Sad CD fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around compact discs?

Like Sad vinyl fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around vinyl records?, but with CDs.

Of course I'll start with something from TV: The Anita Baker on infinite repeat in Deborah Vance's LA mansion gag on Hacks was a gift that kept on giving.

Possibly related: Dwight Twilley Band's "Looking For The Magic" on infinite repeat in the first victim's cabin in You're Next.

It must be hard for a young person encountering To Die For, er, for the first time and trying to understand why Casey Affleck agrees to kill the husband for a boombox & some CDs.

Hahah I have a perfect one from the initial height of the CD era, 1987: in Less Than Zero, Robert Downey Jr. breaks into his dad's mansion, specifically his impossibly posh weight room, to steal CDs for supporting his habit, presumably. It is worth noting that he specifically picks out Robert Palmer's Riptide, which is presumably what his dad uses as a soundtrack to get ripped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwCqxSLx000

(I also consider this a secret Tony Stark origin scene of course.)

Towards the end of “about a boy”Hugh grant puts a u2 cd on his hideous stereo

Related to Ned's entry: I finally saw Rules of Attraction on Friday, and there's this great bit about "Situation" by Yaz soundtracking a frantic carride to the ER after a kid OD's, and Ian Somerhalder asking the driver, "Do you have a different CD?".

CD's are also purchased during the famous NSFW Euro Trip segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYEqn45YmZU-

I remember this moment from Batman Returns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYaw5DzXiT4

Another TV one: Lane trying to complete the MOJO Collection and hiding her CD collection from her Mom on Gilmore Girls.

A lot of CD action on that show actually.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzN3qO-qc8U

final scene of before sunset is what immediately comes to mind

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

Juno: Jason Bateman perving on Juno when she brings some CDs over and plays him Mott The Hoople, then later when she tells him the Sonic Youth CD he lent her was "Just noise!".

Hard to find an non-meme version of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QcafvNbUlg

More Gilmore Girls:

--Rory coming home for the weekend from college and ripping CDs to Lorelai's laptop ("Brian Eno remasters: Yes/No?")

--After finally hooking up with Lorelai, Luke asks her for a list of CDs to buy, which includes Sparks ("... especially the new one!" -- which IIRC was Lil' Beethoven).

-- Lane running over to the Gilmore house with the newly-released Apple Venus II by XTC.

"slow horses" season 3: shirley using a borrowed elton john mix cd as a murder weapon is an all time classic, all the more so because it takes several episodes to pay off.

also tying back to the original post, the scene in PCU where Droz (Jeremy Piven) locks the college dean in a room with "Afternoon Delight" on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqaK4iQqRk

Every scene from Hellraise III: Hell on Earth featuring this guy

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hellraiser/images/9/92/CD.jpg/

"CD is a mute and blind cenobite who makes electronic noises whenever he moves."

Hellraiser III that is

https://preview.redd.it/n4e4eg7121pc1.png?auto=webp&s=639a2baad03642754805e19320880d47506fdc21

The "Vicki Carr or Jeff Buckley?" dialog between Cruise & Cruz in Vanilla Sky. Probably a lot of CDs in that movie.

Even more Gilmore Girls:

--Rory blasting "Kool Thing" on Logan's tower CD player before a meeting.

There's a movie called Spun that has an ongoing skipping/on repeat cd thing in it...

In Eastbound and Down Cleg offers to burn Kenny Powers a cd full of Widespread Panics “choice nugs” and Kenny Powers declares that he “likes CD’s”

Slow horses season 1, iirc Min has a Coldplay CD stuck in his car and it won't turn off.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzM1MDQ1MTE5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTY5NjEyMjE@._V1_.jpg

This scene from 9 1/2 Weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9IreZ2HXGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zT1cRYf3tw
The gleaming CD jukebox in Chungking Express

couldn't be bothered to find the clip, but elton in clueless was a big cranberries fan + iirc he straight up walks out of class mid-lesson while exclaiming, "i left my cranberries cd in the quad!"

(later on the cd is playing in his car when he assaults cher after the party, whoops)

"I will now sell five copies of The 3 EPs by The Beta Band."

"Do it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_OMT9lOZo4

he also puts on Lisa Bonet’s cd in his apartment

final scene of before sunset is what immediately comes to mind

Speaking of Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMYBOpmWHEc

Albert Brooks losing control of his car and crashing head on into a bus because he got distracted trying to pick up the stack of long box (!) CDs that had fallen to the floor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6c3rWjLPo

Jagged Little Pill in the Trip to Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkfJSU0evEA

More Gilmore Girls TV: Christopher putting on The Departed soundtrack before dying on The Sopranos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPghZc4ehEU

Starts at 1:15

How I Met Your Mother had a few of these:

- Lily breaks Ted and his college girlfriend up by leaving a Creed CD on the gf’s dresser
- Ted invites a couple of girls to his apartment to listen to a Wilco CD

Homework in School of Rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDcgayMZu3o

i don't wanna say what movie it is because of the pile of vomit that directed it, but there's a part where one of the characters wants to buy some opera recordings, but asks to go to "a cd store" instead of "record store", "music shop" or any other normal thing that i've heard it called before.

Speaking of Wilco, there's a brief scene in While We're Young where Adam Horovitz asks his wife if she's seen the cardboard cover for his Yankee Hotel Foxtroti] CD lying around. When she asks what it looks like he says "oh, same image that's on the CD." I thought that was funny - I too save those damn things.

CD Juke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4y_8ssSFI

"Whoa, red flag Bobby. I have been advised to listen to this record."

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

Another good King of The Hill one is Kahn finding Connie's collection of Bluegrass CDs: "Minh, did you see this pornography!?"

...and another is from the 'Kahn goes Redneck' episode when he and his new friends break into a record store to steal copies of a new Trace Adkins album (Adkins himself voicing one of said friends).

Shoplifting at Empire Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUPtRhwsC5Q

I remember being annoyed at the beginning of "Another 48 Hours" when Eddie Murphy is being released from prison and he gets his possessions returned to him, including his "In the Jungle Groove" CD - a 1986 release that he somehow took into the jail in 1982, when compact discs weren't even commonplace

He's that good, man

In the movie Heat, Amy Brenneman plays a graphic designer who does the CD artwork for a small record label.

"Jesus Christ, you have really bad music. It's all...greatest hits."

"But they're the greatest, what's wrong with that?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALKM26VowLU

It's meant to be some kind of proto-DVD but they didn't have DVDs when Robocop first filmed:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cknm9o7.png

I wonder which CD they used?

Some more Gilmore Girls:

-Lorelai is going somewhere with Luke in his pickup and correctly assertains that he's going through stuff because he has this dodgy v/a Reggae comp CD he got at a gas station sitting on the console.

-At some point Rory gave Richard a CD of the Chuck Berry at the Fillmore album, which subsequently gets name checked a time or two.

Trying to remember some Office ones, this definitely was All-Time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmEsB9OHUM

I was going to say The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but that's mix-tapes. So: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. I should be able to come up with a few more.

I assume that's a CD Boombox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvF_qOEh3E

There's another Andy bit he's looking through this attractive woman's car window trying to ID her CDs, finding she has whatever Feist album that had "1234" on it.

Can't find a YouTube clip, but--perfect for this thread--there's a scene in Jonah Hill's mid90s ("Jonah Hill's"--sounds funny) where the camera carefully tracks across Stevie's older brother's CD collection, all hip-hop. It's the CD equivalent of vinyl-fetishist scenes in Almost Famous and Cold Water.

https://i.postimg.cc/xCqwQFjq/mid90s.jpg

Jackie Brown has a vinyl scene that leads to a cd scene, as Pam Greer’s character plays the Delphonics “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind” on LP at her house with Robert Foster and he later buys it on Cd at the mall and plays the song again in his car.

He buys a cassette. I've got a FB friend who uses the shot of him picking the tape from the rack as his banner photo from time to time.

Forgot about Batman Returns (1992).

@1:34 Batman already has recordable CD's, and they look like regular CD's, record like video cassettes and can be used that way in his car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3SQQMmGInM

And he even plays (and scratches) them like vinyl on a turntable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYaw5DzXiT4

The scene in Nanni Moretti’s The Son’s Room, where Moretti’s character goes to the record store his son used to frequent, and buys Eno’s Before and After Science after the clerk plays him By This River instore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGoXYoh7O8

There's a movie called Spun that has an ongoing skipping/on repeat cd thing in it...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 6:34 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, Jason Schwartzman's character leaves a girl naked and handcuffed to a bed with her mouth and eyes duct-taped, promising to be right back. He puts on her "favorite song" to entertain her while he's gone, but when he slams the door on the way out, the CD starts skipping.

I scrolled down in the hope that I would be first to mention the "Bob Morton made a mistake" scene in Robocop. But no, foiled. Again. I used to think that Boddicker was holding a Video CD - a format popular in the Far East - but that didn't come out until the early 1990s. JPEG as a concept was just barely in its infancy in 1987. I still think of 1987 as "the modern age", and it's odd to think that MPEG compression postdates it.

Apparently that scene came about because Paul Verhoeven's English was sketchy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31rrZeTH9HI

I had a roommate circa the 2010s who regarded CD's as a shitty, cheap format, which struck me as kind of weird given my first memories of holding a CD and comparing it to the beat up, old record my family had of Goin' Quackers (which I think they STILL have but may not be playable). It just seemed so futuristic to me - like it's made of METAL and it's got all these cool rainbow colors flowing through it from even the slightest bit of light. The fact that it needed lasers instead of this physical poppy, scratchy needle seemed pretty awesome. It also seemed super expensive, which is why the grown-ups got the CD player and the kids had to play with this cheap, plastic turntable thingie with a horrible speaker (which to be fair we treated like any other toy, i.e. not carefully). I guess it's the opposite now where a kid would get an old Discman while the adults keep the limited 180 gram vinyl pressing locked up.

comparing it to the beat up, old record my family had of Goin' Quackers

Quack! Quack! Quack!

in tim & eric's "angel man", mr dimmler spends the whole car journey from the "spraying brown" naughty boy club desperate to hear scotty's CDR of new material, which won't scan in his car stereo - he cleans it with a portable contraption and tries again

Kids these days... picking a CD and not even sticking around to hear it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4HsOWgoeEk

Maybe not what this thread was intended for but...
https://s.amsu.ng/XmYQXoFw1bVN

CD

Good grief. A gif of CD from Hellraiser III killing a guy with a CD.

The bartender at last call saying "Chug it or fuck it" as he cues up "Are You Sure" by Willie Nelson on a CD Juke in To Leslie. Extra points to the audio team for absolutely nailing the sound of shitty reverb from a roached speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8felhRLPEw

Unrealistic cd erasure in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice where a teen ghost who died in the 90s is depicted as owning "a lot of 90s vinyl" instead of a single cd.

a lot of 90s vinyls

Hoffman & Beatty standing in front of a record store widow display advertising Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits "Now On Compact Disc!" and also boasting longbox copies of Graceland in opening scene of Ishtar.