Details

LABEL: Demon/Edsel
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 11/11/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2022
VARIANT: Deluxe Edition, Import, 4CD + Cassette + 7" Box Set

Deluxe Edition 4CD+7+Cassette. Demon Music group in conjunction with the Hughes family are proud to present the first official compilation of music from the movies of legendary filmmaker John Hughes, covering the classic eighties period from 1983-1989. For anyone growing up in the 1980s, the films of John Hughes are some of the most iconic of the decade and have created a lasting cultural impact still felt and referenced across TV, film and music. As well as the characters and stories created in these iconic movies, what made John Hughes' movies different from the rest was the symbiotic relationship between scene and music. Whether Cameron Frye staring at the painting in Ferris Bueller's Day Off set to The Dream Academy's "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)", Duckie and Andie from Pretty In Pink at prom set to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's "If You Leave", or even Neal and Del's classic "Those aren't pillows" scene from Planes, Trains and Automobiles set to Emmylou Harris' "Back In Baby's Arms". Curated by John Hughes' music supervisor Tarquin Gotch, this Limited Deluxe Edition 4CD boxset includes 74 tracks from the movies National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Planes, Trains And Automobiles, She's Having A Baby, The Great Outdoors and Uncle Buck. It also includes a 14 track cassette, and re-issue of the 7" single "Beat City" / "I'm Afraid" originally distributed to the fan club mailing list upon the release of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The 4CD booklet includes memories from Matthew Broderick, James Hughes, Tarquin Gotch, Ron Payne, plus track-by-track sleeve notes.

Tracklist

- Disc 1 -
1Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo (Instrumental)
2Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me
3Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave
4Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
5Furniture - Brilliant Mind
6Dave Wakeling - She's Having a Baby
7The Flowerpot Men - Beat City
8The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
9Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy
10Dr. Calculus - Full of Love
11Lick the Tins - Can't Help Falling in Love
12Steve Earle & the Dukes - Six Days on the Road (Album Version)
13Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version)
14Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson - Left of Center
15Pete Shelley - Do Anything (Soundtrack Version)
16Carmel - It's All in the Game
17The Dream Academy - Power to Believe (Instrumental)
18Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
19New Order - Elegia

- Disc 2 -
1The Beat - March of the Swivelheads (Rotating Heads - Dub Version)
2Nick Heyward - When It Started to Begin
3Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Tesla Girls
4Big Audio Dynamite - Bad
5Killing Joke - Eighties
6The Specials - Little Bitch
7Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come and Get It) (Us Club Mix)
8Flesh for Lulu - Slide
9Love and Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag
10Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
11Lords of the New Church - Method to My Madness
12The Jesus and Mary Chain - the Hardest Walk (Single Version)
13Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
14General Public - Tenderness
15The Blue Room - I'm Afraid
16Belouis Some - Round, Round
17Thompson Twins - If You Were Here
18The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)

- Disc 3 -
1Yello - Oh Yeah
2Book of Love - Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
3Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness
4Patti Smith - Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
5Westworld - Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo
6Divinyls - Ring Me Up
7Topper Headon - Drummin' Man
8Billy Idol - Catch My Fall
9The Association - Cherish
10Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a Found Harmonium
11Zapp - Radio People
12The Blue Room - Cry Like This
13Ray Charles - Mess Around
14Joe Turner - Lipstick, Powder and Paint
15Darlene Love - (Today I Met) the Boy I'm Gonna Marry
16Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
17Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers - Juke Box Baby
18The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
19Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - the Peter Gunn Theme

- Disc 4 -
1Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road
2Emmylou Harris - Back in Baby's Arms
3Hugh Harris - Rhythm of Life
4Spandau Ballet - True
5Propaganda - Abuse - Here
6The Dream Academy - the Edge of Forever
7Yello - Lost Again (Album Version)
8Yello - Lost Again (Album Version)
9The Rave-Ups - Positively Lost Me
10Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby
11Steve Earle - Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)
12The Revillos - Rev Up!
13Boston - More Than a Feeling
14Balaam and the Angel - I'll Show You Something Special
15The Rave-Ups - Rave Up/Shut Up
16Pop Will Eat Itself - Beaver Patrol
17The Vapors - Turning Japanese
18Silicon Teens - Red River Rock