The Ink Spots crackling through a broken jukebox in a drowned utopia. BioShock's licensed soundtrack pulls from 1930s and 40s standards, and hearing them echo through Rapture's ruined hallways turns every single one into something haunted.
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"If I Didn't Care" opens the whole game and immediately sets this tone of faded elegance gone horribly wrong. Bobby Darin's "Beyond The Sea" hits different when you're literally under it. Then "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" just sitting there with all its Depression-era weight while splicers scream down the corridor.
Pure atmosphere. If you played BioShock and these songs still live rent-free in your head, this collection is basically a portal back to Rapture.