Most Nostalgic/Emotional Song(s) in the GTA Series

[Tacymist]

On 6/22/2016 at 11:06 AM, LeakyLine said:

GTA IV -

New York Casual

My posts not really going to be about nostalgia for GTA because I've owned this album long before IV came out. But I used to listen to this throughout highschool and it reminds me of those simpler times back then. Hadn't had my heart broken yet, hadn't lost any friends or family yet, just a tender age listening to the Smashing Pumpkins in class when I should be doing my work. Those were good times and I look back on them fondly whenever I hear this or any song from Mellon Collie. 

[Guest]

Emotion FM in VC/VCS

[sejoki]

There are many others, but feels like I just can’t take no more just fits so well into the vibe of liberty city. 
 

Vice City: Crockett’s Theme (makes me think of flying over Vice City as the sun sets)

San Andreas: two tickets to paradise

LCS: 15 ways - Drive

VCS: I want to know what love is

GTA IV: Jil Scott - Golden (although pretty much the entire Vibe station has some sentimental value)
GTA V: Kenny Loggins - I’m free

[Lioshenka]

Okay, posting first, reading the topic second:

 

- "Push it to the limit" and the whole of Rise FM from GTA III. Each song reminds me of the game AND the time it was written in, very touching and nostalgic.

- "I love a rainy night" and "Ring my bell" are probably the most nostalgic that go so well with the game setting that the link has forever has embedded in my brain. But honestly the whole stations K-DST, K-JAH and K-ROSE. What an amazing selection of songs.

Edited June 17, 2020 by Lioshenka

[Evil empire]

GTA 3 : Conor & Jay - Change

GTA Vice City : Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive

GTA San Andreas : Loretta Lynn feat Conway Twitty - Louisiana woman Mississippi man

[Fusky89]

Mother - Danzig, from radio x in Gta San Andreas. I used to listen to it every time.

[Jeansowaty]

Meh.

 

 

[Patrizio]

Fantastic topic .

 

A VC one:

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Edited June 30, 2020 by PaddsterG2k3

[Guest]

 

 

 

[Keano]

GTA 1's Main Theme, though it does appear in a few games in various forms.

GTA 2's songs are all pretty good but just nice, not really giving a strong feeling sort of thing.

 

GTA III:

- Lucy "Forever"

- April's in Paris "Feels Like I Can't Just Take No More"

- Amy Holland "She's on Fire" (though I know all of these songs from Scarface as I got older)

- Debbie Harry "Rush Rush" (also Scarface)

- The game's main theme is amazing, one of the best in the series

 

GTA Vice City

- Toto "Africa"

- INXS "Kiss The Dirt"

- Laura Brannigan "Self Control"

- Flock of Seagulls "I Ran So Far Away"

- Cutting Crew "Just Died in Your Arms"

- Blondie "Atomic"

- The ending theme...that just hits me everytime

 

GTA San Andreas

- Guns N' Roses "Welcome To The Jungle"

- Heart "Baracuda"

- Rod Stewart "Young Turks"

- Living Color "Cult of Personality"

- Jerry Reed "Amos Moses"

- Juice Newton "Queen of Hearts"

- Lynyrd Skynyrd "Free Bird" (If I could say this 10 times, I would)

- Billy Idol "White Wedding"

- The Who "Eminence Front"

 

...There's too many for San Andreas 

 

GTA: LCS

- Rudy La Fontane "Funk in Time"

- Conor and Jane "Train 

- The Main Theme

- Double Clef FM 

- Ultra Nate "Free"

- Moloko "Sing it Back"

 

GTA: VCS

- Philip Oakley & Giorgio Moroder "Electric Dreams"

- Blondie "Heart of Glass"

- The Human League "Love Action"

- Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is"

- Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight"/"Easy Lover"

 

GTA IV:

- Smashing Pumpkins "1979"

- Heart "Straight On"

- Queen "One Vision"

- Hello "New York Groove 

- ELO "Evil Woman"

 

I really started to know what music I liked by the time GTA V came around and knew a lot of the songs of the main stations I listen to but a few stand out

- Willie Nelson "Whiskey River"

- Highwaymen "Highwayman"

- Chaingang of 1974 "Sleepwalking" (the best game exclusive song produced in my opinion)

[kobeni]

Great train robbery by black uhuru

[ChengizVlad09]

Craig Gray - Fade Away, GTA III

Kool and The Gang - Summer Madness, GTA Vice City

 

 

 

[Patrizio]

This topic makes me realise just how good SA's soundtrack was. VC is easily the best, but SA is a still a strong challenger.

 

Some from III:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Patrizio]

On 6/17/2016 at 8:55 PM, Racecarlock said:

V-Rock, all of it. But especially, lazlow's mega music marathon, the second part. Seriously, I didn't even know that madhouse and raining blood were even separate songs the first time I heard it. It was just the best music, especially if you get in a golf cart and then just go completely crazy in the entrance to the leaf links golf course, just running into walls and driving in circles.

 

K-DST is definitely a close second, and if I were to choose any single song from any radio station, I really liked L7's Pretend We're Dead.

 

Makes me wonder what sadsack they got for Los Santos Rock Radio, since every song there sounds like an old man reminiscing about his childhood in a wistful manner that totally goes against the violent and stupid fun that GTA stands for.

I know I'm quoting this four years later... but its so true.

 

Just HOW did they get VC and SA's soundtrack so right (with an honourable mention to III) and V's (and to an extent IV's) so wrong?

 

Whenever I think of GTA nostalgia I think of III's unknowns and VC's 80s classics. I often forget just how good SA's KDST and Radio X were (among others).