At 03:49 PM 5/20/2003 -0400, Christobal wrote:
>I understand that Michael Penn originally produced a number of tracks
>for this album, which were subsequently scrapped in favor of something
>presumably a little more radio-friendly.  Not that Michael Penn isn't
>radio-friendly to my ears, but then, I personally can't stomach
>commercial radio these days for more than 5 minutes at a time.  Or less.
>
>Would've been interesting to hear what he did with Liz.

You can feed that interest by listening to the album: the Penn-produced
tracks are on it.  For all of the garment-rending wails from the
more-indie-than-thou crowd about how she (horrors!) did "an album produced
by the Matrix," they only produced four songs out of 14.  Hoo hah.

The current Entertainment Weekly has a feature on Phair in which she very
pointedly reminds folks that the subtext of EXILE IN GUYVILLE was "I hate
the indie rock mentality" and makes no apologies for wanting to make a
commercial, mainstream pop record, given that she's always liked
commercial, mainstream pop records.

S