Greatest Album, Ever!
The Shaggs had never heard any music before, the dad was super religious and banned the radio and any phonographs.
It’s weird but Frank Zappa was right. These were actually musicians and talented ones at that.
They just had no technique, no training. But the timing worked out, that they’d come together at the same time.
This is uniquely HUMAN music, performed by fallible humans, with all our idiosyncracies. As terrible as it was, there is a strange hypnotic sense to it.
A comment on YouTube goes:
“This makes me want to start an indie rock project. A band where the members get on stage and do whatever. Drummer stops playing to get a drink or talk with an audience member? Go ahead. Singer recites Shakespeare, then goes cookie monster, then talks about his problems and some solutions, go ahead. Guitarist shows up with a turntable? Go ahead. Go ‘Head, there we go. And the debut album will be called The Antithesis of Music.”