I recently watched Popstar: Never stop never stopping and it made me think about other musical mockumentaries that I have seen over the years. Then I got to thinking about The Best One

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This film was made in 1984 and even though it didn't even make much of a splash on the scene (or very much money) it lives on in the heads of the fans nearly 40 years later. It follows the lives of mostly David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel and their kind of meek bass-player Derek Smalls as they are touring around promoting their new album "Smell the Glove."

The film is (intentionally completely absurd) and shows how rockstars can be errr.... just a little detached from reality. Their absurd lifestyles and the bad choices made by band members make and of course their completely ridiculous song material. In this regard the film is pretty much exactly the same thing as "Popstar" but in a metal sense.

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There are so many great lines in this film and of course a ton of cameos that suggests that even though I don't think they expected this to be a critical success, they had a lot of friends in Hollywood that were more than willing to take part.

I was once in a music store and saw an amp that went up to 11 and apparently they exist all around the world. Anyone that knows anything about music realizes that the numbers are completely unnecessary but well, it's funny and I was delighted that even though it was (at that time) 20 years after the film was released, the legend lived on.

This is a piece of history folks and I think you would be doing the world a disservice if you didn't at least watch part of this. Ideally you should memorize all the songs and at least 50% of the dialogue so you can identify like-minded people at parties. I think I can honestly say that this is on my top 11 favorite musical mockumentary films EVER.