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It's probably a while since you've heard this one (unless you've been watching the film, I suppose: I've never seen it). We're in the middle of that slightly odd mid-nineties phase when U2 didn't seem to know quite who or what they were, and for my money wandered into some more interesting avenues than they have in this decade, but that's for another time. What we have here is the rhythm section taking time out to perform the theme tune to the old-TV-series-turned-blockbuster.
In contrast to Dodgy and OCS trying to make their albums sound thirty years old, Clayton & Mullen are evidently trying very hard to be up-to-date, with the inevitable consequence that it sounds a bit old-hat now. It's also oddly lacking in personality, presumably because the nature of the exercise didn't allow them a lot of room for interpretation: you'd hardly know it was them, really. The biggest problem is, though, that although it's a perfectly serviceable piece of theme music (you'd expect no less from Lalo Schifrin) not very much actually happens during it, and it's hard to stay interested for the full three and a half minutes.
Available on: Mission: Impossible - Music from and inspired by the motion picture.
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