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Its DJ, Adam First, acts like a connoisseur of modern music that knows vanguardist [[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 {{WP|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. |
Its DJ, Adam First, acts like a connoisseur of modern music that knows vanguardist [[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 {{WP|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. |
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− | *{{WP|Frankie Goes to Hollywood}} - "{{WP|Two Tribes|Two Tribes (For the Victims of Ravishment)}}" (1984) |
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− | *{{WP|Sigue Sigue Sputnik}} - "{{WP|Love Missile F1-11}}" (1986) |
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− | *{{WP|Gary Numan}} - "{{WP|Cars (song)|Cars}}" (1979) |
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− | *{{WP|The Human League}} - "{{WP|(Keep Feeling) Fascination}}" (1983) |
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− | *{{WP|Blondie (band)|Blondie}} - "{{WP|Atomic (song)|Atomic}}" (1979) |
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− | *{{WP|Nena}} - "{{WP|99 Luftballons}}" (1983) |
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− | *{{WP|Kim Wilde}} - "{{WP|Kids in America}}" (1981) |
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− | *{{WP|Tears for Fears}} - "{{WP|Pale Shelter}}" (1983) |
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− | *{{WP|Corey Hart (singer)|Corey Hart}} - "{{WP|Sunglasses at Night}}" (1983) |
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− | *{{WP|ABC (band)|ABC}} - "{{WP|Poison Arrow}}" (1982) |
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− | *{{WP|A Flock of Seagulls}} - "{{WP|I Ran (So Far Away)}}" (1982) |
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− | *{{WP|The Psychedelic Furs}} - "{{WP|Love My Way (song)|Love My Way}}" (1982) |
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− | *{{WP|Animotion}} - "{{WP|Obsession (Animotion song)|Obsession}}" (1984) |
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− | *{{WP|Spandau Ballet}} - "{{WP|Gold (Spandau Ballet song)|Gold}}" (1983) |
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− | *{{WP|Thomas Dolby}} - "{{WP|Hyperactive!}}" (1984) |
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− | *{{WP|Romeo Void}} - "{{WP|Never Say Never (Romeo Void song)|Never Say Never}}" (1981) |
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− | *[[wp:The Human League|The Human League]] - "[[wp:Love Action (I Believe in Love)|Love Action (I Believe in Love)]]" (1981) |
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− | *[[wp:Thompson Twins|Thompson Twins]] - "[[wp:Love On Your Side (song)|Love on Your Side]]" (1983) |
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− | *[[wp:Depeche Mode|Depeche Mode]] - "[[wp:Everything Counts|Everything Counts]]" (1983) |
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− | *[[wp:Blondie (band)|Blondie]] - "[[wp:Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]]" (1979) |
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− | *[[wp:Frankie Goes to Hollywood|Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] - "[[wp:Relax (song)|Relax]]" (1983) |
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− | *[[wp:ABC (band)|ABC]] - "[[wp:(How to Be a) Millionaire|(How to Be a) Millionaire]]" (1984) |
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− | *[[wp:New Order|New Order]] - "[[wp:Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]" (1983) |
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− | *[[wp:Japan (band)|Japan]] - "[[wp:Quiet Life|Quiet Life]]" (1979) |
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− | *[[wp:Kajagoogoo|Kajagoogoo]] - "[[wp:Too Shy|Too Shy]]" (1983) |
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− | *[[wp:Heaven 17|Heaven 17]] - "[[wp:Penthouse and Pavement|Penthouse and Pavement]]" (1981) |
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− | *[[wp:Berlin (band)|Berlin]] - "[[wikipedia:Sex_(I'm A...)|Sex, (I'm A...)]]" (1982) (not included in the European version of the game) |
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− | *[[wp:Howard Jones (musician)|Howard Jones]] - "[[wp:Like to Get to Know You Well|Like to Get to Know You Well]]" (1984) |
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− | *[[wp:The Cure|The Cure]] - "[[wp:A Forest|A Forest]]" (1980) |
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− | *[[wp:A Flock of Seagulls|A Flock of Seagulls]] - "[[wp:Space Age Love Song|Space Age Love Song]]" (1982) |
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− | *[[wp:Yazoo (band)|Yazoo]] - "[[wp:Don't Go (Yazoo song)|Don't Go]]" (1982) |
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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[1], 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.
Description
Much like the real life new wave genre, Wave 103 assumes an intellectual, pop-art, post-punk nihilistic and technology-loving attitude. It cellebrates 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 vanguardist 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
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Videos
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Tracklist
Full radio
Trivia
General
- The name of the station is a reference to both the new wave music on the station's playlist, and to the radio station Wave 102 in Dundee, Scotland, where DMA Design (which subsequently became Rockstar North) was founded.
- Wave 103 is one of two preferred radio stations tuned in by the Streetwannabes, the other station being Flash FM. Wave 103 can be heard after Tommy or Vic carjacks their Gang Burritos or Gang Ranchers.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)" was played in the second trailer for GTA Vice City
- It also played the Vice City trailer for the Xbox version of Grand Theft Auto Double Pack.
- Gary Numan's "Cars" is the first song that plays when one starts GTA Vice City and tunes into Wave 103.
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Two Tribes" and Gary Numan's "Cars" play inside Stadium Events in the Hyman Memorial Stadium.
- Animotion's "Obsession" play inside The Pole Position Club.
- The Wave 103 CD included in the European release of the 7-CD Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set contains Aneka's "Japanese Boy", despite the fact this song actually appears on Flash FM in the game.
- This is the only radio station in Vice City that retained all of the original songs in the 10th Anniversary Edition and later re-releases.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- The version of Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" that is played on the station is actually the instrumental "Midnight Mix" of the song.
- Yazoo's "Don't Go" plays in the background at the beginning of the cutscene of the mission White Lies, as well as inside the White Stallionz Bar during the mission The Bum Deal.
See also
- Head Radio - a pop and rock radio station in GTA 1, GTA 2, GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories.
- King 130.7 - a punk and hard rock radio station in GTA 2.
- Lips 106 - a contemporary pop radio station in GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories.
- Flashback FM - an '80s pop radio station in GTA III and '70s pop in GTA Liberty City Stories that plays a song by Debbie Harry of Blondie as a solo artist.
- Flash FM - an '80s pop radio station in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories that plays songs by Philip Oakey of The Human League as a collaborating artist and Alison Moyet of Yazoo as a solo artist.
- Emotion 98.3 - an '80s soft pop radio station in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories that plays a song by Vince Clarke of Yazoo with The Assembly.
- Radio X - an alternative rock radio station in GTA San Andreas that plays a song by Depeche Mode.
- Vice City FM - an '80s pop radio station in GTA Episodes From Liberty City.
- Radio Mirror Park - a contemporary synthpop and new wave radio station in GTA V, mainly from indie artists.
- Non-Stop-Pop FM - a pop, synthpop and new wave radio station in GTA V.
- Channel X - a punk and hardcore radio station in GTA V.
References
Template:Gtaiii era radio stations