Bioshock > Miscellany > Music
Swing music, that form of jazz suitable for bourgeois ears, is a major part of the lives of Rapture's citizens. It is played from loudspeakers, from jukeboxes and from phonographs. A lot of it had to be smuggled in, as noted in a tape from Peach Wilkins that did not make it into the game.
Here is a table of the licensed music performed in the game, and where you can hear it.
| artist | work | where performed |
|---|---|---|
| The Andrews Sisters | Bei Mir Bist du Schön | Fort Frolic (Jasmine Jolene's room), Hephaestus (Kyburz's office) and elsewhere. |
| Rosemary Clooney | It's Bad for Me | Hephaestus (at the Gatherers Garden). |
| Perry Como | Papa Loves Mambo | Olympus Heights (at the Bistro). |
| Noël Coward | The Party's Over Now | Welcome Lobby (Footlight Theater), Olympus Heights (2d-Floor Abandonned Flat). |
| Noël Coward | Twentieth Century Blues | Farmer's Market (Worley Winery). |
| Bing Crosby | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Port Neptune (Upper Wharf), Apollo Square (entrance to Fontaine's Home for the Poor). |
| Bing Crosby | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams | Medical Pavilion (Supply Closet). |
| Bobby Darin | Beyond the Sea | Fort Frolic (Cocktail Lounge in the Southern Mall). |
| Billie Holiday | God Bless the Child | Olympus Heights (Tennenbaum's safehouse). |
| Billie Holiday | Night and Day | Arcadia (Waterfall Grotto, as thugs beat a Saturnine to death). |
| The Ink Spots | If I Didn't Care | Welcome Lobby (Kashmir Restaurant), Port Neptune and elsewhere; the Rose Splicer's favorite song. |
| The Ink Spots | The Best Things in Life Are Free | Medical Pavilion (Dandy Dental). |
| Mario Lanza | Danny Boy | Olympus Heights (Fontaine's penthouse). |
| John Newton | Amazing Grace | Rosebuds sing fragments of this hymn every so often. |
| Patti Page | (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? | Fort Frolic (Sinclair Spirits shop), Point Prometheus (Little Wonders Facility). |
| Cole Porter | You're the Top | Olympus Heights (entrance to Mercury Suites); Toasties sing part of this every so often. |
| Django Reinhardt | La Mer (Beyond the Sea) | Lighthouse. |
| Django Reinhardt | It Had to Be You | Medical Pavilion (Surgery Foyer, after you nail Dr. Steinman) |
| Django Reinhardt | Jitterbug Waltz | Arcadia (Tea Garden), Hephæstus (Heat Loss Monitoring) |
| Django Reinhardt | Liza (As the Clouds Roll Away) | Farmer's Market (near the cheese shop). |
| Django Reinhardt | Please Be Kind | |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker Suite: Waltz of the Flowers | Fort Frolic (during the post-Cobb splicer blitz). |