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'''Paradise FM''' is a [[radio station]] featured in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]].
'''Paradise FM''' is a [[radio station]] featured in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]].


Class Action's "Weekend" is also featured as a house music remix by The Todd Terry Project in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], appearing on the [[SF-UR]] house radio station. Exodus' "Together Forever" is also sampled in Eddie Amador's song "House Music" on the house music station [[Rise FM]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].
== Description ==
 
Paradise FM is a non-stop [[wp:Disco music|disco]] station that predominantly plays American [[wp:post-disco|post-disco]] music from the early 1980s. Not including station identification, this is not only the first non-stop music station since the [[Grand Theft Auto III]] rendition of [[Rise FM]], but quite possibly the first one since the first in any [[Grand Theft Auto|GTA]] game without a DJ. This radio station is favorited by the [[Cholos]] as it can be heard whenever Victor Vance gets into a [[Cholo Sabre]].
Not including station identification, this is not only the first non-stop music radio station since the [[Grand Theft Auto III]] rendition of Rise FM, but quite possibly the first one since the first in any [[Grand Theft Auto|GTA]] game without a DJ. This radio station is favorited by the Cholos as it can be heard whenever Victor Vance gets into a Cholo Sabre.


The name of this station is probably a reference to the legendary Paradise Garage club in New York, as the music is very representative of that club's soundtrack at the height of its popularity.
The name of this station is probably a reference to the legendary Paradise Garage club in New York, as the music is very representative of that club's soundtrack at the height of its popularity.
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*Change - "The Glow of Love" ''(1980)''
*Change - "The Glow of Love" ''(1980)''


==Trivia==
== Trivia ==
*Most of the songs played on the station are from the '80s.
* Class Action's "Weekend" is also featured as a house music remix by The Todd Terry Project in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], appearing on the [[SF-UR]] house radio station. Exodus' "Together Forever" is also sampled in Eddie Amador's song "House Music" on the house music station [[Rise FM]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 03:28, 15 August 2011

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Paradise FM is a radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Description

Paradise FM is a non-stop disco station that predominantly plays American post-disco music from the early 1980s. Not including station identification, this is not only the first non-stop music station since the Grand Theft Auto III rendition of Rise FM, but quite possibly the first one since the first in any GTA game without a DJ. This radio station is favorited by the Cholos as it can be heard whenever Victor Vance gets into a Cholo Sabre.

The name of this station is probably a reference to the legendary Paradise Garage club in New York, as the music is very representative of that club's soundtrack at the height of its popularity.

Playlist

  • Unlimited Touch - "I Hear Music in the Streets" (1980)
  • Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - "Everyway But Loose" (Larry Levan Remix) (1982)
  • Geraldine Hunt - "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980)
  • Raw Silk - "Do It to the Music" (1981)
  • Jimmy Bo Horne - "Is It In" (1980)
  • Exodus - "Together Forever" (1980)
  • Jackie Moore - "This Time Baby" (1979)
  • Class Action - "Weekend (Tonight Is Party Time)" (1980)
  • Gwen Guthrie - "It Should Have Been You" (1982)
  • Thelma Houston - "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (1984)
  • Sister Sledge - "Lost in Music" (Nile Rodgers Remix) (1984)
  • Donald Byrd - "Love Has Come Around" (1981)
  • Change - "The Glow of Love" (1980)

Trivia

See also

Template:Gtaiii era radio stations