The Fabulous Stains

April 10, 2007 10:41 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains!
posted by serazin (17 comments total)

I had a methodone habit - as well as doing heroin...

[this is good]
posted by phaedon at 10:50 PM on April 10, 2007

Fabulous!
posted by wendell at 10:52 PM on April 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

Heh, I found an MP3 of the Epoxies covering "Join the Professionals" from an MP3 blog recently and it was in the final selection for my Mefiswap mix. I could've been prescient, but no.....
posted by myopicman at 11:01 PM on April 10, 2007

....(just like the rest of my comment), I left the song off. I found it via Copy, Right?, which includes some YouTubery of parts of the movie.

The people involved in that movie is surreal, including the Clash's Paul Simonon.
posted by myopicman at 11:05 PM on April 10, 2007

We don't put out.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:47 AM on April 11, 2007 [1 favorite]

*Loved that* serazin, thanks! Amazing to see beautiful Diane Lane and Laura Dern as kids. Can't wait to see the video. Dang, Jonathan Demme co-wrote it with Nancy Dowd. Christine Lahti rocks. Sounds like Lou Adler was addled and just couldn't get it together, pity. But at least it's coming out now in reissue.
posted by nickyskye at 3:58 AM on April 11, 2007

Oh, for the days you couldn't find heroin in Vancouver. ..

I saw the whole thing late at night on City TV years ago. It definitely deserves the re-release.
posted by maudlin at 4:24 AM on April 11, 2007

Oh, what a tease: for a second there, you had me thinking there really was an imminent rerelease. The material from the link, though, says it's been "almost twenty years" since the film came out, and that puts it quite a few years back now. I suspect "Stains" is still and ever dead in the water.

Which is a crying shame, really. I taped it off Cinemax in ~1982, and what I wouldn't give for a copy of that VHS now. I mean, on top of everything else, Ray Winstone is already note-perfect, and "Join The Professionals" is a lost classic - the very first song I ever played during my few hours as a WNYU DJ in the fall of '85, and one of the very first I ever grabbed off Napster in '99.
posted by adamgreenfield at 5:00 AM on April 11, 2007

Dead keyboardist in the bathtub.
posted by hal9k at 6:27 AM on April 11, 2007

I like her hair.
posted by DaddyNewt at 6:36 AM on April 11, 2007

Saw it several times on Night Flight back in the mid-80's. Usually as a double-feature with Get Crazy.
posted by hal9k at 6:50 AM on April 11, 2007

Wow. Just like the rest of 1984 to 1986, I completely forgot about this. Thanks.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 7:26 AM on April 11, 2007

I remember seeing this and "Starstruck" quite frequently in the 80s and loving both. I thought both were unavailable but it looks like "Starstruck" is on DVD. Maybe I can find it on Netflix...
posted by evilelf at 7:42 AM on April 11, 2007

I saw it for the first time last week. Hot stuff.
posted by nevafeva at 9:20 AM on April 11, 2007

It may have ended the directing career of Lou Adler, but some of his producing gigs ended up doing pretty well.

I was privileged to see a revival of this at the Nuart theater in LA -- it really is an amazing movie, way ahead of its time.
posted by felix at 10:17 AM on April 11, 2007

evilelf - I just dvr'd Starstruck off my cable (maybe it was The Movie Channel? I can't remember) the other week, so it should be floating around for sure. I loved that movie back in the day!

And oh, The Fabulous Stains. I saw it on Night Flight many many times, like hal9k. Ah nostalgia.
posted by pinky at 12:38 PM on April 11, 2007

The New Beverly in LA screened it a few years ago too.
posted by brujita at 10:15 PM on April 11, 2007