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Generally favorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings
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Positive: 49 out of 83
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Mixed: 9 out of 83
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Negative: 25 out of 83
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Dec 6, 2010
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MatthewSweetJul 1, 2003I give it a 6.9 A courageous effort, extolling the virtues of using semen as hair product! Hang it up, Liz, you're out of ideas, and you're done...
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MichaelOJul 10, 2003A well produced pop album. So what is wrong about wanting to spread your fan base? Infectious hooks, interesting because her father is chair of infectious disease at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago. I love this CD. Great Summer listening.
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RGJul 2, 2003
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MattMJul 4, 2003
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JeffCOct 6, 2003Ridiculously good.Her most consistent effort since Exile.
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BobRJun 23, 2003Liz Phair is genius!! This is the new OK Computer.
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bencJun 30, 2003
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ShannonBJun 30, 2003As Jackie S. said, there is nothing wrong with pop music, but there is something wrong with bad pop music. Unfortunately, most of this is pretty bad. It's like Avril Lavigne without the hooks, killer production, and this may be hard to believe, the depth. Tries to hard to be "edgy" and "adult." I mean, a song like "HWC"? What's the point? Silly.
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MDSChillJul 5, 2003
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DiggerPJul 6, 2003Bland and irrelevant. This album is so lacking in passion, inventiveness and integrity, it actually makes her other albums seem worse in retrospect, since we now know what she was leading up to all along -- non-music for hollow people.
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TimEJan 19, 2005"Exile... " is single handedly the most overrated album of all time. Screw what all the critics say, this album is a freakin' masterpiece and Liz Phair's best album to date. One of the greatest records of the past decade!!!!!!!!!!!
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RicoAAug 12, 2005I really can't understand all the negative reviews, this is a good cd. Yes, it's not Exile nor Whip nor white, but it's still smart and catchy and Liz. Maybe people are feeling betrayed because she's not fitting into their pigeonholed view of her as ass-kicker?
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seantAug 12, 2005this album sucks. period.
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EricWSep 15, 2005
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timFeb 3, 2007
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JillKOct 11, 2003I loved this CD it rocked I love the song "why cant I" and every girl knows when she thinks about that special someone, she takes a breath and holds it in just wishing and hoping that their guy was there with them...
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ChristineRJun 15, 2003
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MattJun 23, 2003Give this CD a chance. It's still alt-rock, only catchier than before. It's great!
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GoryAJun 23, 2003
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MrFudgeJun 26, 2003
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SeanGJun 26, 2003
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BobbyJun 30, 2003
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stacydJul 25, 2003
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StanFeb 13, 2004Exile in Guyville is a great album indeed, but the craft here is arguably just as strong. Great music comes in all genres, all styles, all production styles. When pop music is this well-written, I graciously bow.
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GinaTSep 19, 2004I mean what can I say, if you have been a Liz Phair fan so long like me, you've gotta love it! Any direction liz goes, no matter what, her music is gonna rock forever!!!!!
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SteveMOct 29, 2005Yes, its heavily produced, but it still rocks, and Liz still has more to say than just about any other 10 artists you can come up with. One of the best 5 albums of 2003.
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ErinNMar 7, 2005
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LevisOJun 5, 2005Considering it was 5years in waiting, it is a disappointment but it's still a good album. My personal fave is Red Light Fever which I just love! It may be her weakest album to date, but it doesn't mean it's rubbish.
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JadeyTJul 17, 2005
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Awards & Rankings
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There's nothing wrong with a change of pace, but there's a startling lack of depth in either the words, which are entirely too literal, or the music, whose hooks are at once too obvious and not ingratiating enough.
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Alternative Press[A] slickly produced holding pattern. [Jul 2003, p.122]
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A highly overproduced, shallow, soulless, confused, pop-by-numbers disaster that betrays everything the woman stood for a decade ago, and most heinously, betrays all her original fans.