Liz Phair CD

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both reular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Liz Phair (vocals, guitar, samples); R. Walt Vincent (electric guitar, guitar, harmonica, Wurlitzer electric piano, bass, background vocals); Buddy Judge (guitar, background vocals); Wendy Melvoin (guitar, bass); Pete Yorn (guitar, drums); Michael Penn (guitar, bass, samples); Corky James (guitar); Patrick Warren (piano, keyboards); Jebin Bruni (keyboards); Mike Elizondo, David Sutton (bass); John Sands, Victor Indrizzo, Matt Chamberlain, Mario Calire, Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Alison Clark, The Matrix, The Wizards Of Oz (background vocals).
Producers: The Matrix, Michael Penn, Liz Phair.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both reular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Liz Phair (vocals, guitar, samples); R. Walt Vincent (electric guitar, guitar, harmonica, Wurlitzer electric piano, bass, background vocals); Michael Penn (guitar, bass, samples); Wendy Melvoin (guitar, bass); Pete Yorn (guitar, drums); Buddy Judge (guitar, background vocals); Corky James (guitar); Patrick Warren (piano, keyboards); Jebin Bruni (keyboards); Mike Elizondo, David Sutton (bass); John Sands, Victor Indrizzo, Matt Chamberlain, Mario Calire, Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Alison Clark, The Matrix, The Wizards Of Oz (background vocals).
Producers: The Matrix, Michael Penn, Liz Phair.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Liz Phair (vocals, guitar, sampler); The Matrix , The Wizardry of Oz (vocals); R. Walt Vincent (guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, Wurlitzer organ, background vocals); Buddy Judge (guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Pete Yorn (guitar, drums); Michael Penn (guitar, sampler, background vocals); Corky James, Wendy Melvoin (guitar); Patrick Warren (piano, keyboards); Jebin Bruni (keyboards); Abe Laboriel, Jr., Matt Chamberlain, Victor Indrizzo, Mario Calire, John Sands (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Alison Clark (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Serban Ghenea; Tom Lord-Alge.
Recording information: 12th Floor, Capitol Records; Decoy Studios, Studio City, CA; Grandmaster; House Of Blues Studios, Encino, CA; Master Control, North Hollywood, CA; Mesmer Ave. Studios; Sage & Sound; Sonora Recorders; Sunset sound; Third Stone Recording.
Photographer: Phil Poynter.
Arranger: The Matrix .
Who knew that all Liz Phair ever wanted was to be a pop star? Surely, her debut, Exile in Guyville, with its cinematic lo-fi production and frankness, never suggested as much, nor did its cleaner sequel, Whip-Smart, even if her appearance in negligee on the cover of Rolling Stone did imply she wanted a wider audience. In retrospect, perhaps the streamlined surfaces of Whitechocolatespaceegg were a bid for the big time, but it was undercut by songs of motherhood, marriage, and remnants of her time as an indie queen. All of that is a distant memory on her long-delayed eponymous fourth album, where she makes a long-delayed stab at superstardom, glamming herself up like a Maxim MILF of the Month and inexplicably pitching herself somewhere between Sheryl Crow and Avril Lavigne, on one side working with Michael Penn and adult alternative singer/songwriter Pete Yorn and on the other hooking up with 2003's hitmakers du jour the Matrix (not wanting to lose her aging core audience, she began her support tour for the album opening for the thirty-something darlings of the early 2000s, the Flaming Lips, even if her new music was a far cry from indie). As "Extraordinary" starts the album with a heavy guitar downstroke, it's clear that Liz Phair has piled nearly all her chips on making it as a pop act, delivering music that not just fits comfortably with Lavigne's, but follows her sounds and stance, right down to the insipid lyrics. This, to say the least, is disarming, not just to dSpin (7/03, p.107) - "...What LIZ PHAIR delivers is authenticity..." - Grade: B-
CMJ (6/2/03, p.6) - "...Decidedly more poppy than the already high-gloss sheen of 1998's WHITECHOCOLATESPACEEGG, but...Phair has definitely not lost her edge..."