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Exile in Guyville is the debut album by American indie rock singer-songwriter Liz Phair. It was released in June 1993 to widespread critical and commercial success, and it was ranked at 327 by Rolling Stone in its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. As of July 2010, the album had sold 491,000 copies. The album is considered a landmark album that changed indie music entirely by paving the way for more female singer/songwriters like Fiona Apple and Cat Power.

Exile in Guyville is indie rocker Liz Phair’s debut studio album, released in June 1993 by Matador Records. The album, which Phair jokingly said was a response album to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main S. mocks sexism and finds Phair singing about sex from a point of view that was previously explored only by male singers. The album won acclaim from critics, and is still considered by many critics to be one of the best albums of the ‘90s (and of all time). Exile in Guyville Q&A.

If Exile in Guyville is shockingly assured and fully formed for a debut album, there are a number of reasons why. Most prominent of these is that many of the songs were initially essayed on Liz Phair's homemade cassette Girlysound, which means that the songs are essentially the cream of the crop from an exceptionally talented songwriter

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Some critics contend that the album is not a clear or obvious song-by-song response, although Phair apparently sequenced her compositions in an attempt to match the song-list and pacing of the 1972 album. The album frequently appears on many critics' best-of lists. It was ranked 15 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".

In 1993, Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville was the album of choice for a certain cohort of angsty young women. It was a song-by-song response to Exile on Main S. the double LP by the Rolling Stones, which Ms. Phair considered the ultimate guy band. But it was also a reaction to Guyvilles everywhere: the male-dominated indie-rock scene she strived to be a part of; the boyfriend who said she could never make an album; and, for those of us listening, our own stand-ins.

Since the release of Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair has continued to defy expectation and break barriers. She has released five albums, and is currently working on a new one with Ryan Adams. She has also composed music for television shows and received awards for that work. Another one of the defining songs on Guyville (Can there be more than one defining song on an album? I'm voting assuredly with a ye. is "Divorce Song" which showcases Phair's knack for rolling guitar chord rhythms and has insightful lines such as: "I would have stayed in your bed For the rest of my life Just to prove I was right That it's harder to be friends than lovers And you shouldn't try to mix the two 'Cuz if you do it and you're still unhappy Then you know that the problem is you".