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

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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

just putting this here cuz why not also becuz of prominently displayed copy of Lou's "The Blue Mask"
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F5xillqqt0Y0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:08 (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?

I think so, because there's confirmation in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), where in an early scene Betty Hutton is a clerk at a record store which looks a lot like the one in Penny Serenade - sheet music gets a lot of display space, and they sell musical instruments on the side. The clerk plays the records for you.

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

Josefa, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link

looks like Blackmarket Records...

and the Penny Serenade shop looks more like a music shop that sells records rather than a record shop, much the same way Rumbelows used to sell records.

koogs, Thursday, 27 February 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link

It was more the super-refined atmos and quality decor (plus basically no promo past the statue of Nipper) that I was surprised by, not sure why, and I don't recall Rumbelows being quite like that.

Layout-wise this one wouldn't be so different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAB7zM_49d0

Tim, Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link

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

i suspect but cannot prove that this may be a parody of a very similar scene in the first episode of bruce geller's "mission: impossible" (when adam schiff was still the MI team lead).

hammer into anvil is one of my favorite episodes; there's something very comforting to me about seeing mcgoohan spend an hour straight gaslighting an abusive bully.

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link

I think so, because there's confirmation in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), where in an early scene Betty Hutton is a clerk at a record store which looks a lot like the one in Penny Serenade - sheet music gets a lot of display space, and they sell musical instruments on the side. The clerk plays the records for you.

god, is that an oktavist she's lip-syncing to? anyway if i was running a music store in 1943 i wouldn't be pushing records too hard myself, what with the recording ban and all! (that's still a little amazing to me, that unions had enough clout to institute a ban on RECORDING ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS for several years straight.)

when did musical instrument stores and record stores become separate entities?

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link

XP - Hammer Into Anvil is the best, such a great episode, for years now I will quote 'it takes a Frenchman' at the drop of a hat.

Maresn3st, Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link


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