Pretty in Pink soundtrack: THE POLL

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I wonder how many people used this album as a gateway into Anglophilia

Poll Results

Option	Votes
9. "Bring On the Dancing Horses" (Echo & the Bunnymen) – 3:59	21
10. "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (The Smiths) – 1:51	16
1. "If You Leave" (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) – 4:25	11
5. "Pretty in Pink" (The Psychedelic Furs) – 4:40	10
2. "Left of Center" (Suzanne Vega/Joe Jackson) – 3:33	8
6. "Shellshock" (New Order) – 6:04	6
4. "Do Wot You Do" (INXS) – 3:16	1
3. "Get to Know Ya" (Jesse Johnson) – 3:34	1
8. "Wouldn't It Be Good" (Danny Hutton Hitters) – 3:44	1
7. "Round, Round" (Belouis Some) – 4:07	0

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago)

it is ON

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

absolutely no idea what to vote for here btw

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

gold soundz

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

haha RS otm

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

i love this soundtrack though

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

I forgot there was an INXS track on here.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

they play "thieves like us" in the movie, i think, though it's not on the soundtrack

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

I can think of unambiguous, unimpeachable reasons to vote for 8 of these songs

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

i <3 that inxs track; it's v sunny

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

this is actually impossible btw

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

all but jesse johnson and danny hutton are in the running

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

also: this was my introduction to New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

suzanne vega is a dark horse for me.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

the acts I knew the best before this soundtrack: INXS and Jesse Johnson, aka the two I wouldn't consider voting for now (lol)

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

OH MAN.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

INXS has some really great songs!

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

if pretty in pink was released today what would be on the OST

― ultimusmoron (cozen), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

INXS has some really great songs!

Oh absolutely! I just wouldn't vote for this specific song on this soundtrack (ditto Jesse Johnson)

xp: The XX, Vampire Weekend, La Roux, some American covering "Paper Planes"

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

lol that sounds terrible, I retract that

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/192/1922283/26_2009/36def02f58a682e8_500-days-of-summer.larger.jpg

xpost

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

refreshers for folx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGawOk107eU

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeNQ_nCCHQ

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

i actually went out of my way to track down and download one of the songs that a band plays at the club iona, andie and duckie frequent in the movie. "positively lost me" by the rave-ups. it's awesome!

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKfUadTxCzQ

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

x-post It was SO AWESOME! I always wanted that to be on the sndtrk.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

it's a great song! one day u and i are going to watch this movie together, man.

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvknQEjExC0

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

YES!!! For a quick fix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdcbZxzKWc

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhTCUDHbvs

(lol @ this video btw)

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckRZUm01CI

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIoo0pAIZd8

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5sYHhCScMQ

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v36qCXzCud0&feature=related

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbmyryFZ0pg

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

btw I am ecstatic that technology has allowed me to post/find every single one of these songs

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

hahahaha i kinda assume that prince wanted too much $$$$ so we get jesse johnson

― RAWK WHORNES (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

x-post

So am I tbh!

I am seriously going to have to think about this for a while.

I spent a month at my grandmother's in Germany when I was 14 and this and Ramones Mania were the only two tapes I brought with me for some reason. I now associate this soundtrack with that time and listening to it on my Walkman while lying in bed and daydreaming about boys even more than I do with the movie in a lot of ways.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

i have always hated the fuck out of the cover of "wouldn't it be good" because the singer just mangles an already established great song (oh nik kershaw u r a traet).

― RAWK WHORNES (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

really comes down to shellshock vs please please please for me

― RAWK WHORNES (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

ha I remember when I told you how much I liked this version and you were like "IGNORANT HEATHEN DO YOU NOT KNOW THE GLORIES OF KERSHAW"

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

hahahaha

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

this poll is insanely difficult and i will probably vote for bring on the dancing horses

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

or if you leave

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

or left of center

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

i can't in good conscience vote for that version of pretty in pink

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

ha yeah, that's another one where hearing the original was a total revelation

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

like "oh man, I thought I liked this song but really I didn't even KNOW it"

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

seriously f u for ruining my holiday weekend dan

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

for nik kershaw comaprative purposes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvC2LRTR8UI

his vocal tricks are the song imo

― RAWK WHORNES (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

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two awesome dudes fighting for truth and justice

xxpost ok see now you are risking your membership in the "two awesome dudes club"

― BAN BELOUIS SOME (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

yeah he covers crazy love which is van morrison iirc

― BAN BELOUIS SOME (jjjusten), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

Not only Bryan Ferry ("Crazy Love") but Gene Loves Jezebel ("Desire"), Love and Rockets ("Haunted When The Minutes Drag"), XTC ("Happy Families") and Kirsty MacColl covering The Smiths ("You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby")

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

it's a fucking great soundtrack; that Dr Calculus song is like another world

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUafqM7DWfQ

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

Kirsty MacColl covering The Smiths ("You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby")

WAHT?!!!

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ic5PlEwivk

My first exposure to this song (and to date I still like it more than The Smiths' version)

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES

― Baluchistan of Landscape Avocado (Pillbox), Friday, 3 September 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

I don't like it more but it's awesome in its own right.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 September 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

For all her sweetness she specialized in sarcasm.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 September 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't like it more but I do like it. That's actually one of my favorite Smiths songs and I'm surprised I didn't know she'd covered it.

RM and Pillbox you guys aren't alone - BotDH is one of the ones I'm considering!

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 3 September 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

ha well I am pretty certain I like it more because I heard it first

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, leaning dancing horses right now

― horseshoe, Friday, 3 September 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

it was a bonus track on KITE iirc - fantastic record

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 September 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

also: this was my introduction to New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, September 3, 2010 8:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Me too. I was stuck in commercial-radio-land Perry, OH, and all I could think when I got this was "WHO ARE THESE BANDS AND WHERE ARE THERE MORE OF THEM?"

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

definitely please, please, please.

― charlie h, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago)

dancing horses, but yeah, so much good stuff here.

― Mark, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

i can't in good conscience vote for that version of pretty in pink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, September 3, 2010 1:34 PM (3 days ago)

Yes. So voting for the Dancing Horses.

― that's not my post, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago)

if u leave vs dancing horses. shellshock not really in my NO top 5

― the behringer escape plan (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago)

i love lots of these, but for me it's omd by a mile. i have always loved that song, it was one of my teenage ideals of romantic pop. what really puts it over the top is the "ooo-oh-oh ooo-oh-oh" bit at the end, with him half-crying "if you LEAVE" over it. so great.

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago)

It was something of a surprise when I first spent a decent amount of time in the states, to find that was the only OMD song ever played on the radio. They have other ones! Better ones!

― ledge, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago)

Bunnymen or OMD or Suzanne Vega with Psychedelic Furs in fourth. I think.

― pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago)

If it was the album version of "Pretty in Pink" I'd vote the Furs without thinking but in this case hmm I dunno Bummymen maybe.

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

If it was the album version of "Pretty in Pink" I'd vote the Furs

Me too. Going with Suzanne Vega now, though. (The cut that surprised me most when I played the album a month or two ago.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

I'm tempted to vote Jesse Johnson out of misplaced hometown pride

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

Poor Jesse. Were his records any good? I've only heard "I Want My Girl."

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago)

I bought Shockadelica, from '86, for $1 last year. Didn't really like it at all.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsuHfYRNGM

this was the JAM tohugh

― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

Never knew Joe Jackson had a credit on "Left of Center". Is he on the record?

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

Credit on album actually says "Suzanne Vega Featuring Joe Jackson On Piano."

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

Wikipedia sez he actually recorded a Sly Stone collab, a mid-size hit.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

Jesse, that is, not Joe (not to say a Jackson-S. Stewart collab wouldn't have been, er, interesting).

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

xp Yeah, "Crazay," which was on the album I bought. Mediocre, despite the big name. (It's not like Sly was making great records in the '80s, either.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

Xgau called it "a classic fake-Prince single" (despite giving the album a C+ and calling Sly "barely funcitonal"), though, so don't take my word as gospel. Sounded far from classic to me, though.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago)

ha:

Jesse Johnson's Revue: Jesse Johnson's Revue [A&M, 1985]

"I had to do something different," the former Time guitarist revealed to his press agent sometime after the Time broke up. At around the same time he fired off a warning to rival Prince/Time imitators: "If you don't know the formula, you should leave it alone." Different? Formula? You figure it out. B-

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago)

If it was the album version of "Pretty in Pink" I'd vote the Furs

Me too. Going with Suzanne Vega now, though. (The cut that surprised me most when I played the album a month or two ago.)

Such a good song and so underrated.

― kate78, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 13 September 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

Suzanne Vega. No contest.

― banjoboy, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

Voted horses in the end.

― master of retardment (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 06:00 (fourteen years ago)

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

― hk phooey (crüt), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago)

Shellshock vs. Dancing Horseys

went with Shellshock cuz it's a dark horse here.

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago)

thought for sure this wld be an enbb thread

― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago)

I was having trouble deciding what to vote for but all the Jesse dismissals made me want to make sure he got one tick. So Jesse, though it isn't his best or the best thing here.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago)

x-post - ha! he started it base on an exchange between Horseshoe and I on another thread about PiP.

― master of retardment (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

RIP Belouis Some

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago)

kind of glad i threw in for suzanne vega in the end.

kind of surprised by the showing for "please please please" - nothing wrong with it but hardly their best...

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

"Dancing Horses" is surely E&B in decline

"Pls Pls" would've worked best to a Spader-Cryer sex scene

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago)

Slept on this, but my one vote for New Order would've made no difference.

― Lostandfound, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Going with Suzanne Vega now, though. (The cut that surprised me most when I played the album a month or two ago.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, September 7, 2010

After alll these years this song finally sunk its claws in me. A terrific little manifesto: it makes its points without clobbering you. And the flourishes (that guitar solo!) work.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

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