0075021329324. Pre-Owned: Good condition. CD. As the auteur of post-punk suburban adolescence director John Hughes appropriately enhanced his 80s movies with relatively harmless new wave soundtracks. Where earlier films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles included the occasional Wang Chung or Simple Minds track though 1986 s Pretty in Pink boasted a full lineup of rock of the 80s highlights. Foremost of course is the Psychedelic Furs breakout remake of their 1981 college radio favorite Pretty in Pink ; while it pales in relation to the raw and electric original this new version still holds up even with some added horns and a general glossing over of the once hard-driving guitar and drum parts. Even better are tracks by OMD ( If You Leave ) Echo & the Bunnymen ( Bring on the Dancing Horses ) and the Smiths ( Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want ). These era-defining sides certainly help make lukewarm additions like New Order s Shell-Shock INXS Do Wot You Do and Belouis Some s Round Round easy to get through. And for more marginal new wave fare there s Jesse Johnson s Prince-inspired Get to Know Ya and Danny Hutton s pop/rocker Wouldn t It Be Good. Topped off by Suzanne Vega s respectable reworking of her hit Left of Center Pretty in Pink qualifies as one of the more relevant youth culture soundtracks. ~ Stephen Cook Rovi