1. How Mountain Girls can Love – String Cheese Incident
2. Electric Lullaby – Kenny Wayne Shepherd
3. Bedouin – The Orb
4. Where the Streets have no Name – U2
5. Crockett’s Theme (from the Miami Vice TV show) – Jan Hammer
6. Fat Man – Little Feat
7. Big Bad Moon – Joe Satriani
8. Shake the Disease – Depeche Mode
9. El Morocco – Santana
10. Arlene – Widespread Panic
I think this is the first time one of the “Moonflower” tunes from Santana has spun up for one of these. This whole thing was enjoyable, with the exception of the Depeche Mode tune which is one of their many re-mixes that I’m not all that fond of. And yes, even though I’m sort of embarrassed to admit it, I do actually have the soundtrack to the Miami Vice TV show by Jan Hammer. In my defense, I got it mostly because Jan Hammer wrote it and I’ve tried to follow the careers of the various artists who played in John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra (folks like Billy Cobham, Narada Michael Walden, Jerry Goodman, Jan Hammer, Gayle Moran, Ralphe Armstrong, etc.)
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Never, ever be ashamed of music from the Miami Vice TV soundtrack. Aside from being a conspicuous champion of the pastel trend of the 80s, it also ushered in the era of TV shows with movie-like soundtracks. Besides, lavishly synthetic music fit so well with times, didn’t it?
Yes, it did. There’s probably some deep metaphor in all of that; something to do with gritty reality vs. synthetic appearance. Or, maybe its just a cautionary tale about people who don’t wear socks. In any case, I do remember at the time I thought the soundtrack was cooler than anything I’d ever heard on TV before.
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