The Shaggs have at this point taken their place in the pantheon of folk art, as exemplified by Philosophy of the World, their privately pressed 1969 LP, a notorious work, sometimes ridiculed and held up as an example of absurd ineptitude, more often celebrated as a naïve musical narrative created...

'And another lot of young people will appear, and consider us completely outdated, and they will write ballads to express their loathing of us, and there is no reason why this should ever end.' Alfred Jarry

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The freedom to create in excess without any limitations of taste is a dream for artists of a certain temperament. Where work of extraordinary dreamlike disorientation is created for the Absurd Man and Woman, lacking the usual pretense, as the person who executes the art is not necessarily in control:...