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).

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