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Exile in Guyville | 
| Artist: Liz Phair
Label: Ato Records / Red
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 37560
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 21627
UPC: 880882162726
EAN: 0880882162726
ASIN: B00197KG4S
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 6'1" | | • | Help Me Mary | | • | Glory | | • | Dance of the Seven Veils | | • | Never Said | | • | Soap Star Joe | | • | Explain It to Me | | • | Canary | | • | Mesmerizing | | • | Fuck and Run | | • | Girls! Girls! Girls! | | • | Divorce Song | | • | Shatter | | • | Flower | | • | Johnny Sunshine | | • | Gunshy | | • | Stratford-on-Guy | | • | Strange Loop | | • | Ant in Alaska [#][*] | | • | Say You [#][*] | | • | Instrumental [#][*][Instrumental] |
Disc 2
| • | Exile in Guyville [DVD][*] |
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Album Description
Two CD set archive release of her 1993 album. Liz Phair is a US singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her signature guitar, which she is often seen playing (and is prominent upon the cover of her self-titled fourth album), is a Fender Duo-Sonic II. Her album Exile in Guyville was chosen as one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. This two disc set includes four previously unreleased audio tracks and a DVD with a documentary about the album's genesis.
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Phair's best album...no question May 17, 2009
Kevin Mckay (IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this version as a gift. I do not know anything about the new songs, or if they "cleaned up" this version of the album. However, if you know Liz Phair as the "mega-pop" woman (or if you think of her as a version of Gwen Stefani), then you don't know Liz Phair--and you've heard nothing like this!
This is an album with songs about a woman trying to find her place. She's angry, sexual...and listening to this album will make you wish she wrote these songs about your time with her.
 One of the greatest albums of all time March 30, 2009
Landon McQuilkin (Austin, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are under the age of thirty, you might think of Liz as some kind of pop star that may or may not be incredible. Listen to this gem, though, and you just may realize that Liz created, with her first outing, one of the most important albums in the history of music, much less the '90s. This album, put simply, MATTERS....more than you can imagine....more than I am even realizing at this point. I've cherished it for years and with each passing day i realize more and more how much it transcends this thing we call reality. Liz may have never created an equal to this album, but this is comparable to saying that Van Gogh never topped Starry Night and Michaelangelo spent himself on that one chapel. This is art. This is more than art. This is a masterpiece. This is the hand of god channeled through one of his or her hottest mediums...media? I don't know, but I do know that Liz Phair is the closest thing to a deity in this day and age.
 Boring Exile in PC-ville March 25, 2009
Django
2 out of 22 found this review helpful
"Exile in Guyville" is the most over rated album in the history of rock music but Phair strikes all the right poses for the pc-addled critics: "Why, she's sexual just like men! Incredible!!1! She sings about sex, smashing proletariat conventions! Wow!" The musicianship is pathetic and dull, the lyrics are trite and the music sucks and is boring but hey, who cares about that.
Of course, don't ever, ever - EVER! - criticize something a woman has done, especially if she's one of the ordained favorites of insular media critics otherwise they will smite you with the inevitable "You have a short ****!" And remember, criticism of women is ALWAYS sexist.
For the many politically correct who insist on consuming art - music, film, painting, whatever - only through a politically correct frame of reference, at least buy something here at Amazon from real, legitimate female talents like the great jazz pianist Jessica Williams or Missy Elliot or Patty Griffin - people, pardon me, WOMEN of real ability and accomplishment.
"Exile in Guyville" - the empress has no clothes and few are willing to say so.
Great, Raw Emtion! March 15, 2009
RJ (rjmusic)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was skeptical to try out some of liz phair's earlier alternative work! I've heard her latest two cd's and thought they were amazing.But didn't realize that she was more of heavier artist back in the and completely changed her image. Which to me isn't really that bad of a thing. I was surprised to find out how emtionally raw this album was. To me it sounded deep and very dark. I think she is an excellent example of some who does a great job songwriting as well. I can see how she's on critics top choice lists. This almost seems to be to be as it were a heavier version of bob dylan. Liz Phair is really one of the best women in rock music in my opinion. If you love alternative or the Nirava / Seattle grunge scene then you def. will not be disappointed by this album!
One of Pops Great Classic December 2, 2008
Jon DuBois (New York, New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Liz Phair came out of indy nowhere with this song by song response to the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" and she's never been able to live it down. That's what you get when your first album is nothing short of rock-and-roll-pop-genius: complaints that your subsequent albums don't measure up. But that's show biz. If you don't know this album then you are in for a rare treat. It stands up as well as anything from those days (1993) and Rolling Stone Magazine was right to include it on the Greatest 500...
I gave this reissue as a gift so can't comment on it specifically, but this album rules!
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