Bonus Song Thursday - Liz Phair "Why Can't I?"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Brian and Bill tackle Liz Phair's 2003 attempt at a mainstream breakthrough "Why Can't I." We discuss the sound curated by production team the Matrix, the early aughts sing-songwriter sound, and how this song alienated as many fans as it gained, basically not helping Phair's career the way the label had envisioned. Additionally, we read some listener emails and tweets. We got a lot of interaction from the Television episode, so we tackle the Elektra stable of artists, who the band influenced, and some great 10 minute songs!

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0:00.0	Get a load of me, get a load of me, get a load of you walking down the street and I hardly know you.
0:19.0	It's just like we were meant to be.
0:23.6	Holding hands with you when we're out at night.
0:27.6	Got a girlfriend you say it isn't right.
0:30.6	And I've got someone waiting to.
0:35.6	But this is just the beginning
0:38.7	We're all red and red and we're gonna go swimming
0:41.8	Why can I breathe?
0:45.7	Hello, I'm Bill.
0:47.0	And I'm Brian.
0:47.8	And this is the Great Albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
0:51.9	Welcome to it, folks.
0:53.7	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:56.5	We were listening to Why Can't I by Liz Fair off of her 2003 self-titled studio album.
1:06.7	I was just about to try and tackle the word eponymous.
1:11.2	But then I was like, you got it.
1:14.2	We were both up way too late last night to tackle a 10 cent word like that.
1:19.2	Oh, yeah.
1:19.9	So if you've never listened to the podcast before,
1:22.0	what we do here every week is take a different album of music,
1:24.7	talk about what makes it great.
1:26.1	Then we follow it up with another bonus episode where we take another song by the same
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