Will GTA VI’s soundtrack heavily consist of 80s goodness?

Lots of 80s music in GTA VI?

  • Hell yes!

    Votes: 44 45.4%

  • No, it’ll be full of depressing trap and grime music

    Votes: 53 54.6%
  • Total voters
    97
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I know it will have something for everybody. I remember even in GTIV-V, there was some music that, normally, I wouldn't be caught dead listening to outside of the game, but in-game? There's something about running over cops at full speed while "Gimme more" is playing, just perfect.
 
Hope so, the 80s are the best in music, style, movies, and culture. Even speaking as someone that was born after it. I'll also want modern 80s theme stuff too like the sync wave music similar to Dynatron, Noir Deco Lazerhawk etc.
 
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Remember when GTA games featured music for the atmosphere and vibe, instead of because of multimillion dollar deals with record companies?

Yeah, those days are fucking gone.
 
FunkMiller said:
Remember when GTA games featured music for the atmosphere and vibe, instead of because of multimillion dollar deals with record companies?

Yeah, those days are fucking gone.
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Yeah those modern days multimillion dollar deals with modern bands like, ....Tom Petty and Heaven 17 (the two only songs we know to be in the game/attempted to be).

Seriously I don't know where some of you have this idea that in a GTA game it's ONLY going to be modern stuff. Shit even in GTA Online there's stations like KULT playing stuff from Joy Division, New Order, Iggy Pop, etc.

Edit: here's the full tracklist for KULT on GTA Online...

Tracklist
LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali (1987)
Nick Lowe - So It Goes (1976)
Automatic - Too Much Money (2019)
New Order - Age of Consent (1983)
Grauzone - Eisbär (1980)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (1979)
Connie Francis - Many Tears Ago (1960)
Crack Cloud - Drab Measure (2016)
The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking (2020)
Misfits - TV Casualty (1978)
Danzig - Deep (1996)
DAF - Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick (1981)
Certain Ratio - Faceless (1979)
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1965)
Viagra Boys - Girls and Boys (2020)
Ramones - Time Bomb (1983)
MC Shan Feat. TJ Swan - Left Me Lonely (1987)
The Voidz - Where No Eagles Fly (2014)
The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll (1970)
The Cramps - Human Fly (1978)
Colourbox - Baby I Love You So (1986)
The Stooges - Down On The Street (1970)
T La Rock - It's Yours (1984)
Mac DeMarco - On the Level (2017)
Charanjit Singh - Madhuvanti (1982)
Ariel Pink - Four Shadows (2014)
Lea Porcelain - Pool Song (2020)
Promiseland - Take Down The House (2017)
The Strokes - Hard to Explain (2001)
The Voidz - Alien Crime Lord (2020)
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing (1977)
The The - This is the Day (1983)
Icky Blossoms - Cycle (2012)
The Slits - Typical Girls (1979)
 
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I hope so but i doubt it due to licensing issues, just look at the songs removed from the older GTA games, but i hope custom radio is in the game unlike the remasters, i liked putting my own songs in and listening to them.
 
I mean sure, it will have some oldies station so you can bet it will have 80s music
 
Laptop1991 said:
I hope so but i doubt it due to licensing issues, just look at the songs removed from the older GTA games, but i hope custom radio is in the game unlike the remasters, i liked putting my own songs in and listening to them.
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That's due to only licensing for 10 years, they've been doing longer deals now for a while, only one song was removed from GTA V for example.

Other license issues will mainly be around the big hitters and those who don't do it as often, don't expect artists like Michael Jackson, Metallica, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc as those are key known bands that are a nightmare to license songs from.
 
YCoCg said:
That's due to only licensing for 10 years, they've been doing longer deals now for a while, only one song was removed from GTA V for example.

Other license issues will mainly be around the big hitters and those who don't do it as often, don't expect artists like Michael Jackson, Metallica, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc as those are key known bands that are a nightmare to license songs from.
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Yeah, hence wanting custom radio in the game and why Vice City had such good radio stations, and i wasn't referring to GTA V but the older games that i played a lot more of SP wise, i'm not expecting those songs in the game anyway.
 
YCoCg said:
Yeah those modern days multimillion dollar deals with modern bands like, ....Tom Petty and Heaven 17 (the two only songs we know to be in the game/attempted to be).

Seriously I don't know where some of you have this idea that in a GTA game it's ONLY going to be modern stuff. Shit even in GTA Online there's stations like KULT playing stuff from Joy Division, New Order, Iggy Pop, etc.

Edit: here's the full tracklist for KULT on GTA Online...

Tracklist
LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali (1987)
Nick Lowe - So It Goes (1976)
Automatic - Too Much Money (2019)
New Order - Age of Consent (1983)
Grauzone - Eisbär (1980)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (1979)
Connie Francis - Many Tears Ago (1960)
Crack Cloud - Drab Measure (2016)
The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking (2020)
Misfits - TV Casualty (1978)
Danzig - Deep (1996)
DAF - Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick (1981)
Certain Ratio - Faceless (1979)
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1965)
Viagra Boys - Girls and Boys (2020)
Ramones - Time Bomb (1983)
MC Shan Feat. TJ Swan - Left Me Lonely (1987)
The Voidz - Where No Eagles Fly (2014)
The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll (1970)
The Cramps - Human Fly (1978)
Colourbox - Baby I Love You So (1986)
The Stooges - Down On The Street (1970)
T La Rock - It's Yours (1984)
Mac DeMarco - On the Level (2017)
Charanjit Singh - Madhuvanti (1982)
Ariel Pink - Four Shadows (2014)
Lea Porcelain - Pool Song (2020)
Promiseland - Take Down The House (2017)
The Strokes - Hard to Explain (2001)
The Voidz - Alien Crime Lord (2020)
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing (1977)
The The - This is the Day (1983)
Icky Blossoms - Cycle (2012)
The Slits - Typical Girls (1979)
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This! The music will be fine, doesn't Sam pick most of the tracks himself? The man has good taste, let them cook.
 
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Black_Stride said:
Theyll be a radio station for oldies.

Otherwise itll be music that makes sense for the era.
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Which is basically all 90s all the time. Radio is so weird today.

I am almost thinking they make you link your streaming service or make you stick with the cheap to license stuff.
 
I hope to hear allot of Billy Idol and Duran Duran songs. The song by Billy Idol is perfect for the story of the game.
 
A GTA game without an 80s station is basically blasphemy at this point.

Edit: Or at least a healthy selection of 80s songs based on genre
 
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I'd love another Talk Talk song to feature in the game (Life's what you make it was in GTA Vice City). I'd probably go for 'It's My Life'.

 
RetroGamingUK said:
I'm in my 40s now and the music that resonates with me the most is from the 80s

While GTA VI is clearly set in the modern era, the decision to place the game in Vice City surely must surely be based on the huge nostalgia people have for GTA Vice City, and a lot of that comes from the soundtrack, so do you think they're going to lay it on heavy with the 80s stuff?

For me, in GTA V, everytime this absolute banger comes on in the car I know I'm going on hit and run spree…

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I really hope so. I'm 53 and the eighties decade was incredible for not only the iconic music but film and pop culture. :lollipop_fire: ❤️
 
Laptop1991 said:
I hope so but i doubt it due to licensing issues, just look at the songs removed from the older GTA games, but i hope custom radio is in the game unlike the remasters, i liked putting my own songs in and listening to them.
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When they removed this banger from the horrible remasters, I knew there was nothing "definitive" about it. Also, both trailers had 80's music in them so definitely a dedicated station. Long live Tommy Vercetti and Ray Fuckin' Liotta!

 
For me I hope for allot of Billy Idol, Beach boys, The Cure, Fralipo lippi, and Duran Dura. And some rap from Run DMC and Mc Hammer, and rock from Guns and Roses, Metallica, and Lez Zepellin, and some pop from Laura Branigan, and Sheena Easton
 
Black_Stride said:
Theyll be a radio station for oldies.

Otherwise itll be music that makes sense for the era.
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This is where I'm at. Much like the previous games. But I could see there being an awesome station with songs from the same era, or maybe even some of the same songs. Kind of like a throwback or something, because it's Vice City.
 
More synth-pop never hurt. i would like to see more old school/new school spanish bangers especially with the latin influence that Florida has. The rumored possibly of visiting the carribean and parts of central/south america especially with the drug running storyline now.
 
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