Shaggs' Own Thing

Shaggs' Own Thing
Compilation album by The Shaggs
Released 1982
Recorded 1969, 1975
Genre Outsider Music, Pop/rock
Label Rounder Records
The Shaggs chronology

Philosophy of the World
(1969)		 Shaggs' Own Thing
(1982)		 The Shaggs
(1988)

Shaggs' Own Thing is a 1982 compilation album featuring the music of The Shaggs, containing tracks from a 1975 recording session that had gone unreleased due to the death of Austin Wiggin (the band members' father and manager) and the band's subsequent disbanding. The album includes a rerecording of the song My Pal Foot Foot from the band's first album Philosophy of the World, which is in a decidedly more commercial arrangement.

Unlike Philosophy of the World, which contained all original content, Shaggs' Own Thing includes several covers of popular songs of the early 1970s, in addition to new original songs.

The two male singers in Shaggs' Own Thing are Austin Wiggin Jr. and his adolescent son Robert.

Track listing

  1. "You're Somethin' Special to Me"
  2. "Wheels"
  3. "Paper Roses" (Anita Bryant cover)
  4. "Shaggs' Own Thing"
  5. "Painful Memories"
  6. "Gimme Dat Ding" (The Pipkins cover)
  7. "My Cutie"
  8. "Yesterday Once More" (The Carpenters cover)
  9. "My Pal Foot Foot"
  10. "I Love" (Tom T. Hall cover)
  11. "Shaggs' Own Thing (vocal version)"