We here at Vinyl Revival are also big movie fans. It probably won't surprise any of you that some of our favorite movies have to do with music. There's That Thing You Do, which was mentioned in past posts. There's Almost Famous, which brings out our fantasy of writing about music for a living. But possibly our favorite out of them all of course comes back to vinyl records, with the 2000 John Cusack hit High Fidelity.
What makes this movie so great? Well first of all, we have always had a fantasy of running a record store, and we get to live our dream through Rob Gordon (Cusack) and his slacker friends Dick (Todd Louiso) and Barry (Jack Black in his breakout role). The three spend their days waxing poetic on topics like the top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the '80s and '90s.
Cusack shares the innermost workings of a man obsessed with music, trying to create the perfect mixes tapes while figuring out what has gone wrong in every relationship he's ever been in. The biggest humor comes from Jack Black though. Not only is he hilarious, but he is a music snob we can all love. Take this interaction for example:
And yes, if you don't know who the Jesus and Mary Chain are, I demand you find out immediately. While you do that, watch this extra from the DVD of High Fidelity about the Top 5 Songs to Make Love to:
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