Lips 106 or Lips 106 FM is a radio station in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, it acts as a Top 40 station and plays mostly pop, among other genres.
Description[]
Lips, like Head Radio, is a mainstream station that plays pop music. It doesn't feel any shame about being a commercial radio, in fact one of its idents in GTA III says "commercial radio at its best, and proud of it!" The station's headquarters can be found in Staunton Island. Its call sign is KBDDF, according to the GTA III website.
In 1998 (the setting of GTA Liberty City Stories), Lips is hosted by Cliff Lane and Andee and plays teen and dance pop, strongly targeting a young female demographic (likely because of Cliff's lust for preteen girls). Cliff Lane frequently makes creepy and perverted comments much to Andee's disgust; at one point she even catches him masturbating while on-air.
During the development of GTA Advance, Lips 106 was one of the three radio stations that was originally suppose to appear in the game (along with K-JAH and MSX FM), but was dropped.
By 2001 (the setting of GTA III), Andee is the sole DJ, and the station has switched to more of a contemporary pop mix station, with genres ranging from dance to rock to hip hop to R&B and soul. According to Andee, all of the songs now are from "the 70's to the 90's". Some lyrics were censored for profanity, most notably those from Fatamarse's "Bump To The Music" and Da Shootaz's "Grand Theft Auto".
All of the station's songs from GTA Liberty City Stories are available as ringtones in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Influence[]
Lips 106 is possibly based on WBLI 106.1, which plays Top 40 music in Long Island, New York, it could also possibly be based on Lite FM in New York City as they also share the same frequency number of 106. Its name may also be a reference to the Kiss FM radio network name that's common through Europe and North America.
Tracklist[]
The songs in both renditions of Lips are original creations made by the Rockstar staff especially for the games.
Grand Theft Auto III[]
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
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Rockstar Games have released the entire GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories playlists of Lips 106 on iTunes for download, including the cut song "Wash Him Off" by Marydancin[1][2]. "Sawaar" is incorrectly named in the iTunes store as "Sarwarr".
Deleted Songs[]
Grand Theft Auto III[]
- Marydancin - "Wash Him Off" (Craig Conner)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- This is one of the favourite radio stations of the Yakuza, alongside Rise FM and MSX FM.
- Rudy LaFontaine's and Sunshine Shine's singles can be seen advertised on billboards throughout Liberty City in GTA Liberty City Stories, and in safehouses and bars in GTA IV and Grand Theft Auto V.
Grand Theft Auto III[]
- At the start of Lips 106, it airs an advertisement previewing some of the songs that are intended to be played on the station.
- The sample starts with the intro of the song "God Bless All the Universe" by Rev. Rooney & The Rocksta Choir, which is a song that can be heard on Heavenly Radio in GTA 2, and not included in any of the radios of GTA III.
- Then it plays Fatamarse's "Bump To The Music".
- Then, the sample plays briefly the song "Wash Him Off" by Marydancin, which was cut down from the final release of the game, but was nevertheless released later by Rockstar as part of the soundtrack.
- Then it plays Boyz 2 Girls' "Pray It Goes OK?"
- Then it plays Lucy's "Forever".
- And it finishes with Debbie Harry's "Rush Rush"; in the final version of the game, that song appears on Flashback FM instead.
- The cut song "Wash Him Off" by Marydancin features extremely similar composition to "Holiday" by Madonna.
- After "Bump to the Music" plays, Andee reads a Liberty Tree news report about Carcer City and its corrupted police chief who was cleared for corruption charges. Andee also claims that Carcer City is "nearby" Liberty City.
- During the intro to "Feels Like I Just Can't Take No More", Andee refers to Sex Club 7 twice: once by name and then as "Luigi's Bar".
- Before the song previews in the introductory commercial, Andee says "I’m going to play you some sassy ladies from the 70s, 80s and 90s” However, no music from any of those decades appear on the station with the exception of “Grand Theft Auto” by Da Shootaz (1997).
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
- An advert for the station proclaims, "who needs a Top 40 countdown? Pop stations only have to play six songs". However, the tracklist for GTA Liberty City Stories has seven songs.
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
- A poster advertising a performance of "Tonight" by the Cool Timers in Maisonette 9 can be seen on a shelf in Luis' safehouse in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Grand Theft Auto V[]
- A modified version of "Bump to the Music" is the default ringtone in Franklin's phone in GTA V.
- "Bassmatic" is also the theme song for several spam adverts the player has to remove in Friend Request.
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
- It is possible to see the album for "Funk in Time" by Rudy La Fontaine in Arcades at the Juke-box, alongside other 3D Universe singles.
See Also[]
- Head Radio - a pop and rock radio in GTA, GTA 2, GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories.
- Flashback FM - an '80s pop radio in GTA III and '70s pop in GTA Liberty City Stories.
- Flash FM - an '80s pop radio in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories.
- Emotion 98.3 - an '80s soft pop radio in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories.
- Wave 103 - an '80s new wave and synthpop radio in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories.
- CSR 103.9 - a new jack swing and pop radio in GTA San Andreas.
- Vice City FM - an '80s pop radio in GTA Episodes From Liberty City.
- Non-Stop-Pop FM - a pop radio in GTA V.
- Self Radio - a custom radio station in the PC version of GTA V which is again hosted by Cliff Lane and Andee.