The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
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Artist: The ShaggsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-02-23
Music Label: RCA Victor
Soundtracks:
- Philosophy Of The World
- That Little Sports Car
- Who Are Parents
- My Pal Foot Foot
- My Companion
- I'm So Happy When You're Near
- Things I Wonder
- Sweet Thing
- It's Halloween
- Why Do I Feel?
- What Should I Do?
- We Have A Savior
Free Music Notes for Philosophy of the World
Free Music Review: Totally Shagg-A-Delic
Hit: 5 Stars
Lots of cats have compared The Shaggs to Ornette Coleman without the afro. Or to Frank Zappa without the goatee. Or more cruelly - to Captain Beefheart without the heart. But they're all incorrect.
The Shaggs are quite simply a cultural phenomenon. They've made the kind of music that comes along once every thousand years. Or even ten thousand. I mean, The Shaggs grooves last played when the pyramids were built.
Before The Shaggs we had musical precepts. Things like melody. Harmony. Rhythm. Practice. And all other manner of harsh restrictive guidelines, whereby musicians had to conduct themselves. But The Shaggs dispensed with all that. To create a sound far beyond the preconceived notion of so-called "music theory". Thus musicians everywhere are now free. Thanks to the groundbreaking efforts of The Shaggs.
And I've yet to mention their lyrics. What poetry. So honest. So naive. So charming. Much better prose then say, Leonard Cohen, who's a mumbling idiot in comparison. Whereas The Shaggs expound in song, virtues and sentiments that even Shakespeare didn't profess. Nor could he. Old Willy had no electric guitars. Advantage - The Shaggs.
I love The Shaggs. Because they've made a beautiful heart-felt rendering upon my soul. And they love me. We co-exist peacefully in perfect symbiotic relationship.
So just buy this album already. Because if you don't it'll haunt you the rest of your life.
Philosophy of the World Poster
When listening to the Shaggs (the Wiggin sisters--Dorothy on lead guitar and vocals, Betty on rhythm guitar and vocals, Helen on drums), one needs to jettison conventional notions of song structure, what is "in tune" or not, even what constitutes suitable subject matter for a pop song ("My Pal Foot Foot," "Who Are Parents?"). Originally issued on a small, dodgy label in 1969, the guileless sounds of Philosophy cast a long shadow nonetheless; the group was one of Frank Zappa's favorites and their music inspired rock primitivists Beat Happening as well as sublime archivists NRBQ and Yo La Tengo. On Philosophy, the teenaged sisters' delirious, playfully constructed music has everything you least expect: loopy polyrhythms that follow no external law, off-kilter singing conducted in unison that sounds like the hit parade broadcast from Jupiter, and bizarre, elementary-school guitar playing. Best enjoyed in small doses, this enchanting, accidental music approximates the highly personal charms of so-called "outsider" visual art. To paraphrase a saccharine song of yore, the Shaggs' music is very beautiful--in its own way. --Mike McGonigalPop Music CDs
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