Which John Hughes Soundtracks do I own // 80s Music // 80s Movies

[@manofmiracles]

Pretty in pink is my favorite from that bunch nice little collection

[@mad4vinyl802]

Some Kind Of Wonderful. Worst movie of the bunch/best soundtrack. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a favorite of mine. I loved John Candy.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

i dunno. i don’t recall She’s Having a Baby being all that great. If I had to pick a worst of the bunch I think I’d lean towards that one. Yes PT&A is a classic. Saw that the day it opened.

[@EmbryonicRobot]

The Pretty in Pink soundtrack is fire! The extended mix of Brilliant Mind is on of my favourite tracks from the 80s. Hughes did have a knack for choosing good tracks 🙂

[@STEVEHEROLD]

he really did

[@yournamehere6002]

Bryan Ferry was the person who they originally asked to do Don't You Forget About Me

[@theflipside-vinylcommunity]

another awesome video

[@TheAlanRosenbergShow]

Very cool video - totally original - I remember seeing those movies...in the movies. Never had any of the soundtracks though. Thanks for showing them - really cool.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

it’s the Penultimate Episode!!

[@TheAlanRosenbergShow]

@@STEVEHEROLD only one more.....sad.

[@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147]

I use to have 100s of soundtracks on CD. I just talked about this subject on my Sunday podcast. Pretty in Pink was the one of all of those I would bring back into my collection. Hughes did make get use of the Brat Pack

[@STEVEHEROLD]

it is a great soundtrack. i’m behind on watching your videos steve. swamped working two shows down here in south carolina. one wraps this week so it’ll give me back some more free time.

[@davidellis5141]

Hi Steve - Ferris had a cool Cabaret Voltaire poster for Microphonies but their music wasn't played in the film. Agree that Pretty In Pink is the best soundtrack & it attracted many to the excellent Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk album. Simpleminds best albums were before The Breakfast Club. Sons & Fascination & New Gold Dream my favorites.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hey david. my memory of ferris’ posters were he had a lotta cool band ones hanging up. i have a soft spot for Simple Minds’ Once Upon a Time but I understand the fans didn’t like that direction band went in. I have pretty much all the earlier albums too and like them a lot.

[@mariawesley7583]

I have The John Hughes boxset "Life Moves Pretty Fast", which has 6 records set up like mix tapes (as opposed to individual soundtracks). Its one of my favorites in my collection!

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hey maria. yeh that set looks great. there are a few tracks missing. i might pick it up someday. hey i know youre in atlanta im thinking of popping in Decatur CD. Worth a visit?

[@biscaynekid]

Ferris Bueller does in fact have an official CD soundtrack release. It is from La La Land Records. Limited to 5000 units. Released in 2016.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

yeh i wasnt aware of that until after i made the video. still odd they never released one when the film was released.

[@yournamehere6002]

I also have Sixteen Candles. Planes Trains and Automobiles and Weird Science on vinyl, The Great Outdoors on CD, and Career Opportunities, which is a great soundtrack. I love Some Kind of Wonderful. At the time, I had a crush on Mary Stuart Masterson's character. Dutch has a great unreleased soundtrack, and the box set is worth picking up. And yeah, the vinyl for She's Having a Baby had HE and SHE as side A and B. I also have the Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack that was released by La-La-Land. I dunno, I love all those movies, some more than others, but still. He also had a pretty good soundtrack for Reach the Rock, his most obscure film. The music was from bands on his son's Hefty Records label. Post-Rock bands like Tortoise, The Sea and The Cake and Polvo.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

Reach the Rock. There’s something no one ever talks about. I may pick up the box set someday. I do remember being a little bummed the Annie Golden tune from 16 Candles wasn’t on it.

[@jtsrecordroom3963]

Between vinyl and Cd.. I have most of the soundtracks from his movies.. Mostly good songs on all of them ! Excellent video, Steve !

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@jtsrecordroom3963 thanks dude

[@jtsrecordroom3963]

Hope you're having a good summer ! Sean says hi..

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@jtsrecordroom3963 it’s going about as well as it can considering i’m still on the road making crappy TV shows….hahaha. did take day trip into georgia last weekend, hit couple record stores. for second time i tried to eat at weaver d’s in athens and they were closed. the universe must not want me eating fried chicken. hope yall are doing good. talk to ya soon dude.

[@jtsrecordroom3963]

Speaking of Athens.. I was watching REM's interview on CBS. With them saying they won't play shows.. I think they will ! Hang in there, and awesome that you got to hit a record store, or two..

[@revkarl]

Greetings, Steve. I have "el zippo" of the John Hughes soundtracks...but if you check out my cd collection on Discogs, you'll see I probably have 50% of the songs on various discs. I do have all his films on disc, my favorite being "Sixteen Candles," though "The Breakfast Club" was the most memorable in my life. Hughes brought that film to USC for a preview screening, with Q&A, when I was a cinema grad student. At the end of evening, Hughes was engulfed by a couple hundred undergrads, all telling him that he was "the only one who understands them." Hughes was trapped, my friend, the lead TA, looked at me and mouthed the word "Help." Since I was built like a middle linebacker back then and most of the cinema students knew me from their "Intro. to Cinema" class, I pushed my way though, grabbed Hughes' arm and announced in my deepest baritone voice "Clear the way, Mr. Hughes needs to leave now." Charlton Heston would have been proud of my parting of the coed sea. I got him out of the theater, the studio publicists came running up to him and I went back into the theater to get my then-girlfriend and go home. Needless to say, the water cooler chat on Friday was abuzz with "Did you hear what Karl did last night?"

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hahah what a great tale karl. awesome.

[@miss80smoviesandmusic]

Awesome collection Steve! I think Some Kind Of Wonderful is my favorite of the Hughes soundtracks. But it changes all the time. I have that Hughes Mixtape box set in my Birthday wishlist as we speak😅 I really want it because I'm crazy and also for the Ferris Bueller stuff that we have never got "officially". I think I will do a reply to this and give you full credit as always.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

yeh for me no question Pretty in Pink and Some Kind… are the best. even though i already own so much of it i think if i found a good deal on that box set i’d pick it up. although there are 2-3 songs missing that surprise me like annie golden’s tune from sixteen candles. appreciate ya tuning in. look forward to seeing what ya have to say about this topic.

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

I own 5 movies that John Hughes directed (Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I also own 4 that he wrote, like the first 3 Vacation movies and Home Alone. Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club are probably two of the best soundtracks from what he’s worked on, but most of these have at least a theme song that’s memorable, like Holiday Road from Lindsey Buckingham from Vacation.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

Breakfast Club soundtrack? Really? I don’t know outside of the Simple Minds song I didn’t like it that much. Lotta instrumental stuff. Pretty in Pink for me is easily best soundtrack.

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

@@STEVEHEROLD yeah, you’re probably right about The Breakfast Club, but Wang Chung has a song on the soundtrack. A lot of memorable songs, like Oingo Biongo for the Weird Science theme. I actually don’t own any of these soundtracks.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@excelsiormoviereviews the wang chung song is the 2nd best thing on that soundtrack. if i didn't own these CDs I'd probably pick up the box set.

[@tarrtruck2869]

I've seen all the John Hughes films except Some Kind Of Wonderful. The Breakfast Club is my favorite of his but the soundtrack of Pretty In Pink is definitely the best. If my memory is correct, Molly Ringwald played John Hughes Pretty In Pink for him and said that he should use that song in the film. She was a huge Psychedelic Furs fan I believe.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

you’re not missing much when it comes to Some Kind of Wonderful. If ya seen Pretty in Pink ya pretty much saw Some Kind…. I’ve heard that about Molly Rindwald before. There’s a great photo of her and Anthony Michael Hall record shopping during production of Breakfast Club.

[@tarrtruck2869]

I just pulled up that photo you just mentioned and I hope they were really record shopping and not doing a publicity shot.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@tarrtruck2869 i dont think it was a publicity stunt per se. the two of them have both said hughes would bring them to record stores all the time during breaks in filming.

[@ETG1622]

Do you have any Radiohead CDs

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@ETG1622 i do have a few. Pablo, OK Computer and The Bends.