Sad vinyl fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around vinyl records?

I guess the props buyer didn't think to check the copyright year on the back of the sleeve.

Bolding is fun!

vague recall: is this anything to do with ilx arthur?

Don't they famously play two songs that aren't actually back-to-back on the album?

O yeah! I don't know what the first one is but the second is Ruby Tuesday and the first wasn't yesterday's papers.

Talented Mr. Ripley -- that's good one! Nice jazz!

That Hannah and her Sisters scene is nice. See, Mrs. Edward Burns, this doesn't suck like your movies!

Crumb! and American Splendor!

Requiem for a Dream. Drum-n-Bass turntable scene. That movie isn't that good!

Zebrahead: Good one too! Nice hip hop flick w/record store.

A Clockwork Orange: Possibly the greatest scene of all-time for vinyl fetishism... I heard that the "record shoppe" is now a fast-food joint. I want that store!

Scratch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861
"A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism."

spoilers...

it does get played but it keeps skipping back on itself so that the girl hears the 'i love you' half of the sentence but doesn't get to hear the bile that he finishes the sentence off with. ah, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039220/ right there on the front page.

A buncha shit in Diner.

A buncha shit in Diner.
Those are good ones.

The Big Chill - Kevin Kline smooches the Temptations' Anthology (I think).
This was annoying because the fact that the veteran-of-the-sixties character was listening to the song, what was it - "Ain't To Proud To Beg"? - on a greatest hits compilation from the seventies was a red flag that the movie itself was a repackaging of sixties nostalgia/boomer self-congratulation rather than a potentially more interesting reexamination.

THE BLUES BROTHERS, where Dan Akroyd (Elwood Blues) sits in his flophouse apartment listening to a Louis Jordan 78 on Decca.

In the 70's B-movie THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY, a coked-up disco DJ puts a Motown record in a Casablanca album cover (trivia note: the soundtrack was made up entirely of disco songs from Motown and Casablanca artists).

I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.

Scratch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861
"A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism."

If that counts, this one (Vinyl) wins the thread:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0120454/

i laughed, i cried, i said "i have that record!" about a dozen times, and i felt really good that i wasn't as neurotic as the rest of those people

I forget which Three Stooges short it was, but that scene where Curly Howard nearly hypnotizes himself watching a 78 record play on a victrola is funny as burning hell.

I was just watching Inland Empire and a b/w shot of high-contrast vinyl spinning, the needle looking like it's about to spark and do damage, shows up a few times — feels a bit like a visual to go along with the noise on the soundtrack mainly. Interesting choice for a determinedly digital movie, production-wise. But then all those train noises are sort of analog too, aren't they?

I was about to say Inland Empire.

Unfaithfully Yours, with Rex Harrison attempting murder and covering it up with a faked recording of the crime.

Empire Records (ducks the rocks and garbage).

my fave vinyl scene is in that albert brooks movie - modern romance? - when he takes a qualude and embraces his vinyl and says "i love my albums". this happened to me on ecstasy once. i just sat by my shelves all night caressing my records. i could barely get up to play one.

-- scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:15 PM

oh to be a fly on the wall

Pan's Labyrinth, but that was set in the '40s

Singles by Cameron Crowe. I remember seeing a copy of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love (among others) in the apartment of Campbell Scott.

Mo' Better Blues by Spike Lee. CD's are purchased as well.

Last Days by Gus Van Sant. The hipster friends of the Cobain-esque main character listen to The Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs.

The scene with Woody Allen anticipating a date, attempting to suavely put vinyl on the turntable and nervously sliding the needle across it, in "Play It Again Sam."

also, when he sends a vinyl record flying from its sleeve while non-chalantly waving his arms about, in the same scene.

O, Brother, where art thou? - spinning vinyl (or shellac, i guess) at manufacturing and broadcasting stages

Tom Waits plays a DJ in Down By Law, and the first time you see him he's just been fired and Ellen Barkin is throwing all his stuff out the window, including his records.

Pee Wee Herman putting 'Tequila' by the Champs in PW's Big Adventure

also...Harvey 'Sport' Keitel putting 'Theme from Taxi Driver' on turntable in TD when he's dancing with JFoster.

'Girl Of My Dreams' 78 in Angel Heart

And the composer to this song, I've no soundtrack listing from Friday the 13th-The Final Chapter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMj_tYfzsc

<i>I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.

-- Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:12 (2 years ago) Link</i>

Another Marx Brothers one in Monkey Business: they all try to pass through customs hiding a record player behind their backs, trying to pass as Maurice Chevalier by miming along with the music. (nb. again this is shellac, not vinyl)

arg. bbcode

La Maman et le Putain to thread! Has a great realtime sequence where a guy puts on a record and listens to it and the camera doesn't move. Can't remember what song it is though, so Morbius will no doubt call me a popcorn-eating thrillseeker.

This scene was Bernadette Laffont in her last scene in the film. She puts an Edith Piaf record. Earlier on, there is a sequence where she's listening to Deep Purple's Concerto For Group & Orchestra when Leaud comes in and turns it off. They talk and then Laffont turns it back on as Leaud leaves. You can also spot a copy of Sticky Fingers in their collection.

Another Gaffe: Eva Green listening to Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company in The Dreamers (at point her brother tries to smash the record and she replies, "What, you don't like Janis?"). The album was still being recorded at the time the action in the movie takes place (Jan. through May '68).,

This isn't from the movies, but McDonalds has been running a tv ad about how you can spend the money you save by eating at McDonalds on the things you love. They show one character-a youngish indie girl- dancing around aroom housing her enormus vinyl collection. At one point, she fans herself with an old Capitol lp w/the rainbow label trim.

"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" - playing of records Platters' "The Great Pretender" and Walker Bros' "In My Room" quite significant in this film

^^^must see

There are lots of old movies with scenes of radio DJs spinning vinyl ... two that come to mind are "Play Misty for Me" and the original version of "The Fog."

Lili Taylor putting on her copy of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan on the turntable before bedding River Phoenix in Dogfight.

Kings of the Road has the all-time coolest record player, a portable setup on the armrest between the driver and passenger seats in Rudiger Vogler's truck. Long scenes with no one talking, just the record spinning while he drives around. There's got to be other Wenders stuff too.

I remember watching 'Indecent Proposal' at my audiophile brothe in law's and he got very excited when he spotted this in Robert Redford's house.

http://home.c2i.net/jantoresvart/turntables/tnt-3.gif

Probably the best thing about the movie too.

that HEARTBREAKING scene in "The Concrete Jungle" where the bad kids destroy their teacher's beloved jazz record collection...

I finally saw The Science of Sleep a couple of days ago, and it had a two good vinyl moments:

1. In the opening sequence, when Bernal is explaining the recipe for dreams, He mentions "songs you heard during the day," and produces some 45s which he drops into his pot.

2. Later on, when he dreams he's in a demolished house, the ground is completely covered with loose records.

Best scenes I've ever seen specifically about filing vinyl are in Diner and Hi Fidelity, but an honorable mention might go to one involving Parker Posey's DJ roommate in Party Girl, which I'm pretty sure nobody has mentioned.

There's a dj that does a blues show here in town that plays that audio clip from the record scene in Diner every week at some point during the show.

He plays the bit in italics.

"Every one of my records means something! The label, the producer, the year it was made. Who was copying whose style... who's expanding on that, don't you understand? When I listen to my records they take me back to certain points in my life, OK? Just don't touch my records, ever! You! The first time I met you? Modell's sister's high school graduation party, right? 1955. And Ain't That A Shame was playing when I walked into the door! "

Brighton Rock, specifically the "Make a Record of your own voice"

There's a scene in Badlands where Martin Sheen uses one of these machines and it plops out a 45. How cool were those machines?!?! I wonder if people would go in with a guitar and demo a track or 2.

There a good "record yr own voice" scene in Godard's Masculin féminin.

There's a scene in Masculin, féminin when Jean-Pierre Léaud uses one of those machines as well. Was just watching it last night.

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He also puts an unfeasibly big looking 12" on to one of those small old portable record players for playing 45s on and plays some Mozart (?)

Best 'cut your own record' scene ever: "Unfaithfully Yours."

uh, as I said seven months ago.

oh man Chuck GREAT call on Diner - I used to completely love that movie, anybody seen it recently?

Looking back over this thread, I see I brought up Antoine and Collette a few years back. I was making my way through the Doinel cycle at the time, and if memory serves, there is a vinyl scene in each of the sequels. I think it goes:

Antoine and Collette-Doinel work in pressing plant, gives Collette the first record he pressed.
Stolen Kisses-Doinel attempts to learn the english language via a set of instructional lps.
Bed & Board-I forget. Maybe he gets a set of child birthing lps?
Love on The Run-Doinel's girlfriend works in a record store. Final scene takes place in a listening booth in said store.

And finally on the Leaud front (even though he isn't in the scene), there's that bit in Last Tango wherein Maria Schneider is trying to plug in a record player using a faulty socket and she gets zapped. There is an old Elektra lp (w/the butterfly logo) on the turntable.

And of course the barn dance sequence in The Giant Gila Monster with the most ridiculous dj'ing ever.

In "Juice" there's a nice one with one of the characters - Q, maybe? - practicing his set before a DJ contest.

"Every one of my records means something! The label, the producer, the year it was made. Who was copying whose style... who's expanding on that, don't you understand? When I listen to my records they take me back to certain points in my life, OK? Just don't touch my records, ever! You! The first time I met you? Modell's sister's high school graduation party, right? 1955. And Ain't That A Shame was playing when I walked into the door!"
And this:
"I mean, you wouldn't put the Charlie Parker in with the rock and roll, would you?"
"I don't know ... Who's Charlie Parker?"

There's a killer scene in Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette" that involves a precocious and bitter crippled adolescent girl sitting in an empty room listening to Kraftwerk's "Radio-Activity" LP. And the film starts with her kind of punishing her parents by listening to a classical LP at blistering volume.

Oh man, "Killer of Sheep" - little girl sings along to Earth Wind and Fire in a closet. Man.

There's the opening sequence of Almost Famous with the beautiful shot of the vinyl turning

and the studio version of the Who's "Sparks" morphs into the Live At Leeds version, which Lester Bangs snatches off a radio station's turntable...except the live version wasn't released until 1995, and the scene was set in 1973. But whatever, it works.

That Killer of Sheep scene is so good. Charles Burnett did a short called Only When It Rains in the 90s that has a major plot point about a guy and his collection of jazz lps.

Diane Lane was on Conan the other night, promoting that Nick Sparks movie she did w/Richard Gere. The clip they played featured Lane's character putting on some 60s faux-Spector thing on her turntable and dancing around a bit before deciding to have drink.

Fitzcarraldo playing Caruso records as his riverboats hurtles down the river

the film, I referenced earlier (with the scene of the high school teacher's beloved jazz records getting destroyed by his rowdy students) is actually The Blackboard Jungle...still sends shivers down me spine...

Also from Almost Famous, there's an eight minute silent outtake of the family gathered round the turntable (not) listening to Stairway to Heaven, because they couldn't get permission to use it. It's pretty cool that they recorded it anyway

I love Carole King and Todd Rundgren (and who don't?), but that scene in Virgin Suicides where the guys are playing their records over the phone to the gals is pretty cringe-worthy...

documentary movie on record collectors:

Vinyl

In Copland, Stallone's desperate late-in-the-career bid for respect, his character (a half-deaf New Jersey cop) listens to Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska, I believe, but not sure) on scratchy vinyl. His love interest gives him the same album on CD later on.

It's actually the song "Stolen Car" from The River. And if I remember correctly, Stallone drops the needle in the wrong spot.

In Copland, Stallone's desperate late-in-the-career bid for respect

For about 20 seconds, I was like, "They made a movie about the life of Aaron Copland...starring SYLVESTER STALLONE?!" before properly recognizing the title of the film in question (which I didn't see.)

Seems like Fassbinder films often have people playing records, A Merchant of Four Seasons being another.

Ana Torrent in Cria Cuervos plays Jeanette's "Porque te Vas" repeatedly on her portable record player.

Scanners and The Hidden both have memorably destructive record store scenes. It does seem though that in movies with record stores they sometimes just get a bunch of copies — overstocked? — of the same one and cover the walls/shelves with them, without putting too much focus on the records themselves (in Scanners the store had loads of copies of Frank Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti, and I wondered if that was a big album in Canada at the time).

Ever since I saw the trailer on a DVD called Grindhouse Universe I have very much wanted to see Record City, which looks like a sublimely trashy piece of late seventies end-of-civilization Americana. No home video release, though.

Detectives Stabler & Benson were just interviewing someone in a record store on this episode of SVU. Stabler is looking at a Jelly Roll Morton LP. The episode with Jill from Home Improvement in it. Where the guy has panties stuffed down his throat.

I saw some of Record City on Spanish TV once. It's kinda like Car Wash, but in a record store. Kinky Friedman has a small role.

On that same tip, there's another 70s flick called Outlaw Blues, which has Peter Fonda playing a (literally) outlaw country singer and includes a couple scenes set in record stores. Here are two TV ADs.

And if I remember correctly, Stallone drops the needle in the wrong spot.

In the recent horror movie The Strangers, Liv Tyler keeps putting on LPs in this deserted house owned by her boyfriend's grandparents. It kept bugging me, because it would be, like, Joanna Newsom's "Sprout and the Bean," made to sound all old and crackly-like, and I was thinking "why would the guy's grandparents have this on vinyl? And that song's not the first song on either side." I felt lame.

Detectives Stabler & Benson were just interviewing someone in a record store on this episode of SVU. Stabler is looking at a Jelly Roll Morton LP. The episode with Jill from Home Improvement in it. Where the guy has panties stuffed down his throat.

That reminds me in roundabout way about replacement show NBC ran in the early 90s. I don't rember the title, but it was a serialized single-camera sitcom about a detective in Frisco(or maybe LA) who had his office inside a used record store he ran with his secretary. The main plotline concerned the dectective getting hired by a celebrity to investigate his wife, who happened to be having an affair with the detective. The main thing I remember was that in one ep there was a running gag about a guy who was looking at every single record in the store. The detective told his secretary to leave the guy alone, that he wasn't going to buy anything. And of course, right after the detective leaves, the guy goes up to the secretary with like 200 albums and tells her, "I'll take these."

Crumb & American Splendor - Crumb and Pekar's mutual fetish for old blues 45s

Twin Peaks ... Leland Palmer gets deep with his jazz collection
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:19 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Yes, but the most memorable scene involving a record is the hissing/skipping turntable during the sequence in which the killer is revealed. One example of Lynch's talent for making picturesque domesticity seem creepy as hell.

I caught The Mother and The Whore in rep this past weekend. I'd forgotten how much vinyl stuff was in the film. And its not just like, "Oh, they've got some records lying around," but really knowing, keenly observed stuff about listening and responding to music. That unbroken sequence w/Bernadette Lafont listening to Edith Piaf (on a scratchy 78!) is justifiably famous, but there's so much more.

Some other great scenes:

• Jean-Pierre Leaud getting teased by Lafont and Françoise Lebrun for putting on an appropriate soundtrack (Mozart?) to brood to after their fight.

• Leaud playing and singing along with a Marlene Dietrich song after bedding Lebrun.

• Leaud's buddy talking about buying a classical album and then walking home hoping a woman he liked would see him carrying the album and would be so knocked out by his good taste that she'd want to go to his flat to hear it. One of the great music snob scenes in cinema history.

Finally saw A Serious Man the other day. Lots of vinyl stuff in it, but just wanted to cite the scene w/the phone conversation about the Columbia Record Club ("I don't want Santana Abraxis!") as deserving special recognition.

Oblivion -- 2013
The Weight by The Band
Ramble On by Led Zeppelin
A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum

American Hustle -- 2013
Jeep's Blues by Duke Ellington

Virgin Suicides where the boys-n-girls are sending tracks over the phone,,, had to look these up
Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren
Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Run To Me by Bee Gees
So Far Away by Carole King

Shawshank Redemption -- Andy alone in the Warden's office over the P.A. -- Marriage of Figaro

Good Morning, Vietnam -- many

Iron Man (?) -- he had to have a turntable in one of those

Lost -- lots of records in the shelter, 10 Cloverfield Lane had the jukebox in that shelter; actually jukeboxes would open a whole new group of options.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- 45s in the nurses station during medication time

Both Mad Men and Suits have some records/turntables

Iron Man (?) -- he had to have a turntable in one of those

DJ AM was using a laptop in Iron Man 2

There's that scene in Seeking A Friend for the End of the World where Steve Carell's character cues up Scott Walker's 1967 debut LP - first track "Mathilde" (which is the name of the meteor about to end life on earth), but instead we hear "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore". The last track on side A is "My Death", also appropriate, but as that visibly plays, dubbed in instead is "Stay With Me Baby". Damn those post-prod decisions!

During a party scene in Quadrophenia, Jimmy takes off whatever record is playing and puts on "My Generation," to the delight of the partygoers. Only, the sleeve he takes the record out of is The Who Sell Out/A Quick One twofer issued in 1974. The film is set in 1964, "My Generation" wasn't released until late 1965, and "My Generation" isn't on the album shown in the film.

The record Jimmy takes off was "Rhythm of The Rain" by the Cascades, which is about as far from "My Generation" as possible.

It was really weird seeing For Your Pleasure prominently placed in Hailee Steinfeld's dead dad's record collection in Bumblebee. (There's a lot of cassette fetishism in the film as well, but that's another thread...)

Ha, yeah, just watched the scene again. Turns out he puts on a 45, and doesn't take an LP out of the Sell Out/A Quick One sleeve (though it's still prominently placed).

It might've been more accurate if he'd put on "Green Onions" (which I think is somewhere else in the film? I haven't seen it in years), but "My Generation" works better for the scene.

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Some Fassbinder movies:

1. Hanna Schygulla playing Pearls Before Swine's "Morning Song" on a record player at the start of "Rio das Mortes", the sleeve is on the wall of her bedroom.

2. Various characters playing various Leonard Cohen songs on a jukebox throughout "Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte".

3. Margit Carstensen listening to Leonard Cohen in "Angst vor der Angst"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6pVoK7rXJU

4. Macha Meril 'dancing' to Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" in "Chinese Roulette"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoyuHQnE2Zw

5. (this the weirdest one) Folke Rabe's "Was" in a drunken wedding party scene in "Eight Hours Don't Make a Day" - sadly not actually being played though.

The Wes Anderson movie about the kids who go camping has some record player scenes.

Posted this in the other thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxOc9D4dr0

Also U & K from 20th Century Women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0pJ4Otvkk

...and of course they cue up the wrong spot on More Songs...

The Black Flag thing reminds me of several from Freaks and Geeks:

--Daniel 'going punk' and listening to "Rise Above" alone in his room.

--Ken questioning his sexuality, and tests himself by buying a Bowie album (Scary Monsters?) and looking intensely at David's photo while he listens.

--Mr. Weir dissing Neil Peart and then introducing Nick to Jazz drumming.

--Lindsay playing "Squeeze Box" for her parents, and their horror when they realize what the song is about.

--Mr. Rosso loaning Lindsay American Beauty, leading to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRHZr3VlpgE

--Mr. Weir dissing Neil Peart and then introducing Nick to Jazz drumming.

ha, I was always slightly annoyed that Mr. Weir wasn't into something hipper than Buddy Rich (he didn't have anything with Max Roach on it?), but whaddya gonna do. It's still a great scene.

https://www.digitalmediaworld.tv/images/stories/June-13/Iron-man-3-trixter-10.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM89diBydOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlCZ2PTN3M

Good stuff in Last Night In SoHo with main character Eloise's Dansette and suitcase of vintage '60s Brit wax, plus landlady Diana Rigg getting her own collection out later on.

Shame then about all of it going up in flames.

I'm sure it was stunt vinyl

Or perhaps it's all CGI.

It's just in the reality of the film, it's sad to see such a sweet set of LPs bite the dust in such a manner (even though you only actually see a Dusty Springfield and the Dansette burning onscreen).

Dusty would have been 83 today

My local PBS affiliate has started showing Inspector Morse again. The first ep involves the possible murder of a woman who used to work at a audiophile turntable company. Morse naturally owns one of the company's decks, and at one point attends a lecture on HI-FI given by her ex-boss, one of the suspects.

lots of records seen/heard being played in fassbinder's work, but delighted to spot this prominently displayed next to the turntable in the penultimate episode of eight hours don't make a day.

Two bits in Tar: The collection of Mahler vinyl on the floor in the opening montage, and a later scene where Lydia and her assistant Francesca talk about getting Deutsche Grammophon to reconsider not giving her upcoming box set a vinyl release.

this is one of the best thread titles. lol

Another Round: The dudes getting blasted to "Cissy Strut" and pumping up the bass.

Harry Busch’s high end hifi and jazz record collection are a big part of the backdrop of his home life in the series. The character uses the song “Patricia” by LA jazz musician Art Pepper as something to connect to his daughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHiCZT5jnb4

Starts at 0:49.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy sample some records in Before Sunrise

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:18 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i unknowingly went into this record store a year ago not knowing it was from the movie - a couple started kissing in there and everyone in the store started clapping.

I don't mean to go on about this, but with a little trimming, that "Cissy Strut" clip would make a great liquor commercial. Maybe that was the intention, as that's the scene right before things start heading south for the characters.

Drive-Away Dolls: The Linda Ronstadt basement make-out party, with the sleeve of Hasten Down The Wind on the coffee table (yet two songs not on that album acting as soundtrack).

https://qc-ckb.s3.amazonaws.com/ilx/whosthatgirl-tape.jpg

It's a tough one to make out, but is Madonna stealing a Jimi Hendrix tape in Who's That Girl?

Never seen it, but since Corey Hart is adjacent, Hendryx makes alphabetic sense.

Warner Music still had his back catalogue then, and that spin design matches the generic style they used for vintage titles in that era. See the B-52s cassette:

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tape-art-2.jpg

Covers like this:

https://i.etsystatic.com/11436458/r/il/6b4549/5044089348/il_340x270.5044089348_nqs4.jpg

The album title sure looks like it ends in punctuation, so I think we got it.

https://i.discogs.com/qWyLH4eQ3LQp4apNJ_wX_t0TpMk0cLzpD8lhoQB7_TI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:483/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3MTI4/NjctMTM3ODY2NDk5/NC04NjA3LmpwZWc.jpeg

since Corey Hart is adjacent, Hendryx makes alphabetic sense.

Wang Chung is above and below the Hendrix tapes.

https://i.discogs.com/DbSas9b8iLGn5UqvIO1xpyx1o2rDrHIG5pxzY4YVbTU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk3NzE3/OC0xNDU3ODkzNzY1/LTIzMTUuanBlZw.jpeg

maybe the top one is filed for chung and the bottom one for wang.

tru headz know that they were originally called Huang Chung, maybe a diehard record store guy was still in denial about the change and filed them under H?

since Corey Hart is adjacent, Hendryx makes alphabetic sense.

Wang Chung is above and below the Hendrix tapes.

Looks like they meant adjacent to the left, not top/bottom

Not sure if this counts, but the end of Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 zooms out from the end of the film to a scene of the album finishing on a turntable in a child's room. The inner loop crackle continues on as the parent silently puts a blanket on the child and pulls the tone arm off the record. For me, this scene is a laser beam of nostalgia around the comfort of music and playing physical records.

Seijun Suzuki's "Zigeunerweisen" (1980) centers around a character's obsession with the composition the movie takes its name from. Lots of scenes where the camera's just focused on the vinyl spinning on a victrola. Super interesting movie, Suzuki makes extensive use of a lot of unorthodox camera movements and editing choices. Utterly bizarre watching experience.

There's a really cool story behind the movie, too. This was Suzuki's second movie since being blacklisted from Japan's movie industry for directing "Branded to Kill" which producers complained "made no sense". No one was willing to screen "Zigeunerweisen" so Suzuki and his financial backer decided to screen it in a specially built mobile inflatable tent.

Didn't know this thread existed. I can think of lots--at work now, though. Here's one (~ 40 seconds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=627QxIicBFo

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On using a spinning record as a treadmill.

Seems like the thread for it - this looks like a vinyl equivalent of Christian Marclay's The Clock:

https://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/programmes/exhibitions/daniel-strang-vinyl

VINYL is a cinematic take on plunderphonics*, a crate dive through 100+ years of cinema history, culminating in an audiovisual composition made from 181 sampled films featuring gramophones/record players and the sound/music played within the shots. This tradition is playfully explored, taking the representation of vinyl/shellac records in cinema history, from Max Linder’s Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) to Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits (2024), as subject.

A couple of brief, neat scenes in the Jenny Agutter teen sleuth kitchen sink thriller I Start Counting feature her character's foster brother working in a shopping plaza record store with plexiglass bubble listening stations, a wall covered in Hendrix posters, and among the classical records on view, copies of S.F. Sorrow & A Saucerful Of Secrets (film shot in '68, but not released until '70).

A young Phil Collins has an uncredited bit part as an ice cream man.

One of my all-time favorite examples of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_s9PsnGeAQ

xpost: have wanted to see that for awhile, not least for the basil kirchin soundtrack!

tv, but the ghost stories for christmas episode stigma has a scene with a bunch of lps lying around including the grateful dead (live/dead?), jefferson starship, etc. can't actually remember now if a record is spinning during it or not.

Between the Kirchin & DeWolfe Library Pop soundtrack, and all the featured "New Town" architecture, I'd wager that St. Etienne are big fans of the film.

There are several instances of records being played in Un conte de Noël/A Christmas Tale, including some closeups of needle hitting vinyl, and a DJ set with scratching. At one point the patriarch of the family is playing "Air" from The World of Cecil Taylor while reading the liner notes on the sleeve.

I remember Penn Jillette putting on his vinyl copy of "The Velvet Underground and Nico" in "Penn & Teller Get Killed", but don't remember which song(s) was/were played

discuss:

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*NJbrhn13szTCe0m8I71aUw.jpeg

I feel like there was another thread for photos? not sure.

Help me identify the cover artwork on this wall I found in a photo of a bedroom on a property website.

Or this one: The record store in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”

that's the one, thanks

moved to other thread

Since this thread is revived, I'll point out that I've had fruitful viewing weekend re: this topic.

Friday night I screened Singles on Criterion Channel. It's mentioned upthread, as we get one of those loving Cameron Crowe vinyl shots showing off (former College radio DJ) Campbell Scott's record collection, featuring copies of Quadrophenia, Hounds of Love, and a few Hendrix lps. Scott and Kyra Sedgwick listen to the latter and REM, while later on after they break up he listens to "Blue Train". Another scene has Jeremy Piven recognize Scott from his DJ days and mimes cross-cutting Elvis Costello & Public Enemy on "the wheels of steel."

Last night I screened the '70s NYC Robby Benson/Glynnis O'Connor teen romance Jeremy, which early on features a montage of Benson following O'Connor around town, including a stop at what appeared to be a huge record store. It's shot in a way you can't see any album covers in the bins, but O'Conner is checking out a "Russian" section, which tracks as her character is an aspiring ballerina. Later on, after they get together, she asks him why doesn't he gamble on horseracing (Benson's Jeremy is great at picking winners at Belmont) and he says he'd rather spend his money on "music and records."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Pp9hLk1Ck

^^Shared by a local shop on FB this morning.

Screenshot from Rosa von Praunheim's "It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives".

https://i.imgur.com/aA9or9p.jpeg

Many of the den/family room scenes in Margot At The Wedding are soundtracked by the family turntable (Steve Forbert, X, Dinosaur Jr. etc) and we also see vinyl copies of If I Could Only Remember My Name,,,, In The Court of The Crimson King, and Parallel Lines. Margot's sister Pauline also talks about her sister buying and sending her cool New Wave/Punk albums in the '80s.

In The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave's portable suitcase Hi-Fi gets a, er, memorable introduction, and then becomes a constant companion through the film as she listens to Puccini operas on RCA label LPs.

#onethread

What is it called when an audiophile rambles on endlessly, only to lose the plot and peter out without saying anything of real consequence?

A shaded dog story.

Was surprised to find out there's a subplot in Jacques Rivette's L' Amour Fou revolving around the cover of the 7 inch for the Association's "Windy".

https://i.postimg.cc/dVnPhJLG/cactus.jpg

There's a cute bit in the fifth episode of The Four Seasons where Will Forte buys Tina Fey some '80s indie at a Record Store/Bar.

^^Final episode has a good gag involving an vinyl album by a popular contemporary Indie band with a semi-inapropriate name to mention in mixed company.

Passion Pit(?)

Mannequin Pussy

That's one for the "bands I'll never check out due to their name" thread...

Currently Wlwatching Will Ferrell in "Everything Must Go", in which his wife leaves him and dumps all his possessions in the front yard, including 5 or 6 milk crates full of albums; only one that's identifiable so far is the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed"

There's a neat scene in River of Grass where the male lead is ransacking his family home looking for money while his new partner in crime puts on a copy of Gail Wynters singing "Travlin' Light" and she starts dancing. They end up stealing his Mom's record collection and try (and fail) to sell them off at various record stores. There's a lovely montage of close-ups of the album covers (all female artists/images): Etta James; Barbara Lynn; Brigette Bardot etc.

Rewatching the Julia Roberts thing Homecoming. There's a scene midway through S1 that seems to break the rule about Chekhov's gun: we can see Sissy Spacek's (Roberts' mom) turntable, and there's an early '70s Atlantic LP on it, but she doesn't use it. A couple of episodes later, though, we find out that the turntable was broken; Shea Whigham fixes it for her and Roberts comes home one day to the sound of BTO.

the straight-edge love interest in ozu's 1933 Dragnet Girl works at the RCA Victor record store (which latter became hmv - there are a lot of Nipper statues around the store). she plays him classical records, contrasting with the jazz in the club where said Dragnet Girl hangs out.