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- Posted: 10/16/2017 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2498): Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair
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Today's album of the day
Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1993.
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Overall rank: 663
Average rating: 76/100 (from 297 votes).
Tracks:
1. 6'1"
2. Help Me Mary
3. Glory
4. Dance Of The Seven Veils
5. Never Said
6. Soap Star Joe
7. Explain It To Me
8. Canary
9. Mesmerizing
10. Fuck And Run
11. Girls! Girls! Girls!
12. Divorce Song
13. Shatter
14. Flower
15. Johnny Sunshine
16. Gunshy
17. Stratford-On-Guy
18. Strange Loop
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Yann
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Location: France
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- #2
- Posted: 10/16/2017 20:10
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low fi classic
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Mercury
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revolver94
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- #4
- Posted: 10/17/2017 01:51
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fuckkk yes i was just thinking about this album recently. def one of the cooler albums i got into at a (relatively) younger age.
crazy consistent. these are all good songs honestly. haven't listened in a while, i should. fuck and run is one of the greatest. _________________ My top songs of the 2010s
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bobbyb5
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- #5
- Posted: 10/18/2017 06:46
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When this came out I liked it fine but thought was a bit overrated. And then when her next came out, Whip Smart, I thought it was 10 times better. The music wasn't as one-dimensional as exile, the the songs were better, it had better Arrangements and it was more varied, she sang better. Yet everyone said it was a huge disappointment. Go figure. And then when I made a 90s decade chart a couple months ago, I automatically put whip smart on it, but completely forgot about Exile in guyville. It didn't even come into my mind. Heh heh
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Yann
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- Posted: 10/18/2017 11:01
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bobbyb5 wrote: | When this came out I liked it fine but thought was a bit overrated. And then when her next came out, Whip Smart, I thought it was 10 times better. The music wasn't as one-dimensional as exile, the the songs were better, it had better Arrangements and it was more varied, she sang better. Yet everyone said it was a huge disappointment. Go figure. And then when I made a 90s decade chart a couple months ago, I automatically put whip smart on it, but completely forgot about Exile in guyville. It didn't even come into my mind. Heh heh |
Bigger sound on Whip Smart, yes, but I believe part of the surprise of Exile came precisely with that low-fi sound. And also I think Exile in Guyville (good title) was just a lot more focused, as are every masterpieces.
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bobbyb5
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- Posted: 10/18/2017 11:56
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Yann wrote: | Bigger sound on Whip Smart, yes, but I believe part of the surprise of Exile came precisely with that low-fi sound. And also I think Exile in Guyville (good title) was just a lot more focused, as are every masterpieces. |
True. But nobody hass ever been able to explain to me exactly why Lo-Fi is automatically better then hi-fi. It's not like it's more exciting or more interesting or anything. More like a gimmick than anything else.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 10/18/2017 12:14
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Yeah, I really dislike most of the big-sounding semihits on Whip-Smart, e.g. 'Supernova'.
This is excellent though. The songs sound less professional but more moving, barer, and Phair sounds more fucked up - I'm sorry to say that while I'm glad she sounds more at peace with herself on the next (not always - see 'Chopsticks'), it makes for less interesting music overall.
'Stratford-on-Guy' is a Normcore classic of the 90s.
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bobbyb5
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- Posted: 10/18/2017 12:18
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Norman Bates wrote: | Yeah, I really dislike most of the big-sounding semihits on Whip-Smart, e.g. 'Supernova'.
This is excellent though. The songs sound less professional but more moving, barer, and Phair sounds more fucked up - I'm sorry to say that while I'm glad she sounds more at peace with herself on the next (not always - see 'Chopsticks'), it makes for less interesting music overall.
'Stratford-on-Guy' is a Normcore classic of the 90s. |
Nothing is better than supernova.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 10/18/2017 12:21
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bobbyb5 wrote: |
Nothing is better than supernova. |
Apparently there's 'Trans-Europe-Express'.
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