393 - The Shaggs: The Best or Worst Band of All Time?

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is about one of the most polarising bands of all time, The Shaggs! They've been described as both the best and the worst band of all time and have had many big name fans over the years such as Kurt Cobain and Frank Zappa. Their origin story is one of the least conventional we've come across, enjoy the story on this week's episode!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 04:58 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

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

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-story-of-the-shaggs-the-beatles/

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/02/17/515775669/the-best-or-worst-band-of-all-time-is-back

‘Songs in the Key of Z The Curious Universe of Outsider Music’ by Irwin Chusid

https://theshaggs.bandcamp.com/album/philosophy-of-the-world

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Dugoan.
0:18.4	My name is Dave Wonkey and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello.
0:22.8	Hello, hello. Welcome to Chris and Murray's plant farm and how good is it to be alive?
0:27.5	I wish I was never born. I've been thinking about that a lot. I've had a lot of people
0:33.5	reaching out to me saying that A, that was very funny and B, my reaction to it was fun.
0:39.5	And I've decided it's just going to be my catchphrase there. I've Matt's going to say
0:42.4	how good is it to be alive. I'm going to say I wish I was never born.
0:44.6	The polar opposite is great. That's good to have both sides of the argument in there.
0:48.0	That's Matt and I. We're yin and yang. You know?
0:50.8	If people don't get the reference, it's the Qantas bomb-host episode.
0:54.5	A couple of weeks back now. Great episode.
0:57.2	And at that moment was very funny.
0:58.7	And it's it's I guess shaped me.
1:02.3	It moved you and shaped you. I'm not forget by next week.
1:04.4	It spoke to you. It spoke to me.
1:06.0	Dave, how does this show work?
1:08.8	I was going to get in there to try to get Matt to explain the show but I'll step up.
1:11.9	Here we go. This week what we're going to do is the same thing we've done every week for the
1:15.4	last 309. I tried to take over the world.
1:19.2	And on the way to a total world domination we have researched a topic often suggested to us by one
1:24.8	of the listeners. That's one of us has gone away done a bit of research bring back the others
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