Radio Stations in GTA III

The radio stations in Grand Theft Auto III are a huge expansion over the radio stations of its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto 2. Like GTA 2, radio stations can only be heard while in a vehicle. Most radio stations play a mixture of music, DJ chat, and spoof advertising. GTA III includes different genres of music and introduced a talk show radio. In law enforcement vehicles basic radio cannot be heard but police chatter can be heard instead.

Although many of the songs that appear in the game were written specially for the soundtrack (or in some cases for the soundtracks of previous games in the series), a large number of tracks were contributions by real artists. Craig Conner and Stuart Ross created the original tracks, often with vocals and performances by other musicians. It is worth noting that virtually none of the contributing real artists were particularly well-known at the time, and appearing on such a popular video game was no doubt greatly advantageous to their careers.

Radio Stations

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Head Radio

DJ: Michael Hunt

Head Radio plays pop music. This is the first radio station in the game.

Soundtrack:

• Stripe Summer - Dil-Dont
• Good Thing - Whatever
• Fade Away - Craig Gray
• Change - Conor And Jay
• See Through You - Frankie Fam
• Electronic GoGo - Scatwerk
• Life Is But A Mere Supply - Dezma

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Double Cleff FM

DJ: Morgan Merryweather

This radio station plays only classic music.

Soundtrack:

• Non Piu Andrai Farfallone Amoroso - Sesto Bruscantini and Teresa Berganza
• Chi Mi Frena In Tal Momento - Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti and Piero Cappuccilli
• Libiamo Ne'lieti Calici - Renata Scotto, Jose Carreras and Sesto Bruscantini
• Finch'han Del Vino - Sesto Bruscantini, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Alfredo Kraus
• Le Donna E Mobile - Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto

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Jah Radio

DJ: Horace "The Pacifist" Walsh

KJah plays reggae music.

Soundtrack:

• Dance Of The Vampires - Scientist
• The Mummy's Shroud - Scientist
• The Corpse Rises - Scientist
• Your Teeth In My Neck - Scientist
• Plague Of Zombies - Scientist

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Rise FM

DJ: DJ Andre

Rise FM plays trance music.

Soundtrack:

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

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Lips 106

DJ: Shelley Miller

Top 40/Pop music station.

Soundtrack:

• Bump To The Music - Fatamarse
• Wash Him Off - Marydancin'
• Feels Like I Just Can't Take No More - April's In Paris
• Forever - Lucy
• Pray It Goes Ok? - Boyz 2 Girls
• Grand Theft Auto - Da Shootaz
• Rubber Tip - Funky Bjs

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Game FM

DJ: Stretch Armstrong & Lord Sear

On this radio station you will hear Hip-Hop/Rap music.

Soundtrack:

• We're Live (Danger) - Royce Da 5'9"
• Nature Freestyle - Nature
• JoJo Peligrino Freestyle - JoJo Peligrino
• Spit Game - Pretty Ugly & Royce Da 5'9"
• Im The King - Royce Da 5'9"
• By a Stranger - Black Rob
• Rising To The Top - Agallah
• Instrumental Bed 1 - Rush
• Instrumental Bed 2 - Rush

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MSX FM

DJ: MC Codebreaker & DJ Timecode

On this radio station you will hear Drum & Bass. Soundtrack:

• First Contact - Omni Trio
• Spectre - Aquasky
• Winner Takes All - Rascal & Klone
• Agent 007 - TZ Rising
• Quagmire - Calyx
• Get Wild - Rascal & Klone
• Judgement Day - Ryme time

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Flashback 95.6

DJ: Toni

80's classic music.

Soundtrack:

• Scarface (Push It To The Limit) - Giorgio Moroder & Arthur W. Barrow
• Rush Rush - Giorgio Moroder & Deborah Harry
• She's On Fire - Giorgio Moroder & Peter Bellotte
• Shake It Up - Giorgio Moroder & Arthur W. Barrow
• Im Hot Tonight - Giorgio Moroder & Peter Bellote

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Chatterbox 109

DJ: Lazlow

On this station Lazlow talks with callers (mainly citizens of Liberty City).

Commercials

The myriad commercials that appear throughout the game deserve a special mention. They are all written by Dan Houser and Lazlow (the latter of whom also produced them). They are fairly convincing as real adverts as they adhere to many typical marketing clichés and tricks. Several adverts mention telephone numbers and official websites. Rockstar actually created these websites, and though many links just eventually lead back to the Rockstar site, some are really quite detailed. The Petsovernight.com website displays pictures of animals and promises "If it's got a central nervous system, we've got it ready to go in a box to your house", tying in with the humour in the commercials.

Some examples of commercials within the game are: the Maibatsu Monstrosity adverts ("Mine is bigger!"), Fernando's New Beginnings ("A revolutionary new way to save your marriage."), the given phone number of which is 555-9292, and the new video game Pogo the Monkey ("He's got springs for legs!").

Callers:

• Lucien Jones
• Karin Bykowski
• Hank Stewart
• Abbi Davis
• Mellowvision.com
• Paul Maloney
• bernieS
• Frank Fava
• Kit Halsted
• Joe Casalino
• Dan Houser
• Jay Crutcher
• Frank Chavez
• DJ Rush
• A.M. Watson
• Laura Bykowski
• Navid Khonsari
• Sherry Wohglmuth
• Porkchop
• Renaude Sebbane
• Kyle Machlachlan
• Sabby
• Kim Schaefer
• Debi Mazar
• Nick Mandelos
• David Connell
• Reed Tucker
• Jennifer Kolbe
• Ami Plasse
• Keith Broadus
• Cameo Carlson
• JD Leeds
• Micheal Madsen

Non selectable Radio Stations

There are several stations that can be seen advertised on billboards throughout Liberty City. However, these are not available for selection at any time during the game and have no songs or DJs associated with them. They are Liberty FM, WLLC ‘The Zone’ and Liberty Soul FM. It is not clear whether these stations were originally intended to be ‘real’ stations but dropped during development, or if they were simply designed to sit alongside other fake brands advertised in the game. Another possible non-selectable station is what has been referred to as Orbit FM. However, close inspection of the ad (both in the game and in the instruction manual) shows that the correct name is OR-Bit. There is no ‘FM’ and no evidence that it is a radio station.

See Also

• Custom Radio Stations