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.
Nothing but maroon 5 and imagine dragons from here on out.
Of course they did. They took over everything in Canada too.
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.
There’s a little subgenre of podcasts with a similar vibe. Try “Welcome to Nightvale” and “Beef and Dairy Network”. Though I’m sure there are slightly less weird options out there too.
Oh, I have listened to Wlcome to Nightvale! I liked the SCP archives too. I will have to check out Beef and Diary Network as soon as I get to a pause point on Box of Oddities. It may have been that GTA radio that had me prepped for podcasts.
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
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?
The talk radio is for sure. Dr. Ray De Angelo Harris aka JB Smoove.
Hit me with the stick!
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!”
Useless. Talentless. Asshole. Haha I love those guys. -Maurice Chavez
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!
Radio Espantoso introduced me to a whole genre I never knew existed
When Vice City came out Rockstar also released a box set CD compilation of the radio stations from the game. To this day I firmly believe it is the best '80s compilation to ever be released.
It made me nostalgic for 80s music. I think it exposed a generation of kids to it that may not have heard it otherwise.
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.
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!
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!
Try this: https://youtu.be/OKAODafH40Q?si=q-KVsk0WXBiNKf6z
If you have Spotify (correction, doesn’t have Cities in Dust but does have other songs 🤷): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5uWytVYKxhq1zyQpCp8m4E?si=68dTWxbUTLKuMnJeYqHhpQ
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.