Released in 1985, Low-Life refined and sometimes mixed the two styles, guitar-based and electronic, and included ” The Perfect Kiss ” – the video for which was filmed by Jonathan Demme – and ” Sub-culture “. In February 1986, the soundtrack album to Pretty in Pink featuring ” Shellshock ” was released on A&M Records . An instrumental version of ” Thieves Like Us ” and the instrumental ” Elegia ” appeared in the film but were not on the soundtrack album. Later that summer, New Order headlined a line-up that included the Smiths , the Fall , and A Certain Ratio during the Festival of the Tenth Summer at Manchester’s G-Mex .
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