[Magic_Al]

When TLAD came out Rockstar teased a soundtrack album called The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, a followup to The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV which was released both for download and physical CD. The TLAD album was never released and no track listing was announced. It's no longer mentioned on the official sites, but this was the artwork.



Drive By Audio's "Jailbait" was released as a "single" from this non-album but I wonder what the rest of the track listing would have been (R*'s favorite one hour from the game's soundtrack) and why the album didn't happen. The game's american.gxt file revealed a lot of deleted songs and maybe there were licensing problems that prevented the album from coming together.

I'd guess all these songs would have been included because they were in TLAD trailers:

• Sepultura "Dead Embryonic Cells"
• Termanology "Here in Liberty City"
• The Yelling "Blood On the Steps"
• Brazillian Girls "Nouveau Americain"
• Mötley Crüe "Wild Side"

This post has been edited by Magic_Al on Tuesday, Dec 13 2011, 05:40

[HaydenHarman]

[Niall]

I wonder too. Seems this is as close as we are going to get, prolly a lot cheaper to do exclusive songs.

QUOTE

The Lost and Damned Soundtrack Available exclusively via iTunes Six original tracks produced exclusively for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned by elite underground hip-hop DJ and record producer Statik Selektah, as heard in his in-game mix on 102.7 THE BEAT. Featuring some of the most respected names in the genre, including Talib Kweli, Freeway and Termanology. TRACKLIST: 1. Termanology " Here in Liberty City " 2. Freeway " Carjack " 3. Saigon " Spit " 4. Skyzoo " The Chase Is On " 5. Consequence " I Hear Footsteps "    6. Talib Kweli " My Favorite Song "

[universetwisters]

QUOTE (Magic_Al @ Saturday, Oct 15 2011, 04:42)

The game's american.gxt file revealed a lot of deleted songs and maybe there were licensing problems that prevented the album from coming together.

I kinda doubt it. Legally, they wouldn't be able to put an artist's songs into their game unless they get permission from the artist/record label. Once they get the rights to it, i think its up to the game testers as to which song gets put in the game. After all, I was looking on the GTA Wiki about that, and i doubt "loosing my religion" would appear on a radio station centered around classic rock.

Who knows? They could be saving the songs for gta 5

[Magic_Al]

QUOTE (universetwisters @ Thursday, Dec 29 2011, 09:42)

QUOTE (Magic_Al @ Saturday, Oct 15 2011, 04:42) The game's american.gxt file revealed a lot of deleted songs and maybe there were licensing problems that prevented the album from coming together. I kinda doubt it. Legally, they wouldn't be able to put an artist's songs into their game unless they get permission from the artist/record label. Once they get the rights to it, i think its up to the game testers as to which song gets put in the game. After all, I was looking on the GTA Wiki about that, and i doubt "loosing my religion" would appear on a radio station centered around classic rock. Who knows? They could be saving the songs for gta 5

Legally, they wouldn't need permission to develop the soundtrack using any song they wanted in internal builds. They could build a temporary soundtrack from their wish list and then see what they could actually license. They wouldn't spend time and money licensing songs they didn't definitely want. The deleted songs listed in american.gxt are probably a combination of songs they wanted and couldn't get and songs they chose not to include after deciding they didn't flow with other songs.

It's interesting that the Episodes have a lot more deleted songs listed in their files than GTA IV. They may have taken time to clean out the american.gxt of the main game and not the episodes, and budgets may have been tighter on the episodes -- money and file size (Xbox Live DLC had to be under 2GB).

[Ethereal_NYC]

interesting i will compile this as an album if you want a link

The Rolling Stones - "Fingerprint File" (1974)
Steppenwolf - "Ride with Me" (1971)
Tubeway Army - "Bombers" (1978)
Nazareth - "Changin' Times" (1975)
Black Oak Arkansas - "Hot and Nasty" (1971)
Breakwater - "Release the Beast" (1980)
New York Dolls - "Private World" (1973)
The Doobie Brothers - "Long Train Runnin'" (1973)
Warren Zevon - "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (1978)
Python Lee Jackson feat. Rod Stewart - "In a Broken Dream" (1972)
Rare Earth - "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (1970)
Robin Trower - "Day of the Eagle" (1974)
Billy Squier - "The Stroke" (1981)
Ted Nugent - "Hey Baby" (1975)
The Cult - "Born to Be Wild" (1987)
Love and Rockets - "Motorcycle" (1989)
Motörhead - "Ace of Spades" (1980)
Iron Maiden - "The Trooper" (1983)
Mötley Crüe - "Kickstart My Heart" (1989)
Judas Priest - "Breaking the Law" (1980)
R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991)

This post has been edited by Ethereal_NYC on Tuesday, Feb 21 2012, 16:14

[zackryderwoo]

QUOTE (Ethereal_NYC @ Tuesday, Feb 21 2012, 16:07)

interesting i will compile this as an album if you want a link The Rolling Stones - "Fingerprint File" (1974) Steppenwolf - "Ride with Me" (1971) Tubeway Army - "Bombers" (1978) Nazareth - "Changin' Times" (1975) Black Oak Arkansas - "Hot and Nasty" (1971) Breakwater - "Release the Beast" (1980) New York Dolls - "Private World" (1973) The Doobie Brothers - "Long Train Runnin'" (1973) Warren Zevon - "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (1978) Python Lee Jackson feat. Rod Stewart - "In a Broken Dream" (1972) Rare Earth - "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (1970) Robin Trower - "Day of the Eagle" (1974) Billy Squier - "The Stroke" (1981) Ted Nugent - "Hey Baby" (1975) The Cult - "Born to Be Wild" (1987) Love and Rockets - "Motorcycle" (1989) Motörhead - "Ace of Spades" (1980) Iron Maiden - "The Trooper" (1983) Mötley Crüe - "Kickstart My Heart" (1989) Judas Priest - "Breaking the Law" (1980) R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991)

none of them where in TLaD?