This is the cover of Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville" - I had heard that the album was a song for song reply to the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Mainstreet" album and that was due to be re-released in time for the 15th anniversary of it's original debut. Hmmm... For me, that's intriguing enough for me to want to give it a listen. I did my usual for music that I had no clue as to what it would be like - I listened to the 30 second rips that the stores (online and otherwise) have on their demo machinima. Hmmm... I found a copy or two in the wild (big stores want $$$, mang!) but passed them by.Anyway, as I was searching around the net, I found a bootleg someone posted of the 2008-06-23 show at the Filmore where she did the whole album live, tune for tune. OK recording - audience based - not from the board, so there is a bit of "chatter".
Then searched around a bit for more info on the infamous Liz - if I caught it correctly, her career sprang from a series of cassettes she recorded at the house, her and a guitar, and were passed to friends. They eventually made their way to some record producer and things happened. Anyway, the legendary cassettes became known as the Girly Sound tapes - and I busted out some GoogleFu and found the tapes at GirlySound.com.
Listening to the Girly Sound tapes now, but I find it refreshing to hear something this raw. Some of the tunes are on other projects (even the aforementioned Guyville) - I wish I could do something like this. For how raw they are - they exist. Whenever I try to do something creative, I want perfection, so my usual outcome is nada. Liz has much more sack than I - and that is always an intriguing listen.
