Give a listen here, to New Hampshire's very own Dot, Betty, and Helen Wiggin, The Shaggs !
A little background can be found here.
They're awful. That's the point. Consider it outsider-rock. Or folk art. Or 1969 at its most earnest.
It's Halloween It's Halloween.
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No. That was NOT recorded live. The guitar, drums, and vocals were recorded as separate tracks, and deliberately mixed together at a random lag from one another.
No.
Did I say it was live? I don't actually know. I've seen videotape of the song being performed, and it looks like it sounds...
Never even mind the fact that the tunings are a train wreck!
What I can't believe is Cub Koda's thoughtful fluent prose in the liner notes below. Cub Koda wrote this??? Mr. "Smokin' in the Boy's Room" and "Jailbait"??? Cub Koda?? It's blowin' my mind.
I have to say I have *loved* SITBR ever since it came out, and that was a long time ago. One of my fav 70's singles.
"There's an innocence to these songs and their performances that's both charming and unsettling. Hacked-at drumbeats, whacked-around chords, songs that seem to have little or no meter to them ... being played on out-of-tune, pawn-shop-quality guitars all converge, creating dissonance and beauty, chaos and tranquility, causing any listener coming to this music to rearrange any pre-existing notions about the relationships between talent, originality, and ability."
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