- Girly Sound
Infobox Album | Name = Girly Sound
Type =Album |Longtype= (Bootleg)
Artist = Girly Sound
Released = 1991
Recorded =
Genre =Indie rock
Lo-Fi
Length =
Label =
Producer =Liz Phair
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4k1gtq1znu45 link]
Last album = "Yo Yo Buddy Yup Yup Word To Ya Muthuh"
(1991)
This album = "Girls Girls Girls"
(1991) | Next album = "Untitled Third Tape"
(1991) |Girly Sound [cite web
url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/00000028.html
title=GIRLY SOUND - Girly Sound cassette
author=Tae Won Yu (contributor)
publisher="Chemical Imbalance" fanzine (online mirror)
date=ca. 1992
accessdate=2006-08-30] (aka Girlysound [cite web
url=http://www.matadorrecords.com/liz_phair/biography.html
title="Juvenilia" liner notes
publisher=Matador Records
date=1995
accessdate=2006-08-30] )is the moniker under whichsinger-songwriter Liz Phair recorded several self-produced cassettes in 1991. Recorded on a 4-track tape recorder in her childhood bedroom at her parents' house and initially given only to two people by Phair, Chris Brokaw and Tae Won Yu, these tapes became somewhat of a sensation in the American tape trading/zine subculture. In 1992, Phair signed a deal withMatador Records on the strength of a tape she had sent in consisting of 6 Girly Sound tracks. Phair's debut album "Exile in Guyville " is largely a reworking of songs from these tapes. None of the Girly Sound tapes has ever been given an official release (5 tracks were released in 1995 on the Juvenilia EP), though Phair has frequently gone back and reworked many of the songs for her studio albums throughout her career. As a result, Phair's Girly Sound tapes are still one of the most sought-after alternative-rock bootlegs.Although originally consisting of a total of 3 cassettes, the most common version of the Girly Sound tapes that circulated among Phair's fans was an incomplete 2 disc compilation of songs from all 3 tapes released on the "Bliss and Fetish" bootleg label, processed with excessive digital noise reduction that many fans felt rendered the songs difficult to listen to. An earlier bootleg compilation of Girly Sound material, "Secretly Timid", was also released. Early in 2006, mp3s of first generation copies of the first 2 tapes were introduced via Phair's online community, bringing to light the original track listing, correct song names, and album titles and more importantly introducing a number of songs that did not appear on the previous Girly Sound bootlegs. The third Girly Sound tape and information of its complete contents remains elusive.
Three tape track listing
Yo Yo Buddy Yup Yup Word To Ya Muthuh
Recorded circa 1991
Bliss and Fetish Bootleg
Released (non-first generation, tape transferred), recorded circa 1991; transferred from original 3 tape set. This release features aggressive digital noise reduction, rendering the discs unlistenable to many listeners.
Song appearances and re-recordings
*"Johnny Sunshine", "Flower", "Stratford-On-Guy", "Divorce Song", "Fuck and Run", "Shatter", "Clean" (as "Never Said), "Girls Girls Girls", and "Soap Star Joe" were re-recorded for "
Exile in Guyville ".
*"Whip-Smart", "Shane", "Go West", and "Chopsticks" were re-recorded for "Whip-Smart ".
*"California", "Fire Up The Batmobile" (as "Batmobile"), "South Dakota", "Dead Shark" and "It's Not That Easy" (as "Easy") appear on the "Juvenilia EP ".
*"Give Me My Boyfriend Back" (as "Six Dick Pimp") was re-recorded for the "Brain Candy " Soundtrack.
*"Money" (as "Shitloads of Money"), and "Polyester Bride" were re-recorded for "whitechocolatespaceegg ".
*From the elusive third tape, "Gigalo" (as "Can't Get Out of What I'm Into") was re-recorded and appears as a bonus track on the Japanese pressing of "Somebody's Miracle ".References
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/girlysound.html Girly Sound@Mesmerizing]
* [http://www.visi.com/~lazlo/liz/discography.html Liz Phair Discography@Stratford-On-Guy]
* [http://girlysound.com/ Listen to Girly Sound]
* [http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/8529/autobiography/girlysound.htm Girly Sound@Nashville]
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