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Beverly Hills Cop II
(1987)
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Composed, Performed, and Produced by:
Harold Faltermeyer
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LABEL & RELEASE DATE
La-La Land Records
(November 29th, 2016)
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ALBUM AVAILABILITY
The 2016 La-La Land album was limited to 3,000 copies and available only through soundtrack specialty outlets for an initial price of $20. After selling out, it escalated in value to $200 or more.
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The song "Shakedown" was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
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Buy it... if you have a soft spot for the Harold Faltermeyer's score for Beverly Hills Cop and desire a faithful continuation of that same sound.

Avoid it... if you expect any significant evolution in the composer's stylistic personality for the franchise, though two new themes of increasing coolness are introduced to lend more credible action tones.
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FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #2,251
WRITTEN 3/26/24
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Beverly Hills Cop II: (Harold Faltermeyer) After the immense success of Eddie Murphy's humor in the buddy cop flick Beverly Hills Cop, the studio desired to spin off the concept into a television series. Murphy balked at the idea, however, and the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer was summoned to create Beverly Hills Cop II instead. The sequel struggled from the start to balance its humor and action, new director Tony Scott naturally inclined towards the latter, and post-production re-shoots aimed to infuse the movie with more of the Murphy wisecracking and other antics in an effort to salvage the franchise. Unfortunately, the end result remains a standard action genre entry, the lead detectives from the first film essentially forced into a remake in which there are flashier international villains. The team of protagonists must repel their own leadership while pursuing the truth behind a string of robberies and killings that is inevitably linked to a massive criminal scheme. On the upside, the addition of Jürgen Prochnow as the prime villain and Brigitte Nielsen as his assassin infuses some class into the enterprise. Still, Beverly Hills Cop II just wasn't funny enough to justify the massive grosses enticed at the theaters by the 1987 movie, and this mediocrity did stunt the franchise moving forward. Simpson and Bruckheimer were quick to request the return of German musician and synthesist Harold Faltermeyer to the production team, both to provide the score and pen at least one song to headline the soundtrack. The 1984 film's soundtrack was a monumental, Grammy-winning hit, landing several songs and an instrumental score track on the Billboard charts internationally. Particularly remarkable was the triumph of Faltermeyer's main theme from the score, "Axel F," inspiring endless covers and heard everywhere in the mid-1980's. For the composer, the sequel was an opportunity to revisit the same general mould while layering new synthetic capabilities on top of the familiar and favorite core material. At this point in his career, he was still recording day and night in Giorgio Moroder's studio and had access to all of the newest sampled options from the vast array of equipment.


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119 TOTAL VOTES
Average: 3.04 Stars
***** 19 5 Stars
**** 24 4 Stars
*** 34 3 Stars
** 27 2 Stars
* 15 1 Stars
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TRACK LISTINGS
Total Time: 79:08
• 1. Adrianos (2:52)
• 2. Bogomil Oil Well Jog/Bogomil Gets Shot (2:28)
• 3. Axel Gets the News (1:10)
• 4. Warehouse* (0:34)
• 5. Hospital Visit (1:05)
• 6. Mansion* (1:07)
• 7. Loyalty/Drive to Shooting Club* (1:51)
• 8. Boys Car Talk* (1:11)
• 9. Shoot Screens/Meet Dent and Cain (2:53)
• 10. I'll Be Sure to Duck (0:54)
• 11. Drive to Bogomil's* (0:58)
• 12. Axel Shoes/Boys at Mansion (1:24)
• 13. Splash/Drive to 385* (0:41)
• 14. Shootout (0:53)
• 15. Boys at Rosewood's (0:42)
• 16. Axel Calls Jeffrey (1:01)
• 17. Fingerprint* (0:27)
• 18. Sneak to Shooting Club (2:33)
• 19. Jeffrey Calls Todd/Lutz Calls Jeffrey (1:29)
• 20. City Deposit (4:12)
• 21. Tire Tread to Hef's/Drive to Bernstein's* (1:44)
• 22. Racetrack (5:04)
• 23. Drive to Oil/Hit Vic* (2:25)
• 24. Sneak to Shack/Alarm (1:44)
• 25. Oil Field Shootout/Kill Dent and Karla (4:11)
• 26. Wrap Up* (0:56)
• 27. Goodbye (1:11)

Bonus Tracks: (1:07)
• 28. Loyalty (Alternate) (0:12)
• 29. Goodbye (Alternate) (0:49)

Songs: (29:24)
• 30. Bad Guys - performed by Keith Forsey (4:35)
• 31. Shakedown - performed by Bob Seger (4:02)
• 32. I Want Your Sex - performed by George Michael (4:45)
• 33. Be There - performed by The Pointer Sisters (4:12)
• 34. All Revved Up - performed by Jermaine Jackson (4:00)
• 35. Better Way - performed by James Ingram (4:09)
• 36. In Deep - performed by Charlie Sexton (3:32)
* Contains material not used in film

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NOTES AND QUOTES
The insert contains extensive information about the score and film.
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