Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9I3j6LKDY
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/j2zqwi7se1w01.png
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
As mentioned above, Fassbinder's "Die Dritte Generation"
https://d1uzk9o9cg136f.cloudfront.net/f/16781437/rc/2018/09/27/9ef0bf56938b1a85bd317fff700d3c428c1b4d29_xlarge.jpg
... and "Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?"
http://worldscinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warum-l%c3%a4uft-Herr-R.-Amok-19703-e1544291660597.png
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
my god, even their record sleeves were drab and colorless
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
Can't images or a clip, but there's that bit in The Man Who Fell To Earth where Rip Torn walks past a display of Bowie albums in a record store.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
Love on the Run
https://pic.pimg.tw/giselemine/1387850637-3249304288_n.jpg
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 25 January 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
Cactus Flower (1969) with Goldie Hawn and Walther Matthau has a good one
http://onthesetofnewyork.com/locations/cactusflower/cactusflower24.jpg
at the top there's the roberto gerhard/maxwell davies, messiaen & xenakis releases from this series
― no lime tangier, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
Hm! Was wondering what those were.
More Goldie:
https://i0.wp.com/clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Cactus-Flower_Ingrid-Bergman-Goldie-Hawn-yellow_cap.jpg
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
And:
https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cactus-flower-1969.html
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
Sorry - you gotta scroll down again:
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
love those stills, thanks J
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
Pretty off-topic, but I’m watching Sixteen Candles — a cassette of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music is seen (but not heard) playing in the party scene.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjfJlCDisY
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 January 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
Before Sunrise had a record store in Vienna called Alt & Neu:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1oeI_YTvkMU/SG4NVy6APhI/AAAAAAAAHsw/ICNhKn3VxJg/s1600-h/Before_sunrise_music_shop.jpg
― enochroot, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
https://coffeebeanzandtealeavez.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/995bsr_ethan_hawke_011.jpg
https://vimeo.com/263697150
― enochroot, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
It's a real record shop as well.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 27 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
Beaver joins a record club...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wm9c3
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 January 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With had a scene shot in Atomic Records IIRC
alas i have no screencaps
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 January 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link
Deleted mall scene from X-Men Apocalypse
https://i.imgur.com/oeuqPQYl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/C1Zu0Cnl.jpg
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
Only things I recognize off the bat are Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Madman Across the Water, and Cats.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Oh, and Darkness on the Edge of Town.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
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
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
could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:14 (two months ago) link
now I want to know when the profession died out, guessing it was the late-79 record industry recession/crash
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:15 (two months ago) link
The Tower Records podcast interviewed someone who was a store art directorhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-58-tim-wessman-art-department-sf-nyc/id1624366888?i=1000622239312
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:05 (two months ago) link
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
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:22 (two months ago) link
see I was thinking that Slow Train Coming was a little early compared to the rest of these, that makes more sense
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:24 (two months ago) link
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
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:25 (two months ago) link
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.” 🤷🏻♂️
― Bison UpChg (morrisp), Saturday, 17 February 2024 03:21 (two months ago) link
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?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:45 (two months ago) link
yep Antilles did a 1977 US reissue of Bryter Layter, they did Five Leaves Left the year before, but did not reissue Pink Moon
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 05:55 (two months ago) link
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
― silverfish, Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:35 (two months ago) link
I think the middle one is Beck, The Information
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:37 (two months ago) link
I'm trying to place the store. It might have been the one on Sunset?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:40 (two months ago) link
Yeah, pretty sure it is. It's a Supreme store now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:42 (two months ago) link
https://wehotimes.com/long-lines-are-back-at-supreme-store-west-hollywood-for-fall-winter-2023-collection/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:43 (two months ago) link
Springsteen on the left there, and yeah Beck. not sure about the one on the right.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 19:47 (two months ago) link
Someone on Facebook (I dunno who) has now apparently "confirmed" that the Tower Records set is for a new Michael Jackson movie.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:20 (two months ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 08:42 (two months ago) link
finally had time to look at this tower records blog post and all the videos ... thanks for sharing these
― budo jeru, Sunday, 25 February 2024 23:49 (two months ago) link