Alexia Golez

Roxy Music ‘More Than This’

200 Cigarettes is cheesy love letter of a movie, but I do like it. 200 Cigarettes harkens back to Adventures in Babysitting or doing a switcheroo to daytime, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Anyway, jumping to the point of this post, the 200 Cigarettes soundtrack is 80’s-tastic. Spent some time listening to tracks off it over the weekend. You could do much worse than set up a playlist of the tracks off it.

• Nick Lowe  ’Cruel To Be Kind’
• Blondie ‘In The Flesh’
• The Cars ‘Just What I Needed’
• Harvey Danger ‘Save It For Later’
• The Go-Go’s ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’
• Bow Wow Wow ‘I Want Candy’
• Ramones ‘I Don’t Care’
• Girls Against Boys ‘Boogie Wonderland’
• Kool & The Gang ‘Ladies Night’
• Joe Jackson ‘It’s Different For Girls’
• B-Movie ‘Nowhere Girl’
• Roxy Music ‘More Than This’
• Dire Straits ‘Romeo And Juliet’
• The Party’s cover of ‘Peace, Love And Understanding’ (Dig out the Elvis Costello original instead)

And then there’s the king of 80’s-esque soundtracks as well as one of my all-time favourite movies, Gross Pointe Blank.

The English Beat ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’

I watched GPB so many time when I was younger, I knew the script by heart. Popcorn! Most of the music is from the 80’s and turned out to be half the fun.

• Violent Femmes ‘Blister in the Sun’
• The Clash ‘Rudie Can’t Fail’
• The English Beat ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’
• Bowie & Queen ‘Under Pressure ‘
• Jimmy Cliff ‘I Can See Clearly Now’
• Guns N’Roses ‘Live & Let Die’
• Faith No More ‘We Care a Lot’
• Toots and the Maytals ‘Pressure Drop’
• The Jam ‘Absolute Beginners’
• The Clash ‘Armagideon Time’
• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ‘El Matador’
• Pete Townshend ‘Let My Love Open the Door’

Add a heavy dollop of Elvis Costello, New Order, Simple Minds and The Cure to these lot for a grandaddy of a 80’s playlist. Got any cool 80’s throwback soundtracks to share?