#rdr2 playlist

[synthsays]

This one is inspired by @verdemoun 's time warp AU. One part of it that particularly stuck in my head is that Kieran thought that the restored historical Shady Bell of the future was heaven.

[arthursfuckinghat]

God. There's something so haunting about going through new austin and knowing that this is where John is going to spend so much time working like a dog trying to get his family back. Where he's going to spend so much time killing old friends and making new ones. Where he's going to spend so much time doing the government's bidding. Right by where he's going to get gunned down in his own home.

[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

:D For the people who know of the fanfic series The Devils (Kicking Up the Dust + Blood Under The Snow, both by Amras on AO3) I offer you my playlist based off of it!

Some of it are songs directly picked from what Amras listened to while writing the story, some are my own picks. Most of it are sad gloomy songs perfect for the snowy village setting of Blood Under the Snow. There are some more fast paced and lyrics-heavy songs amongst it

[dieselocelot]

vandermorgan anthem fr........

[pasta-pardner]

spotify | john marston's revenge quest, set to music from 1960s spaghetti westerns.

Fun detail: the opening cutscene for Red Dead Revolver (2004) features an instrumental version of "His Name Is King". The lyrical version is oddly fitting for John, given that it's a song about seeking vengeance for a dead brother.

[ren456]

I've been thinking a lot about Jack marston recently and it genuinely makes me feel so sick to think about how his life turns out.

He went from this sweet, curious, mommas boy who just wanted to play with his dad and read stories, to a grief-stricken, bloodthirsty teen ager, all because of the actions of his father.

every time I try to think of some way that his life could have been different, I just find more reasons as to why it couldn't have been. what if john didn't look back and kill micah? what if John had changed who he was sooner? what if abigail had truly decided to leave John for good before he built beechers hope? what if?

19 year old jack marston is the product of years of short sight on his father's behalf. his birthright was to be angry and alone and no amount of revenge could change that

Its midnight and I'm tired so thus prolly won't make sense but oh well

live footage of me thinking abt Jack marston

[youngdutchishot]

and here's these just cause they're such cuties^

This mission- The New South. I replayed it yesterday and had a blast, somehow them talking about Arthur and his silly stunts as a teen / young adult never got old

Also, the last photo feels like a moment of -

" look at that view, ain't it something?.. "

" Sure is, Dutch. " is NOT looking at the view

[thanatosaria]

black velvet, if you please 🖤

[passinoutpieces]

arthur morgan, the poutiest cowboy in the wild wild west

[omgwhatchloe]

making a rdr2 modern criminal au playlist and i need song recommendations so if anyone has any suggestions….😼😼😼😼😼😼

[homieswithhades]

lads comment or rb with songs that are about charthur

[synthsays]

This is one of my greatest achievements

[jennydwren]

Van Der Linde Gang by the Grateful Dead

I'm Dead serious right now. You can make an entire RDR2 playlist from songs the Dead either wrote or covered. Put these on shuffle:

Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) - p. much the entire gang (this could be a campfire song for them) but especially Jack

Me and My Uncle (John Phillips) - cowboys, gambling, murder, an uncle, what's not to like except the lumbago?

Loser - gambling, needing one last big score

Mexicali Blues - could be a campfire song but also foreshadows RDR1 events in a way (cw: lyrics have not totally aged well)

Jack Straw - murder, vengeance is a fool's game, trains, your bff is going off the rails and you have to make a horrible decision

Dire Wolf - John Marston's terrible luck, card playing, drinking - the chorus is "Don't murder me / I beg of you don't murder me / Please don't murder me"

Black Peter - a man slowly dying of a painful illness

Stagger Lee (the version actually written by the Grateful Dead) - big Sadie Adler vibes, useless sheriff, more gambling and murder

Whiskey in the Jar (traditional) - an Irish song for Sean, Molly, and Kieran - Jerry Garcia's mother was Irish-American

The Race is On (Don Rollins) - great campfire song for the gang about failure in love written as gambling on a horse race. Arthur actually feels this way, not without justification.

Casey Jones - the real Casey's train crash happened in 1909 if I'm remembering right, but the overconfidence despite warnings is so Dutch

Death Don't Have No Mercy (Gary Davis) - the Blackwater losses and those experienced during gameplay

Friend of the Devil - another hapless loser on the run

Althea - a woman gives the singer advice about his problems ("I told Althea the treachery was tearing me limb from limb") which, it is implied, goes unheeded

I've Been All Around This World (traditional) - the singer prepares to make a last stand with numerous firearms rather than be hanged

Sugaree - the end of a career of outlawry

Alabama Getaway - goes with any of the bounty hunting missions

Cold Rain and Snow (traditional) - singer feels mistreated - funnily, many bluegrass/folk versions sing a version in which the singer murders his wife, but the Grateful Dead actually avert the murder-ballad trope

Jack-a-Roe/Jack Monroe (traditional) - a fantastic campfire song for the ladies, particularly Sadie and Karen

Big Railroad Blues (Noah Lewis) - singer should have listened to his mother, implied train robbery ending in jail

Dupree's Diamond Blues - more inept criminality

La Bamba (traditional) - Yes, the Dead covered this one too. Javier needs one big fun Mexican song in this playlist.

Peggy-O (adapted from a Scottish ballad) - thwarted love and death

Wharf Rat - a blind beggar trying to pull his ruined life together - Dead Heads seeking sobriety began calling themselves "Wharf Rats" and banding together at shows

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) - Oh, Arthur.

If you add the works of Garcia's side projects Old and In the Way and New Riders of the Purple Sage, you could keep it going for days.

[cowboys-tshot]

i think arthur morgan would love poor man's poison

[starpaw0007]

Chronological Arthur Morgan playlist </3

[sstiizy]

hola it's Kieran back with the playlists