Kurt Cobain Top 50 - 05 - The Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World

[XxWillScarletSoundxX]

@antikist Go fuck yourself,fucktard. Kurt Cobain was a musical genius.

[claudiarebeca17]

There's a play in NY about this band and their life..

[sirdrakho]

Pure Avant-garde!

[MegaLamka]

It was a joke!

[MegaLamka]

I didn't know moe tucker was in the shaggs.

[dropd26]

@MegaLamka Maybe later but not on this release, they were all sisters.

[Izdigger5]

@dropd26

I believe MegaLamka was making a joke about the drumming, which :P

[lemonlimestiv]

any human can start a band!

[professortiki]

The sophisticated poly-rhythmic patterns and complex poly-chromatic harmony structures of the music of the Shaggs has been to great astonishment of entire generations of music professionals. Their deeply philosophical and profoundly surrelistisc lyrics have parralleled modern physics as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and set landmarks in mankind's search for the meaning of the meaning of the meaning. The Shaggs are the metaphysical "other" and truly beyond cognitive faculty.

[antikist]

BY THE WAY, The picture shown is the rounder reissue and not the original album

[antikist]

Some Like Hi-Fi, Some Like Low Fi, But thank the Shaggs for creating No-FI.

And Oh Yeah. Kurt was just a selfish little TWAT who luckily offed him self to leave space to much better band's. And I would like to say that the bands he liked were way better than the band which he started him self. And if you need to get high to get this your a twat also, cause if you can't digg it straight and sober. Your just wasted on chemicals, so anything goes.

[antikist]

Some Like Hi-Fi, Some Like Low Fi, But thank the Shaggs for creating No-FI.

[bamboosa]

Captain Beefheart had to love them. This band puts every pop performer to shame.

[riseuplight]

it makes sense if you're high

[flowerdoodle]

I think that the reason people are drawn to this music is because of its innocence, naivete, and its unabashed originality. Here were sisters(?) who werent pretty, sexy or cool, writing songs the way THEY write songs, not trying to copy the latest, hip sound. Real genius art lives in the outside of trend and style--outside of conscious posturing.

[EdiblePlanets]

@flowerdoodle People are drawn to the Shaggs? I think some people hear something startling and different and assume it is somehow profound. Sometimes it is just so different because it is so bad. The unfortunate thing is that I think they WERE trying to copy popular music, but did it so ineptly that it sounded "original". Your comment that "real art" is outside of consciousness is too trippy for me. If you are not conscious of something - on some level - subjectively it does not exist.

[flowerdoodle]

@EdiblePlanets You're intellectualizing things a bit. People are drawn to them, look around. Maybe only because Zappa, Lester Bangs and Cobain named dropped them but so what. Comes a time with art where it moves ya and excites ya or it dont. Their execution may be "bad" but I believe the songwriting is special. Ive read where they didnt have much access to records and media and lived in a strict household. I said real art lives outside of conscious posteuring, and trends, etc. You may be right..

[love2punk]

This is most likely why he killed himself , as he had just listened to it.

[KevinHeaven9]

this some makes me feel uncomfortable.... i feel almost like i'm listening to something evil

[webwillie1]

When they were being recorded they would stop in the middle of the song saying they made a mistake! How the hell could they tell???

[screamolives]

@webwillie1 They had a formula to their playing

[webwillie1]

They were amazing. Drummer always seemed to be off in another word. I love it

[Wodey25]

@webwillie1 I fuckin hate it when my drummer is in another world... talk about SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET ON TASK

[kowtpr187]

I dont care who listened to this....this is crap!

[station2115]

@kowtpr187It's crappy, but it's not that terrible.

[MrNeonkind]

my goodness, this is weird.

[einbischen]

The drums sound exactly sounds like pen cap chew at the beggining

[zappafingers]

dropd26,

Do you have any idea what he means by "archetypal K band"?

Is this music terminology, or just an abbreviation for his name?

[dropd26]

@zappafingers K as in K Records. Compare Beat Happening and this band, they were kinda similar.

[liam1046]

I read about this in octopus pie, it was described as the worst music of all time, and everybody loves it for that :D

[streamgen]

wow where did you get all this Cobain quotes from?

[dropd26]

Actually from some extreme searching of his list on different sites I came across all of these on the same one. I wish I could remember which one, I just loved the fact that they had him commenting on the albums he loved.

[samesamething]

@dropd26 thanks a lot for all your work on keeping these songs up i really appreciate it

[Facialcream13]

i got a magazine from 2004 published in england called Icons with Kobain and that was a direct quote from the article in his top 50 list, but i also thing its origins stems from his diary [kurt cobain's journals from 2001 i think}

[PieceofMindmusic]

great album. changes the way i saw music as an art.

[fROMIOWA]

The song is actually "My Pal Foot Foot"

[dropd26]

Yes it should say it in the info. The title is only the album.