@@mikereiss4216 maybe but it was his whole persona. He wasnt worthy in his toxic narrow opinion. Instead of embracing listeners they had to overcome their own insecurities in a very pleabian way to make others feel less than them... Later that guy might have become a record producer for some well known Chicago record label.
I went to Uni in Brisbane in the late ’90s. My video store was an art/cult video store in the Valley called Trash Video-the VHS equivalent of the record store in this movie. Naturally, being fellow movie nerds, I’d get talking to the nerd behind the counter. One day, when I was talking to him, he bent down to pick something up . . . the extraneous amount of arse crack you see from JB in the scene is the most accurate part of this scene. I can’t watch it without thinking of that video store.
Good movie but would have been a great movie if they put in better music. Try to please so many with diverse musical genre is wrong. The movie should have been about The Replacements and staring the Replacements. All music by them too with a few exceptions. One soul, one funk, one pretty number for the ladies. Jack Black, there's no lovin this movie, Sugar, na na na babe, without enough Replacements.
That is why I love Jack Black. He did a great job of paying someone that I can't stand. I always felt bad for that customer, and every time I see that scene, I don't feel bad for Rob for being broke.
it was a game they were playing. The "nerd" comes there to argue with Jack Black's character and if he sells him the record he won't have a reason to come back even though he wants too
Hanging around the record store and talking about music with friends will always be the foundation of a happy life. Unless, of course, you are like these snobs.
Nothing wrong with having strong opinions about music. They often can have some base which can be enlightening. The problem for you probably is you can’t keep up -so they suck, had they welcomed you, let’s face it you’d be worse just to gain favor
Subjectively Best album openers. In no order: Greg Oblivion & The Tip-Tops - Head Shop - Watching My Baby Get Ready John Frusciante - Niandra Lades - As Can Be Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat - White Light White Heat The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - The Queen Is Dead Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation - Love Comes In Spurts Honorable Mentions: Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love - Live Wire (I don't even like Motley Crue. Goes to show how fantastic this opener is). The Descendants - Milo Goes To College - Myage Dolly Parton - Jolene - Jolene The Stooges - Raw Power - Search & Destroy New York Dolls - New York Dolls - Personality Crisis The Ramones - The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop Kate Bush - The Dreaming - Sat On Your Lap Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson - Melody Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions - Green Onions
Violent Femmes-"Blister in the Sun" David Bowie-"Space Oddity" Led Zepplin-"Good Times, Bad Times" Foghat-"I Just Wanna Make Love To You" The Doors-"Break On Through" My list is probably a little mainstream, but I'm mostly into people's debuts.
@@mikemoore5270 Space Oddity and Break On Through are good picks. I considered venturing into Bowie or T. Rex for honorable mentions but my pretentious music store nerd list was already too long. The Doors and Jim Morrison's attitude + stage presence influenced way more great early punk bands than those bands would care to admit in the late 60's through early 80's. The musical landscape (for the music I like, at least) would be way different without them. Also considered Rocks Off from Exile on Main Street, but as fine a song it is, there are so many better songs on that near-perfect album that outshine it, that it feels like less of a stand-out opener in comparison. Blitzkreig Bop is my most cliche "Honorable Mention" pick, but imagining how that sound must've felt on first listen in 76, blasting out the speakers once home from the record store = definitely worth mentioning. I'm sure it would've absolutely blown me away if it hadn't been played to death by now.
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1) History Invades - The Structure of a Precise Fashion - We Ran Out of Bridges So We Burned Down Our Houses 2) Faraquet - The View From This Tower - Cut Self Not 3) American Football - S/T - Never Meant 4) Fugazi - 13 Songs - Waiting Room 5) At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command - Arcarsenal
Little known fact: Then, tired of being messed around, in a fit of rage, that "geek" got the last laugh by inventing peer-to-peer file sharing and destroying the entire record industry!
I worked in a record store about ten years after this movie came out as an older adult. It’s funny to me because our attitude towards our customers was completely different. We were grateful for every customer who walked through the door that helped keep that business open… and we were happy to share everything we knew about music with people who cared enough to still spend money on it(instead of torrenting it). There is an amazing amount of 90’s privilege baked into this movie(that we didn’t even know we had at the time). I don’t envy the young people how have to make their way in America today.
My guess would be that you were neither an overweight 30 year old virgin or underweight bald virgin who took their frustrations out on people didn't know or care who the original drum was for some alt band from 20 years earlier that nobody ever heard of. Am I hot or cold?
I remember having to deal with all sort of snobs working in record stores back in the late-90s and early-00s (of course, there were exception). There was this record store in my hometown (Athens, Greece), where the owner-salesman-dj would gather us around the in-store turntable, apparently to play for us the new and "next-big-thing" records of the day. Then, if you told him that you would like to buy a copy of the track but he didn't consider you one of his own, he would always reply: "nah, that's my own copy, not for sale, mate"... lol, what an idiot. Loved the 90s, but I certainly don't miss those attitudes.
@@Koko161081 I grew up in the 80's & 90's... There was a MASSIVE attitude shift post-grunge. All the old school rockers hating on the younger kids for being so influenced by movies and clothes who were just trying to be trendy and didnt have a clue about music. I even got shamed for playing The Screaming Trees at a bar in Seattle..... The lead singer of a local band called Visqueen asked me if I was from out of town because REAL rockers would NEVER play that band anymore. Oh and try to find someone in a flannel shirt..... You'd get pelted with pinecones. We had to change who we were completely because we had become a brand and being branded was so UNCOOL.
He's on point about the hint of trend chasing mixed with conservative, canonically cool choices in the list by Cusack's character. Takes one to know one! 😅
Once I bought a Clanned cd, (Anam) at the local "hip," music store, it was close to Xmas, clerk guy looked me right in the face and disgustedly said, "this better be a gift. " It wasn't tho.😮
Watching this scene in my 30’s is a whole other experience.. Folks who didn’t have Internet to get whatever they want needed “The Gatekeepers” of the music store to show them around what’s available and where it’s at. Sad snobs.. I used to think they’re pretty cool grownups 😕
I’m in my 50s and spent a lot of time on record stores in the late 80s until the mid 2000s. I never thought of them as gatekeepers. Many were tour guides, or tutors. I was turned onto so many incredible records by people with a love for music, who wanted to share it. The best ones knew what kind of bands/genres you liked and would pull curated selections out from behind the counter, when you walked in. The whole snob thing was just 90s Gen X affectation (guilty as charged).
Not in any particular order, just off the top of my head: (The Rolling Stones) Gimme Shelter from Let It Bleed (Judas Priest) Breaking The Law from British Steel (Caro Emerald) That Man from Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor (Black Sabbath) Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath (Guns 'N' Roses) Welcome To The Jungle from Appetite For Destruction
5b. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (The Queen Is Dead) 5a. Age of Consent - New Order (Power, Corruption, and Lies) 4. Everything Hits at Once - Spoon (Girls Can Tell) 3. Hold My Life - The Replacements (Tim) 2. One Hundred Years - The Cure (Pornography) 1. Disorder - Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
The perfect record store scene. I've been in several record stores like this I used to spend a lot of time at. The obsessive nerd geek that wants that rare record, seen him many times, lol. And the snooty record store employees that "know everything" (they think) many times over. Brings back fond memories. I used to have many great discussions with several record store employees and owners about Progressive rock, and another guy who loved Neil Young, the Jayhawks, etc. I used to see many of these guys at local concerts etc I've also been in and bought stuff at Vintage Vinyl in Evanston which is the record store this partly was filmed at and is based on.
@@Chonus Watched this clip randomly, and was thinking "That looks like Al!" How funny and appropriate that he did this. I was fortunate to get to work with US Maple many times, and would easily put them in my top 5 favorite bands.
Funny thing, the actual serious musicians I know are the most open minded about music and pop music. they realize how hard it is to actually create music, then actually make it so a great amount of people want to pay you to hear it.
Absolutely. In my collection, you'll find everything from Judas Priest to Air Supply. The most obscure records to the most mainstream. I spent way too many years caring about what other people think. A turning point for me was when I heard Pete Townshend say that "SOS" by ABBA is one of the greatest songs ever. He was almost right: it's actually "Take a Chance on Me".
My top 5 track ones side one: 5. Nirvana- smells like teen spirit 4. Radiohead- Airbag 3. My Bloody Valentine- only shallow 2. Joy division- disorder 1. Bob Dylan- subterranean homesick blues
Top 5 Album openers 1.) "Fight Fire With Fire" MetallicA, Ride The Lightning 2.) "Armatage Shanks" Green Day, Insomniac 3.) "Angel Of Death" Slayer, Reign In Blood 4.)"Welcome To The Jungle" Guns 'N Roses, Appetite For Destruction 5.) "Rhymin' And Stealin'" Beastie Boys, Licensed To Ill.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon Death Grips - Get Got Sparklehorse - Homecoming Queen Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum - Bird's Nest Elliott Smith - Speed Trials
The English Beat-- "Mirror in the Bathroom"-- I Just Can't Stop It The Clash-- "Safe European Home"-- Give "Em Enough Rope Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-- "Refugee"-- Damn the Torpedoes The Stooges-- "Search and Destroy"-- Raw Power Pete Townshend-- "Rough Boys"-- Empty Glass
Somewhat Damaged - Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile) Panasonic Youth - The Dillinger Escape Plan (Miss Machine) Airbag - Radiohead (OK Computer) Stinkfist - Tool (Ænima) The Moor - Opeth (Still Life)
I remember who i was with, what day it was, and which stores i bought all my cds from when i was a teenager, i remember nothing from listening to music on youtube, also remember having to wait till you got home to be able to listen to the album? thats all gone now sadly
Bad for the artists good for the listeners, it's a great way to understand music theory and discover stuff they wouldn't have access to otherwise. Problem is the marketing in the industry only allowing success to "certain" artists and groups then handicapping there meal ticket now with live nations and merch revenue
My top 5 album openers 1.Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (In Absentia) 2. Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Rust in Peace) 3. Supertramp - School (Crime of the Century) 4. Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves) 5. Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Selling England By the Pound)
Now it may be a bit biased, but Top5 Side1s Track1s: - Sting - The Lazarus Heart (...Nothing like the sun) - The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Urban Hymns) - Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place (Kid A) - The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Sandanista!) - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou (Bayou Country) But it's just my subjective opinion, right? No need to say that somebody has no music taste just for picking more publicly acclaimed songs to his list.
Practically every record store I visited was like this. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed going to record stores. I don't anymore, but I'm guessing attitudes have changed quite a bit with streaming.
Feeling pretty basic today, so Top 5 Track 1/Side 1s: Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band Good Times Bad Times Straight Outta Compton He Stopped Loving Her Today Smells Like Teen Spirit All mainstream stuff, but those were genre gamechangers or an iconic effort by an established legend in the case of George Jones.
Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red from Tiny Dynamine PJ Harvey - Big Exit from Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea Nick Drake - Pink Moon from Pink Moon Fairport Convention - Fotheringay from What We Did On Our Holidays Nick Cave - Do You Love Me from Let Love In (also the best concert opening I have ever seen)
Brother was dead right about these guys but I always found record store employees to be helpful - helped if they were also musical themselves. Buddy's record store had an employee that was a musician and he was great - wasn't really a job to him
Top 5 songs for Driving. 5. The Doors: roadhouse Blues 4. Danzig: Not of this world 3: Judas Priest: Invader 2: Motörhead: white line fever 1: Black Sabbath: Megalomania
Mine: Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Kid A) Prodigy - Smack My B*tch Up (Fat of the Land) Rage Against The Machine - People of the Sun (Evil Empire) Tool - Stinkfist (Ænima) Meshuggah - I Am Colossus (Koloss) Pearl Jam - Go (Vs.)
my top side 1s track 1s: 1. Dinosaur Jr. - little fury things 2. American football - never meant 3. Nirvana - serve the servants 4. New order - age of consent 5. U2 - sunday bloody sunday
My top 5 album openers: -Plainsong (from The Cure Disintegration) -Rio (from Duran Duran Rio) -Disorder (from Joy Division Unknown Pleasures) -Airbag (from Radiohead Ok Computer) -World in My Eyes (from Depeche Mode Violator)
Yes, I have come to realise that the commenters here aren't actually music snobs. It is the inimitable Al Johnson. There were other Chicago music references made throughout the film because the movie is in Chicago but the book is British and takes place across the pond. That "meek" customer probably has more integrity, music knowledge, and credibility than the entire cast. And no one in the comments section here has bothered to recognize it. Hope they check out u.s. maple after listing all those commercial artists.
My top five in this category, no particular order: Oasis - Rock n' Roll Start from Definitely Maybe The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter from Let it Bleed Live - Rattlesnake from Secret Samadhi Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer from Slippery When Wet Bush - Everything Zen from Sixteen Stone
When I was a record store clerk people would ask me what I liked. I declined to tell them... unless they persisted. If they did I would say this: "I like Asmus Tietchens, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Science Astro Infinity Cosmo Fire Arkestra." I wasn't joking, those musicians/bands are cool and collectable. That usually shut them up though.
"cos you're not a geek Louis." Says the massive geek. I love this. Even the little high five Cusack gives him as if to say, " you are being a knob, but you and me are the same people."
The joke here is that the three guys in the record store are completely clueless when it comes to real life, and indeed have no meaningful role even within the music industry. It works better in the book - you could easily imagine a shop like this existing in an obscure part of North London.
Snobbery like this is just a higher threshold of dissaproval on mass taste. I mean, we have all complained about some teeny bop band that the kids enjoy, or the terrible unfashionable music our parents might listen to. Usually, such disdain is warranted however. With these guys though it's on a higher level. What's interesting though is with the passing of time, some of these bands they hail in thr movie are no longer edgy, or alternative. In that regard, music snobbery is always one generation away from turning on itself!
The problem is that mass taste is manufactured by big business. In music, it was the major record labels, the radio stations and MTV. Today it's google, apple and twitch, as far as I can tell, and whichever corporations can pay to push artists and songs they control up in the algorithms. In movies and TV it's disney, sony, etc. Reaching down into supposedly "cult" fandoms and cosplaying. Part of what Gen X hipsters (including the Thrash movement in heavy metal at the start of the eighties that produced Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax interestingly) in the 1980s and '90s were reacting against was that commercialisation of all arts, and trying to champion more autonomous, DIY creators who were trying to make stuff that was different and more complex maybe and certainly more emotionally honest than the most played, highest selling stuff on TV and radio. But like you said, it's an unsolvable problem because if it's good it's likely to become popular and then it's not special anymore, and you're only fighting the cultural surface level of capitalism, not capitalism itself.
A good song is a good song. Good music is good music. Pouring your identity into rock and roll or whatever is very adolescent - most of it do it for a couple years and realize we were just adolescents. We grew up.
I still remember the weird feeling, of the very last time I played with a GI Joe toy, as a kid. It just happened one day, all at once. I picked it up, and tried to play with it, but I was suddenly 'too old to play with toys'. I guess I was about 10 years old. The same thing happened with music, eventually. Suddenly, I was too old to listen to all the music I used to love. I was 26. It felt like playing with toys. It might as well have been nursery rhymes. It was then that I somehow switched to listening to jazz... maybe it was all coincidence. I walked into a record store, just to wander around. I didn't know Jack Schiatt about jazz, but somehow that's where I found myself. I pawed through the albums for 30 minutes, looking for something that 'looked' good (as if you can tell by the fucking cover). I bought two albums, without knowing anything about them (very unusual for me). What do you suppose the odds were, that I would buy _Time Out_ and _Kind of Blue,_ on a pure whim, as a first foray into jazz? A thousand to one? Ten thousand to one? Needless to say, it started a new era in my music taste. One wild guess led to another, and I found Charles Mingus, next. Ah Um. Dynasty. More Miles (Gil Evans). Coleman Hawkins. Duke Ellington! Thelonious Monk. John Coltrane! Dizzy Gillespie. Ornette Coleman. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. This is it. This is the land of music for adults. The land of actual musical talent and proficiency. The ultimate realm for music snobs, who don't want to hear clever rhymes about how tough someone is, or endless Sad Bastard music, or Cardi B casting spells over stupid people...
I had the pleasure of shopping in at Record Swap in the 90s while the employee described Texas is the Reason to a new customer, who was completely sold upon hearing AND SO WAS I.
He was right in not giving that bastard the Captain Beefheart record. Look at how careless he was while putting it back in the sleeve. The sound of it hitting the spine made cringe.
Amassing a record collection use to say a lot about who you were, kinda people you hung out with and even what kind a drugs you were on. A sort of dead vinyl underground society. People often showed off their collection at parties as a sign of music wealth. Then in the mid 90s we discovered mp3s , Napster, CD burner. 2:10 Suddenly you could upload 5000 songs on your iPod- connect it to your car w a cable and that ended the era of artisan album culture as we knew it. With equal access to millions of songs has music gotten better?
Mine: 1. Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) 2. Tenacious D - Kielbasa (Tenacious D) 3. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (Welcome To My Nightmare) 4. Therapy? - Meat Abstract (Babyteeth) 5. Knorkator - Hymne (We Want Mohr)
a top 5 opening tracks from the top of my head: • Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine • Talking Heads - Born Under Punches • David Bowie - Beauty and the Beast • Deerhunter - Earthquake • Neu! - Isi
Nice list. What's great about a list like that is that everybody's will be different but they are all cool to hear. Off the top of my head - "(I'm) Stranded" - (I'm) Stranded by The Saints, "United in Grief" - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" by Kendrick Lamar, "I Wanna be adored" - The Stone Roses, "The Queen is Dead" - from the Queen is Dead by The Smiths, "War Pigs" - Paranoid by Black Sabbath. If I made a list tomorrow it would probably be completely different lol. I do admit I fell into Rob Gordon's trap of some safe selections with a newer credible inclusion ha ha
My fav used record store story: Yuppie mom tries to push giant child stroller in front door of shop. ( narrow aisles packed with inventory) Proprietor immediately throws her and her baby out. Vaht is dis? Fucking donkey cart? Get out!
I had that issue of AP with Manson on the cover, I May still have it, Nope just the Reznorection Day issue from 1999 with Trent Reznor on the cover - close.
Lemme see here And I have multiple top 5’s so I don’t have an exact fav so these are the ones off the top of my head 5: Black- Pearl Jam 4: Where the River Flows-Collective Soul 3:Metallica-Of Wolf and Man 2: Black Widow a la Porte-John 5 1: Are you Gonna Go my way-Lenny Kravitz
As a suburbanite, I felt like a music snob to my friends and people I worked with back in the day (90's / early 2000's) but always felt like a a newbie and had only scratched the surface when I walked into cool record stores in the city.
My Friends and i were the Metal head version of this for Years ! If you came into a conversation with us about music and didn't have your Metal knowledge and appreciation you kinda got snubbed , not in a mean way Much like when i try talking to Gen Z kids .....its like i am from another planet and they sense it.
@@Chonus nice, they're my second favorite two guitars no bass noise band. yeah, i don't know who else is in the film but there are alleged cameos of chicago's underground.
I could do a top 5 song 1 side 1 of just the first 4 Zeppelin albums and it'd be pretty hard to beat Good Times Bad Times WholeLotta Love Immigrant Song BlackDog
My top 5 side 1 track 1 in random order. The Hellion, Electric Eye by Judas Priest from Screaming for Vengeance The Fun Palace by Annihilator from Never Neverland Angel of Death by Slayer from Reign in Blood Where Eagles Dare by Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind Over the Mountain by Ozzy Osbourne from Diary of a Madman
Rocks Off -Rolling Stones. In the snob measure sure it’s the Rolling Stones, but rocks off is just that good. A great side 1, track 1 must be like the ultimate way to get outta bed. Full of energy, life and passion. That’s Rocks Off. Toe tapping groove soul goodness.
I worked at a record store in college. At first I was like, wow these people are snobs. It didn’t take long until I was right there with them.
I started making music and that's how I discovered the awful truth about myself.
I wonder if Jack Black would have sold it to the guy if he didn't keep pestering him. I think maybe his interrupting him had something to do with it.
@@mikereiss4216 maybe but it was his whole persona. He wasnt worthy in his toxic narrow opinion. Instead of embracing listeners they had to overcome their own insecurities in a very pleabian way to make others feel less than them... Later that guy might have become a record producer for some well known Chicago record label.
So you're a sheep.
And it's funny people because those people listen to the shittiest music...
Fun fact: Guy trying to buy the Beefheart is US Maple lead singer Al Johnson
And the black dude is Alex dessert from hepcat.
US Maple was highly influenced by Captain Beefheart, so this is a very fitting scene.
Holy shit
@@johnney5He also starred in P.C.U.
What's playing in background?
The way he is holding that record at the end... it HURTS!
i keep telling myself it's just a prop
That bothered me too.
Completely intentional for that very reason..
No way to treat Safe As Milk at all, if they were true to character they wouldn’t have sold it to him for that travesty.
*LOL* 😂
I went to Uni in Brisbane in the late ’90s. My video store was an art/cult video store in the Valley called Trash Video-the VHS equivalent of the record store in this movie. Naturally, being fellow movie nerds, I’d get talking to the nerd behind the counter. One day, when I was talking to him, he bent down to pick something up . . . the extraneous amount of arse crack you see from JB in the scene is the most accurate part of this scene. I can’t watch it without thinking of that video store.
You mean, you can't see this butt crack without thinking about that other butt crack, right? I'm with you, man.
Trash Video was great! Moved to West End eventually before shutting down around 2008ish. Andrew was the bloke running it.
This is the Princeton Record Exchange. But I loved finding cheap as chips rap CDs that most everyone else wouldn’t buy.
That sounds like a QUT story. Possibly Griffith
0:53 The guy in the glasses is Al Johnson from the band US Maple
The way Jack Black just puts the punch on “Beethoven” gets me every time for some reason.
The ultimate snob would be to ONLY recommend Beethoven
Good movie but would have been a great movie if they put in better music. Try to please so many with diverse musical genre is wrong. The movie should have been about The Replacements and staring the Replacements. All music by them too with a few exceptions. One soul, one funk, one pretty number for the ladies. Jack Black, there's no lovin this movie, Sugar, na na na babe, without enough Replacements.
That is why I love Jack Black. He did a great job of paying someone that I can't stand. I always felt bad for that customer, and every time I see that scene, I don't feel bad for Rob for being broke.
+mclaughlin75 i think maybe you didn't get this movie
Oh, I got it. This is just my take on Jack Black's character.
If broke means owning a massive record shop and a dream apartment, let me be broke.
it was a game they were playing. The "nerd" comes there to argue with Jack Black's character and if he sells him the record he won't have a reason to come back even though he wants too
the record is a story of their relationship that Jack Black doesn't want to give up
"You guys are snobs" said in the coolest way possible.
He’s right, too
He IS the singer for Hepcat.
and ends the scene with "it's just sad. that's all."
"The unappreciated scholars that shit on everyone." Yup, welcome to internet chat space
This movie, and the book, was prescient in alot of ways...
I didn't think I was THAT much of a music snob, but then I recognised Smog's Cold Blooded Old Times playing in the background.
I thought I was a bad snob, but that is next level ha ha
Best ever b side on an ep: - the peel session version of "chosen one" on that record. (Track 3)
Hanging around the record store and talking about music with friends will always be the foundation of a happy life. Unless, of course, you are like these snobs.
or OWN the record store and have rent...
Nothing wrong with having strong opinions about music. They often can have some base which can be enlightening. The problem for you probably is you can’t keep up -so they suck, had they welcomed you, let’s face it you’d be worse just to gain favor
I am actually a huge music snob and very proud of it.
@@HandsUpforThePantheras am i
Subjectively Best album openers. In no order:
Greg Oblivion & The Tip-Tops - Head Shop - Watching My Baby Get Ready
John Frusciante - Niandra Lades - As Can Be
Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat - White Light White Heat
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - The Queen Is Dead
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation - Love Comes In Spurts
Honorable Mentions:
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love - Live Wire (I don't even like Motley Crue. Goes to show how fantastic this opener is).
The Descendants - Milo Goes To College - Myage
Dolly Parton - Jolene - Jolene
The Stooges - Raw Power - Search & Destroy
New York Dolls - New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
The Ramones - The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop
Kate Bush - The Dreaming - Sat On Your Lap
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson - Melody
Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions - Green Onions
Violent Femmes-"Blister in the Sun"
David Bowie-"Space Oddity"
Led Zepplin-"Good Times, Bad Times"
Foghat-"I Just Wanna Make Love To You"
The Doors-"Break On Through"
My list is probably a little mainstream, but I'm mostly into people's debuts.
@@mikemoore5270 Space Oddity and Break On Through are good picks. I considered venturing into Bowie or T. Rex for honorable mentions but my pretentious music store nerd list was already too long. The Doors and Jim Morrison's attitude + stage presence influenced way more great early punk bands than those bands would care to admit in the late 60's through early 80's. The musical landscape (for the music I like, at least) would be way different without them. Also considered Rocks Off from Exile on Main Street, but as fine a song it is, there are so many better songs on that near-perfect album that outshine it, that it feels like less of a stand-out opener in comparison. Blitzkreig Bop is my most cliche "Honorable Mention" pick, but imagining how that sound must've felt on first listen in 76, blasting out the speakers once home from the record store = definitely worth mentioning. I'm sure it would've absolutely blown me away if it hadn't been played to death by now.
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Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges-Tudo que você podia ser-Cluba da Esquina
Lollipop Shoppe-You Must be a Witch-Just Colour
Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove-One Nation Under a Groove
Love-Alone Again Or-Forever Changes
Brasil represents
1) History Invades - The Structure of a Precise Fashion - We Ran Out of Bridges So We Burned Down Our Houses
2) Faraquet - The View From This Tower - Cut Self Not
3) American Football - S/T - Never Meant
4) Fugazi - 13 Songs - Waiting Room
5) At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command - Arcarsenal
Little known fact: Then, tired of being messed around, in a fit of rage, that "geek" got the last laugh by inventing peer-to-peer file sharing and destroying the entire record industry!
That kid's name? Jimmy Limewire. True story.
Sadly Napster predated Limewire, but still fun times@@Treblaine
For context, does the use of "destroying" here mean "creating a massive demand" in vinyl LP record sales? Cuz that's what happened.
vinyl is for those who don't care for audio quality though. just want big art and something to touch. Digital is the way to go@@jonahstein2139
Justin Timberlake was in High Fidelity?!
I worked in a record store about ten years after this movie came out as an older adult. It’s funny to me because our attitude towards our customers was completely different. We were grateful for every customer who walked through the door that helped keep that business open… and we were happy to share everything we knew about music with people who cared enough to still spend money on it(instead of torrenting it).
There is an amazing amount of 90’s privilege baked into this movie(that we didn’t even know we had at the time). I don’t envy the young people how have to make their way in America today.
My guess would be that you were neither an overweight 30 year old virgin or underweight bald virgin who took their frustrations out on people didn't know or care who the original drum was for some alt band from 20 years earlier that nobody ever heard of. Am I hot or cold?
I remember having to deal with all sort of snobs working in record stores back in the late-90s and early-00s (of course, there were exception). There was this record store in my hometown (Athens, Greece), where the owner-salesman-dj would gather us around the in-store turntable, apparently to play for us the new and "next-big-thing" records of the day. Then, if you told him that you would like to buy a copy of the track but he didn't consider you one of his own, he would always reply: "nah, that's my own copy, not for sale, mate"... lol, what an idiot. Loved the 90s, but I certainly don't miss those attitudes.
Such an interesting take on this, especially the last part, thanks for sharing!
These are like the mattress stores that stay open but never sell anything lol@@Koko161081
@@Koko161081 I grew up in the 80's & 90's... There was a MASSIVE attitude shift post-grunge. All the old school rockers hating on the younger kids for being so influenced by movies and clothes who were just trying to be trendy and didnt have a clue about music. I even got shamed for playing The Screaming Trees at a bar in Seattle..... The lead singer of a local band called Visqueen asked me if I was from out of town because REAL rockers would NEVER play that band anymore. Oh and try to find someone in a flannel shirt..... You'd get pelted with pinecones. We had to change who we were completely because we had become a brand and being branded was so UNCOOL.
Jack Black's greatest moments are in this movie. The way he reacts to Cusack mentioning Massive Attack is just ... (chef's kiss)
Jack Black snob
Let’s seeeeeeeeeeee
I’ve been doing that for 23 years 😂
He's on point about the hint of trend chasing mixed with conservative, canonically cool choices in the list by Cusack's character. Takes one to know one! 😅
Once I bought a Clanned cd, (Anam) at the local "hip," music store, it was close to Xmas, clerk guy looked me right in the face and disgustedly said, "this better be a gift. "
It wasn't tho.😮
I don't like the way Lewis is holding that record.
Snob.
RATM - Testify
Jesus Lizard - Then Comes Dudley
Funkadelic - Mommy, Whats A Funkadelic
IceCube - When Will They Shoot
Pink Floyd - In The Flesh
One of my all time, desert island, Top 5 movies!
How safe! Could you be any more obvious with that one? How about say, Clerks, or maybe The Breakfast Club.
Happiness is a record store.... Peace.
Ahh, a historic recording of some of the first hipsters.
+Araxie Rose did you know that people loved vinyl, coffee, and bicycles long before so-called Hipster culture oozed all into the place?
Yeah, but the difference was people didn't look down on others for not sharing their interests.
This is at least 40 years after the first hipsters walked planet usa.
why don't you go ask Harry the Hispter back in 1944 :3
I met that guy once. A bit of a douche, but he made killer hummus.
Watching this scene in my 30’s is a whole other experience.. Folks who didn’t have Internet to get whatever they want needed “The Gatekeepers” of the music store to show them around what’s available and where it’s at. Sad snobs.. I used to think they’re pretty cool grownups 😕
I’m in my 50s and spent a lot of time on record stores in the late 80s until the mid 2000s. I never thought of them as gatekeepers. Many were tour guides, or tutors. I was turned onto so many incredible records by people with a love for music, who wanted to share it. The best ones knew what kind of bands/genres you liked and would pull curated selections out from behind the counter, when you walked in. The whole snob thing was just 90s Gen X affectation (guilty as charged).
Not in any particular order, just off the top of my head:
(The Rolling Stones) Gimme Shelter from Let It Bleed
(Judas Priest) Breaking The Law from British Steel
(Caro Emerald) That Man from Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor
(Black Sabbath) Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath
(Guns 'N' Roses) Welcome To The Jungle from Appetite For Destruction
art deco who's Caro Emerald?
TH-cam: "Caro Emerald - That Man"
See what you think.
Breaking The Law is not track 1 on British Steel, it's Rapid Fire. (Good tune tho)
On the (original) US release, the one I have, it is the first.
very pussy
5b. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (The Queen Is Dead)
5a. Age of Consent - New Order (Power, Corruption, and Lies)
4. Everything Hits at Once - Spoon (Girls Can Tell)
3. Hold My Life - The Replacements (Tim)
2. One Hundred Years - The Cure (Pornography)
1. Disorder - Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
🙌 great list
Oh my god
Unoriginal. Good for you putting it all out on the line. You probably bet over and under, goblin twat
Omg you have the same taste as me lol
Not bad for a Brit…..
The perfect record store scene. I've been in several record stores like this I used to spend a lot of time at. The obsessive nerd geek that wants that rare record, seen him many times, lol. And the snooty record store employees that "know everything" (they think) many times over. Brings back fond memories. I used to have many great discussions with several record store employees and owners about Progressive rock, and another guy who loved Neil Young, the Jayhawks, etc. I used to see many of these guys at local concerts etc
I've also been in and bought stuff at Vintage Vinyl in Evanston which is the record store this partly was filmed at and is based on.
I never thought I would become the "Safe As Milk" guy...until the day I was him.
Beefheart rules.
You should check out U.S. Maple he's the lead singer.
Damn, Safe As Milk is a 10/10 desert Island album for me. I'll never get bored of it.
@@Chonus Remember last April when we saw US Maple? Somehow the singer showed the Fireside exactly how I feel.
@@Chonus Watched this clip randomly, and was thinking "That looks like Al!" How funny and appropriate that he did this. I was fortunate to get to work with US Maple many times, and would easily put them in my top 5 favorite bands.
Funny thing, the actual serious musicians I know are the most open minded about music and pop music. they realize how hard it is to actually create music, then actually make it so a great amount of people want to pay you to hear it.
Yes so true.
Absolutely. In my collection, you'll find everything from Judas Priest to Air Supply. The most obscure records to the most mainstream. I spent way too many years caring about what other people think. A turning point for me was when I heard Pete Townshend say that "SOS" by ABBA is one of the greatest songs ever. He was almost right: it's actually "Take a Chance on Me".
@Abmotsad Haahha, nice
Then they are not very good musicians
@@tahamohammedi5898what makes you say that ?
My top 5 track ones side one:
5. Nirvana- smells like teen spirit
4. Radiohead- Airbag
3. My Bloody Valentine- only shallow
2. Joy division- disorder
1. Bob Dylan- subterranean homesick blues
Top 5 Album openers
1.) "Fight Fire With Fire" MetallicA, Ride The Lightning
2.) "Armatage Shanks" Green Day, Insomniac
3.) "Angel Of Death" Slayer, Reign In Blood
4.)"Welcome To The Jungle" Guns 'N Roses, Appetite For Destruction
5.) "Rhymin' And Stealin'" Beastie Boys, Licensed To Ill.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Death Grips - Get Got
Sparklehorse - Homecoming Queen
Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum - Bird's Nest
Elliott Smith - Speed Trials
The English Beat-- "Mirror in the Bathroom"-- I Just Can't Stop It
The Clash-- "Safe European Home"-- Give "Em Enough Rope
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-- "Refugee"-- Damn the Torpedoes
The Stooges-- "Search and Destroy"-- Raw Power
Pete Townshend-- "Rough Boys"-- Empty Glass
The Clash - London calling from the eponymous album
Somewhat Damaged - Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile)
Panasonic Youth - The Dillinger Escape Plan (Miss Machine)
Airbag - Radiohead (OK Computer)
Stinkfist - Tool (Ænima)
The Moor - Opeth (Still Life)
Mahlers 9th symphony
Miles Davis - Miles in the sky
John Coltrane - Live in Japan
My bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
Intriguing combination. I do love that you chose miles in the sky instead of kind of blue. And big props for nujabes!
Its super weird how this business model doesn't work anymore.
yeah they're too laid back, these days they got the employees on a leech like you're in a gas station.
@@Soundeagle3456 leash
There are times when I wish technology wasn't moving so fast. With music available at your finger tips, stores like this are obsolete. It's sad.
I remember who i was with, what day it was, and which stores i bought all my cds from when i was a teenager, i remember nothing from listening to music on youtube, also remember having to wait till you got home to be able to listen to the album? thats all gone now sadly
Vinyl sales are rising and record stores are in every city.
Bad for the artists good for the listeners, it's a great way to understand music theory and discover stuff they wouldn't have access to otherwise. Problem is the marketing in the industry only allowing success to "certain" artists and groups then handicapping there meal ticket now with live nations and merch revenue
Time to slow down and buy records rather than play mp3s as background music.
@@cobaltisnotreal7581 Just visited one in Philly a few weeks ago - Digital Undergound.
Obviously white light white heat that's one of my fav albums ever
My top 5 album openers
1.Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (In Absentia)
2. Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Rust in Peace)
3. Supertramp - School (Crime of the Century)
4. Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves)
5. Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Selling England By the Pound)
Can’t get behind Supertramp but an otherwise very solid list
Rush... lol
None of these would have made anyone's list in the movie because prog rock wasn't as popular back then.
@@nkenchington6575 If you don't like Rush why don't you just come out and say it.
Porcupine Tree, Rush & Genesis would all be on my list damn
This was like the record stores in the Village (NYC) in the early 90s.
Now it may be a bit biased, but Top5 Side1s Track1s:
- Sting - The Lazarus Heart (...Nothing like the sun)
- The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Urban Hymns)
- Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place (Kid A)
- The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Sandanista!)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou (Bayou Country)
But it's just my subjective opinion, right? No need to say that somebody has no music taste just for picking more publicly acclaimed songs to his list.
Oh man, you've really nailed it with this list.
Seriously? The Clash - not London Calling from the eponymous album?
Practically every record store I visited was like this. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed going to record stores. I don't anymore, but I'm guessing attitudes have changed quite a bit with streaming.
Yeah... nobody knows what an album is anymore. Track 1 side 1? I don't know... I just tell Spotify to play whatever is popular... ha ha 😎
Feeling pretty basic today, so Top 5 Track 1/Side 1s:
Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band
Good Times Bad Times
Straight Outta Compton
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Smells Like Teen Spirit
All mainstream stuff, but those were genre gamechangers or an iconic effort by an established legend in the case of George Jones.
Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red from Tiny Dynamine
PJ Harvey - Big Exit from Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Nick Drake - Pink Moon from Pink Moon
Fairport Convention - Fotheringay from What We Did On Our Holidays
Nick Cave - Do You Love Me from Let Love In (also the best concert opening I have ever seen)
This is literally all the kids I went to college with ... and I’ll admit I was like this at one point too. Worked at 2 college radio stations.
It's a small club.
I think about this scene all the time.
Brother was dead right about these guys but I always found record store employees to be helpful - helped if they were also musical themselves. Buddy's record store had an employee that was a musician and he was great - wasn't really a job to him
Top 5 songs for Driving.
5. The Doors: roadhouse Blues
4. Danzig: Not of this world
3: Judas Priest: Invader
2: Motörhead: white line fever
1: Black Sabbath: Megalomania
All great tracks but I’d say Turbo Lover is a better driving tune than Invader
You named my absolute favorite Black Sabbath tune. Encompasses everything in the band's evolution up to that point.
@@jakeitnbakeitMy Priest choice would prob be the title track from Screaming For Vengeance.
Pretty white
Mine:
Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Kid A)
Prodigy - Smack My B*tch Up (Fat of the Land)
Rage Against The Machine - People of the Sun (Evil Empire)
Tool - Stinkfist (Ænima)
Meshuggah - I Am Colossus (Koloss)
Pearl Jam - Go (Vs.)
Are you the glasses guy that couldn’t buy the record?
That copy of Liquid Liquid - Optimo sitting there. 🔥
my top side 1s track 1s:
1. Dinosaur Jr. - little fury things
2. American football - never meant
3. Nirvana - serve the servants
4. New order - age of consent
5. U2 - sunday bloody sunday
Boy, they’d eat you alive
1:09, Amoeba records and the "hipsters" hanging out . happens every day .
Louis knew what was up. I wish he was in the movie more.
Except how he’s holding the record at the end. Infuriating!
My top 5 album openers:
-Plainsong (from The Cure Disintegration)
-Rio (from Duran Duran Rio)
-Disorder (from Joy Division Unknown Pleasures)
-Airbag (from Radiohead Ok Computer)
-World in My Eyes (from Depeche Mode Violator)
is that meek customer the singer from US Maple???
Yes, I have come to realise that the commenters here aren't actually music snobs. It is the inimitable Al Johnson.
There were other Chicago music references made throughout the film because the movie is in Chicago but the book is British and takes place across the pond.
That "meek" customer probably has more integrity, music knowledge, and credibility than the entire cast.
And no one in the comments section here has bothered to recognize it.
Hope they check out u.s. maple after listing all those commercial artists.
That Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Album, "Safe as Milk," is really amazing.
Autumn's child got a loophole round her finger...
My top five in this category, no particular order:
Oasis - Rock n' Roll Start from Definitely Maybe
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter from Let it Bleed
Live - Rattlesnake from Secret Samadhi
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer from Slippery When Wet
Bush - Everything Zen from Sixteen Stone
When I was a record store clerk people would ask me what I liked. I declined to tell them... unless they persisted. If they did I would say this: "I like Asmus Tietchens, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Science Astro Infinity Cosmo Fire Arkestra." I wasn't joking, those musicians/bands are cool and collectable. That usually shut them up though.
The greatest thing is that Index record next to the Iron Butterfly
#5 is a great shout. No Protection is a wonderful album
i fucking love that album.
shout what
Late 80s/early 90s in our wee local independent record shop was the best. Still miss it and my long hair 😂
"cos you're not a geek Louis." Says the massive geek. I love this. Even the little high five Cusack gives him as if to say, " you are being a knob, but you and me are the same people."
he's a MUSIC geek, not a GEEK geek. There's a difference.
@@mutedmutiny9542 No, he is definite both lol
@@MultiAmbivalent no, he isn’t. You don’t know what a geek is if you think he’s a geek. He’s just a music geek.
@@mutedmutiny9542 He'd be fun to be around either way lol
A masterclass in acting from all actors. Jack Black perfection.
You haven't seen.a lot of films have you!
Masterclass in acting? Said from the master of exaggeration, hmm, I guess it checks
The joke here is that the three guys in the record store are completely clueless when it comes to real life, and indeed have no meaningful role even within the music industry. It works better in the book - you could easily imagine a shop like this existing in an obscure part of North London.
Flashback records- islington
Jack Black does a great job of getting the audience to hate him as this character.
probably his only unlikeable or "villian"-like role besides Bowser and maybe Bernie (although I didn't see Bernie)
i don't blame the geek for obsessing over Safe as Milk. Fucking awesome album.
That’s Al Johnson, from US Maple, a somewhat beefharty band.
@@ismaelbelda1 Here is an example of hip, rather than hipster. Nice.
@@ismaelbelda1 respect
Snobbery like this is just a higher threshold of dissaproval on mass taste. I mean, we have all complained about some teeny bop band that the kids enjoy, or the terrible unfashionable music our parents might listen to. Usually, such disdain is warranted however. With these guys though it's on a higher level. What's interesting though is with the passing of time, some of these bands they hail in thr movie are no longer edgy, or alternative. In that regard, music snobbery is always one generation away from turning on itself!
Well said
Frasier? Niles? Is that you?
Or maybe they’re just assholes.
@@phaedrussmith1949 😆 Deffo Frasier
The problem is that mass taste is manufactured by big business. In music, it was the major record labels, the radio stations and MTV. Today it's google, apple and twitch, as far as I can tell, and whichever corporations can pay to push artists and songs they control up in the algorithms. In movies and TV it's disney, sony, etc. Reaching down into supposedly "cult" fandoms and cosplaying. Part of what Gen X hipsters (including the Thrash movement in heavy metal at the start of the eighties that produced Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax interestingly) in the 1980s and '90s were reacting against was that commercialisation of all arts, and trying to champion more autonomous, DIY creators who were trying to make stuff that was different and more complex maybe and certainly more emotionally honest than the most played, highest selling stuff on TV and radio.
But like you said, it's an unsolvable problem because if it's good it's likely to become popular and then it's not special anymore, and you're only fighting the cultural surface level of capitalism, not capitalism itself.
A good song is a good song. Good music is good music. Pouring your identity into rock and roll or whatever is very adolescent - most of it do it for a couple years and realize we were just adolescents. We grew up.
You're already thinking too hard. Good sound is good.
I still remember the weird feeling, of the very last time I played with a GI Joe toy, as a kid. It just happened one day, all at once. I picked it up, and tried to play with it, but I was suddenly 'too old to play with toys'. I guess I was about 10 years old.
The same thing happened with music, eventually. Suddenly, I was too old to listen to all the music I used to love. I was 26. It felt like playing with toys. It might as well have been nursery rhymes.
It was then that I somehow switched to listening to jazz... maybe it was all coincidence. I walked into a record store, just to wander around. I didn't know Jack Schiatt about jazz, but somehow that's where I found myself. I pawed through the albums for 30 minutes, looking for something that 'looked' good (as if you can tell by the fucking cover). I bought two albums, without knowing anything about them (very unusual for me).
What do you suppose the odds were, that I would buy _Time Out_ and _Kind of Blue,_ on a pure whim, as a first foray into jazz? A thousand to one? Ten thousand to one? Needless to say, it started a new era in my music taste.
One wild guess led to another, and I found Charles Mingus, next. Ah Um. Dynasty. More Miles (Gil Evans). Coleman Hawkins. Duke Ellington! Thelonious Monk. John Coltrane! Dizzy Gillespie. Ornette Coleman. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. This is it. This is the land of music for adults. The land of actual musical talent and proficiency. The ultimate realm for music snobs, who don't want to hear clever rhymes about how tough someone is, or endless Sad Bastard music, or Cardi B casting spells over stupid people...
I had the pleasure of shopping in at Record Swap in the 90s while the employee described Texas is the Reason to a new customer, who was completely sold upon hearing AND SO WAS I.
He was right in not giving that bastard the Captain Beefheart record. Look at how careless he was while putting it back in the sleeve. The sound of it hitting the spine made cringe.
you're grammer made cringe
Do you happen to have a ton of pink hair that points straight up?
Blind Terry Tucci maybe
I figured as much.
Blind Terry Tucci looks like you win again
Amassing a record collection use to say a lot about who you were, kinda people you hung out with and even what kind a drugs you were on. A sort of dead vinyl underground society. People often showed off their collection at parties as a sign of music wealth. Then in the mid 90s we discovered mp3s , Napster, CD burner. 2:10 Suddenly you could upload 5000 songs on your iPod- connect it to your car w a cable and that ended the era of artisan album culture as we knew it. With equal access to millions of songs has music gotten better?
Mine:
1. Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
2. Tenacious D - Kielbasa (Tenacious D)
3. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (Welcome To My Nightmare)
4. Therapy? - Meat Abstract (Babyteeth)
5. Knorkator - Hymne (We Want Mohr)
@Kyle Balmer I'd love to discuss this list with Jack, extensively. Not at least for the reason to talk to him for a looong time.
@Kyle Balmer Damn, don't ruin my plan!
a top 5 opening tracks from the top of my head:
• Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
• Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
• David Bowie - Beauty and the Beast
• Deerhunter - Earthquake
• Neu! - Isi
Nice list. What's great about a list like that is that everybody's will be different but they are all cool to hear. Off the top of my head - "(I'm) Stranded" - (I'm) Stranded by The Saints, "United in Grief" - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" by Kendrick Lamar, "I Wanna be adored" - The Stone Roses, "The Queen is Dead" - from the Queen is Dead by The Smiths, "War Pigs" - Paranoid by Black Sabbath. If I made a list tomorrow it would probably be completely different lol. I do admit I fell into Rob Gordon's trap of some safe selections with a newer credible inclusion ha ha
(No specific order)
Yes - Roundabout
Jesus lizard- Then comes Dudley
Lightning bolt - Forcefield
Iggy pop - Lust for life
Melvin’s - Vile
My fav used record store story:
Yuppie mom tries to push giant child stroller in front door of shop. ( narrow aisles packed with inventory)
Proprietor immediately throws her and her baby out.
Vaht is dis? Fucking donkey cart? Get out!
they all handle records like someone whos never owed a record in their lives
Well holy shit that’s Al from US Maple asking for the Beefheart (fitting!)
George Michael 's cover " I Believe When I Fall In Love" led me to this....!
I love this movie so much.
I miss when Massive Attack was “kind of a new record”
😂😂😂I miss the 90’s.
That's why I order my music mostly through discogs! I'm also a music nerd like that so I can't be denied by the cool music people.
That's Darius Rucker, singer of Hootie & The Blowfish
1:17 Do you have Blue Moon by the Marcels?
I had that issue of AP with Manson on the cover, I May still have it, Nope just the Reznorection Day issue from 1999 with Trent Reznor on the cover - close.
Lemme see here
And I have multiple top 5’s so I don’t have an exact fav so these are the ones off the top of my head
5: Black- Pearl Jam
4: Where the River Flows-Collective Soul
3:Metallica-Of Wolf and Man
2: Black Widow a la Porte-John 5
1: Are you Gonna Go my way-Lenny Kravitz
2:00 is that marilyn manson on cover of ap magazine?
As a suburbanite, I felt like a music snob to my friends and people I worked with back in the day (90's / early 2000's) but always felt like a a newbie and had only scratched the surface when I walked into cool record stores in the city.
a suburbanite you say ...
douchebag I say
Me in the 80s. Every single one of my friends would just cringe I'd pull out Ride the Lightening or a "new mix tape” I'd done.
I have that Beefheart album! 🤣
Oh shizz, they're listening to Smog. Or Bill Callahan. "Cold Blooded Old Times" is a great song.
My Friends and i were the Metal head version of this for Years !
If you came into a conversation with us about music and didn't have your Metal knowledge and appreciation you kinda got snubbed , not in a mean way
Much like when i try talking to Gen Z kids .....its like i am from another planet and they sense it.
All the first tracks on every Fall album recorded
Probably the biggest check Al Johnson ever saw was from this bit.
Lol I'm glad someone here at least recognized him, I got to see U.S. maple once.
@@Chonus nice, they're my second favorite two guitars no bass noise band. yeah, i don't know who else is in the film but there are alleged cameos of chicago's underground.
@@thevirtualjonathan1284 Dave Pajo is in Jack Black's band, Ian from Don Cab/Battles is in the scene with the Beta Band needle drop
check out the INDEX album in the foreground!
Al Johnson from US Maple, the greatest band ever. Cool cameo.
Smog playing in the background!!
This guy knows.
Safe as Milk is a awesome record, surprized that they didn't go with Trout Mask Replika
I could do a top 5 song 1 side 1 of just the first 4 Zeppelin albums and it'd be pretty hard to beat
Good Times Bad Times
WholeLotta Love
Immigrant Song
BlackDog
My top 5 side 1 track 1 in random order.
The Hellion, Electric Eye by Judas Priest from Screaming for Vengeance
The Fun Palace by Annihilator from Never Neverland
Angel of Death by Slayer from Reign in Blood
Where Eagles Dare by Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind
Over the Mountain by Ozzy Osbourne from Diary of a Madman
Rocks Off -Rolling Stones.
In the snob measure sure it’s the Rolling Stones, but rocks off is just that good. A great side 1, track 1 must be like the ultimate way to get outta bed. Full of energy, life and passion. That’s Rocks Off. Toe tapping groove soul goodness.