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

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