Late '80s pop-rock with ghost-fighting energy. The Ghostbusters II movie soundtrack from 1989 is pure end-of-decade excess, stuffed with big names doing big things. Bobby Brown's On Our Own is the headliner, this funky, confident track that carried the marketing by itself.
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Higher And Higher closes it out as the feel-good anthem soundtracking the Statue of Liberty scene. Run-DMC shows up with Ghostbusters, a hip-hop reimagining of the Ray Parker Jr. classic. Oingo Boingo brings Flesh 'N Blood, weirder and darker than anything else here.
Doug E. Fresh's Spirit has that late '80s beat-box swagger. A time capsule of 1989 radio, every track dripping with reverb and confidence. If you miss the era when movie soundtracks were compilation albums of whoever was hot that summer, this is peak.