Liz Phair's recording career started strong, but her 2003 album "Liz Phair" was criticized for having a "sell out" pop sound. The same was said of her 2005 album "Somebody's Miracle." This concert took place a couple of months before the release of "Somebody's Miracle," and prominently features songs from that and "Liz Phair." But in my opinion those songs sound great in the context of this concert. Since this is an acoustic concert, with just a second guitarist backing her up, those songs are totally transformed. Whatever problems those albums had must have been with over-production issues
It helps that the sound quality is fantastic. This is a soundboard, and probably the best recorded of all of her concert recordings (especially since she's never released an official live album). So if you're a Liz Phair fan, this is a must-have.
This album is 56 minutes long. You can hear in her banter that she wanted to play longer, but she had to obey some kind of curfew time limit.
01 talk (Liz Phair)
02 Table for One (Liz Phair)
03 talk (Liz Phair)
04 Polyester Bride (Liz Phair)
05 talk (Liz Phair)
06 Never Said (Liz Phair)
07 talk (Liz Phair)
08 If I Ever Pay You Back (Liz Phair)
09 Baby Got Going (Liz Phair)
10 talk (Liz Phair)
11 Extraordinary (Liz Phair)
12 talk (Liz Phair)
13 Uncle Alvarez (Liz Phair)
14 talk (Liz Phair)
15 Mesmerizing (Liz Phair)
16 talk (Liz Phair)
17 Somebody's Miracle (Liz Phair)
18 talk (Liz Phair)
19 Closer to You (Liz Phair)
20 talk (Liz Phair)
21 Everything to Me (Liz Phair)
22 talk (Liz Phair)
23 Divorce Song (Liz Phair)
24 talk (Liz Phair)
25 Supernova (Liz Phair)
26 talk (Liz Phair)
27 Fuck and Run (Liz Phair)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15524069/LizPh_2005_JoesPbNewYrkC__8-1-2005_atse.zip.html
The cover photo comes from this exact concert.
Thanks for posting this! The audio quality is on this is unbelieveable. This is a very pleasant surprise given her how her efforts at widening her audience completely alienated her core audience and her sales were on a downward spiral at this time and never recovered. I wish some of her records were this clear and crisp.
ReplyDeleteYeah, isn't the sound quality great? I really like this show. Just listening to this concert, I don't hear any evidence of a "downward spiral" at all.
Deletegiven the amount of love for MBE on KCRW, have you thought about doing a Liz Phair set? 2 shows, 1998 and 2003... may be worth a look....
ReplyDeleteI don't have anything she did on KCRW, and I don't see them at any of my usual sources. But if you have em and send em to me, I almost certainly would post those.
DeleteOf this singer, I would like there to be albums containing her versions of Mother's Little Helper by the Rolling Stones.
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