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).

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.