Comments on: Why I Hate Liz Phair http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/ We're not geeks! Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: rick http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-6255 rick Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:44:17 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-6255 Steve Albini had it right all along. Liz Phair is simply her generations Rickie Lee Jones. Just not as interesting. Steve Albini had it right all along. Liz Phair is simply her generations Rickie Lee Jones. Just not as interesting.

]]> By: marlon http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-3896 marlon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:54:36 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-3896 This post troubles me. In my opinion, Exile in Guyville is one of the best albums of the nineties and I am male but it has nothing to do with "the nipple". I'm gay and before people start saying "oh you find the album good because you want to be her", i truthfully find the music compelling. The album runs all over the pop landscape. We get lo fi rock with midtempo snarl and smart lyrics like 6'1" to spooky, hushed ballads like "Explain it to me", "Canary" and "Dance of the seven veils". We also get some slow, feedback drenched tracks like "Shatter" and just plain catchy indie pop like "Fuck and Run". Again, the lyrics are fuckin beautiful. It's so easy to namedrop and focus on the raunch to be found in Fuck and Run and Flower but cmon, pay attention to the poetry in Stratford-on-guy, SHATTER (i don't know if i could fly a plane well enough to tailspin out your name), gunshy, strange loop. This album is more than girls rule or boys suck. For a moment in time, it laid out some truths about relationships and the music is remarkable. Her guitar playing is deceptively simple but hard to imitate (believe me, i have tried to play Stratford on guy) and it's just really infectious and persuasive. Her nonchalant delivery just hits the spot for me. I know, the author of the post is entitled to her opinion but to suggest the only reason why guys like this is because liz phair is hot, totally idiotic. And what's funny is Whip-smart and WCSE, her following albums, are great too. This post troubles me. In my opinion, Exile in Guyville is one of the best albums of the nineties and I am male but it has nothing to do with “the nipple”. I’m gay and before people start saying “oh you find the album good because you want to be her”, i truthfully find the music compelling. The album runs all over the pop landscape. We get lo fi rock with midtempo snarl and smart lyrics like 6′1″ to spooky, hushed ballads like “Explain it to me”, “Canary” and “Dance of the seven veils”. We also get some slow, feedback drenched tracks like “Shatter” and just plain catchy indie pop like “Fuck and Run”. Again, the lyrics are fuckin beautiful. It’s so easy to namedrop and focus on the raunch to be found in Fuck and Run and Flower but cmon, pay attention to the poetry in Stratford-on-guy, SHATTER (i don’t know if i could fly a plane well enough to tailspin out your name), gunshy, strange loop. This album is more than girls rule or boys suck. For a moment in time, it laid out some truths about relationships and the music is remarkable. Her guitar playing is deceptively simple but hard to imitate (believe me, i have tried to play Stratford on guy) and it’s just really infectious and persuasive. Her nonchalant delivery just hits the spot for me. I know, the author of the post is entitled to her opinion but to suggest the only reason why guys like this is because liz phair is hot, totally idiotic.

And what’s funny is Whip-smart and WCSE, her following albums, are great too.

]]> By: isla http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 isla Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:17:58 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-1154 i think people's affinity to this album has a lot to do with timing...90's garage sound/ riot grrl appeal etc....everything is defined by the space and time in which it was created. and for liz phair to say "fuck and run" and all that shit was just a rebellion in tune with it's time. seperating men's music from women's music is exactly the kind of the thing that my idea of feminism trys to illiminate so i get a little kerfuffled when you start talking about "men's" and "women's" music. i think people’s affinity to this album has a lot to do with timing…90’s garage sound/ riot grrl appeal etc….everything is defined by the space and time in which it was created. and for liz phair to say “fuck and run” and all that shit was just a rebellion in tune with it’s time. seperating men’s music from women’s music is exactly the kind of the thing that my idea of feminism trys to illiminate so i get a little kerfuffled when you start talking about “men’s” and “women’s” music.

]]> By: Bryan Hopton http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Bryan Hopton Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:04:25 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-1132 I should've specified: My comment was directed toward Allana. I've held a seething disdain for Phair since I first heard her years ago. I have never understood the appeal of "Exile In Guyville" and the walls of acclaim it receives are, at best, confusing to me. I should’ve specified:
My comment was directed toward Allana. I’ve held a seething disdain for Phair since I first heard her years ago. I have never understood the appeal of “Exile In Guyville” and the walls of acclaim it receives are, at best, confusing to me.

]]> By: James http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 James Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:25:17 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-1131 You're welcome, Bryan. You’re welcome, Bryan.

]]> By: Bryan Hopton http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Bryan Hopton Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:36:53 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-1126 THANK you. THANK you.

]]> By: James http://mondomagazine.net/2008/why-i-hate-liz-phair/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 James Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:16:53 +0000 http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2074#comment-1108 C'mon, her version of "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" with Material Issue was decent. C’mon, her version of “The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)” with Material Issue was decent.

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