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Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Audio CD

A fair review of the Liz Phair "Exile in Guyville" 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: Exile in Guyville
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Release Date: 2008-06-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: 6'1" 2: Help Me Mary 3: Glory 4: Dance of the Seven Veils 5: Never Said 6: Soap Star Joe 7: Explain It to Me 8: Canary 9: Mesmerizing 10: Fuck and Run 11: Girls! Girls! Girls! 12: Divorce Song 13: Shatter 14: Flower 15: Johnny Sunshine 16: Gunshy 17: Stratford-on-Guy 18: Strange Loop 19: Ant in Alaska [#][*] 20: Say You [#][*] 21: Instrumental [#][*][Instrumental] 22: Exile in Guyville [DVD][*]

Phair's best album...no question
I do not know anything about the new songs, or if they "cleaned up" this version of the album. I bought this version as a gift. However, if you know Liz Phair as the "mega-pop" woman (or if you think of her as a version of Gwen Stefani), then you don't know Liz Phair--and you've heard nothing like this!

This is an album with songs about a woman trying to find her place. She's angry, sexual. . . and listening to this album will make you wish she wrote these songs about your time with her.

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One of the greatest albums of all time
Listen to this gem, though, and you just may realize that Liz created, with her first outing, one of the most important albums in the history of music, much less the '90s. If you are under the age of thirty, you might think of Liz as some kind of pop star that may or may not be incredible. This album, put simply, MATTERS. . . . more than you can imagine. . . . more than I am even realizing at this point. I've cherished it for years and with each passing day i realize more and more how much it transcends this thing we call reality. Liz may have never created an equal to this album, but this is comparable to saying that Van Gogh never topped Starry Night and Michaelangelo spent himself on that one chapel. This is art. This is more than art. This is a masterpiece. This is the hand of god channeled through one of his or her hottest mediums. . . media? I don't know, but I do know that Liz Phair is the closest thing to a deity in this day and age.


Boring Exile in PC-ville


Of course, don't ever, ever - EVER! - criticize something a woman has done, especially if she's one of the ordained favorites of insular media critics otherwise they will smite you with the inevitable "You have a short ****!" And remember, criticism of women is ALWAYS sexist. "Exile in Guyville" is the most over rated album in the history of rock music but Phair strikes all the right poses for the pc-addled critics: "Why, she's sexual just like men! Incredible!!1! She sings about sex, smashing proletariat conventions! Wow!" The musicianship is pathetic and dull, the lyrics are trite and the music sucks and is boring but hey, who cares about that.

For the many politically correct who insist on consuming art - music, film, painting, whatever - only through a politically correct frame of reference, at least buy something here at Amazon from real, legitimate female talents like the great jazz pianist Jessica Williams or Missy Elliot or Patty Griffin - people, pardon me, WOMEN of real ability and accomplishment.

"Exile in Guyville" - the empress has no clothes and few are willing to say so.


Great, Raw Emtion!
But didn't realize that she was more of heavier artist back in the and completely changed her image. I was skeptical to try out some of liz phair's earlier alternative work! I've heard her latest two cd's and thought they were amazing. Which to me isn't really that bad of a thing. I was surprised to find out how emtionally raw this album was. To me it sounded deep and very dark. I think she is an excellent example of some who does a great job songwriting as well. I can see how she's on critics top choice lists. This almost seems to be to be as it were a heavier version of bob dylan. Liz Phair is really one of the best women in rock music in my opinion. If you love alternative or the Nirava / Seattle grunge scene then you def. will not be disappointed by this album!.


One of Pops Great Classic
That's what you get when your first album is nothing short of rock-and-roll-pop-genius: complaints that your subsequent albums don't measure up. Liz Phair came out of indy nowhere with this song by song response to the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" and she's never been able to live it down. But that's show biz. If you don't know this album then you are in for a rare treat. It stands up as well as anything from those days (1993) and Rolling Stone Magazine was right to include it on the Greatest 500. . .
I gave this reissue as a gift so can't comment on it specifically, but this album rules! .


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