Philosophy of the World by The Shaggs is the greatest album ever.

[PowerButchi]

 

Discuss.

[Sergio Mendacious]

Really hard to find a way to argue with that, and I don't know why you'd want to. Post of the year contender.

[Surf Digby]

I agree. Even if you ignore the band's incredible back story, the songs on the album have an incredible purity to them. It's 100% free of any contrivance or cliche.

 

It's been a while since I listened to it, but I think it's My Friend's Name its Foot-Foot that becomes an awesome piece of psychedelic rock if you have two YouTube Windows playing at the same time, a few seconds out of synch with each other.

 

Frank Zappa said they were better than The Beatles.

[Guy Bifkin]

 

In the corner of contrivance and cliché, Peter Frampton says "no fat chicks".

 

[Keith Houchen]

One of my old bands covered a Shaggs song.

[PowerButchi]

How did you manage that? Did you detune for it into, well, whatever tuning they seem to have?

[Keith Houchen]

We took lots of drugs

[PowerButchi]

Probably the best way to get their "sound".

[darkship]

The title track and 'Who Are Parents?' are super-catchy. One of Kurt Cobain's top 5 albums ever I believe.

[bAzTNM#1]

Not heard the album yet, but their Wikipedia page makes them seem mental...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs

[WWFChilli]

The title track and 'Who Are Parents?' are super-catchy. One of Kurt Cobain's top 5 albums ever I believe.

That makes me like them less tbh... and I love The Shaggs. One of those weird things I'm so happy exists, like Pat Boone's Metal album.

[eugenespeed]

I am ashamed to have not heard this before. Brilliant stuff.

[Stunner]

I once bought the CD as a birthday gift for a friend. It actually made her like me more.