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While the first disc contained music that had already been released on previous soundtracks (namely the three Miami Vice albums and Hammer's own album, Escape from Television), the second CD featured cues that had never previously been released in any format. However, the album was released in only limited numbers and today copies can sell for ...
The music video of the theme is a mini-episode of the TV series with Hammer as a fugitive on the run from James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Throughout the majority of the video, Hammer performs the theme in front of a projector screen playing footage from the TV series – including scenes of the Vice duo chasing him.
The album contains selected instrumental pieces composed and performed by Hammer that had been used as film score in the American television series Miami Vice prior to the album's release, along with the main theme to the series, plus one of Hammer's tracks that was not used in the series ("Before the Storm").
List of Miami Vice soundtracks; Miami Vice II; Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (album) Moonlighting (soundtrack) Music for a Darkened Theatre: Film & Television Music Volume One; Music of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; Music of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
As was customary for Miami Vice episodes, [6] "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" made use of popular music. The opening scene features "Baba O'Riley" by The Who, and "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits plays during the climactic scene. Incidental music by series composer Jan Hammer is used for the remainder of the episode's score. [7]
It won an MTV Video Music Award in 1985, and inspired an episode of Miami Vice, in which Frey guest-starred. In the video, Frey plays a smuggler (his then-wife Janie plays the smuggler's female accomplice). The video is like a short movie, fitting the lyrics exactly and packs danger, suspense, and intrigue into a small segment of time.
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In 1994, "Crockett's Theme" was included in the new-age music compilation Pure Moods as well as its 1997 re-release. In 2002, "Crockett's Theme" was featured in the soundtrack of video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (as a part of Emotion 98.3 in-game radio station), which itself is heavily based on Miami Vice. [19]