Last Night Last Night’s Liz Phair Tribute
posted by on June 26 at 13:47 PM
I don’t generally go to tribute nights, but man, I’m glad I got to see last night’s tribute to Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” (which is now FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, which makes me a hundred and seven), an album I was introduced to by a college boyfriend who was really into the song “Fuck and Run.” (Um, hot?) Anyway, the night was pretty fucking magical—not just because the audience consisted mostly of my fellow washed-up nineties oldsters, but because it’s just fun to be in a roomful of unironically devoted fans who love the same thing you do, for similar reasons. And the musicians—especially Ms. Led’s Lesli Wood—were almost without exception phenomenal.
But I won’t bore you with stories of how Liz Phair made me a feminist, or how “whitechocolatespaceegg” is secretly her best album, or whatever. I’ll just say this: Singing “Fuck and Run” onstage at Chop Suey like an idiot was the best drunk decision I’ve made all year. And now, please enjoy this video of Liz Phair performing “Divorce Song,” the best song on the album.

Oh my god! I forgot to name-check Lesli Wood, whose all-star "Divorce Song" was one of the night's greatest achievements...
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