Summer Of Soundtrack Episode 1: Hughes Highlights

We're declaring 2026 the Summer Of Soundtrack, contemplating film soundtracks across the decades -- and we're starting with 10 selections from the 1980s John Hughes teen oeuvre, some you'll remember and some you'll forget...or regret. As we contemplate the definitive Hughes tunes (or, for one of us, speak truth to Thompson-Twins power), we're also discussing NuRo wallpaper, post-prom fire hazards, keyboardist video indicating, and the Nirvana-Clash pipeline. Grab that Sport Walkman, folks: it's a very hot! very hot! new episode of MASTAS.

Intro and outro by David Gregory Byrne; for more information, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• Jonathan Bernstein's Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies
• Kevin Smokler's Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
• The Lost Songs Project
• March MASTAS Single 01: Welcome To The '80s British Band Bracket!
• Ira Newborn's NYU-faculty page
• Episode 80: Pat Benatar's Greatest Hits, Ranked
• Our esteemed colleague Danny Elfm-- uh, Adam Sternbergh
• A 2019 oral history of Some Kind Of Wonderful that suggests Sarah isn't completely off-base about Watts

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