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.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:13 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Relevant Threads:

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

movies wherein vinyl records are played

Can you identify any/all of the albums in the photo on the back cover of DJ Shadow, Endtroducing?

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

Johnny Cash

The one right before the spherical bookend is Escape by Journey.

Ha! That Johnny Cash is his "Artist's Choice" mix from Starbucks!

Good catch!

I see Aerosmith - Get a Grip in the bottom image

The Afters - Beautiful Love

The Origin - Bend

The Billie Holiday Collection Vol 3

Is the one on the far right top pic Escape by Journey?

Immediately to left of ball that is.

lol @ "You'll Never Get To Heaven", that is some deep easter egg shit

In He's All That – the recent (and not recommended) "gender switch" remake of She's All That – the "outcast" dude who gets a makeover is said to be into "punk music" (or something). In his first scene, he's wearing a NY Dolls T-shirt... later you see him in a Stooges "The Weirdness" tee... and finally he shows up in a GG Allin tee. It's like – OK, we get it.

I see Aerosmith - Get a Grip in the bottom image

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I knew that one looked familiar!

Franky Perez - Poor Man's Son next to the Billie Holiday.

the blues magoos' psychedelic lollipop at the front of the pile of lps sitting on the floor

Cool!

I once watched a Law & Order rerun (circa S4) in which a young suspect had Bullet LaVolta, Unsane, and Mission of Burma posters hanging on his apartment wall.

The June of '44 poster in A Scanner Darkly always freaks me out a bit.

Never noticed until now that Ferris Bueller has a poster in his bedroom of Simple Minds “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” That’s so meta.

I’m watching American Gigolo, it’s pretty boring so far… but at the end of a scene where Richard Gere gets dressed while singing along to The Miracles’ “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage,” he turns off the stereo and there’s a nice shot of a Grace Jones album and some other records I can’t identify:

https://i.imgur.com/L43gdHw_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

(I see now this movie was also mentioned upthread, and also called out as boring, but not this particular scene)

Well I'm guessing the yellow rectangle is a Deutsche Grammophon release but the others are a mystery

“Black and Blue” by The Rolling Stones is poking out at the bottom right there.

Watching Everybody Wants Some!!, another boring movie… there’s a scene where one guy goes through another guy’s album collection, and walks off with Neil Young’s Decade.

IIRC, you also see Carly Simon's first Greatest Hits album and Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! among his albums in that film.

Yeah I noticed the Devo album for sure.

Knocked Up has a record store scene:

https://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/KnockedUp/RecordStore2.jpg

Rogan & Rudd have a brief conversation with four or five LP covers clearly visible in the rack facing the camera (but they’re not interesting enough to list).

Tommy, Who Are You, and The Kids Are Alright

The Tubes' self-titled in the middle row, fourth from right.

Bob Marley's Kaya next to Tommy

Rattle & Hum next to the end of the top row (four down from Tommy)

Bottom right under Who Are You: Allman Brothers, Brothers and Sisters

Top row, 3rd from left: Countdown to Ecstasy?

Bob Marley and the Wailers Live to the right of Tommy

I think one down from Kaya is "Every Picture Tells A Story" by Rod Stewart

Extreme lower left of the photo, the small bit of shelving nearest the camera, middle shelf: Nick Drake, Pink Moon

thread of interest

Twitter's dying, it's time for some real content.

So I came in to to living room to find Dad watching Only Fools and Horses with the sound off and pausing it at random frames.

"I was trying to work out what records he's selling in his stall."

So we worked them out together pic.twitter.com/H7TI7UYQqE

— get ahead - Kathy Griffin (@fireh9lly) November 18, 2022

Watching Less Than Zero (a clumsy, artless movie)… there’s a scene where Robert Downey Jr. breaks into his dad’s house, picks up a CD copy of Robert Palmer’s Riptide, and is about to put it on the stereo… but his dad walks in, and apparently isn’t a fan:

https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

(maybe he was waiting for Heavy Nova to come out)

Btw – the (Rick Rubin–supervised) music in this movie is bewilderingly uncool... it's mostly classic rock and trashy stuff like Poison covering "Rock and Roll All Nite." There's almost no hip, youth-oriented music of the day (even the big Bangles song is, of course, a throwback).

Then again, maybe it's true to the milieu / characters, and their expected taste profile (I did also once pull up next to Rubin driving a convertible in or near Beverly Hills, true to the film).

Have you read the book? The characters are a bit hipper and there's a set piece at an X concert at the Whisky.

I haven't... I did read the plot on Wikipedia (and – eek)!

One other thing about the music in the movie is that some of the cues are super corny, and meant to "complement" the action... like Hendrix's "Fire" is playing in a club as Downey lights a crack pipe (geddit?), etc.

(Downey’s performance is good, btw)

Diana Rigg, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWRzZsWAAAMKJZ.jpg

Aw. I was listening to that Jobim just the other day.

top left lp is josh white i would say

That Diana Rigg picture is too good to miss.

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/diana-rigg0_1.jpg

A few years ago I had discovered two photographs of Diana Rigg on the net, one black and white and one in colour, both from 1968, or a little later, that made me miss them.

They were taken at her home, presumably, and showed her standing (one) and sitting (the other) in front of her stereo. You could see her machinery, her books in the background, and even some of her records. Some of them were easily and clearly distinguishable:

1. Antonio Carlos Jobim's album "The Composer of Desafinado, Plays", probably the British edition on Verve, from 1965.

2. Otis Redding's album "The Immortal" on Atlantic in 1968, and...

3. Mikis Theodorakis and Odysseus Elytis' "Axion Esti", which was then only released in Greece, in 1964!

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/a_lifo_diana_rigg_1.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/release/12057569-Mikis-Theodorakis-Odysseas-Elytis-Axion-Esti-

i guess that obvious one can't not be this but the cover is very different

although discogs says Sweden

seems like it must be this version