| KEXP - John Richards - Morning Show - John Hughes Tribute - August 7, 2009 | |||||
| Formatted by Lilly Tao (http://www.girlhacker.com/log.html) | |||||
| Song | Artist | Album | Year | Label | DJ Comment |
| Thieves Like Us instrumental | New Order | Substance | Factory | featured in Pretty in Pink | |
| Don't You Forget About Me | Simple Minds | (Sntrk) Breakfast Club | 1986 | A*M | John Hughes was born on February 18, 1950 in Lansing, Michigan |
| Bring on the Dancing Horses | Echo and the Bunnymen | (Sntrk) Pretty in Pink | 1986 | (A&M) | Will be at Electric Picnic in Dublin on September 4 |
| The Hardest Walk | The Jesus and Mary Chain | (Sntrk) Some Kind of Wonderful | 1987 | MCA | http://www.myspace.com/thejesusampmarychain |
| Radio Free Europe | REM | Murmur | 1983 | I.R.S. | www.remhq.com |
| Under the Milky Way | The Church | Starfish | 1988 | Arista | http://www.thechurchband.com/ |
| Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) | A Flock of Seagulls | Listen | 1983 | Zomba | At Retro Fest in Glasgow, Scotland on August 29; http://www.myspace.com/aflockofseagulls |
| Let Me Go | Heaven 17 | The Luxury Gap | 1983 | Virgin | http://www.myspace.com/heaven17bef |
| Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want | The Smiths | Louder Than Bombs | 1987 | Sire | From the Soundtrack Pretty in Pink |
| This Woman's Work | Kate Bush | The Sensual World | 1989 | EMI, Columbia | Off the OST for She's Have a Baby |
| If You Were Here | Thompson Twins | Quick Step and Side Kick | 1983 | Superfecta | Sixteen Candles |
| Peek-A-Boo | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Peepshow | 1988 | Geffen | http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/ |
| The Walls Came Down | The Call | Modern Romans | 1983 | Mercury | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_(band) |
| I Could Be Happy | Altered Images | Pinky Blue | 1982 | Portrait | As heard in the film Sixteen Candles; http://www.myspace.com/alteredimagesarehappy |
| Pretty In Pink | The Psychedelic Furs | Talk Talk Talk | 1981 | Columbia | At the Moore on September 14 with Happy Mondays; coming to the Roseland Ballroom on October 9 |
| Oh Yeah | Yello | Stella | 1985 | Mercury | from Ferris Bueller's Day Off; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg |
| Weird Science | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man's Party | 1985 | MCA | obviously from Weird Science |
| Kids In America | Kim Wilde | Kim Wilde | 1981 | RAK Records | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWZqllm3mQ |
| Girls on Film | Duran Duran | Duran Duran | 1983 | Pioneer | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw |
| Our Lips Are Sealed | Go Gos | Beauty and the Beat | 1981 | I.R.S. | |
| Elegia | New Order | Low-Life | 1985 | Qwest | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order |
| If You Leave | OMD | (Sntrk) Pretty In Pink | 1986 | A&M | |
| Tenderness | General Public | All the Rage | 1984 | I.R.S. | used in sixteen candles |
| Just Like Heaven | The Cure | Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me | 1987 | Elektra | http://www.thecure.com/ |
| Just Can't Get Enough | Depeche Mode | Catching Up With Depeche Mode | 1985 | Sire Records | Performing at Key Arena on Monday with Peter, Bjorn and John |
| Effigy | Ministry | Work for Love | 1983 | Arista | |
| This Is Not A Love Song | Public Image Ltd. | This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get | 1984 | Virgin | |
| Da Da Da Da I Don't You You Don't Love Me | Trio | Trio | 1982 | Island/Def Jam | remember this one? |
| Pop Muzik | M | New York • London • Paris • Munich | 1980 | MCA/Sire | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvh5H-EPWU |
| Never Say Never | Romeo Void | Benefactor | 1982 | As heard in the film Reckless with Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn | |
| I Know What Boys Like | The Waitresses | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 1982 | Polydor | |
| Ca Plane Pour Moi | Plastic Bertrand | Ca Plane Pour Moi | 1977 | AMC | Heard in National Lampoon's European Vacation |
| Mexican Radio | Wall of Voodoo | Call of the West | 1982 | I.R.S. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpllAHo0ng |
| Love Plus One | Haircut One Hundred | Pelican West | 1982 | Arista | Part of the New Wave scene, their singles included: Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl), Nobody's Fool and Too Up, Two Down |
| Everybody Wants To Rule the World | Tears for Fears | Songs from the Big Chair | 1985 | Mercury | Awesome music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9O30d_yiE |
| I Will Follow | U2 | Boy | 1980 | Island Records | Performing at Madison Square Garden on October 30; http://www.u2.com/ |
| I Want You Back | Hoodoo Gurus | Stoneage Romeos | 1984 | A&M/Arcadia | |
| It's My Life | Talk Talk | It's My Life | 1984 | EMI | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fntl0mK3fzY |
| This Corrosion | Sisters of Mercy | Floodland | 1987 | Merciful Release/WEA | |
| Dancerama | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | Dancerama- Single | 1986 | EMI | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIaUTR3YsGo |
| Left of Center | Suzanne Vega and Joe Jackson | (Sntrk) Pretty in Pink | 1986 | A&M | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZNCnfS5SeY |
| Within Your Reach | The Replacements | Hootenanny | 1983 | TwinTone | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements |
| Haunted When the Minutes Drag | Love and Rockets | Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven | 1985 | Beggars | The trio was part of the band Bauhaus |
| Town Called Malice | the Jam | The Gift | 1982 | Polydor | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fDXsPE0Sc |
| Our House | Madness | The Rise & Fall | 1982 | Stiff Records | Originally a ska band, which changed direction to affiliate funk and UK pop |
| Little Bitch | The Specials | Specials | 1979 | 2 Tone/Chrysalis | One of the original 2-tone groups from Britain; the album was produced by Elvis Costello |
| Valley Girl | Frank & Moon Zappa | Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch | 1982 | Barking Pumpkin Records | Moon was 14 when she recorded this song with her father |
| Institutionalized | Suicidal Tendencies | Suicidal Tendencies | 1983 | Frontier | Featured in the film Repo Man |
| TV Party | Black Flag | Wasted Again | 1987 | SST | |
| People Who Died | Jim Carroll Band | Catholic Boy | 1980 | Atco | Carroll is also a poet and autobiographer; his book The Basketball Diaries was turned into a film in 1995 |
| Can't Stop Falling In Love | Lick the Tins | Blind Man On a Flying Horse | 1995 | Mooncrest | Part of the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack; Celtic cover of Elvis Presley |
| In Your Eyes | Peter Gabriel | So | 1986 | Charisma/Virgin/Geffen | The famous boombox scene from Say Anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Yxttu8iKE |
| Black Celebration | Depeche Mode | Black Celebration | 1986 | Mute/Sire | Coming to the Key Arena on Monday with Peter, Bjorn and John |
| Kiss Off | Violent Femmes | Violent Femmes | 1983 | Slash/Rhino | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gproa6vzgws |
| She Sells Sanctuary | The Cult | Love | 1985 | Sire | |
| Don't You Forget About Me | Simple Minds | (Sntrk) Breakfast Club | 1986 | A&M | |