There is no other music that elicits as many childhood memories as this does for me. My best friend and I are both 34 now but this game and soundtrack where a major part of our teenage years. We used to take the game disc out of the Playstation and put it in the stereo. It was our jam, still is. I still remember every word. I can play any song from this soundtrack for him after 20 years and see a smile come accross his face. I long for the days of the past. To all my 30 somethings, we are the last great generation. If you're here listening to this in 2021 you are my brother.
Riding with me is my MC homeboy Knowing the rules ain't part of his program Finding the right way around this map Might be pretty hard 'cause he's fucked on crack
Biography Craig Conner was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Having spent most of his early life playing in various bands, DJing and producing music, he then started working as a music producer for DMA in 1995, a small Dundee based videogames company. It was there that he was given a brief to write, perform and produce the soundtrack for a small project called Grand Theft Auto... Craig then went on to work on the entire GTA franchise receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards for the soundtracks alone. To date the GTA series has sold over 250 million copies
yeah i know... i remember picking this up off the shelf at electronics boutique as a random purchase. Despite the ostensibly poor graphics, I remember thinking "you get to just drive around and kill people at random-- sounds like a fun concept". makes me feel like a genius haha
The sound that shaped the afternoons and nights of teenagers in the 2000s big up to all the 80-90s who experienced this beautiful era ! What's uuuuuuuuup ?!
9:40 is pure adrenaline. This used to be the track for the fast cars and I just got insane nostalgia of FLOORING it through the city with this back track
I just had the same feeling of blasting though the city to this song and I sent it to my friend that actually showed me GTA1 on his mom's work computer. Our minds were blown away when we've put the CD with the game into a CD Music player and it started to play the music from the game :o
Bought this back in '97. When finished my sister used to listen to it on her CD player. That's how cool it was. You could play it on your computer as a game. Or play it as a music CD on your bedroom CD player. Unfort for her, I sold it to a friend after growing tired of playing it. She never forgave me for it. And I wish I still had the CD. Thanks for this upload. Bittersweet.
Hey kids! Are you living the late 90's? Wanna hear some genres you might be interested in? Don't get too attached though! The new millennium is around the corner and music will suck for the rest of your life. So enjoy this while you can!
Colin Anderson deserves a nobel prize of videogame music because two things: - funky radio station - fantastic guitar on "4 letters love" Thank you, Colin Anderson!🤘🙏🎸
Full body goosebumps. Thank you, uploader. I needed this. Been a bad few weeks and I knew there was one piece of nostalgia I had missed... and this was it.
Trivia note: The song "Joyride" is featured - in some form - in EVERY installment of the game (i.e. the Commodore 64 loading screen in Vice City, the voice mail tone in GTA4)
These guys literally set up an entire generation of music listerners. I played this game for hours upon hours as a kid and at that young, impressionable age - "you know what, I reckon I'll play it again"
I don't know how i managed to get this game back in 98' but it was the most edgy thing you could own as a kid back then, you where some hot shit on the playground if you had a copy of GTA on your PS1.
I remember playing this a lot at home. On a certain day, my dad had a friend and his kids over. Of course i showed them. His friend, and the friend's kids, were very very christian. They were rather shocked by the violence :D
*PC (Well before Ps1) - I first heard about it in middle school; my dad got me a subscription for Newsweek, and one of the articles was about how this game had been banned in Germany I think. And that the UK version that Wasn't banned, had made them change the blood from red to green, with a picture of the green blood graphics after you ran someone over lol. I had to have it. So that Christmas I had enough money to buy it.. Day after Xmas, I go to Electronics Boutique in the local mall (small town), and they had a used copy of it for $10 (!), the day after Christmas! I was ready to drop $60 on a new copy I was so stoked!! LOL my Dad and I played the shit out of multiplayer after he got a work laptop. Had to use a serial cable because we didn't have a router. I remember showing the game to friends, and them being just blown away by it. It was on PC for well over a year before it was ported to PS1.
I kind of swiftly played through first two chapters but there was some fucked up shit Making a mass slaughter, terrorist attacks, bank jobs and assasinations? That's something, you don't do that in newer games at all And absolutely nonchalant way your character (You) listens to these instructions and sacrifices his future in this video game is kind of crazy My mind was literally blown when i blew up police HQ and an entire fucking train, with myself in it (PC version exclusive mission). That's fucked up and this hooked me for some time Now that i'm on tequila slammer i just want to finish the game and maybe try GTA 2 after
@yobrethren it's pretty mad when you think of if lol. I grew up playing Wolf3d, Doom and Doom II, Quake, Hexen, GTA 1-Vice City, Carmageddon II etc. My current IRL kill count is 0 so I guess we're mentally safe...!
I remember my friend had the demo of this on PC, then when he got a 3DFX card, had the 3DFX demo. I remember thinking it's a 3D card, the other games he showed me were 3D, GTA is basically 2D, why you need a 3DFX card for it. 😛 Not that the 3D games needed a 3DFX card either, they just ran better with one than they did in software mode.
The PC game CD can be used as a regular audio CD. If you are playing the game, you can take out the disc, place in another music CD and listen to it through the in-game radio while playing the game.
I came here to say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said. (On a side note, several Playstation games were like this, playable as music CDs. The only one j can actually remember caring enough to jam to was Jet Moto 2)
The best part of owning this game is that you could put it in a CD player and listen to each radio station as a separate track. Also, "Gangster Friday" samples Craig Mack. I first heard it here, then I found the song, and it became one of my favorites.
This ost hits me like a ton of bricks and it breaks my heart that those days as a silly teenager in my bedroom listening to the music of video games and the people in my life back then are gone in one way or another. What an impact
"And you know, that was so good, I think I'll play it again." That's pretty much all I did for several months after I got this game. Me and three of my best mates used to come in to school* every day and talk about all the cool shit we found in the game, and one of us even wrote down the lyrics for The Ballad of Chapped Lip Calquhoun so we could sing along. * One of the first games rated 18 in the UK, but someone's dad was tricked into buying 4 copies of the game :D
Jack the Ripper was the first game rated 18 by the BBFC, and that was in 1987, a whole decade before GTA 1, It was also a TEXT-ADVENTURE! (Did have gory images too though, which made WH Smith not stock it.)
Btw my my uncle exactly was working on this rockstar game since 1996 and the game comes out 1997 for ps1 so he just died last 4 months ago thanks to him for his help on GTA 1
I remember buying this game back in the day. I had no idea what it was or how to play it. I just liked the idea of robbing the cars and shooting everywhere having no idea of actually how to play the game. I didn't realize how awesome this game would become in the coming future years. Good times and memories from childhood
I was 23 when this came out, engaged and buying a house. GTA 1, original Doom, Daggerfall and Soul Reaver were the four games that influenced my life and made me the person I am today. There were other games like Grand Turismo, Armoured Core, etc but none had this level of impact. When I found out that the game only used track 1 on the CD and the rest of the music could be played normally if you skipped track 1 then this became a regular playlist for me.
Damn, this soundtrack is so memorable. I love just listening to it once in awhile. It's got some seriously great songs on it. It makes me a little sad that DMA/Rockstar leaned harder into licensed tracks sometimes. But a lot of the more period based games like Vice City and San Andreas wouldn't nearly be the same without them I guess. Still, big props to the artists and Voice actors that set the precedent for open world in-game radio stations and sound tracks.
G - Grand Theft Auto You gotta make a mark and move where you ought to T - Theft Determination to steal what you can and run from the nation A - Hey what d'ya say We automate the sequence and speed for my getaway
Still have my original copy from 97'. Saved up pocket money for weeks to by this gem and still playing them as much as I can till this day. Much love Rockstar.
This brings back so many memories. Like going to my friends house, not because I wanted to hang out, but so I could play Grand Theft Auto on his PlayStation. The country station song still makes me laugh. I typed in "The men folk found their women scary" into Google and it led me to this Sound track.
The western/country music radio station really disappointed me; why was only one song included !? Honestly, DMA and Take Two Interactive couldn't find a few more songs of the USA frontier/americana worth listening to and add it to the radio station ? GTA 3, 4 and EFLC didn't include even one country/western song ; that was a bit unexpected. I am just glad that GTA: San Andreas and GTA: V included American country/western music (USA); here's hoping that GTA VI will include a country/western music radio station (USA) and perhaps a local music radio station (Cuba)...if the internet rumors are true. 😊😀
Oh I also forgot about GTA: LCS, VCS, Chinatown Wars and Advance...those titles didn't feature any country/western music radio stations (USA) either. 😮😒🙄😝
The Danish pop group Toy Box had singles which would let off a minty smell if you scratched the top. That actually was intensional as an interesting gimmick I guess.
GTA1 did not have that. The Gran Turismo 2 disk had a section of the the disk label where if you rubbed it it had a 'pit stop smell' of petrol and rubber.
I keep coming back to listen to the first 2 GTA games' soundtracks. They're fantastic, both in their overall sound and the content, which is amusing and/or themed to the games, which really shows the time and thought, and creativity that was put into these titles when the studio was still finding its feet. Really beats just licensing modern tracks, which just feels lazy. It's one thing Cyberpunk 2077 nailed, having a fully original soundtrack too.
God this is so Old Skool and damned good. Little did anybody bloody fucking KNOW that the later Grand Theft Auto 3 would revolutionize the gaming industry FOREVER with its versatile 3D world and ability to murder cops and gangs; and thus leading to the rest: Vice City (basically Scarface and Miami Vice) & San Andreas (the most sold game for the Playstaion 2 EVER), to the new 3D game engines for GTA 4 and GTA 5 that would make Grand Theft Auto 5 the greatest fucking game in the world (at least during its time.) I remember GTA 3 had the song "Joyride" in it too, so that new players could find some incentive in purchasing the first two GTAs in order to find out how the series originated. Honestly my favorite is BY FAR Grand Theft Auto 3, because it kept the possibility to do Rampages just like the first GTAs (only in GTA 5 do they re-put the rampages, which was a huge let down for me when san andreas and gta 4 came out)
Just fired up my copy of GTA for the first time in well over a decade. Still the best game of the bunch for me, it just has a charm lacking in the other games. 50:25 is still an absolute beast of a tune.
I'm baffled that there's an artist on this soundtrack with the name "Meme Traders" I know the word meme has been around for a long long time but just funny to see it used before it became wildly known to most people.
How awesome was it to drop this game in a CD player to discover that all the music was on here and playable? I damn near died when I tried it all those years ago.
There was this great moment in the mid 90's when dev's had space left on CDs and decided to make actual albums for their games. GTA, C&C, Total Annihilation. Just amazing. On the back of things like F-Zero and Metroid, the bar was already high. My personal fav is track 8 - love that big beat when cruising in a Beast GTS. Swerve left for the GOURANGA.
Step 1 : Boot game, load save. Step 2 : While in-game, open PS1 lid and swap out disc for your fav CD (CD-r sadly, not readable) Step 3 : Enjoy your favorite CD as the in-game radio. Step 4 : REINSERT GAME DISC BEFORE SAVING/PROGRESSING
4:50 I dont have much in this life. Its the state that keeps me from losing my house. In this world which we live in strife, you've got to give me one more chance to find a job for myself.
I absolutely sure I have the audio CD for this in the loft, Da Shootaz: Joyride got multiple listens from me. I was 13 when this came out and it was like nothing else I had played. 25 years later and the franchise is one of the best in the business. Crazy stuff.
This brings back so many great memories, thanks for posting it! I remember the day I discovered I could use the GTA CD Rom as an Audio Cd as well, I used to listen to all the tracks repeatedly.
Bummer I was too dumb to figure that out.. I ended up doing it the old school way.., put a tape in a boombox next to a speaker, hit record and hope your mom or sister didn't come in the room for the next hour!
Mad Props guys to your original scores, Craig Conner you got some skills dude. Some of these tunes have been in my head for 20 odd years - especially 'Let it out' - that bass from the game when someone drives past haha
The first GTA was pretty bare bones, there wasn't much to do or see, the missions were repetitive and all. But the fucking game had a lot of style and personality, and that's reflected in the soundtrack. I wish they didn't stop making OG songs for it.
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There is no other music that elicits as many childhood memories as this does for me. My best friend and I are both 34 now but this game and soundtrack where a major part of our teenage years. We used to take the game disc out of the Playstation and put it in the stereo. It was our jam, still is. I still remember every word. I can play any song from this soundtrack for him after 20 years and see a smile come accross his face. I long for the days of the past. To all my 30 somethings, we are the last great generation. If you're here listening to this in 2021 you are my brother.
Love you bro, I'm right there with you! 1989🤙🏻
100% still here
Still listening, greetings from Germany!
34 yo too, you just described me and my older brother
1985 ✌🏽
Hands up for those who played the game on a CD. mp3 player just for the musics
I made a minidisc out of it, was my best disc! still have it!
Recorded tracks both onto my pc and onto a cassette
Hahaha count me in
Me!
I did that ..good times
2:17 the best ever GTA song of any GTA period.
Yes, sir! Goose bumps!
Riding with me is my MC homeboy
Knowing the rules ain't part of his program
Finding the right way around this map
Might be pretty hard 'cause he's fucked on crack
Yes definitely
it should be part of any GTA game (except for VC since it set before GTA 1 story time)
Hands down bro
The Angels wasted one of our dealers and split with the shit. Bubby wants it back.
HE'S GAGGIN FOR THE MAYORESS
Step 1: Steal a car
Step 2: Try to find the radio station where "Joyride" is being played. If it is not there, repeat step 1.
Step 3: Enjoy.
Gaston Maciel how do u change stations?
the rusty limo was the best bet, always looked for one the moment i loaded the game up
@@Alex861697 you can't.
datonepotato On the PC version you could.
datonepotato Hmm maybe I’m thinking about GTA 2
Biography
Craig Conner was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Having spent most of his early life playing in various bands, DJing and producing music, he then started working as a music producer for DMA in 1995, a small Dundee based videogames company. It was there that he was given a brief to write, perform and produce the soundtrack for a small project called Grand Theft Auto...
Craig then went on to work on the entire GTA franchise receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards for the soundtracks alone. To date the GTA series has sold over 250 million copies
Yup, Conner and Jay have some of the best soundtracks.
Aibuldeen
When a friend told me you could actually play that CD in your CD-Player... it blew my mind! 26 years later... Still timeless.
I sometimes did that with a Half-Life 1 disk since the PS1 doubled up as a CD player.
I tried every game I had after I learnt this back in early 2000s
PS1 Final Doom was a good one, loads of hardcore techno.
Ah... great memories. Who would have guessed back in 1997 that Grand Theft Auto would become the phenomenon it is today?
It was fucking awesome then, and still is.
I played the living shit out of this game :D
yeah i know... i remember picking this up off the shelf at electronics boutique as a random purchase. Despite the ostensibly poor graphics, I remember thinking "you get to just drive around and kill people at random-- sounds like a fun concept". makes me feel like a genius haha
aroyal641 Right. I only bought the original GTA just to see what the fuss was all about. Played it for months on end after that.
ya it was the best ... played the 5 minute demo 8 hours per day haha
@Butthead The only one I never played was London 1961 though I did play London 1969.
The sound that shaped the afternoons and nights of teenagers in the 2000s big up to all the 80-90s who experienced this beautiful era ! What's uuuuuuuuup ?!
9:40 is pure adrenaline. This used to be the track for the fast cars and I just got insane nostalgia of FLOORING it through the city with this back track
It hit me like that too.
Funk starts playing and concentration increases.
Kinda like this.. or the other way
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I just had the same feeling of blasting though the city to this song and I sent it to my friend that actually showed me GTA1 on his mom's work computer. Our minds were blown away when we've put the CD with the game into a CD Music player and it started to play the music from the game :o
I miss Joyride as a track. I wish they would put it in GTA 6.
6? Fuck it should be in EVERY gta...its the fucken theme song...lol
Kuson2
It's in GTA 3 on Lips FM. :D
only came here for joyride. fucking awesome track
Yeah Joyride matches GTA well.
@@tamasversitz1250 and they censored it
9:40 coolest song ever heard in a video game ...HEY BABY WOOOOOOOOO, AAAAAAAAAAAH HEY HEY HEY!!!!! :D
Frankie D If you want another game with that style of sound track look for Vigilante 8 2st offense
Fabio GTX yes kinda like porn music
Yeah Baby, thats the one for me :-)
I like this track too! Because, on level 1 when you get in the blue Bulldog this is what plays.
Shut up you prick.
Bought this back in '97. When finished my sister used to listen to it on her CD player. That's how cool it was. You could play it on your computer as a game. Or play it as a music CD on your bedroom CD player. Unfort for her, I sold it to a friend after growing tired of playing it. She never forgave me for it. And I wish I still had the CD. Thanks for this upload. Bittersweet.
I love this soundtrack sooo much! Often listen to in in my car while driving pretending to be in liberty city. Soundtrack of my childhood
I know the feeling. When I get a car (hopefully next year) I'm gonna listen to GTA music while driving too. B-)
Boy, you should know how to get a car asap if you played GTA. ;D
if you want to buy a car legit you can rob prostitutes to get the money.
I thought i was the only one. lol
do you run over people while your at it?
Fun fact - The police radio samples found on the disc were taken from Police Academy movies :)
They are, you would be surpsied how many movies / shows they are in , its like the willhelm scream, once you hear it ....
@@robsmith1318 yeah its everywhere. When I younger I used to think all these movies and tv's shows had ripped off gta lol
They were definitely from a library cause I still hear that 5 George k part in tons of movies and shows
I'm glad you pointed this out . I thought I was the only one who knew this
They are also in a few budget movies I've seen over the years
48:03 - men found their women scary because they where so big and hairy lmaoo
This was the only song available in the old pickup truck. Other cars could skip stations (with F1) but not that one.
CheapBastard1988 that song was so good, I’m gonna play it again!
Haha thanks I was looking for this exact one.
@Rachel Hollingdale That was so good he reckoned he was gonna play it again.
37:47 I've never realized how awesome this guitar solo is while playing GTA back in these days... :O
Awesome solo
That guitar solo with the ride cymbal drum part at 10:44 has held a special place in my heart since 1997, best game soundtrack of all time.
If you watch the BBC doccy you'll actually see this black fender electric there in the sound department. These guys really had fun
@@moosesnWoop 2 beautiful and right on spot comments about my favourite childhood game. Cheers boyos!
Really reminds me of Steely Dan.
47:15 is still better than any Country song today.. Love me some Stikki Fingers though!
I use to play these tracks in my car with my family, and they asked me where did i get those tracks. *SECRET*
huehuehue, if they known...
I do that to this day.
Hey kids! Are you living the late 90's? Wanna hear some genres you might be interested in? Don't get too attached though! The new millennium is around the corner and music will suck for the rest of your life. So enjoy this while you can!
Guys, honestly - 50:25 - The only truth.
The fucking Flamer was a beast!
50:25 - Criminally underrated track.
Colin Anderson deserves a nobel prize of videogame music because two things:
- funky radio station
- fantastic guitar on "4 letters love"
Thank you, Colin Anderson!🤘🙏🎸
Colin Anderson - On The Move - this track is insane! 12:56
This game was my childhood - best days of my life
Yessss 🙌 this used to play in my blue bmw (not sure if it was a bmw) but I used to spend ages looking for the blue one, not an easy find!
@sandycandy6396, really? Still know where to find them.
In retrospect, this OST reminds me a lot of Jet Set Radio. Feels underground, punk, and has a lot of random speech samples.
Full body goosebumps. Thank you, uploader. I needed this. Been a bad few weeks and I knew there was one piece of nostalgia I had missed... and this was it.
MadManAz I'm totally there with ya
arianaalioth Bubby wants the shit back. Take it to hiim in the tanker. :P
Hell yeah.. These are some of the best tacks I've heard in my life
+MadManAz I recorded this soundtrack ina K-7 tape in 1999 I think, Good times
MadManAz Amen to this
Da Shootaz - Joyride takes me back to me being around 8 years old in '98 playing GTA on my PS1 ;)
Same I played it on pc when I was 7 or 8
Trivia note: The song "Joyride" is featured - in some form - in EVERY installment of the game (i.e. the Commodore 64 loading screen in Vice City, the voice mail tone in GTA4)
These guys literally set up an entire generation of music listerners. I played this game for hours upon hours as a kid and at that young, impressionable age - "you know what, I reckon I'll play it again"
💯 agree music so good I would only steal certain cars just for the radio station😂
It actually helped me to appreciate different types of music.
Awesome soundtrack for an awesome old school game.
I can’t believe how good this still sounds. It’s actually got better with age!
I don't know how i managed to get this game back in 98' but it was the most edgy thing you could own as a kid back then, you where some hot shit on the playground if you had a copy of GTA on your PS1.
I remember playing this a lot at home. On a certain day, my dad had a friend and his kids over. Of course i showed them.
His friend, and the friend's kids, were very very christian. They were rather shocked by the violence :D
*PC (Well before Ps1) - I first heard about it in middle school; my dad got me a subscription for Newsweek, and one of the articles was about how this game had been banned in Germany I think. And that the UK version that Wasn't banned, had made them change the blood from red to green, with a picture of the green blood graphics after you ran someone over lol. I had to have it.
So that Christmas I had enough money to buy it..
Day after Xmas, I go to Electronics Boutique in the local mall (small town), and they had a used copy of it for $10 (!), the day after Christmas! I was ready to drop $60 on a new copy I was so stoked!! LOL my Dad and I played the shit out of multiplayer after he got a work laptop. Had to use a serial cable because we didn't have a router. I remember showing the game to friends, and them being just blown away by it. It was on PC for well over a year before it was ported to PS1.
I kind of swiftly played through first two chapters but there was some fucked up shit
Making a mass slaughter, terrorist attacks, bank jobs and assasinations? That's something, you don't do that in newer games at all
And absolutely nonchalant way your character (You) listens to these instructions and sacrifices his future in this video game is kind of crazy
My mind was literally blown when i blew up police HQ and an entire fucking train, with myself in it (PC version exclusive mission). That's fucked up and this hooked me for some time
Now that i'm on tequila slammer i just want to finish the game and maybe try GTA 2 after
@yobrethren it's pretty mad when you think of if lol. I grew up playing Wolf3d, Doom and Doom II, Quake, Hexen, GTA 1-Vice City, Carmageddon II etc. My current IRL kill count is 0 so I guess we're mentally safe...!
I remember my friend had the demo of this on PC, then when he got a 3DFX card, had the 3DFX demo. I remember thinking it's a 3D card, the other games he showed me were 3D, GTA is basically 2D, why you need a 3DFX card for it. 😛 Not that the 3D games needed a 3DFX card either, they just ran better with one than they did in software mode.
The PC game CD can be used as a regular audio CD. If you are playing the game, you can take out the disc, place in another music CD and listen to it through the in-game radio while playing the game.
So could the playstation disc
☝️ thats right i did all the time
Yup, track 2 onwards is audio, track 1 is data
I came here to say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said.
(On a side note, several Playstation games were like this, playable as music CDs. The only one j can actually remember caring enough to jam to was Jet Moto 2)
I HATE YOU I JUST TRIED THIS AND I LOST ALL MY PROGRESS!!!! THANKS A LOT!!! NOT!!!!!!!
Da Shootaz - Joyride the best song
also in gta 3
The beat in Gangster Friday is the best.
good shot kid, you got him
Is this the one they talk about him dying?
YES!
Good shot kid, you got him. This is burned into my brain even 20 year later :)
MrQuijibo *I think you got him lol
… And remember, Respect is everyting…!
Apparently not since you got the words wrong
The best part of owning this game is that you could put it in a CD player and listen to each radio station as a separate track.
Also, "Gangster Friday" samples Craig Mack. I first heard it here, then I found the song, and it became one of my favorites.
This ost hits me like a ton of bricks and it breaks my heart that those days as a silly teenager in my bedroom listening to the music of video games and the people in my life back then are gone in one way or another.
What an impact
"That was so good, I reckon I'll play it again!"
radio sections:
2:18 hiphop fm
9:40 funk fm
19:19 head radio fm
28:51 dance fm
36:20 rock fm
47:15 country fm
50:26 techno fm
"And you know, that was so good, I think I'll play it again."
That's pretty much all I did for several months after I got this game. Me and three of my best mates used to come in to school* every day and talk about all the cool shit we found in the game, and one of us even wrote down the lyrics for The Ballad of Chapped Lip Calquhoun so we could sing along.
* One of the first games rated 18 in the UK, but someone's dad was tricked into buying 4 copies of the game :D
Andrew Palmer I was like 5 when I got this game good memories
Haha, I just picked it up and bought it in Our Price on release aged 15
Jack the Ripper was the first game rated 18 by the BBFC, and that was in 1987, a whole decade before GTA 1, It was also a TEXT-ADVENTURE! (Did have gory images too though, which made WH Smith not stock it.)
I'd forgotten how awesome a track "Days Like These" was!
So much nostalgia. You know a soundtrack is good when you still think of the music from time to time even decades later.
Windows 95, no smartphones, no internet, games requiring skills, more eye to eye relations and spending time outside.
"This machine will have eyes, ears and a voice...."
Still hear those words echoing in my head decades later!
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
DUDE this entire OTS echos till this day. All the little sound bits they worked into the song
Btw my my uncle exactly was working on this rockstar game since 1996 and the game comes out 1997 for ps1 so he just died last 4 months ago thanks to him for his help on GTA 1
NitroZeN His uncle worked on this game.
*****
Tuna Sandwich
4 letter love when you robbed that fast car can't remember what it was called
im thanking your uncle for this great game
Rockstar Games was founded in 1998... hmmm
20 years later and I still come back to this.
I remember buying this game back in the day. I had no idea what it was or how to play it. I just liked the idea of robbing the cars and shooting everywhere having no idea of actually how to play the game. I didn't realize how awesome this game would become in the coming future years. Good times and memories from childhood
If I ever fall into a coma, these tracks will heal me.
(You've heard that too right? That music can help people in comas?)
Played my mates favourite song when he was in one, was the only time he moved, almost as if he was dancing! Was years ago, he's fine now
I was 23 when this came out, engaged and buying a house. GTA 1, original Doom, Daggerfall and Soul Reaver were the four games that influenced my life and made me the person I am today. There were other games like Grand Turismo, Armoured Core, etc but none had this level of impact.
When I found out that the game only used track 1 on the CD and the rest of the music could be played normally if you skipped track 1 then this became a regular playlist for me.
I did that with a lot of games, GTA, Redneck Rampage, Carmageddon 95, etc etc.. I would test every game disc in the cd player
28:51 Loved that one. Also, for some reason, I'm reminded of Streets of Rage
It's the thumping baseline
Same.
Same
20 years after its release and I can still keep on listening to this soundtrack.
Damn, this soundtrack is so memorable. I love just listening to it once in awhile. It's got some seriously great songs on it. It makes me a little sad that DMA/Rockstar leaned harder into licensed tracks sometimes. But a lot of the more period based games like Vice City and San Andreas wouldn't nearly be the same without them I guess. Still, big props to the artists and Voice actors that set the precedent for open world in-game radio stations and sound tracks.
You can tell these sound engineers had fun at work. Unlike the developers of today.. times have really changed.
Anyone who hasn’t played gta 1 should really play it. It’s the OG GTA before all of what is now.
G - Grand Theft Auto
You gotta make a mark and move where you ought to
T - Theft
Determination to steal what you can and run from the nation
A - Hey what d'ya say
We automate the sequence and speed for my getaway
39:53 , guys , singalong :D
Still have my original copy from 97'. Saved up pocket money for weeks to by this gem and still playing them as much as I can till this day. Much love Rockstar.
Get two one signed if you can and other to play the music.
Yep I still the OG gta1, gta2 and my original 97' PS1 too! Still Works! I've got Duke Nukem 3D and something else from that time too!
almost 20 years, fuck it, good times
50:25 when you found the Penetrator and all of a sudden the 14" tv got the volume increase.
The people who made the music to this game did an amazing job. The gangster music, the country music, the EDM.
Arghhhh, the nostalgia is killing me!!!
Thank you so much for uploading this.
Also: Ashtar - Aori was and still is my favourite track
Wish i could find more music like this track :/
This brings back so many memories. Like going to my friends house, not because I wanted to hang out, but so I could play Grand Theft Auto on his PlayStation. The country station song still makes me laugh. I typed in "The men folk found their women scary" into Google and it led me to this Sound track.
The western/country music radio station really disappointed me; why was only one song included !? Honestly, DMA and Take Two Interactive couldn't find a few more songs of the USA frontier/americana worth listening to and add it to the radio station ? GTA 3, 4 and EFLC didn't include even one country/western song ; that was a bit unexpected. I am just glad that GTA: San Andreas and GTA: V included American country/western music (USA); here's hoping that GTA VI will include a country/western music radio station (USA) and perhaps a local music radio station (Cuba)...if the internet rumors are true. 😊😀
Oh I also forgot about GTA: LCS, VCS, Chinatown Wars and Advance...those titles didn't feature any country/western music radio stations (USA) either. 😮😒🙄😝
Who else played this back in 98 and said to their mates "how cool would this game be if it was in 3D?"....
Very much made that point to friends. I used to say that when this plays in 3rd person mode it would kick
9:10 I noticed they sampled Michael Jackson's - Money on this bit of the song.
The Slumpussy song also is obviously very much inspired by Craig Mack's song "Flava In Ya Ear"
One of the best soundtracks of all time
I had a GTA 1 disc for PSX with burnt rubber smell while the game was playing. kinda weird. never seen something like that again
The Danish pop group Toy Box had singles which would let off a minty smell if you scratched the top. That actually was intensional as an interesting gimmick I guess.
GTA1 did not have that. The Gran Turismo 2 disk had a section of the the disk label where if you rubbed it it had a 'pit stop smell' of petrol and rubber.
"and you know, that was so good I reckon I'll play it again".....
The absolute best soundtrack to any GTA game. The OST beats a selection of already released any day.
25+ years to realise that Trump Tower is on the damn GTA1 cover
I keep coming back to listen to the first 2 GTA games' soundtracks. They're fantastic, both in their overall sound and the content, which is amusing and/or themed to the games, which really shows the time and thought, and creativity that was put into these titles when the studio was still finding its feet. Really beats just licensing modern tracks, which just feels lazy. It's one thing Cyberpunk 2077 nailed, having a fully original soundtrack too.
God this is so Old Skool and damned good. Little did anybody bloody fucking KNOW that the later Grand Theft Auto 3 would revolutionize the gaming industry FOREVER with its versatile 3D world and ability to murder cops and gangs; and thus leading to the rest: Vice City (basically Scarface and Miami Vice) & San Andreas (the most sold game for the Playstaion 2 EVER), to the new 3D game engines for GTA 4 and GTA 5 that would make Grand Theft Auto 5 the greatest fucking game in the world (at least during its time.) I remember GTA 3 had the song "Joyride" in it too, so that new players could find some incentive in purchasing the first two GTAs in order to find out how the series originated. Honestly my favorite is BY FAR Grand Theft Auto 3, because it kept the possibility to do Rampages just like the first GTAs (only in GTA 5 do they re-put the rampages, which was a huge let down for me when san andreas and gta 4 came out)
I just had a vivid dream today of seeing this cover of GTA with the 2nd track playing, which lead me to this vid.
It was meant to be
Just fired up my copy of GTA for the first time in well over a decade. Still the best game of the bunch for me, it just has a charm lacking in the other games.
50:25 is still an absolute beast of a tune.
TUNE! I couldn’t remember for some reason I thought this was called penetrate 🤦🏻♀️
Wow to jest klasyka, grało się kiedyś. To były czasy.
I would keep stealing cars until I found one playing Slumpussy's "This Life."
I just kept stealing cars with the Gangster songs
It was all about speeding about to 50:45 blasting for me, getting chased by the cops in my Beast GT
I'm baffled that there's an artist on this soundtrack with the name "Meme Traders" I know the word meme has been around for a long long time but just funny to see it used before it became wildly known to most people.
37:48 One of the greatest guitar riffs ever!
How awesome was it to drop this game in a CD player to discover that all the music was on here and playable? I damn near died when I tried it all those years ago.
Does the first track sample Flava in ya ear?
I live for Funk FM.
yeah you're absolutely right
Ahh a man of culture
There was this great moment in the mid 90's when dev's had space left on CDs and decided to make actual albums for their games. GTA, C&C, Total Annihilation. Just amazing. On the back of things like F-Zero and Metroid, the bar was already high. My personal fav is track 8 - love that big beat when cruising in a Beast GTS. Swerve left for the GOURANGA.
Loved the fact that the ps1 disc worked in my discman... Used to listen to this all the time!
Step 1 : Boot game, load save.
Step 2 : While in-game, open PS1 lid and swap out disc for your fav CD (CD-r sadly, not readable)
Step 3 : Enjoy your favorite CD as the in-game radio.
Step 4 : REINSERT GAME DISC BEFORE SAVING/PROGRESSING
Still one of the best game soundtracks ever.
Incredible to think they're original works produced just for the game.
4:50 I dont have much in this life. Its the state that keeps me from losing my house. In this world which we live in strife, you've got to give me one more chance to find a job for myself.
Minecraft Survivor it was one of my favourites from this game.
I absolutely sure I have the audio CD for this in the loft, Da Shootaz: Joyride got multiple listens from me. I was 13 when this came out and it was like nothing else I had played. 25 years later and the franchise is one of the best in the business. Crazy stuff.
This brings back so many great memories, thanks for posting it! I remember the day I discovered I could use the GTA CD Rom as an Audio Cd as well, I used to listen to all the tracks repeatedly.
Bummer I was too dumb to figure that out.. I ended up doing it the old school way.., put a tape in a boombox next to a speaker, hit record and hope your mom or sister didn't come in the room for the next hour!
Automatic Transmission is AS FUCKING GOOD AS BACK THEN! amazing
Absolutely classic music. My best friend and I played the hell out of this game on PC.
Mad Props guys to your original scores, Craig Conner you got some skills dude. Some of these tunes have been in my head for 20 odd years - especially 'Let it out' - that bass from the game when someone drives past haha
Why aren't these on Spotify?!
It all sounds much better now than when I was playing the game. That poor TV just didn't do it justice!
OMG I used to listen thoses songs again and again many years ago. And I still do remember each part.
36:21 the beginning of San Andreas, you hop in that little Jeep, and begin the Adventure! I love this song as well as so many others.
This be my jam, never gets old. It keeps getting better over time.
The first GTA was pretty bare bones, there wasn't much to do or see, the missions were repetitive and all.
But the fucking game had a lot of style and personality, and that's reflected in the soundtrack. I wish they didn't stop making OG songs for it.
The solo in '4 letter love' is off the hook 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
The first time I got the army after me in my truck the ballad of chapped lip colquhoun just such a epic gaming moment in my life
I wish real radio would be like this and play music this good.
ProtecSirius IRL radio sucks
Then stop listening to top 40 like the fuck?