Shaggs' Own Thing


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 and the band's subsequent disbanding.
Shaggs' Own Thing was compiled and released in the wake of the surprise success of a 1980 re-release of the Shaggs' only other album, 1969's Philosophy of the World. 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 and a re-recording of "My Pal Foot Foot" from Philosophy of the World. In contrast to Philosophy of the World, in which the then-novice musicians performed in a distinctive, amateurish style, the songs on Shaggs' Own Thing were comparatively professional; as the band had been playing as a band for several years, had learned the basics of popular music, and had more physically mature voices by the time the session took place in 1975, they were able to emulate pop music styles of the time more closely.
The two male singers in Shaggs' Own Thing are Austin Wiggin Jr. and his adolescent son Robert.

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "You're Somethin' Special to Me"
  2. "Wheels"
  3. "Paper Roses"
  4. "Shaggs' Own Thing"
  5. "Painful Memories"
  6. "Gimme Dat Ding"
;Side two
  1. "My Cutie"
  2. "Yesterday Once More"
  3. "My Pal Foot Foot"
  4. "I Love"
  5. "Shaggs' Own Thing "