tinyurl.com/Buy-High-Fidelity-... tinyurl.com/Buy-High-Fidelity-... "You don't HAVE it? That is perverse! Don't tell anybody you don't own f***ing Blonde On Blonde! ... It's going to be O.K." ~ Barry (Jack Black) in HIGH FIDELITY
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.
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.
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
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
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 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 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'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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 have watched this movie a dozen-odd times, I just now noticed the Mummies and MX-80 Sound lp's behind Jack Black at :20. The set dressing in this movie is so gold.
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.
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._
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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
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??"
He actually said in an interview that he balked at the idea of taking this role because his character was a music snob and bashed other musicians. Being a musician himself, he didn't like that aspect. But he would have been an idiot to turn down the role.
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 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.
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 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!
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 never read the book, but does anyone feel that this movie needs a sequel? I wouldn't mind if Rob and Laura ended up divorced...that's life, but it would be great to see Rob dealing with the current era of music, and of course seeing how Dick and Barry are doing now. LOL
Nobody wants a sequel It would lose its charm and become a divorced middle aged former couple struggling to come to terms with why life didn’t work out. She’d accuse him of needing to grow up and he’d hate her because she’s moved on and remarried and he’d resent the fact that his and her child along with her and her new husband make for the ideal family. The family he wanted all along. Trust me from personal experience no one wants to watch that movie .
This film does not need a sequel. It would ruin what makes this movie work. I know they're doing a streaming series based on the book. Of course, there's a female lead because gender-swapping is the even lazier alternative to straight, lazy remakes these days. The original wasn't profitable and it's doubtful a studio ever invest in a movie like this today. This movie is of its time. The waning days of the golden age of the local music store. That doesn't exist anymore. I doubt a modern audience could even relate to it.
