While listening to his own wedding mix tape, the Peter Gabriel classic came on, and it just clicked. 'To Be A Lover' by Billy Idol was originally considered, but Crowe felt that it and several other considered songs simply didn't work. Of course, one of the most defining movie music moments of the '80s occurred when Dobbler attempts to win back Diane's heart by blaring Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' with his boombox lifted above his head, outside her window at dawn. Cusack not only contributed to the soundtrack via the 'Lloyd Dobler Rap,' but also gave suggestions, as he said, 'Cameron wasn't hip on The Replacements.' The soundtrack is littered with great tracks by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode, Living Colour and even Crowe's then wife, Nancy Wilson. The sarcasm, sorrow and general malaise and melancholy are autobiographical.' It's about a girl who sleeps around a lot and feels like she benefits from it, whereas in reality people are talking and laughing about her behind her back. 'For me, Pretty in Pink means someone naked. It wasn't about somebody actually wearing pink,' he explained during a 2020 interview. The film had nothing to do with the lyric and in a way it made it trite. We had to rerecord the song for the film, and it was a bigger hit the second time, but the original is better. It gave us a lot of exposure but was a mixed blessing. If you're wondering what Psychedelic Furs lead singer Richard Butler thinks about all this, he isn't a fan. The band, handpicked by Hughes himself, wrote a different song for the big prom scene finale, but the original ending where Andie ends up with Duckie didn't play well with preview audiences, and so the scene and tune all had to be scrapped and rethought. One of the key songs was 'If You Leave' by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and it was miraculously written in a day. Rounded out with tracks by the likes of New Order, INXS, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths, it had 'a specific feel and rhythmic energy - cool, tough and electronically snappy,' praised The New York Times.

The flashdance soundtrack