We come to one of the most infamous examples of a Broken Record in the history of modern music, an album that has been on pretty much every list that we have encountered of worst albums ever. An album with a story so bizarre, ludicrous and inconceivable it has passed into rock n’ roll folklore.

We won’t spoil the story for those of you who don’t know it here but suffice to say, neither Steve nor Remfry were aware of the strange tale of The Shaggs and their 1969 debut album Philosophy of the World. This is a tale best told with no prior knowledge and so Remfry has a week off from Broken Records research so that Steve can tell him the extraordinary story of The Shaggs fresh.

Maybe it’s best to leave the last word to Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who said that “hearing the band was like discovering a strange new kind of tree. You can tell it’s a tree, but it’s not like any other tree that you’ve ever known.”

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