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Liz Phair - Why Can't I? Audio CD

A fair review of the Liz Phair "Why Can't I?" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Liz Phair reviews here, or go back to the Liz Phair tabs.

Liz Phair Band: Liz Phair
Title: Why Can't I?
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Release Date: 2003-11-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Why Can't I? 2: Jeremy Engle 3: Fine Again

"Wouldn't it be beautiful?"
Phair was the Indie Rock darling in the early '90s but she wanted to be more commercial and I think it was a smart move. Why Can't I? by Liz Phair is a great pop song that was released in 2003. Why Can't I? is breezy, catchy, and quite naughty. The two bonus tracks are good as well. Liz can do no wrong!.


Get It For The EP
You can get these 2 songs, "Fine Again" and "Jeremy Engle" off her self-titled album, which also includes three other songs that didn't make it on the album (which is a shame since they're some of her best stuff) and if you're a die-hard fan who can't get enough of the lovely and talented Liz Phair, then this is the cd for you. Liz is not new to being a pinata for critics, in fact she received a lot of backlash for songs like this single, but if it weren't for songs like this I wouldn't have been introduced to her old stuff, and the critics ignore this fact, and the fact that Liz's vocals have improved a great deal and lyrically it's still our Liz, just a different musically driven Liz.


I love this song!!!
Liz Phair's poignant lyrical ability really captures the charm of falling for someone. This is a song about the moment when you fall in love. Catchy phrases such as "It's an itch we know we are gonna scratch/Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch" really make this an adorable and fun song.


Good Single, as a CD, may be for fans
" Although that is a great feat, she may have dissapointed some fans with the more mainstream glossiness of her newest album. Liz Phair produced the best pop album of 2003 with her release of "Liz Phair. "Why can't I?" is definetly a Liz Phair song, it has just been polished up a bit. What really made the album worth it to those snobby indie purists and even casual fans was the hidden comeandgetit internet EP. Basically buying Liz Phair gave you rights to your own downloadable copy of "comeandgetit". "comeandgetit" contains 5 songs
1. Jeremy Engle
2. Bouncer's Conversation
3. Hurricane Cindy
4. Fine Again
5. Shallow Opportunites.

It is a gem of an "album," maybe these songs weren't deemed worthy by the capitol records staff, but thank god it was released. It is some of Liz Phair's best work yet. Quirky, thoughtful, intelligent, and interesting; if not mainstream. Buying "Liz Phair" for "comeandgetit" is definetly worth it.

Now for this single Cd. Basically it is an ultra rare single released in certain places blah blah blah. What counts now is that you get two songs from "comeandgetit" pressed onto an album.
For fans, it is cool to have these songs on a real cd instead of a burned copy, plus you get alternate cover art. For casual fans
you get a great single and some very rare materiel.

Although all three songs are great, the Cd may only be for "hardcore" fans who want a "real" copy, or fans who do not have access to a computer with CD/r burning abilities; as the songs are free for download after you buy "Liz Phair"

Enjoy!.


A CD alternative
Having bought the 2003 "Liz Phair" CD with access to the internet EP "comeandgetit" whenever I have that CD in my computer's CD-ROM drive, there are five songs that I only listen to by streaming after downloading the most up-to-date player that was available last year. There a few Liz Phair songs that I can only listen to when my computer is on. This single has the hit "Why Can't I?" from the CD with two songs from the internet EP. I like the song "Jeremy Engle" for its wry picture of a dining room full of people arguing at dinner with mocking surprise like a stain on his tie, heading for the conclusion, "Sometimes all you need is a napkin. " The song "Fine Again" does not seem to be as strong to me, but if you heard it sometime, you might remember something about it's "good to be back. " There would be few opportunities in my life to listen to music when I would want to hear these three songs and not get the rest of the 14 songs on the "Liz Phair" CD or the five songs of the internet EP "comeandgetit," but if three songs are all you want, and a CD player is all you can use to listen to music, you might listen to this a lot more than I would. I sympathize with people who would pay so much for a few songs because they think that one of them was a big hit, but I don't know how many people in 2004 could tell you if any of these three songs were. Has anyone ever had a hit song about someone getting a stain on his necktie?.


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