Yep. Endless focus groups to rate which songs to play. Extremely small playlists and the hosts are so annoying you want to punch them. Thank god for the internet and endless amounts of music, I never need to listen to radio anymore.
There used to be good stations, with hosts choosing the music they want to play and having a good taste -- even better if it's different from mine so I can hear something new.
I have this one station I like to listen to that plays a variety of stuff from local artists and the like. Very few ads too, though they occasionally go into “soliciting for memberships” mode now and then.
We used to just leave a vehicle parked somewhere while we made dinner or did other stuff and let the radio play!
People sometimes would stop by and realize, after a bit of convo, they were hearing something and be baffled as to what the hell we were listening too.
The talk radio was the best! I was not a fan of most talk radio past morning shows but I loved all of the GTA ones. Somehow it made more sense listening to their off the wall shit than the real talk radio stations.
I used to love listening to Chatterbox on GTA 3. Lazlo and the Hispanic guy used to make me laugh like crazy, and now I listen to NPR and podcasts so I guess I eventually learned to like talk radio.
My name's Lazlow and you're on Chatterbox! Thanks for calling in.
...
I'm a first time caller. I wanted to say something about these videogames, they are warping our kids minds. My sons dog, Bugle, got hit by a truck, and he says mommy, mommy, where's the reset button?
If you use Pandora music you can enter Vice City as a radio station to play on it. You don’t get the talking stuff but it does play all the songs (and related 80s music).
I would just drive around busting three wheel around the corners with my homies in the drop top just listening to the radio. That was more fun than the missions.
Louisiana woman, Mississippi man
We'll get together every time we can
The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
There's too much love in this Mississippi heart
Too much love in this Louisiana heart
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Clear channel ruined radio
FYI they rebranded into iHeartRadio.
Radio must have been one of the first modern things to go through the "enshitification" process.
Yep. Endless focus groups to rate which songs to play. Extremely small playlists and the hosts are so annoying you want to punch them. Thank god for the internet and endless amounts of music, I never need to listen to radio anymore.
There used to be good stations, with hosts choosing the music they want to play and having a good taste -- even better if it's different from mine so I can hear something new.
All gone now...
I have this one station I like to listen to that plays a variety of stuff from local artists and the like. Very few ads too, though they occasionally go into “soliciting for memberships” mode now and then.
The one I know and love is The Summit FM in Akron Ohio. I listen to it on Radio Garden or on actual radio when I'm in the area
There's so many good songs out there across genres. It's a shame only a few give them airtime
Hah! The Summit in Akron was the EXACT station I was referring to!
Hell yeah! Those guys do it right, I hope more follow suit
Nothing but maroon 5 and imagine dragons from here on out.
Of course they did. They took over everything in Canada too.
sucks that they own pretty much every radio station. they’re now creeping into podcasts as well
We used to just leave a vehicle parked somewhere while we made dinner or did other stuff and let the radio play!
People sometimes would stop by and realize, after a bit of convo, they were hearing something and be baffled as to what the hell we were listening too.
My friends and I would do the same thing. When we got tired of playing, but wanted to keep listening to the music or talk shows.
The talk radio was the best! I was not a fan of most talk radio past morning shows but I loved all of the GTA ones. Somehow it made more sense listening to their off the wall shit than the real talk radio stations.
I used to love listening to Chatterbox on GTA 3. Lazlo and the Hispanic guy used to make me laugh like crazy, and now I listen to NPR and podcasts so I guess I eventually learned to like talk radio.
I had a software that ripped gta music and ads and shuffled them so you can burn a cd to play in your car with the same in game radio.
Loved cruising around with k-rose on from San Andreas. The ads kill me every time.
I wonder how long it would take for a passenger in the car to figure out it's not real radio...
I need it
Radio X > everything else
Gta3s k-jah was the peak for me (but it was nasty in San Andreas). I did a lot of nsx as well
The Glory hole ads were amusing everytime i heard it
Vice city's sound track was my soundtrack to life for a long while. It really made me appreciate 80s music.
Also chatterbox from gta3 was so good. I loved Laslow.
Speak English, you limey morons!
I will now tear this desk in two half desks!
"Don't you think--" "No I don't! Never!"
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The talk radio is for sure. Dr. Ray De Angelo Harris aka JB Smoove.
Hit me with the stick!
My name's Lazlow and you're on Chatterbox! Thanks for calling in.
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I'm a first time caller. I wanted to say something about these videogames, they are warping our kids minds. My sons dog, Bugle, got hit by a truck, and he says mommy, mommy, where's the reset button?
Useless. Talentless. Asshole. Haha I love those guys. -Maurice Chavez
I was disappointed when I realised he wasn't hosting Gardening with Maurice.
Radio Espantoso introduced me to a whole genre I never knew existed
Have also been guilty of leaving the car parked and listening to the radio. Download the files from YouTube while they're hot :)
They're on yt? Yeah, I might go for that.
They are. I wish someone would put together new videos with remastered audio though.
Love Fist!
If we die, I'm gonna get peshed.
Los Santos Rock from GTAV with Kenny "Danger Zone" Loggins as the DJ is incredible.
I never appreciated Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting until i I had it as the soundtrack to a high speed highway gunfight
GTA radio is literally just songs that used to play on the RL radio 😂
The announcers and commercials are better in GTA, thus better than IRL
Well, the deejays were people that were already famous for other things, so yeah, slight advantage there 😅
Burnout: Paradise FTW! DJ Atomika is my boy.
I absolutely love that JunkieXL cut of "Cities In Dust". Damn EA and their weird handful of songs that can't be legimiately acquired.
Yes! I love that song, a great race song. Time to get a Boost x5!
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Burnout paradise not having local multiplayer hurt 15 years later...or maybe less but I'm not looking it up
Great game but I wish I could race my siblings and partner.
I feel ya. The kids and I would take turns. The only game where that actually worked.
Funnily enough, I recently found out the drummer in my band's Dad had a song in Vice City!
Whoa! That's some serious dad points right there.
What's even funnier is I was looking through my dad's record collection and he has a single from my drummers dad's band! Small world
Fernando Martinez never fails to make me laugh
Fernando's New Beginnings?
He's not a pimp he's a miracle worker
Cinco cinco cinco. Nuevo dos, nuevo dos!
If you use Pandora music you can enter Vice City as a radio station to play on it. You don’t get the talking stuff but it does play all the songs (and related 80s music).
There are full rips on YouTube (just search "vice city radio").
Thanks! I do still use my Pandora account sometimes. Nothing makes me feel older.
Did you ever use Launch (predecessor to Yahoo Music) in the early 2000's? It was pretty decent.
I don't think I did. It doesn't sound familiar.
I would just drive around busting three wheel around the corners with my homies in the drop top just listening to the radio. That was more fun than the missions.
nothing beats radio new vegas
I would nominate radio Pro Skater as a contender
I can't change your mind, I agree right down to the "vice city was the best one," you're right.
It made me nostalgic for so many classics of the 70s/80s that I hadn't heard before playing it.
Loved Vice City. The music was fire in that game.
VROCK and RADIO LOS SANTOS. Legendary stations.
Fallout 3 and 4 are my jams.
Can't believe I had to go this low to find WCTR.
(enhale)
Louisiana woman, Mississippi man We'll get together every time we can The Mississippi River can't keep us apart There's too much love in this Mississippi heart Too much love in this Louisiana heart
K-Rose!
It's not a radio, it's a playlist. We have those everywhere.
It's not just the music, also the talk radio, the moderators, the news, the ads,...
Fucks talking about real estate and unrealistic expectations are my real radio. Awful compared to VC
GTA IV wktt always cracks me up. Definitely helps Patrice O'Neal and fez whatley voiced some of the skits.
4's still my fave but need to go back and play San Andreas and vice city today to know for sure. Anyone played them recently? They hold up?
"I've done a lot of crazy things but I've never been on fire, at least not to my knowledge."
"I was dancing with my lighter and my hair went up like a Christmas tree."
- DJ Toni 15 years earlier
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No, I will not change your mind.
I see no lies. GTA always had such an iconic radio.
Radio Broker and Electro-Choc were ridiculously influential on my later music preferences.
Oglock, how are you?
Y'all realize you can go on Spotify or YouTube and type in "GTA Radio Playlist" for all the songs in your own cars right?
Literally had GTA radio playing on a trip
You thought that man was the don, but he gave you the FEVER
Chakra Attack!
San Andreas for me !!!! Played hardcore during covid lockdown. Boy because i want 1 millions point to be the King of San Andreas
Jesus luckilly the choppper have radio unlike previous gta game !!!!
Yeas wanna how many hour of blowing up airplane to get the millluon pts jesus
Yea GTA radio is better than actual radio
All my ex’s live in Texas
I still listen to KDST on regular basis.
I have at least listened to it more
None of that rap crap
Where's my vinewood boulevard radio gang at?
Blu Arc best Reggae show there is...
K-Jah!
I can't. Actual radio won't stop playing God damn ed Sherron.
I'm so out of touch with modern music that I know what he looks like, from memes and stuff, but I couldn't tell you any of his songs.
Yes you can. It's impossible to escape them.
SF-UR, K-DST (GTA SA), SoulwaxFM and LSUR (GTA 5) will always be my go to 👌
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Nice.
Radio Off. I like to hear the screaming