this is... I mean...
waht
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― janice (surm), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, at last!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I was not really expecting it to be flat-out hilarious
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep.Yes, I rapped one of them. Im as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but dont mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens.
This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards.
-Liz
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_-BAtm3Ys
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
uh that's a lot worse than bollywood imo
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this song actually.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the lol part is intentionally funny, so that makes it better than bollywood. This, on the other hand....
http://www.youtube.com/user/madeyes4u#p/u/5/megGQuCHfxI
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=megGQuCHfxI
Returned for insufficient postage.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess she doesn't use Facebook or email.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Sex In the City 3: Bollywood
― exit through the (Tape Store), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
These songs lost me my management, my record deal
Anyone surprised?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, it's the Moon Unit Zappa comeback album.
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
worst journey ever
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"cocksucker blues" anyone? Metal Machine Music maybe? nah! she couldn't be that smart, amirite?
― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
a song by song response to machine metal music is her next project
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
called Liz Can't Dance.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Liz should star and direct a Graffiti Bridge-like movie to tie all these songs together.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
But her comeback is fucked now that "H.W.C." can't be her "Gett Off."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, that is why her comeback is fucked
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
cocksucker blues and metal machine music were both listenable, of course.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
also artists usually drive themselves into the ditch when they're in the middle of the road, not when they've been stuck in their garage for five years
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy crap, "Smoke" makes "Bollywood" sound like "Fuck and Run".
― Fifi live from gay Paree (staggerlee), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like a SNL parody of something from Beck's Odelay. Horrific.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I fucking love this song more and more every time I hear it and I need to hear this album ASAP
― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Bollywood" totally winning me over, but I say this as somebody who feels "This Is Ponderous" is one of the great overlooked singles of my lifetime.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
omg smoke hahahah, this is pretty great. When does this record come out again? Is the whole thing just a string of these goofy cut-up skits lampooning her own life as a washed-up onetime famed person? "I don't know John Mayer... I met him..."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
xp:
Princess Superstar fronting 2NU.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:52 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
; )
― kkvgz, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean granted it's all horrendously dated-sounding but most of the jokes have been funny at least once...I'm in favor of this direction for her.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe the same girl who wrote Shane could've written this new stuff. don't get it.
it's kind of shockingly sad
you gotta have fear in ur heart.
― janice (surm), Saturday, 31 July 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Funstyle is getting the deluxe reissue treatment.
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm:
"I’m working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. I had a lot of issues to work out," Phair says, laughing and slinking into her chair."But this record has been a very beautiful experience. I’m not going to screw up the production, either. I’m going to get this one right. I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time."She credits her performance in 2010 at the Matador's 21st anniversary concerts in Las Vegas as reinvigorating her approach to music. Phair shared a stage with the likes of Guided by Voices and Yo La Tengo, and even dueted with Ted Leo."Oh, my God, what a godsend that was," she says of the experience. "What an amazing homecoming. That ended a whole cycle of pain. It was a rebirth. I remembered who I once was, and they remembered not to hate me so much. They remembered that it’s not all that ferociously awful, what I have done."As for her new record, Phair says she's targeting a more stripped-down, stark approach. She cites a few artists as inspiration. "I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production," she says. "I want it to sound (messed)-up, but at a level of mastery that is respectable."And for those still confused by the scattershot production of "Funstyle," which ranged from Bollywood to spoken-word goofiness, get over it. There's more where that came from, but Phair is now reticent to release it."I was going to do ‘Funstyle,’ ‘Funnerstyle’ and Funnererstyle.’ I’ve got all these songs, but I can’t handle people freaking out," she says. "There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
"But this record has been a very beautiful experience. I’m not going to screw up the production, either. I’m going to get this one right. I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time."
She credits her performance in 2010 at the Matador's 21st anniversary concerts in Las Vegas as reinvigorating her approach to music. Phair shared a stage with the likes of Guided by Voices and Yo La Tengo, and even dueted with Ted Leo.
"Oh, my God, what a godsend that was," she says of the experience. "What an amazing homecoming. That ended a whole cycle of pain. It was a rebirth. I remembered who I once was, and they remembered not to hate me so much. They remembered that it’s not all that ferociously awful, what I have done."
As for her new record, Phair says she's targeting a more stripped-down, stark approach. She cites a few artists as inspiration. "I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production," she says. "I want it to sound (messed)-up, but at a level of mastery that is respectable."
And for those still confused by the scattershot production of "Funstyle," which ranged from Bollywood to spoken-word goofiness, get over it. There's more where that came from, but Phair is now reticent to release it.
"I was going to do ‘Funstyle,’ ‘Funnerstyle’ and Funnererstyle.’ I’ve got all these songs, but I can’t handle people freaking out," she says. "There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
"I had a lot of issues to work out."
god
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production,
"There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
This is why we need publicists.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
"I can't think of anyone else of my indie-rock generation who has so completely betrayed his or her talent."
ahhhh old ILM
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I thought that was said about Alex Chilton?
― nickn, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Greil Marcus re: Rod Stewart iirc
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Google says you're right, but I remember reading that said about Chilton many years ago.
― nickn, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
The beginning of this thread is still so gross to me.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
we'll always butthurt fans
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
we'll always have butthurt fans too
Are there any fervent Liz Phair fans remaining? Seems like every fan horrified by the realization that um actually she was Sheryl Crow -- that EIG represents the inevitability of recording with no money instead of an ethos -- is a dumb straight guy.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
fervent FEMALE fans, I should say. I need dinner.
Seems like every fan horrified by the realization that um actually she was Sheryl Crow -- that EIG represents the inevitability of recording with no money instead of an ethos -- is a dumb straight guy.
I want to take issue with this statement, but I just haven't listened closely enough to her later albums to feel like I'd be on solid footing. (Never even heard the one that Christgau loved and everyone else compared to Avril Lavigne.) I do know that there's nothing on albums #2 and #3 that come anywhere close to "Divorce Song" or "Fuck and Run" for me--some good songs, but not close. None of which rules out me being a dumb straight guy.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed on Whip-Smart but WCSE is close to her best album: a Sheryl Crow production with Liz Phair songs. I can't listen to "Divorce Song" without thinking of "Go On Ahead," "Uncle Alvarez," or at half a dozen WCSE tracks as sequels.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
i.e. the continuing story of a self-aware woman who likes sex but loves her son and is trying to fit into situations she's outgrown
btw clem I'm reacting to the angst expressed at the beginning of this thread, started in 2003. I'm surprised that even in 2003 fans couldn't see that a novelty song about hot white cum was the means by which Liz Phair scored her biggest commercial coup.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link