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Liz Phair — What Makes You Happy
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(Richmond, VA)
Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 14:05
 
 Byronape wrote:
While I applaud Liz for not falling into the over-sexualized pop star routine in order to sell albums, I just have never liked her music.  It's to much bubble gum pop for me.  Maybe I have just not heard enough of her stuff, but what I have heard has never hit with me.
 
"Not falling into the over-sexualized pop star routine in order to sell albums"?!?  
To quote Bender, *that* activates my hilarity unit!  Did not not hear about the reinvented Liz a few years ago, when she openly admitted in interviews that she had made peace with using her sexiness to sell albums, including gracing her a album cover as a sex-kitten with a strategically-placed guitar?

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 10:15
 
Finally some rock and roll on RP!

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 07:32
 
While I applaud Liz for not falling into the over-sexualized pop star routine in order to sell albums, I just have never liked her music.  It's to much bubble gum pop for me.  Maybe I have just not heard enough of her stuff, but what I have heard has never hit with me.

fbdesign
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 20:54
 
love this album!

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 06:34
 
 TJS wrote:
This is my favorite LP album.
 
same. love it from start to finish.

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 06:34
 
......No Thanks. Never liked her before, surely less now!

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 06:33
 
This is my favorite LP album.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 20:51
 
 shakitten wrote:
Wow. Haven't heard Liz in a long time. Didn't miss her.
 
i tell you what, this girl is scary

shakitten
(Trying to get back into a good dream)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 19:26
 
Wow. Haven't heard Liz in a long time. Didn't miss her.

terrapin52
(Terrapin Station, SC)
Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 16:24
 
I'm outta here.  

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 15:23
 
 treatment_bound wrote:
Once again, RP is ignoring an album that put a specific artist "on the map".  Why aren't there any songs from



here?
  Lots of potty mouth on that one? {#Mrgreen}



xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 15:17
 
 SchoepTone wrote:
I hear a bit of Madonna in there as well. Anyone else?
 
She would kick Madonna a**, even the overly muscle Madonna.


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 11:56
 
 NO
I hear a bit of Madonna in there as well. Anyone else?
 



vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 16:30
 

But mom, I'm sending you this photograph 
I swear this one is going to last 
And all those other bastards were only practice 




SchoepTone
(Duke City)
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 16:20
 
I hear a bit of Madonna in there as well. Anyone else?



peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 16:17
 
 ziggytrix wrote:

So you're saying it isn't a phair comparison? {#Rolleyes}
 
That's funny sh*t! {#Lol}

gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 16:17
 
 drife wrote:
Liz Phair blows, and that ain't a good thing. She belongs in the same dungeon as Ani Defranco.
 
I'd love to be stuck in that dungeon . . .

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 11:21
 
Once again, RP is ignoring an album that put a specific artist "on the map".  Why aren't there any songs from



here?

hifi
(Campinas, Brasil)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 11:20
 
nice 90's flavor

Kemoc
(Waynesville, OH)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 11:19
 
Johnny Feelgood is my fab, But this is good.

Ranaeph
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 - 20:59
 
 Eric_Denison wrote:
Liz Phair... who woulda thought I'd like Liz Phair.  Not bad at all!
  That's pretty much what my brain did a second ago!



ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 14:25
 
 dogpound wrote:
She paved the way for Alainis and Avril, and those gals dropped the ball.

Please, they're not even on the same court.
 
So you're saying it isn't a phair comparison? {#Rolleyes}

gandalfbmg
(3 mi from Paradise (Missouri))
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 14:25
 
 Moak wrote:
{#Ask}  Hmmmm, loaded question
Anyway, 'Guyville' seems to be the accepted classic, but I think this album is better in a lot of ways.



 

For what it's worth I like it better than Guyville...

dogpound
(the island on which I belong)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 17:32
 
She paved the way for Alainis and Avril, and those gals dropped the ball.

Please, they're not even on the same court.

drife
(Golden, CO)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 17:31
 
Liz Phair blows, and that ain't a good thing. She belongs in the same dungeon as Ani Defranco.

Moak
(Reading, PA)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 05:48
 
{#Ask}  Hmmmm, loaded question
Anyway, 'Guyville' seems to be the accepted classic, but I think this album is better in a lot of ways.




hulabell
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 13:39
 
I think this was the last good song she's written. Makes me just want to jump around the house.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 19:25
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
Musically......meh, but ohhhhh what I would do with her!!!{#Hearteyes}
 
Assuming, of course, that she'd allow herself to be within ten miles of you if she knew the way your brain works. {#Lol}

plaice3
Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 19:54
 
Listen to your mum.

(former member)
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 22:15
 
 dmax wrote:
Heh. This is a girl who's screwed up too many times ("I swear / all those other bastards were only practice") and is trying - unsuccessfully - to reassure her mom. "There's a silence...and she says 'Listen here young lady...'"
Her mom has given up on her ne'er do well daughter. I think Phair can't sing worth poop (which is somewhat endearing, like Dylan) but writes pretty complex songs, with a reasonably gritty quality to them. She paved the way for Alainis and Avril, and those gals dropped the ball.
 
I agree completely with this.

Phair is a mostly brilliant songwriter. 

"Listen here young lady
All that matter is what makes you happy
But you leave this house knowing my opinion
won't make you love me if you don't care to."
—-
"I feel the sun on my back
I smell the earth in my skin
I see the sky above me like a full recovery"


sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 09:36
 
Musically......meh, but ohhhhh what I would do with her!!!{#Hearteyes}

ddbz
(The Midwest)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 21:46
 
I have her first demo album.... hearing this here... I smile

crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 04:55
 
Hey Bill! Could you play something else from Liz? I've only heard this, as far as I know. Am I the only one who wakes up wearing different clothes, with a plane ticket in my pocket from a place I've never been? Happened twice last week...{#Think}

phishnet
Posted: Jan 23, 2010 - 18:20
 
 Cruzan wrote:
what "would make me happy" would be to not have to hear this American Idol type fluff on my favorite Internet radio station ;-)
 

Please tell me you are not serious.

rabaak
Posted: Jan 23, 2010 - 18:09
 
 lily34 wrote:


same.
 
I agree. This is a really good album. Does she have any other ones?

Cruzan
(AUSTIN, TX)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 08:06
 
what "would make me happy" would be to not have to hear this American Idol type fluff on my favorite Internet radio station ;-)

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 08:01
 
...transformers make me happy, so does robotech and the marvel superheroes roleplaying game...

...i haven't played with any of them in over twenty years, though...

lmic
(Influential In All The Wrong Ways)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:41
 
 Eric_Denison wrote:
Liz Phair... who woulda thought I'd like Liz Phair.  Not bad at all!
Yeah, this album is way, way more accessible than her early stuff. Personally, it's my favorite of her output.


4merdj
(donde el viento se devuelve)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:35
 
I am sure my teenage daughter would like it {#Rolleyes} {#Mrgreen}

chyk5
(Florida)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:35
 

Such a great debut album and then...this!




Eric_Denison
(British Columbia)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 11:51
 
Liz Phair... who woulda thought I'd like Liz Phair.  Not bad at all!

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 11:49
 
 Middleton wrote:
This cd is in my Top 5 for road-tripping, and sounds better and better the louder you turn up the volume.  It has successfully kept me awake for multiple late-night/all-night drives. 

{#Jump}

 

same.

pinklife
(St. Augustine, FL)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 11:48
 
Thanks, Bill....I needed that.  {#Dancingbanana}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 05, 2009 - 15:05
 
 kyleminor wrote:
I think I finally figured out where Madonna got her "new" sound.
 
wow .. excellent connection comment


Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Sep 19, 2009 - 22:01
 
Shrill.

davin
(Victoria, British Columbia)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 10:24
 
what Liz Phair needs

Middleton
(along for the ride)
Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 14:24
 
This cd is in my Top 5 for road-tripping, and sounds better and better the louder you turn up the volume.  It has successfully kept me awake for multiple late-night/all-night drives. 

{#Jump}


Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: Jul 18, 2009 - 19:46
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Sounds like a teeny bopper tune.
  But a good teenybopper tune I think



rabaak
Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 20:43
 
There is some good music on this album. Never really liked Liz until someone gave me this cd. Now I like her a lot

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 08:40
 
Sounds like a teeny bopper tune.