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

just putting this here cuz why not also becuz of prominently displayed copy of Lou's "The Blue Mask"
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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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

christ that Rockers scene is so great

xps

Can anyone identify the LP that Martha Plimpton is listening to, in her first scene in Running on Empty? It’s something Africa-related:

https://i.imgur.com/54qXONF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

"Trouble in Africa" by Papa Levi

Thanks!

The records and CDs of Edward Cullen (Twilight 2008)

https://i.imgur.com/XQpErIV.png

https://i.imgur.com/STL0KSb.png

https://i.imgur.com/QPYSJ5C.png

This is probably nigh-impossible with the second half of the CD shelf, but it caught my eye. Portishead Portishead is in the first half, along with Dwight Yoakam Live and others. My first time watching!

(if you open image in a new tab, you should be able to see much larger pics)

Squinting my eyes I can just about make out Billie Holiday, Vicente Fernandez, The Afters...

CD Maxi Single of You'll Never Get To Heaven by 54-46.

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

Black Keys first album

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