High Fidelity Championship Vinyl

[@tactrix1h]

This movie was everything that was fun about the 90s, you just did random shit to get you through the day with people you could tolerate.

[@dieseltu1035]

Not really ,we worked hard then too.

[@tactrix1h]

@@dieseltu1035 one has nothing to do with the other.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

That sounds dull and boring.

[@patricktuorto]

After a hard dose of reality for the last 35 years, I'd be perfectly happy working here now.

[@seththomas9105]

At 53 I feel that in my soul.

[@kevinc8955]

Yep…as long as I can pay my bills just listen to music all day, take literally NOTHING negative home with you, and sleep like a baby every night. Heck, I might even develop real hobbies again. But all that will have to wait until I’m 65 I guess…

[@pkattk]

I get depressed sometimes thinking about the fact that I’ll never be a twenty something slacker working at a vintage vinyl store

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

@@pkattk Become a knowledgeable, wise middle-aged person working in a vintage vinyl store who can show younger people where the good music is.

[@PepitoMegaChocolato]

32 years old on my side, and already exhausted from this nonsense that is this rat race that we call "life". Working in a record store does not seem to me to be a bad place to spend your life.

[@CollinFC]

I love the sound cassettes make when they are thrown.

[@p0rq]

I want a girl to throw my cassettes.

[@mrpurple33]

The way Jack Black fumbles around with the tape before putting it in is beautiful.

[@Bonnie-p6i]

This is the Chicago i lived in during college I love John Cusack and his love for this city.....one of my favorite movies ever

[@africkinamerican]

Thanks to politricks.... that Chicago is dead :(

[@bertroost1675]

What's the location of his store? I mean that building. Maybe it doesn't even exist in Chicago. What do I know?

[@SamTziotzios]

Me too, doubledoor, metro club, and second hand tunes record stores, one in Evanston and another in Lincoln park. Hard to believe it was more than 30 years ago

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

I had a Chicago hero like that when I was your age. Michael Bloomfield. Epic blues guitarist with Paul Butterfield, Electric Flag, Super Sessions 1 AND 2. O.D'd in his car.

[@thefaulkness]

I think it's fun how a novel about North London can be transferred to Chicago

[@bartmann81]

People always talk about how great Jack Black is in this film, and he is, but it works because because of Todd Louiso, who is his perfect comic foyle.

[@opensourceanglers8291]

I completely agree. Of course Jack Black is immediately hilarious with his superoverthetop schtick which he manages to execute flawlessly and draw huge gut laughs but Todd's performance is objectively at least as good and of course much subtler & nuanced and IMO is the best performance in the film and one of my favorite awkward & quirky characters ever ever

[@davidrendall7195]

Todd the quiet underachiever got to kill Tim Robbins with an air conditioning unit, that's funny.

[@Nick_Paradise_Real]

I agree Todd

[@Carrywater126]

“I’ll just tape it for you”

[@PatDK]

@@opensourceanglers8291until you realize that that is Jack Black and he is acting about as much as The Rock does in anything he does….

[@AMac-qd6ft]

"I just want something I can ignore" Belle & Sebastian are a great place to to start then.

[@jeffpierce9296]

😂😂😂

[@adriancotter7368]

Just saw them live at the Olympia in Dublin, pure unadulterated joy. Smart, cool, funny and great songs 🤩

[@greva2904]

Years ago I got drunk and in a moment of weakness bought a Belle and Sebastian cd. Listened to the first three songs and threw the cd in the bin. I’ve never regretted that decision.

[@tomtrinchera8405]

"I don't wanna hear sad bastard music, I just want something I can ignore." Used that line a few times when something awful is playing in the background but people just don't get it. XD

[@hazelpex712]

Same. Also, "High Fidelity is one of my time Top Five favorite movies," never hits.

[@tommyt1971]

@@hazelpex712 Heh heh, that made me laugh so you have at least 3 hits on it.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

But the people that do get it end up being friends for life

[@chrischan2555]

Top 5 character introductions.

[@cosmosends]

To me : 1. This film (obviously) 2. Fight club. 3. The usual suspects. 4. Citizen Kane. And 5. Terminator.

[@chrisstarr4523]

That was four years ago

[@Tendomcgoobin]

​@@chrisstarr4523 Six years ago now.

[@TheBandit025Nova]

1. Dirty Harry 2. Sidney Prescott 3. Han Solo 4. John Rambo 5 Cobra

[@Edd25164605]

This is one of my top 5 movies !

[@luapssub2415]

Im the young man that spends his time looking for Smiths singles.

[@Shapes_Quality_Control]

I guess that makes me the one looking for Frank Zappa.

[@hansa9159]

Then who was phone?

[@OwenL2020]

Jack Black slamming his hand so hard on the counter the phone rings was powerful.

[@animaljustice7774]

Really good comedic shot of John C turning to camera at end telling us he hired those 2 part time 4 years ago. It tops the scene

[@Piwork69]

I used to be one of those young men that used to troll around record stores back when they were plentiful.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I swear I spent as much time in the record stores and bookstores in Bellingham, WA when I was a Uni student at WWU in the mid-90s as I did in my classes. Sadly, all my favorite old haunts in "the 'ham" either went out of business or literally went up in flames years ago (RIP, Avalon Records 😢🔥).

[@aarodful]

Small note - Jack is singing a guitar part from Jacobs Ladder by Rush when he walks in. Killer song.

[@negtype13]

a-FUCKIN’-men Bro! Startin’ the day with RUSH!!! 🤘🤩🤘

[@elestromusicgamesfun1101]

This film was my first encounter with the force that is Jack Black.

[@epistades1]

His breakout. He stole every scene.

[@bobdole4916]

My first encounter was a film where he was just a background character and I didn't realize it was him until years later when some scene or other popped into my head. He's not doing his usual stuff, so he's really forgettable in the role (the whole movie is forgettable), but it was still funny when it clicked that he was in it. Airborne's the name of the movie - think I saw it on Showtime or HBO way back when.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

Me too. Saw this in theatre. When he walked in singing that guitar riff and played Katrina and the waves, we all lost it in the movie hall.

[@intsoccersuperstar1]

You didn’t see Waterworld?

[@elestromusicgamesfun1101]

@@intsoccersuperstar1 Hell no :)

[@Vesperitis]

4:10 "I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up, everyday, that was _four years ago."_ I love this line. It perfectly encapsulates just how equally pathetic and oddly familial the trio are.

[@pradabears]

i might be naive but i don’t understand how dick is pathetic

[@airforcemarkmg]

If I was a millionaire I’d make a fake record store just so I can hang out in it. And have music playing in the background. While I’m siting on a lazy boy couch

[@exelchannel8806]

That’s how to never become a millionaire.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

@@exelchannel8806 You know what? It's far effing better than being a millionaire ever could be. I've often had the same crazy notion myself.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

​@exelchannel8806 learn to read, the statement was "if I was a millionaire", and YES once you cross a certain economic threshold you can indeed indulge yourself while collecting annuities from your investments. My neighbors father won $8 Million from the CA super lotto and after getting his financial house in order he bought a commercial property that he rented out to auto repair and refurbishers while opening up his own shop where he bought and assembled model airplanes. He never advertised his shop and used word of mouth to attract willing customers

[@brianbird3756]

Like a cross between High Fidelity and Empire Records🤣 That would be... ...SUPERB

[@martinaxe6390]

This is the correct way to use unseemly amounts of money. If you're a millionaire or more, you fuck off entirely. You don't insert yourself into the culture and try to dictate or run other people. I would buy a 40 acre plot in Idaho or Montana, or somewhere in the cascades, build a 3 bed 2 bath cabin, with an attached listening space, and just collect and spin vinyl everyday until I die.

[@michaels9917]

John Cusac plays this role absolutely perfect.

[@tactrix1h]

Same with Jack Black. They made a remake of this into a series and it was terrible, they tried to go the "woke" route for the series, it was so bad.

[@csiIIa]

i can't stop smiling while watching this this movie. so cool

[@tkaki6029]

Amazing movie. A must watch for anyone who’s not a square

[@SoundsofDecay]

King Crimson Discipline on the shelf there

[@LybertyZ]

"Go ahead, put on some old sad-bastard music-- see if I care." The three parts of my brain.

[@Pww642]

Belle and Sebastian are great and the next song from this album is Boy w the Arab Strap, which is a total bop. He should have let it play! You can really jam out to it.

[@andjunglepunkthirteen760]

It stinks

[@nmeau]

Anyone who has worked in a retail shop where staff and customers alike are consist only of young obsessive men with a specific sphere of interest, recognise this environment and interpersonal dynamics 100%.

[@SergeantBagel]

Jack Black out of fucking nowhere.

[@sense0fpurpose]

"Mostly young men looking for deleted Smiths singles", I can totally get that. Smiths singles were the best.

[@chrissantos5580]

My favorite smith song panic was a stand alone single it’s their best song in my opinion

[@moneyallspent7117]

“An original, not re-released” Those young men have my full respect.

[@pnut3844able]

The smiths suck

[@ongogoblogian1343]

That Frank Zappa line felt personal I feel bad every time I ask my local record store.

[@SaintKines]

Why not re-released? Is it a collector thing or was there a significant difference in the pressing?

[@RubyTuesday717]

Such an amazing movie...I just noticed that Jack Black in this movie reminds me of Cartman from South Park.

[@plcmts17]

Top 5 records for a Monday morning: 1) Monday Morning - Fleetwood Mac 2) Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello 3) Blue Monday - Fats Domino 4) I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Tom Waits 5) Working Day and Night - Michael Jackson

[@maryannappiagyei4277]

Top 5 record Monday morning 1. Mac Miller good news 2. paramore all i wanted 3. st vincent cruel 4. she & him in the sun 5. mac miller come back to earth 6. they might be giants birdhouse in your soul

[@brianbird3756]

Monday Monday - The Mama's & The Papas Hello Hooray - Alice Cooper Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas Mr. Blue Sky - E.L.O. The Rubberband Man - The Spinners (And crank that dial!!!)

[@luciferjones8103]

Top 5 Records For a Monday Morning 1. Blue Tile Fever - Fu Manchu 2. I'm Ready - Fats Domino 3. Manic Monday - The Bangles 4. T.N.T. - AC/DC 5. Jesus, Etc. - Wilco

[@twofiveb]

“I Don’t Like Mondays” -- Boomtown Rats

[@tullymox]

@@twofivebThis is the only answer

[@jeffpierce9296]

This scene and the one where Barry endorses Echo & The Bunnymen, are my favorites.

[@homunculusSZN]

1:48 A legacy is born at this moment

[@nestorperena8629]

there was an emotional connection with my old cassettes tapes mixes I made during my early teens and teen years, now I have emotional connections with my USB drives and external hard drives.

[@PSTA]

Over the last 24+ years since watching this movie, I have walked into work on a Gloomy Monday or in my house the same way Jack Black walked into the store doing the same obnoxious sounds just to get a rise and smile from others!!!

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

Oh yeah, because that's what music nerds listen to. Katrina & The Waves. Great conversation stimulator.

[@PatDK]

That’s so true!!! This has bothered me for years now, he is the douchiest snob of the snobs, and yet he’s blaring one over the most obnoxious songs ever…. it definitely fits the character, either trolling like a jagoff, or the fact that his character encapsulates the song….

[@scottsimmons5846]

Cool film I like the nightmares on wax car boot soul poster in the back ground with the blue car its an excellent album for lazy days it's on Sheffield's warp records

[@DavidGangemi]

All music junkies like myself can relate to having top 5 or 10 lists. It just comes with the territory. It's called having too much time on your hands and using it constructively.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

This mirrors my life in so many ways. Hopefully a copy of this movie is available at one of the used DVD stores in my area.

[@MRF1983]

If you can get your hands on the book after you watch the movie, I highly recommend it. There's some vast differences right from the start, the movie takes place in Chicago whereas the book takes place in England, London specifically. Beyond that I don't want to spoil anything else. Usually when I watch a movie adaptation of a book after I've read it or read a book after seeing the movie based on it I end up liking one or the other more, but with High Fidelity I like them both.

[@Wayzor_]

You should read the book if it's so meaningful to you.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

@@Wayzor_ No need to be rude, I didn't know there WAS a book until today.

[@mrcinemajunky]

"Since when did this store become a fascist regime?" "Since you brought that bullshit tape in here" 😂😂😂

[@lizpahlke9255]

You’ll always be my favorite John!!!

[@elscruffomcscruffy8371]

4th Favourite Film of all time for me

[@RobeliTeran]

In all fairness, that line (and most of this dialogue) is from the book.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

What JB's character puts into the tape recorder is the greatest asshole-party breaker song in history.

[@phillipphinney206]

Rockaway Records; Vinyl Fetish; Aron's; Moby Disc; Poo-Bahs; Rhino Records, spending the day shopping for used and affordable vinyl. Those were the days. Grateful for those record stores still out there doing business, keeping vinyl alive.

[@Shapes_Quality_Control]

The record store reminds me so much of my high school years hanging out in a small mom and pop video rental store by my house just talking movies with whoever was there for hours.

[@1992guitars]

I am a combination of Rob personally and Barry in terms of music, with a bit of Dick's nerdy quality thrown in. Starting at 0:53 is just like something I'd say! I have been to Vintage Vinyl!

[@joerich1629]

Jack Black walks in singing the guitar melody to “Jacob’s Ladder” by Rush 😂

[@showdown2006]

To find a deleted release in a vinyl store is a special moment lemme tell ya

[@guitarguytom2503]

How is it that John Cusack is still cool after all these years? His catalog of work is stunning. It was cool when we were young. And going back and checking it out again, it's still cool.

[@RM-jb2bv]

He’s not cool anymore. He’s a leftist terd.

[@mc76]

Every bartender on the north side of Chicago begs to differ.

[@johnrodgers8457]

​@IDontBuyIt50if you haven't seen it yet watch War Inc. It's like Dr Strangelove meets Grosse Point Blank 20 years later.

[@VolvoCommand]

Jack Black is a national treasure.

[@stevebb2915]

hes literally everything thats shit about america. nothing less funny that "look at me i'm ca-raaz-ee"

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

He's terrible. Not funny at all, his "comedy metal" is cancer.

[@FemmeFatalee]

@@stevebb2915 you're insane

[@stevebb2915]

He's about as funny as the holocaust. But Americans do love their "zaney' comedians *rolls eyes*

[@animaljustice7774]

A short fat one

[@bluecalix]

That Butter 08 poster is a beauty

[@z3232]

Little Latin Lupe Lu..... The Chancellors Soma Record Co. Minneapolis, MN. Absolutely BOSS!

[@indigohammer5732]

I’ve got “The Headmaster Ritual” by The Smiths withdrawn CD single. It’s worth about £70. I got five UK original Smiths Albums for twenty pence in a Charity Shop😂

[@craighamlin694]

Nice! Can you make me a tape?

[@atomk1464]

change a couple of words and this really feels like an internet forum post

[@madballer987]

0:33 I want that Nick Drake Record so badly

[@Skullkan6]

Chris Adrion jokes on you, it was a Merzbow release!

[@amphitheatre]

jokes returned on you! thats a boris album you're thinking of. and the one in the movie is the nick drake lp (comparing the covers its almost impossible to tell without seeing takashi's double neck guitar, but if you look at their wrist angle its clear this is the original drake album).

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

Wheyoooo!

[@midnite8729]

"Heres the thing.. I made that tape special for today. My special monday morning tape.. for YOU.. SPECIAL!!"

[@tomtrinchera8405]

Top 5 songs That DESPERATELY Need to be Retired From Public Play: 1. Walkin' On Sunshine 2. I Just Called to Say I Love You 3. Celebration 4. King of Wishful Thinking 5. Here I Go Again (yes, Whitesnake)

[@SethHMG]

That Whiresnake song is gold

[@Severe_Metalholicism]

@@SethHMG The original with Micky Moody is gold, not the glam hair 1987 re-recording that's always played.

[@johngazzola7293]

If you lived in Canada like me #1 would be "patio laterns" by Kim Mitchel

[@PatDK]

@@johngazzola7293Im born and raised in Canada, and I disagree with the hate for Kim Mitchell.

[@BJB1122]

The best idea 💡 ever

[@NativeArtist1]

JACK BLACK IS SOOOOO FUNNY!!

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

We have a vinyl store near us in a 'college town' where the "staff" offer judgemental looks and asides with every purchase. I blame this movie. I wonder if they will ever know I almost bought the place so I could close it and fill my cellar with its inventory only to ignore it?

[@tumbleweedconnection7906]

Best Monday morning album is Elvis Costello's "My aim is true" simply bc of the opening track.."welcome to the working week" lol

[@methodmahan5335]

Top 5 movie intros

[@JimmyDropout]

The record that he pulls up at 0:37 is "Key To The City" 12" single by Peter & The Test Tube Babies...

[@PsychedelicGuy]

I work at Vintage Vinyl! :)

[@Roybatty066]

Miss the 90's, bad.

[@bisket2003]

Such a perfect fukkin movie. We need more movies like this, not this exactly. Can't touch how perfect this is, but like it. Snippets of like and a subculture.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

It's not everyone's cup of tea, but Hal Hartley's movies kinda fit in the same vein, but many would call it too White and too Northeast Coast even though I'm not White and grew up in SoCal.

[@Charm19-s7k]

Haha Jack Black. It’s in the afternoon you should get up earlier! Classico

[@slye1991]

Bryter Layter is the Beezzz Kneezzzz! Luckily they started re issuing it!

[@ianmcilwraith4479]

Top 5 Monday morning songs: Monday Morning - Velvet Underground Monday - The Jam Monday Morning - Fleetwood Mac Can't Get Out Of Bed - The Charlatans When The Morning Comes - Daryl Hall & John Oats

[@ninebreaker2009]

"NO!.... The Righteous Brothers." "Oh, nevermind." Same, Dick. Same.

[@BDUBZ49]

Righteous Bros. version is superior to Mitch Ryders. Awesome horns, dynamic vocals. It's powerhouse.

[@ChrisValera]

When people took the time to record their favorite songs on cassette tapes and played them in cassette players instead of pulling out their phones and playing Spotify.

[@ChrisValera]

​@‌‬‭‎‏⠀‎‏ ‌‬‭‎‏⠀‎‏O.P.P Did I blame anything from my comment? I nearly stated facts. People nowadays just pull out their phones and can play whatever they want instantly whereas this is how it was back then. I never said I hated the present and today's technology. By the way, I rented this movie on DVD from Blockbuster back in the early 2000s. And yeah, I typed this on my computer, a smart device, because this is the internet. And how else would we access KZbin? Great thinking sir.

[@terrygracy8345]

There was something to the mix tapes Effort was involved. I get it

[@brianbird3756]

NGL, my KZbin music lays down bangers after bangers.

[@julioibarra7156]

1:51 the bothered look as soon as Jack Black walks in 😂

[@jeanmalan]

2:47 - 2:54 Best dance ever XD

[@andrewfinnegan7539]

jeanmalan tried it, many times. Failed.

[@thefilmandmusic]

They’re all great in this ..

[@Hibyehibe]

I like it when John falls over the desk.:)

[@Chef_Slowik]

That Nick Drake album is worth a fortune if it's an original.

[@derpserious1532]

2:20 When that one co-worker drank an entire can of Red Bull before coming to work and the caffeine just kicked in…

[@tracehazarrrrd]

there are unreleased smiths singles?

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

deleted Smiths singles which means that they were originally released when the band was still active but the record company discontinued printing them, which usually happens within months of the single's release. In Rob's case he trades or buys these deleted singles from another wholesaler or collector and resells them at his store, or perhaps he keeps them behind the counter so that weirdos like that guy looking for the Captain Beefheart "Safe as Milk" album can't get his dirty paws on them using Barry as a buffer.

[@Firebrand55]

I have 4 retro turntables...they are not sophisticated. My main turntable is at chest height. Above the turntable are two soft lights. Now and then, I take one of my 1100 jazz albums, slide the vinyl disc from its sleeve, and place it carefully on the turntable. I place the soft brush arm dust collector on the disc over the first track. I go over the disc with a Zerostat static remover and turn on the two soft lights. I position the tone arm with its SME cartridge over the aforesaid first track.Only then do I start the player. As the disc slowly revolves at 33 1/3 rpm, the lights cause a shimmer across the disc surface. With anticipation, I lower the head shell onto the 500m-long, spiral groove of the record; there's a faint pop, a momentary silence and then......the clear sound of Charlie Parker's 'Parker's Mood' fills the room. 2023 streamers won't have the faintest idea what I'm talkin' about...but many vinyl-lovers Out There will!

[@stereogirl]

my mom tells me i'm the female version of jack black. i am a bit of an asshole about music. also-i'm chubbie.however,i like some sad bastard music.

[@hanscombe72]

I used to think that any LP or cd with Japanese liner notes and credits was super cool.

[@briansymmes7917]

Good to see Nick Drake getting a mention.

[@tobe1207]

Is his shop next to Satrieles ?

[@jakebee7205]

NO! I WANNA DO IT NOW!

[@HaleTheTrev]

I see the Yes Album in the background at 0:47 My Dad had that album.

[@Wayzor_]

The book was actually set in the late 80's in London.

[@TheGuitarDojo]

When he says he "hasn't absorbed that one yet", does that mean he's gonna' absorb it or does he not really want to?

[@flightgravity7483]

Nice callback

[@mc76]

For as long as I can remember, anyone who tells me they like Belle and Sebastian gets a synopsis of this scene in exchange for their admission.

[@gordonhall9871]

i need a shop like this

[@jimmyeatsmovies893]

Hat man, how ya how in 0:43

[@palmerlp]

In 2023 the idea of getting in an argument over which is the definitive version of “Little Latin Lupe Lu” feels impossibly distant.

[@palmerlp]

For the record Barry is right, the Righteous Brothers’ version slaps.

[@BDUBZ49]

​@@palmerlp I agree. Where are you from?

[@abunidalparedes]

Jack Black steals every scene from John Cusack, it was his breakthrough role.

[@elleomae]

hilarious movie!!

[@ge2623]

Love this movie. Of course, I had to go to the location because I'm an elitist geek.

[@hillpunk92]

nightmares on wax poster was the best part. and hearing some one say " the new belle and Sabastien album" lol

[@jackgrimaldi8685]

That storefront, and the store itself, would not survive today in any major US city with just that grate over the door. Those windows on the side would have been smashed and the store broken into long ago.

[@bsidesbaby]

LOL I hated walking on sunshine too til I saw it in this movie. It's the only time I can listen to it though.

[@tysonkonken-jj3vd]

I still watch this about 1 a month. Classic

[@elvisneedsboats]

High Fidelity

[@snoopdoggdankkush9285]

O look it's nick drake 0:31