The obligatory favorite radio station poll.

Soulwax FM is basically the only one I listen to purposefully.

Los Santos Rock Radio, The Lowdown and Space 103.2 are fantastic. WorldWide FM, The Blue Ark and Radio Mirror Park are great. Non Stop Pop is good when the moment is right. Chakra Attack over on West Coast Talk Radio has me in stitches every time.

Overall, I'd say the radio selection in this is second only to Vice City.

I dislike most of the songs they have, so I often turn the radio off.

I listen to West Coast Classics quite a bit when playing as Franklin as it gives me the old San Andreas vibe.

If I have it on, Los Santos rock, and maybe channel x or talk radio, but mainly I'll use my tablet for music and use my own playlist.

I find myself listening to Vinewood Boulevard a lot because of Metz, Hot Snakes and Ceremony. 3 bands I actually actively like and listen to and I feel like fit the vibe of the game. Beyond that I kind of flip between the 2 rap stations, Rock, Pop, Channel X, the country station, and then occasionally hit Mirror Park or FlyLo. (I like almost all of them honestly)

Radio Los Santos has some great hip hop for driving around. West Coast Classics is also great, but points lost for being a little too obvious with the choices on there.

Besides that, Non Stop Pop and Space get played a bunch. Also there are a good number of tracks on the East Los radio station that are awesome, especially Autos, Moda Y Rock and Roll and Maldito.

Couldn't have said it better (except for the English part). Surprised it's one of the more popular choices though.

Worldwide FM

Ya'll don't even know.

Los Santos Rock Radio and Non Stop Pop. Sometimes West Coast Classics with Franklin, I love me som Tupac.

Well, Los Santos Rock is the only one with Queen on it so that makes my choice easy. Honestly, though the soundtrack in this game isn't that amazing so I like to role play each character, I'll listen to Los Santos Rock when playing as Michael, Channel X/Blaine Country Radio for Trevor and West Coast Classics/Radio Los Santos for Franklin.

I'm surprised at how many people dislike the music in this game.

I like Channel X, Rebel Radio, Blaine County, and WCTR the most. I pretty much just flip through everything though.

GIMMIE GIMMIE MORE! GIMMIE MORE! GIMMIE GIMMIE MORE!

Sad to see the Lowdown not getting much love, it's easily the best station in my opinion.

I feel like my teenaged self would hate the soundtrack, I mostly listened to the classic rock station in IV (which is still fucking great) but the classic station in this one is mostly soft rock. It fits the setting well, but I rarely listen to it.

Most played is Radio Los Santos, really like the modern rap they've got in this game. Other than that, Non Stop Pop is surprisingly good, and the DJ is great. Radio Mirror Park has some great music, and West Coast Classic is of course fantastic.

Blue Ark also scores some points, if not for the music, I don't really dig reggae, but for having the funniest DJ. If you haven't heard it, it's some Rastafarian guy who is completely incomprehensible, and it's really funny.

Space 103.2, Non Stop Pop, Radio Mirror Park, Lowdown FM and West Coast Classics are my favorites, with Space at the top. Love that Boogie Funk, only wish there was more of it.

A little let down by the talk radio in GTA V, feels like it loops pretty quickly and gets old too fast. JB Smoove is hilarious on it, though.

west coast classics and that one station where that guy is yelling most of the time, talking about UFOs, spaceships, and doing stuff like having sex with your uncle.

I hate to say it but this is the first GTA game where I was bored with the radio as soon as I listened for a few hours. I just turn it off now, I'm sure the did a competent job, but it just bores me. (Also, what is up with teh TV? There are two stations? Am I missing something?)

Non Stop Pop for sure. Driving down a highway at 100MPH with the sunset in the background and All Saints Pure Shores starts playing... fantastic.

That aside though, I'm generally disappointed in the radio overall compared to previous games. I've never been a rap or hip-hop guy, and the selection of decent rock songs is somewhat lacking, I feel.

There's maybe 7-8 songs I don't mind listening to across all stations. Naturally I gravitate more towards the music I grew up with (80s Pop, 90s Rap), but I find even those offerings are kind of mediocre. The idea is to compile recognizable hits across different genres of music. They've compiled an impressive catalog of hit music across the series, so maybe they're just running out of hits/singles.

I find myself listening to the talk radio, but it doesn't take very long for you to start hearing the same bits repeat when you're focused on one or two stations.

It's crazy to see that so many people think the radio is bad.

Clearly you've never driven a drunk couple up to the altruist cult while Bob Seger's "Night Moves" played.

Also there are three tracks with Kendrick Lamar on them compared to the one track that SR4 had, which was the track that had been far overplayed by the actual, real life radio anyways.

Overall I'd have to say that my favorite station was FlyLo, but I'm a fan of damn near all of them.

I voted West Coast Classics purely because on a conceptual level, nothing beats cruising around in a bright pink Lamborghini rip-off as a black dude in a suit with an afro and aviator sunglasses. Musically though, it'd probably Blue Ark. Favourite host is easily Bootsy though, by a landslide.

Really difficult question though. I appreciate all of the stations for a variety of reasons. Even the music I don't enjoy on a musical level feels like it has a place in the game's universe. Whenever I play as Trevor I'm listening to the punk station, even though I'd never listen to that kind of stuff outside of the game since it just really doesn't feel appropriate for that character to be driving around listening to Lee Perry.

Also I'd like to mention that I've gotten Party All The Time stuck in my head about 5 times since this game came out. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing haha.

The radio really kinda sucked I think. The Chatasphere segment on WCTR was good, as was Ron's segment on Blaine County Radio was good too but other than that I thought it was really dumb and kinda bad.

Lets put it this way - West Coast Classics is the "best" station in the game and I don't even like rap.

All in all I was extremely disappointed in the radio this game. Same as I was in GTAIV too.

The Danny McBride show is the best thing on the entire Radio catalog.

There's just the right amount of metal in the game.

There's zero, right?

I don't have the game, but Soulwax FM gets my preemptive vote purely for this hot jam:

Unfortunately, I preemptively voted for Worldwide FM thinking that was the station that had it. The lesson being something about preemptiveness, I'm sure.

I listen to Radio Los Santos because im a thug in real life n I keep it g with my yee-yee ass haircut. But I also love listening to the Talk Radio Station. Its fucking hilarious when I'm using a cab

Seemingly I'm the only Giant Bomb user who prefers the dub station. This doesn't really surprise me.

I would vote for West Coast Classics, but I've heard those songs a million times seeing how I grew up on 90s hip-hop so i'm kinda sick off them now and barely listen to them in GTA5. So I voted for Space 103.2 because off some really great gems, for example D-Train - You're the only one for me and Rick James - Give it to me baby. Non Stop Pop FM and Radio Los Santos are really great aswell.

@theht: Note to self: Listen to Soulwax more often.

Channel X: Fucking Keith Morris as the DJ! How cool is that?

Blane County Radio grew on me. Listening to Ron's deranged paranoid rantings and the Totally Not Paula Dean host of "Bless Your Heart" had me laughing my ass off.

I've been rotating between Vinewood Boulevard, Non Stop Pop and Radio Mirror Park. I'm not big on the soundtrack as a whole.

This is exactly me.

This is rubber duck.

I guess I listen to FlyLo, but more than anything I shut the radio off when I get into cars. I wish "no radio" were an option since one of my favorites things is to listen to podcast, audiobooks, or NPR when I play open world games.

The reggae station. I actually don't mind any of them, but the ones that I like the most are Vinewood Boulevard and West Coast Classics.

All Saints - Pure Shores always makes me remember that 'Best of 1999' CD I used to listen to in my parents car as a kid.

I'm glad they finally included a proper punk station. You metalheads have had your day, let us enjoy our music for a change. On that note, though, I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of Dead Kennedys.

West Coast Classics for the most part. After I got tired of it though I ended up bouncing back and forth between Worldwide and FlyLo FM.

Blaine County Radio - But only because it has Kenny Powers!

Keith Morris does a fantastic job on Channel X...also, Bootsy Collins on the funk station is amazing

This. All of it.

That Moonwalker song on VBR is god awful, though. I change the station every time that and Doo Wah Diddy or whatever comes on.

I voted Radio Music Park, but I also listen to Vinewood, Radio Los Santos, FlyLo, Non-Stop Pop, and West Coast Classics.

No Poll needed. Rebel Rock is where it's at if you're anywhere out in the country.

You know what... after playing a ton of hours I realized that I love Rebel Rock (country station). I actually hate country music, but the selection here is perfect for cruising around in the game.

Vinewood Boulevard Radio. I was so thrilled when three bands I adored came on one after the other when I was about 3hrs in and just starting to get accustomed to the stations. Thee Oh Sees, METZ and Wavves. Made me really happy.

FlyLo because it's FlyLo.

I don't even have GTAV (buying it tomorrow), but I can say now that Non Stop Pop is my favorite, just because I crack up thinking that All Saints is probably getting the most play that they've had since 1999, and it's because of a goddamn GTA game.

(waits for somebody to tell me that they're still extremely popular in the UK, like when I made a similar joke about Robbie Williams some time ago)

Edit: I take it back, apparently they cut Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, and Moloko from the soundtrack. Booo!

I've been all about Non Stop Pop FM thus far, but recently I've been taken by the majesty that is Space 103.2.