Weve had threads about the worst album covers, now hear the music

[hifiguy]

contained therein.

http://laughingsquid.com/what-the-music-behind-some-of-the-worst-album-covers-of-all-time-actually-sounds-like/

[lovemydog]

1. The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World

It always makes me laugh. Bring it on. Post more crap songs.

[Brother Buzz]

2. You know, the Shaggs didn't really hit their stride until the fourth sister joined the band

Rachel Wiggin's bass guitar added some texture to the band, like sand in the transmission.

[Hoyt]

3. Whew.

Wikipedia quotes Rolling Stone on that:
"Philosophy of the World is the sickest, most stunningly awful wonderful record I've heard in ages: the perfect mental purgative for doldrums of any kind," wrote Debra Rae Cohen for Rolling Stone in a review of the 1980 reissue. "Like a lobotomized Trapp Family Singers, the Shaggs warble earnest greeting-card lyrics (...) in happy, hapless quasi-unison along ostensible lines of melody while strumming their tinny guitars like someone worrying a zipper. The drummer pounds gamely to the call of a different muse, as if she had to guess which song they were playing - and missed every time.""Without exaggeration," Chris Connelly wrote in a later Rolling Stone article, "it may stand as the worst album ever recorded."In an article for the New Yorker, the album was described as "hauntingly bad"

[Brother Buzz]

4. Everyone is a critic

Frank Zappa absolutely loved The Shaggs - "My Pal Foot Foot" was light years ahead of anything else.