GTA IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony - Pause Menu Theme [REMASTERED] 

When you have a 5 star and getting surrounded by cops: You press pause, and this comes on and soothes your soul.

imagine finishing your final exams for summer then you walk back home then this plays in your head

2009: keep on walking 2022: still walking but trough harder times :( 2024: troubles walking, i feel more weak... -_-

You can feel the 2009 energy. It's like being back in that Era again.

For some reason, my brain captured how I felt back in 2012 and it’s permanently stuck to this music and pause menu, I will for ever treasure this.

the only GTA 4 DLC that didn't have the gloomy feeling of GTA 4 and GTA 4 Lost and Damned, Liberty City felt like heaven.

this game will never leave my mind.. absolutely never, it was magic back in the day in those old servers...

shoutout to my grandpa 🕊 who bought me this game the og gta 4 and the dlc's tbogt and tlad on the 360. Although gta 4 was a dark and sinister video game all i can remember is laughter,happiness, and smiles with my friends, i miss those years so much damn.

nothing like falling asleep wile playing this game and you randomly wake up at 4am with a sore neck and this banger playing

Sam Houser on 2009 before the dlc release: Yo we need a pause menu song for the game! Rockstar Games Sound Designer: "We gotchu." 😎

The more upbeat yet still dark brother of IV and TLAD. Really encapsulates the game perfectly. This pause music is the embodiment of optimism in spite of bad things happening.

I was too young to buy this game, but my older cousin had it. Whenever I would sleep over, we would run this game for houuurrrss. His mom would call us to come eat or do something, pause the game, come running back to the room with this playing. Then we’d just sit and listen. Damn how time flys. We paying bills and dont have time for games now. Cherish your youth my friends, and have fun in the moment. These are the fun times you will remember, you just dont know it yet.

this shit hits different at 3am, after spending a whole day hanging around with friends. i'm finally here, in my bed, dazed and sleepy, enjoying a moment of happy loneliness. high school's over, the summer's almost over. now i'm going to start a new chapter of my life. time will go on, and this sensation of freedom is going to be more and more difficult to experience: i'm growing up. but i'm living the emotion, and i love it. life is such a gift.

The airport is quieter, these days 😕

Rockstar ain't creating something like that in the future again It was perfection and now they can't perfect it again thanks for remastering and making a clearer version of one of the best music in the entire series I still wonder why I feel nostalgic even though I started playing it last year

I remember playing this back in 2010 on my 360. Man those were some good days. Falling asleep to this felt like I was in heaven and angels were watching over me. Take me back.

Despite never playing GTA 4, this feels oddly nostalgic to me. Like a memory I never really had.

Nice job, whenever I hear this theme it brings me back to the good old days when I used to play this game everyday after school on my PS3, just having fun. I still play this game from time to time, just not as often as I used to

Pov: you finally graduated high school. You miss everything you've done in the past. Now you have to move on to adulthood, Good luck.

POV: It's 5AM and you're the last one in the lobby

Nostalgia Summer 2012 A cool night with the window open Paused the game to take a little break Had a midnight snack Watched minecraft videos on my laptop that was on its last legs

Hearing this brings tears to my eyes it's so nostalgic and beautiful 😢😥😪🤧

Been looking for this lost treasure ever since my step dad broke my ps3 around 10 years ago . He broke many things in my life but now I found something I though lost a long time ago . Thanks Rockstar

Imagine pausing for no apparent reason just to listen to this and forgetting what you were doing just 10 minutes earlier.

nothing like playing this game on summer of 2018 and pausing the game just to appreciate this beauty on menu.. what a shame they cutted out this on PC version

dude, this remastered work is just GOLD, its like an ASMR music, so relaxing, i would listen this every time i get stressed, this literally chilled me out so good, amazing job, keep it going

Back when Rock Star Games focused on making awesome DLCs into their games months after it's release we'll never see anything like that ever again ;-;

I just acquired a PS3 and I’m playing this game once again, it’s like I’m living back in 2009 once again. So nostalgic, Episodes of Liberty City (GTA4, Ballad of Gay Tony, & Lost&Damned) will be one of the best Rockstar games of all time. GTA V can’t come close to this.

After all this years.... We keep on walking... All over the city.....

i have a really strange but memorable memory with this music: there was this girl i used to chat (like really long ago), and we were like kinda next to each other, but since this was just an internet thing and the fact she never come to the region i lived, we never really met in person, and slowly bit surely our relationship died. i remember listening to this song while i talked to her, the many times were we just got along and enjoyed each other. we end on good terms despite that, she even followed me on instagram and i guess she is married nowadays.

You take a deep breath... and you keep on walkin'.

I hope gta 6 makes something similar like this Like a heavenly synthwaveish but calming soothing vibe as well

I'm having a fever and am working right now. This music is like a lucid dream to me. Calming.

Legend has it that he kept on walking till this day...

God makes me feel old as hell. This was when I first moved out of my parents house into an apartment with my best friend, we stayed up all night playing this shit online and had 3 jobs trying to survive and keep gas in my ‘87 lifted full-size Bronco. Man, those were the days!

This is so beautiful 🥲

Classics never die. I always loved this theme, it reminds me of Doo Woop especially how it was used in A Bronx Tale

I from Türkiye and as a last studen from hight school I always listened this song while studying for University exam. Now I won University which I wanted. And when playing this song, I always feel nostalgia for no reason. This song means lot to me…

Funfact : Actually these menu themes start playing while player health is low in missions but R* deleted it. I can imagen this like Luis feel dizzy and screen is blury. Also you can hear at part 5:17 heart beats theme.

Man I miss this so much! Make me feel young again, gta 4 was fun with endless memories and playing for hours.

Waking up to this as a kid. Hits fkn different. I miss it so much

Listening to this is like kicking yourself back to those days. Everyone here seems to have had their best days in 2008-2012. Best days of my life and of course I never knew they were the best. Truly the best thing to finish off a shitty day.

The airport is too quiet nowadays 😢😢

Man this thing sent me back 10 years

Here is why i love small content creators

I always get goosebumps when I hear this one and nikos menu song there golden 💛💛 brings a tear to my eye Good Times

This is what people in heaven hear

This pause menu theme plays after your last day of school

Most atmospheric GTA theme, by far, takes me to 2008-2013 best times ever, we were content and happy we just didn't know, post covid and I hope I can live like these times again

Such a great relaxing music to put your Baby to sleep! 😴😴😴😴

*GTA TBOGT Pause Menu Theme* >>>>>>>>>>>>> GTA 5 Pause Menu Theme

Beautiful, the nostalgia gives me chills

The amount of times this song helped me to fall asleep when I was a kid, now it’s just a reminder of simpler and more beautiful times

Creo que cada menú de pausa de GTA IV y Soundtrack representa la vida de los personajes. Niko un hombre destruido en busca de felicidad y rendición que no llega y cegado por el odió. Johnny un hombre sensible,con sentimientos metido en un mundo que en verdad no es para el apesar de manejarlo bien. Luis un chico que es agradecido con su jefe por sacarlo del mal mundo y hará todo lo imposible para mantener al que ver cómo su padre (Tony) bien.

yesterday i cried and listened to this for motivation :(

life was so much better around this time everyone young Xbox 360 was the biggest system ever and GTA 4 becomes HD with graphics we thought was good back than simple times I’ll always have love for this game ❤

Those were some good times. Not even talking about nostalgia-- the late 2000s/early 2010s weren't perfect, but they hit that sweet spot of technological advancements and innovation/creativity working together. People were still trying out new things because they could. They weren't trying to fit into the homogenous standards where everything is the same for maximum profit. I miss it.

This was the first pause menu maybe even music in game that I just chilled out to. I was 10.

Probably the greatest theme song I have ever heard, brings me back to 2012 were I played this game non-stop. The nostalgia hits hard, damn.

Damn, I'm really addicted to it.

This song makes me emotional 😢

falling asleep to this might just be the best feeling ever

The more I listen to this piece of history I’ll always remember the moments with this game😢 like it’s a part of life I’ve played like ur listening to it in New York City in the void This game will always have a special place in my heart then gta 5 ❤

I remember playing this game. My brother borrowed PS3 console from his friend and I played this for a month. I was 17. I was the only girl from my class who loved videogamimg. 😊 Good times

POV: You fell asleep in 2009 playing GTA IV

This takes me 11 years back, me playing it in those old winter days, it's snowing now, that's how I remembered this and that's why I'm here.

I love this pause menu theme so much, even the voices are clean, great job man!👍🏻

High school first GF Cars from the 90s still common GTA 4 hanging out with mates the late 2000s ( 2008-2013ish ) was the best times never to come back BUT never to forget

it was perfect, perfect everything down to the last minute details

When controler batteries run out...

Last seen: 11 years ago

Things hurt back then, a lot of heart break now I have a son on the way. Escaped the city.

Ive always been the youngest in my family and my brothers would always hog the games so i was never able to play during the day but when i was it was at 3am and during 2007ish and i never had wifi or anything this will always have a special place in my heart thanks for this, i would always fall asleep to this music so easily and now as an adult it still does thank you i honesty mean this

I remember the Times when i used to play TBoGT so late into the Night, i would get sleepy, and eventually fall asleep to these beats, not even in a bad way, i was happy and had Fun.

What memories I really loved this DLC may my cousin's xbox 360 arcade rest in peace, the first one who let me play this great game

I haven’t heard this for years. I think I ended up playing Ballad of Gay Tony more than the main game.

A powerful track of nostalgia and emotion, feels like "pausing" life itself ^^

this theme makes me feel as if the doors of paradise were opening and I enter and everything happens with this angelic song that makes me fly into this new world

I have never played EFLC. Today, I have installed it, for the first time in ever. Once I'm done with the main story and Biker story, I will dive into this. The funny thing is? I have never played it, but this tune sings "soul-crushing early 2010 nostalgia" like nothing else. I fully resonate with people who have fond memories of TboGt. Soon, I will have my own.

Imagine this music playing when you have died and are waiting in the lobby for entry into heaven

I feel like TBoGT is the only happy GTA that takes place in Liberty City. I spent my early childhood years playing GTA IV, and when I was finally able to play TBoGT in 2023, I was amazed. The colors, the new weapons, the storyline, the character, the location, the atmosphere. Way happier than GTA IV and TLaD. And introduced many new things as well, like parachute jumping, that was present in San Andreas but not in IV. Not to mention the helicopter with integrated Machine Guns, the golden Uzi, and the song "Suavemente" by Elvis Crespo on the Radio, that was added. Yes, TBoGT is difficult (I had to use cheats) but still, it is a really fun game, it doesn't even feel like a Liberty City game, but more like Vice City, or GTA 5. And Luis is so cool. I, to this day, still believe that the Niko Johnny Luis trio is the best trio in Media. The peak of Rockstar Games. But not only the peak of Rockstar Games, but other companies too. In 2009, Pokémon HeartGold came out, in the same year as GTA TBoGT. One year later, Pokémon Black and Mario Galaxy 2 would come out. Late 00s and early 10s is just a magical period for gaming of all types. And I feel like almost any console and game peaked back in that same period. I to this day still play both TLaD and TBoGT. I still remember the phrases said by Luis after you completed a Drug War : "see you later degenerates". Or "behave". TBoGT elevated IV to even more perfection. Second best GTA game of all time imo

For some reason the Steam version of TBOGT has the GTA IV theme in the pause menu

My childhood

I hear this and instantly wanna cry, knowing that the memories and the way life was back then cannot be relived. Thank you, Rockstar Games, for molding my childhood with the Grand Theft Auto franchise! The music always makes the games 10 times more memorable and epic. ❤

Crazy to think this was released only 3-4 years before GTA V, it will probably be at least 11 years since V that we will get another game.

I still remember that in 2012 I played this great game...

This game... Fuck its like im a fan of all the gta on the series but iv fuck man its like my best memories

Even tho this game wasn't my childhood this sound has just "something" that has something to do with the feel of those early 2010s or late 2000s days but I can't place my finger on it

I miss hearing this on my Xbox 360 brings back memories. Sad that the PC version doesn't play this anymore.

ayone in 2024 ?

I like this so much! Nice remastered! 👍

My Neega... this brings me back

This is the saint Graal of sleeping music back when I was just a kid I used to fall asleep on this soundtrack once a week to recover from this crazy world🥸🤌

I remember Play on PS3 :( in 2011

Time goes by too quickly 😢

This was the greatest time of my life. College, fraternity, baby boy, budding relationship with my gf (now wife), family doing well, little brother who looks up to me, in shape....man this nostalgia hits HARD.

This is how they made the GTA 5 Pause Theme.

7:19 my favourite

Back in 93 I met a girl at RainBo skating rink here in Chicago named DJ. She was from Spain and was only here for a month and every weekend we would meet up at the roller rink until she went back home. For that month that was one of the best times of my life and DJ wherever you are now know that I'm still walking...hope you are too.

Man i remember playing this game without a single worry and here i am about to be an adult