John Hughes - RIP

So John Hughes passed away today. Heart attack at age 59.

Instead of an obit, i'm going to highlight tracks from some of his movies. Starting with what is definitely in my top 10 of all time:

Ferris Beuller's Day Off
- The Beatles - twist and shout : classic scene on the streets of chicago
- The (english) beat - March of the swivelheads
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
- The Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What i Want : one of the great Smiths covers and made me want to spend more time in the art gallery
- Yello - O Yeah : mushy gummy bear anyone?
- Big Audio Dynamite - Bad : CLASSIC!

The Breakfast Club
there's really only one song you need to concern yourself with:
- Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me : probably MADE Simple Minds with this song

Sixteen Candles
weirdly, this only had 5 songs.
- The Stray Cats: 16 candles
- Thompson Twins: If you were here

Pretty in Pink
CLASSIC soundtrack
- OMD - If you leave : who didn't slow dance to this?
- Suzanne Vega - left of center
- INXS - Do wot you do
- Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink : did what " don't you forget about me" did to Simple Minds
- New Order - Shell Shock
- Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the dancing horses
- The Smiths: Please Please Please Let me get what i want: do you think there's a trend from this to Ferris?

Weird Science
- Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
- Mike Oldfiend - Tubular Bells: some trippy shit you should listen to
- OMD - Tesla girls
- Killing Joke - Eighties
- General Public - Tenderness

John Hughes' movies were a mecca for awesome music. You'll be missed. In the meantime, I might need to put a John Hughes playlist together.