Timing can everything and so it proved for Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Had it come out just a couple of years earlier it would have been seen as a punk masterpiece. A decade later and it would have been lauded as a pioneer of the Riot Grrrl movement. As it was, in 1982 punk was seen as old hat and the kids weren't rioting anymore. Such a shame as Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains was a belter of a movie, so much better than many of the films that punk left behind and had anyone actually noticed at the time, it would have been a direct access bridge from The Runaways, X-Ray Spex, and Siouxsie Sioux to Bikini Kill and Bratmobile.