Who Can It Be Now? (From "Valley Girl") is a unknown song released in 2013.
Club, and has also been published by Rolling Stone, Vulture, RBMA, Thrillist and Spin.© 2013 Timeless Music Company FAQs for Who Can It Be Now? (From "Valley Girl") When was Who Can It Be Now? (From "Valley Girl") released? Simple Minds, "Don't You (Forget About Me)"Īny high school movie jam list has to end with the anthem that also closed "The Breakfast Club": Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)." The song's bittersweet farewells encapsulate the end-of-school yearbook-signing melodrama, which underscores that friendship and love can be fleeting.Īnnie Zaleski is a Cleveland-based journalist who writes regularly for The A.V. The Scottish post-punk band Altered Images - fronted by the luminous Clare Grogan - provided the perfect theme to "Sixteen Candles" with this frothy pop pogo.Ĭharlie Sexton is currently a member of Bob Dylan's backing band, but circa his song's appearance on 1987's "Some Kind of Wonderful," he was a hotshot singer-songwriter with a massive hit: "Beat's So Lonely," a retro-soul-blues number rife with scorched guitar and '50s-greaser teen angst. Q-Feel features Martin Page, who was later known for the '90s hit "In The House of Stone And Light" and for co-writing Starship's "We Built this City" and Heart's "These Dreams." However, the group's starry-eyed, hi-NRG electro cut was ideal to bolster the climactic dance contest scene in 1985's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Q-Feel, "Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)" During the scene in which he's moping and mooning over his beloved Julie, the group is filmed playing this impossibly heartbroken song, an R.E.M.-ish slice of melancholic twang-jangle.Īn alternative band somewhere between Gene Loves Jezebel and Jesus and Mary Chain, Flesh for Lulu is responsible for "I Go Crazy," a Britrock trifle with sandpaper guitars and synth swirls that received a boost from being in 1987's "Some Kind of Wonderful." power-pop group the Plimsouls appeared in "Valley Girl" as the resident bar band at Nicolas Cage's favorite watering hole. The tune they penned for "Pretty in Pink" is peak lushness, between the saxophone bridge and aching lyrics about the end of a romance: parting ways after experiencing one last night together. While not as well-known as other tunes, their "Are You Ready For The Sex Girls" appeared in two of the decade's teen movie totems: "The Last American Virgin" and "Revenge of the Nerds." Unsurprisingly, it's a crooked electropop trifle with a healthy libido ("Are you ready for the sex girls?/The right, right, ultra-vital nice-nice girls?").īy 1986, OMD had fluffed up their synthpop with increasingly swooning sentiments and lush production. Gleaming Spires was founded by two members of Sparks' touring band. Gleaming Spires, "Are You Ready For The Sex Girls" The mighty "Weird Science" combined futuristic sci-fi vibes and a throwback horn section that landed somewhere near space-age neo-funk. SoCal misfits Oingo Boingo were teen movie soundtrack faves, likely because their quirky sonic hybrids encapsulated the wackiness of the '80s. The satisfying scene is even more enduring thanks to the song playing: Thompson Twins' "If You Were Here," an understated tune with delicate synth shards and a lush melodic underbelly. The end of "Sixteen Candles" is one of cinema's most iconic moments: Sam Baker (as played by Molly Ringwald) finally sharing a smooch with her stoic dreamboat Jake Ryan.
This snappy "Valley Girl" soundtrack staple screamed Cali new-wave: jaunty piano, a perky tempo, girl-gang harmonies, and sassy vocals from Bonnie Hayes. One of its more underrated cuts is this nostalgia-misted tune, a perfect example of the sweet, simple romances that played out over the airwaves in the '80s.īonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo, "Girls Like Me" "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" inarguably boasted one of the best soundtracks of the '80s high school teen movies. But these 12 jams are some of the best at conveying the adventurous spirit of the decade's high school teen movies. There are so many memorable moments, it's hard to narrow them down. But these films also produced some of the most moving pairings of music and plot. navigating their adolescent traumas and dramas. The high schools of '80s teen movies may be best known for showing us stereotypical high school cliques - jocks, preps, nerds, punks, etc.
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