{"id":41430,"date":"2009-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/beverly-hills-cop\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"beverly-hills-cop","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/beverly-hills-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Hills Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patti LaBelle got a new lease on life with this soundtrack project. Beverly Hills Cop <\/i>was also kind to instrumentalist Harold Faltermeyer. Both LaBelle and Faltermeyer even surprised themselves when they went all the way to #1 on the Dance Club Play chart with their hits \u201cNew Attitude\u201d and \u201cAxel F.\u201d Unfortunately, \u201cNew Attitude\u201d is one of those songs that ended up being overplayed on the radio and then on television when it became a jingle for commercials. I remember also getting sick of hearing \u201cAxel F,\u201d especially when it was put on a repetitive loop for my scout troop\u2019s slide show in the summer of 1985. Now, in retrospect, I have nothing but fond memories of both songs and the entire soundtrack as a whole.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Two other singles from this soundtrack that did well on the Billboard <\/i>charts are \u201cNeutron Dance\u201d by the Pointer Sisters and \u201cThe Heat Is On\u201d by Glenn Frey. I was very excited by \u201cNeutron Dance\u201d at the time, and today I still consider it to be the Pointers\u2019 best song. As for former Eagle Glenn Frey, he was able to get a lot of mileage off \u201cThe Heat Is On,\u201d especially considering it went as high as #2 on the pop chart. Curses be to REO Speedwagon (and their dreadful \u201cCan\u2019t Fight This Feeling\u201d) for denying him the #1 position!<\/o:p><\/p>\n

This album was one of those ’80s releases that I remember playing on my little tape recorder on many a scouting camping trip. No hike would be as interesting without music providing the accompaniment, after all! I didn\u2019t even find it necessary to go see the Eddie Murphy film; I was having too much fun creating one of my own. Recently, I did finally manage to watch the actual film and see how the music fit into it \u2013 wasn\u2019t all that impressed, I\u2019m afraid.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

What I like best about this soundtrack is how many diverse acts can be found in one place. You\u2019ve got Oingo Boingo\u2019s frontman Danny Elfman bringing some Brat Pack flavor with the angular \u2013 and totally tubular \u2013 \u201cGratitude\u201d and a Jody Watley-less Shalamar with \u201cDon\u2019t Get Stopped In Beverly Hills.\u201d Patti LaBelle proves that she is the dominating diva by giving us another fun dance cut for the road with \u201cStir It Up.\u201d It was great to have Patti back on the scene, and 1985 was truly her comeback year. One year later, she would end up with the #1 song of 1986 with the stuffy duet with Michael McDonald, \u201cOn Our Own.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Even unknowns like Junior (\u201cEmergency\u201d) and the System (\u201cRock \u2018N Roll Me Again\u201d) give it their best shot on Beverly Hills Cop<\/i>, a film that was to soon become a franchise with even more successful soundtracks still to come. Remember what \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d did for \u2013 and to \u2013 George Michael? I think the jury\u2019s still out on that one\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6722],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41430","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-original-soundtrack","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41430"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41430"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}