Track Listing

1. Good Times - Jimmy Barnes, INXS
2. Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys) - Lou Gramm
3. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Roger Daltrey
4. Laying Down the Law - Jimmy Barnes, INXS
5. People Are Strange - Echo & the Bunnymen
6. Cry Little Sister (Theme from the Lost Boys) - Gerard McMann
7. Power Play - Eddie & The Tide, Eddie and the Tide
8. I Still Believe - Tim Capello
9. Beauty Has Her Way - Mummy Calls
10. To the Shock of Miss Louise - Thomas Newman

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10221 in Music
• Released on: 1987-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.com
Director Joel Schumacher, who went on to helm many big-budget, tiny-intellectual movies, gave us an 1980s update of the story of the vampire. It was all hip, good-looking, and tremendously vacuous. Similarly, the music doesn't break any new ground or offer much that's timeless. INXS' collaborations with Jimmy Barnes are fine, for instance, but Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm's "Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys)" verges on the painful in a way that only overwrought 1980s music can. Roger Daltrey's take on Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is by the numbers, and so wasted. It's only Echo and the Bunnymen's cover of The Doors' "People Are Strange" that warrants much attention, even if it's, erm, buried. --Scott Wilson

Customer Reviews

Occasionally excellent
Maybe it's because it always brings back great memories of being a teenager in the late 80s, and everything that goes with that. But there are some genuinely good songs here, unusually good for a soundtrack album. Yeah, so there's some dross here as well. ("Power Play" and "Lost in the Shadows" are both pop by numbers.) But "Cry Little Sister" is a great slice of gothic pop, "I Still Believe" is beltingly good (with an awesome rather than cliched sax part), and "Beauty Has Her Way" is one of my all-time favourites. Who the hell are Mummy Calls, anyway? Who is the vocalist with the Bowie-esque vocal? I have no idea. But I love the song.

Awesome CD
This movie is one of the best vampire, or even horror movies of all time. It just adds to the spookiness of the movie to have an awesome soundtrack like this one. Soundtracks usually suck but I'm so glad someone finally paired an excellent movie with the music to match. Especially good are "Cry Little Sister" (of course) and "People are Strange." It's a must buy!

Still Great!!
This CD is still great. I actually bought the record and tape when it first came out. I loved it so much that I had to buy the CD once I bought a CD player. I still break out the disk at least once a year and listen to it for a couple of weeks straight. I love all the songs, but if I had to pick my favorites it would have to be Good Times, Cry Little Sister, and Beauty Has Her Way. I highly recommend this CD!!!