The record store in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”

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

Deleted mall scene from X-Men Apocalypse

https://i.imgur.com/oeuqPQYl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/C1Zu0Cnl.jpg

Only things I recognize off the bat are Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Madman Across the Water, and Cats.

Oh, and Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Payolas' "Hammer On A Drum" is on the far left there

Andreas Vollenweider White Winds and the Kristofferson/Streisand soundtrack for A Star is Born.

Payolas! I was trying to figure that out like, "Crayolas? Loyolas?"

The light grey one with a picture of Anne Murray is "Anne Murray's Greatest Hits".

The Fixx Reach the Beach is next to the Elton John record.

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.

Wow, this one is really paying off.

The other side of Madman is another Elton LP, Victim of Love.

It took me a while to figure it out, but yellow dress in the first pic is Larger Than Life by Jody Watley.

wtf is on those horizontally stacked shelves in the Before Sunrise shot?

(T-)Shirts?

I guessed it was sheet music.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xEydCkbSnIk/VJT29l5uPwI/AAAAAAAAfxs/_UiWlZmpBdA/s1600/38.%2Bthe%2Bvisitor.png

is that a real record? seems unlikely

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.

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.

Recent example - Heart Beats Loud (2018)

https://i.imgur.com/iWgmZsx.jpg

haha

"Can't things... just be pretty?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxOc9D4dr0

This Christmas 1968 scene in Scrooged. In the window display (from different camera angles): Kinks, Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, The Zombies, The Electric Flag, Hair soundtrack and some others I can't quite make out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40rjU0r7oU

VU is the only anomaly, no?

VU & Nico came out in early '67, so no.

I think they all line up for the time period. Mitch Glazer co-wrote the screenplay, and had previously written for Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy so I'm guessing he had a hand in making sure it was accurate (though skewed with hindsight).

oh yeah Scrooged takes place in NYC. VU & Nico wouldn't have been in every record store in America like the rest.

Cool home movie footage from another point in '78. Starts @ 4:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNvv0KNTpk

LIVE GRAPE! SGT. PEPPER SOUNDTRACK!

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.

how it was supposed to be

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) bookmarkflaglink

The 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

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.

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).

could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp

now I want to know when the profession died out, guessing it was the late-79 record industry recession/crash

The Tower Records podcast interviewed someone who was a store art director
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-58-tim-wessman-art-department-sf-nyc/id1624366888?i=1000622239312

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

see I was thinking that Slow Train Coming was a little early compared to the rest of these, that makes more sense

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

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.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

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?

yep Antilles did a 1977 US reissue of Bryter Layter, they did Five Leaves Left the year before, but did not reissue Pink Moon

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

I think the middle one is Beck, The Information

I'm trying to place the store. It might have been the one on Sunset?

Yeah, pretty sure it is. It's a Supreme store now.

https://wehotimes.com/long-lines-are-back-at-supreme-store-west-hollywood-for-fall-winter-2023-collection/

Springsteen on the left there, and yeah Beck. not sure about the one on the right.

Someone on Facebook (I dunno who) has now apparently "confirmed" that the Tower Records set is for a new Michael Jackson movie.

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.

finally had time to look at this tower records blog post and all the videos ... thanks for sharing these