― Jake, Saturday, 3 May 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 3 May 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
I loved Exile (still do) and think Whip Smart was a smart, strong followup. WCSE was - eh - not bad but nothing to get too excited over but seeing the hate for the new album is depressing. If it is as bad as ppl are syaiing, what the happened to Liz?
Doug Wolk said that this was the biggest betrayal of talent in his indie rock generation --- is the album really that bad?
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 3 May 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
R.I.P.
― Venus Glow (1411), Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:16 (twenty years ago) link
CBGB/OMFUG T or not, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
V
― V (1411), Saturday, 3 May 2003 04:07 (twenty years ago) link
I thought Douglas Wolk was just exaggerating for effect, but he wasn't: this is an artistic betrayal of staggering proportions. Listening to it scares me, because I recognize that voice as superficially belonging to Liz Phair but I can't hear her on this album anywhere. It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Album. And it's not the hi-gloss production or the Matrix songwriting credits that's at fault so much as the lyrics.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Saturday, 3 May 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
It's sad that Liz has resorted to stealing from Maya Angelou's poetry.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 3 May 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
"I want to play Xbox on your floorSay hi to your roommate who's next doorYou don't have a dime, but I don't mindWho gives a damn
Your record collection don't existYou don't even know who Liz Phair is"
Never thought she was all that great, anyway. Only bought Exile in Guyville when it came out because I didn't know better. I don't feel as betrayed as some of her more rabid fans might, but I know a doublecross when I see one.
― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 3 May 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
Sterling is the resurrection? Sterling is the life?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
I am extraordinary, if you'd ever get to know me
you wait around years for something this awful, thank you thank you Liz Phair
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 3 May 2003 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
Does anyone know of a better break up song than "Divorce Song"? "And it's also true that I lost the map". Amen.
― scott m (mcd), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
-- don weiner
Sorry to say it, but it sounds like another last gasp from an artist in the throes of deep block or "deeply out of wad" syndrome.
― Roman (Roman), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
am I the only one who notices that Pink sounds like Liz Phair on "Get the Party Started"?
and I quite like extraordinary -- certainly more hooky & meandering than Avril &c.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
Whoa -- that to my mind spells contradiction. I mean, I like the concept if it happens...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― V (1411), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
Then again I've been known to do this myself.
I was always told my girls in college that Exile meant a lot to them during their formative years blah blah. Is that true? I remember it being one of the few pieces of indie rock (broadly defined) that was played on the Adult Album Alternative station in Chicago, and I remember thinking it was pretty unexceptional.
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
But I like the idea of having a squad of girls who had my back in college.
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 May 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
this is GREAT!!!
― thom west (thom w), Monday, 5 May 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 May 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikael Wood, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
gotta love indie logic.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikael Wood, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― tractor & trailer, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
"Bollywood" likely one of the worst songs I've ever heard by anyone.
http://lizphair.com/
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 July 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
AHHHHHHHHHHH EVERY1 HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS
― 156, Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm finding the '7 years pass...' to be a piquant comment in and of itself.
― Matt M., Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I am one of the only people on earth who liked the single on her last record, but this is an atrocity.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wau
― the last air bud (crüt), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
holy crap
― sofatruck, Sunday, 4 July 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Get a taste of Liz Phair
― buzza, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDpUJjVfpOU&feature=player_embedded#!
― buzza, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
This kinda reminds me of "Rico Suave" only not as good.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Only Liz Phair would go around and interview people about her own record.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys ... the album cover ...
http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Funstyle_Cover_Image-400x400.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9EbOXYenJY&feature=related
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
actually, Funstyle is great.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link