Clear channel ruined radio
FYI they rebranded into iHeartRadio.
Radio must have been one of the first modern things to go through the “enshitification” process.
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…
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.
Nothing but maroon 5 and imagine dragons from here on out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a little subgenre of podcasts with a similar vibe. Try “Welcome to Nightvale” and “Beef and Dairy Network”. Though I’m sure there are slightly less weird options out there too.
Oh, I have listened to Wlcome to Nightvale! I liked the SCP archives too. I will have to check out Beef and Diary Network as soon as I get to a pause point on Box of Oddities. It may have been that GTA radio that had me prepped for podcasts.
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.
I wonder how long it would take for a passenger in the car to figure out it’s not real radio…
I need it
Radio X > everything else
The Glory hole ads were amusing everytime i heard it
When Vice City came out Rockstar also released a box set CD compilation of the radio stations from the game. To this day I firmly believe it is the best '80s compilation to ever be released.
It made me nostalgic for 80s music. I think it exposed a generation of kids to it that may not have heard it otherwise.
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.
“Don’t you think–” “No I don’t! Never!”
Have also been guilty of leaving the car parked and listening to the radio. Download the files from YouTube while they’re hot :)
They’re on yt? Yeah, I might go for that.
Fernando Martinez never fails to make me laugh
Fernando’s New Beginnings?
He’s not a pimp he’s a miracle worker
Love Fist!
If we die, I’m gonna get peshed.
I can’t change your mind, I agree right down to the “vice city was the best one,” you’re right.
It made me nostalgic for so many classics of the 70s/80s that I hadn’t heard before playing it.
Funnily enough, I recently found out the drummer in my band’s Dad had a song in Vice City!
Whoa! That’s some serious dad points right there.
What’s even funnier is I was looking through my dad’s record collection and he has a single from my drummers dad’s band! Small world
Removed by mod
Fucks talking about real estate and unrealistic expectations are my real radio. Awful compared to VC
No, I will not change your mind.
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.
