Cool!
― peace, man, Thursday, 9 September 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
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.
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 15 October 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
The June of '44 poster in A Scanner Darkly always freaks me out a bit.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 15 October 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
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.
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Saturday, 1 January 2022 07:11 (two years ago) link
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
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Saturday, 15 October 2022 05:58 (one year ago) link
(I see now this movie was also mentioned upthread, and also called out as boring, but not this particular scene)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:08 (one year ago) link
Well I'm guessing the yellow rectangle is a Deutsche Grammophon release but the others are a mystery
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:09 (one year ago) link
“Black and Blue” by The Rolling Stones is poking out at the bottom right there.
― Tim, Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:17 (one year ago) link
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.
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Monday, 17 October 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 October 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
Yeah I noticed the Devo album for sure.
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Monday, 17 October 2022 06:18 (one year ago) link
Knocked Up has a record store scene:https://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/KnockedUp/RecordStore2.jpgRogan & 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).
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Monday, 14 November 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
Tommy, Who Are You, and The Kids Are Alright
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
The Tubes' self-titled in the middle row, fourth from right.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 07:08 (one year ago) link
Bob Marley's Kaya next to Tommy
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
Rattle & Hum next to the end of the top row (four down from Tommy)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
Bottom right under Who Are You: Allman Brothers, Brothers and Sisters
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Top row, 3rd from left: Countdown to Ecstasy?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
Bob Marley and the Wailers Live to the right of Tommy
― Tim, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
I think one down from Kaya is "Every Picture Tells A Story" by Rod Stewart
― Tim, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
Extreme lower left of the photo, the small bit of shelving nearest the camera, middle shelf: Nick Drake, Pink Moon
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
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— get ahead - Kathy Griffin (@fireh9lly) November 18, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 November 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
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)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 06:37 (one year ago) link
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).
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
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).
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
Have you read the book? The characters are a bit hipper and there's a set piece at an X concert at the Whisky.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
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.
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
(Downey’s performance is good, btw)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
Diana Rigg, 1973
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWRzZsWAAAMKJZ.jpg
― fetter, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
Aw. I was listening to that Jobim just the other day.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
top left lp is josh white i would say
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
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!
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
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
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
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
although discogs says Sweden
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
seems like it must be this version
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
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
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
All of Cruise’s performance mannerisms were fully intact at this early stage, it’s really something.
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 04:46 (one year ago) link
Man i loved playing with the equalizer, though my Dad wasn’t a jerk about it
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Saturday, 22 April 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
I remember when the Risky Business soundtrack was the only way to get “D.M.S.R.” on CD.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 22 April 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
following Diana Rigg, 1973...Francoise Hardy, 1973
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwv0uElWAAAcSCK?format=jpg&name=900x900
― fetter, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 14:26 (eleven months ago) link
fantastic
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:43 (eleven months ago) link
for a sec I thought it was The Doors "Strange Days" behind her but nope
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/65/Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg/220px-Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:47 (eleven months ago) link
The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:48 (eleven months ago) link
"Bryter Layter" peeping out behind Carly, too. And I think that's her own album "La Question" to the right of the turntable.
― fetter, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:39 (eleven months ago) link
to the right of five leaves left:
https://i.discogs.com/QqjRbhHpMvropMvmnDlVpMw4rnX8dnJ9leeY_tbNSac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTc2/MDYtMTM1NzIxNTMx/Ny0xNjE5LmpwZWc.jpeg
wasn't there some kind of plan for a hardy/drake collaboration at one point? pretty sure i read about it somewhere!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 06:32 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, I think you're right.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 06:38 (eleven months ago) link
I remember an Ian MacDonald piece about Nick D where he questions the obscurity thing - when he was at univeosrity in the early 70s, everyone had the albums, he reckoned.
― fetter, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 07:34 (eleven months ago) link