Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

I love this film. I haven't been this inspired (stylistically [the music, the fashion, the hair, the makeup!], personally) by a film since This is England. This is a true rock-n-roll movie. It captures three generations of music: the dead '60's and '70's acts gripping onto their one expired hit, the British punk band that flounders in the US (Punk was dead when the movie was being made), and the prototype riotgrrl bands. The film has everything from feminism, corruption in the music industry, individualism, and a random Jamaican rastafarian. I am about to make myself a 'The Fabulous Stains' tshirt ala the one Laura Dern wears in the final music video.

A list of the brills involved:
-Diane Lane, age 14(as a 90's kid, I am shocked to see that she ever had such a cool role. If I had seen Stains in 1981, I would have thought her career would go in an entirely different direction.)
-Laura Dern, age 13 (another surprise!)
-Ray Winstone
-THE Lou Adler directed
-Steve Jones (Jonesy!)
-Paul Cook
-Paul Simonon!
-Elizabeth Daily
-Joe Roth
-Fee Waybill, The Tubes
-Black Randy (hilarious)
-Vince Welnick, The Tubes (& late Grateful Dead) (he is in the single best frame of the movie: him with his multicultural children)(His death scene is chilling because he actually did die of an overdose in 2006.)
-etc., etc.

From Corinne 'Third Degree' Burns to squeaky clean!:


The funniest frame:




Beginning:


The Looters (comprised of Ray Winstone, Paul Simonon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook), 'We Are Professionals'


The Stains, 'I'm a Waste of Time" plus Diane Lane's radical moment


The Stains, 'We Are Professionals' rip


Black Randy & the Metrosquad, 'I Slept in an Arcade'


The Stains, 'We Are Professionals' (famous and the GoGos'd out)