My Pal Foot Foot - The Shaggs
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as the canonical example of music considered terrible, usually with affection or as a joke.
What it is
A clip of "My Pal Foot Foot" by The Shaggs, the 1960s sisters band famous for their off-kilter amateur sound. The uploader credits a Frank Zappa quote claiming they are better than the Beatles.
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What Hacker News said
Cites InclinedPlane · 2015-09 · on “List of music considered the worst”
If you want to listen to The Shaggs: [this video] Also, someone figured out all of the least generally desirable aspects of songs and made a song featuring those, calling it The Most Unwanted Song: [LINK]
Cites jancsika · 2022-11 · on “Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician”
It's a strange balance. On the one hand, if you don't start with guidance from a mentor, you'll likely hit a bunch of obstacles because you don't have the knowledge to avoid them. And it's orders of magnitude more difficult to adjust a bad habit than to not form it in the first place (at least for physical habits). So before doing the "chores" one ought to do a sanity check with a trusted mentor. On the other hand, the only mentoring the Shaggs needed was about how to tune a guitar: [this video] If they had started with a music teacher, there is a 99.9999% chance they would have all ended up playing a tune in 4/4 in the same tempo instead of the asynchronous rhythmic cycles that they came up with