Echo & The Bunnymen “Lips Like Sugar” 1987. 12″ single with “Rollercoaster” on Side A. “People Are Strange,” a Door’s cover from the movie The Lost Boys, is on Side B. UK import.

“Lips Like Sugar” appears on Echo & The Bunnymen’s fifth studio album and reached #36 on the UK charts. It was still going strong two years later, at least at the university I went to, as it was on heavy rotation on my dorm floor and on the jukebox in the student union – “Lips Like Sugar” for me is freshman year at UW-Madison.

“People Are Strange” from The Lost Boys is the best song on the movie’s soundtrack. In the film, the song introduces the audience to the “strange” and fictional city of Santa Clara, CA – which is actually Santa Cruz – by showing all of the missing person posters and punks hanging on the boardwalk. Rumor had it that one of the group of punks pictured in the intro had several runaways, including a guy from our hometown who was supposedly in Santa Cruz during filming. I’ve watched The Lost Boys probably a hundred times, pausing it and examining that crowd of kids – haven’t spotted him yet.