February 18, 2008

A Night with John Hughes in the 80s

Do you know how many music cues are in the average John Hughes movie? Or how difficult it is to find any songs from the Rave-Ups or Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy's 80s albums? Lucikly for me a lot of you showed up for John Hughes night at The Velvet, setting right so many teen injustices. Here's the list of teen classics.

1. Big Audio Dynamite "Bad"
2. Killing Joke "Eighties"
3. Billy Idol "Rebel Yell"
4. INXS "Do Wot You Do"
5. The Smiths "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
6. Danny Hutton Hitters "Wouldn't It Be Good"
7. Echo & the Bunnymen "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
8. The Vapors "Turning Japanese"
9. David Bowie "Young Americans"
10. The Specials "Little Bitch"
11. New Order "Shell-Shock"
12. Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark "If You Leave"
13. Wang Chung "To Live & Die In L.A."
14. Suzanne Vega f/ Joe Jackson "Left of Center"
15. Altered Images "Happy Birthday"
16. General Public "Tenderness"
17. Spandau Ballet "True"
18. The Thompson Twins "If You Were Here"
19. Flesh for Lulu "I Go Crazy"
20. Oingo Boingo "Weird Science"
21. Kim Wilde "Tuning In Tuning On"
22. Yello "Oh Yeah"
23. New Order "Thieves Like Us"
24. Oingo Boingo "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)"
25. The Del Fuegos "Nervous and Shakey"
26. Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Love Missle F1-11"
27. Wang Chung "Fire In the Twilight"
28. The Dream Academy "The Edge of Forever"
29. The Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
30. The Rave-Ups "Positively Lost Me"
31. Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"

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