HAROLD FALTERMEYER`S SYNTHESISER ALMOST AS LIVELY AS AXEL FOLEY`S MOTORMOUTH

YouTube - Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer (Original Version)


This wasn`t what i had in mind tonight, but because i cant successfully
embed video links from You Tube for whatever reason once again, for a
while there i could, i thought i would hang five on what i was going
to write about and instead write a little blog about a song from the
80`s which i guess soundtracked my conscience growing up as a young
whippersnapper. The song of course as you can see above courtesy of
the `non-visual` link is Harold Faltermeyer`s AXEL F, the theme song
from the hit 1984 movie Beverley Hills Cop. Nothing too fancy about
it, it is one of the most densely textured synthesiser tunes in the
history of recorded music which has a very 80`s noir atmospheric
feel which fitted in perfectly with the choreographed action se-
quences in Beverley Hills Cop and the antics of motormouth cop
Axel Foley, played to perfection by smart arse funny man Eddie
Murphy. Nothing more to say other than it is a brilliant futuris-
tic instrumental keyboard song which opened my eyes up as a
young kid to tolerating all kinds of instrumental music, inclu-
ding jazz and classical. AXEL F didn`t a need a singer to paint
any pictures with words, Harold Faltermeyer`s synthesiser done
the talking. The song has been covered since but this is the one.