

And since Phair's comeback/sell-out/whatever, they've been more or less ignored or blandly grouped together to serve larger "Old Liz versus New Liz" dichotomies. All three of the records listed in the thread title were, in contemporary reviews, continuously and tediously compared with Exile. Liz Phair is one of those artists whose albums, I think, get sort of overshadowed by her own narrative.
