These songs wouldn't be of ANY interest if it weren't for them being sloppy in terms of rhythm and intonation. It would sound like the blandest music you've ever heard.
In an interview they said music was absent growing up & that their father forced them into a band. (giving their style some context.) I heard it ceased around the time he passed.
Tom Duimstra yes, and apparently a movie version of that is going to come out soon, starring Elsie Fisher (yes, they are getting age appropriate actresses to play the girls).
How you got the guitars to sound exactly out of tune like the original must have been a painful ordeal! I mean this as a compliment when I say, "beautifugly!"
It hurts me mind, body, and soul thinking of many hundreds or even thousands of times must the Shaggs have rehearsed this back in the day to be able to perform it so well 50 years later.
The fact that not only does this song exist, but that 50 years later they recreated it, exposes the fragile nature of our reality. The Shaggs remind us that at any moment we can slip into surreal Insanity so we might as well embrace it.
what a legendary performance. i live not too far from where the Wiggins are from and i feel a strong sense of new england pride when I listen to them. i don't know if it's their accents or what, but they remind me of family and I love them.
This is gorgeous. I salute these musicians, really honoring the original recording, and playing it sincerely, respecting it, and not turning it into a big joke, which is what most people would do. This is really something special. Frank Zappa would’ve been proud.
I cannot stress enough how amazing the guitarists are. It takes something otherworldly to be a competent session guitarist and make something like this suck the exact same way consistently. I am in awe.
omg I can't say how much I loved this❤️❤️ sounds like a beautiful peaceful barbeque in a field. Someone sunbathing, some other napping at the shade of a big tree. Till sunset comes and the air gets a little chilly
@Noble Failures Yeah, true. This music it is music after all. But they sing melody and rhythm is all over the place. Sometimes behind melody sometimes after. Never exactly they meet ha ha. Guitar tuning is out too. Sounds like someone plays it first time. This is hard to play because they do it wrong what makes it interesting. But I can't listen this often just found them. If my analysis makes any sense ? I am musician too from Finland.
@Noble Failures Ha ha you write it wrong it is Ievan polkka. This is hard language. It is Finnish song originally. It is rude song and I laugh when that tiny Japanese lady Ikuta Erika sing it and she don't know its shadow meaning or double meaning (right words ?). Check it.
It's excellent that this is preserved for all time now. Shame the unsyncopated drums are missing. Seriously, after listening to a few tracks I can detect a kind of rebellion. This pre-dates Punk and is vastly better than any single rap record.
This reminds me of my classmate and I when we made a silly song under the name Ferocious E, for a class-project in middle-school. My guitar was tuned horribly for it, and for some odd reason it was quite a funny song, but not unintentionally. It just worked. Later down the road we met up and said "Hey, let's play that song for old times' sake!" and I had to sit down and listen to the original recording to try and figure out how the damn guitar was tuned so it would sound the same, ROFL.. I can't help but wonder whether the remaining two Shaggs here would complain to the guitarists that it wasn't tuned JUST right.
wow!!!1!! this music GETS me "going" like the 'ol days! ahhh, back ik biloxi mississippi as a youngin' sippin on moonshine and listening to my "dad's" records (he was not my father, as my real father ran away with his DAMSEL to texarkana) ((but that's a story for a nuthre time!!)). (((or perhaps it was arkadelphia...?))) hmmm my memory ain't to good these days! anywayz, I love the ShAgs! Good to see the old birds still performin' (or chirpin' as my husband agniss says Laught Out Loud) - Laura (Biloxi Mississippi) Saint Maragets High School Class of 1974 Art our God in heaven above A'MEN!!
@@milo5524 He was a champion of outsider music/musicians (including his protégé Beefheart) so I can imagine him sincerely appreciating this. Not sure if he was quite as sincere about ranking them ahead of the Beatles, though, but maybe at some point he was truly preferring to hear it.
There are three qualities The Shaggs possess in abundance. The first is the trauma of an overbearing father who forced them to be a rock & roll band. The second is their complete lack of musical talent. This cannot be quested. But there is one other quality they have that people never seem to notice. Innocence. Apart from their domineering father, the girls in The Shaggs created music that is absolutely free of having been corrupted by the world. It is the product of the insular bubble of the life of three girls in60s era suburban America. Their music is the epitome of innocence. THAT'S why people like them.
The papers don't have any lyrics on them it's actually just images of their pal foot foot.
😄😄😄
LMFAO!
yes its pictures of foot foot decoded in base64
This made me laugh so hard omg 😂😂😂😂😂
Plot twist: Foot Foot does not like to roam, he is perceptionally omnipresent.
The insane drum solos was the backbone of this song tho
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agree but this is SOLID!
asd asd The drummer died in 2006 sadly
If there was a long staircase in that rehearsal room, they could have emulated the drummer easily by just tossing a drum kit down the stairs.
Someone said it sounded like she was chasing a cockroach around the drumhead.
The Shaggs' drummer died in 2006. Perhaps not putting in drums is some way to honor her or something. RIP Helen Wiggins.
Laura Cromwell took over drumming duties for Dot Wiggin, but she's not in this video.
damnit. the drums were the vibe.
They couldn't find a drummer of her caliber. That's the story.
She truly was one of a kind
Laura is the one in the back with the blue hat and glasses.
They had 50 years at their disposal to learn how to sing and tune their guitars. Fortunately they stuck to their roots.
These songs wouldn't be of ANY interest if it weren't for them being sloppy in terms of rhythm and intonation. It would sound like the blandest music you've ever heard.
In an interview they said music was absent growing up & that their father forced them into a band. (giving their style some context.)
I heard it ceased around the time he passed.
They must be kidding??????????
That’s the point idiot
triskut Idiot says what???????
Their guitars are not tuned E/A/D/G/B/E but X/Z/Q/U/I/X
the tuning is FAGGED
I think it's actually X/Z/«/7/@/‽
No it's Æ/Õ/P(Z/¿/ß
It is actually the point..out of tune
Right - -
I am surprised no one made a movie about the Shaggs.
They did make a musical that toured In California and New York. It is supposed to be coming back to New York in 2019.
They're making one!
All about the abuse at home, the drugs backstage, the sex and destruction
Tom Duimstra yes, and apparently a movie version of that is going to come out soon, starring Elsie Fisher (yes, they are getting age appropriate actresses to play the girls).
Actually there's one in the works !!!
Oliver Stone will direct it !!!
How you got the guitars to sound exactly out of tune like the original must have been a painful ordeal! I mean this as a compliment when I say, "beautifugly!"
The Straniero - One Man Band haha haha
The Straniero - One Man Band exactly what I was thinking
Copying the tunings of Nick Drake is a stroll in the park compared to this mammoth effort! ;)
The technical prowess of these guitarists is simply amazing.
#investigate311
I'm so happy Dot and Betty were able to play live and experience the love fans have for The Shaggs. It's touching.
They've still got it
And they still have no idea what it is. Which is as it should be.
They never had it.
fucking hahahah
what being tone deaf and talentless
Whatever "IT" is!
I want this played at my wedding and my funeral.
On the same day?
@@landslug "For Wedding and a Funeral"
Dude, I'm doing that.
A wedding IS a funeral.
Lol
Who else burst out laughing when their guitar player at the back shouting ‘foot foot’ lmao
Foot foot!
Very South Park-esque
I thought he was incredibly disrespectful to upstage The Shaggs like that. Who the fuck does he think he is?
Yes!! 😂
He was trying so hard to get into it 😅
I didn't expect to be so moved by this.
I did but only because this was my second time to hear them.
I don't even know how I find their music.
Thanks RUclips recommendation.
I didn't expect to be so unmoved by it.
I wept bitterly
I was moved too. Because that many people can get together and actually think that’s good music. Just. Sad.
@@jalsbrook4475 who pissed in your lemonade?
The concentration levels required to perform this piece make it an almost technical impossibility to pull off.
Seriously tho.. those guys in the back totally recreated that drunk off kilter flavor from the original.. that's not easy to do
You have to be really good to sound that bad on purpose.
They “didn’t know what they were doing” I don’t buy that. The advanced polyrhythms, microtones, atonal melodies and genius lyrics tell me otherwise.
It hurts me mind, body, and soul thinking of many hundreds or even thousands of times must the Shaggs have rehearsed this back in the day to be able to perform it so well 50 years later.
God bless that guy playing guitar and singing back up to this song. Holy shit.
I don't know if I believe in God, but thank you
The fact that not only does this song exist, but that 50 years later they recreated it, exposes the fragile nature of our reality. The Shaggs remind us that at any moment we can slip into surreal Insanity so we might as well embrace it.
it's literally just a good weird song. If this is your definition of surreal insanity, I'm worried for your mind
The time signatures are crazy.
Me: what time signature is this in?
The Shaggs: Yes.
Time Signature: _Doctor's Handwriting_
This is so pure and raw, I love it
Nothing like a band that sticks to their roots after 50 years
I recently discovered The Shaggs. They are now one of my favorite all time groups. Well done, ladies!
what a legendary performance. i live not too far from where the Wiggins are from and i feel a strong sense of new england pride when I listen to them. i don't know if it's their accents or what, but they remind me of family and I love them.
A scathing indictment of the sociopolitical climate of Burkina Faso in 1957.
This.
Burkina Faso did not exist in 1957. But you were spot on regarding everything else.
@@brianstockwell4069 🤓☝️
This is gorgeous. I salute these musicians, really honoring the original recording, and playing it sincerely, respecting it, and not turning it into a big joke, which is what most people would do. This is really something special. Frank Zappa would’ve been proud.
This is absolutely amazing.
Wow, after all these years they've still got it!
I cannot stress enough how amazing the guitarists are. It takes something otherworldly to be a competent session guitarist and make something like this suck the exact same way consistently. I am in awe.
Love the Shaggs. I had a cat & named him Foot Foot, but he died about 10 years ago.
Foot foot -- where can you be?
You should write a song as a tribute .........
Not bursting into laughter during it is probably their greatest achievement of all.
Speaking as a pretty skilled musician, everything about the Shaggs composition is utterly fascinating.
Definitely a fan.
even if they owned a band, they could never play back every song they ever sang🥰😇
The fact that she needs the lyrics printed out is what I needed today. Thanks.
The need sheet music to make sure they dont accidentally end up in tune :)
You can learn SO much about creativity, passion and originality from listening to The Shaggs. When preforming and/or composing: Just do it!
You can really see and appreciate the professional effort the whole team put in to make it just as bad as the original. You have my respect
Tuning is spot on. Sounds just like the studio cut.🤟
Kurt was really turning up to this
i LOVE this---makes me love life today!
They must be really good to accurately reproduce such bad playing.
omg I can't say how much I loved this❤️❤️
sounds like a beautiful peaceful barbeque in a field. Someone sunbathing, some other napping at the shade of a big tree. Till sunset comes and the air gets a little chilly
They have to read the song from the paper 😂😂😂😂😂😂.
And it is their song.
Elie Meouchi yeah cause they perform the songs all the time and they just made that album recently
granadan legacy the album was made in the late 60s 😂😂😂
Whoops, I meant they never perform the songs and they made it 50 years ago
granadan legacy one of the greatest albums eveeer 😍
terrible than what?
from laughing? it was great!!!i was glad to see at least 2 of them ,,,,,it wasnt the same with out the drummer thow,,,
Somehow, someway, for some reason people need to make this musical genius. They have been "under the radar" for a good reason.
This song makes music critics mad. They can't categorize it.
kipponi how about “awful”?
@@santafe402 I am nice almost everyone so I would say experimental ha ha.
@Noble Failures But shit is not music style - you know.
@Noble Failures Yeah, true.
This music it is music after all. But they sing melody and rhythm is all over the place. Sometimes behind melody sometimes after. Never exactly they meet ha ha.
Guitar tuning is out too. Sounds like someone plays it first time.
This is hard to play because they do it wrong what makes it interesting.
But I can't listen this often just found them. If my analysis makes any sense ?
I am musician too from Finland.
@Noble Failures Ha ha you write it wrong it is Ievan polkka. This is hard language. It is Finnish song originally. It is rude song and I laugh when that tiny Japanese lady Ikuta Erika sing it and she don't know its shadow meaning or double meaning (right words ?). Check it.
This is a wonderful rendition of one of my favourite songs
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. It does my heart good to know that you're still around!
Life didn't get better than this...
It's good to see Barber Center residents have access to musical instruments. Godbless their mentally challenged little minds.
THIS IS WHERE MY TAX MONEY IS GOING?
Patrick Gabriel hahahahaha
what do you mean?
these girls were kept out of school.
No?
Dude I have never laughed so hard at a comment on RUclips. Sincerely, thank you for the laugh Patrick. I'm crying.
Uh well their dad took them out of school and forced them to do this crap. So blame him
I can't believe I just discovered the song a week ago. There's something about it that is amazing
The way they intentionally messed up the high five at the end of the clapping section was genius.
I just journeyed down an awesome rabbit hole
It's excellent that this is preserved for all time now. Shame the unsyncopated drums are missing. Seriously, after listening to a few tracks I can detect a kind of rebellion. This pre-dates Punk and is vastly better than any single rap record.
I think it's both great and fitting that this music has survived, and thrived.
The best thing about The Shaggs is that there's this vibe of innocence surrounding them that makes you smile.
That is the most beautiful song I have ever heard .
This reminds me of my classmate and I when we made a silly song under the name Ferocious E, for a class-project in middle-school. My guitar was tuned horribly for it, and for some odd reason it was quite a funny song, but not unintentionally. It just worked. Later down the road we met up and said "Hey, let's play that song for old times' sake!" and I had to sit down and listen to the original recording to try and figure out how the damn guitar was tuned so it would sound the same, ROFL..
I can't help but wonder whether the remaining two Shaggs here would complain to the guitarists that it wasn't tuned JUST right.
best song ever heard
The time signature here is 4/4, 2/2222 ,3/8812 /78/87 23/2 1/ 1/1 1/5. Brilliant!
This is properly beautiful.
REVOLUTIONARY
Only people who knew the history of The Shagg, or maybe somehow liked this band for some reason, would appreciate this song.
Better than Woodstock '99
They MUST make a movie or a documentary about The Shaggs and their insane record!
So glad I found this.
There's just something magical when the guitars are tuned to random pitches....
Yeah! You are awesome. Keep having fun.
This is how to get your next door neighbour to move house.
Absolute art at its finest.
They are singing in something resembling tunefulness - we all sell out in the end
Dot looks great!
Much respect.
I kind of think the musicians could have dressed nicer, because the ladies were in their finest on the cover of POTW. God bless
wow!!!1!! this music GETS me "going" like the 'ol days! ahhh, back ik biloxi mississippi as a youngin' sippin on moonshine and listening to my "dad's" records (he was not my father, as my real father ran away with his DAMSEL to texarkana) ((but that's a story for a nuthre time!!)). (((or perhaps it was arkadelphia...?))) hmmm my memory ain't to good these days!
anywayz, I love the ShAgs! Good to see the old birds still performin' (or chirpin' as my husband agniss says Laught Out Loud)
- Laura (Biloxi Mississippi)
Saint Maragets High School Class of 1974
Art our God in heaven above A'MEN!!
yes.
moved
rstevie moore smoothie
My bowels moved
They nailed it
Surreal.
Red forman we need to put a foot foot somewhere. I can't believe my ears aren't bleeding
This...is life.
So Frank Zappa was a big fan huh?..
Obviously Frank was a moron.
@@motnosniv Frank Zappa was a genius... A smartass ...but a genius..
No, Frank was just ironical in his statement...😏
@@milo5524 - no, Frank couldn't have been any more sincere in his love for them. He loved music with no reference point.
@@milo5524 He was a champion of outsider music/musicians (including his protégé Beefheart) so I can imagine him sincerely appreciating this. Not sure if he was quite as sincere about ranking them ahead of the Beatles, though, but maybe at some point he was truly preferring to hear it.
This is a certified hood classic
This is genuinely haunting.
Playing guitar for this song is like being right handed and trying to write with your left. Props to the musicians!
Someone should do a cover of this. I would love to hear a more updated and modernised version…
Legends indeed.You should be proud to be an American if your tax money goes for this.
Absolutely one of the kind.
Fantastic! A beautiful (and faithful) update to THE classic SHAGGS tune.
The Shaggs: The Henri Rousseau (painter/artist) of the music world! So fine!
It gets really good at the 2:53 mark!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
There are three qualities The Shaggs possess in abundance. The first is the trauma of an overbearing father who forced them to be a rock & roll band. The second is their complete lack of musical talent. This cannot be quested.
But there is one other quality they have that people never seem to notice. Innocence. Apart from their domineering father, the girls in The Shaggs created music that is absolutely free of having been corrupted by the world. It is the product of the insular bubble of the life of three girls in60s era suburban America. Their music is the epitome of innocence. THAT'S why people like them.
FOOT FOOT😵?
Yes I love the tempo unraveling , I bet the set list has Dark Star as the encore.
Those young people with them must feel like those who visited the Beatles Get Back studio sessions.
bless them
I definitely like The Shaggs unplugged.
Classic song.
The speech impediment that I call "Fwench Fwys" is more of their purity. Gold.
"I only listen to patrician music"
ROCK AND ROLL!!
Great job ladies.👍
You would think after 5 decades they would have the lyrics memorized.
BANGER
Erroneously avant-Garde. 🤣😂
Lol
Its Halloween its halloween. Like my foot foot???