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(......SHAGGS OWN THING.......) by ( THE SHAGGS )...... ....( A FAN DESCRIBES THE SHAGGS:I was queueing in the bank the other day, lodging the usual pathetically small paycheque, and in front of me was a hairy young rock guy wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt advertising some mud-soaked hell-hole of an alterno-rock festival in Holland. Written on the sleeve were two gnomic sentences: "Those who do not know cannot understand. Those who know cannot explain." Well, in the context of off-the-shelf teen rebellion these are ludicrous sentiments indeed, the more so when applied to the kind of soundalike sludge that passes for Angry Rock Music nowadays, but if there was ever a band which qualified for such mute reverence, it's The Shaggs. They defy star-ratings. They had none of the usual qualities that make for great rock stars; you can't dance to them, you can't hum their songs, you definitely couldn't make out to them and they looked like three hefty female ice-hockey goalkeepers in knee socks. Their songs sound like the kind of thing that very small children sing on public transport. And yet they can't really be called inept; they negotiate arrangements of Beefheartian complexity with a certain awkward grace, and by the time they'd learned to play properly they could rock da house with some power, if with diminished character. The Shaggs truly made music as if nobody had ever made it before. Most of us take up instruments because we want to emulate other, better players; The Shaggs played as though they heard it all perfectly formed in their heads, and just wanted to get it onto plastic. That this was only arguably the case, is testified by their later recordings, where they play easy-listening standards with professional smoothness. But, weirdly enough, they also re-recorded their own early stuff as if they'd meant it that way all along. A perplexing band. You wouldn't want to have them on all the time. But for the sheer thrill of watching the expression on your friends' faces as you play them this for the first time, I recommend this album - the complete Shaggs. God bless them and their dad, Austen Wiggin, a rock'n'roll visionary and the man responsible for getting them into a studio. I don't normally subscribe to the myth that ineptitude is a measure of sincerity, but listening to The Shaggs...you wonder. You wonder. )........

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