Showing posts with label 80's television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 80's television. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Currently Booming: Soundtrack Sunday- 'Miami Vice'

Miami Vice Crockett and Tubbs TV Show Poster 11x17

"Cause you belong to the city
You belong to the night
Living in a river of darkness, beneath the neon light
You were born in the city
Concrete under your feet
It's in your moves, it's in your blood
You're a man of the street."

Miami Vice was an American television crime drama series that starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989 and then lived on in syndication. This was the first drama to rely heavily on music, fashion and whatever else was hot and trending. Miami Vice was on the cutting edge of everything. They debuted music that helped artists to find their way onto Billboard's charts and they made both Johnson and Thomas household names. Anything even potentially hot was featured in an episode and everyone seemed to be hooked on this show.

80's fashion at its best.  Miami Vice set the standard.:

I wasn't as obsessed with Crockett and Tubbs as a lot of my friends. I was there for the music each and every week and there was always something new to discover. I found a playlist that features a lot of the music that was featured on Miami Vice. Check it out below.

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Daily Boom 80's Throwback: Glenn Frey - 'You Belong To The City'



"You're out of your room
And down on the street
Moving through the crowd
In the midnight heat
The traffic roars
And the sirens scream
You look at the faces
It's just like a dream"


Miami Vice was never my thing. In fact, I'm not sure that I've ever watched an entire episode of the 80's classic show (maybe I should), but the soundtrack? Well, that was fantastic. There was a time in the middle of the decade when every artist either wanted a cameo on the show or at the very least to have one of their songs featured. I think my very favorite song used was Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City".

Sure it worked great with the Miami vibe on the show, but it also worked great for the rest of America. It went to number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1985 and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. I know because I actually remember doing the math so that I could anticipate when it would show next so that I could watch it. 

It's another great 80's song with a fantastic sax solo- which can totally make a song, in case you haven't already noticed. "You Belong to the City" has just enough wail in there to make it fantastic. Check it out below!

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Daily Boom 80's Throwback: Glenn Frey - 'You Belong To The City'



"You're out of your room
And down on the street
Moving through the crowd
In the midnight heat
The traffic roars
And the sirens scream
You look at the faces
It's just like a dream"


Miami Vice was never my thing. In fact, I'm not sure that I've ever watched an entire episode of the 80's classic show (maybe I should), but the soundtrack? Well, that was fantastic. There was a time in the middle of the decade when every artist either wanted a cameo on the show or at the very least to have one of their songs featured. I think my very favorite song used was Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City".

Sure it worked great with the Miami vibe on the show, but it also worked great for the rest of America. It went to number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1985 and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. I know because I actually remember doing the math so that I could anticipate when it would show next so that I could watch it. 

It's another great 80's song with a fantastic sax solo- which can totally make a song, in case you haven't already noticed. "You Belong to the City" has just enough wail in there to make it fantastic. Check it out below!


Monday, July 9, 2018

Daily Boom 80's Throwback: Glenn Frey - 'You Belong To The City'



"You're out of your room
And down on the street
Moving through the crowd
In the midnight heat
The traffic roars
And the sirens scream
You look at the faces
It's just like a dream"


Miami Vice was never my thing. In fact, I'm not sure that I've ever watched an entire episode of the 80's classic show (maybe I should), but the soundtrack? Well, that was fantastic. There was a time in the middle of the decade when every artist either wanted a cameo on the show or at the very least to have one of their songs featured. I think my very favorite song used was Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City".

Sure it worked great with the Miami vibe on the show, but it also worked great for the rest of America. It went to number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1985 and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. I know because I actually remember doing the math so that I could anticipate when it would show next so that I could watch it. 

It's another great 80's song with a fantastic sax solo- which can totally make a song, in case you haven't already noticed. "You Belong to the City" has just enough wail in there to make it fantastic. Check it out below!

Monday, September 25, 2017

Currently Booming: I Want My MTV



When MTV Classic launched last summer I was beyond thrilled, expecting to see straight from the vault programming. They have cracked out some good stuff, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped for. After a few months they stopped airing episodes of Unplugged and they've yet to tap into that vast amount of concert footage that they have tucked away. I love "I Love the 80's" but honestly, Tone Loc had two songs so why is he featured every single day???  I kind of gave up hope on actually seeing the kind of stuff I had hoped for and then this happened:



A YouTube-er named Pannoni4 started posting hours upon hours of classic MTV, exactly as it aired. Check out the footage above from the summer of 1984. It really takes you back for real, doesn't it?

Monday, July 18, 2016