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

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

I think one down from Kaya is "Every Picture Tells A Story" by Rod Stewart

Extreme lower left of the photo, the small bit of shelving nearest the camera, middle shelf: Nick Drake, Pink Moon

thread of interest

Twitter's dying, it's time for some real content.

So I came in to to living room to find Dad watching Only Fools and Horses with the sound off and pausing it at random frames.

"I was trying to work out what records he's selling in his stall."

So we worked them out together pic.twitter.com/H7TI7UYQqE

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Watching Less Than Zero (a clumsy, artless movie)… there’s a scene where Robert Downey Jr. breaks into his dad’s house, picks up a CD copy of Robert Palmer’s Riptide, and is about to put it on the stereo… but his dad walks in, and apparently isn’t a fan:

https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

(maybe he was waiting for Heavy Nova to come out)

Btw – the (Rick Rubin–supervised) music in this movie is bewilderingly uncool... it's mostly classic rock and trashy stuff like Poison covering "Rock and Roll All Nite." There's almost no hip, youth-oriented music of the day (even the big Bangles song is, of course, a throwback).

Then again, maybe it's true to the milieu / characters, and their expected taste profile (I did also once pull up next to Rubin driving a convertible in or near Beverly Hills, true to the film).

Have you read the book? The characters are a bit hipper and there's a set piece at an X concert at the Whisky.

I haven't... I did read the plot on Wikipedia (and – eek)!

One other thing about the music in the movie is that some of the cues are super corny, and meant to "complement" the action... like Hendrix's "Fire" is playing in a club as Downey lights a crack pipe (geddit?), etc.

(Downey’s performance is good, btw)

Diana Rigg, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWRzZsWAAAMKJZ.jpg

Aw. I was listening to that Jobim just the other day.

top left lp is josh white i would say

That Diana Rigg picture is too good to miss.

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/diana-rigg0_1.jpg

A few years ago I had discovered two photographs of Diana Rigg on the net, one black and white and one in colour, both from 1968, or a little later, that made me miss them.

They were taken at her home, presumably, and showed her standing (one) and sitting (the other) in front of her stereo. You could see her machinery, her books in the background, and even some of her records. Some of them were easily and clearly distinguishable:

1. Antonio Carlos Jobim's album "The Composer of Desafinado, Plays", probably the British edition on Verve, from 1965.

2. Otis Redding's album "The Immortal" on Atlantic in 1968, and...

3. Mikis Theodorakis and Odysseus Elytis' "Axion Esti", which was then only released in Greece, in 1964!

https://www.lifo.gr/sites/default/files/styles/lifo_lightbox_open/public/articles/2020-11-06/a_lifo_diana_rigg_1.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/release/12057569-Mikis-Theodorakis-Odysseas-Elytis-Axion-Esti-

i guess that obvious one can't not be this but the cover is very different

although discogs says Sweden

seems like it must be this version

Watching Risky Business… no record sightings (yet), but there’s a great moment early on when his dad detects “a preponderance of bass, perhaps?”; and scolds Cruise, “I told you, this isn’t a toy” as he adjusts the sliders back to his liking:

https://i.imgur.io/oPRodEs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

This movie’s boring, though… weirdly, it’s like “fake John Hughes” (right down to the Highland Park, IL filming location), but it predates all those Hughes teenager flicks.

All of Cruise’s performance mannerisms were fully intact at this early stage, it’s really something.

Man i loved playing with the equalizer, though my Dad wasn’t a jerk about it

Risky Business ended up having some pretty good song selections (including Prince's "D.M.S.R.")... tho it's amusing hearing Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" used to soundtrack Cruise & De Mornay having chemistry-free sex on a commuter train.

I remember when the Risky Business soundtrack was the only way to get “D.M.S.R.” on CD.

following Diana Rigg, 1973...Francoise Hardy, 1973

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwv0uElWAAAcSCK?format=jpg&name=900x900

fantastic

for a sec I thought it was The Doors "Strange Days" behind her but nope

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/65/Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg/220px-Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg