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ielrfe The Battalion * Page 3 j ty Rob Clark |Fhf Battalion )h, the charmed life of Liz Phair triumph hout being X-rated. To have a -than-average voice, but ehow pull it off. Ah, the charmed life of Liz air, who grabbed the music irld by the, urn, well, throat, id demanded attention in 1993 ,h her masterful debut, Exile in •yville. From “6’ 1”” to “F-k and Run,” s first effort marked the begin- g of the alternative music rld’s love affair with Phair. ofDr.dH Not since the debuts of FVince ,, md Madonna had an artist so 1 cleverly mixed creativity and sex- IHlity- morel Furthering Phair’s campaign , car{ :wii 3 her 1994 follow-up album, '^jUMhip Smart. This time, Phair ■■ught a glimpse of the main- Stream with the radio and video ''"fit‘Supernova.* lAlL fl ^ le pi ece the puzzle is Juvenilia. The album is more of ||i appetizer for Phair fans, as the i EP contains only seven songs, most coming from pre-Exile recordings. Kicking things off is “Jeal ousy,” perhaps the strongest song from Whip Smart. From the cha-cha intro to the bouncy bass line, the music provides a nice backing to Phair’s sassy lyrics. And, oh yes, Phair has some sassy lyrics — “Imagine me behind your eyes/ Arid what you see is soft hips and soft thighs/ A se cret position that we’ve never tried.” Phair’s goofy side comes out in her cover of The Vapors’ early ’80s song “Turning Japanese.” The cheesy guitar licks and even weirder lyrics give the song an ex tremely humorous feel. What is so puzzling about the song turns out to be Phair’s great est asset. She can simply take a weak song, and find a way to make it clever. Continuing the bizarre theme to Juvenilia is “California.” In it, Phair tells the joke made famous by Sean Penn and Robert Duvall in Colors of the two cows deciding how to race down a hill to, uh, find a mate. In her best New Yorker accent, Phair turns the strange into the humorous. Even stranger though, is the continuation of this curious cow theme in “South Dakota.” Playing an exaggerated jock Liz Phair drunk from the country, Phair sings, “Hey all you city f-ks it’s a prairie man’s world.” Then it gets weird. “Man I feel lucky tonight,” she says. “I’m gonna get stoned and f- -k some cows.” Yikes. On a slightly more mature lev el, “Animal Girl” and “Batmobile” spotlight Phair’s penchant for mid-tempo songs that seem to fit perfectly with her steady voice. It just seems Phair can do no wrong these days. With her clever lyrics and catchy tunes, Phair pushes all the right buttons on Juvenilia. While it merely whets the ap petite for her next full-length re lease, Juvenilia leaves fans and critics alike gasping for more. 11 Checkout iiimrl i THE SIFW DO m M m mtrn f w m— W W Freshman cadet Greg Thompson of A-Company receives his buzz cut dur ing Freshman Orientation Week. About 50 cadets waited at the Northgate Barber Shop to get their heads shaved. 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