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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Clear channel ruined radio

FYI they rebranded into iHeartRadio.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Radio must have been one of the first modern things to go through the "enshitification" process.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nothing but maroon 5 and imagine dragons from here on out.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I wonder how long it would take for a passenger in the car to figure out it's not real radio...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] rustydomino 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speak English, you limey morons!

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[–] JustAManOnAToilet 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The talk radio is for sure. Dr. Ray De Angelo Harris aka JB Smoove.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hit me with the stick!

[–] owatnext 17 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] Drmickhead667 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Useless. Talentless. Asshole. Haha I love those guys. -Maurice Chavez

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[–] looeee 15 points 1 year ago

Radio Espantoso introduced me to a whole genre I never knew existed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have also been guilty of leaving the car parked and listening to the radio. Download the files from YouTube while they're hot :)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] makingrain 12 points 1 year ago

Vice City made me appreciate 80s music at a young age. I really appreciate the thought that went into selecting abd producing the sound track. I have the full OST release on CD - not sure if it is a bootleg or not, I don't really care.

[–] ummthatguy 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Los Santos Rock from GTAV with Kenny "Danger Zone" Loggins as the DJ is incredible.

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[–] GrammatonCleric 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GTA radio is literally just songs that used to play on the RL radio 😂

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The announcers and commercials are better in GTA, thus better than IRL

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, I recently found out the drummer in my band's Dad had a song in Vice City!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fernando Martinez never fails to make me laugh

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Burnout: Paradise FTW! DJ Atomika is my boy.

[–] FinalRemix 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I absolutely love that JunkieXL cut of "Cities In Dust". Damn EA and their weird handful of songs that can't be legimiately acquired.

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[–] Broken_Monitor 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gardening with Maurice was nice. Actually all the shows on WCTR.

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[–] bi_tux 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nothing beats radio new vegas

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't change your mind, I agree right down to the "vice city was the best one," you're right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It made me nostalgic for so many classics of the 70s/80s that I hadn't heard before playing it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fallout 3 and 4 are my jams.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

VROCK and RADIO LOS SANTOS. Legendary stations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fucks talking about real estate and unrealistic expectations are my real radio. Awful compared to VC

[–] BustinJiber 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a radio, it's a playlist. We have those everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just the music, also the talk radio, the moderators, the news, the ads,...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No, I will not change your mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I see no lies. GTA always had such an iconic radio.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Klear 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I was dancing with my lighter and my hair went up like a Christmas tree."

- DJ Toni 15 years earlier

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[–] TwoBeeSan 6 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Literally had GTA radio playing on a trip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Radio Broker and Electro-Choc were ridiculously influential on my later music preferences.

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