As great as the 1986 flick Pretty In Pink<\/i> is, the soundtrack is even better.<\/p>\n
Now, if you feel so inclined you can splurge on a 40th Anniversary edition on either \u201cPretty In Baby Pink\u201d or standard black vinyl and relive the senior year of Andie, Blane and Duckie.<\/p>\n
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark start the fun with \u201cIf You Leave,\u201d which is of course some of the best New Wave of the \u201980s and has to be considered one of the best songs of the decade by anyone with ears. Suzanne Vega is up next with the alt-pop of \u201cLeft Of Center,\u201d where Joe Jackson plays piano.<\/p>\n
Moving along, Jesse Johnson blends funk and synth-pop for the bright and shiny \u201cGet To Know Ya\u201d, and INXS\u2019 \u201cDo Wot You Do\u201d offers a guitar driving and rhythmic blast that came at a time when the band were moving into rock territory. The title track exits the first side, and it\u2019s a Psychedelic Furs classic. The tune was actually on their 1981 album and was rerecorded and polished up for the film.<\/p>\n
Side B leads with the club friendly mood, synthetic beats and animated synth of New Order\u2019s \u201cShellshock.\u201d Belouis Some\u2019s \u201cRound Round\u201d then brings gritty guitar and firm bass lines to the \u201cpost-disco\u201d nods, while \u201cWouldn\u2019t It Be Good,\u201d a Nic Kershaw cover, is a glossy pop-rock moment that invites singing-along.<\/p>\n
The last two songs are so great. Echo & The Bunnymen\u2019s \u201cBring On The Dancing Horses\u201d is a jangly, dreamy and melodic masterpiece, and \u201cPlease Please Please Let Me Get What I Want\u201d exits with Morrissey pleading over the mandolin and acoustic guitar of a song we all recognize as essential to The Smiths and their legacy.<\/p>\n
In the area of post-punk, New Wave and electro-pop, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a better soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10702],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-47399","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-music-from-the-motion-picture","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47399"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47399"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}