For today’s challenge I’m choosing Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville. The album had a major impact on my life. While I’m not selecting albums in any particular order this particular LIz Phair album in all likelihood would be in my top 3.
Exile in Guyville was released in 1993 though I didn’t pick it up until a year later. Many consider it a landmark album because of the brutally honest way she sings about the real things that were on many girls minds: boys, sex, dependance and independence, being taken for granted or advantage of, friendship, breakups, and not being taken seriously. Definitely not the perfect-forever-love, puppies and butterfly crap that pop music pushed down our throats. Pardon the phrase, but Liz Phair was real. Her songs might have been raunchy and shocking (for the time), but man, was it was the freakin’ uncensored truth! The music was lo-fi, gritty and raw.
When I picked up the cd I was 24, in college again, working on another undergraduate degree. I was navigating a lot of new relationships, both romantic and purely plutonic, and I was also trying to find my way to independence. Exile in Guyville was my truth, my holy book back then.
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