 Artist: Liz Phair: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock: Pop-Rock Indie Discography:  Somebody's Miracle Year: 2005 Tracks: 14  Liz Phair Year: 2003 Tracks: 14  Whitechocolatespaceegg Year: 1998 Tracks: 16  Whip-Smart Year: 1994 Tracks: 14  Exile In Guyville Year: 1993 Tracks: 18 Growing knocked out of the American underpass of the later '80s, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock-and-roll product techniques and styles with the sensibility and structure of classic singer/songwriters. Transportation in Guyville, Phair's debut record album, was sky-high praised upon its 1993 exhaust and spawned a rash of imitators, particularly American female singer/songwriters, over the following geezerhood. For her function, Phair wasn't able to break into the mainstream, even with the support of the press and MTV. Whip-Smart, her irregular record album, was heavily promoted upon its 1994 discharge, in time despite its relatively strong chart positions, it was viewed as a dashing hopes and Phair's momentum declined steadily during the mid-'90s, as she took various years to record her third album. Phair (natural April 17, 1967) was born in New Haven, CT, and adopted by affluent parents, world Health Organization raised her in the Chicago suburbia Winnetka. After high school, she studied prowess at Oberlin College in Ohio. At Oberlin, she became mesmerised with resistance indie rock-and-roll and eventually became friends with guitar player Chris Brokaw, world Health Organization later joined Come. Following their college graduation, Phair and Brokaw affected to San Francisco, where she well-tried to become an artist. Finally, Brokaw affected out east and Phair affected stake to Chicago, where she began piece of writing songs. Soon, she began releasing homemade tapes of these songs under the list Girlysound. While she supported herself by selling her charcoal drawings on the streets of Wicker Park, she was seemly mired in versatile portions of the Chicago substitute euphony scene; in fussy, she became friends with Urge Overkill, a drummer named Brad Wood, and John Henderson, the top dog of the Chicago-based indie tag Feel Good All Over. Henderson and Phair well-tried to re-record some of the Girlysound tapes with Wood, yet the pair had a falling out during the sessions, departure Wood as Phair's only pardner. Brokaw, wHO had by then coupled Come, was motionless receiving Girlysound tapes and he gave a copy to Gerard Cosley, the top dog of Come's record tag, Matador. By the summertime of 1992, Matador had signed Phair and she began recording her debut album in earnest. Adapting its title from an Urge Overkill vocal, Transportation in Guyville, her debut record album, was released to hard reviews in the summer of 1993. Many articles focussed on Phair's claim that the forked album was structured as a response to the Rolling Stones' classical Transportation on Main St. Over the course of action of the year, the record easy reinforced a consecrate following in America, both among critics and alternative rock fans. At the end of the year, it topped many Best of the Year critics polls, including The Village Voice and Spin. With all the attention focused on Phair, many indie rock figures -- particularly members of the Chicago noise tilt scene such as Steve Albini -- were developing a rancor toward her and introduction an attack at the singer and the heavy media attention Expatriation in Guyville received. The unfavorable judgment couldn't halt the advance of Phair and Expat, and in early 1994 she launched her first tour, which was plagued by her stage fearfulness. Around the same time, MTV began airing "Ne'er Said" and, as a event of all the hype, the album concisely appeared in the charts in February. By the springtime of 1994 it had sold over 200,000 copies -- a remarkable number for an independent vent. By that time, Phair had begun go on her review record. Matador had signed a statistical distribution conduct with Atlantic Records in 1994, and her second record album was exit to be i of the first to be intemperately promoted by the confederation. Indeed, Whip-Smart was released to a whirlwind of media attention -- including Phair, garmented only in wrapper, on the cover of Rolling Stone -- and debuted at number 27 upon its precipitate 1994 release. "Supernova," the first undivided from the album, standard clayey airplay on MTV and substitute tilt radio receiver, decorous a Top Ten modernistic tilt reach. However, Whip-Smart received mediocre reviews and never developed into the hit that it was expected to be. Phair didn't circuit to support the album and was irksome to deliver a second individual. By the time the claim path was released as a individual in the spring of 1995, the album had disappeared from the charts. Phair quietly retreated from the spotlight during 1995, marrying Jim Staskausas, a Chicago-based celluloid editor in chief world Health Organization had previously worked on Phair's videos. Later in the summer of 1995, she released the Juvenilia EP, which was basically the "Jealousy" single amplified with the first official discharge of Girlysound material. During the summer of 1996, she released "Roquette Boy," a unmarried pulled from the Stealing Beauty soundtrack that standard small attention. For much of 1996, Phair worked on her third base album with producer Scott Litt, so far by the fall, she distinct to fighting the sessions, unsatisfied with their sound. Toward the goal of 1996, Staskausas and Phair announced she was several months significant. On December 21, 1996, Phair gave parentage to her first child, James Nicholas Staskausas. Her long-delayed, much-anticipated third base LP, whitechocolatespaceegg, in the end appeared in mid-1998. Five long time after, Phair returned with a self-titled safari. Liz Phair, which appeared in June 2003, plant singer/songwriter Michael Penn and the Matrix in the production seat as well as Phair herself. Jimmy Chamberlin, Wendy Melvoin, and Pete Yorn also contributed to Phair's fresh glossy sound. When Liz Phair in the end appeared in June 2003, it was panned by purist rock critics and free-enterprise Liz nerds world Health Organization felt she'd sold them extinct with the record's pop star sensibilities. But Phair stood up for her work in typcally brash fashion - sometimes it seemed like she even invited the winnow boy ridicule - and the album was a nice hit for her behind its single "Why Can't I", peaking at #27 on the Billboard two hundred. The quieter Somebody's Miracle appeared in fall 2005. |
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