# Music from High Fidelity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199 "2005-08-23T00:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/1 "2005-08-23T00:30:25Z")
On a whim I read through the script for High Fidelity digging for bands I hadn’t heard of. Thought I’d share it with any fellow audiophiles, enjoy. * * * Carly Simon Carole King James Taylor Cat Stevens Elton John Jah Wobble Glen Glenn Stereolab Licorice Comfits Kraftwerk Falco Hasselhoff “How to Kill a Radio Consultant” by Public Enemy “Little Latin Lupe Lu” by The Righteous Brothers Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels Deep Purple “Always and Forever” by the Commodores Sex Pistols Jerry Lee Lewis “Baby, I Love Your Way” by Peter Frampton “Cruel to Be Kind” by Nick Lowe Jesus and Mary Chain The Stranglers Stiff Little Fingers “Cats and Dogs” by the Royal Trux Brian Eno Sigue Sigue Sputnik Break Beats Serge Gainsbourg Ryuchi Sakamoto Syd Barrett “Bright Eyes” by Art Garfunkel Patsy Cline Crumblers Blasters "Janie Jones” by The Clash “Motel Matches,” “I Want You,” “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” “Green Shirt” by Elvis Costello “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” by Robert Johnson or Nirvana Silver Jews “Leader of the Pack” by The Shangri-Las "Dead Man’s Curve” by Jan and Dean “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson “One Step Beyond” by Madness “Abraham, Martin, and John” by Dion “Somebody’s Gonna Die” by Blitz “Bella Lugosi’s Dead” Bauhaus. Minor Threat “Call Me A Liar” by Palace “Sin City” by the Flying Burrito Brothers “New Rose,” by The Damned “Hit It and Quit It” by Funkadelic “Shipbuilding,” Elvis Costello “Mystery Train” by Elvis Presley “Spaced Cowboy” by Sly and the Family Stone “The Upsetter” by Lee Scratch Perry “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell “City Baby Attacked by Rats” by GBH’s “Just Begun” by Jimmy Castor “Let’s Get it On” by Otis Redding “Got to Give it Up” by Marvin Gaye ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/2 "2005-08-23T00:41:13Z")
Interesting. A lot of those didn’t end up in the movie, and others that aren’t here did - Belle and Sebastian’s “Seymour Stein” and Katrina and the Waves’s “Walking on Sunshine,” off the top of my head - not to mention other songs that play during the movie but aren’t discussed. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/3 "2005-08-23T00:42:55Z")
I assume this is the book and not the movie? Nice work either way. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/4 "2005-08-23T00:45:57Z")
Hmmm…I guess that answers my question. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/5 "2005-08-23T00:47:56Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I assume this is the book and not the movie? Nice work either way. It’s the 1998 script I found at [IMSDB](http://www.imsdb.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/6 "2005-08-23T00:57:04Z")
Oh, and “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” is Leadbelly, not Robert Johnson. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/7 "2005-08-23T00:57:21Z")
Another one in the movie but not on this list is one of my favorite singers, Edith Frost. In the movie, her song “On Hold” is the one that’s playing in the record store when Marie DeSalle walks in. I was hugely surprised when I heard it in the movie 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/8 "2005-08-23T00:59:17Z")
On re-reading I guess you mean the ones _mentioned_ in the script. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/9 "2005-08-23T01:06:25Z")
Don’t trust online scripts! Let’s see: What about f **g… f** g… Beethoven? Track one side one of the Fifth Symphony? “You can’t always get what you want” by the Rolling Stones I guess was left off the list because of it’s association with “The Big Chill.” Nor Stevie Wonder and the implied Neil Young link (Is it better to burn out than to fade away?) And who could forget: “I sold my mom’s wheelchair” by the Kinky Wizards? “The James Gang Rides Again” by The James Gang has a prominent place in the racks (and is also one of the first albums I bought). But if we went to visual references … ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/10 "2005-08-23T02:14:46Z")
but what I want to know is what song is it that John Kusak tells Jack Black–“and now I’m gonna sell some…?” He puts on some music that everyone in the store nodding and bopping to–it’s a great tune and I have never figured out who does it. I like it, too, and would love to get a copy. I can’t make out the name of the song or the band that he says. Any clues? I am so helpless, I tells ya. I depend on my superior fellow Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/11 "2005-08-23T02:27:47Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Nor Stevie Wonder… I assumed this was some editing done by the OP as a favor to the SDMB at large. \*\*Barry’s Customer: \*\* Hi, do you have the song “I Just Called To Say I Love You?” It’s for my daughter’s birthday. \*\*Barry: \*\* Yea we have it. \*\*Barry’s Customer: \*\* Well, can I have it? **Barry:** No, actually, you can’t. **Barry’s Customer:** Why not? **Barry:** God. Do you even know your daughter? There’s no way she likes that song. Oops, is she in a coma? ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/12 "2005-08-23T02:48:49Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > but what I want to know is what song is it that John Kusak tells Jack Black–“and now I’m gonna sell some…?” He puts on some music that everyone in the store nodding and bopping to–it’s a great tune and I have never figured out who does it. I like it, too, and would love to get a copy. I can’t make out the name of the song or the band that he says. Any clues? > > I am so helpless, I tells ya. > > I depend on my superior fellow Dopers. I believe it’s “Dry the Rain” by The Beta Band ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/13 "2005-08-23T03:42:25Z")
Bingo. Around the time that the movie came out, there was an article that explained that a lot of the music in the movie reflected the personal tastes of its co-producers/writers (as opposed to executive producers) Cusack, DeVincentis, and Pink. The Beta Band was specifically mentioned as one of those picks; Love (“Little Red Book”) was another one of those. Neither was in the novel. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/14 "2005-08-23T03:47:24Z")
> [@Pashnish Ewing](#): > > I assumed this was some editing done by the OP as a favor to the SDMB at large. > > \*\*Barry’s Customer: \*\* Hi, do you have the song “I Just Called To Say I Love You?” It’s for my daughter’s birthday. > \*\*Barry: \*\* Yea we have it. > \*\*Barry’s Customer: \*\* Well, can I have it? > **Barry:** No, actually, you can’t. > **Barry’s Customer:** Why not? > **Barry:** God. Do you even know your daughter? There’s no way she likes that song. Oops, is she in a coma? Also, “I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)” plays over the end credits. ---
**Author:** ![spiralscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@spiralscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiralscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/15 "2005-08-23T03:58:10Z")
> [@cainxinth](#): > > I believe it’s “Dry the Rain” by The Beta Band Yep. It’s on the album _The Three EPs_, as well as the movie’s soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/16 "2005-08-23T14:00:52Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > but what I want to know is what song is it that John Kusak tells Jack Black–“and now I’m gonna sell some…?” He puts on some music that everyone in the store nodding and bopping to– I’m pretty sure that line is, “I will now sell five copies _of the Three Eps by the Beta Band_.” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/17 "2005-08-23T14:12:32Z")
Slight nitpick: “Always and Forever” is not a Commodores song. It was performed by Heatwave. However, former Heatwave singer J.D. Nicholas joined the Commodores after Lionel Richie left. Maybe they’ve done the song live. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/18 "2005-08-23T14:36:40Z")
Thank you all! It never occurred to me to get the movie soundtrack (duh). Love this place and all it’s intelligentsia! ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-from-high-fidelity/318199/19 "2005-08-23T16:24:15Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Thank you all! > > It never occurred to me to get the movie soundtrack (duh). > Love this place and all it’s intelligentsia! I bought the soundtrack right when it came out as it had a John Wesley Harding song that was going to be on his (then) forthcoming album. It’s got a lot of songs that aren’t listed in the OP.