80′s playlisting via throwback soundtracks

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.

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.

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?

January 4th, 2009 at 7:35 pm • Filed in Culture



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2 Comments to “80′s playlisting via throwback soundtracks”

  1. Eater's Regret Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I have been trying for ages to find 200 Cigarettes on Dvd, but nowwhere has it, except on U.S format. Sad face! Do you have the movie on Dvd, if so where did you get it?!



  2. Alexia Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    It’s only available in Region 1 AFAIK. I haven’t been able to find it in Region 2. Sorry!



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