Exile in Guyville: 25 years old and still counting.
Tag: Exile in Guyville Exile On Main Street Comparison. Culture, Indie, Liz Phair, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rolling Stones, Swearing, Vinyl.
There's a short track by track examination of Liz Phair's first and best album, including a comparison to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, but for the most part, this is author Gina Arnold's response to Exile in Guyville, explaining the work in the context of Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, the indie music scene of the early 1990s and third-wave feminism.
So an interesting topic was brought up recently. I had made comments in reference to my high school days and Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville on my blog post George W. Stearns High School.In the comments Brian mentioned that this record was a song by song answer to the Rolling Stone Exile on Main St.
When she wrote Exile in Guyville, Phair was a 20-something living in Chicago's Wicker Park, unemployed but making art, and crashing with her then-boyfriend in a grimy apartment. That's when she found a tape that would change her life: The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.
By its title alone, Phair’s debut enters into several dialogues at once, most obviously with the classic Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street, which Exile in Guyville responds to track by track. Arnold writes that while many have considered it an affront that this low-fi rookie should compare herself to a fundamental rock-and-roll institution like The Rolling Stones, she prefers “to.
Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville book. Read 49 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Although Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of t.
Buy ((Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville)) ( By (author) Gina Arnold ) (July, 2014) by Gina Arnold (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Villa Nellcote became the crucible in which creative strife, outsize egos, and all the usual byproducts of the Stones' legendary hedonistic excess fused into something potent, volatile, and enduring.Here, for the first time, is the season in hell that produced Exile on Main St. Category: Music The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street.
Phair could have written this book at any time since her debut album “Exile in Guyville” came out in 1993.. Rolling Stone’s “Exile on Main Street.”. of essays is written by a.
When Liz Phair's debut album, Exile in Guyville, broke onto the indie rock scene in 1993, it was at a time when the music industry was very into shock Liz Phair On Demanding A Voice In 25 Years Of.
Many years ago, after hearing way too many times that Exile in Guyville is a song-by-song response to Exile on Main St.I listened to this right around the time I was obsessed with that Stones album. I listened to this once, didn't hear a song-by-song response, and decided it was one of the most overrated pieces of crap in the alternative era and promptly forgot about it.
It also contains the 1993 Exile In Guyville album remastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge. Also included is a lavish, thick book, which contains an extensive oral history by Jason Cohen, plus essays by Liz Phair and journalist Ann Powers. The vinyl version of the book also contains never before published photos, unseen artwork, and ephemera.
How Liz Phair's 'Exile in Guyville' lives on, and helped create Philadelphia's indie rock scene. It was a quarter century ago next month that Liz Phair released Exile in Guyville, her startling and scandalizing album that detonated like a perspective-shifting grenade landing behind enemy lines in the male-dominated alternative-rock world.
