I lived in Miami in the 80s and I remember Miami Vice came on TV at 10 pm on Friday night. Everyone was glued to the TV to see what new part of town they were filming, it was so cool to watch a show filmed in your own city. I loved when they showed Sonny's boat with his pet alligator Elvis. LOL. Great times!
I lived in a Federal penitentiary in the '70s and I remember when the alumni graduated out and went on to star in the Cocaine Wars in the '80s!! I met some big names back then that went on to big things indeed!
It was 1985/86 and every friday night at 10pm we got this show. Pure 80's and the best of the 80's. Can't help but shed a tear when this starts to play purely for the need to go back to that time and relive the experience. Who else is feeling this?
I was born in 1985 in Poland so did not have same experience like you, but in 90s my mother bought casette with music from Miami Vice and watch this show. I could not then, but when i Discover this series... My god this is awesome.
Yeah bro I was born in the 2000’s but I gru up on 80s films and music from my mom and dad I first watched Miami vice when I was 5 and I just listened to the 1 one hour version of this to put me asleep I wish I could have expected the 80s best ere ever by far my friend says the same he was also brought up on 80s stuff like me
42 now, though it stands so clear. I WAS crockett in my own little boyish mind 😎🤣 Time /life goes by so quickly, but certain memories remain😊 this is one
I listen to this in my big 1989 Mercury on my way to work. Although I play it with a phone running through the tape deck. They never saw that coming...
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I'm working on a time machine, I got the DeLorean and the flux capacitor, all I need is some plutonium and 1985 here I come! I promise I won't screw things up for the future! 🥴
Am I the only only one who feels melancholic and a bit sad when listening to this? The melody is a bit heavy too. Its almost like a call from another dimension, telling that all things must past. I am from Germany and I wished for all Americans that they could go back in time. Those days were just great. And I loved Miami Vice, a picture with a heart and soul. May all beings be happy!
Yeah same feeling here, I'm from the Netherlands, never visited the US in the 80's but here in the Netherlands the 80's and 90's where much better compared to nowadays, and watching Miami vice, although it is a tv show, still gives you a pretty good impression of the times back then, the music, the clothes, the people.
Miami is the same way that you are saying regarding the song.... I had the oportunitty to go to miami in the late 90´s and still had the same felling just like I was wacthing the tv show miami vice, I felt higher than ever, I am lucky that I went to DEUCE BAR and I felt invencivle, I owned the town, after I enjoyed 10 years of my life there, I dont regrets nothing.- The time past by, but not for the city of MIAMI VICE PD: If you have a chance to go there, dont miss it.-
I worked for a BMW dealership in Miami in 1985. Miami Vice was the hottest thing at the time. When production would come by to borrow a car for filming an episode, we would always oblige. I was always welcome on location to watch them film. My dad loved the experience. I had the opportunity to meet the cast. I remember Michael Philip Thomas(Tubbs) being a true gentleman who always had time to speak with his fans. NEVER to big or busy. Don Johnson on the other hand.... Great memories. Great show. b
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world
We're of the same generation. As a teenager in the 80s it felt like night and day from the "malaise" of the 70s. Everything seemed promising and new-- computers, fashion, music, movies... those were some good years.
This is not just a series... It's a statement that represents 80's era!!! The soundtrack makes me feel sad cause this great era won't come back...I was just a kid then but memories are so vivid...
Live everyday like it could be your last day on this earth... never leave anything undone, or leave anything for tomorrow... live life for today. Cherish every moment, every event, good or bad, for someday, there will be nothing left but the memories of your events as remembered by someone else...
I was younger, didn't see the show till much later, but that music stuck with me. Remember waking up in '87 early in the morning and hearing it from the living room where my mom was exercising while watching it from her Beta-Max VCR... Too young at the time to watch the show, but old enough to enjoy the music.
I wish there was a way to go back there and never leave !! Precious Times almost makes my heart skip a beat and a tear come to my eye ! One word to explain those Times P E R F E C T !!
Los años 80 y 90 los mejores años y esta serie soberbia impresionante guapísimos y una escena magistral creo que no habrá nada como está serie Miami wonderful
I can still remember watching this show after being introduced to it by a good friend of mine called Kevin (such an 80s name). Crocket and Tubbs were the coolest duo of the 80s. The look, sound, dialogue and subject matter summed up the 1980s perfectly. Miami Vice was a hugely successful and influential TV show that would go on to be mimicked by other TV shows as well as films. Don Johnson was cooler than ice, and Philip Michael Thomas was hotter than the Miami sun. The two men played Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, drug-enforcement officers in a bright and fashionable Miami. At the time Miami was a run-down town, plagued with drugs as well as other social and economic problems. It’s no secret that Miami Vice helped the area prosper to eventually become what it is today. The show was a watershed moment in TV much like how MTV changed music and music videos. Crocket and Tubbs took on hardened criminals and suffered for it. They showed the real side of policing, where the risk of being harmed or even killed was an occupational hazard. What really made the show for me, was their friendship. The loyalty and understanding they had for one another influenced me in a big way. When I think of great friendships, I think of Crocket and Tubbs, two men who couldn’t be more different, yet were prepared to die for each other. How many of us have a friendship like that? I can’t write about Miami Vice and not talk more about their pastel-shaded fashion, the stubble-faces, sock-free and carefree hairstyles. The look of Miami Vice is what made it stand out from other police shows. The pastel colours added warmth to their personalities and complemented the Miami sunshine. The colours popped out as did everything else in the show. The rough, unclean, dishevelled look was to Miami Vice what Clint Eastwood was to Fistful of Dollars. The grooming style reminded me of that 1960s Spaghetti Western look made popular by legendary as well as visionary film director Sergio Leone. I imagine Michael Man was influenced by Leone’s anti-hero characters. The Sonny Crocket look became very popular with guys. The light-coloured blazer, pastel T-shirt and shoes without socks became commonplace. I can still remember some of my older friends wearing this look. Oh, they didn’t wear sock because it was too hot! You’d need them in England! What a decade to have grown up in.
Eh, i disagree. The show is memorable but truth to be told, it had often very lame plots and stories. I mean... James Brown and the aliens ? How dumb was that ? From a narrative point of view, only the first season is consistent. After that it was unequal.
Back when a black dude could be best friends with a white dude who wears pink shirts with white jackets and nobody would call you a social justice warrior.
Still not afraid? I ask myself that question. Social media changed everything. Someday ill make some crappy blog or forum of some type to express it from my(our)generation s perspective.
I Purchased The Miami Vice 2 Soundtrack On Cassette In The Fall Of 1986, 2 Weeks Before I Went To Naval Basic Training In Orlando,FL! Serious Nostalgia 😎💯🤙!
Me too. Was at Clearwater in summer all the way from Texas. Thought I was transported back to the 80's. Also saw nightlife in downtown St. Petersburg in Florida. The attire swept me back. Wishing I still had my 80's wardrobe. Spent so much money on clothes back then...
The Cold War; Nuclear threat; Berlin Wall; Chernobyl; AIDS; Iran-Iraq war; Salvadoran civil war; US invasions of Panama and Grenada; Tiananmen Square Massacre; South African apartheid; the troubles in Northern Ireland including the Brighton Hotel bombing, continuing violence and murder, plus false imprisonment of the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4, plus hunger strikes etc; Iranian Embassy Siege; closure of mines in the UK and ensuing strikes; football hooliganism and disasters at Heysel, Bradford and Hillsborough; assassinations of Swedish PM Plame, Indian PM Indira Ghandi, Egyptian President Sadat, and assassination attempts of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, plus ex-Beatle John Lennon; On top of all that there was no internet and you wouldn't have been able to access decades of great music at the touch of a button for free; Nowadays is a piece of cake compared to the '80's!
@@robertciscoe9318 eh? If that is a witticism? You'll have to explain it to me, which kinda ruins the idea of a witticism, but you seem like an eager chap who is very pleased with himself for thinking up something so clever, so who am I to quell your enjoyment?!? How does commenting about the 80's have anything to do with a young man probably not even born at that time?! (you strike me as a man who knows more about him that you let on, so you'll have to fill me in on when he was born etc.)
@@davidlean1060 well. After that response, we know you are a Justin Bieber fan lol. Also I get the feeling that there is a LOT that" has to be explained to you".
30mins. Excellent! This helps a lot when driving & I can't loop the song as I can when at home on computer. Thank you. (Been listening to various versions of the theme looped for the last 2 hours, going on 3. Sick? Maybe. It's just a vice.) (-:
I can see that boat speeding across the water when I hear this, and the threads they wore they were pretty cool dudes.. There's no one like them on TV now..
I'm a manager of a football team in London and I've used this instead of a team talk before. Just get my lads in the changing room, turn the lights off & have them lying on bean bags all comfortable and then press play this fantastic 30 minute mix.
The first I heard this tune it was being used for a banking advert in the late 80s early 90s on British TV (TSB I think). I didn't really watch Miami Vice although I knew of it. My Granny used to watch it usually while she was doing her hair with rollers and grips in preparation for another week's work after the weekend. But the tune was very evocative and I still search it out now. My half-brother told me it was "Crockett's theme". I reminisce of new beginnings and expanding horizons of exiting inner-city London and running away to Scotland where I met my son's mother. He's nearly 30 now! I appreciate this half hour repeated version when I'm lost in my thoughts walking at a brisk pace along the Union Canal in the evening's crisp cool air. I'm a one tune at a time man especially when it comes to this timeless atmospheric masterpiece.
80's is a slice of time so unique.We had the essentials and the classic .Real things like Nikon lenses and Sony Electronics.Then came the globalization and produced every thing cheap.
When life gets a little too complicated and when you have little disagreements with the little lady I get in my car I play the Crockett theme and when I get back home everything is a-okay.. for that half hour I'm in another place and in another time 1984 to be exact.
Makes me dream of being in an offshore cigarette boat with a bikin clad girl going so fast the boats coming out of the water every wave we hit,Fountain or cigarette boat preferably.love the song it needs no lyrics it speaks to me in its instruments
Very Cool !!! Just sold my 1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo, but loved driving in it during summer months and listening to Miami Vice music. Loved the 80's !!!@@gabriellen.2886
Written by Mr. (not Mrs.) Jan Hammer, an emigrant from Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. Back in Czechoslovakia, in the age of 17 years he wrote his first movie soundtrack. Right after that, he emigrated and few years later he wrote this.
This music elicits such vivid memories. I can close my eyes and describe my teenage self, the clothes people wore and the smell of the fall air. The scenes in Miami Vice, the coolness of Crockett, and the depth of each episode will resonate whenever I hear this music.
Love Miami Vice, the actors, the storylines, the MUSIC, the Daytona, the Testerossa, Elvis!🐊 and his sailboat, the speedboat, the clothes, Miami in all it's colorful glory! The Fun!!!
Beautiful music! One of the best sountracks of ALL TIMES! IMO The terminator theme, and this. Listening to this late at night make me feeling SO GOOD! 80's rules!
Skating half-pipe in Cali, living the dream as a teenager in the 80's and dressing like Crockett!! Honored to meet and skate with some of the best...Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Cabellero, Rob Roskop...list goes on. Good times but I don't think I would want to relive them. Life is more serious now, but also much more blessed.
Mike McGill, Rodney Mullen, Natas Kaupas...the entire bones brigade...Powell Peralta, Vision, Santa Cruz, Rat Bones, Independent...I could go on for days...what a time to be kid and be free!!
Don Johnson was a trendsetter for men's fashion. He was the original shoes with no socks and pastels. I never missed an episode of Miami Vice and never missed the opportunity to watch this unbelievably handsome man.
Say whatever you want, I definitely was alive during the 80s in some way, shape or form. The felling i get while listening to this song is just all to familliar to ignore. Combined with the picture of Crockett and Tubbs, i just get a "Deja Vu" fealing that doesn't go away at all. Damn I love the 80s.
Well the echoes of that era were still very strong in the 90s... we were watching a lot of 80s movies, music and general iconography... so the influence was very strong
@@LoneWolf-wp9dn True. Many of those 80's dramas were aired in India during the 1990s. I watched Streethawk and Knight riders around 1994-1996 on Indian television.
The best years for people having lived 80's. This generation DOES NOT get it..the music, the clubs, the clothes, oh yea, you cant take that away 》》 like they say " until you walk in our shoes ".. thank you for posting this song 👍😊🇨🇦
Same. I was born in the late 90's but I have a feeling of familiarity whenever I listen to 70's and 80's music. I feel some type of nostalgia, probably because my brothers were 80's kids and I grew up listening to their music, watching their favorite tv shows and music, etc.
Hoy volví a escuchar por pura casualidad este tema desp de más de 30 años!!!!! Recuerdo que veia con mi viejo esta serie siendo un niño! Esperaba que llegara el dia para compartir con él esta serie...infinitos recuerdos destapados en un solo segundo!!
This will always remind me when I went on holiday to Miami with my beautiful wife, if I only knew then what I know now I would have appreciated every second I had a with her, I lost her two years ago, 😢😢😢
The best instrumental theme I have ever heard. The series to on so many different common issues that were important for so many to reflect even understand even. The world is a very real place. Live or Die it's up to the individual to decide to enter or not. Commonly the series was a ongoing success. So many compelling storylines & musica & male/female actors that brought the viewers closer to the world of poverty & choices.
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1980: The future will be awesome!
2020: I want to go back to the 80's!!!!!!........
For Sure....
Agreed !!
Indeed!
I know what you mean
Yes...
You right
I lived in Miami in the 80s and I remember Miami Vice came on TV at 10 pm on Friday night. Everyone was glued to the TV to see what new part of town they were filming, it was so cool to watch a show filmed in your own city. I loved when they showed Sonny's boat with his pet alligator Elvis. LOL. Great times!
delta0921 that is the exact life I want
Great comment
I lived in a Federal penitentiary in the '70s and I remember when the alumni graduated out and went on to star in the Cocaine Wars in the '80s!! I met some big names back then that went on to big things indeed!
In the late 80's we received the series in Spain. At 10pm in the only channel that broadcasted here.
Im English,miami vice was my favorite show in the 80s,i even wore the white pants and espidrills 🤣🤣🤣
It was 1985/86 and every friday night at 10pm we got this show. Pure 80's and the best of the 80's. Can't help but shed a tear when this starts to play purely for the need to go back to that time and relive the experience. Who else is feeling this?
hell ya, every day.
I was born in 1985 in Poland so did not have same experience like you, but in 90s my mother bought casette with music from Miami Vice and watch this show. I could not then, but when i Discover this series... My god this is awesome.
Yeah bro I was born in the 2000’s but I gru up on 80s films and music from my mom and dad I first watched Miami vice when I was 5 and I just listened to the 1 one hour version of this to put me asleep I wish I could have expected the 80s best ere ever by far my friend says the same he was also brought up on 80s stuff like me
When I started this series on TV, I loved it (I still love it). I'm from São Paulo, Brazil and I can assure you, what a wonderful decade!!!!!! thanks
I have a DeLorean if that helps! 🙃
I'm 41 now, But I was 6 years old when my dad let me stay up and watch this show with him. Enough said. I have extra Testosterone because of it.
I'm 41. I followed vaguely most of the series because of my young age then. Imagine how old this is!
@@DanielFranc35 gettin old, just need a scrarb 38kv with twin harmonic v8's to complete my life.
42 now, though it stands so clear. I WAS crockett in my own little boyish mind 😎🤣
Time /life goes by so quickly, but certain memories remain😊 this is one
@JisINSANE3 You have extra Testarosterone ;)
I'm 41 as well and I remember watching with my dad here in Brazil.
If we cant go back in time to the 80s..We can definitely take it with us forward..😎
I listen to this in my big 1989 Mercury on my way to work. Although I play it with a phone running through the tape deck. They never saw that coming...
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Best Comment I have seen, I salute you my friend!!
I'm working on a time machine, I got the DeLorean and the flux capacitor, all I need is some plutonium and 1985 here I come!
I promise I won't screw things up for the future! 🥴
Am I the only only one who feels melancholic and a bit sad when listening to this? The melody is a bit heavy too. Its almost like a call from another dimension, telling that all things must past.
I am from Germany and I wished for all Americans that they could go back in time. Those days were just great. And I loved Miami Vice, a picture with a heart and soul. May all beings be happy!
I grew up on Miami Vice and loved the show. I also wish we could go back to those times.
Yeah same feeling here, I'm from the Netherlands, never visited the US in the 80's but here in the Netherlands the 80's and 90's where much better compared to nowadays, and watching Miami vice, although it is a tv show, still gives you a pretty good impression of the times back then, the music, the clothes, the people.
Miami is the same way that you are saying regarding the song.... I had the oportunitty to go to miami in the late 90´s and still had the same felling just like I was wacthing the tv show miami vice, I felt higher than ever, I am lucky that I went to DEUCE BAR and I felt invencivle, I owned the town, after I enjoyed 10 years of my life there, I dont regrets nothing.- The time past by, but not for the city of MIAMI VICE
PD: If you have a chance to go there, dont miss it.-
at the end I felt like this th-cam.com/video/VONhkxrQKbU/w-d-xo.html
Like Pat Metheny's "Last Train Home"
I worked for a BMW dealership in Miami in 1985.
Miami Vice was the hottest thing at the time.
When production would come by to borrow a car for filming an episode, we would always oblige.
I was always welcome on location to watch them film. My dad loved the experience.
I had the opportunity to meet the cast. I remember Michael Philip Thomas(Tubbs) being a true gentleman who always had time to speak with his fans. NEVER to big or busy.
Don Johnson on the other hand....
Great memories. Great show.
b
Don Johnson on the other hand was a great actor for the role.
Did one of the production guys just walk by and you just threw him the keys no question asked? "We got awesome to make!"
Your comments are like poetry. To me,this song is like a lullaby. Just beautiful. One of my favorite songs of all time.
awesome dude👌🏻
Sorry to hear that about Don. :(
I grew up in Germany in the 80s with Miami Vice, Dallas and Depeche Mode. The best time of my life
You have great taste! I love DM.
Zu Beginn der 80er war ich 20 und die Zeit bis Ende der 90er war astrein. Ab 2000 selten gut ! Und heute ? Reden Wir am besten nicht drüber .
First time I heard DM was on a Miami Vice episode. Lifelong love affair
@@jasonsheath3294 Which episode?
If we could have a chance to return that years
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world
El mundo dejo de ser mundo al finalizar los 80s. Las cosas eran buenas o malas no habían terminos grises. 🇵🇦
@@arnulfocastrejon901 No podría haberlo dicho mejor amigo👍
We're of the same generation. As a teenager in the 80s it felt like night and day from the "malaise" of the 70s. Everything seemed promising and new-- computers, fashion, music, movies... those were some good years.
@@historyandhorseplaying7374 Couldn't have said it better myself bud 👍
I stay living in the 80s.
Thank you Jan Hammer for such great music which truly defined Miami Vice.
After all these years, this Soundtrack is still a masterpiece!
De una !
Jep
This is not just a series... It's a statement that represents 80's era!!! The soundtrack makes me feel sad cause this great era won't come back...I was just a kid then but memories are so vivid...
Me too
We lived through it! Nothing can replace that :)
Me too
Makes sad because it was not funny...
TH-cam mix, Derrick (...
if I only knew I would miss the 80’s this much I would have appreciated the era more, a lot more. Time is a thief.
Ain't that the truth!
Sure is
I wanted to live in the 20’s or 60’s. The 80’s were perfect.
totally agree man but man that rascal known as the 80's moved at light speed so I understand your point
Live everyday like it could be your last day on this earth... never leave anything undone, or leave anything for tomorrow... live life for today. Cherish every moment, every event, good or bad, for someday, there will be nothing left but the memories of your events as remembered by someone else...
When TV was worth watching
Every Friday Night at 10pm.... I was there for it all!! It was AWESOME!!
The 80's style will always be popular with fashion, music, and personality. No other future generation can't top the 80's.
Agreed!
They wish they could 😁 but they would never come even close.🚬 😎🌴
especially for their English language skills,,,,, u muppet
Agree🇵🇦
Music is the only time machine we have.
Perfectly said.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Just ask Matt Groening. 😁
Born on april 10th 1970 ... i loved miami vice very much ... there are things that will never appear again. Also miss the eighties very much ...
I was born April 16th 1970 , and I agree with everything you have said here.
Born August 23rd, 1970 and I am right there witcha.
Born March 7th 1972 and I know what you mean too….
1974...the eighties were the best time to be a young guy...lucky us
Born on 20th december1970 i side with you when thé guys have balls
'What was the 80's really like?'
'This song for 5,256,000 minutes.'
I had to check your math. There's always that one guy, lol.
@@adstaton8461 😁
@@decam5329 one of the greatest TV drama of all time the 80es
Yep, the Maths checks out.
A dogs lifespan...
What an iconic pose between Crockett and Tubbs. Damn! What an era!
Proud to be one of the 80s
Definitely agree with you ❤
I was 10 when Miami Vice debuted ........was hooked especially by the music!.........and here we are back 37 years later. Miss the 80's
I was younger, didn't see the show till much later, but that music stuck with me. Remember waking up in '87 early in the morning and hearing it from the living room where my mom was exercising while watching it from her Beta-Max VCR... Too young at the time to watch the show, but old enough to enjoy the music.
I always play this extended version when I'm in my Vette cruising the mountain roads. Complete coolness and relaxation.
I drive a Genesis now 😂...but I can truly relate (I play the extended version, on my way to work, in the Genesis)😅
Hard to believe that Sonny Crockett is now 70 years old, wow!
yeah hard to believe, but have you see how he looks, he still looks badass. They don't make em like that anymore, thats for sure.
Never to be again, never forgotten.
I'm so happy that I grew up in the 80s and early 90s. We had such amazing music.
I really miss 80's
2019 Miami Vice is still hot!!!
always will be
@@MrMarcel54321 😃
1000%
Me
2456 Miami Vice is still hot
I wish there was a way to go back there and never leave !! Precious Times almost makes my heart skip a beat and a tear come to my eye ! One word to explain those Times P E R F E C T !!
❤
I have a DeLorean and a flux capacitor! But I'm having trouble finding plutonium! 😑
Jan knocked it out of the park with Crockett’s Theme 😎👍 The song has become the ultimate definition of the era
MIAMI VICE the best show on tv 80s.........and now in 2024 nothing is better ####MIAMI VICE FIREVER####
Mad respect to you for making this 30 minutes long
👄🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧
Los años 80 y 90 los mejores años y esta serie soberbia impresionante guapísimos y una escena magistral creo que no habrá nada como está serie Miami wonderful
Thank the Cassette player! ;D > th-cam.com/video/V1ckMBf5E7A/w-d-xo.html
I can still remember watching this show after being introduced to it by a good friend of mine called Kevin (such an 80s name). Crocket and Tubbs were the coolest duo of the 80s. The look, sound, dialogue and subject matter summed up the 1980s perfectly. Miami Vice was a hugely successful and influential TV show that would go on to be mimicked by other TV shows as well as films. Don Johnson was cooler than ice, and Philip Michael Thomas was hotter than the Miami sun. The two men played Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, drug-enforcement officers in a bright and fashionable Miami. At the time Miami was a run-down town, plagued with drugs as well as other social and economic problems. It’s no secret that Miami Vice helped the area prosper to eventually become what it is today.
The show was a watershed moment in TV much like how MTV changed music and music videos. Crocket and Tubbs took on hardened criminals and suffered for it. They showed the real side of policing, where the risk of being harmed or even killed was an occupational hazard. What really made the show for me, was their friendship. The loyalty and understanding they had for one another influenced me in a big way. When I think of great friendships, I think of Crocket and Tubbs, two men who couldn’t be more different, yet were prepared to die for each other. How many of us have a friendship like that?
I can’t write about Miami Vice and not talk more about their pastel-shaded fashion, the stubble-faces, sock-free and carefree hairstyles. The look of Miami Vice is what made it stand out from other police shows. The pastel colours added warmth to their personalities and complemented the Miami sunshine. The colours popped out as did everything else in the show. The rough, unclean, dishevelled look was to Miami Vice what Clint Eastwood was to Fistful of Dollars. The grooming style reminded me of that 1960s Spaghetti Western look made popular by legendary as well as visionary film director Sergio Leone. I imagine Michael Man was influenced by Leone’s anti-hero characters. The Sonny Crocket look became very popular with guys. The light-coloured blazer, pastel T-shirt and shoes without socks became commonplace. I can still remember some of my older friends wearing this look. Oh, they didn’t wear sock because it was too hot! You’d need them in England!
What a decade to have grown up in.
Well said
@@robbpowell194 Thank you! 😎
I remember when I was a teenager in the 80s. And this song played?!!! MAAAAAN lemme tell you what. Great times in the 80s.
Miami Vice.The best show ever,and the '80s.Absolutely brilliant!Miss them...
Eh, i disagree. The show is memorable but truth to be told, it had often very lame plots and stories. I mean... James Brown and the aliens ? How dumb was that ?
From a narrative point of view, only the first season is consistent. After that it was unequal.
@@mariamartins367 BUT THE MUSIC !!! Guess it has NeVeR disappointed you.....at least.
I'm sad its gone but i feel lucky i was a teen in the 80s..
Be happy you saw and experienced the peak of civilization! Good luck to the kids born today, the lost souls.... lol
80's were magic and had style...
the 80s in terms of movies and television series were just the best
Amen, bro.
I WAS crockett when i was a kid, gpt the sun glasses 😎and refuse d taking them off without a fight 😂
Back when a black dude could be best friends with a white dude who wears pink shirts with white jackets and nobody would call you a social justice warrior.
WTF?
@Man of Action < "Cuz I'm Rick James, biatch!" lol
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Less racism in 1980 than in 2020..."They" pitted us against one another for their nefarious political desires.
@@2pi628 True dat
80s... Miami vice.. Enough said..
Im happy to say ive driven in miami playing this out loud along the strip at night... and i loved every moment of it.
Well done my man ! JB
Sounds Awesome!
You are a legend
Damn, been to Miami a few times but have never done this. Next time im renting a vehicle 😂
@@marcoulloa4572 just 1 of them things i had to do. I went through most the miami vice and other 80s tracks.
When i hear this, it is like dejavu to the times when we were afraid of nothing.
To the times you ignored everything.
Yeah That's Right.. So True..! 80:S...The same in France...
@@gregkouame3654 la musica martal ermosa
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Jorge Bravo
Still not afraid? I ask myself that question. Social media changed everything. Someday ill make some crappy blog or forum of some type to express it from my(our)generation s perspective.
I Purchased The Miami Vice 2 Soundtrack On Cassette In The Fall Of 1986, 2 Weeks Before I Went To Naval Basic Training In Orlando,FL!
Serious Nostalgia 😎💯🤙!
Who can ever forget Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight" from the "Pilot" A modern "Masterpiece"
Can't stand Fill-up Colons. Him and his voice his drumming and arrogance.
I was down in Florida clearwater beach in July I have to tell you people were bumping 80s music the atmosphere felt very 80's and it's almost 2020
Me too. Was at Clearwater in summer all the way from Texas. Thought I was transported back to the 80's. Also saw nightlife in downtown St. Petersburg in Florida. The attire swept me back. Wishing I still had my 80's wardrobe. Spent so much money on clothes back then...
So there is a place on this planet that 80's still exist ? How far is it from Greece?
@@jandres1933 ok
I wish we could go back in time. Life was fun in the 80's, now it's too serious. Great times and sounds like this
The Cold War; Nuclear threat; Berlin Wall; Chernobyl; AIDS; Iran-Iraq war; Salvadoran civil war; US invasions of Panama and Grenada; Tiananmen Square Massacre; South African apartheid; the troubles in Northern Ireland including the Brighton Hotel bombing, continuing violence and murder, plus false imprisonment of the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4, plus hunger strikes etc; Iranian Embassy Siege; closure of mines in the UK and ensuing strikes; football hooliganism and disasters at Heysel, Bradford and Hillsborough; assassinations of Swedish PM Plame, Indian PM Indira Ghandi, Egyptian President Sadat, and assassination attempts of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, plus ex-Beatle John Lennon; On top of all that there was no internet and you wouldn't have been able to access decades of great music at the touch of a button for free; Nowadays is a piece of cake compared to the '80's!
You're not wrong,I miss the 80's,good times!
Yeah i wanna go back so bad
Let alone all the political correctness b.s. nowadays... uhhh!
Ray Tony couldn’t have put it better myself
This song is an adventure.
This theme DEFINES the 1980s!!!
Axel F: hold my synth
@@stevecarter8810 Black Francis and the rest of the Pixies: kick the synth down the damn stairs already!!
@@davidlean1060 Justin Bieber fan?
@@robertciscoe9318 eh? If that is a witticism? You'll have to explain it to me, which kinda ruins the idea of a witticism, but you seem like an eager chap who is very pleased with himself for thinking up something so clever, so who am I to quell your enjoyment?!? How does commenting about the 80's have anything to do with a young man probably not even born at that time?! (you strike me as a man who knows more about him that you let on, so you'll have to fill me in on when he was born etc.)
@@davidlean1060 well. After that response, we know you are a Justin Bieber fan lol. Also I get the feeling that there is a LOT that" has to be explained to you".
30mins. Excellent! This helps a lot when driving & I can't loop the song as I can when at home on computer. Thank you.
(Been listening to various versions of the theme looped for the last 2 hours, going on 3. Sick? Maybe. It's just a vice.) (-:
I can see that boat speeding across the water when I hear this, and the threads they wore they were pretty cool dudes.. There's no one like them on TV now..
This is the main theme of the whole eighties! So damn good.
I'm a manager of a football team in London and I've used this instead of a team talk before. Just get my lads in the changing room, turn the lights off & have them lying on bean bags all comfortable and then press play this fantastic 30 minute mix.
I miss the 80s wish I could go back for if only an hour!!!
The first I heard this tune it was being used for a banking advert in the late 80s early 90s on British TV (TSB I think). I didn't really watch Miami Vice although I knew of it. My Granny used to watch it usually while she was doing her hair with rollers and grips in preparation for another week's work after the weekend. But the tune was very evocative and I still search it out now. My half-brother told me it was "Crockett's theme". I reminisce of new beginnings and expanding horizons of exiting inner-city London and running away to Scotland where I met my son's mother. He's nearly 30 now! I appreciate this half hour repeated version when I'm lost in my thoughts walking at a brisk pace along the Union Canal in the evening's crisp cool air. I'm a one tune at a time man especially when it comes to this timeless atmospheric masterpiece.
I was 20, remember listening to this theme at night driving my car with the air on my face
Makes me want to bust out the blazer and pastel shirts! Miss the 80's so much--lots of good times.
We all miss the 80s
@@watugodie3961 me 2!
really?!? Economic depression, Thatcher's government, Regan, mass emigration...the 80's were shit! :)
80's and 90's were still much better than this decade for sure.
the 80's were shit, as shit as now. The 90's however may of been the greatest decade of the 20th century! @@ed4253
My neighbours love this soundtrack, they even threw a rock at my window to hear it better.
Now that's funny 😋
My neighbor's loved it so much they even called the police to let them know!
How original. 10th time or so I've read this kind of comment.
a)throw it right back
b) I was faster than 5 seconds, a noselength ahead
😂😂
Ferrari daytona, sonny crocket and a sinthesiser… yep the 80's are back....
This is actually pretty fucking awesome.
This is actually an EVERGREEN 😎🙏
Even here in Ireland we loved Miami Vice.the eightys were the best and the west is the best by far..
Well said. But in Spain we say in the oldy song 'to be happy you must go south lala'.... Unfortunately this song never got far from the bounderies.😁
Hey Tubbs, you ever consider a career in southern law enforcement?
Maybe, maybe...(both laugh)
One of the most classic lines in TV history
top comment IMO
Tiubbs in real life has alot of kids . I don't think the pay grade would cover his living expenses
I don't always listen to soundtracks but when i do it's miami vice
Everlasting powerful memories..... From being just a boy, it's still bringing me back.. Every time 😎🌴🙏😁
Still listening to this music since the '80s!
Cerrar los ojos,sólo escuchar...y volver a los 80 ,increíble añorar esos años felices
Todo en perfecta armonía,a esa edad
11 años
80's is a slice of time so unique.We had the essentials and the classic .Real things like Nikon lenses and Sony Electronics.Then came the globalization and produced every thing cheap.
When life gets a little too complicated and when you have little disagreements with the little lady I get in my car I play the Crockett theme and when I get back home everything is a-okay.. for that half hour I'm in another place and in another time 1984 to be exact.
Makes me dream of being in an offshore cigarette boat with a bikin clad girl going so fast the boats coming out of the water every wave we hit,Fountain or cigarette boat preferably.love the song it needs no lyrics it speaks to me in its instruments
I went for a drive like that just the other night. And here I am again listening and reliving my youth all over again.
Now we're in Orwell's 1984. 😕
Amen brother. This song helped me think out some stuff when I was young back in Miami. I feel for those who did not experience this.
Great music to DRIVE to !!! Makes me want to get into my sports car at night and cruise the city streets !
I did, in fact, do that back in the day. Trans-Am, with the t-tops out, night drivin' to this, Phil Collins, and more ethereal 80s classics....
Very Cool !!! Just sold my 1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo, but loved driving in it during summer months and listening to Miami Vice music. Loved the 80's !!!@@gabriellen.2886
Thanks for the FabulouS idea .. Long Street here we come 💚
I’m gonna do it in my GTR
Doing that right now in my Dodge Challenger
Miami Vice still going to be the most greatest cop drama show up that decade it had a attitude charisma and the whole Miami scene was spectacular
Miami Vice still going to be the most greatest drama.
Written by Mr. (not Mrs.) Jan Hammer, an emigrant from Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. Back in Czechoslovakia, in the age of 17 years he wrote his first movie soundtrack. Right after that, he emigrated and few years later he wrote this.
You can Look to Hollywood the best Actors came before second Generation from Europe and Easteurope.
Thank goodness for people like Jan Hammer. For making our lives that little bit happier, especially with this track. May his talent never fade away!
This music elicits such vivid memories. I can close my eyes and describe my teenage self, the clothes people wore and the smell of the fall air. The scenes in Miami Vice, the coolness of Crockett, and the depth of each episode will resonate whenever I hear this music.
Fantastic, finally there is this, NORMAL length Crockett's theme available, thanks 👍👍
Love Miami Vice, the actors, the storylines, the MUSIC, the Daytona, the Testerossa, Elvis!🐊 and his sailboat, the speedboat, the clothes, Miami in all it's colorful glory! The Fun!!!
You do know that a lot of it was filmed in LA?
Beautiful music! One of the best sountracks of ALL TIMES! IMO The terminator theme, and this. Listening to this late at night make me feeling SO GOOD! 80's rules!
OMG I went from the Terminator theme to this too! Nice one brah :)
Im back honny 😄
Skating half-pipe in Cali, living the dream as a teenager in the 80's and dressing like Crockett!! Honored to meet and skate with some of the best...Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Cabellero, Rob Roskop...list goes on. Good times but I don't think I would want to relive them. Life is more serious now, but also much more blessed.
Mike McGill, Rodney Mullen, Natas Kaupas...the entire bones brigade...Powell Peralta, Vision, Santa Cruz, Rat Bones, Independent...I could go on for days...what a time to be kid and be free!!
❤
I❤ 80's
Melodías prodigiosas que nos trasladan a aquella maravillosa época, en la que eramos felices, y lo ignorábamos¡¡¡¡¡¡
If we ever launch another voyager like probe and we include songs of earth part 2 this NEEDs to be on it.
Don Johnson was a trendsetter for men's fashion. He was the original shoes with no socks and pastels. I never missed an episode of Miami Vice and never missed the opportunity to watch this unbelievably handsome man.
I need to purchase it. I've never seen it. He IS handsome. He's a stud.
He once said in an interview he never wore socks because it was so damn hot in Miami 😅 Everyone thought it was a fashion trend! The coolness of Don….
Awesome 🔥 Let's go Back to the 80's
Say whatever you want, I definitely was alive during the 80s in some way, shape or form. The felling i get while listening to this song is just all to familliar to ignore. Combined with the picture of Crockett and Tubbs, i just get a "Deja Vu" fealing that doesn't go away at all. Damn I love the 80s.
Well the echoes of that era were still very strong in the 90s... we were watching a lot of 80s movies, music and general iconography... so the influence was very strong
@@LoneWolf-wp9dn True. Many of those 80's dramas were aired in India during the 1990s. I watched Streethawk and Knight riders around 1994-1996 on Indian television.
The best years for people having lived 80's. This generation DOES NOT get it..the music, the clubs, the clothes, oh yea, you cant take that away 》》 like they say " until you walk in our shoes ".. thank you for posting this song 👍😊🇨🇦
Same. I was born in the late 90's but I have a feeling of familiarity whenever I listen to 70's and 80's music. I feel some type of nostalgia, probably because my brothers were 80's kids and I grew up listening to their music, watching their favorite tv shows and music, etc.
We were more free.
マイアミバイスの中で一番のお気に入りのナンバーでしたね〜今聴いても素晴らしい
Yes, love this. The music is phenomenal. I get tears in my eyes everytime I hear this!
80's Decade, the best time in Human history and in the Galaxy, it won't come back !!.
It will return, no worries. First signs already here.
my phone ringing tune... sometimes i just like to let it call for longer for others nearby so they could see how cool i am
Back then I used to dress like sonny! I had a Miami classic holster s&w 5906 and two extra mags under right arm. Those were the days.
Tommy Vercetti and Lance.
For a certain generation, pop culture has been defined by 3 things...Star Wars, MTV, and Miami Vice. Lucky us!!
This is the " LIFE GOES ON"
Theme song
Hoy volví a escuchar por pura casualidad este tema desp de más de 30 años!!!!!
Recuerdo que veia con mi viejo esta serie siendo un niño! Esperaba que llegara el dia para compartir con él esta serie...infinitos recuerdos destapados en un solo segundo!!
Natwest adverts back in the day 🙌🏻
Takes me back to being a care free kid
Someone give me a time machine 😎
This will always remind me when I went on holiday to Miami with my beautiful wife, if I only knew then what I know now I would have appreciated every second I had a with her, I lost her two years ago, 😢😢😢
Its a part of human nature to appreciate present only when it's gone and has become past...
With the beautiful memory you shared, it's a heritage she has left you my friend. Stay strong! She's very present with you.
My heart goes out to you.
So sorry for your lioss
One day, you will see her again......
The best instrumental theme I have ever heard. The series to on so many different common issues that were important for so many to reflect even understand even. The world is a very real place. Live or Die it's up to the individual to decide to enter or not. Commonly the series was a ongoing success. So many compelling storylines & musica & male/female actors that brought the viewers closer to the world of poverty & choices.
Very stylish outfits back in the 80's!
This song plays in my head when Im driving to work every morning.
I'm gonna play this on my speakers all day.
Sonny crockett.
Amo esta serie, su música, su forma de vida, soy del 68 y vivi tan inmensamente esa época que no podre olvidarla jamás.
me pasa lo mismo, yo soy del 65 y esto epoca fue la mejor de mi vida!!
Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas made history with this series
It’s pure nostalgia song
23 sleazy henchmen disliked this.
Haha
They did make a lot of enemies ? Lol !! 😄 Just started binge watching episodes. Love this music, love the era, Love VICE ! JB
Darkness.Power.Hope.Future.Past.Sun.Rain & a red glowing Sky who shows the End of a Day.
Crocket'sTheme is not only Musik...pure Art.
this is a total friggin' JAM!!!!!!!!! I wanna ride around in a cool car and just say sh** like "It's goin' down man!" right now
FUN FUN FUN !!!
Never heard this extended Version. It give me the chills
There's a one hour version also. Just type it in search "crockets theme song" one hour version. It's awesome ❤
th-cam.com/video/m0MLTVeNBpw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zoRh6gDrX8dvQkku Link for the 1 hour version ❤
One of the best songs from this amazing series. Reminds me of my youth down in South West Miami
die 80ziger: Miami Vice ....Magnum.....Alphaville..... Michael Jackson.... Das Boot... Scorpions........