Philosophy of the World

...who are new to the ears. Let's face it, Frank Zappa's Thing Fish is definitely a weird record but hey, it's Zappa. Similarly, The Shaggs' Philosophy of the World is a truly bizarre piece of, uhm...whatever it is. But I had read so much about...

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...before committing suicide; and The Shaggs, three sheltered sisters from Fremont, N.H., who recorded the 'aboriginal rock' masterpiece 'Philosophy of the World'. Careful not to ridicule his more eccentrically volatile subjects (e.g., Wesley...

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"My Pal Foot Foot" is a song by the Shaggs, appearing on their 1969 release, Philosophy of the World. It is their best-known song. The lyrics revolve around a rather nonsensical journey to find "Foot Foot", their cat, who has run away. As...

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...band. Previously Bach was involved with The Dishes, 5ive Style, and leader of Uptighty, a Chicago dance band. He performed in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World" playing guitar at the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. He also performed in...

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Blender Magazine placed it 100th on the list of the '100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever' in 2007. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain listed Philosophy of the World as his #5 favorite album of all time. The record has also been cited as highly...

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...it has an anthem. A horrible, horrible anthem by a band Frank Zappa referred to as "...better than the Beatles--even today" and named the album from whence this song came -- Philosophy of the World -- as his third favorite album of all time.

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...the closest approaches to any real sense of arrhythmia. The Shaggs, by contrast, were merely blessedly unrhythmic in their recording of "Philosophy of the World" and in Gavin Chuck's riff on it here. Ciconia and Josquin Desprez were made in...

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