The Best of Miami Vice

the best of miami vice

Track Listings
1. Miami Vice Theme
2. Crockett's Theme
3. Voodoo Dance
4. South Beach
5. Lombard Trial
6. Boat Party
7. Candy
8. Angelina Flashback
9. Rain
10. Clues
11. Talk
12. Gina
13. Airport Swap
14. Runaround
15. Viejo Mix

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The Best of Miami Vice
The Best of Miami Vice
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    		The Best of Miami Vice
    Jan Hammer
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    ASIN: B0007WFX3U
    Release Date: 2004-09-07

    Tracks:

    1. Miami Vice Theme
    2. Crockett's Theme
    3. Voodoo Dance
    4. South Beach
    5. Lombard Trial
    6. Boat Party
    7. Candy
    8. Angelina Flashback
    9. Rain
    10. Clues
    11. Talk
    12. Gina
    13. Airport Swap
    14. Runaround
    15. Viejo Mix
    The Best of Miami Vice
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Good, but not great.
    • Someone's Best of...
    • For beginners only
    • No Voices
    		 The Best of Miami Vice
    Various Artists
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    ASIN: B000FVBLBQ
    Release Date: 2006-07-04

    Tracks:

    1. Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
    2. You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey
    3. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
    4. Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
    5. Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner
    6. I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters
    7. Mercy (Where Is The Love I Lost) - Steve Jones
    8. Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer
    9. Smuggler's Blues - Glenn Frey
    10. The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
    11. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
    12. Lives In The Balance - Jackson Browne
    13. Turn Up The Radio - Autograph
    14. The Original Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Good, but not great........2007-06-03

    As others have noted, the exclusion of Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" is ridiculous; It's not a 'Best Of' if one of the most iconic songs ever used in the show isn't included! There's plenty of other odd exclusions, too: Russ Ballard's "Voices", Honeymoon Suite's "Bad Attitude", and Terry Kath's "Tell Me" are the most notable songs absent from this release IMO, and I could have used any of them instead of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited", George Thorogood's "Bad To The Bone", Autograph's "Turn Up The Radio" or Sheila E.'s "Glamourous Life". Are those good songs? Sure. But, they don't really come to mind when I think of Miami Vice, not to mention they're all over other 80's compilations and the radio. If we're going that route, at least include Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me".

    Even lesser known songs from the show's run would have sufficed: Tommy Shaw's "Girls With Guns" and "Dangerous Game", both of which are excellent songs and difficult to find today. Ditto for The Nobodys "No Guarantees" (good luck finding that LP!). Speaking of rare, Miami Vice's own Don Johnson sang "Streetwise" for his "Heartbeat" album, but cut it from the LP. It's a good song, and was used season three's also-named "Streetwise". That would have been a great addition. Genesis' "Land of Confusion" used in the final episode, would have been great, as well.

    But, even though this disc fails to truly be a "Best Of", it does feature some great tracks. Both of Glenn Frey's oferrings are true MV classics, as is Jackson Browne's "Lives In The Balance". Jan Hammer's instrumentals are cut to three tracks (couldn't have thrown the "New York Theme" or "Candy" in, huh?), but they give a good view of his genius. The MV themes are just as cool as ever, and "Crockett's Theme" is out and out awesome. Steve Jone's "Mercy" is as great as ever. The more mainstream tracks here that I didn't mention above, Tina Turner's "Better Be Good To Me" and Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is", actually work here, though again, why no "Voices"?

    You'd be better off buying the official soundtrack and it's sequel (ignore the never-released-in-the-U.S. third soundtrack), as well as Jan Hammer's own "Best of Miami Vice" (cheap and easy to find, much more so that the complete collection) but this serves as a good introduction to MV's music, just not a definitve one. It's pretty obvious this was released to piggyback on the 2006 feature film version, and sadly it plays more like any 80's compilation album than an MV compilation album.

    3 out of 5 stars Someone's Best of..........2007-03-30

    As others have noted, this is 'a' Best of album, certainly not deeply indicative of five seasons of this 80s show.

    Yes, In The Air Tonight, as used in the first season, is often cited as the epitomy of the Miami Vice aesthetic, or 'thing'. And it's missing, as are plenty of other songs. Jan Hammer is only represented by three tracks--two versions of the famous theme, and Crockett's Theme, a rare instrumental hit single. But what about the countless other tracks and cues? The three tracks off the original Miami Vice soundtrack album (white cover) alone are a better value than this, plus you get the Collins track and other 80s time capsule material (Grandmaster Flash, etc). This kind of Best of soundtrack CD is really becoming obsolete in the downloading era--there's nothing special on here you can't find elsewhere these days, one track at a time.

    Meanwhile, the Complete Miami Vice 2CD set (all Jan Hammer) is out of print and stupidly expensive, but it's got all of the score. The songs...just go find a listing online or go through the excellent DVD boxes and go find what you need online. There's just not enough on here to do justice to so many slo-mo scenes of Don Johnson in pastels, gun drawn, in a climactic showdown with various Miami druglords and dirtbags.

    3 out of 5 stars For beginners only.......2006-08-08

    This compilation is better than previous attempts in capturing music, the memories, from key scenes. But as others also note, there are major omissions. Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight", obviously. And what "Vice" junkie could forget the memories evoked by "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits, "Cry" by Godley & Creme, "Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi, "Bad Attitude" by Honeymoon Suite, "Tell Me" by Terry Kath, or even Sheena Easton. Russ Ballard is hard to find anywhere.

    Because individuals decide which "Vice" scenes, which music (from a huge cross-section of music from a five year time span during which Jan Hammer and Tim Truman, both magnificent, ran the show), mattered the most, no single collection will be definitive.

    In the end, people are best off getting Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice: The Complete Collection" sountrack compilation, and making one's own "hit" collection using song lists from the various "Miami Vice" web site.

    4 out of 5 stars No Voices.......2006-08-01

    The tracks in this album are real good, but like someone mentioned before no "In the air tonight", the song that made Miami Vice famous in the first place (besides the theme). One other song that is not on any of the Miami Vice soundtracks is a song titled Voices by Russ Ballard. This song was played in the Prodigal Son episodes when Crockett and Tubbs were on their way in the speedboat to the Bahamas to arrest Caldarone. Great song but always omitted from any soundtrack.
    Miami Vice: Best of
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      Jan Hammer
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      ASIN: B0002NY8NA
      Release Date: 2004-08-17
      Best of Miami Vice
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        ASIN: B000H5VBEW
        Release Date: 2007-07-10
        The Best of Miami Vice
        Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
        • That was just awful
        • New, not improved?
        		 The Best of Miami Vice
        Jan Hammer
        Manufacturer: Import
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        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B0002AYGDA
        Release Date: 2004-08-17

        Tracks:

        1. Miami Vice Theme
        2. Crockett's Theme
        3. Voodoo Dance
        4. South Beach
        5. Lombard Trial
        6. Boat Party
        7. Candy
        8. Angelina Flashback
        9. Rain
        10. Clues
        11. Talk
        12. Gina
        13. Airport Swap
        14. Runaround
        15. Viejo Mix

        Album Description

        Digitally remastered compilation featuring the best of Jan Hammer's recordings for the immensely popular Miami Vice television series remixed and ready for action!. Features favorites from the show including 'Crockett's Theme', 'Voodoo Dance', 'Angelina's Flashback' and many more. Perhaps the names of the tracks won't jog your memory, but you'll know them once you hear them since they are most likely etched into your brain if you were (and still are) a fan of the show.. Did you know that the Miami Vice theme tops TV Guide's '50 Great Theme Songs'? 15 tracks. Reality Records/River Records.

        Album Details

        The Best of the Famed Keyboardist and Composer, Remixed and Remastered.

        Customer Reviews:

        1 out of 5 stars That was just awful.......2006-11-05

        Jan Hammer's 2004 re-recordings of several of Miami Vice's indelible themes succeeds only in sanding off all of the crispness and sharp edges that were in the originals. The Hammer tracks from the original soundtrack release were edgy and sometimes brash, not to mention *clean*. The revisions are indeed lush, but if you're looking to be taken back to the sound that was Miami Vice, you won't find it here. Alas, what you will find is something akin to elevator music -- slowed down, "easy listening" pieces that leave you itching to hear the real thing.

        4 out of 5 stars New, not improved?.......2006-08-10

        This is a 15-track compilation of "Miami Vice" soundtrack instrumentals. Most of the tracks can be found on the definitive and complete "Miami Vice" soundtrack album, the two-CD/22-track "Miami Vice: The Complete Collection". There are three "new" tracks on this collection, recorded in 2004, and they are as follows:

        1. Miami Vice Theme. Re-recorded in 2004, and extended with a some extra riffs and layers. Although not appreciably different, the new licks by Hammer are nice.

        2. Crockett's Theme. Liner notes: "Seizing the opportunity to give Crockett's Theme a 2004 treatment, Jan re-recorded the track exclusively for this release". The end result: a somewhat brightened up tone, fattened up with some new riffs and layers. While almost identical to the original, the brighter and bigger (less haunting, less floating) sound is not an improvement, and strangely makes it sound more dated, and not more "modern". Hammer puts an annoying whistle behind the opening, which ruins the tension of the original. If you're looking for something like a Massive Attack kind of treatment, you won't find it here. Hammer's riffs are "fatter", behind the beat at times, which is also not better. The pulse of the original was what made it.

        3. "South Beach". A track Hammer originally intended to use for "Vice", but never did it. This is something of a minor throwaway number. There are many post-"Vice" Hammer originals (found on his album "Drive", for example)that have a much stronger "Vice" sound.

        Except for the curiosity of hearing these three tracks, hard core "Vice" fans are better off with "Miami Vice: The Complete Collection".








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