Exile In Guyville

美国女子另类摇滚的代表人物之一Liz Phair的首张专辑，这张专辑旨在对于Rolling Stones的那张《Exile on Main Street》作出“回应”，连曲目名字都有意和那张专辑对应，当然这种对应似乎并不严格。这张专辑中充满了非传统性和弦和低沉忧伤的旋律，不过确实很好听。这张专辑渐渐登上了Billboard Top 200专辑榜单，并且在乐评界有相当高的评价，被认为是90年代最好的女子摇滚专辑之一。 本专辑在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第328位。 by Stephen Thomas Erlewine If Exile in Guyville is shockingly assured and fully formed for a debut album, there are a number of reasons why. Most prominent of these is that many of the songs were initially essayed on Liz Phair's homemade cassette Girlysound, which means that the songs are essentially the cream of the crop from an exceptionally talented songwriter. Second, there's its structure, infamously patterned after the Stones' Exile on Main St., but not the song-by-song response Phair promoted it as. (Just try to match the albums up: is the "blow-job queen" fantasy of "Flower" really the answer to the painful elegy "Let It Loose"?) Then, most notably, there's Phair and producer Brad Wood's deft studio skills, bringing a variety of textures and moods to a basic, lo-fi production. There is as much hard rock as there are eerie solo piano pieces, and there's everything in between from unadulterated power pop, winking art rock, folk songs, and classic indie rock. Then, there are Phair's songs themselves. At the time, her gleefully profane, clever lyrics received endless attention (there's nothing that rock critics love more than a girl who plays into their geek fantasies, even -- or maybe especially -- if she's mocking them), but years later, what still astounds is the depth of the writing, how her music matches her clear-eyed, vivid words, whether it's on the self-loathing "F**k and Run," the evocative mood piece "Stratford-on-Guy," or the swaggering breakup anthem "6' 1"," or how she nails the dissolution of a long-term relationship on "The Divorce Song." Each of these 18 songs maintains this high level of quality, showcasing a singer/songwriter of immense imagination, musically and lyrically. If she never equaled this record, well, few could.