Pretty In Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Performer: Various ArtistsPerformer: Harry Dean Stanton
Performer: Jon Cryer
Performer: Annie Potts
Performer: James Spader
Performer: Andrew McCarthy
Performer: Jim Haynie
Performer: Alexa Kenin
Performer: Kate Vernon
Performer: Andrew Dice Clay
Performer: Emily Longstreth
Performer: Margaret Colin
Performer: Jamie Anders
Performer: Gina Gershon
Performer: Bader Howar
Performer: Christian Jacobs
Performer: Audre Johnston
Performer: Melanie Manos
Performer: Maggie Roswell
Performer: Dweezil Zappa
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
- Left of Center - Suzanne Vega w/ Joe Jackson
- Get To Know Ya - Jesse Johnson
- Do Wot You Do - INXS
- Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
- Shell-Shock - New Order
- Round, Round - Belouis Some
- Wouldn't It Be Good - Danny Hutton Hitters
- Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo & The Bunnymen
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Free Music Notes for Pretty In Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Formed the backbone of what I listened to for 10 years
Hit: 5 Stars
I picked this up on vinyl back in the 80's, and played it obsessively. I grew up in a small farming community, and somehow, country music didn't do it for me. I had no idea what else to listen to, until I bought this soundtrack. I didn't know who any of the bands were at the time, but loved them all so much that I began to track them down. This was before INXS hit it big, but when I heard another one of their songs, I rushed out and bought their album. I was sure that Suzannne Vega had a pipeline to my soul--I was Left of Center--and she understood! Morrissey's voice was like a beacon from elsewhere, and for the next 10 years, I listened to New Order and the Smiths constantly. I own all of Echo and the Bunnymen now, I think, and the Psychedelic Furs will always have a place in my heart for their marvelous version of this fantastic song. I was perhaps the only person in America to track down a Belois Some album, which I still have. It's great!
Essentially, this soundtrack became a sourcebook for me. It was the first "trendy" non main stream commercial pop that I had found. The fact that all of these songs sound like perfect classic 80's pop is a testament to the person who compiled this. This soundtrack doesn't sound revolutionary any more, but this was essentially for me the 80's equivalent of Seth Cohen introducing Ryan Atwood to Death Cab for Cutie.
If you love delicious pop music, if you adore the 80's, if you secretly wish Molly Ringwald still was a huge star, rush out and buy this. You won't be disappointed.
Pretty In Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
Few filmmakers managed to capture the awkward coming-of-age catastrophes of '80s teens the way John Hughes did, just as few soundtracks encapsulate the sound of an era better than this one does. It's not the best 1986 had to offer, but it's a cohesive whole, transporting the listener to that other time, imagined or otherwise. There's enough variety to ensure that it doesn't become wallpaper, and very little filler. "Left of Center" by Suzanne Vega, with Joe Jackson on piano, is tremendous and transcends generations. Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler has long been bemused about Hughes not taking Molly Ringwald's character's name from the title song, which inspired the film, but everyone was paying too much attention to what Ducky was wearing to notice anyway. --Scott WilsonAlternative Rock Music CDs
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