Radio stations you used to hate (but now you like)

[kobeni]

Title says it all.

 

For me it's Radio Del Mundo in LCS. I used to not really be a fan of World music but now I kind of like it. The Ofra Haza and Natacha Atlas songs go absolutely hard and the Bollywood songs are nice too.

Edited August 23, 2021 by DownInThePMs

[String]

GTA IV's the Beat. I thought it was average and an inferior hip hop station to the classics but now I have the opposite opinion. 

 

That Top Down song is my jam. 

[CynicalMexican]

The reggae stations in GTA 3 and GTA SA. Hearing "The Corpse Rises" while cruising down LC at night or "Pressure Drop" in a ghetto sunset is iconic. Though initially, i didn't like these stations.

[Ivan1997GTA]

MSX FM from GTA III and Liberty City Stories. Personally, I used to think it was a pretty bad radio station, all fast noise and blabbing with no substance, but that's only because drum 'n bass music wasn't my cup of tea back then. Now, I think it's a good station, very suitable for speeding along the streets of Liberty City in a sports car (or motorcycle in LCS), especially when you have Liberty City's finest on your tail. It kinda helps that a few of the songs from the station made it into Midnight Club 3 as well (which is where I first discovered the songs that were used in the LCS playlist).

[[Ambient]]

The Lowdown 91.1 in V, Playback FM in SA.

[Jeansowaty]

Rise FM from III.

[sefus]

Channel X from GTA 5

[CynicalMexican]

7 hours ago, Ivan1997GTA said:

MSX FM from GTA III and Liberty City Stories. Personally, I used to think it was a pretty bad radio station, all fast noise and blabbing with no substance, but that's only because drum 'n bass music wasn't my cup of tea back then. Now, I think it's a good station, very suitable for speeding along the streets of Liberty City in a sports car (or motorcycle in LCS), especially when you have Liberty City's finest on your tail. It kinda helps that a few of the songs from the station made it into Midnight Club 3 as well (which is where I first discovered the songs that were used in the LCS playlist).

MSX is pretty much the embodiment of GTA 3's Liberty City.

[NightmanCometh96]

9 hours ago, CynicalMexican said:

The reggae stations in GTA 3 and GTA SA. Hearing "The Corpse Rises" while cruising down LC at night or "Pressure Drop" in a ghetto sunset is iconic. Though initially, i didn't like these stations.

Something about the "echo-y" feel of the Scientist songs on K-JAH really suits III's Liberty City. It's probably because of all of the reverb you hear in the game's sound effects, it's like an extension of the city/atmosphere in that way. I always found it to be a relaxing station; really hoping the setlist stays intact for the remakester. 

 

K-Rose has been growing on me over my more recent SA playthroughs. Even today, I'm not the biggest fan of country music, but listening to that station made me realize that modern country is why I always shied away from the genre.

[The Tracker]

Not necessarily hate, but I was indifferent to JNR 108.5 from IV in my first-second playthroughs, maybe I simply was not a big fan of jazz music back then, but then during my 3rd one I gained a lot of appreciation to it when Niko started working for the McRearys and the Italian mafia, mainly while driving during their missions, it truly makes you feel you are working for serious people and going upper the criminal/hitman ranks of the underworld of Manhattan/New York, or in its case, Algonquin/Liberty City, it also suits the Autumn setting so well. It's now my official radio of choice when screwing around with the Euphoria physics while in vehicles, the crazy fast-paced, yet relaxed character of the Old-School New York jazz truly adds to the sense of irony and chaos when Niko is running over countless pedestrians with a Faggio in Middle Park, only to then steal one of the Ice Cream trucks nearby to launch it over 100 feet high with a cursed Swingset:

 

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by The Tracker

[GhettoJesus]

Bounce FM from SA and Radio Los Santos from V. While I am not a fan of every song on Radio Los Santos there are quite a few tracks that are banging. As for Bounce FM, I didn't really hate it, more like I showed indifference/slight dislike. I love every track on it now though.

[CynicalMexican]

17 hours ago, The Tracker said:

Not necessarily hate, but I was indifferent to JNR 108.5 from IV in my first-second playthroughs, maybe I simply was not a big fan of jazz music back then, but then during my 3rd one I gained a lot of appreciation to it when Niko started working for the McRearys and the Italian mafia, mainly while driving during their missions, it truly makes you feel you are working for serious people and going upper the criminal/hitman ranks of the underworld of Manhattan/New York, or in its case, Algonquin/Liberty City, it also suits the Autumn setting so well. It's now my official radio of choice when screwing around with the Euphoria physics while in vehicles, the crazy fast-paced, yet relaxed character of the Old-School New York jazz truly adds to the sense of irony and chaos when Niko is running over countless pedestrians with a Faggio in Middle Park, only to then steal one of the Ice Cream trucks nearby to launch it over 100 feet high with a cursed Swingset:

 

 

How GTA 3 didn't have a jazz station is beyond me.

[The Tracker]

29 minutes ago, CynicalMexican said:

How GTA 3 didn't have a jazz station is beyond me.

 

Hey, at least we got an opera radio station, no single GTA game have done that again. 

[H-G]

When I first played SA I found all radio stations, as controversial as it may sound, absolutely unbearable apart from K-Rose and K-DST which I got into real quick and were always my go-to radio stations back then. Maybe it was because it was the first time I played a GTA game with genuine radio station files (I was ripped off twice with audio-ripped versions of GTA3 and VC before playing SA, mind you).

 

Nowadays, I can easily listen to any radio station in SA, apart from Master Sounds which is still very slightly unbearable to me for whatever reason unless Bob James - Nautilus is playing.

 

On 8/23/2021 at 12:48 PM, Ivan1997GTA said:

MSX FM from GTA III and Liberty City Stories. Personally, I used to think it was a pretty bad radio station, all fast noise and blabbing with no substance, but that's only because drum 'n bass music wasn't my cup of tea back then. Now, I think it's a good station, very suitable for speeding along the streets of Liberty City in a sports car (or motorcycle in LCS), especially when you have Liberty City's finest on your tail. It kinda helps that a few of the songs from the station made it into Midnight Club 3 as well (which is where I first discovered the songs that were used in the LCS playlist).

Yeah, same here. Rise and MSX always felt like crappy noise machines to me in the beginning, but I eventually grew interest in them both:

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by H-G

[GTA-Biker]

Back in the mid 2010s I didn't really like much of Non Stop Pop,other then a few 80s and 90s songs,it was mostly the generic late 2000s and early 2010s pop music that I would hear on real life radio all the time,but now those 10 year old songs are kinda nostalgic,since they remind me of the time back when I was in high school.

[Evil empire]

I didn't appreciate a lot K-Jah when I first discovered GTA 3 and now I like it a lot.

[Guest]

Talk stations when I was a kid, then I learned English.

[universetwisters]

On 8/23/2021 at 6:59 AM, Jeansowaty said:

Rise FM from III.

same. Techno music scared me as a 6 year old child cuz I thought computers were gonna come and kill me or some dumb crap like that but now I’m like ayyyyy party time 

 

The Journey & Self Actualization FM from IV and it’s episodes aswell. I used to think it was dumb elevator music filler stations but now I appreciate it, idk how to explain it something chill and etc

[Muller147]

I'm glad I never spoke about San Andreas with an adult when I was a kid, they'd have crucified me for thinking K-DST was rubbish, same with Emotion in Vice City, now they're the only radio stations I listen to in their respective games.

I was only around 9 but dear me what a fool.

[2L8]

On 8/23/2021 at 4:53 AM, kobeni said:

Title says it all.

 

For me it's Radio Del Mundo in LCS. I used to not really be a fan of World music but now I kind of like it. The Ofra Haza and Natacha Atlas songs go absolutely hard and the Bollywood songs are nice too.

for me it's double cleff fm, as a kid i never liked classical music, but now it's the best radio station to play during salvatore missions