Ode To Vinyl
August 31st, 2011
This collection of vinyl-related movie clips was put together by a chap by the name of Mennomail and is beautifully done, I must admit there were a couple of times when I found it quite moving. You couldn’t make something as lovely as this about mp3s could you?
Apparently there are 16 different films in this but I only recognize seven of them — Ghost World, The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Elliot, High Fidelity, (500) Days of Summer, Crumb, and Poltergeist. Can you do any better?
Surprised he didn’t include The Virgin Suicides though:
The Christian Bale clips are from Equilibrium, either that or the Batman musical rumours are true. Good work, feller, keep it up!
I also recognised Almost Famous, Nowhere Boy, C.R.A.Z.Y. (the boy lip syncing to Space Oditty), and tiny little bit of High Fidelity.
It touches everyone, even 78 rpm collectors. Loved it! Thanks for the link !
marvelous!
Arrghhh … I know I’ve seen that clip of the man underwater chasing the album. Damned brain cells! The opening shot is from Almost Famous, right (Pet Sounds cover)?
Oh. Pirate Radio … (grabbing the album when the ship is sinking).
geo
And I think the drumming on money scene may be from “Empire Records”.
Well spotted people. Been a long time since I’ve seen ‘Almost Famous’ but I knew that ‘Pet Sounds’ clip looked very familiar.
There are a couple of clips from Christiane F, when she plays Bowie’s changesonebowie, and when she put that album back next to the same album at the very end. A really nice video, makes me want to watch all those movies.
Think there is bit from Control in there. Curtis on the bed smoking?
Yes a fine fine thing. Another record-related film sequence that always tugs at the heart strings in this fashion is in Velvet Goldmine: Christian Bale with his new Maxwell Demon album: inner sleeve rustle, slide of vinyl, lead-in groove surface noise, kicking back to scrutinize the gatefold cover–the whole ritual. I seem to recall that Flashbacks of a Fool has a moment or two of this sort of thing, using the first Roxy album.
Lord, I haven’t seen Christiane F since it came out. That’s going ways back.
They showed Christiane F in my school, back in the 80′s, as a warning against using drugs, it didn’t really have the desired effect! Everything looked so cool, and it is one amazing collection of Bowie songs that make up the soundtrack, I saw it again recently, it is still a good movie.
I think the sequence with the albums in the water is from The Boat That Rocked (2009)or as ‘geo’ says Pirate Radio as it was called in the US.
Hey everyone,
Thanks for the compliments. It was lots of fun to make this clip. You almost guessed all the movies I used.
The guys underwater are indeed taken from The boat that Rocked. There are also clips in from Crumb, Billy Elliot, Sonnenallee and Ghost World. Oh, and of course High Fidelity.
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