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The Best of Miami Vice
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Various
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Top Chart Position (Top 200)
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Did Not Chart
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Year Released
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2006
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RIAA Certification
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NONE
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The Best of Miami Vice is a 2006 soundtrack album containing music from the television series Miami Vice.
The US and European releases of the album featured different track listings and cover art. The US edition features a selection of popular and score music taken from the first three seasons of the show, while the European edition contains music from seasons 1-4.
Notes
- This is one of no less than five Miami Vice soundtrack albums released with the title The Best of Miami Vice, with others released in 1989, 1994, 1996 and 2004.
- Despite their inclusion on the European release of the album, "Send It to Me" by Gladys Knight & The Pips and "Heartbeat" by Don Johnson never actually appeared in Miami Vice. Both were, however, previously included on other Miami Vice soundtrack albums.
- Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City", Andy Taylor's "When the Rain Comes Down" and Patti LaBelle & Bill Champlin's "The Last Unbroken Heart" were written exclusively for the show and have only ever appeared on its soundtrack albums, although the former two were released as singles in 1985 and 1986, respectively.
US Track Listing
| Track | Title | Artist | Time | (First) Appears |
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| 1 | "Miami Vice Theme" | Jan Hammer | 2:26 | Single version; never appeared on the show |
| 2 | "You Belong to the City" | Glenn Frey | 5:49 | "The Prodigal Son" |
| 3 | "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" | Pat Benatar | 2:51 | "Milk Run" |
| 4 | "Bad to the Bone" | George Thorogood and the Destroyers | 3:23 | "Nobody Lives Forever" |
| 5 | "Better Be Good to Me" | Tina Turner | 5:15 | "Give a Little, Take a Little" |
| 6 | "I'm So Excited" | The Pointer Sisters | 4:30 | "Calderone's Return (Part I)" |
| 7 | "Mercy" | Steve Jones | 4:27 | "Stone's War" |
| 8 | "Crockett's Theme" | Jan Hammer | 3:25 | Single version; first heard in "Stone's War" |
| 9 | "Smuggler's Blues" | Glenn Frey | 3:45 | "Smuggler's Blues" |
| 10 | "The Glamorous Life" | Sheila E. | 3:41 | "The Home Invaders" |
| 11 | "I Want to Know What Love Is" | Foreigner | 5:04 | "Rites of Passage" |
| 12 | "Lives in the Balance" | Jackson Browne | 4:13 | "Stone's War" |
| 13 | "Turn Up the Radio" | Autograph | 4:38 | "Milk Run" |
| 14 | "The Original Miami Vice Theme" | Jan Hammer | 1:00 | Opening of every episode |
Europe Track Listing
| Track | Title | Artist | Time | (First) Appears |
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| 1 | "Miami Vice Theme" | Jan Hammer | 1:03 | Opening of every episode |
| 2 | "In Dulce Decorum" | The Damned | 4:46 | "Walk-Alone" |
| 3 | "When the Rain Comes Down" | Andy Taylor | 3:50 | "Stone's War" |
| 4 | "Crockett's Theme" | Jan Hammer | 3:25 | Single version; first heard in "Stone's War" |
| 5 | "Mercy" | Steve Jones | 4:28 | "Stone's War" |
| 6 | "Moon on Ice" | Yello | 4:15 | "The Rising Sun of Death" |
| 7 | "Chase" | Jan Hammer | 4:27 | "Brother's Keeper" |
| 8 | "I Got You (I Feel Good)" | James Brown | 2:47 | "Missing Hours" |
| 9 | "Send It to Me" | Gladys Knight & The Pips | 4:12 | Never appeared on the show |
| 10 | "Flashback" | Jan Hammer | 3:22 | "Brother's Keeper" |
| 11 | "What Is Life?" | Black Uhuru | 5:03 | "The Big Thaw" |
| 12 | "The Last Unbroken Heart" | Patti LaBelle & Bill Champlin | 3:54 | "When Irish Eyes Are Crying" |
| 13 | "Follow My Rainbow" | Sheena Easton | 4:53 | "Deliver Us from Evil" |
| 14 | "Heartbeat" | Don Johnson | 4:17 | Never appeared on the show |
| 15 | "Call It Love" | Yello | 5:05 | "Contempt of Court" |
| 16 | "New York Theme" | Jan Hammer | 2:58 | "The Prodigal Son" |
