Mr. Bat Sings (w/ Mrs. L. E. Tweten, accompanist)

This is one of the weirdest private press lps. The cover is amazing and has nothing to do with the generic xian music within. Clowns are creepy sometimes, but this is John Wayne Gacey scarey.

(37 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)

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Philosophy of the World  The Shaggs  Third World Records

Here’s perhaps the most celebrated outsider record and a true musical discovery. A self-produced, family band from the 1960’s. Susan Orleans wrote about the group in a New Yorker piece and the lp was reissued sometime in the early nineties. Original copies are rare and sell for $1,000 and up. I think only 1,000 were pressed with most thrown out in a dumpster in Boston.

(46 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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