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Lots of people can make bad movies, but the truth is, that's never the plan. Most people set out to make great movies.

Invariably, they fail, and when it comes to making rock movies, that failure often takes on gargantuan proportions.

But the pantheon of awful, crappy and just plain stupid rock movies are a strange lot. Some - or most - of them are so absurd that they transcend their wretchedness and become watchable... and actually capable of putting a smile on your face!

What follows is MusicRadar's list of 12 awful rock movies you must see.

Are these great films? No - not by a long shot. But if you see them, you might be surprised at how something so bad can make you feel so good.

12. Roger Daltrey loses his freakin' marbles

Lisztomania (1975)

Why it blows: Because it has nothing to do with the life of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, allegedly portrayed here by The Who's Roger Daltrey. Nor does it have anything to do with reality. Director Ken Russell presents fellow composer Richard Wagner as Listzt's bitter rival (in truth, the two musicians were friends), so consumed by jealousy that he unleashes a cryogenic monster (played by a well-cast Rick Wakeman) along with a bunch of machine-gun toting Nazis. Nutty stuff.

Why you must see it: Well, because it's nutty stuff, full of endless scenes of excess, orgies and screaming women who faint at Liszt's concerts. Daltrey and Russell, drunk on the success of Tommy (released earlier that year), embrace the 'anything goes' ethos to the point of sheer lunacy. Check your head at the opening credits and it's wonderful entertainment. Best bit: Ringo Starr appears at one point, looking like he's wandered in from another movie - he plays The Pope!

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