Build your own freaky BioShock playlist for scares on-the-go

I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear distant, old music playing on the radio, I find myself wanting to take cover from an incoming Big Daddy. In fact, an incident from a couple of nights ago is a great example of how BioShock’s musical score and sound has scarred me for life.

I shut down my Xbox 360 after an extended session of BioShock went into the wee morning hours. After the sound of my rig and Xbox 360 died down, I could hear a faint, scratchy song in the distance, and it scared greatly. At the very moment that my mind had identified the music as the score from a black-and-white film playing on a television in another room, I heard/felt a thunderous room-shaking rumble right outside my front door. Genuine fear hit me in the center of my gut, and I really thought that Big Daddy had arrived to take me on in my living room. It turns out that it was a massive truck passing by my house, but it was enough to send me to bed with the covers over my head.

After all of that, I don’t know why you’d want to compile a list of the ambient music that plays in BioShock, but Major Nelson has put one together for us. He has put up a great chart with some clickable Amazon links for your freaky playlist making convienece. Hit the jump to see it.

Wow. Even out of the game’s context, The Ink Spots’ “If I Didn’t Care” still manages to be spooky.

[thanks, JV]