Beast is far from Mogwai’s best work, the two tracks are easily the highlights on this album. To get some indie cred, the soundtrack also features two tracks from Mogwai’s Mr. While Phil Collins is largely thought of as uncool, this version of “In the Air Tonight” pales in comparison and actually makes Phil Collins seem cool. The vocals lack the dramatic tension of Phil Collins’ work in the song, even when the singer starts screaming the words. It’s listenable but it may only be because of the listener’s familiarity with the song. The only thing missing is that badass first drumbeat that made the original version the best song ever to air drum to.
Unlike the version that The Postal Service did of “Against All Odds” for the Wicker Park Soundtrack, this cover is rather faithful to the original.
#MIAMI VICE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM TV#
There is one reference to the TV show of yore, and that’s a cover of the Phil Collins classic, “In the Air Tonight” by Nonpoint, a band known to few, save for their mothers, most likely. The music is mostly atmospheric, electronica-tinged mood music and like the movie, is stripped of any fun and irony that made the TV show so watchable. In conjunction with the injection of the “so cool it’s serious” mode of the film, the soundtrack is equally ’80s free. No albums with Barbara Streisand’s help here. Sure, it’s become fun and ironic to be nostalgic about the ’80s, but did we really need a Miami Vice movie? Instead of making a campy ode to the ’80s, Mann updated it and gave us a Crockett and Tubbs that are way too cool for school.
So when Michael Mann (the executive producer of the show) announced that he was making a feature film based on the series, it’s no surprise that there were some doubts. The hit show of the 1980s has become a lasting icon for the decade, and when you think of the fashions for men in the 80s, the image of Crockett and Tubbs in their pastel blazers, sleeves pushed up and raffeta shoes are brought to mind. This story was originally published Janu2:02 PM.Quick! Name the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “Miami Vice.”Ĭhances are that the words “pastel,” “Don Johnson” or “Phil Collins” came to mind. ▪ After Hours, from the solo After Hours (2012) ▪ It’s Your World Now, from Long Road Out of Eden (2007) ▪ How Long, from Long Road Out of Eden (2007) ▪ You Belong to the City, from the Miami Vice soundtrack (1985) ▪ The Heat Is On, from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack (1984) ▪ The Allnighter, from the solo The Allnighter (1984) ▪ Smuggler’s Blues, from the solo The Allnighter (1984) and Miami Vice soundtrack (1985) ▪ All Those Lies, from the solo No Fun Aloud (1982) ▪ The One You Love, from the solo No Fun Aloud (1982) ▪ I Found Somebody, from the solo No Fun Aloud (1982) ▪ Heartache Tonight, from The Long Run (1979) ▪ New Kid in Town, from Hotel California (1976) ▪ Lyin’ Eyes, from One of These Nights (1975) ▪ Already Gone, from On the Border (1974) ▪ Peaceful Easy Feeling, from Eagles (1972) Frey contributed the indelible lyrical hook, “It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowin’ down to take a look at me,” to complete the song Browne had begun writing in an apartment just below Frey’s in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles.īuild the best of Frey with these Eagles songs in which Frey sang lead and standout selections from his solo career. Take It Easy, the group’s first Top 40 hit in 1972, was a Frey co-write with fellow Southern California soft rocker Jackson Browne. The two would become the American Lennon and McCartney of the 1970s with a catalog of classics including New Kid in Town, Heartache Tonight, Lyin’ Eyes and Tequila Sunrise, all of which featured Frey on lead vocals.
She would record the Henley-Frey standard, Desperado, in 1973. Guitarist Frey and drummer Henley formed the Eagles in 1971, in Los Angeles, with guitarist Bernie Leadon and bassist Randy Meisner after they worked together as Linda Ronstadt’s backing band. The group’s members were to be honored recently at the Kennedy Center Honors, along with Gloria Estefan. Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.” “Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.
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