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Mine would be Tom Waite - Missing You Not only one of my favourite songs of all time, probably my favourite 80s song, and the way it was the first song we heard in the proper beginning of the series (Heart of Darkness) always gives out cool chill summery vibes.

His manager and I have emailed since 1997. It began when Jan first started kicking around the idea for the “Complete Collection”. The manager even called me on the phone once with my French Twist cover playing in the background! I was mortified They were asking me not to make anymore covers while they were trying to get the album together, and that Universal could even get nasty about the MP3s because they were available for download (on an older version of this site). All that is history now. They know I’m just a fan who doesn’t want any gain or fame. That’s why my name is not even on the YouTube or Instagram accounts. It’s all about the music!

There are so many amazing songs I could name. The Edge of Town from the masterpiece "Death and the Lady" is my favourite, but I'm also quite fond of "Voices" and "Madness Of It All."

Some of the musicians on the forum over the years have speculated that Jan owned/used this unit on a few Miami Vice cues, as it’s unmistakably present on songs like “Angelina Flashback” and “Crockett’s Return”. You can also hear it basically soloed as C&T have their first meeting with Grocero outside the hotel in “Smuggler’s Blues”. However (to my knowledge), Jan has never credited this unit alongside all the others in any interview or liner notes. I’ve also never seen it any of his studio photos. Jan confirmed with me today (through his manager) that he used the TR-808, and sampled it into the Fairlight. I’ve always wanted one. Now I gotta have one. Bad news: they haven’t been produced since 1983, and one that still works can cost around $5K! Good news: a company called Behringer has made a clone that even most haughty scoffers are approving. It only costs $349! I ordered one, but the back order date is currently 1/11/20. I will post updates here. I would love to reproduce that “Grocero Meet” cue, along with the other sounds as Tubbs is about to jump off the bridge near the end. Here’s a good demo of how great the clone is vs. the original:

My choice would probably be...Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A very funny film that also has a great message interwoven.

The Breakfast Club

Sounds like Switek in Hit List

There are many favorites, like Tina Turner's Better Be Good to Me and Russ Ballard's In the Night, but I have to go with Propaganda's "Polish mix" of P:Machinery... It wasn't even from one of my most-favorite episodes, but I really liked the music when I heard it in The Fix. Far better than the mix that can be heard on their album A Secret Wish.

Maybe you were thinking of this?

One of my favorites! There’s something very sultry about her. She does that spiky hair very well, and of course, she looks great in the bikini!

UNKNOWN LOCATION FOUND: LOMBARD´S LAWYER OFFICE it was an easy find as the office looked somehow familiar with Famiglia (pun intended!). That was the last unknown location in this episode and only 22 locations left unknown. This exact same office we have seen in Baby Blues as Famiglias office. And we know for sure from the production notes I have that this was filmed in July 1986 inside Wolfberg, Alvarez and Associates (law office) at 5960 SW 57 Ave, Miami. That also makes sense from location logistics, as this is en route to Librizzis villa at 9190 SW 57 Ave. Evidence to match you can find here between Baby Blues and World of Trouble. The curved glass brick wall (with a big inside yard on the other side that has some sort of open ceiling) is there, as are the same room corners, the same double doors, the same door handles and the same windows (patterns!) all over the building. There is even a file cabinet in this room to prove it´s a law office. The only things that does not match that in Baby Blues there is no window frame outside the office door when Crockett&Tubbs leave Familiga, but a wall. But as this is a 2-story building, this office exists at least twice and other evidence is overwhelming. Today it is or was (it seems to be defunct now) the Miami Art Central building (art gallery). Interior pics I have not found, but evidence is good anyway.

Episode: The Great McCarthy Vanessa: "Mr. Burnett, you are welcome to come too." Ricardo: "He has other plans!" Sonny: "No. I love brunch!"

I'm sure most members have heard Dadrian's covers of Jan Hammer's Vice cues. For those that haven't, please check them out. Especially his newest "Val" and the "Manhattan Mix" (my personal favorite) Creative people are usually the most critical of their work. As with most artists, Dadrian was never completely happy with his. I used to joke that even Jan Hammer would be hard pressed to tell his work from Dadrian's. It's not a joke anymore. In my opinion, Dadrian's work has reached the point where his covers are indistinguishable from Jan Hammer's cues. I for one, continue to be blown away by his work! Check them out here: https://miamiviceonline.com/index.php?/files/

Great movie and I really like the song "Don't you forget about me." Probably also reflects how people really dressed back then.

Yes, definitely the #1 film I think of when it comes to the 80’s! Released in 1985, right in the heart of the decade. So, of course with this in mind, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is definitely the #1 song I think of when thinking of the 80’s. Pure new wave song with an emotional singer, chorused guitar, prominent bass, brassy synth stabs, but surprisingly no drum machine... But a great drum track! Edit: Wait, maybe it’s a tie for #1 song I think of when thinking of the 80’s... Can’t forget the “Miami Vice” theme! ”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is definitely up there too, maybe #2 for me. Most of my favorite movies are from the 80’s, as well as favorite music, TV, fashion, cars, etc.

I think the movie that most epitomizes the '80s is Wall Street. It totally encapsulates the greed culture and consumerism of the decade. Scarface also obviously epitomizes the decade too. It's really the crime equivalent of Wall Street that also shows the glamor and excess of the decade too. It has the '80s style too of course. Other films that show the style of the decade are To Live and Die In LA , Manhunter, Body Double as they had the Miami Vice aesthetic on the big screen as well as the slick MTV style of visual storytelling.

That would also be my order except for switching Lazenby and Moore. Lazenby was a bit stiff in the role and parts of the film lag. Moore had the more down to earth For Your Eyes Only which, I think was better than In Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and The Spy Who Loved Me, which was the best of Moore’s “fantastical” Bond adventures. I also only cared for the first of both Brosnan’s and Craig’s films.

This video has probably been posted on the forum before, but appropriate in this thread. I'm really fond of the pilot episode; great guest stars, great settings, great storytelling and cinematography. It already contained one of my favorite Jan Hammer cues also:

I think we see him sitting the in the (authentic) Daytona before this scene.

Wasn’t Crocketts first car a Camaro

Quote: "Oh my God she's naked!" Character and Episode Please!

“Marina” and a few other great cues were included in the “like”.

You can’t forget about “Marina”, pal! That song definitely uses TR-808 or samples of it. That’s my favorite Jan Hammer Vice song (maybe tied with “Rain”). The original “McCarthy” version sounds like LinnDrum only. I’m wondering if Jan got the machine after hearing Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”. His TR-808 patterns seem a little influenced by that song.

Thanks! I still struggle to understand the nature of that location, i.e. the whole bunch of buildings, especially the one where Pierce speaks. Behind C&T there is a room-high kind of closet, just after the entrance. And this weird kind of reception table where Pierce speaks? Community Center, senior center, convention building of a larger property, ...? Just does not look like a private residence that they used for that rally house. Thank god we have that unique pool shape to go for. If we´ll find it then only by that pool shape. The pink and fancy look with the window patterns tells me this was very new at time of filming and windows have some similarity with Rita´s house and similarly built architecture, possibly 1986 or 1987.

I have the privilege of knowing her and she told me about the trip to Miami a few years ago. After watching LMD originally I was instantly a fan, looked her up and discovered she was still singing, attended several of her concerts etc. She was friendly and nice enough to talk to me, and after communicating for a few years I believe I can call her a friend. Great personality, could have been a huge star bigger than a Julia Roberts type with the right breaks.

SOLIZ HOUSE (6070 SW 128 Street) where they filmed exactly As @C Glide probably will update this episode soon on his website, I will save him some time to dissect where they filmed the exterior scenes. 1: Jack Crockett drives up for the first time and walks from his car around the corner to the entrance 2: Jack climbs over the fence (the fence has been moved to the corner on current Google View, but it is at the original place in the shot of the designer who built the house) 3 (next day coming back): Jack sneaks around the corner 4: Jack watches Soliz´men unloading at the side entrance (hard to see on bird view due to a roof and lots of vegetation) No interior pics of that house as is was not on the market recently, so we can´t match the scenes we see inside.

LOL, reminds me of the old joke "what are 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?" - " a good start..." Thanks for reminding me on the Hard Knocks office which is a still unidentified location. I will add it to the list and look into it. They filmed a lot inside Woody´s for that episode and Woody´s was very versatile inside (also seen in Baseballs of Death that had many scenes filmed inside that looked completely different, e.g. the DEA meeting, the meeting with Speed Stiles, the bar scenes, ...

I also thought it looked famigliar :-) but I could not remember the episode. I was trying Hard Knocks which features a similar office but did not think of Baby Blues. Looks like all scumbag lawyers have to sit in front of a glass block wall...

As mentioned many times, “In the Air Tonight” in the pilot. I knew this song growing up, but it wasn’t until I saw it used in Miami Vice (around age 18) that it became my favorite song. It’s such a powerful song that never gets old. Two other great musical moments in Vice are in “Sons & Lovers”. Roger Daltrey’s “After The Fire” and Phil Collins’s “Long Way To Go”. I can’t listen to either song without getting misty eyed. To me, this song is better than any Who song. Perhaps because I’m most attached to very emotional music.

Great song from Red Tape!

Great. Looking forward to the MV updates. There are plenty of them needed - around 30+(!) location additions in 23+(!) episodes.

In "Little Miss Dangerous", as the Vice squad are rounding up all sorts of shady characters, one of the hookers, as she's climbing into the paddy wagon, tells Trudy and Gina, "Im gonna call my lawyer." Gina responds, "Yeah, right." Then Trudy interjects, "I'm gonna call my lawyer!". This moment can be seen at the end of the trailer I made a few months ago:

The restaurant scene where Crockett and Tubbs meet Trini DeSoto. Crockett teases Tubbs mocking "New York critics", and the laugh of Trini always gets me. Dude gives new meaning to the word "alien".

UNKNOWN LOCATION: PIERCE RALLY HOUSE with pool Here is my sketch. Hope it helps. We look for an ensemble of buildings (purpose unclear, but seems to be no private residence) with significant high glassdoors, a very uniquely shaped pool and very green surroundings. Should be easily seen from above.

I wish they'd used this in the film itself. The complete score by Levay has sadly never been released. I hope that one day they release it along with his work for Mannequin.

It's such a great piece of music. When I hear it, I'm constantly reminded of Castillo's mindset, which he expresses while the piece is being played in "Golden Triangle": "I have a thousand reasons to play "OK Corral" with Lao Li and Menton, but I'm a policeman. I enforce the law. Equally applied. No special cases. Maybe it sounds naive, but it's all I've got. It's what I believe in...and it's who I am." For me, the piece evokes a wonderful sense of mystery and it accents Lieutenant Castillo perfectly.

What serendipity. I’d just had this recommended on YouTube the other day and hadn’t heard it in FOREVER. Think I was looking around for Producer Rupert Hine and Cy Curnin of The Fixx who did the credits for Better Off Dead.

rework of the 1978 Alan Parsons Project song Voyager and some shots of Michael Mann's Thief.

This is an edit of a song from 1984, mainly keep listening to the part at 2:40.

Jan being Jan from 1:19 to 2:37

One of my favorites from LMD. Howard Jones - Assault and Battery.mp3

Nice brand new interview (a few days ago) I saw this morning with Jimmy Smits who of course appeared in the Pilot. He mentions the show, getting blown up and the director Thomas Carter. Great stuff!

Mine is by Lindsey Buckingham ... Go Insane