The record store in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”

https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w640/108892-1532336916.jpg

post here when you notice interesting album covers, music mags, posters, or other good stuff

a good starting point: http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/04/13/alex-in-the-chelsea-drug-store/

https://media.giphy.com/media/Y3sjNVr0iXgGc/giphy.gif

In the record rack numbered 1-5 I spotted New York Rock Ensemble’s “Roll Over” and Iron Butterfly “Metamorphosis.”

Obviously After the Goldrush between Magical Mystery Tour and Atom Heart Mother

Don't really see the point of this thread when every single item visible in the store has been accurately identified on the webpage you posted.

I had fun in discovering this.

What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Cactus Flower (1969) with Goldie Hawn and Walther Matthau has a good one

Scroll down to get a couple of glimpses of Ingrid Bergman visiting record clerk Goldie Hawn:

http://onthesetofnewyork.com/cactusflower.html

Btw, the "Slipped Disc" discotheque you can also see there was a real-life discotheque called Trude Heller's.

Don't really see the point of this thread when every single item visible in the store has been accurately identified on the webpage you posted.

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i mean, that webpage explicitly says:

When Alex wanders in he passes a large rack of albums, some of which elude my occasionally sketchy knowledge of 70s’ rock.

so in one picture e.g. there are maybe 12 or 13 visible covers and only five are identified.

lol I didn't even see/read the comments, so my "discoveries" were likely already discovered. I love things like this, we should just scatter/pose a bunch of our albums and photograph them. New ilm game thread.

Love that scene from Clockwork. Parts from the script:

INT. MUSIC BOOTICK ó DAY

Alex enters. Two pretty micro-boppers, Marty and Sonietta, sucking phallic ice sticks.

....

ALEX
Pardon me, ladies

He steps in between them and goes through the motions, looking through.

ALEX
Enjoying it then, my darling?... A bit cold and pointless isn't it, my lovely... What's happened to yours, my little sister?

Marty giggles.

MARTY
Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?

ALEX
What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players.
Come with Uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Hannah and Her Sisters

And what’s in that one

XXP - Made me wonder how many 80s/90s post punk/electronic bands were called Johhny Zhivago who never made it, Discogs says 5 at least.

something by some guy named Randy Wilson?

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-KoUc_l4nqRA%2FV7hBYkAz30I%2FAAAAAAAAmyw%2F9h67yiklRhstT3PygRDF3vFzVnekgIv_wCLcB%2Fs1600%2FHanna%252Band%252Bher%252Bsisters%252B-%252BWoody%252BAllen%252Bcon%252Bun%252Bdisco%252Ben%252Btienda.jpg&f=1

can't make out much here, not sure what she's carrying. Duran Duran poster duh:
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F94%2F6c%2F72%2F946c72515eead79161fa222d92be7ab1.jpg&f=1

I think I see Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water in the back there

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F60%2F04%2F44%2F600444cff6707bc01e11c58ecf6f3176--hannah-and-her-sisters-woody-allen.jpg&f=1

oh wait I guess that's Randy Weston, not Wilson

talented mr ripley (i think a lot of the records you see are anachronistic)
https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc47dceb038a6cffc72e3043c0e7004a/tumblr_mzvicnftf51rcnnxco1_1280.jpg

My favorite part of that Hannah scene is this old guy in the background of another shot inspecting a copy of Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore.

here's a good one

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvinylradar.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F04%2FJackie-Brown.jpg&f=1

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What other films have scenes in record stores? (High fidelity doesn’t count)

Godard, "Vivre sa Vie"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Pvt-lxYI-o/TuYl3i5oUVI/AAAAAAAAAmk/lqf3ZFxbDJY/s1600/karina-recordstore.png

Couple of Fassbinder films:

1. "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok" - funny scene where the titular character goes to a record shop to buy a single he'd heard on the radio for his wife, but he doesn't know the title or the artist, so he has to try to first describe the song and then sing it to the two giggly (female) shop assistants.

2. "The Third Generation" - one of the main characters works in a futuristic record shop, which looks amazing.

Pretty In Pink: Molly works at Wax Trax!

http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pretty-pink-record-store.jpg

ooh cool. look, there's a Kendra Smith record!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D1t9z-z591U/TcFRLchlIzI/AAAAAAAAA_w/vrYNcs9tZw8/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-04-23-02h35m35s96.png

and The Residents

I think I spotted a UB40 record and a Wah record.

American Gigolo

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TwF14j_FOqc/UOu7GfeID0I/AAAAAAAAEJQ/_JZoX7_t05U/s1600/GIGOLO_03_Title_1_00003.jpg

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/14847739/960full-american-gigolo-%281980%29-screenshot.jpg

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/14847738/960full-american-gigolo-%281980%29-screenshot.jpg

lol I don't recognize a single thing in that store

was surprised at how bad + boring that movie is when I watched it last year tbh

Also spotted in that Hannah scene: big promo for Barry Gibb's solo record. That and the poster for D'Jran D'Jran's Arena would put filming in late '84.

lol @ this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9l2kjjFw8

Fast Times: Damone using the life-size Debbie Harry cutout from a Blondie display at the mall record store to explain his 'Five-Point Plan' to Ratner.

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

Big Streisand display in background.

Nice one

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9I3j6LKDY

https://i.redd.it/j2zqwi7se1w01.png

As mentioned above, Fassbinder's "Die Dritte Generation"

https://d1uzk9o9cg136f.cloudfront.net/f/16781437/rc/2018/09/27/9ef0bf56938b1a85bd317fff700d3c428c1b4d29_xlarge.jpg

... and "Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?"

http://worldscinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warum-l%c3%a4uft-Herr-R.-Amok-19703-e1544291660597.png

my god, even their record sleeves were drab and colorless

Can't images or a clip, but there's that bit in The Man Who Fell To Earth where Rip Torn walks past a display of Bowie albums in a record store.

Love on the Run

https://pic.pimg.tw/giselemine/1387850637-3249304288_n.jpg

Cactus Flower (1969) with Goldie Hawn and Walther Matthau has a good one

http://onthesetofnewyork.com/locations/cactusflower/cactusflower24.jpg

at the top there's the roberto gerhard/maxwell davies, messiaen & xenakis releases from this series

Hm! Was wondering what those were.

More Goldie:

https://i0.wp.com/clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Cactus-Flower_Ingrid-Bergman-Goldie-Hawn-yellow_cap.jpg

And:

https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html

Sorry - you gotta scroll down again:

https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html

love those stills, thanks J

Pretty off-topic, but I’m watching Sixteen Candles — a cassette of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music is seen (but not heard) playing in the party scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjfJlCDisY

Before Sunrise had a record store in Vienna called Alt & Neu:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1oeI_YTvkMU/SG4NVy6APhI/AAAAAAAAHsw/ICNhKn3VxJg/s1600-h/Before_sunrise_music_shop.jpg

https://coffeebeanzandtealeavez.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/995bsr_ethan_hawke_011.jpg

https://vimeo.com/263697150

It's a real record shop as well.

Beaver joins a record club...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wm9c3

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With had a scene shot in Atomic Records IIRC

alas i have no screencaps

This Peggy Lee record is in the doorway window on the left, only about 2/3rds of the cover showing second from bottom

https://i.discogs.com/FsSeDy7O52-U0kz3hQRz5qgLCTpQWc7ldIMHbUgdUeA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:594/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNTQ2/MjI2LTE1NDU4MDI3/MzctNjY1Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

Wow, that Dakota Staton album cover is beautiful

Josefa clocked Latin à la Lee right off the bat

but great work on the dakota staton record, i know i had seen that one but it was driving me crazy

Ah shoot, I'd missed that - sorry Josefa. But yeah the Dakota Staton one was killing me. From that distance I thought it was some Blue Note or something.

same!

Here's another - Anna Maria Alberghetti in the middle of that group between the doorway and right column

https://i.discogs.com/ucOmpYuZ0MCWVG-5VHoq89Ob-Au8bxkHbzH_mu8joGo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ2NDUz/MDMtMTYwOTA4ODg2/OC0yMzg4LnBuZw.jpeg

two to the right from Cole Porter's Can Can is Yukiji Asoaka

https://i.discogs.com/zqLfPW8rO0Fsq3vJ3XWfzW8ut76j1LqW5_8bfE-670c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:447/w:441/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2MDQw/NjEtMTM5Nzc2Mjcw/NC01NjU0LmpwZWc.jpeg

*Asaoka

Ah shoot, I'd missed that - sorry Josefa. But yeah the Dakota Staton one was killing me. From that distance I thought it was some Blue Note or something.

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Charles Mingus's "East Coasting" is what immediately came to mind for me

I thought Dakota Staton might have been Sinatra or Bennett, lonely crooner leaning on a lamp post.

on the left door above Peggy Lee is the Little Mary Sunshine cast album

https://i.discogs.com/imEJO1ExkWCCgwegvq1CpieTD58sipgb4oR8suNj_tY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:351/w:355/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2ODgx/ODEtMTQ2MDQxMjky/Ni0zMTQ0LmpwZWc.jpeg

All of these covers are gorgeous.

damn y'all are good

One up from Yukiji, "On and Off Broadway" by Evalyn Tyner

https://i.discogs.com/rDqx5aNQCHfdKdmDcx-S_LAZdaOup-1C652YZt8cslw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxNzk3/ODEtMTQ1NzMyMDU0/NC01Nzc0LmpwZWc.jpeg

directly to the right of Fiorello is Tennessee Ernie Ford's Hymnal

https://i.discogs.com/rwVDwlo-5p2CjuM4QI35hfaJVgHzsitYe-w0NkmA4ec/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:606/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMzE0/MDYtMTQ1NjUzODgw/Ny01OTI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Nice one.

Don't think we've got this one yet: "In Person" by Chris Connor, other side of the column from Tennessee Ernie:

https://i.discogs.com/1aQ_5CaTmlortSqWCDData264aqganZ4Wu36ppdmyCU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2NzEw/NzctMTU1MjM0NTg2/MS02NTMwLmpwZWc.jpeg

there you go. if only we could get the cardigan man under chris connor and the mysterious building art above evalyn tyner -- then i could sleep tonight

It's so hard to imagine all these albums covers crisp, unblemished and in that gleaming storefront, rather than musty in a basement or interspersed with Dan Fogelberg, Grand Funk and Godspell at the Goodwill.

There’s a second Kingston Trio album, Sold Out, three albums above the other one.

Haha I had decided that was a cartoony OST / original cast recording from some show, I was looking for something that had virtually nothing in common with that Kingston Trio cover.

i love when this thread gets revived, it's like watching a special ops team from a heist movie go to work

Are we sure about Della Reese in the bottom right? The R in Reese sure looks like a K to me, and the second E might be an L--Kelly maybe?

all credit to Josefa but it's this one

https://i.discogs.com/AW3OCkUr3EXt3qUU0V3U70ryBKRgPbBlMCdK8IFhixw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMjQ4/NjYtMTY0NTY1MjM1/OS0yMDI0LnBuZw.jpeg

Wow, great finds everyone. Any idea why so many of these are Capitol LPs? I suppose it could be as simple as the label just paying for displays in the shop.

I wish I could know who was doing the art direction for Capitol LPs in the late 50s/early 60s...I've developed a real soft spot for some of them and while the styles are not as immediately identifiable as Blue Note or maybe Prestige...the covers across all genres from that time are pretty impressive and not just linked to one style.

now I'm searching for popular Capitol LPs from 1960, lol

some history of this era of the label from wiki:

In 1957, EMI's classical label Angel was merged into Capitol. Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and stereophonic sound. These included William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras (including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and albums of film music conducted by Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman.

In the realm of "Sweet Jazz" big-band music, Capitol also joined forces with the bandleader Guy Lombardo starting in the mid 1950s to issue a series of approximately thirty recordings until the late 1960s.[13]

The Capitol of the World series introduced in 1956 and active into the 1970s encompassed German Beer Drinking Songs, Honeymoon in Rome, Australian Aboriginals, and Kasongo! Modern Music of the Belgian Congo. Many were produced by Dave Dexter Jr. This series contained over 400 albums. It was also in this period that Capitol issued Christmas music recordings from various countries outside the United States.[14][15] In the 1960s Capitol established subsidiary labels including Tower Records. Capitol was the US distributor of the Beatles' Apple Records.

have we gotten the one to the left of Fiorello! yet?

I think the one might be "That Lonely Feeling" by Alvino Rey:

https://i.discogs.com/d54QjfcYlm3oL45RG2E5XbSbMy-3ac474eTnjJgjVT4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1MTA3/NzMtMTYxNDEzMjk1/OC02OTcwLmpwZWc.jpeg

What's a console guitar? What's a string choir?

... and above Little Miss Sunshine (visible through the door) is POW! by Billy May, not a record I'd like to run into on a dark night.

https://i.discogs.com/WZKxaSgsSUP8mBtCnGfT2mOux48AcrbVDqPi9jGfwAs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3NjU0/OTMtMTM3NDgwNzkz/My01MTU5LmpwZWc.jpeg

It looks like Frank Sinatra's No One Cares in the same row as Little Mary Sunshine, to the right

beastie boys 'paul's boutique' just to the right of norrie paramor

xp haha Nick quite so.

Josefa I'd never have got that one. Below it might be "Sands at the Sands" by Tommy Sands:

https://i.discogs.com/m3The-TLYRctMVRh_ivwprOHIo2_z-zCjPoe5bdojqI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3ODY5/OTktMTQ3Njc4MjIx/OS04NDI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Sinatra's son-in-law at that time

Take it over to Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name

Just inside the door - Polly Bergen's Four Seasons of Love

https://i.discogs.com/h-p4AFMjLiBXXVt0iPWCcz7q-5F5ns-fQJm0BX64468/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTIx/MDU1LTE2MjQ2MjMw/NzAtMzQxOC5qcGVn.jpeg

checking out Billy May lead me to this amazing sleeve.

fascinating stuff, this really was the era where arrangers were on top of the pile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_May

At Barnet's request, May closely studied the musical language of Barnet's idol, Duke Ellington. May soon developed a harmonic and sonic palette rich with Ellingtonian colors.

...his biggest hit as a composer was the children's song "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat", which he recorded with Mel Blanc in 1950.

how do you guys do this??? truly in awe. beat that, ChatGPT!

they're using albumcoverGPT

Amazing work and amazing cover art. Billy May is giving big Brian Dennehy vibes.

It's a shame Roy Kinnear never got to play Billy May in a dicey British movie.

what i ended up doing was toying around with the filters on Discogs. so for instance i went to the Capitol Records label page, clicked on "1,174,024 copies" to show everything in the marketplace, then filtered by [LP] and [1960] and at that point a lot of the records started showing up as i combed through

Here's the thing that Sleeve thought might be Gone With The Wind: "Out Love Story" by Gordon and Shiela Macrae.

https://i.discogs.com/Rzxcxe4Xn_mRpCfWJTOkGsC6zn4bjfod0oq0WEaobiQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYxMDcz/NjEtMTQxMTI0NTgy/NC05MjQ5LmpwZWc.jpeg

ahhhhh thank you!

on Capitol, of course

Above Dakota Staton:

https://i.discogs.com/2vNsg5UQmiFnI9GuHW1-xrr_OSac4059CeOvW8yB3sM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc5MTcx/NzMtMTQ1MTYxNzM0/My0xNTA0LmpwZWc.jpeg

Haunani – Moon Of The Southern Seas

Amazing.

hot dog!

Billy May has 500k monthly Spotify listeners! Probably mostly because of Christmas songs? While I surely ran across him in the bins, I must not have seen any of the records with his face on the cover, 'cuz it woulda stuck.

https://i.discogs.com/zGmbjACDaF45pbo0hohnMuwlXSa7Dj7vYMLacYadmIk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODc2/NjAtMTMxMjg4MTk1/NC5qcGVn.jpeg