Music

GTA Liberty City Stories has ten radio stations: nine music stations and one talk station, Liberty City Free Radio. The game is set in 1998, three years before GTA III, so most of the stations are earlier versions of the GTA III ones, often with a different DJ and a different sound. MSX FM still goes by MSX 98, Lips 106 has Cliff Lane on the mic next to Andee, and Flashback FM plays Giorgio Moroder instead of eighties pop. Radio Del Mundo and The Liberty Jam are new. Like in GTA III, each station is a single looped recording of songs, adverts and DJ chatter, and the only exception is the Liberty News bulletins, which play once after certain missions. The PSP version also lets you play your own music, using Rockstar's free "Rockstar Custom Tracks" program.

Head Radio

Pop, soft rock and pop rock with Michael Hunt. All seven songs are originals by fictional acts, written by Rockstar's own musicians such as Craig Conner, Will Morton and Alastair MacGregor. Before Purser's "Feel the Pain", Michael gives a nod to Starship's "We Built This City".

1. "Train" - Conor & Jay
2. "The One For Me" - Cloud 19
3. "Feel The Pain" - Purser
4. "Free Yourself" - L. Marie + Raff
5. "Drive" - 15 Ways
6. "Welcome to the Real World" - Rosco Stow
7. "Keep Dreaming" - Vanilla Smoothie

Double Clef FM

Opera and classical music, hosted by Sergio Boccino, while Morgan Merryweather, the GTA III host, turns up as a caller. Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro (1786) shares the title of the oldest music in the series with the GTA III station's "Non più andrai", which comes from the same opera.

1. "Così Fan Tutte: E amore un ladroncello" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. "Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus" - Giuseppe Verdi
3. "Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. "Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" - Giuseppe Verdi
5. "Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida" - Giuseppe Verdi
6. "I Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba" - Ruggiero Leoncavallo

K-Jah

Dancehall and reggae with Natalie Walsh Davis, who also sends a shout-out to K-JAH West on the West Coast. Just like in GTA III, every track comes from one record, this time the compilation "Watch How the People Dancing: Unity Sounds from the London Dancehall 1986-1989".

1. "Ready for the Dancehall Tonight" - Peter Bouncer
2. "Ring My Number" - Kenny Knots
3. "You Ha Fe Cool" - Richie Davis
4. "Pick a Sound" - Selah Collins
5. "Watch How the People Dancing" - Kenny Knots
6. "Lean Boot" - Richie Davis
7. "What a Wonderful Feeling" - Errol Bellot
8. "Run Come, Call Me" - Kenny Knots

Rise FM

House, Chicago house, deep house and acid techno, hosted by Boy Sanchez. With fourteen tracks it is the biggest music station in the game, and unlike its GTA III version it has one block of adverts at the end of the loop.

1. "Sing it Back (Boris Musical Mix)" - Moloko
2. "Free" - Ultra Naté
3. "I Believe" - Happy Clappers
4. "House Music" - Eddie Amador
5. "Feel What You Want" - Kristine W
6. "Hideaway (Deep Dish Vocal Remix)" - De'Lacy
7. "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)" - Sneaker Pimps
8. "Plastic Dreams" - Jaydee
9. "Altered States" - Ron Trent
10. "There Will Come A Day (Half Tab Dub)" - The Absolute
11. "Positive Education" - Slam
12. "Flash" - Green Velvet
13. "Circus Bells (Hardfloor Remix)" - Robert Armani
14. "Higher State of Consciousness" - Josh Wink

Lips 106

Top 40, teen pop and R&B, with Cliff Lane and Andee as co-hosts. Cliff's creepy remarks keep disgusting Andee, and by GTA III she runs the show alone. Every song was made by Rockstar's staff for the game.

1. "Funk in Time" - Rudy LaFontaine
2. "Love is the Feeling" - Sawaar
3. "Mine Until Monday" - Sunshine Shine
4. "Get Down" - Credit Check
5. "Tonight" - Cool Timers
6. "Bassmatic" - Nina Barry
7. "Into Something (Come On, Get Down)" - The Jackstars

Radio Del Mundo

World music from India and the Arab world, hosted by Panjit Gavaskar. It is the default station in Liberty City's taxis, and Asha Bhosle's "Dum Maro Dum" was used in the game's multiplayer trailer.

1. "Aini Bet Ref" - Ahmed Mneimneh
2. "Im Nin'Alu" - Ofra Haza
3. "Hebeena Hebeena" - Farid El Attrach
4. "Kidda" - Natacha Atlas
5. "Neeve Nanna (Only You Were Mine)" - Vijaya Anand
6. "Ballaa Tsoubou Hal Kahwa" - Samira Tewfik
7. "Dum Maro Dum" - Asha Bhosle
8. "Raghupati" - Ananda Shankar

The iOS and Android versions drop "Aini Bet Ref", "Im Nin'Alu", "Kidda" and "Ballaa Tsoubou Hal Kahwa", and add four other songs instead:

1. "Ah Ya Zein" - Salatin El Tarab Orchestra
2. "Marmara" - Michel Nahme
3. "La Tisalouni" - Mohamed Eskander
4. "Mariam Mariamti" - Mohamad Hussein

MSX 98

Jungle and drum and bass, with MC Codebreaker toasting over the mix just as he does on MSX FM in GTA III. The name refers to the year 1998, and every track comes from the Moving Shadow label. Omni Trio's "Renegade Snares" plays during the mission The Sicilian Gambit.

1. "Renegade Snares" - Omni Trio
2. "Terrorist" - Renegade
3. "Finest Illusion (Legal Mix)" - Foul Play
4. "Living For The Future (FBD Project VIP Mix)" - Omni Trio
5. "Stay Calm (Foul Play Remix)" - DJ Pulse
6. "Disturbance (Tango Remix)" - Hyper-On Experience
7. "Cold Fresh Air" - Higher Sense
8. "Living For The Future" - Omni Trio
9. "Thru The Vibe (2 on 1 Remix)" - Omni Trio
10. "The Helicopter Tune" - Deep Blue
11. "Dred Bass" - Dead Dred

Flashback FM

Disco and Italo disco hosted by Reni Wassulmaier, and all six songs are by Giorgio Moroder. In GTA III the same station plays eighties pop.

1. "I Wanna Rock You" - Giorgio Moroder
2. "E=MC²" - Giorgio Moroder
3. "From Here to Eternity" - Giorgio Moroder
4. "Chase" - Giorgio Moroder
5. "First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love" - Giorgio Moroder
6. "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" - Giorgio Moroder

The Liberty Jam

East Coast hip-hop and hardcore rap from the mid and late nineties, hosted by DJ Clue on his Desert Storm Show, full of shout-outs and his own drops over the tracks. It is the only hip-hop station of 1998 and is seen as the forerunner of GTA III's Game Radio. Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt.II" was used in the game's second trailer.

1. "All I Need" - Method Man
2. "Twinz (Deep Cover '98)" - Big Pun feat. Fat Joe
3. "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" - DMX feat. DJ Clue, Drag-On, Jadakiss, Styles P and Eve
4. "Get at Me Dog" - DMX feat. Sheek Louch
5. "Beware" - Big Pun
6. "Do What Ya Feel" - Redman feat. Method Man
7. "Chain Gang Freestyle" - The L.O.X. feat. Black Rob
8. "N.O.R.E." - Noreaga
9. "Shook Ones Pt.II" - Mobb Deep
10. "Chest2Chest Freestyle" - The L.O.X. feat. DJ Clue
11. "Shut 'em Down (Remix)" - Onyx feat. Big Pun and Noreaga
12. "Incarcerated Scarfaces" - Raekwon

Liberty City Free Radio

The game's talk station, LCFR, with several shows: Heartland Values with Nurse Bob, the tech show Electron Zone Radio with Bill and Steve, Melissa Chowder's spiritual Breathing World, the cooking show Coq O Vin with French chef Richard Goblin, and Chatterbox with Lazlow. Richard Burns, the WCTR journalist from GTA San Andreas, phones in too.

Versions and other music

On the PSP you can add your own music as an extra station. Rockstar offered a program called "Rockstar Custom Tracks v1.0" on the game's official site to rip CDs onto the PSP. The iOS and Android ports (2015 and 2016) have a custom station too, called MIXTAPE, but some songs are missing there: besides the Radio Del Mundo swap above, Rise FM loses "I Believe" and "Spin Spin Sugar", and The Liberty Jam loses both L.O.X. freestyles.

Two songs play only in cutscenes: Bugz in the Attic's "The Heist", a remix of the GTA III theme, in the opening, and Sonia Slany's "Japanese Geisha" in the missions Cash in Kazuki's Chips and More Deadly Than the Male. Rockstar later released the Head Radio and Lips 106 playlists on iTunes.