Liz PhairBest Liz Phair Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
20
Opinions
9
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 20 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Liz Phair's catalog across 9 albums from 20 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Liz Phair album is Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set (The Girly-Sound Tapes) (2018) with a 9.7/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Soberish and Whitechocolatespaceegg. The discography on Wavelength spans 1994 to 2021. F**k and Run (2018 Remaster) ranks as the highest-rated Liz Phair song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
Soberish
“an icon honours her legacy – and sets a new path”
Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set (The Girly-Sound Tapes)
“Liz Phair’s indelible, essential debut album has been reissued with three crucial bedroom tapes that further define the innovative and unselfconscious songwriting from early in her career.”
Exile In Guyville (2018 Remaster)
“You break all kinds of unwritten rules when you're a guy who admires a girl. The white suburban kids who idolize gangster rappers are old news, and the rich kids have always loved to rub elbows with the poor. But when a man tries to identify with a woman, he doesn't just hit the normal problems of "white male gaze" and "exploitation of the other" and "being a jackass": There's also the third rail ”
Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set (The Girly-Sound Tapes)
“Earlier this month, the New York Times published an interview with singer-songwriter Liz Phair about the anniversary and reissue of her landmark 1993 album Exile In Guyville. In it, the indie rock icon gave an answer that’s not only revealing, but also instructive when considering said reissue. “Sometimes,” Phair said in response to a question about the life-defining nature of Exile, “I feel like ”
Whitechocolatespaceegg
“In 1993 a twenty-six-year-old Liz Phair burned her image onto the post-feminist landscape with Exile in Guyville, an album that perfectly captured the experiences of young women stranded between puberty and adulthood. Phair herself embodied the contradictions of contemporary chickdom: She cursed sexism while reveling in her own sexuality, acted tough but suffered from debilitating […]”
Whip-Smart
“First there was her voice, which mixed girlish glee with irony, both pleasingly conversational and strange in its deadpan rendering of a tumultuous emotional landscape. Then there was her eye, which observed in dead-on detail real-life stories of desire and relationships and fame and things even more ordinary, like bad roommates. Then there was her […]”
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