Beyond The Valley of The Fabulous Stains

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Who was the best fictional band of all time?

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

f'rinstance: The Carrie Nations, Jem and The Holograms, The Rutles, The Queen Haters, Rod Torkelson's Armada, Johnny Suede's band.

That band in Welcome to the Dollhouse was wicked.

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spinal Tap

― poops mcgee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It damned sure wasn't that band in Almost Famous.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jozeee & zee Poozeekatze?

― You've come a long way PhatBoyBebbeee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING!!! The Monkees (duh)

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the film "Motel Hell", Farmer Vince captures a rock band called Ivan & The Terribles... they all wear little Ben Franklin glasses and smoke weed.

― Andy, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WYLD STALLYNS

― maura, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eddie And The Cruisers.

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the members of Ivan & The Terribles was John Ratzenberger, who also played Cliff Claven on "Cheers."

― hstencil, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about "Beef", the bitchy glam-rocker in "Phantom of the Paradise"? That movie also features a few other fictional acts (Phoenix, the Juicy Fruits, etc).

― Sean, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn it, Maura took my answer.

That band in _Better Off Dead_ was pretty hott. The lead singer had the moves. (Was that Pia Zadora?)

FEEEEVADAWWWWWWWWWWWG! Yeah!

― David Raposa, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stall

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doctor Teeth & the Electric Mayhem

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mycomputer/d:mypictures/stall.jpg

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Lone Rangers.

― joel, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.stagedude.com/vitalsigns/stallyns.jpg

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Wyld Stallyns was the earlier work of Dogstar.

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would've said 'Josie Coton' who played the promo in the talkie (movie) "Valley Girl" but they were a real band.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.muppetcentral.com/frames/muppets/dr_teeth_trans.jpg

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― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Zit Remedy (Degrassi), Scum of the Earth (WKRP), Alice Bowie (Cheech & Chong).

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there were a bunch on the flintstones too. The Wayouts are the only ones I remember offhand.

― , Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

AHHH, Scum of the Earth & The Wayouts are ones I talk about almost weekly. How did I forget those in this thread??

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How have The Pussycats (as in Josie and...) not been mentioned!?

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frozen Embryos (My So Called Life).

― nickn, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently you don't read French, Sterling.

― nickn, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

blue oyster cult

― chippy, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Look at the birds... up in the trees..." " We're not birds, we're a jugband!!" What was the evil band on Emmett Otter's Jugband Xmas... they had a snake in the rumbleseat...

― Andy, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Leningrad Cowboys

― chris j, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a lot of these bandnames are really POOR: is this because (a) they were thought of by ppl who didn't actually want to BE in a band, stuck with that silly name through success into rock history, or (b) bandnames get "better" just by becoming familiar (example so famous that it's boring: the beatles = worst name for a band EVAH, but you just heard it so often it doesn't maybe rankle)

― mark s, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People, people, people! The Banana Splits, for heaven's sake! Who else tethered such aggressive surrealism to such yummy bubblegum? Sing it with me, now: "Four banana, three banana, two banana, one/Five bananas playin' in the bright blue sun." The mind fairly reels.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pavement: that little, satirical joke that Malkmus and Matador concocted. Some people, to this day, don't realize that Spiral Stairs was merely a hand puppet.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Cold Slither?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Leather Tuskadero.
Fat Albert & The Gang.
The Sorels.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

the band that appears in the episode "Kelly Does Hollywood (part 1)" of Married With Children. All-girl LA-esque metal/punk band that do 10 second one chord songs (as Kelly gets a television show and their the house band)

― Jarrod Zlatic (Jarrod), Sunday, 4 December 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=23286#unread Another thread on fictional bands including the Fabulous Stains

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

As I noted on the fictional bands thread, I think I'm gonna go see "The Fabulous Stains" movie tonight--

Mark Jenkins says in the Washington City Paper-"Never before seen in Washington nor nearly anywhere else this 1981 punk satire has a reputation as an intriguing disaster. Laura Dern had to sue to be emancipated from her mother,Diane Ladd, to appear in the film, which was directed by music producer and label boss Lou Adler and co-written by Jonathan Demme and Nancy Dowd." With members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash Tuesday, May 8 (7:00pm)for FREE at the Library of Congress Pickford Theater.

From the LOC website:
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Paramount-Red Stripe Films, 1981). Dir Lou Adler. Wrt Rob Morton (= Nancy Dowd). With Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, Peter Donat, David Clennon, John Lehne, Laura Dern. (87 min, color, 35mm)

preceded by:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band [Trailer] (1978). (color, 35mm)
Kitten with a Whip [Trailer] (1964). (black & white, 35mm)
The Legend of Frenchie King [Trailer] (1971). (color, 35mm)

and:

The Fabulous Stains--Behind the Movie (1999). By Sarah Jacobson and Sam Green. (12 min, color, DVD)

One of Hollywood's few forays into punk cinema, The Fabulous Stains was shelved by Paramount after disastrous previews. Considered too repellent for release, it however gained a cult following via cable in the mid ‘80's. Hailed by one writer as a "teen trash classic," this vitriolic satire/drama is about the rise and fall of an all-girl punk band. Stuck in a dead-end Pennsylvania town, 16 year old Corinne (Diane Lane) takes inspiration from touring British band The Looters (Ray Winstone and members of The Sex Pistols and The Clash) and forms The Stains. Despite its flaws and contrivances, The Fabulous Stains is a must-see document of the early ’80's. Washington, DC theatrical premiere.

Preceded by The Fabulous Stains--Behind the Movie , an "excavation of an early-80s rock movie almost lost to obscurity" (Sam Green), which revisits the history of a "clumsy, cursed Hollywood effort [...] to capitalize on the rising visibility of girl power in the punk movement." The short documentary features interviews with several principles, including Lou Adler, Fee Waybill, and scriptwriter Nancy Dowd (who wrote Slap Shot).

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, I watched The Fabulous Stains with the family on saturday night, after we watched Desperate Teenage Lovedolls on Friday. I think the Lovedolls were a better band (of course) and it is a better movie too.

But the Wombles are my favorite fictional group of all time.

Mike Batt was a genius.

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

I was looking for something entirely different, but i found this thread and i can't believe no one has mentioned Jenny Lee & The Mystery (i think that was their name) from Satisfaction. Trini Alvarado on drums, Britta Phillips as the adorable fuckup guitarist, Julia Roberts on bass and red haired nerd boy on some kind of keys, can't remember what. the only bad part is when they sing Liam Neeson's song. also Justine Bateman is a terrible singer, but Britta Phillips isn't!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Paranmaum in Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita, 2005). Super-uplifting coming-of-age film about four schoolgirls who play covers of Japanese punk band The Blue Hearts.

Oh and of course, the wonderful band in We Are the Best

― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 20:03 (nine years ago)

The Leningrad Cowboys existed and toured for several years. I saw them at Tramps in 1990 or 1991.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 20:15 (nine years ago)

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