GTA Vice City / Radio Stations / Wave 103

Описание: GTA Vice City / Radio Stations / Wave 103

Wave 103 is hosted by Adam First, and features new wave, synthpop and post-punk.

Wave 103 is a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (where it is styled as The Wave 103). The station started broadcasting in 1981, and is co-hosted by Adam First and Trish Camden in 1984 and by Adam in 1986. The station plays new wave, synthpop and post-punk.

Much like the real life new wave genre, Wave 103 assumes an intellectual, pop-art, post-punk nihilistic and technology-loving attitude. It celebrates the advance of digital equipment in music, through idents like "Who needs music with soul? We've got drum machines!" and "Who needs guitars? We've got little computer synthesizer thingies." The station also celebrates new wave's fashion quirks, like that "the boys wear more make up than the girls" and the "sexual ambiguity".

Its DJ, Adam First, acts like a connoisseur of modern music that knows vanguard British bands before they are known in the United States. He is a big fan of new wave acts and can mention years and dates about them. At one point, however, he voices his non-conformity with the fact that in the new era of video clips and MTV, the image of a band is more important than its music, something that comes at odds with the new wave essence, as the genre greatly benefitted from having a more visual medium where it could showcase its eccentric fashion aesthetics.

Tracklist:
1. "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)
2. "Love Missile F1-11" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (1986)
3. "Cars" by Gary Numan (1979)
4. "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" by The Human League (1983)
5. "Atomic" by Blondie (1979)
6. "99 Luftballons" by Nena (1983)
7. "Kids in America" by Kim Wilde (1981)
8. "Pale Shelter" by Tears for Fears (1983)
9. "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart (1983)
10. "Poison Arrow" by ABC (1982)
11. "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls (1982)
12. "Love My Way" by The Psychedelic Furs (1982)
13. "Obsession" by Animotion (1984)
14. "Gold" by Spandau Ballet (1983)
15. "Hyperactive!" by Thomas Dolby (1984)

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