Customer Reviews

Liz Phair (Clean)

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Let me start off by saying the clean version is just as good without the explicit content and lyrics. Liz Phair's voice is pretty. My favorite songs are Extraordinary, Red Light Fever, and Why Can't I. This album is soothing and flowing without any foul language, or bad songs. I'd recommend this cd to anyone who'd rather have a good, clean version of this instead of explicit.

I've always loved Liz Phair, always thought she was a diamond in the rough. The garage band production values are mostly missing from this CD-but not the Liz Phair edge. It says a lot that, even without the dirty sonics, she's as subversive as ever. The polished diamond is still razor sharp. This CD will probably take her mainstream with lots of radio play. She cleans up real nice. I hope it makes her filthy rich.

Though this is a rock solid pop album with excellent songs, it is hard to have the entire experience of a Liz Phair record that has been edited. While there are some awesome tracks- namely "Extraordinary" and "Rock Me" which need not be edited, overall the explicit record is a more complete experience and the way this record was intended to be listened to.

The review in the NY Times for this CD read like a letter from a kid in junior high to the person who just broke up with them. This is a great album and I'm glad Liz has decided to shake free of the we're-so-cool snobbery that pollutes the indie music scene. I'm surprised that people can take such offense from an individual making artistic and business decisions that serve her own best interests. The indignant reaction is likened to the way people got all huffy when the Dixie Chick's singer criticized Bush. If Liz Phair buys into this criticism, she'll be selling out. At this point, she's doing what she wants to do by kicking off the dreary dust of artistic martyrdom and trying to make some cash. Liberate Liz; buy this disc!

First off, I AM a Liz Phair fan. This album however was a bit of a disappointment. Liz does a more popmusic album aimed towards the mainstream audience in an already diluted market. Unfortunately for her, it does not stand out enough to gain much momentum and she probably lost a few accustomed fans with this attempt. I was in high hopes that she would have made a bigger splash just so I can hear more of her music. Her older albums were much better and far more unique.

Do not buy this. Liz Phair censored is like a car with no gas. First off the whole song of H.W.C. is gone, which was a great song. I can't even imagine the rest of the songs and how they got butchered. Just buy the Explicit version..so what she says F*ck once or twice. Please. So get out now and buy the real thing.

Liz's latest album is practicably intolerable. Such a fine artist has chosen now to wade in the end of shallowness. A huge admirer of her previous work, this album is pathetic. Only a handful of well written tracks that resemble the talented Liz that we know of are present out of the 14 on this record. The rest sound like the worst 1980's metal band you could ever imagine. Very sad indeed.

This is a formally great artist who has succumed to the allure of celebrity. Avoid this album if you have any self-respect.