LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST - THE JOHN HUGHES MIXTAPES 4CD + CASSETTE + 7" BOX SET (Deluxe Edition, Import)

Product Description

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 -

1 Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo (Instrumental)

2 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me

3 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave

4 Oingo Boingo - Weird Science

5 Furniture - Brilliant Mind

6 Dave Wakeling - She's Having a Baby

7 The Flowerpot Men - Beat City

8 The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink

9 Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy

10 Dr. Calculus - Full of Love

11 Lick the Tins - Can't Help Falling in Love

12 Steve Earle & the Dukes - Six Days on the Road (Album Version)

13 Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version)

14 Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson - Left of Center

15 Pete Shelley - Do Anything (Soundtrack Version)

16 Carmel - It's All in the Game

17 The Dream Academy - Power to Believe (Instrumental)

18 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

19 New Order - Elegia

- Disc 2 -

1 The Beat - March of the Swivelheads (Rotating Heads - Dub Version)

2 Nick Heyward - When It Started to Begin

3 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Tesla Girls

4 Big Audio Dynamite - Bad

5 Killing Joke - Eighties

6 The Specials - Little Bitch

7 Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come and Get It) (Us Club Mix)

8 Flesh for Lulu - Slide

9 Love and Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag

10 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)

11 Lords of the New Church - Method to My Madness

12 The Jesus and Mary Chain - the Hardest Walk (Single Version)

13 Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

14 General Public - Tenderness

15 The Blue Room - I'm Afraid

16 Belouis Some - Round, Round

17 Thompson Twins - If You Were Here

18 The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)

- Disc 3 -

1 Yello - Oh Yeah

2 Book of Love - Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)

3 Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

4 Patti Smith - Gloria: In Excelsis Deo

5 Westworld - Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo

6 Divinyls - Ring Me Up

7 Topper Headon - Drummin' Man

8 Billy Idol - Catch My Fall

9 The Association - Cherish

10 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a Found Harmonium

11 Zapp - Radio People

12 The Blue Room - Cry Like This

13 Ray Charles - Mess Around

14 Joe Turner - Lipstick, Powder and Paint

15 Darlene Love - (Today I Met) the Boy I'm Gonna Marry

16 Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

17 Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers - Juke Box Baby

18 The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman

19 Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - the Peter Gunn Theme

- Disc 4 -

1 Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road

2 Emmylou Harris - Back in Baby's Arms

3 Hugh Harris - Rhythm of Life

4 Spandau Ballet - True

5 Propaganda - Abuse - Here

6 The Dream Academy - the Edge of Forever

7 Yello - Lost Again (Album Version)

8 Yello - Lost Again (Album Version)

9 The Rave-Ups - Positively Lost Me

10 Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby

11 Steve Earle - Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)

12 The Revillos - Rev Up!

13 Boston - More Than a Feeling

14 Balaam and the Angel - I'll Show You Something Special

15 The Rave-Ups - Rave Up/Shut Up

16 Pop Will Eat Itself - Beaver Patrol

17 The Vapors - Turning Japanese

18 Silicon Teens - Red River Rock