| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/capitol | | UPC: 00724385355424 | | Release Date: 8/11/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60135142 | | Item#: MGCRFV | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23913 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. White Chocolate Space Egg ~ Liz Phair |  | | 2. Big Tall Man ~ Liz Phair | | | 3. Perfect World ~ Liz Phair | | | 4. Johnny Feelgood ~ Liz Phair | | | 5. Polyester Bride ~ Liz Phair | | | 6. Love Is Nothing ~ Liz Phair | | | 7. Baby Got Going ~ Liz Phair | | | 8. Uncle Alvarez ~ Liz Phair | | | 9. Only Son ~ Liz Phair | | | 10. Go On Ahead ~ Liz Phair | | | 11. Headache ~ Liz Phair | | | 12. Ride ~ Liz Phair | | | 13. What Makes You Happy ~ Liz Phair | | | 14. Fantasize ~ Liz Phair | | | 15. Shitloads Of Money ~ Liz Phair | | | 16. Girls' Room ~ Liz Phair | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Liz Phair (vocals, guitar, piano); Scott Litt (acoustic guitar, violin, harmonica, keyboards, bass, drums, programming, background vocals); Brad Wood (guitar, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, hand claps, drum programming, background vocals); John Hiler (guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, programming, loops, background vocals); Jason Chasko (guitar, piano, bass, drums, background vocals); Scott Bennett (guitar, organ, bass, drums); Ed Tinley (guitar, hand claps); Nathan December, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey (guitar); Troy Niedhart (accordion); Randy Wilson (keyboards, programming); LeRoy Bach (acoustic bass); Tommy Furar, Mike Mills (bass); Bill Berry (bongos). | | Producers: Brad Wood, Jason Chasko, Scott Litt, Liz Phair. | | Engineers include: Ed Tinley, Blaise Barton, Brad Wood, John Hiler, Chris Sabold. | | Personnel: Liz Phair (vocals, guitar, piano); Nathan December (guitar, electric guitar); Jason Chasko (guitar, piano, drums, background vocals); Brad Wood (guitar, organ, keyboards, drums, drum machine, background vocals); Ed Tinley, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey (guitar); Scott Litt (acoustic guitar, violin, harmonica, keyboards, drums, background vocals); Troy Niedhart (accordion); John Hiler (piano, organ, keyboards, programming, background vocals); Scott Bennett (organ, drums); Randy Wilson (keyboards, programming); Leroy Bach (acoustic bass); Bill Berry (bongos); Liquid Grooves (loops). | | Audio Mixers: Victor Janacua; Tom Lord-Alge; Brad Wood. | | Recording information: Chicago Recording Co; Chicago Trax; Louie's Clubhouse; ocean way; Velvet Shirt Studios. | | Liz Phair's third full-length album comes four years after her previous work, and it is inevitable that the singer-songwriter who redefined women's boundaries within the form is in a different stage of her life. She has, in the meantime, gotten married, had a child and, ostensibly, settled down and reflected. Thus, introspection defines the WHITECHOCOLATESPACEEGG Liz Phair--less confrontation and more examination is the maturing motto. No longer looking to put horny little indie-rock males down with sinister, well-chosen observations, she's examining her own desires ("Perfect World"), her life-giving experiences ("Only Son") and familial priorities ("Uncle Alvarez"). | | Still, rest assured that Phair hasn't gone completely VH-1. SPACEEGG has more of a visceral off-the-cuff kick than the Sheryl Crows of the world will ever muster. The Mick Taylor-era Stones are still the main musical reference--particularly on "Johnny Feelgood," a four-on-the-floor ode to a roughneck the narrator can't forget, cooing "I like it" at the thought of his bad-boy ways--but there's also a stab at weirdo analog synth-pop ("Headache") and a full-on blues boogie ("Baby Got Going") that's infectious in its simplicity. These are the sounds of Phair's diversification as an artist. |
Musical Guests | | Mike Mills | | Bill Berry | | Peter Buck | | Scott McCaughey |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/11/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 53554 | | Label : Capitol/EMI Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724385355424 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (8/20/98, p.107)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...The softer songs...are engagingly intimate....The harder, more upbeat numbers are playful and pop-y, with just enough dry humor to keep them from floating away....WHITECHOCOLATESPACEEGG explores the dynamics of marital endurance..."Spin (9/98, pp.186-187)
- 6 (out of 10)
- "...Phair's lyrics appear to have been retooled for mass consumption, too--the fucking and blowjob vignettes displaced by a series of marriage and parenthood/chilhood references. This 'maturity' isn't a surprising development..." Entertainment Weekly (8/14/98, p.78)
- "...Even when the music stomps around and Phair turns cheeky, she is, at heart, something of a sentimentalist....Ultimately, she's closer in spirit to brainiac singer-songwriters like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell than to any of the idiosyncratic bands with whom she shares a record label..." - Rating: A- Q (4/99, p.104)
- 3 out of 5 - "...these 16 songs still have enough melody, attitude and wit to make Alanis Morisette and her ilk sound like whiny brats." Vibe (10/98, p.172)
- "...WHITECHOCOLATESPACEEGG is easily the Liz Phair set least rhythmically soulful....the Phairest songs here are about relationships with men..." |
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