Miami Vice Officially Announced! (now w/Feb. date) (1 Viewer)

[Gord Lacey]

I doubt it. I bet it sells a few hundred thousand copies.

BTW - Chappelle's Show is now the set to "beat."

Gord

 

[Craig: Mclaren]

Worldwide though Gord Vice is going to sell very well. It'll be a hit.

 

[David Lambert]

Think Vice will beat Charmed?


Imagine, if you will, a 3-week period during the January-to-February transition, where we get MacGyver, then Charmed, then Miami Vice. Oh my God, it's really happenning!!!

 

[Patrick.C]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but where does it say that the original songs are included? The artists mentioned above are fantastic, sure, but you can watch the re-cut episodes from TNN, USA, etc. and still hear these artists. In many cases, the song may be well known and correct for the 80's, but was it the song originally aired with the epidode in 1984? No. I'm guessing that all of the original songs are NOT included, or else Universal would be making a big deal about it. :frowning:

 

[Keith I]

The various Miami Vice fan Web sites have music information and on this site:

http://www.wildhorse.com/MiamiVice/eps/

...each episode's page has specific music information. From the description from Universal, all of the artists listed are indeed featured in Season 1 episodes.

This site even has a song page that lists all the songs alphabetically with the episode it was featured in.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of the information on these web sites but they've been compiled over the years so I would trust them.

But when the DVD comes out, we can all check the music with the song lists on this site (if it's still there in February 2005).

 

[Amy Mormino]

It does seem somewhat odd that they wouldn't advertise that they include all of the original music. But the notice does list all the most prominent artists from Season One. I suppose its possible that they substituted a more obscure song by, say, Phil Collins, for the better-known one, but I'm inclined to think that such is not the case.

 

[Paul McElligott]

I looked up "unfounded pessimism" and found this quote. I see nothing in Universal's statement that tells me the original music won't be included.

The lengths some people will go to assume the worst...

 

[oscar_merkx]

this is absolutely fab news

 

[Dave Miller]

I've never understood the whole music rights issue. To put Miami Vice on DVD, Universal is not just calling Phil up to get his permission are they? They are calling Phil up to tell him how much they'll pay him for his permission to use the original music for the DVD release. Correct?

Help me if I'm off here, but why would an artist turn that down or refuse persmission if they are going to get paid.

BTW, I'm not picking on Phil, just using him as a hypothetical example.

Peace,

DM

 

[Greg S]

Awesome NEWS!!

Now I want a show of hands for all you peeps that had a Crockett outfit in the closet (I mean the pants, the shoes, the jacket)!! C'mon fess up .......

I did (I think mine was a pastel blue color as I recall)



Proud Miami Vice Fan through & through!!

Greg

 

[Gord Lacey]

It's usually about how much they'll get paid. There isn't a set price to license a song, so if the rights holder asks for too much then the song is cut. If I'm asking $50,000 for the use of my song on the DVD they might find something similar for $5,000 and be done with me.

Gord

 

[John Mansor]

Do they ever do it music royalties for each DVD sold rather than a flat rate?

 

[Keith I]

Season 1 songs


“Pilot”
Rolling Stones, Miss You
Lionel Richie, All Night Long (All Night)
Rockwell, Somebody's Watching Me
Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Phil Collins, In The Air Tonight

“Heart of Darkness”
The Tubes, She's A Beauty
John Waite, Missing You
ZZ Top, Sharp Dressed Man
Devo, Going Under
George Benson, This Masquerade

“Cool Runnin’”
"Bob Marley and The Wailers, Jammin'
Augustus Pablo, King Tubby
Wailing Souls, Well of Souls (Feel the Spirit)

“Calderone's Return”
Russ Ballard, In The Night
ZZ Top, Tush
The Pointer Sisters, I'm So Excited

“Calderone’s Return Part II”
Russ Ballard, Voices
Tina Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It?

“One-Eyed Jack”
Pablo Cadena y su Orquesta, La Vecinita
Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight
The Pointer Sisters, Jump (For My Love)
Honeymoon Suite, New Girl Now

“No Exit”
Teddy Pendergrass, Stay With Me
Phil Collins, I Don't Care Anymore

“The Great McCarthy”
Lindsay Buckingham, Go Insane
Steppenwolf, Born To Be Wild
Rod Stewart, Some Guys Have All The Luck
Laura Branigan, Self Control

“Glades”
The Animals, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
INXS, Send A Message
Tommy Shaw, Girls With Guns

“Give a Little, Take a Little”
Etta James, You Want More
Tina Turner, You Better Be Good To Me
Brian Ray, Today's A Beginning

“Little Prince”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Relax
Todd Rundgren, Tiny Demons
Autograph, Turn Up The Radio

“Milk Run”
ZZ Top, Legs
Pat Benatar, Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Kubany Music, Feliz Cumbe

“Score”
Dolly Parton, Great Balls of Fire

“Golden Triangle”
The Blues Project, Catch The Wind
The Coasters, Poison Ivy
The Bobbettes, Mr. Lee

“Smuggler’s Blues”
Glenn Frey, Sumggler's Blues
Red Rider, Lunatic Fringe

“Rites of Passage”
Bob Seger, Come To Poppa
Rockwell, Change Your Ways
Foreigner, I Wanna Know What Love Is

“The Maze”
Philip Michael Thomas, Living The Book Of My Life
Afrika Bambaataa, Renegades of Funk
The Police, Tea In The Sahara

“Made for Each Other”
Barrett Strong, Money (That's What I Want)
Elvis Presley, Treat Me Nice

“The Home Invaders”
Sheila E, The Glamorous Life

“Nobody Lives Forever”
Booker T & The MG's, Green Onions
George Thorogood, Bad To The Bone
Glenn Frey, New Love
Red 7, Heartbeat

“Evan”
Peter Gabriel, Rhythm Of The Heat
Peter Gabriel, Biko
Fashion, You Only Left Your Picture

“Lombard”
Millie Small, My Boy Lollipop
U2, Wire


Season 2 songs


"The Prodigal Son"
Billy Ocean, Caribbean Queen
Glenn Frey, You Belong To The City
Huey Lewis & The News, Do You Believe In Love
U2, Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Phil Collins, Take Me Home
Neville Brothers, Tell It Like It Is
The System, The Pleasure Seekers Fashion, White Stuff
Debbie Harry, Liar, Liar
Bryan Ferry, Windswept
Joe Cocker, Many Rivers to Cross
Go-West, Goodbye Girl
Traffic, Glad
Lou Reed, Good Night, Ladies
Liquid, Liquid; Rubber Miro

"Whatever Works"
The Blasters, Dark Night
ZZ Top, Sharp Dressed Man
The Power Station, Get It On (Bang A Gong)

"Out Where the Buses Don't Run"
The Who, Baba O'Riley
Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms

"The Dutch Oven"
Pat Benatar, Diamond Field
Foreigner, Women
Cleavant Derricks, Love Is For Sale
David Johansen, King of Babylon
Amy Grant, Who To Listen To

"Buddies"
Arthur Conley, Sweet Soul Music
The Nobodys, No Guarantees
Kim Mitchell, Go For Soda
Chaka Khan, Own The Night

"Junk Love"
Bryan Ferry, Slave To Love
Robert Plant, Little By Little
Wang Chung, True Love

"Tale of the Goat"
Todd Rundgren, Flesh
The Fixx, Phantom Living
Nona Hendryx, Transformation
Red Rider, Can't Turn Back

"Bushido"
Kate Bush, Hello Earth
Bryan Ferry, Boys & Girls

"Bought and Paid For"
Debarge, You Wear It Well
Debarge, Rhythm Of The Night
Fleetwood Mac, I'm So Afraid
Sly & Robbie, Bass and Trouble
Karla Bonoff, Cold Wind Blows

"Back in the World"
The Doors, Break On Through
The Doors, My Eyes Have Seen You
The Doors, Strange Days
The Doors, The Spy
The Doors, The Crystal Ship
The Doors, I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
The Doors, Roadhouse Blues
The Doors, Five To One

"Phil the Shill"
Phil Collins, Life Is A Rat Race
Eric Clapton, Knock On Wood
Stan Ridgway, Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)
Executive Slacks, Nausea
Eugene Smith; Rock By Day, Whirl By Night

"Definitely Miami"
Gato Barbieri, Europa
Ted Nugent, Angry Young Man
Godley & Creme, Cry

"Yankee Dollar"
Mike + The Mechanics, Par Avion
Russ Ballard, Your Time Is Gonna Come
Pablo Cadena y Su Orquesta, La Hamaquita
Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come

"One Way Ticket"
Wilson Pickett, Mustang Sally
Pete Townshend, Face The Face
Mr. Mister, Kyrie

"Little Miss Dangerous"
Ted Nugent, Little Miss Dangerous
Howard Jones, Assault and Battery
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Here Comes My Girl
Public Image Ltd, Order Of Death

"Florence Italy"
Jimi Hendrix, Up From The Skies
Steve Morse Band, Cruise Missile
David Linley, Mercury Blues
John Parr, Naughty Naughty
Cliff Sarde, Sellin' The Store

"French Twist"
Aretha Franklin, Who's Zoomin' Who

"The Fix"
Madonna, Gambler
Jim Gilstrap, The Water's Too Deep
Propaganda, P-Machinery

"Payback"
Sly & Robbie, Bass and Trouble
INXS, Three Sisters
Chris Isaak, Dancin'
X, Soul Kitchen

"Free Verse"
Suicidal Tendencies, Institutionalized
Nancy Allen, Allemande and Courante (Bach)
Bruce Cockburn, Maybe The Poet
Honeymoon Suite, Feel It Again

"Trust Fund Pirates"
David Johansen, King of Babylon
Lynyrd Skynyrd, That Smell
The Pretenders, Space Invader
Simply Red, Heaven
Randy Newman, Miami
Steve Winwood, Still In The Game
INXS, What You Need
Philip Michael Thomas, Mirade

"Sons and Lovers"
Roger Daltrey, After The Fire
Phil Collins, Long Long Way To Go


List may not be accurate. Songs compiled from MV fansites.

www.miamivicedvd.com (a Universal site) has their Season 1 song list.

 

[Dave Miller]

I guess this is just further proof that people in the entertainment business don't live in the real world. So you are saying someone calls up Phil (again, hypothetical) and says "Phil, we'd love to have your permission to use the original version of 'In The Air Tonight' on the dvd release of the first season. How about $10,000 for saying yes?" You're telling me he'd say "No, I want $50,000" for doing absolutely nothing?

I realize this is an over simplification, but I would think as much as people in the entertainment business love notoriety and publicity that having their music re-released and then get paid for it on top of that would be a no brainer.

But what do I know. Evidently Ben Affleck didn't want or need his tax cut last year. I enjoyed mine.

Peace,

DM

 

[Paul McElligott]

It's not Phil Collins per se, because artists don't normally own the recordings (Unless you're Bruce Springsteen or Ray Charles), but the record companies and their lawyers who are looking to get paid. I've always thought that the rights-holders would absolutely kill to get some almost free exposure for all the now-back-catalog titles used in Miami Vice.

 

[Gord Lacey]

I would love to see licensing deals that include promotional materialon the DVDs for the music. I'd have no problem if there was a musical trailer on the DVDs (not forced mind you) that included clips of songs and information on who owns them and what CD the song is on. I liked that A&E included the music information on the Homicide sets, and I'm surprised other companies haven't done the same.

Gord

 

[todd s]

Gord, on what you said. They could do what happens after certain WB shows. Where they promote the album of the band whose music was on that particular show.

 

[Branislav S.]

I think that we gonna heard a original music, conducted and composed by Jan Hammer. First, we waiting so long to see Miami Vice on DVD. Every time, some guys from Universal say to us: you know, we working for music rights, because we want to have all legall right for music in Miami Vice. Now, many years after, for the first time, we have a chance to bring Miami Vice in ours DVD Collection, and I think that's gonna be with original music. No doubt. But, we're gonna wait February 5, 2005!!!

Anyway, Miami Vice is coming....

 

[David Lambert]

Sorry Gord, but I gotta point out what Randy Salas is always saying: everyone's talking about how much the ARTIST wants for their songs, and your response didn't gainsay that. But the artist is rarely the hold-up. Usually a third party holds the rights to a song (for Beatles songs, it's Michael Jackson...yes, THAT Michael Jackson, unless he's had to give them up due to his money probelms).

It's the rights-holder, or the music publisher (who is NOT the artist's label usually), that is the one asking for the money here. Phil has nothing to do with it.

 

[Dax P]

With regards to the new (posted 1/8/05) article of David Lambert's on tvshowsondvd.com on Miami Vice, and Universal (itself quoting a new Video Business article)...

The 'may have music changes' disclaimer (as found on Las Vegas box) is ridiculous, and I hope it doesn't become a standardized thing, since it's meaningless... the sets DO or they DON'T... 'may'... 'well, we're not sure'...

Quantum Leap 2 and Northern Exposure 2 and their replacement music:

>> Mayer denied the replacements were made in order to cut costs as the franchises continued.

>> "No, we maintain the quality," she said. "We would rather not put something out. We maintain a consistent quality for all our products."

I think that's WORSE than the oft-heard "We couldn't afford it" defense... it's NOT because it was too expensive, it's that they didn't want to lose momentum on the strong first season sales?! 'Timing issues' more than anything else. Grrrr....

Meanwhile, happy Miami Vice 1 will be intact and crossing fingers for 2-5...