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May 5, 2008

Liz Phair: Fifteen Years in "Guyville"

The indie rock icon talks about her complicated relationship with her debut and its reissue

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Exile In Guyville

Ten years before the blog boom, Phair practiced oversharing as performance art — to create a virtually perfect debut. Released in 1993, and billed as a song-by-song response to the Stones' Exile on Main Street, Exile in Guyville was a peep show of sexual and emotional bravado, conducted over s...

2008 RS: 5of 5 Stars

Somebody's Miracle

2005

Liz Phair

2003

Whitechocolatespaceegg

1998

Whip-Smart

1994

Exile In Guyville

1993

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Liz Phair, the in-your-face indie sweetheart, sent up "Guyville" (i.e., the male-dominated alternative-music scene dubbed as such by Chicago rockers Urge Overkill) in her debut, Exile in Guyville - a song-by-song response to the Stones' Exile on Main Street. The album drove home the point that gender has nothing to do with whether or not an artist can rock with intelligence and sexual...

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