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in...

" and "Wild Little Sisters". The original recordings of these songs are in the game.

Track listing

1. "Beyond the Sea" (Moby and Oscar the Punk Remix) - 3:13
2. "God Bless the Child" (Moby and Oscar the Punk Remix) - 3:55
3. "Wild Little Sisters" (Moby and Oscar the Punk Remix) - 3:56