Get ready to revisit the ?80s this winter.
The compilation ?High School Reunion: A Tribute to Those Great 80s Films,? originally planned for a September release, will now hit stores Dec. 1.
The album from American Laundromat and Face Down Records features artists covering tracks that first appeared in such teen movie classics as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Say Anything” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
Frank Blank, Matthew Sweet, and the Dresden Dolls join previously announced contributors including Kristin Hersh, Lori McKenna, John Strohm and the Caulfield Sisters.
Black covers Iggy Pop?s ?Repo Man? from the movie of the same name, while Sweet tackles Tom Petty’s “American Girl” from “Fast Times” and the Dresden Dolls do Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in Pink.”
“My fianc?e, Violet Clark, sings on it and some kid from Connecticut plays all the instruments,” Black told Billboard about his contribution. “Our lighting guy, Miles, has a studio in Hartford so this was a kid who does work with him sometimes. I called him and said, ‘Do it up! I’ll be in to sing it in a couple of weeks!’
?It’s like a keyboard/film soundtrack soundscape. We didn’t do it like Iggy and Steve Jones.”
The tracklist for ?High School Reunion,? according to pitchforkmedia.com (Artist – “Song”, Film (original artist)):
01 John P. Strohm – “Somebody’s Baby”, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Jackson Browne)
02 Dipsomaniacs – “A Million Miles Away”, Valley Girl (The Plimsouls)
03 Matthew Sweet – “American Girl”, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Tom Petty)
04 Blank Pages – “Turning Japanese”, Sixteen Candles (The Vapors)
05 The Bennies – “Weird Science”, Weird Science (Oingo Boingo)
06 AM – “Don’t You (Forgot About Me)”, The Breakfast Club (Simple Minds)
07 Lori McKenna – “In Your Eyes”, Say Anything (Peter Gabriel)
08 The Smarties – “If You Were Here”, Sixteen Candles (Thompson Twins)
09 Nova Social – “Little Bitch”, Sixteen Candles (The Specials)
10 The Modifiers – “Love My Way”, Valley Girl (Psychedelic Furs)
11 The Atomic Hep Cats – “Bring on the Dancing Horses”, Pretty in Pink (Echo & The Bunnymen)
12 The Commons – “Moving in Stereo”, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (The Cars)
13 The Dresden Dolls – “Pretty in Pink”, Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs)
14 Kristen Hersh – “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)”, Pump Up the Volume (The Pixies)
15 The Caulfield Sisters – “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”, Pretty in Pink (The Smiths)
16 Underdog – “I Melt With You”, Valley Girl (Modern English)
17 The Wading Girl – “Danke Shoen”, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Wayne Newton)
18 Frank Black – “Repo Man”, Repo Man (Iggy Pop)
19 PC Munoz – “I Go Crazy”, Some Kind of Wonderful (Flesh For Lulu)
20 Bastards of Melody – “Within Your Reach”, Say Anything (The Replacements)
