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

It's not quite the same but the coffee table book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip discusses the folks who painted those huge billboards and what went into that (though most people who designed and painted them were never credited).

could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp

now I want to know when the profession died out, guessing it was the late-79 record industry recession/crash

The Tower Records podcast interviewed someone who was a store art director
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-58-tim-wessman-art-department-sf-nyc/id1624366888?i=1000622239312

A friend took an updated picture… looks like they added Barry and moved Bob:

https://i.imgur.com/aKh642e_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

see I was thinking that Slow Train Coming was a little early compared to the rest of these, that makes more sense

idk Damn The Torpedoes was released mid-October of 79, I know this because it was when I started buying records and listening to the radio and that shit was everywhere, with good reason

We drove by the location earlier; they’re actively filming there tonight.

My wife says someone was talking about it online, and teased that they couldn’t reveal the project, but “it involves a famous drug addict from the ‘80s, who’s no longer with us.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.

Screened it last night. It's really not good, just dumb as hell, and probably started dating horribly as soon as the director called "Cut!" on the first setup.

HOWEVER

Hats off to the production designers. From what I gather, they took an old grocery store up in north LA near Glendale and turned it into a near-clone of the Sunset Tower Records sales floor. If you've followed/posted in this thread, it's totally worth digging into just to savour all the album covers, posters, displays, signage etc.

One of the most interesting bits (which ties in to some discussion upthread) is this tall triptych poster from Island Records UK promoting Michael Nesmith's From A Radio Engine..., Bruce Cockburn's In The Falling Dark, and...Bryter Layter! Which I guess had been reissued?

yep Antilles did a 1977 US reissue of Bryter Layter, they did Five Leaves Left the year before, but did not reissue Pink Moon

So I was going through some old vacation pictures from my father-in-law which we had backed up here on our PC and by coincidence saw this one, taken somewhere in California in 2006:

https://i.postimg.cc/QtDPq8Qb/W4m1cz-NRx-pb5-Fed-O2vg-Q.jpg

I didn't crop this or anything, this is the picture, not really sure why it was taken, I'm guessing those are 3 album covers which we can just barely see the top of. I don't recognize any of them, but I tend to be pretty bad at these kind of things

I think the middle one is Beck, The Information

I'm trying to place the store. It might have been the one on Sunset?

Yeah, pretty sure it is. It's a Supreme store now.

https://wehotimes.com/long-lines-are-back-at-supreme-store-west-hollywood-for-fall-winter-2023-collection/

Springsteen on the left there, and yeah Beck. not sure about the one on the right.

Someone on Facebook (I dunno who) has now apparently "confirmed" that the Tower Records set is for a new Michael Jackson movie.

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.

finally had time to look at this tower records blog post and all the videos ... thanks for sharing these