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Review: GTA Vice City Soundtrack Vol.1: V-Rock
Hands down one of the advantages that GTA Vice City had over GTA3 is having real music on the Radio stations. Rockstar Games inked a deal to have real 80s music in the game and there is ALOT of it. In fact the official sound track ships on 7 CDs! So you can buy the stations you like or plunk down fifty bucks for the box set of all 7 radio stations. There is some really good tracks in the game but my favorite radio station is V-Rock the heavy metal station. I am a child of the 80s metal and I remember all of these songs when they were new. My only complaint is that there are three songs that are in the game and not on the soundtrack. Including Quiet Riot it is just not the 80s with out the Riot. I am also damn glad that they kept the crappy hair metal bands out of the soundtrack so you will not find any Poison, Warrent, Stryper, and Bon Jovi on the disk!
ROCK!
This CD is perfect for any kids who actually think that Korn, Kidd Rock and Limp Bizket is real music. I tell you old skool metal used to rule. It still rules and it always will rule. This is a damn good 12 bucks and even if you don't have to game it is worth it.
Also fans of GTA3 will get a kick out of Lazlow hosting an 80s metal radio station.
BECAUSE METAL RULES BABY!!!
Here is the Track Listing.
01. DJ Lazlow Intro
02. Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
03. Motley Crue - Too Young to Fall in Love
04. Megadeth - Peace Sells
05. Rockstar's Love Fist - Dangerous Bastard
06. Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
07. DJ Lazlow Halftime
08. Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock
09. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
10. Anthrax - Madhouse
11. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
12. Slayer - Raining Blood
13. Tesla - Cumin Atcha Live
14. David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
15. DJ Lazlow Outro
16. Exploder (Commercial Skit)
17. Thor (Commercial Skit)
Jake at November 22, 2002 
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Yeah I have heard how good this one is, husband wants this bad for christmas...
Posted by: ra at November 22, 2002 4:14 PM
Well they have it for $12.50 at Wal-Mart that is where I got mine.
Posted by: Jake at November 22, 2002 4:16 PM
I went to a judas priest-iron maiden concert in the Tacoma dome a year ago. It rocked so hard that I had to re-write my diary!!!!! (just a saying...i dont have a diary)Rob Halford is the most rockinist gay guy that I have ever seen! I bought his new album because it rocked so damn hard. Shout out to MR. Halford. Fuc*in BAD ASS!!!
I never knew that the Jakenator was a fan of eightees metal! cool.
Posted by: PETER PETER THE METER READER at November 24, 2002 9:43 PM
I forgot to say this....Iron Maiden was kick ass too. They had a giagantic "eddie" that looked like wicker and had a bunch of half naked chicks in it clawing to get out while eddie shot "lasers"
out of his frickin eyeballs over the crowd! I'd buy that for a dollar!!!!!
Posted by: PETER PETER THE METER READER at November 24, 2002 9:45 PM
I had a mullet for half of highschool
Posted by: Jake at November 24, 2002 11:04 PM
Crappy Hair Metal Bands??lol!!!
Damn i grew up listening to bands like Poison,Warrant,Stryper etc and even bands like TNT,Dokken,Tesla,etc..i`m a HUGE Glam fan and still listening to it all,even the newer bands to come along like Heart Throb Mob,Queeny Blast Pop,Glamour Punks,The Zeros etc...of which some are sadly no longer...i even have my own band and play Glam.
I LOVE Vice City and the music is all great in the game and V-Rock rules!!!But jesus..."Crappy Hair Metal Bands"????Come on!!!
Posted by: Andii Vamp at November 25, 2002 8:32 PM
Sorry man when I was a kid the bands that were hard core and cool were, Kiss, Quiet Riot, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Anthrax, ACDC.
Hair metal was not quite my bag I liked harder stuff.
Hard metal had elements of glam but there was a big differance to Anthrax and Stryper.
Posted by: Jake at November 26, 2002 12:10 AM
I hear you Jake..i`m 27 and grew up with all that too and still think early Anthrax was awesome!!!Among The Living is one of my all time fave albums and i love most hard rock from the 80s and SOME thrash too...but i`ve always been a big glam rock fan(Poison,Pretty Boy Floyd etc)....good music`s good music i guess:>
Posted by: Andii Vamp at November 26, 2002 10:11 AM
does anybody have the complete listings of the GTA3 Vice City game, i mean every song on every station
Posted by: Luke at November 28, 2002 4:33 AM
They are in the game manual mate:>
Posted by: Andii Vamp at November 28, 2002 10:02 PM
hey dudes will you please put slipknot,mushroomhead,megadeth,metallica,mudvayne,drowning pool onto your station.oh yeah and korn oh fuck almost forgot about deftones
Posted by: chris fehn at March 28, 2003 1:00 PM
if this is a station
Posted by: chris fehn at March 28, 2003 1:03 PM
I was reviewing the album to the soundtracks in the game. I have no connection to the people who made the game or the soundtrack.
Besides Metallica and Megadeth were any of those bands around in the 80s? However on the PC version of GTA3 you could set up a custom station to play your own MP3 files and that feature will be in the PC version of Vice City.
Now if they would only have a walk-man in the game so you can keep the music playing when you were on the street and switching cars.
Posted by: Jake at March 28, 2003 1:05 PM
Nope this is a web magazine or Zine. Wish I did have my own radio station.
Posted by: Jake at March 28, 2003 1:07 PM
andii vamp...dude....slipknot, mushroomhead, mudvaynem, drowning pool? ok..man...seriously...i dont even concider that metal..its like...crap metal...im guessing that you are young...around...15....if not...my bad...but whatever...
my advice...is
Slayer, cannibal corpse, iced earth, the project hate, in flames, OLD metallica, etc...go to mp3.com and download some good underground bands off that site...its better than slipknot i can promise...and come on???
3 drummers? thats sorta pushin it...they have like 9 friggin members!!!!
Posted by: Satans son im born of fire at September 11, 2003 4:52 PM
Nah I am to political I can't even stand old Metalica now that I know what a bunch of assholes they are. But then I allways liked Megadeth more.
Posted by: Jake at September 11, 2003 4:54 PM
Old 70's rock and 80'S metal is definitely a must listen !!!
But if you want to REALLY HEAR SOMETHING DIFFERENT listen to european bands like Nightwish ( Finland), After Forever ( the Netherlands ), Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Dark Moor, etc.
Music did not forget Pionneers Like Sabbath, Ac dc, Stones, Beatles, Henrix, Miles Davis it's simply merging in style.
Music creativity and style will always surpass it's fashion and COMMERCIAL ASPECT when the artists stay integral in their belief and creativity !!!!
Posted by: Martin Roussel, .ca at October 25, 2003 10:11 PM
This was music from the 80s. Not 70s or 60s. And music back then was just as commercial as it is now. Just look at The Monkeys.
Posted by: Jake at October 25, 2003 11:47 PM
