Coming Up: "Life Moves Pretty Fast" Box Set Collects Songs from John Hughes' Films
Director John Hughes had a knack for putting pretty decent music in his films. This new box collects some of the best. Order now from Amazon.
Details:
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". The 4CD booklet includes memories from Matthew Broderick, James Hughes, Tarquin Gotch, Ron Payne, plus track-by-track sleeve notes.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 Kajagoogoo (Instrumental) [from the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles'] - Kajagoogoo
2 Don't You (Forget About Me) [from the 1985 Movie 'The Breakfast Club'] - Simple Minds
3 If You Leave (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
4 Weird Science (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - Oingo Boingo
5 Brilliant Mind (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Furniture
6 She's Having a Baby (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Dave Wakeling
7 Midnight Sun - The Flowerpot Men
8 Pretty in Pink (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - The Psychedelic Furs
9 I Go Crazy (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Flesh for Lulu
10 Full of Love (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Dr. Calculus
11 Can't Help Falling in Love (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Lick The Tins
12 Six Days On the Road (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Steve Earle & The Dukes
13 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Kirsty MacColl
14 Left of Center (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson
15 Do Anything (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Pete Shelley
16 It's All in the Game (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Carmel
17 Power to Believe (Instrumental) [from the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'] - The Dream Academy
18 This Woman's Work (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Kate Bush
19 Elegia (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - New Order
Disc: 2
1 March of the Swivelheads (Rotating Heads - Dub Version) [from the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'] - The Beat
2 When It Started to Begin (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Nick Heyward
3 Tesla Girls (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
4 BAD (From the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - Big Audio Dynamite
5 Eighties (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - Killing Joke
6 Little Bitch (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - The Specials
7 Desire (Come and Get It) [US Club Mix] [from the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby'] - Gene Loves Jezebel
8 Slide (From the 1989 Movie 'Uncle Buck') - Flesh for Lulu
9 Haunted When the Minutes Drag (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Love and Rockets
10 Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix) [from the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
11 Method to My Madness (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - The Lords of the New Church
12 The Hardest Walk (Single Version) [from the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful'] - The Jesus and Mary Chain
13 Bring On the Dancing Horses (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - Echo & the Bunnymen
14 Tenderness (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - General Public
15 I'm Afraid (From the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') - Blue Room
16 Round, Round (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - Belouis Some
17 If You Were Here (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles) - Thompson Twins
18 Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental) [from the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'] - The Dream Academy
Disc: 3
1 Oh Yeah (From the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') - Yello
2 Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes) [from the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'] - Book of Love
3 Try a Little Tenderness (From the Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - Otis Redding
4 Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Patti Smith
5 Ba-na-na-bam-boo (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Westworld
6 Ring Me Up (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Divinyls
7 Drummin' Man (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Topper Headon
8 Catch My Fall (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Billy Idol
9 Cherish (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - The Association
10 Music for a Found Harmonium (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
11 Radio People (From the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') - Zapp
12 Cry Like This (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Blue Room
13 Mess Around (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Ray Charles
14 Lipstick, Powder and Paint (From the 1989 Movie 'Uncle Buck') - Joe Turner
15 (Today I Met) the Boy I'm Gonna Marry (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Darlene Love
16 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [from the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby'] - Marvin Gaye
17 Juke Box Baby (From the 1989 Movie 'Uncle Buck') - Perry Como/Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra/The Ray Charles Singers
18 Mr. Sandman (From the 1989 Movie 'Uncle Buck') - The Chordettes
19 The Peter Gunn Theme (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra
Disc: 4
1 Holiday Road (From the 1983 Movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation') - Lindsey Buckingham
2 Back in Baby's Arms (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Emmylou Harris
3 Rhythm of Life (From the 1989 Movie 'Uncle Buck') - Hugh Harris
4 True (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - Spandau Ballet
5 Abuse (From the 1987 Movie 'Some Kind of Wonderful') - Propaganda
6 The Edge of Forever (From the 1986 Movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') - The Dream Academy
7 Lost Again (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Yello
8 Crazy Love (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Bryan Ferry
9 Positively Lost Me (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - The Rave-Ups
10 Don't Worry Baby (From the 1985 Movie 'Weird Science') - Los Lobos
11 Continental Trailways Blues (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Steve Earle
12 Rev Up! (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - The Revillos
13 More Than a Feeling (From the 1988 Movie 'She's Having a Baby') - Boston
14 I'll Show You Something Special (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Balaam and the Angel
15 Rave Up/Shut Up (From the 1986 Movie 'Pretty in Pink') - The Rave-Ups
16 Beaver Patrol (From the 1988 Movie 'The Great Outdoors') - Pop Will Eat Itself
17 Turning Japanese (From the 1984 Movie 'Sixteen Candles') - The Vapors
18 Red River Rock (From the 1987 Movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles') - Silicon Teens
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Coming Up: "Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Sound 1967-1974"
Out Oct. 28 from Cherry Red Records' Grapefruit imprint.
Details:
Issued at the start of 1967, Beatles’ single ‘Penny Lane’ coupled a widescreen production (bolstered by a phalanx of session musicians on brass and woodwind) with a mildly hallucinogenic lyric populated by mundane characters going about their unremarkable suburban lives.
It proved to be an enormously influential record. For the next year or two, British pop was awash with records that married quasi-classical arrangements with newly-minted fairy tales and character vignettes based around the grey everyday lives of ordinary small-town folk.
Many years later, this burst of English eccentricity came to be known in collector circles as toytown pop – a pseudo-genre that took in everything from Jeff Lynne‘s early band The Idle Race and Deram-era David Bowie to backroom auteurs like Mark Wirtz, whose ambitious ‘Teenage Opera’ project inspired the young Andrew Lloyd Webber, who provided similarly over-the-top arrangements for CBS hopefuls Cardboard Orchestra.
Featuring 87 excerpts from various pre-teenage operas, ‘Climb Aboard My Roundabout!’ is a 3CD celebration of the toytown pop experience. It includes contributions from the key players as well as many obscure delights and some huge rarities, including a hitherto-unreleased track from Wirtz’s aborted ‘Teenage Opera’ project.
With four hours of music housed in a clamshell box featuring a lavish 48-page booklet, ‘Climb Aboard My Roundabout!’ is an invitation that very few late 60s pop aficionados will be able to resist.
Track Listing:
DISC ONE
1 THE SKELETON AND THE ROUNDABOUT (mono single mix) – The Idle Race
2 JENNY ARTICHOKE – Kaleidoscope
3 CUDDLY TOY – Fruit Machine
4 PHENOMENAL CAT – The Kinks
5 LITTLE LESLEY – The Alan Bown!
6 EMILY SMALL (THE HUGE WORLD THEREOF) – The Picadilly Line
7 MAN IN THE TEAPOT – Fire
8 MR LIGHT – John Carter and Mickey Keen
9 THE DUBIOUS CIRCUS COMPANY – Clifford T. Ward
10 ICE CREAM MAN (alternative version) – Kidrock
11 LOLLIPOP MINDS – Wimple Winch
12 PETER’S BIRTHDAY (BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOWS) – World Of Oz
13 HA! HA! SAID THE CLOWN – Tony Hazzard
14 SAD SIMON LIVES AGAIN – Tim Andrews
15 UNCLE JOE, THE ICE CREAM MAN – The Mindbenders
16 PHOEBE’S FLOWER SHOP – The Cortinas
17 COPLINGTON – Persimmon’s Peculiar Shades
18 COLOUR SERGEANT LILLYWHITE – West Coast Consortium
19 OUR FAIRY TALE – The Herd
20 TEENAGE LOVE SONG – Hetherington
21 EBANEEZER BEAVER (demo version) – The Mirage
22 FAIRY TALE (demo version) – The Next Collection
23 BROTHER JACK – Barry Wigley
24 TRAFALGAR SQUARE – The Good Time Losers
25 SADIE AND HER MAGIC MR. GALAHAD – The New Generation
26 MARJORY DAW – Morning Glory
27 THE LAST PERFORMANCE OF THE ROYAL REGIMENTAL VERY VICTORIOUS AND VALIANT BAND – The Syn
28 RAINBOW ROCKING CHAIR – Majority One
29 EXCERPT FROM “A TEENAGE OPERA” – Keith West
DISC TWO
1 LAVENDER POPCORN – Scrugg
2 KNOCKING NAILS INTO MY HOUSE – Ambrose Slade
3 MR JOB – Jigsaw
4 UNCLE ARTHUR – David Bowie
5 THE BITTER THOUGHTS OF LITTLE JANE – Timon
6 CELLOPHANE MARY JANE – Astronaut Alan and The Planets
7 MR KIPLING – Tuesday’s Children
8 IT’S THE BEST SEASIDE IN THE WORLD – Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon
9 AND NOW FOR A LITTLE TRAIN NUMBER – Kenny Everett
10 GLORIOUS HOUSE OF ARTHUR – Fairfield Parlour
11 LAUGHING BOY FROM NOWHERE – Simon Dupree and The Big Sound
12 AUNTIE MARY’S DRESS SHOP – Tomorrow
13 THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
14 JAMES IN THE BASEMENT – Denis Couldry
15 TALES OF FLOSSIE FILLETT – Turquoise
16 MY BEST FRIEND – The Picadilly Line
17 HAPPINESS IS TOY-SHAPED – Harmony Grass
18 BIRMINGHAM BRASS BAND – The Bullring
19 WATCHMAKER – Persimmon’s Peculiar Shades
20 ROOM AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS – Timothy Blue
21 AFTER TEA – Spencer Davis Group
22 DREAM DREAM DREAM – Kidrock
23 LEMON PIE FAIR – Complex
24 UNCLE HENRY’S MAGIC GARDEN – David Matthews
25 BRIC-A-BRAC MAN – Bill Niles
26 WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE* (full version) – Chas Mills and Mark Wirtz
27 EVERYBODY LOVES THE CLOWN – Nirvana
28 SHARKEY – Christopher
29 POOR JOHNNY – The Secrets
30 FAIRGROUND – Pure Gold
31 TOY SOLDIER – The Riot Squad
DISC THREE
1 (HE’S OUR DEAR OLD) WEATHERMAN – Mark Wirtz
2 ZEBEDY ZAK – Cardboard Orchestra
3 FLORENCE – Tapestry
4 MR MOODY’S GARDEN – Gilbert O’Sullivan
5 MUTINY – The Alan Bown!
6 UPTIGHT BASIL – Magic Valley
7 BANG BANG – Kidrock
8 TOYMAKER – Wild Silk
9 LANTERNLIGHT – Peter and The Wolves
10 LOVE AND THE BIG BRASS BAND – Dave Christie
11 PICCOLO MAN – Friends
12 UWE AUS DUISBERG – The Hi-Fis
13 EINER KLEINER MISER MUSIK – Tony Rivers and The Castaways
14 THE HAPPY KING – Music Box
15 MRS DAISY – Tintern Abbey
16 MRS MURPHY’S BUDGERIGAR – Blossom Toes
17 ANNIE’S PLACE – Gene Latter
18 GLASSHOUSE GREEN, SPLINTER RED – John Pantry
19 HENRY EVERYDAY* – Timothy Blue
20 DEAR OLD MRS BELL – The Shadows
21 MR NICE GUY – Dragonmilk
22 MISTER WHITE’S WHITE FLYING MACHINE (album version) – Ayshea
23 MAGIC SHOES (demo) – Fire
24 KING OF THE CASTLE – Jason Crest
25 THROUGH MY TELESCOPE – Marty Wilde
26 TIME TO GO HOME – The Tots
27 THE SAD STORY OF SIMON AND HIS BUGLE* (correct version) – Mark Wirtz
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