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Exile in Guyville [PA] by Liz Phair

Exile in Guyville [PA] by Liz Phair
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Lame breakthrough

Written: Sep 28 '99

Product Rating: Product Rating: 2.0
Pros: Liberating lyrics, one great song

Cons: Ditties will drive you nuts
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jorn's Full Review: Exile in Guyville [PA] by Liz Phair
I find most of the tunes on this album unlistenable, like songs you make up on the spur of the moment, but in spite of that it's probably the most influential album of the 90s, in the alt.female category anyway.

Phair was the first to combine Joni Mitchell's poetic confessionals with extremely explicit lyrics about female lust, and in doing this she seems to have set an entire generation free.

Supposedly, the album is a song-for-song response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. (Means nothing to me, sorry.)

For me, there's only one song on this album that I love, and that's Stratford-on-Guy, which is just about perfect without even needing to be about sex-- mysterious, transcendental, tuneful.

Somebody tell me if she ever does another that good!





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Release Date: 1999-12-21, Audio CD, Capitol More at Amazon Marketplace
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