Other Mixes By Cassiel
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"This is an incredibly romantic moment, and you're ruining it for me! "
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Pretty in Pink (Pretty in Pink, 1986) | |
| The Smiths | Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Pretty in Pink, 1986) | |
| The Pixies | Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) (Pump up the Volume, 1990) | |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain | The Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful, 1987) | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Bring on the Dancing Horses (Pretty in Pink, 1986) | |
| Kate Bush | This Woman's Work (She's Having a Baby, 1988) | |
| Peter Gabriel | In Your Eyes (Say Anything, 1989) | |
| Furniture | Brilliant Mind (Some Kind of Wonderful, 1987) | |
| Gerard McMann | Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys) (The Lost Boys, 1987) | |
| Leonard Cohen | Everybody Knows (Pump up the Volume, 1990) | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Simple Minds | (Don't You) Forget About Me. (The Breakfast Club, 1985) | |
| John Parr | St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)(St Elmo's Fire, 1985) | |
| Run DMC (feat Aerosmith) | Walk This Way (The Lost Boys, 1987) | |
| Bad Brains (feat Henry Rollins) | Kick Out the Jams (Pump up the Volume, 1990) | |
| Was (Not Was) | Hello Dad, I'm in jail (Pump up the Volume, 1990) | |
| New Order | Thieves Like US (Pretty in Pink, 1986) | |
| Yello | Oh Yeah (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986) | |
| Depeche Mode | Stripped (Say Anything, 1989) | |
| Orchestral Manouvere's in the Dark | If You Leave (Pretty in Pink, 1986) | |
| Leonard Cohen | If it Be Your Will (Pump up the Volume, 1990) | |
Comment:
Love 'em or dismiss them out of hand for the disposable teen trash they were; John Hughe's 80's teen high school movies had cool soundtracks; The Psychedelic Furs, New Order, INXS (pre-megastardom), to name but a few. The Breakfast Club broke Simple Minds in America (which may not necessarily have been a good thing but . . . erm.)These are twenty tracks fromJohn Hughes'esque, teen high school movies. Not all of them are from films that can strictly be called teen high school flicks (The Lost Boys, St Elmo's Fire, She's Having a Baby), not all of them are on the accompanying soundtrack albums and not all of them (Pump up the Volume) are from the eighties but they do all share a certain, brat pack, teen movie something. Enjoy.
Title quote comes from the film Pretty in Pink. The years in brackets refer to the year of the movie's release not the song's although the two are often the same.
Feedback:
Excellent! Yeah, take or leave the movies, but you can't deny the music. What happened to Furniture? That was a great song.
Oh man! How i love each and everyone of these movies, and partly because of the soundtracks!
This is Awesome!!!
This is Awesome!!!
could you imagine having music like this in today's teen-crap-comedies? Damn. I mean, screwing a pie would seem so much more artistic with a little New Order in the background. (Perhaps "confusion" or "ruined in a day")?
Nice concept, though much of this is pretty horrifying (i.e. John Parr). I'm partial to the Valley Girl soundtrack myself; and the use of the Replacements' "Within Your Reach" in Say Anything was great. Wasn't that annoying Yello song used in a half dozen teen comedies back then? Michael J. Fox's Secret Of My Success comes to mind.
Holy crap, I know some people who would LOOOOVVVEE this mix. While I am not the biggest fan of all of these films, I do really dig a lot of the music. Good call in using the Leonard Cohen...though the Concrete Blonde version of "Everybody Knows" is pretty good too. You get a gold star! Cheers -Famous.
I always wondered who sang, "Hello Dad, I'm in Jail"...thanks for the heads-up.
What popkulcher said
Ditto Bear Re:Furniture....I remember hearing their album and aside from BMind it was pretty non descript...some of these trax are truly great...others are appaling...I f***** hope Leonard made some good money out of his contributions!
Very nice concept and mix. I have a few comments to add: First of all, any attention Simple Minds got from their "Breakfast Club" song was definitely a good thing -- they were a great band! Pick up "New Gold Dream" sometime and listen to the excellent musicianship, especially the bass playing (and notice that jazz legend Herbie Hancock performs during one of their songs). They weren't as simple as their name implies. Secondly, while I appreciate your selection, you left out some notable favorites: The Dream Academy's instrumental version of "Please x 3 Let Me Get What I Want" and Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off; The Thompson Twins' "If You Were Here" in Sixteen Candles; Propaganda's instrumental version of "Dr. Mabuse" in Some Kind of Wonderful; and Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" from Weird Science are just a few. Thirdly, if you're going to include the movie Pump Up the Volume, why not include M/A/R/R/S's awesome song, "Pump Up the Volume"? Fourth of all, the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles has a terrific Book of Love song, "Modigliani," which would fit well here. Oh well, maybe volume 2?
I agree there are a whole bunch of other songs that could be on here but aren't however; I didn't consider "Pump Up the Volume" by M/A/R/R/S because, to the best of my knowledge (and I've checked this against the movie credits) it doesn't appear in the film. If I was going to add somesomething else from Pump Up the Volume it would have been either The Beastie Boys', "The Scenario" or The Descendents', "Weiner Schnitzel" but neither seemed, to me, to really suit the mood of this mix. I like the idea of a vol. 2, though.
Come to think of it, maybe "Pump Up the Volume" isn't in Pump Up the Volume. It seems like it should be...