C03 R1 - Tarzan Boy vs. My Pal Foot Foot

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy (Download It!)

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The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot (Download It!)

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Wow, no contest here. I kind of like Tarzan Boy, but Foot Foot could win this thing.

Oh my god. I had to look up the Shaggs just to make sure they were an actual band after hearing that. The Dodgers finally found a serious competitor.

I love The Shaggs because they were so incredibly incompetent that they transcended godawfulness and became some kind of fascinating proto-punk rock statement about popular music. Harmonies and melodies and understandable rhythms are great, but those are things you can learn to do; Philosophy of the World is an album that could never have been made by competent musicians, even if they were trying to be awful. It is an album that reigns gloriously over bad music everywhere – really, the entire album should be excluded if there is another APEX. It is mind numbingly bad, completely original, and I love it to death.

Baltimora is a fucking classic. The other one is a classic for all the wrong reasons. You suck, Foot Foot.

OH OH OH OH OOOOOOH.

Foot Foot brings to mind college students sitting around being super proud of how experimental they are. A++ WOULD LAUGH MY ASS OFF AGAIN

I've wanted to do a cover of a Shaggs song before; mainly get together someone who's never played guitar, show them a few chords and tell them to go nuts. I <3 them so much, but wow. It's amazing and utterly awful at the same time.

Okay, the Shaggs made me laugh so much, that's who I'm voting for.

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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.

Oh dear.

The best part of this is how Dot gets into a groove on the drums at the beginning. My friend who introduced them to me said "it sounds like she gets pissed off when her sisters come in."

Fucking landslide and I'm riding it to the bottom!

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

It is mind numbingly bad, completely original, and I love it to death.

I'm sorry knk, but at what point did 'they're experimental' become an excuse for producing shit music? Usually if someone experiments and it goes badly they don't release it upon the world. You can't say "but hey, this is soooo bad and not like other music you should think it was great". You know why this is music is original sounding, because it doesn't sound like music.

Well, that's precisely it. The career (such as it was) of the Shaggs was not based upon any conceit by the musicians that their songs were good; rather, it was based upon an insistence that they form a band foisted upon them by their father, who believed it must occur due to a prediction given to him by his mother.

So, yeah, it's terrible, terrible music but "why didn't they keep it to themselves" wasn't really an option as such.

Yeah. The album was originally recorded on a vanity label, IIRC. Weren't a lot of copies made, but then it was found back in the 80s. They were one of Frank Zappa's favorite bands.




They're totally better than the Beatles.

... here's foot foot:

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

I'm sorry knk, but at what point did 'they're experimental' become an excuse for producing shit music? Usually if someone experiments and it goes badly they don't release it upon the world. You can't say "but hey, this is soooo bad and not like other music you should think it was great". You know why this is music is original sounding, because it doesn't sound like music.

... I didn't say they were experimental.

There is nothing experimental here. Just utter failure. And it's fucking fascinating.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

... I didn't say they were experimental.

There is nothing experimental here. Just utter failure. And it's fucking fascinating.

Exactly.