Title: Still Pretty
Review: The soundtrack to the seminal 80's classic Pretty In Pink is almost as the movie itself. In many ways it's tough the not think of OMD's "If You Leave" and not think of the film. The song is a perfect piece of 80's synth pop and an outright classic. The Psychedelic Furs' 1981 song was the inspiration behind the movie and it elevated the song from an obscure single into another 80's classic (albeit in a re-recorded version for the album). A pre-Luka Suzanne Vega teamed up with Joe Jackson for the haunting and hypnotic "Left Of Center" and Jesse Johnson provides a little funk with "Get To Know Ya". Inxs recycle the "Listen Like Thieves" sound for "Do Wot You Do" and New Order adds some goth to the scene with "Shellshock". The picture has been hailed in recent times as a perfect encapsulation of 80's high school and the soundtrack provides the chorus to that voice.
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