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Absent from the reissue are the two Girly-Sound demos "Shatter" and "Fuck or Die", as Phair was unable to get clearance for samples used in the songs. [41] On June 22, 2023, Phair released an outtake from the album titled "Miss Lucy". The song was intended to appear on the album; however, it was ultimately replaced with "Flower". [42]
Sexually explicit lyrics by female artists are common now, but when trailblazing Chicago singer-songwriter Liz Phair released her voice-of-a-generation debut album Exile in Guyville back in 1993 ...
Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, [5] on April 17, 1967. [6] She was adopted at birth by Nancy, a historian and museologist, [7] and John Phair, later an AIDS researcher and head of infectious diseases at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; [8] her mother later worked as a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Girly-Sound is the name under which singer-songwriter Liz Phair recorded three self-produced cassettes in 1991. The cassettes were later made available as bootlegs, some songs saw official releases, and the tapes were released in their entirety in 2018.
Liz Phair remains larger than life, in a way — even taller than 6’1”, if you will — as a result of her utterly down-to-earth yet myth-making first album, “Exile in Guyville,” in 1993.
However, Phair has also stated that the song can more broadly relate to the music scene as a whole. [2] She further explained the meaning of the song: [This was] just kind of like about the music scene and how catty it was. People were always getting upset about something that someone had said about their band or whatever the latest gossip was.
Liz Phair will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her landmark debut album, “Exile in Guyville,” with a tour that will take her to halls in 18 U.S. cities this fall. The “Exile” outing will ...
Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville (1993) album was a song-by-song response to The Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main St. (1972). "I Wrote Holden Caulfield" (1994) was Screeching Weasel's response to "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" (1992) by Green Day.