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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: High/Low Fidelity |
| Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:03:59 -0500 |
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greg wrote:
> Not so, Matty. One can do the old book-vs.-movie argument about *High
> Fidelity*, but the authenticity of Championship Vinyl in the movie is
> impeccable. It looks exactly like what it's supposed to portray -- a
> yuppie-enclave Chicago indie record store. I don't know about Brooklyn, but
> Championship Vinyl is precisely the sort of place where some North Side
> hipster here in the city by the inland sea would go to hunt down a
> mint-condition Captain Beefheart LP...
well, i'm not about to question greg's expertise on what a chicago indie record store looks like! i guess it just bummed me out that hollywood moved the location from a british back-alley to a chicago yuppie enclave. but i will now at least giving them credit for getting the
record store right for the setting they chose. (but since you asked, there isn't any place in brooklyn or manhattan that looks anything like it.)
speaking of iconic record stores, i just came back from a weekend in nashville, where, quite strangely, none of the clerks at the ernest tubb record shop on broadway could tell me who's the woman who does the song with the call-and-response "hell yeah!" chorus that's all over the
radio down there. i felt for a moment that maybe i was their equivalent of the guy who walks into the record store in "high fidelity" and asks for "i just called to say i love you." but it quickly became apparent that they simply didn't know; apparently, keeping up with current
country isn't a high priority for these otherwise excellent purveyors of classic country discs. it turns out the song is "redneck woman" by gretchen wilson, and it's a great bit of middle-class redneck-and-proud flag-waving country-rock. catchy as all hell.
then i went to the grand ole opry, which jumps around from banjo-fiddle music to honky-tonk to nashville-sound pop to '80s balladry to square dancing, and back, in the course of a long and luscious night -- you've gotta love a show that can repeatedly get four or five bands on and
off stage *every half an hour* -- and still found room for something new and pop. when terri clark came on to sing her current single "girls lie too" -- my second fave song of the weekend, after "redneck woman" -- people got out of their seats and rushed the stage as if michael
jackson or britney spears had just shown up. some of 'em were in fact teens; others looked like woman well into their middle ages. THAT was pretty cool. it's nice to see actual, current, living pop -- and, trust me, terri clark is totally pop, though not necessarily in the way a
lot of us define it here -- get its due in the middle of a great nostalgia show. it is, in fact, part of what makes the nostalgia great.
matty
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