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  Type Album
  Artist The Shaggs
  Cover Shaggs_philosophy_of_the_worldjpg
  Released 1969
  Recorded 1969
  Genre Outsider Music Avant-garde Alternative Rock
  Length mm:ss
  Label Third Word Records (1969) Red Rooster Records / Rounder Records (1980-1988) RCA Victor (1999)
  Producer Austin Wiggin The Shaggs
  This Album "Philosophy of the World (1968)"
  Next Album Shaggs' Own Thing (1980)


Philosophy of the World is the first album by The Shaggs , said to be "the worst rock band", released in 1969 by Third Word Records and rereleased in 1980 by Red Rooster Records / Rounder Records after the band NRBQ found it at a Massachusetts radio station in 1978. A CD version containing Shaggs' Own Thing was released in 1988 by Rounder, and another CD, this time without the latter record, was released by RCA Victor in 1999.


TRACK LISTING

#"Philosophy Of The World" – 2:56
#"That Little Sports Car" – 2:06
#"Who Are Parents?" – 2:58
#" My Pal Foot Foot " – 2:31
#"My Companion" – 2:04
#"I'm So Happy When You're Near" – 2:12
#"Things I Wonder" – 2:12
#"Sweet Thing" – 2:57
#"It's Halloween" – 2:22
#"Why Do I Feel?" – 3:57
#"What Should I Do?" – 2:18
#"We Have A Savior" – 3:06


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