Kinda unrelated but, I always hate when companys use record players in their ads trying to be "hip". Normally these companies are totally unrelated to music of any kind. Love the channel though!

Another great video. I’ve been collecting records for over 50 years and this has always bugged me when I see these mistakes in movies and TV. You are probably the only KZfaq VC community host that would pick up on this!

Really good video with lots of cool things i never paid attention before. Thanks handsome man!

Great video idea Robert, i've noticed more vinyl in recent tv shows and movies. Hilarious in deed thanks!!!

I always learn something new watching your channel Robert. Love the edits and the visuals on display in this video are top notch. Love it!

I loved this video! Movies are my favorite and your knowledge of the music just made them pop so much more. You just keep me impressed and falling harder lol😅

I love this. I love this video. I do watch closely anytime they play records in a movie. The show that inspired me to go into radio, WKRP got it wrong quite often, something I even knew back in 1979/1980. My parents owned one of the largest record collections in the late 70s and a used record store, so I was kind of on it as far as labels, credits, b-sides and stuff go. But I absolutely love what you did here. I'd like to see more. Hi Fidelity is one you may consider for this, too.

wow, I thought I was the only one who noticed or cared! Great video Robert.

Loved every minute of the video! great subject.

Another "blockbuster" from this amazing channel. Thanks Robert!

Seems like you did your research , very informative :) I can't say these things bother me but everyone's different. You made me want to go back and watch Almost Famous again though so there's that. 😆 One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for the new video. I love your channel.

Great Vid Rob!!!...a subject someone needed to put out there!!

Hi Robert really enjoyed this .. thanks for taking the time to put this fun video together 👍

Yep, this is one of my pet peeves too. With turntables being shown in movies so many times (I think they do this at least partially because it's visually interesting), you would think they'd get it right a little more often. I'm always pointing out to my wife that it's the wrong label/cover/song, etc. whenever we watch movies.

Oh man .... Such a awesome vídeo. I've seen almost every movie you talk about, and I never noticed it, with the exception of The Who album. Greetings from Portugal

GREAT VIDEO ROBERT

Amazing research you really did your homework comming up with entertaining segments, U Da Man !!😎🤟🎵🎸

Appreciate the in depth video. Great work

Stellar episode! These are the things that I see in movies that bug me too. Thanks for going to the trouble to make this wonderful episode. And it's okay you don't like Steely Dan, YET! Hee hee.... You'll get there eventually!

Fun video, Robert! Thanks!

I always look forward to watching your videos! My pet peeve in film and TV is a chess board situated the wrong way with a dark square in the right corner. I have determined it is right at 50/50 from decades of observing this. Even in real life. I once saw a beautiful board set up wrong on a furniture display in a bougie store and alerted an employee. They were not appreciative.

Thank you for a fun topic. I immediately thought of the TV show House. SOTA was a sponsor so whenever the doc played a record at least the turntable was beautiful

Robert I love this channel. Seems to me you are able to find the humor in whatever subject you decide to tackle. Was wondering, have you ever done a video where we the viewers (little people) are able to ask you some questions on what some of our vinyl could be worth? With your vast knowledge or resources maybe I could get an answer to what some of my radio shows are worth i.e. Westwood One, N.B.C. Entertainment shows, hell I even have a couple of religious radio shows I have never seen anywhere. Anyway if you completely blow this off, no problem, I'll continue to watch

Great video! Laughed my ass off because it some of the stuff I would think watching a movie too.

Great eye Robert ,and unique video.I’m a drummer and always notice and exclaim when the movie depicts a band from the ‘60’s or ‘70’s and the drums are “obviously “ more current. Of course when I burst out with “ did you see that?!” or “ wait stop the presses, I need to that part again!” , my wife rolls her eyes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi Robert. Thanks for another great video. In regard to the "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" movie, it's my understanding that records were not shrink-wrapped in 1964, however; some retail outlets did place them in plastic bags. I never noticed it before but you are right about all the copies being in stereo rather than mono. It's also obvious the sleeves are empty. There's a scene where the album cover bends quite a bit which I don't think would be possible with a thick 1964 vinyl record inside. I also want to mention that I have a Pioneer PD-M30 CD player that requires the CD to be placed upside-down. But I agree that in most cases, they are doing that to cover up the label.

Another great video Robert! Just started watching the Amazon series Daisy Jones & The Six, and about 5 mins in there’s a record player scene. The song playing is “Goin Back” by The Byrds, from the 1968 Notorious Byrd Brothers LP. Guess what? They got it right. It appears to be playing track 2 of the record which would be correct. However, I’m not sure of the record label is accurate. Should be a Columbia label. I have an OG pressing but not in my home at the moment so cannot verify. the label looks like it might be a 70’s repress. The scene begins in 68, in LA so I’m assuming the record player part is still in 1968, but switches to Pittsburgh.

The shawshank redemption is one of the biggest offenders, I found. The story is supposed to play in 1963, but the opera album in that scene you showed was issued in 1983. Don’t even know if we are actually listening to the performance from that album (funnily, it’s become quite the collector’s item because of that movie). And in another scene Heywood is listening to 24 of Hank Williams Greatest Hits, an album from 1970. Same thing happens in The Talented Mr. Ripley. We’re in the late fifties, but in one scene they clearly show the cover of Tutu by Miles Davis from 1985. That also pulled me right out of that movie. 😅

I saw a double bill of Jackie Brown and Coffy a couple of weeks ago, with a Q & A with Pam Grier! She was just as wonderful as you’d expect. I love just how geeky this video is. I still get excited when I see records in films or on TV. I remember seeing Almost Famous in the cinema and getting a real kick from him thumbing through those records. Never noticed the blatant error though. You’re a step ahead of me 👍

You're absolutely crazy, I love it.

Interesting topic Rob....when I see records in movies/tv I always wonder what they have on their shelves?🤷

HAAAA I can't believe somebody finally said it! This used to drive me CRAZY!! I will say that (almost) every season of American Horror Story, there is always a close-up of a record playing, and it's always been period-correct!

Good work, love this video, I really like vinyl on film

Oh Man.... Robert your fricken hilarious. If you're what they call a music geek I'm one too. Like I said a few videos back, I'd love to hang out with you, you're a trip. Awesome job on your videos, I can see it's a lotta fun for you, kudos my friend, regards faithful veiwer

Thank you for this video. Inaccurate vinyl in movies has always been a pet peeve of mine as well, though I understand why it happens (the music is dubbed in later) I can think of a bunch more but I'll just tell you this one: In Annabelle Come Home, they also show the wrong side of the Apple label when Badfinger's DAY AFTER DAY plays. (in the credits for the first Annabelle, it says music licensed from Ktel, so that fake Ktel label must have been a product endorsement)

Yet another creatively-themed category!

These are EXACTLY the kinds of things that drive me crazy from an accuracy/authenticity perspective. I mean, they have departments and jobs solely devoted to sourcing period-specific props, correctly. Bravo sir! 👏🏻 #slowyourrolltrolls 😂😂

Hi Robert, there were some early CD players that did load the CD upside down . I remember an AIWA or Sony from the mid 80's doing that. I hope I'm not imagining things...

Ha, what you said in the intro about the airplane not being realistic reminds me of my dad. He ran the avionics shop of Piedmont Airlines and worked on bombers in the Air Force in the early 60s. He's always pointing out mistakes in movies like oh that's not the cockpit of a 727, or that's not the wing of a 747, or whatever. With me it's horses. I notice when they are riding a different horse from the previous scene that's supposedly the same, or they say it's a mare when it's obviously not, lol.

Havent watched it in years but it drove me bonkers while watching little Nicky and Adam Sandler plays the Chicago 5 record but when he puts the needle down, the song playing is “does anybody really know what time it is”. Which is not on that album it’s on their first album.

I worked in radio for 16 years. Sometimes we would get promo albums with white labels. Great channel. New subscriber here! How about something like "top 10 best sounding albums"? My Alan Parsons Project - I Robot sounds amazing to this day.

It always annoys me when people in film, especially if they are "audiophiles", drop and pick up the tone arm by hand. I was pleased to see Indecent Proposal got that right with a lever. I was also advised to keep the amplifier on mute until the needle had dropped and then switch to the phono input to avoid the "clunk" as the stylus hits the record.

I always involuntarily grit my teeth when I'm watching a movie and someone puts their hands all over the playing surface of a record.

Miss Ewe watched this 👀 - great idea and upload yo 👍 😊🐑

Greetings from Chile, South America. We' ve got our own Vinyl community here in Concepción, the second largest city of this country (population : 980.000). Long live rock !!!

haven‘t read all the other comments, but I remember stallone listening to vinyl (Nebraska?) in „Copland“: great record in great movie. Thanks for the video, great idea!

The bigger mistake in Royal Tenenbaums is that Ruby Tuesday begins to play after She Smiled Sweetly. But there is no LP of that album, ever, that had RT following SSS.

High Fidelity got it right

That aria played in Shawshank Redemption is so beautiful. In a similar vein to this video, most of the songs in the soundtrack to Stand By Me were released prior to 1959 when the story is set. That isn't so bad because at least the songs had been released and represent the time period (although Mr. Lee was from 1955, that seems like a stretch). But the titular song, Stand By Me wasn't released until 1961 by Ben E. King. I believe Jack Nietzsche curated the songs for the film, and it was the film's title. And yet, it's not the story's original title (it was "The Body") but the screenplay went with Stand By Me as the title. Seems like they could have used a different title instead of one that matched an anachronistic song. But oh well, it's a great film and a great soundtrack.

I had one of the first cd players from pioneer back in the mid 1980's, it was a 6 loader and you had to put the cd's upside down in the cartridge so they may not be wrong loading the cd upside down.

This vid is too good! 😂 There was an ad a bit ago showing some high priced whiskey in some uppity apartment with one of those dreadful Mag-lev floating platter magnet POS turntables. Not necessarily wrong, just cringey. Or…the Taco Bell commercial that shows a record spinning, but yet no spindle hole. Life is hard being a vinyl nerd, huh? Haha 😂

Totally with you on this. I notice when the placement of the needle is on the wrong cut and when the cuts are the wrong length and when there are/aren't cuts when there should/shouldn't be. It really bumps you out of a good suspension of disbelief. I wonder if the label mistakes are due to cutting budget corners-- is there a separate licensing fee for their use on top of song rights? But what really gets to me more than vinyl mistakes are horticultural bloopers. I'm a plant geek, so I catch mistakes with plants, such as (but not limited to) the mismatch of flowers and foliage, plants in bloom outdoors in the wrong season, shade plants in full sun--full sun plants thriving in too little light, tropical plants as permanent specimens outdoors in cold climates, moisture-requiring plants in desert conditions, and plants that just wouldn't be growing where they are shown, and so on. I can get that a certain plant is called for in the story and for some reason artificials (silks, or god help you, plastics) but why can't they get an important detail like that correct? LOL.

Very entertaining video! I was always bothered by movies that show a 12 inch LP on a turntable but when its playing its at 78 rpm. Also the label thing like you mentioned with Apple, how about record companies who's 45 labels are different from there LP labels? Columbia Records for example. Thanks for the video!

Talented Mr Ripley, a movie set in the 50’s, displays Miles Davis’ Tutu from 1986 in one scene. A crime for a movie that features so much great bebop!

haha, fun video. Impressive research too. If you've got more examples, I'd love a second one sometime

My favorite is when commercials show somebody putting a tone arm on the record from the back side of the turntable.

The concept for The Who album Tommy is such a forgettable idea that I’m surprised every time someone reminds me. Like right now! You just explained it in the beginning of your video and I swear to god I do not remember what you just said.

This was a lot of fun. I work in the film industry and have even made stupid mistakes in my own work. It's easy to miss things when there are so many moving parts! I made a film based on Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" (on my channel) and there are creative adaptation changes (intentional), but also some historical mistakes I didn't even catch until the comments section. Definitely can take you out of the movie when you notice these factual errors.

There was a show in the late 2000s called "Swingtown". It was set in the 70s, about swingers and it didn't last very long. Anyway, there was a party scene where the guy put on a KC and the Sunshine Band record. What impressed me was I saw the actual TK label...so they got that right....

One movie scene that irritates me is in Private Parts (1997). Howard Stern is in a radio station in the 1980’s and there’s a Led Zeppelin poster on the wall that I know was released in 1990 to promote the first box set. Pisses me off every time I’ve watched that movie. 😂

Hey Robert, I found this video by accident and am now a subscriber to your channel. Check out the movie "The Boat That Rocked" about a mythical pirate radio station back in the late 60's. For one the label designs appear to be wrong for the era eg a 1970's A & M label on a 1969 LP. What happens to all the records is nothing short of horrific too. Then the use of David Bowie's "Let's Dance" which wasn't released until around 1982 while the cast dance to it on a boat. Cheers from Sydney Australia 👍

The Heavy Metal Soundtrack from 1981. One of the greatest. It's a desert island disc for me. I wore it out I played it so much.

Omg the cat!!!

I was thinking of The Mechanic but, you gave it a mention, didn't he use the turntable to trigger an explosion or was that a coincidence ? I love Moonrise Kingdom and how they have a portable turntable at the beach, not a very good one but, it represents.

Check out the CBS-TV drama, "Cold Case." I believe the episode was "Static" about a late 1950s Rock DJ in a studio scene, where the DJ's assistance is seen handling 45s, where one was spotted with a 'bar-code' on the label; that's about 25 years early for that.

I remember the second Free Willy movie where they played The Beatles song, In My Life, on a Capitol 45, that orange/yellow swirl, come to find it was never pressed on a Capitol 45.

My absolute favorite is in My Girl when she goes upstairs to her room to listen to wedding bell blues on her record player. With the disc go case for her 45s 🥰 and the posters with the pop stars of the early 70s. That one is very accurate

Dropping the stylus on the wrong track is a super simple avoidable unforced error. That the actor was not told which track, or was told but did not give a crap, is simply lazy. They spend countless $millions on producing movies to draw in the audience, and the stars get highly compensated, and yet they drop the ball. Unrelated to records, but something else that happens in countless movies and TV shows, is that they have special effects personnel that insert effects to a fault. For example, watch when someone is driving in a hurry (and often even not in a hurry). You will hear tire screeches around nearly every turn, and upon nearly every time the car's brakes are used. And they add those effects, even when the cars are high performance. Even my 2003 Nissan Sentra does not make those tire squealing sounds. I wonder if the sound effects personnel get compensated based on the volume of sound effects they add? Or do those folks like to sit with their friends, and exclaim "Did you hear that!? I put that there!", fishing for compliments for their perceived, monumental accomplishment?

In the movie Detroit Rock City (New Line Cinema, 1999) in the beginning of the movie, the character Jam’s mom unexpectedly hears I Stole Your Love by KISS off of the Love Gun record, but when she picks up the record, it’s on side 2, not side 1

LOL! This was awesome!

In the series 'House' our medical misfit would sometimes listen to music in his office on a Sota turntable...looked like a Sapphire, but I never got a close enough (or long enough) look to say for sure...

You did your homework on this one man

Regarding Tommy by The Who, the Hollywood producer/film director may have chosen to photograph that particular track for appearance sake, not for lp accuracy. And that 78rpm opera record? Looks like the turntable's set at 33.

The most ridiculous was the last season of Bosch where they show an Elektra record spinning with Coltrane playing. His interest in jazz vinyl records is a big part of his character and they completely missed that. I mean Elektra and jazz don't even mix at all, let alone Coltrane and Elektra.

He was clearly on track 3 of Tommy. The needle is off centered closer to the left side of the stylus, but it is clearly on track 3

RE: Lost - I'm still looking for that elusive Geronimo Jackson album. "Dharma Lady" is such a groovy song. Anyway, at the beginning of season 2, episode 1, they at least got the track orientation correct on what looks like Cass Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" album - correct black Dunhill label. But they hid the disc in a plain black sleeve so that we wouldn't be distracted by the original cover and her flowery dress.

Good morning, Vietnam,set in 1965, had 45,s with logo,s from the 80,s (Motown).

There are CD players which play the discs upside down. A friend of mine owns one, a pricy device from the 90ies if I remember right. Unfortunately cannot tell you the company/model at the moment.

Something I never thought of.

Nice catches. I guess the director figures most people wont notice. I guess they can't show the correct label due to copyright laws? Have to pay extra? I seen a great video where the experts catch mistakes on the Brady bunch tv series. I was thoroughly enjoying a great movie from the early 60s and the maid answered the phone. I noticed that the phone was a modular cord .uuggh

I actually have a Marantz cartridge style changer cd player that you load the discs upside down in.

If they played actual records on WKRP I would think the sound of the vibrating stylus would be picked up by the overhead dialog mic. I always wondered if they had albums pressed with silent grooves. Or maybe they just removed the stylus and taped a piece of felt on the cartridge.

I’ve read that the set dressers on Mad Men went to great lengths to get period accurate props, so I really expected that little detail to be correct.

I learned something interesting and new through the years watching movies that had cops, military people, etc talking on radios. I didn't realize that scanners could be used to transmit and talk on and CBs were where the police and military communications were found. Yeah right... :-) It really does make a movie better when you see small details, maybe noticed by 1/2% of the people watching, are correct and actually right. At least I enjoy it!

So this isn't records but I own all my original Star Wars action figures from the 70's and 80's. I was watching one episode of "That 70's Show" where Eric was obsessed with Star Wars, they show him playing with Star Wars action figures and they were ALL 90's releases! It ruined the whole episode for me so I totally understand this video as I'm a record collector too!

This must have taken some time to research! Great video. People are still holding a grudge because you don't like Steely Dan's "Aja"?

There's a scene in Ben Affleck s Argo when he plays Led zeps song When the levee breaks. The track is completely lost on the LP.

I was co-creator of a public access show in Fort Worth in the late 1990s. We had a sketch that required a Snoop Doggy Dogg tape, but none of us owned one, so instead we used my copy of The Church "Priest=Aura."

I was watching some tv show (I don't even remember what it was) and one of the characters put on a record and out of the speakers came Foghat's "Slow Ride". I then proceeded to get super annoyed as the characters were dancing around the room with the camera cutting back to the record on the turntable multiple times spinning a disc with an A&M label. I mean come on, everyone knows that Foghat was on Bearsville. lol It occured to me that perhaps at the time of the show's production the song that was slated to be played WAS on A&M, but they couldn’t secure the rights so they subbed it with the Foghat tune yet there was no budget to do a reshoot. If that was the case they could have at least subbed it with another song that was on A&M. The truth is most filmakers as well as a lot of the people watching don't care about these details.

Great job, hard to do, Hollywood lies all the time, it's there job! "Nobodys perfect?" and certainly not hollywood! Love the channel!

I remember watching the television show WKRP IN CINCINNATI with Howard Hessman. r.i.p.

You had me at cat.

I noticed the same thing revisiting “Pump Up The Volume”. Awesome movie, but Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’ is not the first song on “I’m Your Man”, it’s the third. Also, the Columbia label should’ve been red not green. One thing I will commend this movie on, is when the film’s character removes the record from “Various Positions”; it matches up perfectly. However, when he goes to play ‘If It Be Your Will’ (the very LAST song on the album) … ♬ he puts the stylus in the same spot ♬ on the same record ♬ with the same green label ♬. Maybe they wanted to keep production costs low. Figured the film might not make much, so might as well have something green to show for it. You aren’t alone in these observations

Will you be doing a video on the 11 LP Bill Evans box set? Steely Dan as you know, coming next from the same label: Acoustic Sounds. A collector, a regular on here, is featuring the set in her KZfaq video. The 11 lp box set retails for $900. In her comments section, people are congratulating her on her purchase and being able to afford it.

I always thought it was cool when they had the SOTA turntable in a "Sopranos" episode

For the record, no pun intended, I own a Pioneer Elite PD 65 compact disc player that I bought a very long time ago and the CDs do actually go in upside down. The tray that opens is completely solid and lined with soft rubber and the laser assembly is on top. So CDs are placed upside down. Seems to be mighty practical to me as this method holds that CD in place on a nice "record Matt" if you will. But as far as Hollywood is concerned I have no doubt they just didn't want to show any labels or artwork on CD. Just wanted to share this bit of useless trivia about my unusual CD player.

In "Little Nicky" when Adam Sandler plays Chicago "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" He shows Chicago V when it's released on Chicago Transit Authority

I think the scene from "Blow Up" was deliberate on the part of director to express a nilhistic (sp?) throw-away attitude toward pop culture. Witness the audience's bored attitude toward the Yardbirds concert.

Nice Marantz 6100 turntable.