How pathetic is that? Currently I’m listening to Skinny Puppy’s Too Dark Park, which is the opposite of Liz Phair. That will serve to cleanse Liz from the dark elbow-laden pipes of my mind.
I find Liz Phair’s lyrics super-depressing. Except “Flower” and “Baby Got Going”. Her songs remind me of all the neuroses all my past girlfriends have had, and the ones that I have as well. “Johnny Feelgood” thankfully doesn’t remind me of anyone I know. Thankfully, because it’s told from the perspective of someone who likes to be beaten up by her boyfriend. “Stratford-on-Guy” is about flying into O’Hare at night; I flew thru Chicago alone many times to college and grad school, so that has some super-depressing associations right there. “Divorce Song” is very remeniscent to me (though I’ve never had a divorce), because it’s all about stuff you said to your partner that hurts them and seems to permanently weaken the relationship, but you never gave it a second thought until the conversation where you break up. There are a bunch of other examples but they are too mundane and pointless even for this forum.
I guess it’s better than being obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
I’m not obsessed, but I find Liz Phair very arousing. Yeah, the lyrics on …spaceegg may be depressing. I don’t have the album with me right now so I can’t tell you which song, but there is one on there - the gutteral singing where she’s just getting the lyric out – very inticing.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
– a Celtic motto
I included that link partly to see if it would work (I’m not always 100% accurate with my UBB stuff) and partly because in this picture she looks a lot like this one friend of mine with whom I was (and really still am) obsessed with. Both LP and my friend seem to be part of this weird paradox: they’re extraordinarily attractive women, but seemingly very unselective in men.
It worked! And Ms. Phair looks wunnerful.
By the way, my last post wasn’t supposed to be self-deprecating about my old friend not being selective about men. She wasn’t selective in general but we never hit it off romantically anyway, for reasons I can only guess at.
oh, HER! She performed at a concert on my college’s campus last year . . . in the parking lot of my dorm community . . . oh, I had GREAT seats, I did . . . in my room, windows sealed tight, TRYING to concentrate on whatever it was I was doing while her music kept coming on in loud and clear . . .
whatever I may think of her music, my grudge against her is PERSONAL! :rolleyes:
Liz is the best! and NO, you’re not pathetic in the least. I listened to her a lot in high school, but haven’t for a few years. As soon as you mentioned her, I got the song “Chopsticks” stuck in my head and thought I’d share her awesome lyrics, as I remember them, below.
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Chopsticks
“I met him at a party and he showed me how to drive him home
he said he liked to do it backwards, I said that’s just fine with me
that we we can f*&k and watch TV
I told him that I knew Julia Roberts when we were twelve at summer camp
he asked if I liked playing jacks
I told him that I was good to sixes but all hell broke loose after that
we didn’t say anything after that
i dropped him off and i drove on home cos secretly i’m timid.”
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But as for the depressing content of her music? Well, not in relation to the rest of the stuff I listen to. I listen to Liz Phair to get into a good mood.
Here’s what you got to do Boris. Go out and get a copy of Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits. It’s a CD of alternative various groups doing cover versions of cartoon theme songs. Listen to Liz Phair singing the theme song to The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. If you find yourself still getting depressed hearing the lyrics “One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more” I’d recommend you seek professional help.
Johnny Feelgood is actually about the experiance of having her son. I used to work for an alt-rock radio station, and our MD made a point of confirming this with the label rep before going on air saying “IT’S NOT ABOUT ABUSE. STOP CALLING THE STATION.”
Skinny Puppy and Liz Phair… Boris, even if I didn’t already know you lived in Portland, I could deduce from this post that you live on the coast somewhere between Eugene and Victoria or Vancouver. Then to start narrowing down we would have to ask you which is better, Starbucks, SBC, or Coffee People. Then we would ask how many of the cars parked on the street outside your house are Volvos.
Hey wait a minute MK, how did you know I lived in Portland? My profile just says “Oregon”, which is my paper-thin attempt to make it harder to find me. See, if I really piss somebody off, I want them to have to search the whole state to come and kick my ass. Guess I revealed at some point by saying something like “I live in an urban area in northern Oregon” which doesn’t leave a lot of guess work.
SwimmingRiddles, are you sure? I believe you … I can’t really tell what the heck she’s talking about sometimes. It’s just that “Johnny Feelgood” says freaky stuff like
What kind of baby has a convertible car and a sweat sock drawer. Really I prefer to think it’s some weird reflection on motherhood, but I don’t really understand.
Little Nemo I think I’ve heard tidbits from the Saturday Morning tribute album, but I don’t remember Liz being on it. So I heard the wrong snippet! The Josie and the Pussycats cover was pretty peppy.
I think The Nerd listens to some pretty heavy stuff. Seriously though, I know her music isn’t all that heavy for most people, it’s just that she reminds me of some big downer’s I’ve had. Skinny Puppy is more “objectively depressing” if you know what I mean.
OfficeGirl brings up another thing that’s hard to interpret: Liz Phair claiming she’s timid! ?Go figure…
By the way, “Baby Got Going” seems to suggest that her baby is a girl. How many kids does she have? If I’m going to be a decent obsessed fan I’ve got to know about her family life.
