Beverly Hills Cop I & II Soundtracks Review

Hello folks, TF2 and Mike here, and right before

we start the La La Land Lounge here on GeekCast

Radio, gotta say, in this episode, I say it's

episode six, but it's actually episode seven,

because episode six was our BTAS volume one,

25 years of BTAS celebration, so this is episode

seven of La La Land Lounge. At the end of the

podcast, I say something about Legends of Tomorrow

season one and Arrow season four being the next

episode. It will be the next episode, but that'll

be episode eight, so... Beverly Hills cop 1 &

2 this podcast is episode 7 of the lawland lounge

next time episode 8 sorry folks I Don't know

I was out of it the other night when we recorded

this but anyway now on to the axle F theme This

is Matt Rebois from La La Land Records and you've

entered the La La Land Lounge on GeekCast Radio,

where soundtracks live. Hello and welcome to

the La La Land Lounge here on GeekCast Radio.

This is episode 6 for the La La Land Lounge and

we are celebrating, um, 31 years of Beverly Hills

Gop? Beverly Hills, well I tell you, 31 years

of Beverly Hills Cop 2. Beverly Hills Cop is

33 years old at this point. I am of course TfU

and Mike here inside the La La Land Lounge. Joining

me is Steve Megatron Phillips. Hello sir, how

are you? Yo. Yo. We are back cause we gotta talk

some axles. So La La Land Records last year...

Yeah, it was last year. Released Beverly Hills

Cop 1 and 2. Two single disc sets, I believe.

Yeah, two single disc sets. For, you know, like

I said, the 30th anniversary of the second movie

is this year, so... in conjunction with Paramount

Pictures and Universal Music and all that good

stuff. The world premiere official release of

Renown composer Harold Fultemider's original

motion picture score to the legendary 1984 Paramount

Pictures Action Comedy Beverly Hills Cop starring

Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, and John Ashton.

Directed by Martin Brest, composer Faltermeyer

defined the 80s film score pop synth sound and

Beverly Hills Cop is arguably his most iconic

work, certainly his most influential, as his

infectious themes and compositions have continued

to inspire throughout the decades into the present

day. The original film score makes its world

premiere with this deluxe presentation which

also includes bonus tracks and the original soundtrack

releases most notable songs. Featuring the sizzling

The Heat is On performed by the late Glenn Fry

written by Falter Mayer and Keith Forsey, the

hold -on for Dear Life track, Truck Chase Neutron

Dance performed by the Poynter Sisters, and more.

Produced for Lawline Records by Dan Goldwasser

and mastered by Doug Schwartz, this limited edition

release of 3 ,000 units includes exclusive in

-depth liner notes by writer Tim Grieving with

new interview quotes from Falter Mayer and Rodeo

Drive, and... A Rodeo Drive kind of classy art

design by Goldwasser, a must for all film music

fans. It'll sound great blaring in your car,

even if there's a banana in your tailpipe. Somebody's

actually done that to me before. He's gonna put

that in the tailpipe. Yeah, they put that in

my tailpipe when I worked at the pizza joint.

Well, you do live in - And they shot that. My

truck shot it back out. Yeah, well, you do live

in Michigan, dude, so, you know. They thought

it was funny. I didn't. I'm sure you didn't at

the time, but you've got to kind of chuckle at

it now. No, I don't chuckle at it. The only part

I chuckle at is the fact that this particular

manager that did this also deflated my tires

the same night because it was a joke and I parked

his car on the block the next week. Geez. Oh

lord. That's funny. Alright, so Beverly Hills

Cop, the first film. It's got 29 tracks, total

album time of 63 minutes and 10 seconds. What

were your opinions going back and listen... Now

did you go back and watch the movie before you

listened to this or did you just listen to this?

I didn't go back and watch it. Okay. I didn't

either, because I know both of these movies by

heart. I know the first one better than the second

one, and I know the third one better than the

second one. See, I'm the opposite. I know the

second one better than the first one, and I know

the second one. I know the third one alright,

but the third one's kind of a 90s cheese thing

for me. They changed the one cop too. Yeah, yeah

they did. Taggart was off in retirement in Arizona

or something or other But Beverly Hills cop 1984

When going back and listening to this I Found

myself even though I didn't watch the rewatch

the movie for this recording because we just

did an MWIRE episode on it last year episode

125 Which I will link in the show notes Did find

myself having to go on YouTube and find clips

of this just I mean I know the films on Netflix

And I know it's other places that I could watch

the whole thing, but I didn't want to watch the

whole thing but some some of the music I Really

did not remember obviously when it comes to the

songs on on the first film We all know you know

The heat is on it's the main theme neutron dance

is you know when they're doing the truck chase

I forget where Patti LaBelle's new attitude comes

in on on the film, but I Love this one, but I

don't love it as much as the second one. I It's

one of those things where the second movie As

I said before in many of the G -Seren shows when

I was a kid my mom let me watch almost anything

if she'll let me watch Freddy Krueger She'll

let me watch Axel Foley, you know And it's one

of those things where 1988 and 1989 whenever

it was whenever this first came out on VHS or

whenever it first hit TV and we recorded it and

now the TV version obviously is bleeped and all

that stuff, but I Remember watching the second

one more than the first one I knew of the first

one, I had seen the first one, but it was one

of those instances where I had seen the second

one a hell of a lot more times than the first

one. Do you have a favorite instrumental track

and then a favorite song off of the first film

score? Well, one, I like the signature Axl Foley.

Everybody loves the Axl F theme, folks. It's

kind of hard not to. I don't know, that's probably

my favorite one. Just because it's that synth

sound to it, which kind of reminds me of Transformers

the movie. And whenever they show Axel in the

movie, this music comes up. So in that regard,

I think that... And it's nothing against the

soundtrack, but it's against the film itself.

They made each track almost has this exact same

riff in it. Well, he uses it throughout the tracks

because, again, I've said this before, you have

to work in the hero theme every time the hero,

every time Eddie Murphy pops up. His theme music

has to play no matter what he's doing even anytime.

He's in it. It's anytime. He's doing something

sneaky Mm -hmm. Oh, yeah Absolutely, that's that's

a sneaky thing. Mm -hmm. And so like when you

see that In the movie and you hear it coming

you hear that You know that he's gonna do something

that's kind of Questionable. Yeah, he didn't

you know But that's my favorite part. But then,

I think the only thing that got a little grating

listening to the soundtrack though was that I

heard it repetitively, but I realized that without

the visuals to go along with it, you're focused

solely on the music. But no, I mean, throughout

the tracks though, I did enjoy them. Trying to

figure out which the other one was that I really

liked. Go on and talk about your thoughts on

it all. The interesting thing about this is,

you're right, he does use the Axel F theme, but

he, Faltermeyer doesn't change it, but he modifies

it. He won't modify, change, same damn thing,

but it's one of those things where a slight note

change, or a slight tone change, or a different

synth type sound. It sometimes gets in lower

sometimes comes in softer sometimes comes in

louder Like you're saying when it's mixed in

with the other music again, it's one of those

things where Like take track 14 good guys on

the grounds that track is part of the scene when

they go to Maitland's house, okay, and You got

Billy and you got got rosewood and you got taggart

and and they're you know doing their thing and

axel starts doing his thing well once axel starts

doing his thing the axel f theme has to come

up within that track because again your your

heroic anthem has to show when your hero is there

uh for an actual song for me i like neutron dance

but And I like The Heat Is On, but I've just

gotten so... I've heard The Heat Is On so many

times. Well, they was on commercials a lot, too.

But it's not even that. Every time you watch

an 80s movie, it's pretty much in there. The

one thing that I will say about some of these

tracks is it reminds me of... Because they had

some... I want to say they had some of this in

one of the old Ninja Turtle movies. Like this

type of synth, but... It also reminds me of Donkey

Kong Country Like especially the The Rosewood

there are the good guys on the ground yeah, it

reminds me of like some levels in Donkey Kong

Country. I'm like oh It's fun. Yep, absolutely

Like I said, I enjoy the first film score, but

I really enjoy the second film score a little

bit more. If you were going to rate Beverly Hills

Cop the original motion picture score or motion

picture soundtrack from while on record zero

to five, what would you give it? I'd give it

a four. Yeah, I'd give it a four as well. Like

I said, I very much do enjoy it. but 2 is more

memorable for me. It's more diverse. Oh yeah,

absolutely. So we're gonna take a quick break,

give you guys a sampling of Beverly Hills Cop

2, and then we'll be back with thoughts on that

soundtrack. Alright folks, we are back and we're

going to talk about part two, Beverly Hills Cop

II, the single disc soundtrack here. LawnLine

Records, Paramount Pictures, and Universal Music

Special Markets presents the world premiere official

release of acclaimed composer Harold Fultemeier's

original motion picture score to 1987's smash

hit sequel, Beverly Hills Cop II, starring Eddie

Murphy, Judge Reinhold, and John Ashton, directed

by Tony Scott. Building upon its sensational

1984 Beverly Hills Cups score, composer Falter

Meier develops his action -comedy synthscape

in exciting directions, melding his iconic Axel

Foley themes amongst new, propulsive motifs and

melodies, all the while boosting the film's slick

visual action -packed approach taken by director

Tony Scott. The original film score makes its

world premiere with this deluxe presentation

which also includes the bonus tracks and the

original soundtrack releases most notable songs

featuring the hard -driving shakedown performed

by Bob Seeger written by Faltemeier Seeger and

Keith Forsey the strip -pole hug and I want your

sex does anybody remember club 385 north I actually

posted that on Twitter like right before we did

this I'm like does anybody remember the who remembers

club 385 north and the song that played there.

And may you rest in peace, George Michael. And

more. Also here, the rare Faltermire track, Bad

Guys, which expertly repurposes the film's villain

theme as a song with vocals by Keith Forsey.

Produced by For La Land Records by Dan Golosser

and mastered by Doug Schwartz, this limited edition

release of 3 ,000 units includes exclusive in

-depth liner notes written by writer Tim Grieving

with new interview quotes from falter meyer and

stylish art design by goldwasser now this one

is one i will listen to on repeat this has thirty

six tracks total album time of seventy nine minutes

twenty four seconds uh... as i said before it's

got bad guys shakedown it's got i want your sex

it's got be there by the planter senate sisters

it's got uh... all revved up by germaine jackson

It's got Better Way by James Ingram. Now, Better

Way was the song at the very end of the movie

when Axel's like, this is my uncle's house, trust

me. You know, and he drives off and he kind of

looks back and then, you know, and then Better

Way kind of plays in, kind of pulls in. So on

this one, honestly, I love all the tracks. I

can't even pick one, just everything about this.

If I really have to pick, I'm going to pick three.

Adrianos, Bogomil, Oilwell, Jog. Bogomil gets

shot. So those are tracks one and two. And then

the other one would be track 20, City Deposit.

Because City Deposit is the scene where there's

a robbery inside. I need authorization. Bam,

bam, bam. Authorized. This is when they shoot

the alarm out to catch the The the alphabet bandits

at the city, but I just I love that music I love

that scene and it's just so freaking cool. What

about you? Minor warehouse because that's part

of the thing from the first movie Axel calls

Jeffrey just because it's weird Oilfield shootout

just because it's a different tone and then the

CD deposit. The interesting thing about Track

25, oil field shootout slash kill Denton Carla,

I've said this before in certain things. When

we're watching a movie or a television show and

there's a sound effect, like I've talked about

this before when we've talked about The Flash.

His whooshing his his speed sounds, okay I was

not expecting them to be on the score by Blake

Neely like actually in the music that's the same

thing with the oilfield shootout and slash kill

Denton Carla because Kill Denton Carla has the

music slowed down. It's got the doves flying

It's got the birds all over the place and then

after debt gets killed Taggart comes in and shoots

Carla because I remember this I know the movie

like the back of my hand but I remember this

like the music almost stops when you hear the

bang of the gun and at the end he's like Women,

huh? You know and I just What I love about track

25 here on this release is They work all that

into the music without you needing to hear the

gunshot. Like the fan whooshing or whatever sound

at the very end of that... Oh god, I just absolutely

love it. I have been dying for a legit, legal,

downloadable, whatever you want to call it, copy,

like able to purchase copy of Bob Seger's Shakedown.

If... Anybody doesn't know this song if you've

never seen this movie There's something wrong

with you number one number two if you don't know

this song almost by heart You know you don't

even have to be a Bob Seeger fan to know this

song But this song was so epic that you know

just like the heat is on is the main theme song

for the first film This is in my mind shakedown

is the main theme actual licensed song for this

movie uh... mike dodd over this week in geek

uh... which i will actually be posting this both

on gcr and this week in geek but mike dodd uh...

had found shakedown for me through other means

number of years ago so the statute of limitations

at this point has run out on that uh... and this

is back before i was editing somebody decided

to play a practical joke on me and slow the song

down to where you almost can't recognize it.

You asshat. Who did it? You did it, you dumbass.

What did I do? You took Shakedown and you...

Remember the original TFG -1 Beverly Hills Cop

thing that I lost my audio? Yeah, that was like

eight years ago. Yeah, I know. Well, you took

the... The Shakedown song, and you slowed it

down to the point where you could barely recognize

it. I didn't do it on purpose. Yeah, sure you

didn't. No, I didn't. Audacity, what I was using

at the time, it crapped the bed on all of the

recordings, whenever it imported something in.

Yeah, you can believe what you want, but that's

what happened. That's why I quit using Audacity.

Yeah, I only use Audacity now to actually grab

audio. I don't use it to edit anymore. Alright,

out of the score tracks. Oh, we already mentioned

that. Out of the actual songs, what is your favorite

actual song that's on here? Shakedown. Yep. Absolutely.

I mean, I love Bad Guys. I think Bad Guys is

a perfect, you know, intro and villain theme

kind of thing. I do like All Revved Up. I do

like Better Way. I had already heard I Want Your

Sex by George Michael plenty of times. My mom

was a huge George Michael fan back then. So,

but yeah, Shakedown is most definitely it for

me as well. How often do you think you will go

back and listen to these scores? I think I'd

listen to a medley of my favorite ones between

the two. So in other words, I'd cut out a lot

of the repetitive sounding ones from the first

one and mix the ones that don't have as much

of it with a lot of what's in this and then I

think I'd have a best of album. Absolutely, absolutely

for me I can listen to the second one all day

long It's just just the way it is. I can listen

to that stuff all damn day long So yeah, that's

what's uh, that's that's the Beverly Hills cop

one and two reviews What are we gonna give Beverly

Hills cop to zero to five? Probably get a four

point five. I gotta give it a five I gotta. It's

just so, so awesome. Absolutely love it. So coming

up next on the La La Lounge, we're gonna go back

to DC. I think it's gonna be a little bit different

of an episode because one person has seen...

all the seasons of one of the shows and the other

person has not. So I'm going to split the episode

up. Next time around in episode seven of the

La La Land Lounge we're going to be doing DC's

Legend of Tomorrow's season one score and Arrow's

season four score. So hopefully you'll be on

the DC side with Legends. Oh yeah. Actually,

no, I need to reverse that. I mean you can be

on both. It doesn't matter I'm gonna have Doug

come on with us for legends and Doug and his

wife have not yet gone through all of arrows

So it's just gonna be you and I talking season

four score for arrow So that's what's coming

up on La La Lounge next time around and then

after that I'm trying to think if this episode

goes up to This week or next week. Yeah, so this

episode is gonna go up Tuesday the 21st Hopefully

legends and arrow legend season 1 arrow season

4 will go up to 28th and then a special Monday

release celebrating 30 years of Lethal Weapon

Because all and records released an eight disc

set for all four Lethal Weapon movies so March

6 2017 is the 30th anniversary of when the lethal

weapon movie get released way back when in 1987

so there's that that's what's coming up here

in the lawn lounge Anything you want to pimp

out before we get out of here? No All right Be

sure to go over to lawlandrecords .com where

soundtracks live everybody. They just released

their Cliffhanger 2 CD set. They just released

a score for Justice League Dark. They've got

a bunch of stuff coming up this year, no clue

what some of it is, but stay tuned to us, stay

tuned to their website, and we will catch you

later. you