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

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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

ten months pass...

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

city worker, Monday, 16 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link

VU is the only anomaly, no?

flappy bird, Monday, 16 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link

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

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link

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).

city worker, Monday, 16 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link

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

flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link

The weird thing is that it's still in the window in late '68...and that 1968 Bill Murray looks just like 1988 Bill Murray.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link

...also the text on the vu & nico cover would suggest it's a late seventies or eighties reissue

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link

(xp) Mullets were not a thing in 1968.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link

Somebody had one, I'll betcha

Mark G, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link

Bill Murray.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

I had forgotten there's a good one in Peggy Sue Got Married but I can't find a screenshot.

Nicolas Cage sells a skeptical client on some Dvorak

Οὖτις, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link

also this scene in Juice, where they steal some records
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAR0frIn-uPs%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Οὖτις, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link

That "Peggy Sue" scene is a great one.

Ticket Tout (morrisp), Friday, 21 February 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link

I wouldn't really recommend watching PENNY SERENADE (1941) but the record store scene is kind of amazing: was that what record shops were like in 1941? Runs from about 3.30 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiNtZJItjE

Tim, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link

Artie Fufkin, Polymer Records, with Spinal Tap

https://bestclassicbands.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Spinal-Tap-Artie-Fufkin.jpg

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link

The Prisoner, Episode 15, "The Girl Who Was Death"

Potter tells Number 6 he is to go to Booth 7 in the Magnum Record shop to receive his instructions. Magnum Record was a fictitious business created for the story. The exterior of the store was shot at 187 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, now a Barnardo's thrift store.

Number 6 receives his mission message from a record played at the Magnum Record shop.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C3bsxXFaH3A/TdtWdTTUxuI/AAAAAAAAA38/GQaHzgtARAo/s1600/PDVD_483.BMP

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

There's another scene involving buying records in Episode 10, "Hammer Into Anvil".

Having left the Green Dome, Number 6 observes the posters in the bay window of the General Stores. “Music begins where words leave off,” “Music says all,” And “Music makes for a quiet mind.” He enters the General Stores, selects a copy of The Tally Ho, then examining the sleeves of a selection of LP records, he selects the Davier recording of Bizet’s L’arlesienne and wants to hear it, well all six copies of the record as a matter of fact. But surely they are all the same!

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nDaW5hmq784/Wo7MMCOyEMI/AAAAAAAAf8g/7fLZLv-6AKQI3HAFqXgFK7_Ys-6jwnK7gCLcBGAs/s1600/PDVD_009.BMP

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link

THE DAY THE MUSIC STORE DIED = when they were no longer jampacked with little promotional statues of nipper imo

mark s, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link

that Penny Serenade scene is really cool, thanks

sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link

"You're like a plaintiff memory..."

nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

melody, sorry

nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link

The 400 Blows had a record store scene, iirc.

nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link

The first gal with whom Cary Grant interacts in that "Penny Serenade" scene = the "High Fidelity" clerk of that era.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link

Tom D I'm pretty sure that's "Smell the Glove" by Spinal Tap, but I'd need a better pic to be sure

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:55 (four years 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 (two months 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


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