Meet the Shaggs (1999)(newyorker.com)

24 pointsby tintinnabula10 anni fa5 comments

Meet the Shaggs (1999)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/09/27/meet-the-shaggs

4 comments

Joeboy10 anni fa

This is by the author of The Orchid Thief, of which Charlie Kaufman's film Adaptation is supposedly an adaptation.

Edit: Jon Ronson on The Shaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtDf82a3pM

sthielen10 anni fa

I'm a big fan of Ms. Orlean's. She wrote a wonderful profile piece called "The American Male at Age Ten"[0] that, for very good reason, tends to find its way into many undergrad lit/journalism survey courses.

[0] http://m.learning.hccs.edu/faculty/scotty.moore/anth2351/ant...

skywhopper10 anni fa

Love it. My awareness of The Shaggs comes from an Alarm Will Sound concert. Alarm Will Sound is an ensemble that performs contemporary "classical" music, and they're incredibly highly skilled and accomplished musicians. They arranged one of The Shaggs' songs for their ensemble, complete with the poor tuning--and complete lack of rhythmic unity of the original--and perform it at concerts.

As you might imagine, performing something out of rhythm and out of tune requires extremely good musicianship and ultra-tight focus by the performers. And Alarm Will Sound can pull it off. Here's a recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NJNR3hvTk

23d10 anni fa

It's kind of cool that The Shaggs made it to the front page of hacker news, but a bit weird. Love this band.

colanderman10 anni fa

Wow! Takes me back to my college days watching "Taco the Wonder Dog" music videos, one which which sampled "My Pal Foot Foot", which I only just now discovered is by the Shaggs.

Too bad Taco has long since departed the Internet; his music videos were a superb curation of such eclectic music. I similarly discovered Isotope 217 through Taco's samples of "Harm-O-Lodge" and "⏪".