Artist	Song
Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)
from The Best of Simple Minds (Remastered) (2009)
The Psychedelic Furs	Pretty In Pink
from The Psychedelic Furs: Greatest Hits (2001)
Oingo Boingo	Weird Science
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo (2002)
Yello	Oh Yeah
from Stella (2005)
Wayne Newton	Danke Schoen
from Mr. las Vegas (2005)
Spandau Ballet	True
from True Ballads (2003)
Frank Sinatra	Theme from New York, New York
from Nothing But the Best - The Frank Sinatra Collection (Remastered) (2008)
Sam Cooke	Chain Gang
from The Man Who Invented Soul (2000)
John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra	Main Title Theme from Star Wars
from Encore!: Best of the Boston Pops (2004)
David Bowie	Changes
from Best of Bowie (2002)
Ray Charles	Mess Around
from Ray Charles (2005)
Van Halen	(Oh) Pretty Woman
from The Best of Both Worlds (2004)
Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness
from The Very Best of Otis Redding (2007)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark	If You Leave
from The OMD Singles (1998)
Thompson Twins	If You Were Here
from Thompson Twins: Greatest Hits - Love, Lies and Other Strange Things (1996)
Billy Idol	Rebel Yell
from Billy Idol: Greatest Hits (2001)
Tone Loc	Wild Thing
from Waxing Off: Delicious Vinyl's Greatest Hits (2007)
Wham!	Young Guns (Go for It)
from Fantastic (1985)
Big Audio Dynamite	Bad
from This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1986)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik	Love Missile F1-11
from The First Generation - 2nd Edition (2006)
The Chordettes	Mr. Sandman
from They're Riding High Says Archie: Golden Classics (2007)
LaVern Baker	Tweedle Dee
from Soul On Fire: The Best of LaVerne Baker (2005)
The Beau Brummels	Laugh, Laugh
from Rhino Hi-Five: The Beau Brummels - EP (2006)
New Order	Shellshock
from Singles (2005)
Kajagoogoo	Kajagoogoo
from White Feathers (2004)
Patti Smith	Gloria
from Horses (1996)
The Vapors	Turning Japanese
from Turning Japanese - The Best of The Vapors (2003)
Ray Anthony	Dragnet
from Ray Anthony - Capitol Collectors Series (1995)
The Specials	Little Bitch
from The Specials (2002)
Gene Loves Jezebel	Desire (Come and Get It)
from Voodoo Dollies - The Best of Gene Loves Jezebel (1999)
Perry Como	Juke Box Baby
from Perry Como's Greatest Hits (1999)
Steve Earle & The Dukes	Six Days on the Road
from Essential Steve Earle (1993)
Altered Images	Happy Birthday
from Happy Birthday (1995)
Killing Joke	Eighties
from Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! (2003)
Kate Bush	This Woman's Work
from The Sensual World (1989)
Big Joe Turner	Lipstick, Powder and Paint
from Big Joe Turner: The Rhythm & Blues Years (2005)
Fats Waller	Yacht Club Swing
from Ain't Misbehavin (2004)
Love and Rockets	Haunted When the Minutes Drag
from Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (2000)
Zapp	Radio People
from The New Zapp IV U (2008)
Kirsty MacColl	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
from Kirsty MacColl: The Collection (2008)
Book of Love	Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
from Book of Love (2008)
The Dream Academy	The Edge of Forever
from The Dream Academy (2005)
Paul Williams Sextet	Thirty Five Thirty
from Stompin' at the Savoy: Harlem Nocturne, 1944 - 1947 (2005)

Comment:

Whether you were a misunderstood '80s teenager or just [i]wish[/i] you were, John Hughes' films have got your number, not to mention your ringtone. Whichever one of Hughes' high-school archetypes you identify with, from Anthony Michael Hall's [i]Breakfast Club[/i] "neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie" to Matthew Broderick's smooth-talking tornado Ferris Bueller, they all played out your — oops, sorry, [i]their[/i] — lives to a soundtrack bursting with blazing rock 'n' roll, sparkling synth-pop, natty new wave . . . everything that made '80s music [i]awesome[/i]. From Hughes' teen-angst epics to his later "grown-up"-but-goofy comedies, we've scoured the soundtrack stack to offer you an indispensable education in what the days of shoulder pads and Capezios were [i]really[/i] about, and why the riffs that rocked Ferris & co. still matter so much today.

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