The Shaggs were an American rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire, in 1965, at the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame.

In 1969, Austin paid for the Shaggs to record an album, Philosophy of the World, at Fleetwood Studios in Revere, Massachusetts.

[1] Though it received no attention on release, during the 1970s it developed a cult following, notable for its lack of technical proficiency, with bizarre melodies and rhythms.

[6] Shaggs' Own Thing was noted for greater stylistic variety and a higher level of musicianship compared to Philosophy of the World.

Pitchfork described it as "particularly disturbing" and unintentionally Oedipal, noting that Austin sings of catching another man, his son, "doin' it" with "his girl".