I so miss record stores, the community, listening to new music, the employees with their eclectic taste, it diversified this guys taste in music, so thankful.
I went to my favorite Buffalo NY record store - sadly, long gone - in August 1990 to get Cannibal Corpse’s first album. Shot the shit with the staff for a few mins and was getting ready to leave when Alex Webster and Jack Owen walked into the place. Alex was actually a friend, we went to Buffalo State College together and I’d met Jack a few times before. Surprisingly, they hadn’t seen the finished album yet - they’d seen the artwork but hadn’t seen the totally finished product.
god i love this clip so much and it feels very much like the record stores i used to frequent. and while i feel streaming has made music so much more accessible (my child listened to all of queen's albums in one day and acted like they discovered fire), there is a community element missing with the demise of the record store that will never be replicated.
Records having been making a comeback for a while now dude and local record stores are still like this. Support local business and good music at the same time!
Records have made a gigantic comeback over the last ten years. If you go into your local record store in a Saturday it will be jamming. I encourage your Queen fan to go! The record stores are still full of young music fans
Ah, that smug, satisfied feeling you get when you put something on that seems to affect the vibe of the store. _'Hey, what're you playing? Is it for sale?'_ I've had a job at HMV and we were playing the newest Rhianna CD when my associate stepped out for lunch. I stopped the music and took out 'The Crackdown', a post-punk masterpiece from 1983 by Cabaret Voltaire. It had been sitting in a section pocket for months. Sold it ten minutes later to this rather excited twentysomething customer after coming up to the counter and asking 'What *_IS_* this?' Best feeling in the world to make someone's love for music all the more important to them.
I'm meant to be seeing both of them on separate concerts this year. Unfortunately fuck knows what's happening cause of covid. Never seen the mary chain live before
He's right too! If you like them you must have Jesus & Mary Chain's - Psychocandy if you are evolving in that direction. If you don't it's a disservice to the evolution of great music! haha
I miss record stores. I discovered The Sundays when a used music store, hole-in-the-wall little spit in a tiny AZ town, was playing it. Also left with a Linda Ronstadt Mexican language CD. I don't speak spanish but I love me some Linda. One of the greatest, most pure voices ever.
I worked in record stores when I was in my 20's. Love the vibe of this movie. So many things rang true. Ya we were kinda snobby. But I felt it was my job to know music. Old and new. I learned a lot.
I love this movie. It perfectly encapsulates my late 70s/early 80s college radio days when music was seen as a key to understanding life. 40 years later, I'm still in radio. One of my favorite record store experiences was when I moved to Denver and was unpacking my massive stash of vinyl. The first thing I set up was my stereo. I went to play Jules and the Polar Bears, but the album had cracked since it was in the center of the peach crate and flexed when I picked it up. I went to Twist and Shout, the record store around the corner, holding my broken record in my hands. The owner came up and said "You're not selling that Jules and the Polar Bears, are you?!" "No, it broke during the move...I was hoping to replace it." Stricken, he hugged me-"It's so rare..." Then he went on a months-long search, found a copy in Japan and called me to come and get it. We were both ecstatic.
One of the greatest movie of all time. Extremely funny, witty and clever. And beautifully crafted for those who love music on a different level. Absolutely genius
I worked in Tower Records for two years when I was 19. The pay was shit, but it was such a musical education and left me with loads of great memories that this scene reminds me of.
I worked there for one day. I helped a customer find an Ace of Base Christmas CD for his 12 kid. Found it for him in a couple of minutes, rang him up, he thank the store manager about have a staff that was helpful and knowlegeable. He left happy. My boss yelled at me for helping him “THAT’S WHY WE HAVE SIGNS!!” I went on my lunch break and never went back. Gee, I wonder why they went out of business.
I use to LOVE goin to the local music store in the late 90s. The people that worked there were always cool. Great discussions. No one knew each others names, just the music they were into. I was known by the staff as "the Oasis guy".
I used to visit Rasputin's, on Telegraph Ave., in Berkeley, RELIGIOUSLY! Break for lunch across the street to Blondies Pizza and a few Heineken's, and go right back. I miss the 80's. Watching HF brings back great memories.
I walked into a used CD store across the street a little while ago, heard something that was definitely the Beastie Boys, but I didn’t recognize. Then I saw the little “You are listening to” sign and it was the Hello Nasty album. Now I play it all the time. Always great finding new music you like
My favorite indy record store moment. Prepaid for RATM's Evil Empire 2 weeks before its release. They gave me an Evil Empire tshirt for $12.99. Guy said, "hold onto your receipt and bring it in when the album comes out. We'll sell it to you for a penny." Digital can kiss my bass! It is NOT the album buying experience. I have tremendous love for this movie. Especially since I was living in Chicago at the time.
Just noticed the U.S. Maple flyer for the first time on the counter (front corner, where Dick is standing, about 1:42). Lead singer for U.S. Maple, Alan Johnson, is the meek music nerd customer asking about the rare Captain Beefheart LP in the "High Fidelity - Rock Snobs" video clip.
My favorite small detail about the store is the RL Burnside bumper sticker near the office door. You can't see it in this clip, but its seen several times in the movie.
This scene always makes me laugh because I can distinctly remember my brother sitting me down and playing me this song to try and get me into the Beta Band.
It's kinda weird, because I don't really like the movie, but I like the scenes in the movie. I guess it's all right, but I haven't watched it since the theater, or a little after. This is the movie that made me think I liked John Cusack movies... I don't.
I, a middle age dude, once scared the crap out of some college freshman wearing an Alternative Ulster shirt at a party by going up to him, pointing at his shirt, and yelling ‘awesome band!’
I spent virtually every cent of my paychecks every week until about age 28 at the record store. I was lucky enough to have 2 of the greatest record stores in the world in my town, very rare stuff in both. I went mostly deaf a few years ago... sold some then, selling the rest off now. had a $2500 sound system in 1984, now I can't even hear well enough to really listen on a cheap computer. Oh well.
I am 99% sure Blond on Blond is in my record collection, specifically because of this movie! Also, The Three E.P.’s is really fucking good... High Fidelity is one of my all time, top 5s.
Seven years from 1991 to 1998 working in HMV then 1998 to 2002 DJing in London... music was my life.... and then I suppose it was time for a real job... was it fu** .... 3 years in fancy Downton Abbeyesque houses/hotels fannying around running bars and then I moved to Finland where I volunteered in a record shop for a year and then started a radio show and helped to run a record label... it's now 2023 and I don't think I've actually done a days work in 32 years :)
I worked in small record shops just like this in the mid 90s - mid 2000s in Santa Barbara, CA and this and Empire Records really show what it was like! We were snobs but if you were opened minded we could change your life haha - I would always play Nortec Collective: Terrestre - El Lado Oscuro De Mi Compadre and someone would say "Who is this!?" and sell at least one copy.
The Nick Hornby was about a guy who had the tiniest record shop in a gritty bit of North London and a rundown flat. The American version? Massive, busy store, dream apartment, model girlfriends. HA!
Not gonna lie, this movie was my initial education resource in starting to collect records. It doesn't go as in-depth as it needs to, but I know that I have my copy of "The Killing Moon" because this movie told me it was important.
I always said that after watching this film, everybody went out to record stores fervently searching for copies of Safe As Milk, Psychocandy and Inflammable Material 😊
@@Terribleathletes Kinda proves it too. I've never seen any of these out in the wild in my 5 years of collecting. And I've seen vintage represses of _Trout Mask Replica._
I worked at a record store but my jackass boss would always play the popular, new stuff that people were coming in to buy no matter what, because that's what they were hearing on the radio while driving TO the store. So I'd play Melody Gardot and Citizen Cope. Sold a lot of their albums this way.
+regression i wanted to do that so much, but it was a corporate store so i had to stick with what they wanted to play. Do you know how many times it times it takes to listening to one song can drive someone insane?
I worked a Christmas at HMV in London about 13 years ago and every 3rd song was that horrible 'Live aid' remake with Dido and Coldplay on it, I wanted to hit someone.. The final straw was when I served Bobby Gillespie and turned to the other girl at the till to tell her how awesome he is and shed never heard of Primal scream or Jesus and mary chain. WTF! I don't think someone should even be allowed to get a job in a record shop if they haven't heard those bands, especially not in the UK. sigh... Thankfully that was the worst record store of all the ones I've worked in.
When I worked at my university as a student the full time workers each got a day of the week to choose the radio station that would play over the warehouse's PA syst. One of them had the Top 40 station and I remember I timed whatever song was overplayed that week. They'd play it every 2 hrs and 20 mins. And it was just the worst stuff imaginable. For about 2 wks I actually got to pick a station and I put on the alternative station out of Toronto CA and it was like this scene. But being a lowly student, it didn't last. Thursdays were the country station. I swear, esp in the summer, that Thursdays felt like 16 hr shifts instead of just 8.
I miss Boogie Records! I still have my first introduction back in 81' to Sludge Metal with the little known band called Medieval. And is it me, of does it seem such natural speech from the likes of JB, JC, and TL as if they aren't remembering lines from a script, but we are just along as they take over a record store for a day!
Crazy Larry's was the record store I grew up going to in Grand Rapids, Mi. in the early 80's. Loved going there !! I bought my first record with my own $...Sargent Peppers.
I saw this film in a shopping mall theater when it was first released... and yes, John Cusack did sell me "3 EPs" by the Beta Band. Went to purchase the CD right after the movie.
Yeh this is basically the shop I work in in Melbourne, even looks the same - but I don't follow people around insisting they buy stuff. Also the customers during the week days are WAAAYY worse then all of the bad customers in this film put together. I mean tragic. As any record/bookshop person will attest.
Dick picks up a copy of Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material, but when he plays “Suspect Device”, the single version of the song plays. I had never noticed it until now.
Beta Band, Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo, Blonde on Blonde - man, they really nailed 1990s record collecting 😂 These were the albums every collector/hipster was into in the mid/late 1990s
My roommate bought that album because of this scene and we listened to it over and over while playing Gran Turismo 3 way too late into the night for guys with jobs in the morning.
@doctordank the one talking to dick is Sarah Gilbert, best known from Roseanne. If talking about the customer in glasses, had to look that up. Apparently their name is Damian Rogers and from what I see has only starred in this movie
Has anyone ever walked into a record store and spotted a album that had kick ass artwork on the cover, though you never heard of that particular band before? For me that was "To the metal" by Gammaray, turned out to be one of my favorite albums of all time, since then I have picked up five other albums by Gammaray
Here is one! With me it was Blind Guardians „Imaginations from the other side“. Had no idea about the band but loved the artwork on the cover, bought it and was flashed immediately. Of course had to buy all other BG-Albums as well. :-)
Absolutely! I bought Blind Melon's album because of that weird-ass bee-girl cover. I can't say I became the biggest fan of them, but they went on to be be pretty well respected, so a good purchase overall. Listening to the album now, some 25 years on, I'm enjoying it a lot more than I did back then.
My best friend bought "Live, Throwing Copper" because of the artwork on the CD. He waited until he got home so me and our two other brothers could peel off the cellophane in his room not knowing what to expect! We listened to that album at least 5 times
Something kinda like that happened, when I discovered jazz... I randomly bought two albums just based on the covers, and they turned out to be some of the best jazz albums of all time. Time Out, and Kind of Blue.
Though not otherwise essential to the plot this scene is nevertheless necessary because it demonstrates Dick and Barry’s actual worth to Rob and the store. Before this point Barry in particular had contributed nothing constructive except be loud, irritating and generally guaranteed to drive custom away with insults and mockery. Yet here he is demonstrating his encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music whilst forcefully persuading customers to buy up seemingly half the store! Great stuff. Great film.
I used to live in Northern Ireland with a house full of punks. They played Stiff Little Fingers at full blast at 2am every weekend. Alternative Ulster mostly.
I live in Asheville, NC and we have three independent record stores, two of them are like the one in this clip. The other sells repressing that they do on sight, plus its a coffee shop during the day and a bar at night.
She liked him. She was saying whatever she had to to keep the conversation going, which includes being overly agreeable to whatever he does or says. It's always amusing to see how many guys truly don't get girl behavior, especially the cues that a girl is interested. !! "She keeps talking to me.....making strong eye contact....lots of giggly smiling.......keeps asking me questions......compliments me......doesn't seem to want to leave.......gee, I wonder what it means??"
I had the pleasure of working at a record store over a decade ago, right before they closed 2 years later…. Never again will there be record stores, Funnest job ever
I just finished reading the book a little while ago and I think the most striking difference between the book and film is the fact that in the book, Dick has long hair, and the actor playing him here is bald.
I love this movie to pieces, but one thing that’s always bothered me about this scene is the employees’ sacrilegious move of abruptly changing the music three times in the span of one minute. Wait until the damn song ends!
Ohhhh I miss that feeling of power lol people coming in the store and just buying whatever I spit out of my mouth, that was a great period of time I miss
I so miss record stores, the community, listening to new music, the employees with their eclectic taste, it diversified this guys taste in music, so thankful.
There’s still a few around... Denver has some really good ones, with Twist & Shout, and Wax Trax
yeah, there's a slight renaissance in record stores nowadays. You can still find a few around and they still got that vibe going on:)
@@Rockyo987 Wax Trax is still going strong by the way :) Just saw it last month.
@@bluetarantulaproductions6179 HMV is at least online now. It's the only way I'm ever able to get ahold of 80s Jpop anymore.
I went to my favorite Buffalo NY record store - sadly, long gone - in August 1990 to get Cannibal Corpse’s first album. Shot the shit with the staff for a few mins and was getting ready to leave when Alex Webster and Jack Owen walked into the place. Alex was actually a friend, we went to Buffalo State College together and I’d met Jack a few times before. Surprisingly, they hadn’t seen the finished album yet - they’d seen the artwork but hadn’t seen the totally finished product.
I would LOVE to see the complete path that Barry followed from Psychocandy to Blonde On Blonde with that guy!
Jim Reids hair.
There’s a vaselines compilation in there as well in the guys stack
god i love this clip so much and it feels very much like the record stores i used to frequent. and while i feel streaming has made music so much more accessible (my child listened to all of queen's albums in one day and acted like they discovered fire), there is a community element missing with the demise of the record store that will never be replicated.
Records having been making a comeback for a while now dude and local record stores are still like this. Support local business and good music at the same time!
Records have made a gigantic comeback over the last ten years. If you go into your local record store in a Saturday it will be jamming. I encourage your Queen fan to go! The record stores are still full of young music fans
My 5yo discovered "We Will Rock You" and listened to it 700 times in a row then asked me if they had any other songs.
@@bEnderOfWorldsdid you go directly to Bohemian Rhapsody or did you build up to that?
After watching this film a couple of times, I would challenge myself to name bands by their record covers as the camera panned around the shop.
Ah, that smug, satisfied feeling you get when you put something on that seems to affect the vibe of the store. _'Hey, what're you playing? Is it for sale?'_ I've had a job at HMV and we were playing the newest Rhianna CD when my associate stepped out for lunch. I stopped the music and took out 'The Crackdown', a post-punk masterpiece from 1983 by Cabaret Voltaire. It had been sitting in a section pocket for months. Sold it ten minutes later to this rather excited twentysomething customer after coming up to the counter and asking 'What *_IS_* this?' Best feeling in the world to make someone's love for music all the more important to them.
Is this like a meme or something?
throbgrist You’ve got me listening to it now. Thanks!
@throbgrist: You're good people!
How bout some smiths eeh
throbgrist no way that happened lol. HMV have a national soundtrack/radio station that staff don’t get to change
I'm going to Bristol tomorrow to watch Echo and The Bunnymen with Jesus and Mary chain supporting. Had to revisit this scene.
How was it
I'm 2 years late on this, but I hope that was the best show you've ever seen because it sounds amazing.
I'm meant to be seeing both of them on separate concerts this year. Unfortunately fuck knows what's happening cause of covid. Never seen the mary chain live before
3 years late, how was the show man?
@@richardrichard5680 Fantastic. Peter Hook was also on the bill.
Jack Black talking about Echo and the Bunnymen, love it.
My first college roommate ruined Echo & the Bunnymen for me.
@@robbabcock_ sorry about that Rob. Maybe Laura could help you
Ever heard their 1981 album? Fucking crazy shit.
He's right too! If you like them you must have Jesus & Mary Chain's - Psychocandy if you are evolving in that direction. If you don't it's a disservice to the evolution of great music! haha
I miss record stores. I discovered The Sundays when a used music store, hole-in-the-wall little spit in a tiny AZ town, was playing it. Also left with a Linda Ronstadt Mexican language CD. I don't speak spanish but I love me some Linda. One of the greatest, most pure voices ever.
I like that single she cut with Barney Gumble.
Senior Plow is a looser and I think he is a boozer!
This 70 year old man loves this film! I think it is a quiet favorite of many people, there is so much going on at so many levels.
I worked in record stores when I was in my 20's. Love the vibe of this movie. So many things rang true. Ya we were kinda snobby. But I felt it was my job to know music. Old and new. I learned a lot.
Same here! I agree 100%. We were snobs but if you were opened minded we could change your life! haha
Wankers
I found that Beta Band 3 EPs album randomly in a stack on the counter in Tokyo. I thought I'd struck gold!
I love this movie. It perfectly encapsulates my late 70s/early 80s college radio days when music was seen as a key to understanding life. 40 years later, I'm still in radio. One of my favorite record store experiences was when I moved to Denver and was unpacking my massive stash of vinyl. The first thing I set up was my stereo. I went to play Jules and the Polar Bears, but the album had cracked since it was in the center of the peach crate and flexed when I picked it up. I went to Twist and Shout, the record store around the corner, holding my broken record in my hands. The owner came up and said "You're not selling that Jules and the Polar Bears, are you?!" "No, it broke during the move...I was hoping to replace it." Stricken, he hugged me-"It's so rare..." Then he went on a months-long search, found a copy in Japan and called me to come and get it. We were both ecstatic.
Got No Breeding? Originally got it on vinyl and was so happy when it made it to CD.
GREAT story.
One of the greatest movie of all time. Extremely funny, witty and clever. And beautifully crafted for those who love music on a different level. Absolutely genius
Absolutely, it's a 10/10 on IMDB for me.
You know the point is that Rob and the rest of the guys in the record store are awful, right?
@@prodge58 yeah but they listen to music right lol
sometimes you need a bit of awful... as joe public needs a kick up the butt @@prodge58
@@prodge58 what does that have to do with how good a movie is?
Jack Black being an absolutely phenomenal salesman here.
Yup indeed! Like I said above, I want to know the path Barry followed getting that guy from Psychocandy to Blonde/Blonde!
Why not just type “on”?
I worked in Tower Records for two years when I was 19. The pay was shit, but it was such a musical education and left me with loads of great memories that this scene reminds me of.
I remember Tower ! here they had a separate building for movies, for books, and of course the records.. even a Theater!!! omg.. all gone now
I worked there for one day. I helped a customer find an Ace of Base Christmas CD for his 12 kid. Found it for him in a couple of minutes, rang him up, he thank the store manager about have a staff that was helpful and knowlegeable. He left happy. My boss yelled at me for helping him “THAT’S WHY WE HAVE SIGNS!!” I went on my lunch break and never went back. Gee, I wonder why they went out of business.
@@LuckyBastardProd Sounds like more of a case of a lousy boss. I loved Tower Records and miss it to this day.
I use to LOVE goin to the local music store in the late 90s. The people that worked there were always cool. Great discussions. No one knew each others names, just the music they were into. I was known by the staff as "the Oasis guy".
The internet ruined everything.
And the boys' mom getting them back together! Whoot! You get lucky and win the ticket lottery last week? ♪ ♫ We all tried very hard to, but no luck.
I used to visit Rasputin's, on Telegraph Ave., in Berkeley, RELIGIOUSLY! Break for lunch across the street to Blondies Pizza and a few Heineken's, and go right back. I miss the 80's. Watching HF brings back great memories.
cept it was the 90s
I walked into a used CD store across the street a little while ago, heard something that was definitely the Beastie Boys, but I didn’t recognize. Then I saw the little “You are listening to” sign and it was the Hello Nasty album. Now I play it all the time. Always great finding new music you like
I’m honored to have worked at a record store. ❤️💕😊
They got their hipster soundtrack spot on - The Beta Band lol. Perfect
I was this person - John/Rob - in 80s 90s
Totally nailed what these guys were like.
Ian Williams, guitarist for Battles at 1:55
Brian Mc Cormack holy shit!!!!! That is him
Did you notice Jeff Parker accompanying Marie LaSalle?
I knew!!! Very cool
wow holy shit that's awesome
Don Caballero
My favorite indy record store moment. Prepaid for RATM's Evil Empire 2 weeks before its release. They gave me an Evil Empire tshirt for $12.99. Guy said, "hold onto your receipt and bring it in when the album comes out. We'll sell it to you for a penny."
Digital can kiss my bass! It is NOT the album buying experience. I have tremendous love for this movie. Especially since I was living in Chicago at the time.
Just noticed the U.S. Maple flyer for the first time on the counter (front corner, where Dick is standing, about 1:42). Lead singer for U.S. Maple, Alan Johnson, is the meek music nerd customer asking about the rare Captain Beefheart LP in the "High Fidelity - Rock Snobs" video clip.
And Ian Williams from Don Caballero/Battles makes an appearance as the gum-chewing customer at 1:55
@@danlayton5186 I thought he looked familiar! I saw Battles once and it was f wild. Prob one of the best shows I've ever seen. Don Cab also ruled.
My favorite small detail about the store is the RL Burnside bumper sticker near the office door. You can't see it in this clip, but its seen several times in the movie.
This scene always makes me laugh because I can distinctly remember my brother sitting me down and playing me this song to try and get me into the Beta Band.
I could watch two hours of this scene.
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time!
They're equl
You should watch more movies
@@indigohammer5732 Ok. Thanks
One of my favourite movies of all time. Every music geek should watch this.
It's kinda weird, because I don't really like the movie, but I like the scenes in the movie. I guess it's all right, but I haven't watched it since the theater, or a little after.
This is the movie that made me think I liked John Cusack movies... I don't.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894I agree. I didn’t like the focus on all of the guy’s relationships but I loved the record store scenes
Stiff Little Fingers are legitimately one of my favourite First Wave Punk groups ever.
Gotta gotta gotta gotta get awaaaaaaaaaaay
I, a middle age dude, once scared the crap out of some college freshman wearing an Alternative Ulster shirt at a party by going up to him, pointing at his shirt, and yelling ‘awesome band!’
Yuck, that's like saying tofu is one of my favorite soy foods.
I spent virtually every cent of my paychecks every week until about age 28 at the record store. I was lucky enough to have 2 of the greatest record stores in the world in my town, very rare stuff in both. I went mostly deaf a few years ago... sold some then, selling the rest off now. had a $2500 sound system in 1984, now I can't even hear well enough to really listen on a cheap computer. Oh well.
What were the two records?
In other words, you paid a fortune to remove one of your senses. Don't worry, Beethoven was deaf, too.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 no, I went deaf due to a neurological issue. NOT because of hearing damage from sound.
@@jafafa Can you get a cochlear implant?
This is one of my favorite movies....definitely in the Top 5!!!
“That is perverse! Don’t tell anybody you don’t own Blonde on Blonde!!!!”😆😆
It's gonna be okay _Hugs_
Blonde on blonde is the only Dylan album I listen to lol
If the customer is a fan of Echo and The Bunnymen, I wouldn't have given him Blonde on Blonde.
I would have given him Highway 61 Revisited.
My favorite line 😂
I would have watched an entire run of "High Fidelity" as a TV series WITH THESE ACTORS in strictly the record store setting.
have to make do with 'Loudermilk'-same humour
Have you seen Black Books?
I worked in a pretentious music store in the nineties, that “I know” is so recognisable.
I am 99% sure Blond on Blond is in my record collection, specifically because of this movie! Also, The Three E.P.’s is really fucking good... High Fidelity is one of my all time, top 5s.
But do you have 'Blonde On Blonde'?
@kevinlakeman5043 I have blonde on blonde but it’s by Bob Dylane.
How about Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy? You better have it lol
That Beta Band scene is one of my all-time favorite moments in film
Bring back record stores and decent music miss thoes days
*those
Never seen this movie but the guy and girl talking are so cute! Sharing music with others is the best
In another scene, Rob criticizes Barry for his poor salesmanship, yet here, he peer pressures my mans into buying like $200 worth of records lol
The middle age square guy? that doesn’t count
@@johngilmore697 Guess he should’ve been an Echo & the Bunnymen fan instead of buying a Stevie Wonder record for his dumb daughter.
Inconsistency. Yay.
Seven years from 1991 to 1998 working in HMV then 1998 to 2002 DJing in London... music was my life.... and then I suppose it was time for a real job... was it fu** .... 3 years in fancy Downton Abbeyesque houses/hotels fannying around running bars and then I moved to Finland where I volunteered in a record shop for a year and then started a radio show and helped to run a record label... it's now 2023 and I don't think I've actually done a days work in 32 years :)
i would leave it all behind, my career as a voice actor, friends and all, to come work at your label dude. in a blink of an eye.
I worked in small record shops just like this in the mid 90s - mid 2000s in Santa Barbara, CA and this and Empire Records really show what it was like! We were snobs but if you were opened minded we could change your life haha - I would always play Nortec Collective: Terrestre - El Lado Oscuro De Mi Compadre and someone would say "Who is this!?" and sell at least one copy.
The Nick Hornby was about a guy who had the tiniest record shop in a gritty bit of North London and a rundown flat. The American version? Massive, busy store, dream apartment, model girlfriends. HA!
Ed O'Meara the film is good but the book is so much better. Barry is much nastier in the book.
You and I have different dreams when it comes to housing- but I can’t argue your overall point.
Hornby said he loved the movie.
Uh, that's not a dream apartment. And the store is only busy on Saturday.
Not gonna lie, this movie was my initial education resource in starting to collect records. It doesn't go as in-depth as it needs to, but I know that I have my copy of "The Killing Moon" because this movie told me it was important.
I always said that after watching this film, everybody went out to record stores fervently searching for copies of Safe As Milk, Psychocandy and Inflammable Material 😊
@@Terribleathletes Kinda proves it too. I've never seen any of these out in the wild in my 5 years of collecting. And I've seen vintage represses of _Trout Mask Replica._
I worked at a record store but my jackass boss would always play the popular, new stuff that people were coming in to buy no matter what, because that's what they were hearing on the radio while driving TO the store. So I'd play Melody Gardot and Citizen Cope. Sold a lot of their albums this way.
regression You're a saint. I've discovered and purchased some great records by hearing them over the store speakers.
+regression i wanted to do that so much, but it was a corporate store so i had to stick with what they wanted to play. Do you know how many times it times it takes to listening to one song can drive someone insane?
I worked a Christmas at HMV in London about 13 years ago and every 3rd song was that horrible 'Live aid' remake with Dido and Coldplay on it, I wanted to hit someone.. The final straw was when I served Bobby Gillespie and turned to the other girl at the till to tell her how awesome he is and shed never heard of Primal scream or Jesus and mary chain. WTF! I don't think someone should even be allowed to get a job in a record shop if they haven't heard those bands, especially not in the UK. sigh... Thankfully that was the worst record store of all the ones I've worked in.
When I worked at my university as a student the full time workers each got a day of the week to choose the radio station that would play over the warehouse's PA syst. One of them had the Top 40 station and I remember I timed whatever song was overplayed that week. They'd play it every 2 hrs and 20 mins. And it was just the worst stuff imaginable. For about 2 wks I actually got to pick a station and I put on the alternative station out of Toronto CA and it was like this scene. But being a lowly student, it didn't last.
Thursdays were the country station. I swear, esp in the summer, that Thursdays felt like 16 hr shifts instead of just 8.
Double Nickels On The Dime is perfect in every way!
Agreed
Fuck you see that stack they stole and think to yourself "FUCK, you know how hard that shit is to find now?!"
" I know"
One of my favorite movie scenes, ever
Barry! The door!
I miss record shops
I miss Boogie Records! I still have my first introduction back in 81' to Sludge Metal with the little known band called Medieval. And is it me, of does it seem such natural speech from the likes of JB, JC, and TL as if they aren't remembering lines from a script, but we are just along as they take over a record store for a day!
Crazy Larry's was the record store I grew up going to in Grand Rapids, Mi. in the early 80's. Loved going there !! I bought my first record with my own $...Sargent Peppers.
I think this is one of my favorite scenes in a movie with great scenes - and also one of my favorite movies.
Omg makes me go back to Tower Records ... I could almost smell the store again lol. And yesterday I was talking about VHS tapes lol
God, how I miss Tower Records on Columbus...
I miss those times so much and in any case the girl with the red jacket and glasses is beautiful
I saw this film in a shopping mall theater when it was first released... and yes, John Cusack did sell me "3 EPs" by the Beta Band. Went to purchase the CD right after the movie.
Psychocandy will make this poor guy's ears bleed. It sounds nothing like Echo & the bunnymen.
Agreed. I dont hate Pcychocandy , But they are NOTHING like Echo & the bunnyman.
a wicked movie that precisely captures the record store experience in all its glory.
Yeh this is basically the shop I work in in Melbourne, even looks the same - but I don't follow people around insisting they buy stuff. Also the customers during the week days are WAAAYY worse then all of the bad customers in this film put together. I mean tragic. As any record/bookshop person will attest.
Dick picks up a copy of Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material, but when he plays “Suspect Device”, the single version of the song plays. I had never noticed it until now.
Beta Band, Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo, Blonde on Blonde - man, they really nailed 1990s record collecting 😂 These were the albums every collector/hipster was into in the mid/late 1990s
Beta Band first release was 1997
No-one called the Bunnymen Echo though. Not even in America.
And stiff little fingers
I actually started listening to The beta band because of this scene.
Me too. Had never heard of them until this scene.
same.
I know.
How disappointed were you when you heard the first 3 minutes of that song?
My roommate bought that album because of this scene and we listened to it over and over while playing Gran Turismo 3 way too late into the night for guys with jobs in the morning.
1:14 I bet it was a real challenge to make music snobbery that adorable, but they totally nailed it XD
Who is the actress in this clip? I can't for the life of me remember who she is.
@doctordank the one talking to dick is Sarah Gilbert, best known from Roseanne. If talking about the customer in glasses, had to look that up. Apparently their name is Damian Rogers and from what I see has only starred in this movie
Sara Gilbert from Roseanne
Has anyone ever walked into a record store and spotted a album that had kick ass artwork on the cover, though you never heard of that particular band before? For me that was "To the metal" by Gammaray, turned out to be one of my favorite albums of all time, since then I have picked up five other albums by Gammaray
Here is one! With me it was Blind Guardians „Imaginations from the other side“. Had no idea about the band but loved the artwork on the cover, bought it and was flashed immediately. Of course had to buy all other BG-Albums as well. :-)
Absolutely! I bought Blind Melon's album because of that weird-ass bee-girl cover. I can't say I became the biggest fan of them, but they went on to be be pretty well respected, so a good purchase overall. Listening to the album now, some 25 years on, I'm enjoying it a lot more than I did back then.
My best friend bought "Live, Throwing Copper" because of the artwork on the CD. He waited until he got home so me and our two other brothers could peel off the cellophane in his room not knowing what to expect! We listened to that album at least 5 times
Riot - Narita
Something kinda like that happened, when I discovered jazz... I randomly bought two albums just based on the covers, and they turned out to be some of the best jazz albums of all time. Time Out, and Kind of Blue.
I'm also one of those people that has his taste in music irrevocably fused with his identity, so these record store scenes always resonated with me.
I bought the beta band cause of this
+Rich Mullinax The stillframe / zoom / fadeout you added at the end was a nice touch.
Man, I always wished I could flip through their "Rare Bits" section!
I love this movie
Though not otherwise essential to the plot this scene is nevertheless necessary because it demonstrates Dick and Barry’s actual worth to Rob and the store.
Before this point Barry in particular had contributed nothing constructive except be loud, irritating and generally guaranteed to drive custom away with insults and mockery. Yet here he is demonstrating his encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music whilst forcefully persuading customers to buy up seemingly half the store!
Great stuff. Great film.
I am A huge fan of John Cusack's filmography.
Of course who doesn't love
" Better off Dead " !
This is the movie that made me think I liked John Cusack movies. So, I tried to watch several, and realized I FUCKING HATE JOHN CUSACK MOVIES.
One of my favorite movies
I used to live in Northern Ireland with a house full of punks. They played Stiff Little Fingers at full blast at 2am every weekend. Alternative Ulster mostly.
Try having this experience on Amazon lol
I live in Asheville, NC and we have three independent record stores, two of them are like the one in this clip. The other sells repressing that they do on sight, plus its a coffee shop during the day and a bar at night.
Thank you for sharing
"that sounds great" ...uhm, right after the opening riff ?
lol right?
Hate that cliche in movies. It's the same when someone tastes food for a second and goes WOW
@@daniellee1722 it's not a cliche in this film, like the other guy said she just wanted his dick.
She liked him. She was saying whatever she had to to keep the conversation going, which includes being overly agreeable to whatever he does or says. It's always amusing to see how many guys truly don't get girl behavior, especially the cues that a girl is interested. !! "She keeps talking to me.....making strong eye contact....lots of giggly smiling.......keeps asking me questions......compliments me......doesn't seem to want to leave.......gee, I wonder what it means??"
@@CarissaConti Yeah. If she is smiling and laughing at any stupid joke you say, Its usually golden after that..
Deep sigh....Ah, those were the days. Spent most of my youth in record stores.
Had the same experience in a record store back in the day they were spinning Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens, I bought the last copy they had
What a great cast.
I love this movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌💪💪🔥
I just enjoyed the music variety and depth at which those guys appreciated all differnt kinds of music genres.
I had the pleasure of working at a record store over a decade ago, right before they closed 2 years later….
Never again will there be record stores,
Funnest job ever
There's record stores all over the place, at least in any decent sized city
Im such a music nerd so I love this movie
Music nerd and rocking an Invader Zim avatar, this rules. kudos
"blonde on blonde" is my 2nd favorite album by bob dylan. my all-time favorite dylan album is "the basement tapes"
Keep digging. The deeper you go, the more you'll find.
This will be a specimen film someday, to show kids in 2919 how we had record stores back then.
What record store changes songs that many times in the course of a minute?
We have a rule at my shop that you at least have to fade it out or finish the song.
I just finished reading the book a little while ago and I think the most striking difference between the book and film is the fact that in the book, Dick has long hair, and the actor playing him here is bald.
And London!
That changes everything.
I have never been in a record store with this many people in it since the early 1990's.
1:26 I'm no longer that guy, but in all fairness I've had the cd for 15 years but you can't beat blonde on blonde on vinyl!
One of the greatest albums of all time!
I don’t know what the remasters are like, but the early CD copies sounded dreadful
Sam The Record Man was probably my favourite, but Toronto used to have so many great record stores. I even miss HMV.
I love this movie to pieces, but one thing that’s always bothered me about this scene is the employees’ sacrilegious move of abruptly changing the music three times in the span of one minute. Wait until the damn song ends!
Thanks to this movie and since Spotify I have added dry the rain to my neon abyss playlist there
Ohhhh I miss that feeling of power lol people coming in the store and just buying whatever I spit out of my mouth, that was a great period of time I miss
This is the definition of my life.
Barry hugs the guy. Black must've ad-libbed that moment!
I actually bought the three EP's because of this scene. I wasn't disappointed.
Most people snickered at this scene, because it was such a hipster cliche.
I only know about 15% of the music they mention in this movie but I still love this movie.
Barry and Dick have different ways of selling records. Barry insults and belittles the customers and Dick falls in love with them.
0:39 Leslie Winkle/Darlene Conner
Ian Williams from Don Caballero/Battles cameo towards the end.
the dude at 1:55 is the guy from battles, right?