The odd squad

I like a solid rock biopic/rockumentary as much as anyone, but the format can admittedly be a little conventional and staid (something that the new film Pavements tries to subvert - with mixed results, I gather). There's nothing conventional or staid about this selection of "all-time weirdest rock 'n' roll movies", as chosen for the Quietus by Shane Pinnegar. His book Rocksploitation "takes a deep dive into the weirder, scuzzier steps in cinema and pop music's decades-long tango", so he's just the man for the job.

Of Pinnegar's ten picks, Head - a film featuring a drugged-up Monkees and a Frank Zappa cameo that looks as though it could only have been made in the late 1960s - is the one that appeals the most. But I'm also drawn to Japanese zombie flick Wild Zero by virtue of the suggestion that it was inspired by "Romero and the Ramones" (the trailer suggests that this isn't empty talk.) By contrast, the trailers for Destroy All Neighbors and especially Leningrad Cowboys Go America elicited the biggest WTF?.