Here’s my hot take to offer:
The Krunch 106.66 from Saints Row 2 is the best radio station in any city sandbox GTA-style game.
I like metal and there are a couple bands I started listening to because of that radio station.
I’ve been playing GTA 4 the radio selection is so good. I always end up finding some songs I would have never listened too.
Actually that’s just true lmao
GTA 6 is gonna be filled with AI-Generated In-Universe Radio
MARK MY WORDS
(did I jinks it?)
Lazlow Jones (the writer/voice of the radio stations) and Dan Houser (Co-founder of Rockstar) left the company to work on an AI Satire venture.
A tech bro radio station, filled to the brim with AI songs actually sounds like a very GTA thing to do.
I hope there’s a radio station like this, however all the songs are really terrible and poke fun at AI throughout.
the only time i ever listen to radio talk shows are the ones on gta
man is lazlo fucking hilarious
I was so upset the other day, I went onto Spotify and looked up GTA San Andreas radio, and hit shuffle. This is a playlist I’ve used for a while that was always accurate to the original game, but sometime seemingly recently someone added songs that absolutely weren’t on the original playlist, things like dua lipa. The playlist had been infected with like 8 songs, mostly from 2019. Shit was beyond disappointing, but that’s what I get for using Spotify.
You could look up the songs used in San Andreas and put together your own Playlist. Fix the injustice in the world and all that.
You can literally just copy/paste the songs into a new playlist and delete the weird ones. It wouldn’t even be remotely hard
I don’t think there will ever be another game with a soundtrack as good as Vice City.
The only music station I listen to is one run by the students in a liberal art college near me, on a good day it has a range of something like 10 miles. There is almost no talking except station ID notices and everything they play is music I like.
I’m a 50 year old goat farmer with “scene girl” taste in music.
Hey… wait a minute…
This image is moving!
(It’s so subtle lol, I almost didn’t realize this was a gif, thought I was going crazy)
That’s because the ads on GTA radio are just comedy bits. If ads on real radio were just clips of standup comedians, I wouldn’t complain about 'em. 🤷♂️
Also, is the DJ David Cross voices for KULT FM the same character he voices in San Andreas? 🤔
The ads didn’t actually want to sell you anything.
🎶 Glory hole 🎶
🎶 Where strangers become friends 🎶
Except ammu nation, pets overnight, little lacy surprise…
My main radio station I listen to is publicly funded so there’s no ads. It does however have a show with 2 comedians doing social and political commentary with deadpan delivery. Sadly just one episode per week.
There’s also a hangover show with other comedians but I don’t find it as funny recently. Greatest hits include things like a morning exercise routine that concludes with moving yourself just enough to grab a beverage and resume drinking.
Wait, are you listening to the drunk Indian show on WOJB? I thought he died.
Nope, different country. Unfortunately, the show is in Estonian so unless you speak it, I don’t think it’ll make any sense to you.
All the stations are such over the top parodies. Real world people saying dumb shit isn’t funny, it’s sad.
If ads on real radio were just clips of standup comedians, I wouldn’t complain about 'em. 🤷♂️
Unless they were all by annoying hacks 😉
I can practically hear Jerry Seinfeld saying “What’s the deal with Giggle Cream?”
Or Gabriel Iglesias shilling something fluffy like idunno, Pomeranians? 🤷
Gabriel Iglesias here for the all new Extra Fluffy MyPillow
… /s
Patrice o Neal having a character in wktt gta4 radio is one of my faves. Those were so funny at the time
How do you like to eat your rusty browns ring donuts?
Some of the radios in vice city were so funny. I still listen to them today at work
GTA satire is now irl factual.
The devs had a better taste in music than most irl commercial stations.
I will not, you are correct.
🎶La vida es una lenteja, o la tomas o la dejas🎶
Old World Radio for Fallout 4 is the best radio I have yet come across. Ice Cream Carl is the best DJ! I will die on this hill.
I’ve played New Vegas so much that I can now actually just sing along to half the songs in the game.
I’ve got a decent baritone voice, I can do Big Iron, Blue Moon, Heartaches by the Number, Jingle Jangle Jingle, whistle the solos, etc.
Butcher Pete from FO3 is also quite fun to sing, haha!
And of course: I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire.
And and, I dunno if These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ made it into a Fallout game, but it very much seems to fit, and I taught myself to sing a baritone version of it.
Also you’d really think Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel would fit in, but I guess nobody can afford the licensing rights, hah!
But yeah I’m gonna say Mr. New Vegas is my favorite dj from the series… much better voice synthesis than our modern day, newfangled LLMs, Mr. House has some kinda trick up his sleeve, as usual.
We got self-refferential ‘chuck norris’ jokes:
“You know, I tried to measure my Charisma on a Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester once. The machine burst into flames.”
… and a comforting, soft yet commanding voice, telling you:
“It’s me again, Mr. New Vegas, reminding you that you’re nobody 'til somebody loves you. And that somebody is me. I love you.”
<3
I thought the same thing immediately lmao fnv radio has a much larger place in my mind. IM GOOOOOOOOOOOIN UNDER
You know how I know you’re telling the truth?
Well… it’s a sin, to tell a lie.
I’ve bought so many old records due to the fallout series… Damned be their music selection
E: GTA got me listening to K-DST day and night as well
In all fairness, I have GTA 4 to thank for introducing me to LCD Soundsystem, so, also very very good, just… kinda harder to sing along to, so much of their music is incredible soundscapes.
Different flavors of awesome.
Oh that reminds me!
Don’t think this counts as an in game radio station…
But holy shit, PayDay 2’s entire cumulative soundtrack at this point.
If you wanna do something high octane, turn that shit on, you will be amped.
For sure Payday had bangers, it’s been a while though I’ll be listening soon. As for high octane shit it’s always been an easy win for the Doom series for me
Oh I mean, Doom’s OSTs have had so many good songs, I didn’t even think to mention to mention it lol, its like the basline from which ‘intense frenetic action’ is measured lol.
I’m listening to Fallout radio so much, Spotify Wrapped said that my listening age is 100.
Ah, so thats what ‘old soul’ means, hahah!
Fallout music has been the weakest part of any of the series, I use to pop out the disc after the game loaded and play CDs in the originals. Thhhhhhrrrrrreeeeee Doooooggggg if your out there vault looter pick up some music that doesn’t stink up the room.
I really like rockabilly and 50’s music in general. Love classical music! Liszt, Debussy, Chopin, Brahms, Strauss, Wagner, really a great lineup.
But OWR brought so much to the table. Ali-G, Schwarzenegger, Bobcat, as radio hosts. NIN instrumental, synthwave bangers, Twilight Zone, Peewees Playhouse, 8-Bit Hits.
I still just put on SynthstreamFM youtube and code for 7 hours and put it on again.
Icecream Carls hatred for Machoman’s antics, his love of Trashcan Carla the Commonwealth just feels better!
