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[Spring-Loaded]

This thread's about what it would've been like if it were more like the radio stations of later games, not "III's OST should've been like ______ because it wasn't good enough"

I never played the previous games, but I know GTA III was the first to have licensed music, in addition to original, on its radio. As we all know, most of the subsequent titles had all licensed radio soundtracks that fit the era each game took place in.

as mentioned, GTA III has a mix of licensed and stuff (apparently) made just for the game

Double Clef FM

DJ: Morgan Merryweather
Genre: Classical, Opera
Tracklist:[1]

"Non piu andrai farfallone amoroso" from Le nozze di Figaro [2]
"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata [3]
"Chi mi frena in tal momento" from Lucia di Lammermoor [4]
"Finch'han del vino" from Don Giovanni [5]
"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi [6][7]
"La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto [8]


Flashback 95.6

DJ: Toni
Genre: 1980s Pop music
Tracklist:[10]

Debbie Harry - "Rush Rush"
Elizabeth Daily - "Shake It Up"
Paul Engemann - "Push It to the Limit"
Amy Holland - "She's on Fire"
Elizabeth Daily - "I'm Hot Tonight"


Game Radio FM

DJ: DJ Stretch Armstrong and Lord Sear
Genre: Underground hip hop, Midwest hip hop, East Coast hip hop, and Rap music
Tracklist:[12]

Reef - "Scary Movies (Instrumental)"
Royce da 5'9" - "We're Live (Danger)"
Nature - "Nature Freestyle"
JoJo Pellegrino - "JoJo Pellegrino Freestyle"
Pretty Ugly and Royce da 5'9" - "Spit Game"
Royce da 5'9" - "I'm the King"
Rush - "Instrumental Bed 1" [13]
Black Rob - "By A Stranger"
Agallah and Sean Price - "Rising to the Top"
Rush - "Instrumental Bed 2" [13]


Head Radio

DJ: Michael Hunt
Genre: Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary, and Pop music
Tracklist:[14]

Dil-Don't - "Stripe Summer"[15]
Whatever - "Good Thing"[16]
Craig Gray - "Fade Away"[17]
Conor & Jay - "Change"[18]
Frankie Fame - "See Through You"[19]
Scatwerk - "Electronic Go Go"[20]
Dezma - "Life Is But A Mere Supply" [21]


K-Jah

DJ: Horace "the Pacifist" Walsh
Genre: Dub, Reggae
Tracklist:[23]

Scientist - "Dance of the Vampires"
Scientist - "Your Teeth in My Neck"
Scientist - "The Corpse Rises"
Scientist - "The Mummy's Shroud"
Scientist - "Plague of Zombies"


Lips 106

DJ: Andee
Genre: Pop music
Tracklist:[24]

Fatamarse - "Bump To The Music" [25]
Marydancin - "Wash Him Off" (cut from the final version of the game, but available on iTunes)
April's in Paris - "Feels Like I Just Can't Take No More" [26]
Lucy - "Forever" [27]
Boyz 2 Girls - "Pray It Goes Ok?" [28]
Da Shootaz - "Grand Theft Auto (Joyride)" [29]
Funky BJs - "Rubber Tip" [30]


MSX FM

DJ: MC Codebreaker and DJ Timecode
Genre: Drum and Bass, Jungle
Tracklist:[31]

TJ Rizing - "Agent 007"
Calyx - "Quagmire" [32]
Rascal & Klone - "Get Wild" [33]
Ryme Tyme - "Judgement Day" [34]
Hex - "Force"
Omni Trio - "First Contact" [35]
Aquasky - "Spectre" [36]
Rascal & Klone - "Winner Takes All" [33]
Ryme Tyme - "T Minus"
nCode - "Spasm" [37]
D.Kay - "Monolith" [38]
Dom & Ryme Tyme - "Iceberg"


Rise FM

DJ: Andre The Accelerator
Genre: Trance, Rave

Tracklist:

Chris Walsh & Dave Beran – "Shake (Revolt Clogrock Remix)"
Shiver – "Deep Time"
R.R.D.S. – "Innerbattle"
Slyder – "Score (Original Mix)"
Slyder – "Neo (The One)"

The raggae station is entirely by one artist, which is a huge difference from V where each station has dozens of songs from different artists.

What if III's selection of songs was comparable to Vice City, San Andreas, IV and V, in terms of size and notoriety? I wouldn't even know where to begin considering I never listened to music until about 2005, so I wouldn't know what would be popular/relevant in U.S. circa 2001.

I would place GZA - Investigative Reports on the hip-hop station, but I have no justification for it.

 

[antitrop]

The Stokes - Last Nite. I mean, I know their first album was released like within weeks of the launch of GTA III, but, yeah. New York City based band from 2001, it's perfect.

GTA III should have had more Rock in the first place.

 

[jaydogg691]

They should have had the full Scary Movies track and not just part of the instrumental on Game Radio. Such a tease. Great instrumental though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU_SDa2va-w

 

[OverBlood 3]

The GTA 3 soundtrack was fantastic as is. The Debbie Harry track is great.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

The GTA 3 soundtrack was fantastic as is. The Debbie Harry track is great.

It's definitely different than it would've been had the GTA brand been proportionately as big as it was by the time of Vice City's or San Andreas' release though. I guarantee if R* had their current level of clout, there would've been more popular/well known artists featured. This thread's about what it would've been like if it were more like the radio stations of later games, not "III's OST should've been like ______"

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Conor & Jay - "Change"

When I think of the GTA III soundtrack, this is the song that comes to mind.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIFnws9LRU)

 

[ThatsMytrunks]

I have the radio stations in WAV files on my iPhone. I don't need a licensed soundtrack, it was one of the best of all time.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I have the radio stations in WAV files on my iPhone. I don't need a licensed soundtrack, it was one of the best of all time.

This thread's about what it would've been like if it were more like the radio stations of later games, not "III's OST should've been like ______"

.

 

[SarcasticD]

When I think of the GTA III soundtrack, this is the song that comes to mind.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIFnws9LRU)

I swear whenever I hear this song, I have the urge to play GTA III

Got dammit. I'm going to play it now

 

[Zee-Row]

The Scarface soundtrack combined with all those underground rappers made it one of a kind and awesome to me.

 

[injurai]

GTA III has the best soundtrack of all the game.

God I love moving shadow.

 

[username12]

GTA III soundtrack is awesome as is. I bought the PC version/bundle during a Steam sale but don't want to play it because they ruined it. Never cared for any of the other GTA soundtracks.

 

[waggabond]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

For the classical station? yes I agree

 

[Fjordson]

That's a pretty interesting question actually.

I think Game Radio would have had lots of Eminem and Dr. Dre. The Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP and Chronic 2001 were all massive hits around that time and all three were released before 2001.

edit: also probably would have fit Radiohead in somewhere. Their newest two albums at that time would have been OK Computer and Kid A.

 

[DrFunk]

GTA 3 original music was so good. So was GTA 2 and 1.

GTA didn't need licensed music imo

 

[Buckethead]

None of the stuff in here, most likely, because there's a delay in licensing negotiations.

More so back in the day.

 

[TheAbsolution]

I swear whenever I hear this song, I have the urge to play GTA III

Got dammit. I'm going to play it now

I really liked all of the Lips 106 and Head Radio songs. They were fantastic and definitely felt from that time period.

 

[Raziel]

If it was like the current games? 5 hip hop/r&b stations, crap I've never heard of, and songs 10-20 years old even on non-retro stations.

 

[DryvBy]

During that time?


DJ Hip-Hopocrite, 97.5 MTV Rock-Rap-N-Roll-Em
Linkin Park - Crawling
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
X-ecutioners - It's Going Down
Kid Rock - Cowboy
/random other music from that rock-rap fake grunge genre

 

[joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

Having all the pop songs from Scarface was killer.

 

[Hamster Plugin]

If someone isn't aware yet, Rockstar put the original GTA3 radio songs on Spotify. The songs themselves without the announcer noise.

Head Radio: http://open.spotify.com/album/4TonZ0e6oYg5wCPTfOyPJs
Lips 106: http://open.spotify.com/album/6bJvflJ40TDElA6gURc78u