Garage rock artist and occasional Tricky muse returns after six years with her second album The comp isn't available to stream but someone did make a playlist with as many songs as they could find:īreanna Barbara - Nothin' But Time (Fuzz Club) Pick up Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes as a double LP vinyl set or as a 4-CD/cassette/7' box set in the BV shop. Read the whole review here, and and read about some of the comp's biggest inclusions and omissions here. They even included Pop Will Eat Itself's grebo-hip-hop cover of '60s garage rock obscurity 'Beaver Patrol' from The Great Outdoors. There's also Propaganda's incredible 'Abuse ' which is the most memorable piece of music in Some Kind of Wonderful (sorry, Flesh for Lulu) The Revillos' B-52's-esque 'Rev Up' and The Specials' 'Little Bitch' from Sixteen Candles and The Rave-Ups' 'Positively Lost Me' which they perform live in Pretty in Pink but were not allowed to be on the soundtrack because A&M wanted songs written just for the film. What it does have are most of those lost treasures, especially from Ferris Bueller: The Flowerpot Men's 'Beat City' (which was only released as a John Hughes Fan Club 7' and has been repressed for the super deluxe edition of this box), The Dream Academy's majestic instrumental cover of 'Please Please Please,' and The English Beat's 'March of the Swivelheads' that soundtracks Ferris' mad dash home across neighborhood backyards. There are tracks omitted probably for budget reasons - The Beatles 'Twist & Shout' from Ferris Beuller, The Smiths' 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want' from Pretty in Pink, not to mention Psychedelic Furs' title track) but none of those are particularly hard to find.

Life Moves Pretty Fast does not have everything.

I wrote this up back when it was announced and here's part of it:

This compilation - available in a variety of editions, big and bigger - does a good job of correcting that, and is a real white whale release for John Hughes fans. Unfortunately the actual soundtrack albums for Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and others didn't always have the best songs that were in the films. 'As always, we went for passion over popularity.' That's John Hughes in the press release for the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack, but it sums up the approach he brought to choosing the music for his films which are some of the most beloved of the '80s. John Hughes fans finally get the soundtracks they deserve - mostly - with this collection that mixes hits with long-sought-after rarities

Various Artists - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes (Demon)

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