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The Album: Pretty In Pink Soundtrack (1986)
Actress and comedian Eliza Skinner is part of the brand new Maximum Fun scripted comedy show, Bubble, and hosts her own music podcast, Cool Playlist. For her guest spot on Heat Rocks, she wanted to revisit one of the iconic soundtracks of the 1980s: Pretty in Pink. The film is a key part of the John Hughes pantheon, alongside The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and arguably boasts the most storied soundtrack of all of them, including now-classics that were written expressly for the film such as OMD’s “If You Leave” and Echo and Bunnymen’s “Bring On the Dancing Horses,” and of course, the reworked, sax-ified version of the Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty In Pink.”
Eliza and us discussed how soundtracks can create an invented nostalgia for a time we never knew, what lesser known tracks off this album still bump, and why Ducky really didn’t deserve to belong with Andie.
(That said, Ducky did kill it during his “Try a Little Tenderness” scene)
More on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack:
- “Neon Nostalgia: The Pretty In Pink Soundtrack 30 Years Later” (Stereogum)
- “30 Years Ago: Pretty In Pink Gives an Official Soundtrack to Teen Angst” (Diffuser)
More on Eliza Skinner:
- Interview (Raleigh & Company)
- Cool Playlist podcast
- Bubble podcast
- Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Show Tracklisting (all songs from Pretty In Pink unless indicated otherwise):
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- Pretty in Pink
- If You Leave
- Left of Center
- Simple Minds: Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Barden Bellas: Bellas Finals: Price Tag/ Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- Get to Know Ya
- Prince: Kiss
- Prince: Purple Rain
- Deniece Williams: Let’s Hear it for the Boy
- Modern English: I Melt with You
- Pretty in Pink
- Wouldn’t it be Good
- Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness
- New Order: Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)
- If You Leave
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
- Wouldn’t it be Good
Here’s the Spotify playlist of as many of the songs above as we can find on there.
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