All those John Hughes movie soundtrack songs have been compiled into an upcoming box set

Some of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time came with the films of John Hughes. Pretty in Pink. The Breakfast Club. Sixteen Candles. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Weird Science. Some Kind of Wonderful. It’s a long list.

Those soundtracks went a long way towards introducing North Americans to some very cool alternative music from the UK. It’s impossible to say how many kids were introduced to New Order, Kate Bush, The Psychedelic Furs, OMD, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Dream Academy, and so many more. And who could forget that this was written and record just for a John Hughes film.

Come November 11, 74 of the biggest songs from those John Hughes movies will appear in a collection called Live Movies Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtape. Curated by Tarquin Gotch, Hughes’ music supervisor, this looks like the perfect gift for anyone who came of age musically between 1983 and 1989.

The four-CD/six-red-LP box set will come in a variety of flavours, including a limited edition that will come with a 14-track cassette (hey, it was the 80s) and a 7-inch single that was once made available to the John Hughes fan club.

Check out this trailer.

If you can’t read that, try this (via Super Deluxe Edition).

• CD 1
  1. Kajagoogoo – Kajagoogoo (Instrumental) – From The 1984 Movie ‘From The 1984 Movie Sixteen Candles’
  2. Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – From The 1985 Movie The Breakfast Club
  3. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – If You Leave – From The 1986 Movie Pretty In Pink
  4. Oingo Boingo – Weird Science – From The 1985 Movie Weird Science
  5. Furniture – Brilliant Mind – From The 1987 Movie Some Kind Of Wonderful
  6. Dave Wakeling – She’s Having A Baby – From The 1988 Movie She’s Having A Baby
  7. The Flowerpot Men – Beat City – From The 1986 Movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  8. The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink – From The 1986 Movie Pretty In Pink
  9. Flesh For Lulu – I Go Crazy – From The 1987 Movie Some Kind Of Wonderful
  10. Dr. Calculus – Full Of Love – From The 1988 Movie She’s Having A Baby
  11. Lick The Tins – Can’t Help Falling In Love – From The 1987 Movie Some Kind Of Wonderful
  12. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Six Days On The Road (Album Version) – From The 1987 Movie Planes, Trains And Automobiles
  13. Kirsty MacColl – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version) – From The 1988 Movie She’s Having A Baby
  14. Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson – Left Of Center – From The 1986 Movie Pretty In Pink
  15. Pete Shelley – Do Anything (Soundtrack Version) – From The 1987 Movie Some Kind Of Wonderful
  16. Carmel – It’s All In The Game – From The 1988 Movie She’s Having A Baby
  17. The Dream Academy – Power To Believe (Instrumental) – From The 1987 Movie Planes, Trains And Automobiles
  18. Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work – From The 1988 Movie She’s Having A Baby
  19. New Order – Elegia (2015 Remaster) – From The 1986 Movie Pretty In Pink
• CD 2
  1. The Beat – March Of The Swivelheads (Rotating Heads – Dub Version)
  2. Nick Heyward – When It Started To Begin
  3. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Tesla Girls
  4. Big Audio Dynamite – BAD
  5. Killing Joke – Eighties
  6. The Specials – Little Bitch
  7. Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (Come and Get It) (US Club Mix)
  8. Flesh For Lulu – Slide
  9. Love And Rockets – Haunted When The Minutes Drag
  10. Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
  11. Lords Of The New Church – Method To My Madness
  12. The Jesus And Mary Chain – The Hardest Walk (Single Version)
  13. Echo & The Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses
  14. General Public – Tenderness
  15. The Blue Room – I’m Afraid
  16. Belouis Some – Round, Round
  17. Thompson Twins – If You Were Here
  18. The Dream Academy – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental) 3.07
• CD 3
  1. Yello – Oh Yeah
  2. Book Of Love – Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
  3. Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
  4. Patti Smith – Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
  5. Westworld – Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo
  6. Divinyls – Ring Me Up
  7. Topper Headon – Drummin’ Man
  8. Billy Idol – Catch My Fall
  9. The Association – Cherish
  10. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music For A Found Harmonium
  11. Zapp – Radio People
  12. The Blue Room – Cry Like This
  13. Ray Charles – Mess Around
  14. Joe Turner – Lipstick, Powder and Paint
  15. Darlene Love – (Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry
  16. Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
  17. Perry Como With Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra And The Ray Charles Singers – Juke Box Baby
  18. The Chordettes – Mr. Sandman
  19. Ray Anthony And His Orchestra – The Peter Gunn Theme
• CD 4
  1. Lindsey Buckingham – Holiday Road
  2. Emmylou Harris – Back in Baby’s Arms
  3. Hugh Harris – Rhythm Of Life
  4. Spandau Ballet – True
  5. Propaganda – Abuse – Here
  6. The Dream Academy – The Edge of Forever
  7. Yello – Lost Again (Album Version)
  8. Bryan Ferry – Crazy Love
  9. The Rave-Ups – Positively Lost Me
  10. Los Lobos – Don’t Worry Baby
  11. Steve Earle – Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)
  12. The Revillos – Rev Up!
  13. Boston – More Than A Feeling
  14. Balaam And The Angel – I’ll Show You Something Special
  15. The Rave-Ups – Rave Up/Shut Up
  16. Pop Will Eat Itself – Beaver Patrol
  17. The Vapors – Turning Japanese
  18. Silicon Teens – Red River Rock
• CassetteSide A
  1. Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
  2. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – If You Leave 3. Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
  3. Yello – Oh Yeah
  4. Dave Wakeling – She’s Having A Baby
  5. Lick The Tins – Can’t Help Falling In Love
  6. The Flowerpot Men – Beat City
  7. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Six Days On The Road (Album Version)
  8. Kate Bush – This Woman’s WorkSide B
  1. The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
  2. Furniture – Brilliant Mind
  3. Killing Joke – Eighties
  4. Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
  5. Flesh For Lulu – I Go Crazy
  6. Echo & The Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses
  7. General Public – Tenderness
  8. Kirsty MacColl – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby
  9. The Dream Academy – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)