From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V7 #80 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 Wednesday, April 7 2004 Volume 07 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] Love/Hate and Bionic Eyes [-Stephanie- ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:03:50 -0400 From: -Stephanie- Subject: [support-system] Love/Hate and Bionic Eyes >Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:53:08 -0400 >From: "Chris DeLisle" >Subject: [support-system] "Love / Hate" and "My Bionic Eyes" >she's been playing "Love/Hate" and "My Bionic Eyes" live, >right? how do they come off? they were a couple of songs i >immediately thought would be great played live ~ too bad she >didn't perform them last summer. She played both in Boston and they were great. I was very happy to hear Bionic Eyes since it's my favorite song off the new album. I wish I had heard Whip Smart though. :-( ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:51:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Catherine Lewis" Subject: [support-system] 9:30 Club Show Review in Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53394-2004Apr5.html Site requires registration, so here's the text: Liz Phair, Putting the R Back in Rock Tuesday, April 6, 2004; Page C08 In the 11 years since her Hustler-smutty debut, "Exile in Guyville," former indie-rocker Liz Phair has become a wife, a mother, a divorcee and, on her curiously teen-poppy new album, Hilary Duff's jealous big sister. But as a sold-out 9:30 club discovered Sunday, one thing hasn't changed: As a live performer, she's still a living, breathing parental-advisory sticker in a low-cut blouse. Wearing a Britneyesque headset that allowed for plenty of over-amplified heavy breathing -- and rubbing her midriff when she wasn't awkwardly strumming her guitar -- the 36-year-old Chicago native with the bouncy blond locks and precarious decolletage vamped through a 90-minute, 23-song set. Along the way, she sloppily yet winningly proved, as the new song "Extraordinary" says, that she's "just your ordinary, average, everyday, sane, psycho super-goddess." Phair has taken guff lately for supposedly betraying her gritty singer-songwriter roots by working with Avril Lavigne's writing team, the Matrix. But clean or explicit, electric or acoustic, she's always had a way with a rocking good hook. On Sunday, the only difference between current glossy hits "Why Can't I?" and "Extraordinary" (currently being used by ESPN to promote women's college hoops) and the previous decade's tawdry tell-alls "Supernova" and "Flower" (currently being used as inspiration for Penthouse Forum letters) were shinier choruses and varying degrees of carnal knowledge. Phair's little-girl voice remains a tricky treat, soft and wobbly enough to sound vulnerable (on "Chopsticks" and "Never Said") but hard and confident when she needed to soar above the often overwrought four-piece backing band (on "Rock Me" and "Red Light Fever"). And the female-empowerment champ sure hasn't lost her talent for making people squirm as they sing along. An extended encore -- with the house lights up, no less -- included her filthy one-night-stand anthem with the very unprintable title and the show closer "H.W.C." about, well, very unprintable stuff. You won't hear that on Nickelodeon. - -- Sean Daly ) 2004 The Washington Post Company ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:29:33 +0100 From: "Paul Spinks" Subject: [support-system] Stats I dropped the setlists from the latest tour into Excel (thanks to Brett and reviewers of the last few shows) and came up with a few stats on what Liz has been playing recently. The setlists includes "full shows" with 20+ songs and a few appearances where she played only a handful - songs with a score of 18 or over has been standard at the full shows. More interesting (I think) is the middle rankings and tail-end. Glory has been dropped altogether, Mesmerizing, Never Said and SOG are no longer core material (I would feel robbed if she didn't play SOG - and I'd happily sacrifice Hurricane Cindy to fit it in), Uncle Alvarez is still a standard (why?), and Firewalker makes only occasional appearances (far better than Rock Me and Favorite, IMO). But it's also good to see that old material like Explain It To Me (one of my all-time favourites) and Whip-smart have not been entirely forgotten. And what about the covers - personally, I'd prefer Liz to stick to her own material, given that she could never fit all my favourites into a single concert. 24 Extraordinary 23 Polyester Bride 23 Rock Me 23 Supernova 22 61 22 Divorce Song 22 Why Can't I? 21 Flower 21 Fuck and Run (*) 21 H.W.C. 20 Love/Hate 20 Uncle Alvarez 19 My Bionic Eyes 19 Chopsticks 19 Favorite 19 Johnny Feelgood 18 Help Me, Mary 18 Red Light Fever 14 Mesmerizing 14 Never Said 11 Stratford-On-Guy 8 Hurricane Cindy 5 Firewalker 5 Perfect World 3 Friend Of Mine 3 Just What I Needed (The Cars) 2 Cinco de Mayo 1 Born in South Dakota (unplanned?) 1 Explain It To Me (impromptu) 1 Love Is Nothing 1 My Funny Valentine (show was on Valentine's Day) 1 No Blue Sky (The Thorns) 1 Shining Star (Sly and the Family Stone) 1 The Joker (Steve Miller Band) 1 Whip-smart - acoustic medley with Suspicious Minds (*) includes two occasions when F&R was combined with Just What I Needed ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V7 #80 ***********************************