{"product_id":"the-shaggs-philosophy-of-the-world-reissue-lp-yellow-smoke-coloured-vinyl","title":"THE SHAGGS - Philosophy Of The World (Reissue) - LP - 'Yellow Smoke' Coloured Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Limited Edition 'Yellow Smoke' Coloured Vinyl (2026 Reissue). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• This month, a new feature-length doc entitled \u003cem\u003eWe Are The Shaggs\u003c\/em\u003e (directed by \u003cstrong\u003eKen Kwapis\u003c\/strong\u003e) will be making its world premiere at the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouth By Southwest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e festival happening in Austin, Texas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Newly remastered LP pressed on Yellow Smoke Wax. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Liner notes by legendary musician, writer and compiler, \u003cstrong\u003eLenny Kaye\u003c\/strong\u003e (Patti Smith, Nuggets).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Booklet features unseen photos and ephemera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artwork restored and expanded to a gatefold jacket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• #5 on Kurt Cobain’s top 50 favourite albums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire strapped on their instruments and declared themselves \u003cstrong\u003eThe Shaggs\u003c\/strong\u003e. At that moment begun a peculiar tale that would last far beyond the group’s five-year run. \u003cstrong\u003eDot\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBetty\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHelen\u003c\/strong\u003e (and occasionally \u003cstrong\u003eRachel\u003c\/strong\u003e, the fourth sister) played in the group on the insistence of their father, \u003cstrong\u003eAustin Wiggin Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e, who was convinced they were going to be big. Years earlier, Austin’s mother gave him a palm reading, predicting that her son would marry a strawberry blonde woman, that he would have two sons after his mother died, and that his daughters would form a popular music outfit. The first two became reality, so Austin was certain the third would follow suit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith pure confidence and his mother’s bold prediction, Austin decided that his daughters would forgo attending the local high school in favour of home schooling interspersed with a strict regiment of instrumental and vocal practice, along with jumping jacks and sit-ups. Soon after The Shaggs would enter \u003cstrong\u003eFleetwood Recording\u003c\/strong\u003e studios in Revere, Massachusetts to record their sole album, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy Of The World\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of garage rock tunes that balanced charm and discordance in equal measure. Austin would spend most of his savings not only on the session but also on the manufacturing costs to press up 1,000 copies of the album (900 of which mysteriously vanished upon completion).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout \"\u003cem\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e…\" simple truths are revealed through the pen of sister \u003cstrong\u003eDot\u003c\/strong\u003e, the songwriter of the band. The rich people want what the poor people got, just as the poor people want what the rich people got. Your parents love you. There is happiness in nearness and sadness in the farness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album failed to fulfill Austin’s expectations of rock stardom, though the group remained together until their father’s death, performing frequently at the Fremont town hall and a local nursing home, no further albums were released. That might have been the end of it, until rock band \u003cstrong\u003eNRBQ\u003c\/strong\u003e discovered a copy at a Massachusetts radio station and re-released it in 1980. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e’s reviewer at the time described it as the most stunningly awful wonderful record I’ve heard in ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly 50 years later, the album ranks among the most polarising LPs of all time. Some said it was the worst thing ever made. Others felt it was one of the great long players of the 20th century. Frank Zappa famously dubbed the band better than The Beatles, while Kurt Cobain placed the album at #5 on his list of Top 50 favourite albums. Original copies of the album fetch for $10,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades later and one could argue that maybe Austin was right all along. 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