Pretty In Pink: Molly works at Wax Trax!
http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pretty-pink-record-store.jpg
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
and The Residents
I think I spotted a UB40 record and a Wah record.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
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
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
lol @ this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9l2kjjFw8
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
Nice one
― calstars, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9I3j6LKDY
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/j2zqwi7se1w01.png
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
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
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
my god, even their record sleeves were drab and colorless
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
Love on the Run
https://pic.pimg.tw/giselemine/1387850637-3249304288_n.jpg
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 25 January 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
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
― no lime tangier, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
And:
https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
Sorry - you gotta scroll down again:
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
love those stills, thanks J
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjfJlCDisY
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 January 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
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
― enochroot, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
https://coffeebeanzandtealeavez.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/995bsr_ethan_hawke_011.jpg
https://vimeo.com/263697150
― enochroot, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
It's a real record shop as well.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 27 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
Beaver joins a record club...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wm9c3
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 January 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With had a scene shot in Atomic Records IIRC
alas i have no screencaps
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 January 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link
Deleted mall scene from X-Men Apocalypse
https://i.imgur.com/oeuqPQYl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/C1Zu0Cnl.jpg
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
Only things I recognize off the bat are Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Madman Across the Water, and Cats.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Oh, and Darkness on the Edge of Town.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Payolas' "Hammer On A Drum" is on the far left there
― sleeve, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
Andreas Vollenweider White Winds and the Kristofferson/Streisand soundtrack for A Star is Born.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
Payolas! I was trying to figure that out like, "Crayolas? Loyolas?"
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
The light grey one with a picture of Anne Murray is "Anne Murray's Greatest Hits".
― Tim, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
The Fixx Reach the Beach is next to the Elton John record.
― enochroot, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
haha xp Between "Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby" and "Madman Across the Water" is "Reach The Beach" by The fix (I think). And I reckon the one second from theleft in that row is "Anytime... Anywhere" by Rita Coolidge.
― Tim, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
Wow, this one is really paying off.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
The other side of Madman is another Elton LP, Victim of Love.
― Jeff W, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
It took me a while to figure it out, but yellow dress in the first pic is Larger Than Life by Jody Watley.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
wtf is on those horizontally stacked shelves in the Before Sunrise shot?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
(T-)Shirts?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
I guessed it was sheet music.
― Tim, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xEydCkbSnIk/VJT29l5uPwI/AAAAAAAAfxs/_UiWlZmpBdA/s1600/38.%2Bthe%2Bvisitor.png
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
is that a real record? seems unlikely
― sleeve, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
no. but, Jim O'Rourke did name his 2009 album after it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-kjSKaP0I
but that was the only photo I could find of the final scene, which takes place in a record shop.
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
XP That's the album Bowie's character releases. As I pointed out upthread, Torn passes a display for Young Americans in the same scene.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Recent example - Heart Beats Loud (2018)
https://i.imgur.com/iWgmZsx.jpg
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
haha
― sleeve, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
"Can't things... just be pretty?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxOc9D4dr0
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 28 January 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
nice!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:03 (one month ago) link
I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:33 (one month ago) link
The album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:06 (one month ago) link
That's really cool, I didn't know that! Sorry if this is one of those common knowledge things I should have known, but I missed that era and the chains I grew up with were all in malls and had just carboard cut-out things.
I figured hand-painting would be way too labor intensive for anyone to do that! Was it a chain thing? Or did the labels source then?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:10 (one month ago) link
Someone on Pinterest has a post saying that the Peaches artwork was commissioned to a group from California. They also say, interestingly, that after six months of being displayed on the exterior of the building, the paintings would be displayed inside the store until they sold. That I did not remember.
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:15 (one month ago) link
Cool home movie footage from another point in '78. Starts @ 4:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNvv0KNTpk
LIVE GRAPE! SGT. PEPPER SOUNDTRACK!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:21 (one month ago) link
Inside the store in 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRnXhhRwtc
Interesting to see how many displays are simply records stacked up on their shopping boxes, warehouse-club style.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:54 (one month ago) link
how it was supposed to be
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 February 2024 10:59 (one month ago) link
I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkThe album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.― Josefa, Thursday, February 15, 2024 5:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Josefa, Thursday, February 15, 2024 5:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The main character in Xanadu (1980) was an album cover reproduction painter. And that's fictional, of course, but it feels like a pretty '70s thing to do.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 February 2024 13:13 (one month ago) link
It's not quite the same but the coffee table book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip discusses the folks who painted those huge billboards and what went into that (though most people who designed and painted them were never credited).
― blatherskite, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:02 (one month ago) link
could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
now I want to know when the profession died out, guessing it was the late-79 record industry recession/crash
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
The Tower Records podcast interviewed someone who was a store art directorhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-58-tim-wessman-art-department-sf-nyc/id1624366888?i=1000622239312
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:05 (one month ago) link
A friend took an updated picture… looks like they added Barry and moved Bob:https://i.imgur.com/aKh642e_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
see I was thinking that Slow Train Coming was a little early compared to the rest of these, that makes more sense
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
idk Damn The Torpedoes was released mid-October of 79, I know this because it was when I started buying records and listening to the radio and that shit was everywhere, with good reason
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:25 (one month ago) link
We drove by the location earlier; they’re actively filming there tonight. My wife says someone was talking about it online, and teased that they couldn’t reveal the project, but “it involves a famous drug addict from the ‘80s, who’s no longer with us.” 🤷🏻♂️
― Bison UpChg (morrisp), Saturday, 17 February 2024 03:21 (one month ago) link
Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.
Screened it last night. It's really not good, just dumb as hell, and probably started dating horribly as soon as the director called "Cut!" on the first setup.
HOWEVER
Hats off to the production designers. From what I gather, they took an old grocery store up in north LA near Glendale and turned it into a near-clone of the Sunset Tower Records sales floor. If you've followed/posted in this thread, it's totally worth digging into just to savour all the album covers, posters, displays, signage etc.
One of the most interesting bits (which ties in to some discussion upthread) is this tall triptych poster from Island Records UK promoting Michael Nesmith's From A Radio Engine..., Bruce Cockburn's In The Falling Dark, and...Bryter Layter! Which I guess had been reissued?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:45 (one month ago) link
yep Antilles did a 1977 US reissue of Bryter Layter, they did Five Leaves Left the year before, but did not reissue Pink Moon
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:55 (one month ago) link
So I was going through some old vacation pictures from my father-in-law which we had backed up here on our PC and by coincidence saw this one, taken somewhere in California in 2006:
https://i.postimg.cc/QtDPq8Qb/W4m1cz-NRx-pb5-Fed-O2vg-Q.jpg
I didn't crop this or anything, this is the picture, not really sure why it was taken, I'm guessing those are 3 album covers which we can just barely see the top of. I don't recognize any of them, but I tend to be pretty bad at these kind of things
― silverfish, Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:35 (one month ago) link
I think the middle one is Beck, The Information
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
I'm trying to place the store. It might have been the one on Sunset?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:40 (one month ago) link
Yeah, pretty sure it is. It's a Supreme store now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:42 (one month ago) link
https://wehotimes.com/long-lines-are-back-at-supreme-store-west-hollywood-for-fall-winter-2023-collection/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:43 (one month ago) link
Springsteen on the left there, and yeah Beck. not sure about the one on the right.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:47 (one month ago) link
Someone on Facebook (I dunno who) has now apparently "confirmed" that the Tower Records set is for a new Michael Jackson movie.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
I was coming home on a train about 10 days ago, and saw someone had left a Supreme water bottle on a seat. I was the only one in the car, and thought of taking it, but decided not to. When I got home I googled it (didn't know anything about the brand) and saw that similar bottles retail for $90 or some such ridiculous amount.
― nickn, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 08:42 (one month ago) link
finally had time to look at this tower records blog post and all the videos ... thanks for sharing these
― budo jeru, Sunday, 25 February 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link