From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #156 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Friday, June 20 2003 Volume 06 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Did the Album Ship Already? ["J. Alan Doak" ] absolutely brutal review [robert joyner ] Liz review in Glorious Noise ["gregg davis" ] presale ticket info for portland, sf, and seattle ["john kim" ] Liz / GQ [Kenneth Lee ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 05:48:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Alan Doak" Subject: Re: Did the Album Ship Already? I noticed the charge yesterday. I was wondering what the chances are of it shipping yesterday, and arriving tomorrow... I'm thinking they don't make numbers that small. j. - --- John-Paul Finger wrote: > Even though I've enjoyed the new album for a bit, I > really can't wait to > get the real retail copy of it. Has anoyone else > who ordered from > awarestore in hopes of getting an autographed copy > noticed that their > credit card has been charged? Last I checked > companies did that when > they shipped the items. > > A phan can only hope... > > John-Paul > Austin, TX > > NP: Guided By Voices: Isolation Drills __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:36:53 -0700 (PDT) From: robert joyner Subject: absolutely brutal review from the Toronto Eye Weekly. enjoy it, emil!!! http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_06.19.03/music/ondisc.html 2 Stars Review by STUART BERMAN Phair warning LIZ PHAIR Capitol/EMI Ten years after she exiled herself from Guyville, Liz Phair enters Buyville with this blatant bid for pop stardom, complete with Xtina-esque spread-eagle cover pose, a production shellac-job that makes Sheryl Crow sound like Robert Johnson and songwriting royalties forwarded to The Matrix, the shadowy consortium who taught Avril Lavigne how to spell "sk8er." All of which would be par for the course for any aspiring LA-emigrating starlet, except that Liz had the honour/misfortune of being crowned Miss Indie Rock 1993 with her debut, Exile in Guyville, a charmingly lo-fi/high-concept rumination on sexual politics and hypocracies. She's been steering more middle of the road ever since, but with this fourth album, she's backed into a no-win situation: her remaining cult is bound to disown her, while her past glories mean nothing to a new teenybopper audience that could potentially mistake her for Avril's crazy mom. Actually, not everything has changed in Liz-land: the one-time wannabe-blow-job queen is still singing about coaxing protein supplements out of willing donors, though in the case of the new album's "H.W.C." (that's "Hot White Cum"), she's singing less about the joys of sex and than those of discovering novel anti-wrinkling remedies. In that sense, Liz Phair couldn't be more aptly titled, in that it's an accurate reflection of where she's at in life: a 36-year-old divorced mom basking in her newfound freedom, but trying too hard to fit in with the college kids hanging out at the meat-market bar. The top-40-baiting production can't mask all of Phair's storytelling talents: she still speaks with enough candour to earn the Parental Advisory sticker, and on "Little Digger" she even offers a poignant explanation to her son about why mommy spent the night with a man who isn't daddy. However, the would-be cougar anthem "Rock Me" confirms your worst suspicions of Phair's Matrix match-up, with its awkward arranged marriage between blunt honesty (Liz is hot for 20-year-old slacker dudes) and contrived musicality (lumpen rock riffs, overprocessed "baby baby baby" vocals). It makes you wonder if the men behind The Matrix took the name just because it sounded cool and mysterious, or whether they actually are a computer program: in this case, substitute Avril's MTV name-drop for Phair's Xbox reference. (Or, better yet, just swap Lavigne's "Complicated" for Liz's "Why Can't I.") You can see where Phair's coming from -- she knows first-hand that you can't raise a child on rave record reviews alone, and to her credit, she makes it clear from the outset that this album is about nothing other than selling herself: "I am extraordinary," she sings, "if you ever get to know me." Unfortunately, she's not sure who wants to know her anymore. Why'd she have to make it so complicated? ===== - ------------------------------------------------------------ Nashville - A Liz Phair Web Site http://www.geocities.com/robnashville - ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:17:48 -0400 From: "gregg davis" Subject: Liz review in Glorious Noise http://www.gloriousnoise.com/arch/000881.php "Like Jewel's recent, confusing application of her folky songcraft to glittering dance-pop divadom, Phair seems to think marrying her famous "fuck it, I'll say it" attitude to newly accessible (i.e., forgettable) music will be her ticket to the mainstream audience she's apparently always desired. But aside from leaving older fans in her wake, the material just isn't very strong, simply as good music. The intent is also confusing. Is the young stud of "H.W.C." and "Rock Me" the same guy who plays trucks with Phair's young son in "Little Digger"?" ~gregg "No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up." Lily Tomlin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:44:46 -0400 From: "john kim" Subject: presale ticket info for portland, sf, and seattle be sure to get tickets!!! www.lizphair.musictoday.com _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 03:10:47 +0000 From: "over pavema" Subject: review me rolling stone gives LP 3 stars, but also credits 'rock me' as being really good. and the reviewer calls 'wcse' a "dullish" album. on the other hand, they do have a pathetic .wma download of HWC, which i could never play because the prick-ish licensing system keeps popping up a browser window to tell me my license is 'approved', while also closing down the stupid media player, so the song won't ever play. but it's reassuring to know that i have a LICENSE to play a song that i can't play because the technical dickheads contracted by rolling fucking stone are so imcompetent. so, 3-stars, 'rock me' has good lyrics, 'WCSE' was "dullish", and the download won't play. 4 good reasons why i'm not even bothering to show the link in this note. go find it yourself. o p _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:37:25 -0700 From: Kenneth Lee Subject: Liz / GQ Greetings from the land of Mesmerizing, While in the process of scanning the pictures from my previous magazine transcriptions, along comes the July issue of GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly). That article, along with scans from that article and some of the previous articles (Venice, CMJ New Music Report, Magnet) are now available for viewing at Mesmerizing. More to come (what did you expect?). Enjoy! Happy Emil Breton? - -Ken kenmlee@ix.netcom.com MeSmErIzInG - AnOtHeR LiZ PhAiR WeBsItE http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/ ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #156 ************************************