Gamers across the world have their calendars set for 2025, when the latest iteration of the Grand Theft Auto series is set to be released. I'm sure many of you are excited for it, but 2025 is still a long ways away; and thus, you'll bide your time as a law-abiding citizen of Los Santos until then.
Another thing I'm sure of is you've probably listened to every track on every radio station in the game since you started playing it. I know I have. At least 100 times over. And this game's soundtrack wasn't even their best work! That came in 2004, with GTA: San Andreas - a veritable Magna Carta of musical masterpieces.
The influence of GTA's music on my own tastes is painfully evident. Hell, a lot of video games for that matter - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Fallout, Silent Hill, I can go on and on. I think it is an absolutely wonderful thing to expand your musical horizons, and any person who shames you for the medium in which you discover new music is nothing but a hater. Get that energy out of your life, and get some Espo energy instead.
While you wait for GTA Episode 6 to come out, now is a great time to check out The Espo Experience, Episode 6. Best of all, it's free of charge and always will be! (But if you want to buy me a steak dinner to show your appreciation, who am I to refuse?)
I'll let the Grove Street legend, Carl Johnson, introduce this week's music:
Episode 6 Setlist
TRACK: Nimbus
ARTIST: Hypoluxo
TRACK: Mas Que Nada
ARTIST: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
TRACK: Dramamine
ARTIST: Modest Mouse
TRACK: (Don't Fear) The Reaper
ARTIST: Blue Öyster Cult
TRACK: Ain't No Sunshine
ARTIST: Bill Withers
TRACK: I Don't Care Anymore
ARTIST: Phil Collins
TRACK: Shakedown Street
ARTIST: Grateful Dead
TRACK: The Cruel Millennial
ARTIST: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
TRACK: Lady Marmalade
ARTIST: Labelle
TRACK: Renegade
ARTIST: Styx
TRACK: Virtual Insanity
ARTIST: Jamiroquai
TRACK: Rocket Love
ARTIST: Stevie Wonder
TRACK: I Need You
ARTIST: Jon Batiste
TRACK: Smooth Operator
ARTIST: Sade
TRACK: Calm Your Nerves
ARTIST: Cold War Kids
TRACK: No Quarter
ARTIST: Led Zeppelin
TRACK: The Man Who Sold the World
ARTIST: David Bowie
Looks like we've got ourselves a Two-fer Tuesday, folks:
TRACK: The Man Who Sold the World
ARTIST: Nirvana
TRACK: Them Bones
ARTIST: Alice In Chains
TRACK: A Girl Like You
ARTIST: Edwyn Collins
TRACK: All Wet
ARTIST: Mr. Oizo feat. Siriusmo
TRACK: With a Little Help from My Friends
ARTIST: The Beatles
TRACK: Hey Joe
ARTIST: Black Uhuru
TRACK: A Poor Man's Memory
ARTIST: Explosions in the Sky
TRACK: Running on Empty
ARTIST: Jackson Browne
TRACK: America
ARTIST: Simon & Garfunkel
TRACK: Disco Inferno
ARTIST: The Trammps
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...and what is that even good for these days?
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P.S. "Dear Rockst@r, cease-and-desist deez nuts."
- Alex Esposito
P.S.S. "If you could also respond to my pending job applications, that would be great."
- Alex Esposito
P.S.S.S. "Since I'm certain no one from Rockst@r will ever see this, just know that you were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!"
- Alex Esposito / Obi-Wan Kenobi
P.S.S.S.S. "Since you've yet to acknowledge a single application I've submitted over the last three years, I'm already playing with house money, baby!" - A man who will never give up on the dream of having his radio show be featured in the grandest video game franchise on the planet, and a man who fully acknowledges the irony of this post, because if they ever do see it, they will tell him he just torpedoed his only chances of ever getting to work for them
P.S.S.S.S.S. "You're welcome for the free press."
-Alex Esposito