Do you wanna be a professional?

Payback's a bitch!
The skunks' mall raid and The Stains getting even by stealing The Looters' moves and song "Join The Professionals."

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[deannadeadly]

they kick so much ass at singing the professionals. <3

[gypsyclublady]

The Stains / Skunks were filmatic prototypes for the Riot Grrl movement 8 years before the movement got a name. Too Bad - at the end of the movie with the MTV-like video - it looks like they sold out to go Powerpop (as it was called then). Yeah - The Fabulous Stains - " and we DON'T put out ! "

[Antnj81]

@inouraeroplane I'm not too familiar with their story, except that Belinda was the first drummer in The Germs, before forming the Go-Go's

[inouraeroplane]

@Antnj81 well of course that's the basis of the tale, but if you're familiar at all with the progression of acts like the Go-Gos, it's a very similar and easy comparison to make.

[Antnj81]

@inouraeroplane nah, the movie is basically an age old tale regarding how the media hones in on gimmicky acts that are mediocre but have "the look" (ie. The Stains) over raw, yet talented acts with real heart that play what they love over what is profitable (ie. The Skunks)

[Jefgg]

I think of this song every time a boss tells me to be more professional. What a huge steaming pile of dog shit. They want you to be a professional despite always working under unprofessional conditions.

[alvicious]

i think i see pedobear in the crowd.

[moonpieyes]

@gypsyclublady

The riot girl (grrl) thing was born of something different. We remembered that era and loved it, but we thought we had something else to say about being female. It was a decidedly less sexy movement, running around in our moth-eaten dresses w/ratty black bra-straps and combat boots as if to say, 'eat it'. They were close in time in retrospect but at the time it seemed 100 years apart from this early stuff. Plus we had to listen to old punks saying, 'you're not doing it right'.

[moonpieyes]

@gypsyclublady

As a person who did both bobby socks and high heels in the 80s and the riot girl thing in the 90s, I respectfully disagree. The early puck new-wave love-hate relationship was new to most and there were no ethics to stand on, no edgendered ideals, except individuality - as ironic as it seems now, when we look back at our uniform and complain about how the kids today aren't doin' it right, and as we listen to our songs in malls and national commercials.

[antichelo]

como se llama esa pelicula ?

[bobadork]

who woulda known her son would grow up to be a jumper?

[allmightymouse]

one of my favorite movies! i remember them playing this on -- what was it? Night Flight? Up All Nite? had it on bootleg for awhile.