So Bad It's Good/Music: Difference between revisions

* If you were to take every stereotypical problem associated with amateur, self-made musicians, mix them all together, and crank the mix [[Up to Eleven]], the result would be Jan Terri, an aged, overweight, and often downright mean-looking woman, singing in a chain-smoker-esque voice to background music that often sounds like a badly synthesized midi, and then making ridiculously amateur music videos to them. Try this! Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2l6CPna4M her most famous video] with the sound muted, and see how hard it is to remember such an unremarkable home-movie was supposed to be the music video to a love song! The worst part is that she's good enough at songwriting that her music will never leave your head.

* [[The Shaggs]] were four sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire, who were forced to become a band by their father, who was told by his mother that his children would form a popular music group. He forced them to practice every day, perform at local events, and record an album, despite the girls not even having rudimentary knowledge of music theory or how to play their instruments. The result is odd, hackneyed melodies, uneven time signatures, and instruments/vocals that are blatantly out of tune. Despite all of this, as their obscure LP "Philosophy of the World" achieved recognition among collectors, the band was praised for their raw, intuitive composition style and lyrical honesty. "Philosophy of the World" was lauded as a work of art brut, and was later reissued, followed by a compilation album, Shaggs' Own Thing, in 1982. 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. The Shaggs are now seen as a groundbreaking outsider music group, receiving praise from mainstream artists such as [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]] and [[Frank Zappa]]. You can read more at [[That Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:The Shaggs|here]], and hear their music, such as it is, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCII93TYgM here].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922164609/http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/2008/04/yo_yo.html "The Most Unwanted Song" by David Soldier], intentionally written to combine the genres and topics that people in a focus group most disliked. It is indeed incoherent and, in places, just plain atonal. It's also hilarious, involving such things as ''a soprano rapping about cowboys''.

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