Two 80s Icons Tell The Story Of The Iconic Music Behind LEGENDARY Teen Comedy | Professor of Rock
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2021
- 80s Icon John Hughes created so many great teen movies. He mastered the genre and seemed to understand generation X to the tee. Up next the story behind the soundtrack to his 1986 comedy masterpiece Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In exclusive interviews Dave Wakeling of the English Beat and Nick Laird Clowes from the Dream Academy tell the stories behind their songs from the soundtrack including Edge of Forever to March of The Swivel heads. Also Oh Yeah by Yello, Please, Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths and Twist and Shout by the Beatles Including deep insight into John Hughes as a person.
We Have New MERCH! bit.ly/ProfessorsMerch
Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni Optical
Incredible Prices on New Glasses - bit.ly/ZenniOpticalShop
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executive Producer
Brandon Fugal
Honorary Producers
Scratchers J Scratcherton Esq, Neil Gardner, Moon Comix, Walter O. Wright II, Zachery Perry, Jason White
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Access To Backstage Content
Become a Patron - bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan
Check Out My Hand Picked Selection Below
Professor's 80s Store
- 100 Best Selling Albums amzn.to/3h3qZX9
- Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie amzn.to/3ifjdKQ
- 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art amzn.to/2QXzmIX
- Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon amzn.to/3h4ilrk
- Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) amzn.to/2ZcTlIl
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Click here for Premium Content: bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent
bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_...
bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of...
#80s #Rock #Story
Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 80s songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community with music history video essay's. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to see our brand new show there.
Music is an integral part of any movie. Don’t believe me, try pulling up some videos from TH-cam that excise the soundtrack and the power of the film pretty much disappears. In 1986 a film was released by a true cinematic master that resonated with the public, especially the the under 20s about faking sick and skipping school. Starring Mathew Broderick written and directed by John Hughes, Ferris Beuller’s Days Off became an instant classic.
With so many great one liners and phrases, they’ve became a part of our daily lives. Probably the most under appreciated aspect of this legendary comedy is the soundtrack. toady we are going to go into detail on many of those musical moments. We all appreciate the moment where Ferris jumps on the float to convince Cameron that he has had a pretty good day.
The pick by Hughes Danke Schoen by Wayne Newton was genius. How many of us have crooned that song in the shower or in the car because of Broderick’s classic lip sync? And then the showstopping performance to the Beatles version of Twist and Shout single handled introduced the Fab Four to Generation X. Many of my friend didn’t even know who John Paul George and Ringo were until that scene. Who can forget this part:
I also discovered songs by bands I had never heard of like Beat City by the Flower pot men. This song was so catchy and yet in 1986 it was nearly impossible to find because the soundtrack wasn’t released.
Then there was Sigue Sigue Sputnik that had the cool song playing as Ferriss is breaking the forth wall.
and maybe the most iconic track to come from the film, OH YEAH by Hello Yello actually released the single in 1985 It’s an eclectic mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals. It just one of those amazingly addictive songs of that time and from there on out it became known as 'the Ferris Bueller song No doubt to a full play at the end of the film when Ed Rooney had to ride the bus home. - บันเทิง
![[UNCUT] รัฐสั่งหยุดปล่อยคลื่น! แต่หยุดพลังปะทุ “น้องหญิง” ไม่ได้ I คนดังนั่งเคลียร์](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RmQh47eIiV0/mqdefault.jpg)
If MTV ever decides to stop rotting our minds with garbage reality TV programming and starts to play music again your show should definately be a part of that comeback. You do such a fantastic job producing this channel and your content is both fascinating and entertaining.
As an official old head I remember when half of MTVs content was _music_ and the rest was exactly like this channel.
I remember the first day and video MTV played. It stayed just music videos for several years and then for some reason it started playing fewer and fewer music videos. That was the beginning of the end. If a channel wanted to make some real money they would create a channel identical to that first year of MTV.
I remember the first time I seen MTV.. I was awestruck. We couldn't get it at my house, as we lived 10 miles from the nearest town with cable. At my house, we just had a rooftop antenna that picked up 4 channels. My girlfriend's family had cable and we would watch it together...It was the early 80s, the music was fantastic, I had a girlfriend with home cable, and I was 21.... How much better could life be...
LOL_ I was thinking the same thing- sort of, just thinking this reminded me of the shows I used to watch on MTV sometimes many, many moons ago.
I believe the day that MTV focuses on music again Satan will start shopping for a snowblower
Would you like a gummy bear?
It's been in my pocket and they are soft and squishy.
Bueller...Bueller
So many wonderful one linters...
@Anna Trail Thanks 😊 It snowed a little last night. The gummy bear quote is from the end of the Ferris Bueller movie. It is when the principal gets on the school bus and sits next to the little girl. She pulls from her pocket some grimey gummy bears and offers them to the principal. Weird humor, and I thought it was funny.
To this day, one of my favorite movie moments was when Ferris was desperately trying to get home before getting caught, yet he still found the time to come back & introduce himself to the girls who were sunbathing. He cut through their yard. It's something I never would've had the guts to do, and it was a hilarious moment in the movie. 😅
priorities...
lol....heck yea....the dude had game no doubt. The part that always got me giggling ( and there's MANY in this great movie..) but where after it's realized that the parking attendants had racked up a bunch of exessive mileage on the car they decide to jack the car up and run the transmission in reverse in an attempt to remove mileage.... lmfao... oh you kids.
John Hughes was a genius.... shoot, I remember the early days when he was with National Lampoon... he is missed.
Yes , yes and yes. That vignette worked on so many levels. Great comedy is about giving the audience something unexpected. While the audience is wrapped up in "will Ferris make it back in time?", Ferris takes the time to pause and introduce himself to two attractive young ladies, cementing his legacy as the ultimate "cool" lead. So I wholeheartedly agree with you, Bill!
Ken
I remember watching the movie as a teenager when he said they would run it backwards. I’m thinking, “that’s not gonna work”.
@@Dooklawz so many times I remember unhooking the speedometer after driving a few miles and then hooking it back up before I got home as to not give away just how far from home our nights led us.
I get so angry when people, especially people of my generation downplay the value of his movies. They encapsulate so much of my emotions and memories of growing up in the 80s (Graduated HS in 87), the music and his movies transport me back so quickly, the emotions, not always pleasant, are still comforting. I want others to understand, and are disappointed when they clearly don't get it, but find great comfort when a note of a song, or mention of a one liner/quote from one of the movies stirs another. We can share a knowing glance, and know that an unwritten bond exist. Gen X forever.
FYI the movie North Shore is from 1987.
Class of 87 here too. I agree! Good movie and great songs!
@@CoachEgg in my 20's I had a respectable stack of movie soundtrack albums.
Couldn’t agree more!! It was a great time to grow up.
@@TheGarageRecordingSC Absolutely.
The most magical thing about the ethereal song "Edge of Forever" is that it evolves with you as you get older. It did at the time perfectly encapsulate that feeling of young love and indecision for the future, the core of many of John Hughes films that no one did a better job of showing and touching our hearts with. But as you age, the song ages with you. For me, the lines about "But now that you're older... You don't want to hold my hand in a crowd" is now about having to let go of your children's hands, and let them experience life for themselves, with hurt, sorrow and pain, hopefully on their way to love and happiness, and the strength it now takes as a parent to trust what you've taught them, own up to your mistakes (I've been falling down") and hope the love you showed them was enough for them to know what to look for in their own lives. Big thanks for this episode, and the great John Hughes, and one of the most underrated songs in history "Edge of Forvever"!
I stumbled upon 'Oh Yeah' accidentally when I randomly bought Yello's 'New Mix In One Go' in 1986.
Very cool!
That’s a good greatest hits album for their very early albums. Essential Yello is also another good greatest hits album going all the way up to 1992.
He's a righteous dude.
Love it.
Ferris Bueller & Breakfast Club for me totally hit the nail on the head and the fact John Hughes kept doing that...sixteen candles, Planes Trains, Pretty In Pink....the guy is a legend and indeed the soundtracks for those movies also nail it
We are all lucky John Hughes didn't end up in a band. The gifts he gave us all in the 80's through his cinematic vision and his unbelievable appreciation of music is unfathomable. One of my favorite soundtrack moments from a Hughes film is the end of Sixteen Candles and The Thompson Twins song "If you were here"..... but there are countless others in Mr. Hughes' repertoire.
Breakfast Club will always be one of my favourite films of all time. John Hughes was a master storyteller.
He was for sure. Miss his work.
It helped put Simple Minds, who didn’t want to record “(Don’t You) Forget About Me”, on the map.
@@vinsgraphics Billy Idol has a good version of Don't you forget about me
Ferris Bueller, you're my hero!
I say that all the time.
Sooner or later everybody goes to the zoo
The Art Institute scene gives me the chills every time, because of the music.
Now in my 50’s…I consider myself so lucky that I came of age in a time that literally was perfected by John Hughes….the soundtracks, the story lines, to these films illicit feelings and emotions that epitomized what that kid on the other side of the tracks was going through…Hughes made you believe you always had a shot at things that were intangible and that good will prevail…thanks Professor
I see _The Muppet Movie_ soundtrack behind you. That better be a future Sound Track episode.
I still cannot believe John Hughes thought no one would want this soundtrack. *I* wanted it, and still want it. That would be my jam in the car.
All the guys wanted to be Ferris Bueller in the 80s (me included), and all the girls wanted to be with Ferris Bueller.
Thank you again for pushing my nostalgia button and educating me about a great soundtrack.
I was that teenager in the 80s. 10 in 1980 20 in 1990. Breakfast Club and Ferris we're indeed so huge for us. RIP John.
John Hughes was one of those filmmakers who could look into our souls and tell a fantastic story.
One of the things that struck me about John Hughes was his authenticity. He looked like a regular Midwestern guy who dressed like a cozy dad, not edgy at all. He didn't look like someone who had his finger on the pulse of a movement in music that he managed to interweave beautifully with quintessential American coming-of-age stories.
I am basically the same age as the Brat Pack. John Hughes was part of my soul and life force. He captured my teen drama like no one else. PS. I went to Chicago with my family a couple years ago and the The Art Institute of Chicago was our #2 destination. I plugged in my ear buds and played Dream Academy while staring at the Georges Seurat painting. It is actually very large and insanely beautiful.
John Hughes is the King.
I stared at it just like Cameron did many years ago 😁
Jesus Christ is the only life force. Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
@@TheJpep2424 "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun"
@@Fakeaorta Remember Only the Good Die Young.
People forget that the Beatles Twist and Shout actually made the top 30 again thanks to the inclusion of that song in the movie
Class of '85 here. Ferris Bueller was the best 80s movie ever. 80s rocked!
Great movie! Great music! I use the "Bueller... Bueller... Bueller" line when I ask someone something and they are stumped for an answer!
Don't we all! Love it.
Who doesn't lol
The emotion Hughes captured, in one generation, is the same in all generations of teens. His movies are timeless.
John Hughes introduced me and millions of others to New Wave that will live on forever.
OMD, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, New Order, Oingo Boingo, The Rave Ups...would any one of us have been exposed to such fantastic music if it wasn't for John Hughes movies?! His whole catalog is amazing.
Awww man, to be 19 in 1986, what a time
There'll just never be another.. so much truth...for those of us who grew up in the 80's ...so many key movies, music, memories, and feels linked to this man.. my heart is full
My friends and I use to skip school(usually a Friday) and rent this movie on VHS. Good times.
I was beyond lucky to grow up during the 80s with the music, fashion, and the cusp of technology. i.e., video games. Miss those days every day
"Twist & Shout" was re-released due to its inclusion in "Ferris Bueller"-It peaked at # 23.
That is what really got me into The Beatles!
"Mirror in the Bathroom" backwards? You blew my mind with that, Prof!
I love that you kicked off your new series on soundtracks with a film that never actually had one released. For years I would check in at my local music stores trying to find a copy, like Don Quixote and those damn windmills.
I was born April 1971. Skateboards, thrash, punk and John Hughes movies. My 80s.
You had an English beat t-shirt on the other day on another video, and the rest of the day I couldn't get "mirror in the bathroom" out of my head. Then you teach me that it was played backwards in one of my favorite movies. Man, this video was awesome. Great job.
I need one of those English Beat shirts, Special Beat Service is one of my favorite albums of all time!
@dvdiii I was just trying to find something on line.
The 80’s was such a great time period to grow up. I was perfectly nestled at 20 in 86. I got to appreciate the greatest of the mid to late 70’s hits. The 80’s. And the 90’s. I couldn’t ask for a better time period to experience living.
Growing up as a teen in the 80s was the best. I feel a bit sorry for the younger generations. But they can always watch John Hughes’ films to get a sense of what is was like.
Indeed, the 1980s was a time of optimism in America and Poland/Eastern Europe, though not so much in England...
Save Ferris
Ferris Bueller’s Day off was one of my first theater experiences as a kid. I rode my bike to the theater and was just blown away.
I worked while in highschool, as a movie usher. It was a lot of fun. Midnight movie previews, acting out some scenes with co workers. I had a great time.
My brother swiped this from the library, laughed so hard and really enjoyed hearing Bad from Big Audio Dynamite
Back in the 80's I met Dave Wakeling one night in LA. I told him my band covered "Save it for Later". He asked "did you figure out the tuning" to which I replied "nope". He was very cool.
_Good call._ The Smiths-like "Beat City" by The Flower Pot Men is one of the great Indie guitar tracks of the era. In the pre-internet days, it took years to track down.
I love it so much. It reminds me of freedom!
I love Beat City! Ben Watkins went on to be Juno Reactor - one of my favorite trance/electronic acts still going strong.
@@scograham That's wild, I didn't know that. I remember Juno Reactor from the _Matrix_ sequel soundtracks.
“Smiths-like”? What are you on?
The Smiths are one of the most depressing and boring bands of all time! Utter crap.
The Flowerpot Men’s little dirty is actually quite catchy!
I really loved that Bryan Ferry poster that Ferris had behind his bed. I wanted that poster so badly when I was a kid! Great movie and soundtrack!
These music choices with John Hughes films captured all the teenage angst of the 80’s. Gives me goosebumps to this day.
Losing John Hughes so early is a tragedy that is difficult to measure. With all the iconic movies he created who knows what would have been had he lived longer. I agree with you Adam, he had an amazing ability to tap into teenage angst and life as well as a talent for great music selection to fit scenes.
John Huges impacted our world in such a way. He is truly incredible and all
His work is great and has touched the hearts of everyone and gave such great gifts that will last forever ❤️❤️
Hopefully Real Genius will get a Record Store Day Release one day. The Comsat Angels might get some overdue recognition for their brilliant I'm Falling as Yello & The Dream Academy did from Ferris.
Real Genius had such a great soundtrack. Especially the last song.
The real missing gem we were denied because there was no "Real Genius" soundtrack was by the brilliant (and largely unknown) Tonio K. called *"I'm Supposed to have Sex With You"*
@@ProfessorofRock what I love most about that is that ending made the song more optimistic than I’d ever heard it before. One of my favorite movies.
I love Real Genius- the genius was Val Kilmer and of course the soundtrack- Trivia- Dean Develin who had small role in that film ended becoming a huge producer of films with Roland Emmerich like ID4 Independence Day. Some really interesting music in Real Genius- The "Ferris Bueller" for nerds haha ;)
Ferris Bueller had the best soundtrack, from Yello, to Dream Academy, to Flower Pot Men, to the Beatles! It was all a win! 😍
It was definitely a win! Thanks Trina!
I wished for the Soundtrack series..finally it’s out..thanks professor..!
Edge of forever..Carl Sagan..who was not an Astrologer by an Astrophysicist..!!
Thank you for bringing back The Dream Academy to public attention. They were one of my favourite bands at the time. It's sad that they basically just faded out.
John Hughes was a genius with not only his film making of relevant stories but with his ability to put just the right music with certain scenes.....one of the all time greatest ☺️. Oh I felt a kindred spirit with Ferris.....don't know how I graduated after my last year as many times as I'd skipped....but fun times were to be had 😁. Funny thing is if it weren't for these incredible collabs there would be so much great music I would've missed from my life....great episode Prof....hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Christmas 🎄⛄
Thanks Beth. My sentiments exactly.
He was gifted.
If you watch the 1999 DVD release of the movie, with John Hughes commenting on the movie as he watched it with us, you learn Paul McCartney called him up angered that he added a high school marching band to Twist and Shout.
I always love watching John Hughes movies…. specifically for the music. I can instantly bring up memories from these movies whenever I hear even a snippet of music that was used in them. If he had been a musician, we would not have gained such brilliance as we gained from him making movies. He died way too young. But I will remember him for the rest of my life. Thank you, Mr. Hughes. 💕🙏🏻💕
That interview with Nick Clowes is gold!
Please Please Please is one of very few instrumental pieces that makes me cry and it does show how brilliant the Smiths were a musicians.
That movie had me howling with laughter when I first saw it as a kid. My chest was literally aching by the end of the movie.
My nephew (born in ’84 so not gen x). Watched Ferris Bueller constantly and at age 5 he could recite EVERY line without missing a word. In fact I could name a scene and off he went word for word.
Brilliant! It's hard to make art out of comedy but Hughes managed it easily. As a Brit, it was thrilling to see how he embraced British new wave music. I think he was the only major US film maker to use it so prominently in his soundtracks.
The Dream Academy is fantastic for this Soundtrack. The Edge of Forever ( My favorite in the Soundtrack as well) and their version of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want are dear to my heart, it always makes me want to cry...
I just learned a couple of weeks ago John Hughes actually wrote the movie for Anthony Michael Hall. I’m sure he would have also done awesome as Farris. Maybe he would have been a slight bit more of smart ass version of Farris, but he was John’s original vision for the character and his inspiration in writing the movie even.
“Oh, Yeah” was used in the movie K-9 with Jim Belushi when Jerri Lee (German Sheppard) is exchanging pre-hookup glances with a neighborhood poodle
Good recall. It's been awhile since I saw that one!
If it wasn't for John Hughes movies I would've never know these amazing new wave groups like dream academy, the English Beat, omd and my personal favorite simple minds this was my youth and John Hughes was my filmmaker
After the recognition that Yello got from this film, John Hughes used their music in some of his future films like Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Dutch with Ed O'Neill. Yello are still around; they released an album last year.
I read that somewhere, but thanks for the reminder! I'll have to check it out.
Yello's "The Race" makes an appearance in Tim Allen's "For Richer Or Poorer" as well. Great collaborative band, including cameo vocals by Shirley Bassey. Dynamite stuff from the '80s!
Hey there Jon! What are some of your favorite Yello songs?
Also Yello did the theme to Ford Fairlane and a bunch of their songs were on the Nuns on the Run Soundtrack.
@@haroldclark55 They have such a big catalog, and I haven't listened to all of their records, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be "Takla Makan" from their 2009 album Touch.
JBL recommended their album Zebra for speaker testing.
Ferris and Wyatt had the same posters I had! First time I saw FBDO, first run, my heart leapt into my throat when Cameron says, "I put up with everything. My old man pushes me around. I NEVER SAY ANYTHING!" Yup! Hughes knew!
I love that story about what happened to the baseball from Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Thrown to the dog to chew up. Reminds me of the movie set in the 1950's that opens with kids holding what are now super rare, highly collectible baseball cards ... deciding which one to put in the spokes of the bicycle. "I have two of these Mickey Mantle rookie cards ..."
That DREAM ACADEMY dude seems like such a great, lovely person. I love this talk - this radiates with love and passion and a sheer joy!
John Hughes always had the best music. Honorable mention to Zapp with Radio People playing in the background before Cameron loses it. 🤯
I know ! Love it.
John Hughes movies were the video track of my childhood.
You should absolutely do "The Big Chill" on an episode of Sound Track.
What got me is Alan Ruck was playing a High School senior and in real life he is 13 days older than me. I was 29 due to turn 30, the movie came a day or two before his birthday.
I came to the end of my workday in a an early hour. Looked up and it was the sky of a beautiful day, lol. I snapped a picture of the blue sky dotted by bright puffy clouds. Posted the shot on Facebook and posted, "How can I be expected to work on a day like this?" After which I jumped on my motorcycle to enjoy the rest of that September day.
Ferris has had an influence sure in my life.
Dont forget that the melody for General Public’s Tenderness used throughout Weird Science. John Hughes moves are the reason I am a huge Dave Wakeling fan.
Dave Wakeling is one of my favorite musicians and songwriters, I’m a big fan of The Beat and General Public, sadly Rankin Roger passed a few years back.
Closing my eyes, I imagine Proffesor of rock as a syndicated radio Top 40 hit host.
Ferris Bueller is my fave movie of all time. I travelled all the way from Australia to recreate his day off. I the good fortune to meet Alan Ruck at a screening and Q&A. He was super lovely and answered my many questions. All John Hughes’s movies had great soundtracks Ferris, Pretty In Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful and Breakfast Club stand out for me. I cried when I heard he died. What a tragic loss. Great episode Prof!
Never did like new wave music, but the way the songs were in the movies fit. Now I can look back to my early 20's and relive that time
John Hughes, taken from us too young, he had so much more to give us. I adore his movies, and soundtrack 🎶 selections.
My kids, when just a wee bit older, will be enjoying his legacy' and Ferris Bueller's Day Off will be one of the first! :)
Thank you John Hughes.
Thank you Adam Reader, for spotlighting his talents, and keeping modern day music history, ALIVE!
One day, I hope to meet you. What a blast it would be, to sit with a hot cup of tea, or cocoa and marshmallows?, and play "who sings this?!" (A game my dad started with me, when I was toddler, usually in the car 🚗) Then, Dad would give me little tidbits of information, or background he had dug up, on the band or singer.
Oh, if you could only see, and hear, his mixed tape collection. It is fantastically eclectic, singing and dancing wonderful, and meticulously labeled in that teeny tiny printing ✍ we all had to master! >laughs<
Now, I play "Who Sings This?" with my three daughters, and the 11 year old (the oldest) is getting pretty good, which makes me pleased as punch! 🙂
I also, give them snippets of history, with each answer. I hope they love it, and remember these moments "mega" happily, when I am long gone, too.
This comment is in memory of my Dad, the biggest music influence of my life.
I love, and miss you, more than I can say.
Eric Pearson
1950-2005
"March of the Swivelheads" is "Mirror in the Bathroom," backwards. KAAABOOOM. My head just exploded.
The thing I always found with John Hughes' movies, and most of the movies and music from the 80's, is that people made them because they WANTED to... to entertain people. Not to force their own personal political or sociological ideals onto them or tell them how to think/feel/behave. Not because they felt it was "an important film" or would "define a generation". None of the BS that most supposed artists use to justify their craft nowadays. They did it because they had a good idea and they enjoyed it and all the better if everyone else liked it too. THIS is the prime reason why a time like the 80's will never, EVER, be able to return. It was a short sliver of humanity's existence that burned brightly and then blinked out of existence only to remain in the memories of those who lived it. No one born after will ever truly be able to understand what the 80's were.
We said that about the 60s and 70s also.It seems as if after the year 2000, humanity, decency, and common sense snuffed themselves out leaving empty shells...
A fun rock-related tidbit: The girl on the bus at 5:47 is actress Polly Noonan, who became friends with the alternative band The Lemonheads in the early 1990s. Noonan appeared on the cover of their breakthrough album "It's a Shame About Ray" (1992) and supplied featured vocals for the track "Bit Part".
Wow, I'm a Lemonheads fan and never knew this. Thanks for this tidbit because it weaves my 80's memories into my 90's!
Seriously...it would be a crappier world without John Hughes having been a film maker...and FBDO? One of the best of all time.
My favorite comedy of all time! The music has a lot to do with that too. Such an amazing soundtrack! Great breakdown, Professor!
Thank friend!
It was pretty much up there with the breakfast club !
This is B.A.D - one of the most underrated albums of the 80's
It was truly great.
My favorite John Hughes movie is "Planes,Trains,& Automobiles"-What a laugh riot that was!
In Spain this film was titled: “Todo en un día” (All in one day)….I love it, a classic 80’s…👍🏻🎸
Carl Sagan, the astrologer? That was such a great laugh.
Just enjoyed NYE watching Ferris Bueller….And then the greatest music movie of all times.. THE BLUES BROTHERS!!
So happy to expose my 22 year old daughter to the great movies an music of our generation. She was amazed at the talent in both these amazing movies.
This movie made me a Sigue Sigue Sputnik fan, when I heard that song playing when he was in the shower I was like what is that? I spent weeks going to record stores all over town looking for the soundtrack to this movie and was constantly told there was no soundtrack to this movie. I was crushed. Finally later that summer my friend came back from a trip to Germany and he had found the cassette of Flaunt It and I played that all summer long, such a great album.
I cut high school with friends to go watch Ferris Bueller at a matinee. 1986 was awesome!
Ferris Bueller is still the only movie that I've paid to see twice-and I was 14 years old at the time. I So love the soundtrack, and John Hughes always picked the Perfect songs to complement different scenes in all of his movies.
Aw man, I LOVE this movie! 😅 and I was born in '58 🤭 The music was awesome! But, please forgive me, that moment with his sister and the principal in the kitchen still makes me whoop with glee! WHOOP! WHOOP! I also Love John Hughes work!
Ferris was great of course...so cute!🥰😁
Whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, and there are more than a handful of answers to give, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the easy answer. I have been touting this movie for decades stating that all you need to learn in life you can learn from watching this movie. I still believe that to this day. It's a fantastic experience and has been influential across generations. The shower robe 4th wall break was even lovingly mimicked in Deadpool and an entire CSI episode was done in that style.
From Ferris to the breakfast club to some kind of wonderful John Hughes knew how to pick the best songs to bring each scene to life.
I have been working on a remodel for a La-Z-boy store and while up on a scissor lift yesterday day my head was right by the ceiling speaker when a song came on that I had heard a thousand times in my life but never really “heard it” until yesterday. I said what is this song. I hummed it into google and discovered it was Joe Jackson- Steppin’ out. What a crazy composition. It’s a worm in my ear now. Been digesting his discography all day. If google never developed that algorithm it would just be an unknown specter of my childhood radio. I vote for this song to get your treatment on TH-cam
Hughes understood how important a score is. They tend to be throw aways or temp music from other movies that composers try to emulate. Highes picked songs that meant something, especially to his target audience... and the irony was that he undervalued his musical contribution.
This X-er was introduced to the Fab Four before Ferris Bueller was even a gleam in John Hughes's eye. My mom had (and still has) an original copy of Meet The Beatles, and one of my classmates in seventh grade came to school one day with a cassette copy of the White Album. The latter would eventually be the first Beatles album I bought.
I still have the Dream Academy LP...I was Thrilled to hear Edge of Forever in a movie! A Great song
Great soundtrack faves of mine were: "Risky Business", "9 1/2 Weeks", "Valley Girl" which was issued in two parts, "Bright Lights Big City" "Tequila Sunrise", "Lost Boys", "Streets Of Fire", "Eddie and the Crusiers", Fast Times At Ridgemont High", "Breakin" and "Breakin' 2" and Vision Quest".
I Still love watching Breakin’ every so often. Love that soundtrack too!
I hope Mr. Hughes was never frustrated in his career, thinking it was his second choice. Maybe he’d have been a global sensation as a musician, but what we received from him as a filmmaker was so important. His work is really part of the American historical record, in a way. There should be a Hughes wing of the Smithsonian.
Every year . A must watch Ferris
My little sister & I could quote “Pretty in Pink”. It was one of our many “sister” things. She lost her battle with breast cancer July, 2016 at the age of 41. But right before she got so sick they had a showing of “Pretty in Pink” in the outdoor theater downtown and we went & had a ball
I don't listen to music as much as I used to when I was younger but I really do like this show
The museum scene has always been one of my favorites as well. Years ago I went on a quest to find the instrumental version of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by Dream Academy and it was NOT easy to find at that time.