SHAGGS Shaggs' Own Thing 1982 LP Shrink Mint-

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LP & Record in original shrinkwrap

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ORIGINAL 1982 FIRST EDITION US STEREO 

LP PRESSING on RED ROOSTER/ROUNDER RECORDS, Catalog # 3056

1. You're Something Special to Me
2. Wheels
3. Paper Roses
4.

Shaggs' Own Thing
5. Painful Memories

6. Gimmie Dat Ding (live)
7. My Cutie
8. Yesterday Once More
9. My Pal Foot Foot
10. I Love
11.

Shaggs' Own Thing (vocal)

·       THIS IS THE FIRST (and only) U.S. PRESSING from 1982

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)


·      THE LABELS are CLEAN without SPINDLEWEAR or other WRITING, etc.
 

 (?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, and LABEL, SHOWN ABOVE) (Note: the image shown is the actual album, shot just for this listing.  We work to show you the entire cover, all seams and corners.).



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RECORD CONDITION
(NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under a bare light bulb or the Florida sunlight)

---THE VINYL IS NEAR MINT. The original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.  No scuffs, marks nor scratches. 

COVER CONDITION

THE COVER IS MINT-.
It is in the original shrinkwrap as when I bought it in Miami in 1982.
NOTE: The white glare on the front and back covers is a reflection of the camera in the plasticwrap.  I have stored this LP well since 1982--it is perfecto!  I did put magic tape on the plastic back then to hold it in place.
 
QUALITY CONTROL :  past those details listed above, and to make sure you have no surprises when you get this in the mail, this record and cover have:
 
-        No split seams

-        No promo or cut-out (drill) holes in the cover or label.

-        No cut corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No writing in pen, pencil or marker

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains or browning

-        No mold, discoloring or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No cuts, razor marks, lines, streaks, scratches, pressure marks.

-        No warping or dishing

-        No paint, glue, wax or liquid drops on the cover

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers.

 

 

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History

Career

The conceptual beginning of The Shaggs came from Austin Wiggin, Jr.'s mother. During Austin's youth she had predicted during a palmreading that he would marry a strawberry blonde woman, that he would have two sons after she had died, and that his daughters would form a popular music group. The first two predictions came true, so Austin set about making the third come true.[1] Austin withdrew his daughters from school, bought them instruments, and arranged for them to receive music and vocal lessons. The Wiggin sisters themselves never planned to become a music group, but as Dot later said, "[Austin] was something of a disciplinarian. He was stubborn and he could be temperamental. He directed. We obeyed. Or did our best." Austin named The Shaggs after the then-popular shag hairstyle and as a reference to shaggy dogs. In 1968, Austin arranged for the girls to play a regular Saturday night gig at the Fremont, New Hampshire Town Hall.

On the topic of the album, Cub Koda wrote, "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. There is no album you might

own that sounds remotely like this one." (emphasis in original) [1] Reportedly, during the recording sessions the band would occasionally stop playing, claiming one of them had made a mistake and that they needed to start over, leaving the sound engineers to wonder how the girls could tell when a mistake had been made.

Upon closer examination, The Shaggs seem to have a consistent (but highly idiosyncratic) approach to melody, harmony, and rhythm. The songs use highly irregular verse structures, which are emphasized by the melodic structures, which typically accord one note per syllable: the guitar accompaniment attempts to reproduce this pattern as well. Most of the Shaggs material is made up of eighth- and quarter-notes.

At this point, the man who had promised to press 1,000 copies of Philosophy of the World reportedly absconded with 900 of them. The rest were circulated to New England radio stations but attracted little attention, and the girls' dreams of superstardom were dashed.

In 1975, Austin Wiggin arranged a second recording session for his daughters, during which time the group recorded several songs. However, when the sessions were forestalled by Austin's death via heart attack, The Shaggs aborted the recording project and disbanded the group shortly thereafter.

Rediscovery

In 1980, Terry Adams and Tom Ardolino, of the band NRBQ, heard the

LP (their sax player, Keith Spring, had heard it at the Amherst, MA record shop he worked in, and brought a tape to Terry and Tom), and convinced their record label, Rounder Records, to reissue Philosophy of the World. Upon the LP 's release, Rolling Stone magazine accorded the Shaggs "Comeback of the Year" honors. The album was widely—if derisively—reviewed. Adams and Ardolino issued some unreleased 1975 recordings on the 1982 LP Shaggs' Own Thing , but its closer approximation to conventional music caused some to disregard this collection. In 1988 Dorothy Wiggin rediscovered the lost masters of Philosophy of the World in a closet; these and the tracks from Shaggs' Own Thing were remastered and released on Rounder as a CD, which had different cover art and a resequencing of all tracks. RCA Victor released Philosophy of the World (with the original cover art and track sequence) on CD in 1999, whereupon it was hailed as something of an avant-garde cult classic. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the CD on the day it was released, and The New Yorker subsequently ran a lengthy profile of the Shaggs, authored by Susan Orlean.

On November 20 and 21, 1999, NRBQ celebrated their thirtieth anniversary with two concerts in New York City; their opening act each night were The Shaggs. Helen, who had been suffering from depression for years, declined to attend, so Ardolino, NRBQ's drummer, was faced with the challenging task of attempting to play Helen's parts. Dot, Betty and Ardolino played the same four-song set both nights. These performances marked the

Shaggs' only live stage appearances outside of Fremont.

In 2001, the Animal World label released Better Than The Beatles, a Shaggs tribute album. The title was based on the title of an article by Lester Bangs in which he described the importance of what The Shaggs accomplished musically. The album featured established acts such as Ida, Optiganally Yours, R. Stevie Moore, Deerhoof and Danielson Famille covering The

Shaggs' songs.

Frank Zappa is reported to have said of the Shaggs, "This sounds like the missing link between Fanny and Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band." Zappa rated The Shaggs #3 best band in history in a Norwegian newspaper (April 1988).

Artisan Entertainment bought the movie rights to the band's story in 2000, with Katherine Dieckmann assigned to script and direct. Since that time, the project has been acquired by a succession of production companies, but no film has yet been made.

A stage musical about The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World by librettist/lyricist Joy Gregory, composer/lyricist Gunnar Madsen, and co-conceiver/director John Langs, opened at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Los Angeles in November 2003. The LA Weekly Theater Award-winning Scenic Design was created by Brian Sidney Bembridge. The production was staged at Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago in the spring of 2004 and at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in September 2005.

Helen Wiggin died in 2006. The widow of Austin Wiggin, Jr., Annie Wiggin, died in 2005.

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