Heading over to Little Havana to help the Cubans fight off the Haitian gangs and their hypnotic voodoo leader Auntie Poulet, if you’re anything like us you whacked on Radio Espantoso, pulled on some colourful sleeves and necked mojito buckets along to this infectious mambo madness. And what better song to listen to while racing off to procure them groupies and ‘love juice’ – a mixture of cocaine, moonshine and petrol – than their own riff-ravaged hit ‘Dangerous Bastard’, a groundbreaking work of self-realisation for a hair rock band in 1986: “Is it true you like my curls? Do you think we look like girls?” So there was no better track to evoke the garishness of the 80s, blaring from Mr Magic’s hip-hop station Wildstyle, as you cruised up to the downtown dirtbike track between cocaine drops.Ĭurrently residing in the Where Are They Now? file, Love Fist were the Scottish, Crue-style soft metallers in Vice City as part of their Steel Heart Stone Cold Prostate tour, whom you had to ferry around town in a limo while fending off murderous fans.
Rapping should really have been called ‘enunciating’ back in 1980, and Kurtis Blow was one of the slickest enunciators in the game, the man George Michael was emulating when he memorably said “well hi George, meet my fiance”. Over the seven in-game music radio stations, here are the songs you only know from your bad old days running rampage around Vice City… Kurtis Blow – ‘The Breaks’ 2003, to be precise, when Rockstar Games whisked us back to Miami in the 1980s to live out our wildest Crockett and Tubbs fantasies, complete with a soundtrack perfect for fleeing police helicopters along Ocean Drive in a top-down Stallion. With stunning new photo-real teaser locations for the new GTA V DLC hitting the web, there are some of us who pine for the retro years when GTA was a bit more, well, retro.