LABEL: Demon/Edsel
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 11/11/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2022
VARIANT: Import, Red Vinyl 6LP Box Set

6LP 140gm Vinyl Box Set. 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”. Also includes an extensive 24-page booklet including 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)

– Disc 2 –
1Kirsty MacColl – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version)
2Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson – Left of Center
3Pete Shelley – Do Anything (Soundtrack Version)
4Carmel – It’s All in the Game
5The Dream Academy – Power to Believe (Instrumental)
6Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work
7The Beat – March of the Swivelheads (Rotating Heads – Dub Version)
8Nick Heyward – When It Started to Begin
9Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Tesla Girls
10Big Audio Dynamite – Bad
11Killing Joke – Eighties
12The Specials – Little Bitch

– Disc 3 –
1Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (Come and Get It) (Us Club Mix
2Flesh for Lulu – Slide
3Love and Rockets – Haunted When the Minutes Drag
4Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
5Lords of the New Church – Method to My Madness
6The Jesus and Mary Chain – the Hardest Walk (Single Version)
7Echo & the Bunnymen – Bring on the Dancing Horses
8General Public – Tenderness
9The Blue Room – I’m Afraid
10Belouis Some – Round, Round
11Thompson Twins – If You Were Here
12The Dream Academy – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)

– Disc 4 –
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

– Disc 5 –
1Ray Charles – Mess Around
2Joe Turner – Lipstick, Powder and Paint
3Darlene Love – (Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry
4Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
5Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers – Juke Box Baby
6The Chordettes – Mr. Sandman
7Ray Anthony and His Orchestra – the Peter Gunn Theme
8Lindsey Buckingham – Holiday Road
9Emmylou Harris – Back in Baby’s Arms
10Hugh Harris – Rhythm of Life
11Spandau Ballet – True
12Propaganda – Abuse – Here
13The Dream Academy – the Edge of Forever

– Disc 6 –
1Yello – Lost Again (Album Version)
2Bryan Ferry – Crazy Love
3The Rave-Ups – Positively Lost Me
4Los Lobos – Don’t Worry Baby
5Steve Earle – Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)
6The Revillos – Rev Up!
7Boston – More Than a Feeling
8Balaam and the Angel – I’ll Show You Something Special
9The Rave-Ups – Rave Up/Shut Up
10Pop Will Eat Itself – Beaver Patrol
11The Vapors – Turning Japanese
12Silicon Teens – Red River Rock