Liz Phair - "Never Said" (Remastered Video & Audio)

From Liz Phair's Girly-Sound To Guyville: the 25th Anniversary Box Set, released May 4th, 2018 from Matador Records. Available now: mat-r.co/GirlyS...
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Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Edition Box Set contains:
7 LPs comprised of:
Exile In Guyville (double remastered LP), and the three pre-Exile Girly-Sound cassettes, restored from the original tapes and never before commercially released in their entirety: Yo Yo Buddy Yup Yup Word To Ya Mutha (double LP, restored from Girly-Sound cassette 1), Girls! Girls! Girls! (double LP, restored from Girly-Sound cassette 2), Sooty (single LP, restored from Girly-Sound cassette 3)
Extensive book containing and oral history by Jason Cohen including interviews with Liz Phair, Chris Brokaw, Brad Wood, John Henderson and more, essays by Liz Phair and by journalist Ann Powers. Contains never before published photos, unseen artwork and ephemera.
Also available as a 3-CD set, individual digital downloads, and on streaming services
Directed by Katy Maguire
Editor: Jim Staskauskaus

[@lucybrb]

The 90's was such a good time!

[@halohunter5217]

They weren't? Didn't the '90s give birth to emo music, and had both Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan whining all over the place?

[@sagaciousassessor6237]

halo hunter but Trent and Billie made some of the best music of all time. Every pop punk / emo band of the 2000s era were just ripping off and regurgitating melodies and hooks from Dookie

[@glenlukaszewski1191]

wow you all remember the 90's??? ya'all defn needed better parties!!! Rock On!

[@jgil1966]

We had everything and we didnt know

[@plainlake]

Pretty trash decade. But some people were into that.

[@sammyday3341]

She’s simply incredible. The coolest lady to ever pick up a guitar.

[@johnbharris]

Oh dear...I had SUCH a crush on this woman back in the 90's(well, her and Nina Gordon.) I lived in Chicago at the time and just had a waking dream that I'd bump into her somewhere on the Northside...probably in the Belmont area. This song so easily pinpoints a time and place when were were all young GenXers and we had no idea what to do in life. So, we existed, scoured record stores and somehow made ends meet. Exile in Guyville was a great soundtrack to that wee movie. Thanks, Liz!!!

[@AlphabetPublishing]

"This exhibit features live Liz Phairs. Please do not panic if they jump out of the trees in front of you, leap around, then disappear back into the foilage. Please do not feed them. Despite rumors you may have heard, Liz Phairs are not dangerous."

[@heatherk5199]

This species is rarely physically dangeous, unless provoked. But may possibly cause harm to the misogynistic recording industry of the 1990s and beyond. So please keep your hands to yourselves at all times. Thank you for visiting.

[@Talisguy]

'Do not threaten a Liz Phair. It may retaliate by playing Funstyle at you. You have been warned."

[@megwell]

I'm primarily a heavy metal kind of guy in general but I certainly like and can appreciate a talented artist like her. I'd go see her if she came to town

[@ultrastellar]

It´s always such a sight for sore eyes just seeing Liz happy and smiling😍❤

[@bethmcleish883]

she's like if cher from clueless had a cooler older sister

[@RockNRoller66]

Or Alison Brie

[@duncan3998]

More like a young twin of Sheryl Crow

[@jayce.milky09]

@@duncan3998 not this comparison again🤡💁🏼‍♂️

[@stripperkaraoke3578]

Great observation! 👏

[@merkules2001]

Nailed it

[@jayce.milky09]

Liz Phair will forever and always be The First Lady- The Queen of 90s Indie🤎

[@moretoknowshow1887]

This song had that early 90s vibe of Gen X optimism, I think its time it comes back...

[@paulvincent248]

Cruising in my new car, blasting this into a world filled with hope. I miss the 90s, sort of.

[@Kackle60]

My hero!! I could - can so relate. As a female in financial planning I was definitely in guysville, still am. The whole album was my anthem. Love you Liz- I put my vote in at the R & R Hall of fame, you are a trendsetter! Australian Courtney Barnett carry’s your torch!

[@joshwalls9923]

What in the hell are you talking about?

[@shannond1511]

*carries

[@geraldbennett7035]

Dont be one of the guys. Be yourself. Run from equality. its a trap

[@dangeiger6859]

​@@joshwalls9923 this song isn't something you will ever understand, Josh :(

[@jimmyrussell8834]

I remember having Exile in Guyville on cassette.. Listening to it reminds me of the long drives from Joplin, Mo. down route 66 to see a girl in Baxter Springs, Ks. in the mid 90's. I was 18 or 19 at the time. It was a 25-30 minute drive just listening to that first half of the album, and then the second half on the way back. Not a romantic album at all, but I romanticize the memory looking back! A really nice memory I have had to myself all these years.. The excitement of going to see my girl made it perfect!

[@U2QuoZepplin]

So weird how I never knew this song or the artist Liz Fair back in the 1990s but this song is such a perfect slice of the 90s ! It takes me right back to my not misspent enough youth!

[@Vibeagain]

glad you're catching up!

[@U2QuoZepplin]

@@Vibeagain ditto!

[@Vibeagain]

@@obscuremusictabs5927 almost!

[@anthonynavarro6074]

I like when song kicks even more butt at the part where she sings, "don't look at me sideways, don't even look me straight on...".

[@wisemandaryn5953]

It's cool that Matador decided to reissue the music videos from "Exile In Guyville" for the 25th Anniversary. They existed on KZbin before, but only in really low-quality from random users. It's nice that there are HQ videos now when you search for Liz Phair and not just VHS type quality.

[@Josabooba]

Daryn Wiseman - I suspect there will be so many 25th anniversary reissue / remastered in 2019 with 1994 being probably the greatest ever year for alternative

[@garythompson5316]

@@Josabooba 94 through 96 were just incredible!

[@thatwasprettyneat]

@@garythompson5316 Didn't realized how spoiled we were until the shitty 2000's era of music hit

[@ichirosuzuki2252]

aight boomer@@thatwasprettyneat

[@jorgemunoz30]

We need a high quality version of Supernova too.

[@tobynn]

Yup. This was what hooked me. I remember seeing this video on MTV and immediately falling bigtime for this vixen. Been crushing hard on Liz ever since then.

[@mickiamajor8110]

"All I know is I'm clean as a whistle." ♥️❤️ "So don't look at me sideways." ♥️❤️ "Don't even look me straight on." ❤️♥️

[@billherman7294]

Mad crushin on this girl back in the day

[@milkmedia1657]

Dont blame you

[@korchin76]

I saw her for the first time during my university days. I was 19 years old. I felt in love her by this video. I wanted to get married with her. But, Life was tough. Thank you for upload this video.

[@d.b.2812]

Has it been 25 years, where has the time gone.

[@shel3099]

That's a great question!

[@seandoherty9820]

Well this takes me back to high school! I did and still do have a crush on Liz Phair. I'm glad we finally have a higher quality version of this music video. Classic song!

[@mloftin6472]

I have now been a fan for 26 years. What a goddess.

[@alexandrealbertoni1840]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, MY BELOVED QUEEN 👑! Liz is turning 56 today [Apr 17, 2023] 🎂🎁🎈🎊🎉🎈🎊🎉🎈🎊🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@emell7025]

Do the 90's seem like the 60's to anyone else? What a happyish time.

[@meme-gg3xe]

No. the 90's seem more like the 50's. What we're experiencing currenty seems like the '60's on crack.

[@eriksebastian6637]

@@meme-gg3xe You definitely didn’t live through the same 90s that I barely survived

[@mitchberg8229]

The nineties were SO much better than the sixties. No Vietnam, no riots (after LA), no Soviet Union and nuclear war lurking around the corner. The 90s may have been the best decade ever in many ways.

[@randallpinkfloyd4857]

She's beautiful

[@sonicgrub]

This album changed my life and I'm Male!

[@thehonksterkadunedalickyda7036]

sonicgrub probably gay male

[@sonicgrub]

Thank you for the compliment but I can't take credit for such an accolade. I am not gay but keep up the solid and flattering characterizations.

[@thischarminglovehound2376]

How'd you end up here tho?

[@ohell9854]

congratulations, you're incridble

[@ivanovicsharapova2402]

Gay

[@SaiIorNeptune]

One of the most 90s music videos Ive seen 😂 Love the 90s and Liz, so talented and gorgeous!! 😍😍

[@Jim26D]

It's up there, for me slow dog by belly is as 90s as it gets

[@anandchamarthy459]

Guyville..what a record. Forver in my top 10. Love you Liz!

[@Hilaire_Balrog]

All of a sudden this song made me sad. thinking back about how cool and fascinating the world seemed. Traveling to college towns and cities and to check out the bands there. And all the good bands and music that just kept coming and coming. Meeting cool girls that and developing crushes and turning a few into girlfriends. I don't think my kids world will be like that for them when they are in their early 20s' 😩

[@dhdoctors]

Liz you have rocked my world for 20 years, and schooled us with brilliant song writing. Thank you!

[@tonybates7870]

Oh, brilliant song! My new musical crush - I've only been into it three days.

[@shantanukhandkar]

Wait till you get to Funstyle.

[@ZapperRS]

@@shantanukhandkar Todd in the Shadows?

[@user-ee4gp9gl3i]

She is probably my loved artist over the years. I love this song, it’s crazily catchy but her slightly cool understated vocals fit perfectly!

[@br6cevinyl]

Liz Phair is the best thing to happen to Matador Records.

[@stevenmichaelwilson1915]

She rocks... she always says something... great lyrics and ripper guitar chords!!!!

[@Earthvizitr1260]

so classic so dedicated...

[@michaelaiello9525]

One of the best albums ever.. period.

[@MichaelD8393]

29 years old and still a certified earworm!

[@asan1050]

Thanks for posting this video.

[@presleymberry]

I just got a squire mustang as my first guitar and I didn’t even realize Liz played one but she’s like my biggest inspo

[@PlanetC64]

Clean as a whiste. 😚

[@sharksport01]

Is she having fun?? I love her.

[@peterfuino2808]

Her music saved my life.

[@MbisonBalrog]

She like the mom every son wish he had

[@TracyScherrer]

This album was my 1993 soundtrack

[@paulelliott3220]

Brilliant Goddamn she's awesome and what an album Not seen this for an age !

[@dixgun]

I don’t think I saw this video before, but her great voice, so low, and those harmonies in this hook-filled track kept haunting today.

[@zezezuma-rh9ej]

Saudades do ano 1994/1995, SP BR🇧🇷

[@christopherhau3974]

Happy 25th birthday, Exile In Guyville!

[@33Luger]

That makes me feel quite old.

[@allenjones7722]

how can you not like her, underrated as hell.

[@alfx5432]

Believe me we like her

[@gingerjesus2721]

I'm crushing right now.

[@chairmankaga101]

It's 2019 and I JUST got the cleverness of the wordplay in the title/chorus. Holy crap, Liz.

[@lilcobain-zn7so]

2024

[@bobbyg1969]

How is it that almost 30 years later I still have crush on her?

[@naftalibendavid]

I’m with you. Saw her in LA in 96 and almost went back stage and embarrassed myself. Now I wish I had done it.

[@timandralf3505]

because this video's 30 years old?

[@nathanielmason1053]

Hot women are hot

[@GaryTolodziecki]

❤️liz

[@lightdenied]

Liz Phair, Lauryn Hill, and, yes, Tori Amos are my three favorite female singers of the 90s. Talent is more important than genre.

[@hogansavoy6525]

Can't leave Shirley off that list.

[@garythompson5316]

@@hogansavoy6525 spot on Hogan! When I was a young lad, redheads really disturbed me lol. My dad, who actually turned out to be way cooler than I thought he was lol had a major crush on Ann-Margret, Good taste too! As I think Ann and Shirley are two of the hottest redheads ever

[@TheMarkoPolo2011]

Add Bjork and PJ Harvey and you've got it!

[@jgil1966]

Fiona apple???

[@aaronmcdonaldful]

This list is a little bit, dare i say, America-Centric.. not that I have any issue with America, there's a lot to love! So hear me out, back in the 90s before social media made the role of A&R redundant, the US was deprived of many of the great international musicians from that decade, particularly from across the pond and Europe in general, i.e Björk, Cocteau Twins, Portishesd, PJ Harvey, Neneh Cherry, Sia and even Kylie Minogue (lol) why? Because the gatekeepers back then manufactured the American market to be in a league of its own, while only they authorised the select few to "crack the US market".. Sure, you may very well be familiar with artists like Bjork today, but many Americans I know who are around my age, only really discovered a lot of these artists till much later.. their music careers just never quite took off in the way they should've.. the same is true with the EU, deprived of a lot of rnb / hip hop music from the states.. Growing up in Australia, we had the best of both worlds, we got all the American hip hop and rnb europe missed, and all the camp euro dance Brit pop, trip hop the US missed. Plus we has our own local scene. Aussie 90s alternative rock is a genre in itself . Kinda daggy and still a lil bit impressionable from outside influences..still keeping a dose of national identity with remincents of very Australiana blue collar rock of the 80s ..

[@blevake9560]

I interned at the place where they cut this video. Someone one time showed me some of the dailies. She actually married the editor who is a very nice guy.

[@shel3099]

I LOVE Liz Phair! I think we had a similar life.

[@ireeeeen]

With videos like these I can almost hear the Beavis & Butthead commentary popping up in the corner! Haha!

[@ziweiyuan]

Guyville Phair is the best Phair. She never quite captured this vibe again.

[@hogansavoy6525]

Sadly.

[@JKDVIPER]

Real talent

[@KOSMICKEN09]

Liz is so cute and so cool

[@tjcihlar1]

When you wake up in the morning feeling your best ever and you happen to have a music video to film.

[@Boddissatva]

I’ve always loved her music.

[@jeffm5056]

Man that takes me back. Such a beautiful woman, that Liz.

[@danabella29]

This type of raw talent came so naturally back then. A lot of indie music today feels forced and lacks something I can't quite put my finger on..

[@gbluecheez]

definitely liking this new artist :) love the 90s aesthetic

[@OperationPhantom]

Are you being meta here? :P

[@christopherhau3974]

gbluecheez This is actually from 1993, where she debut her iconic debut album, Exile In Guyville, so she's new at the time and it's released in the 1990s, and now she's been here for two decades.

[@6goivit6]

Well played, gbluecheez!

[@jayjaybee]

😁😁😁

[@claudettes9697]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Neil_Chapman]

She was what we called a "fly honey" in the 90s 😘

[@ChristianPatriot2]

Can't believe this girl didn't become HUGE. I mean, she was on MTV a lot, but she never got quite as big as she should've, IMHO.

[@Goatchild90]

This video and song are perfect we all know that part but this woman is beautiful. I can't not look in her eyes.

[@KILEY615]

I know this woman is perfect for me.

[@johnmorris5636]

I fell in love with this song on Napster.

[@melodraminha]

these my-so-called life soundtracks…..

[@andysaunders3708]

She's a beautiful woman, and she knows it. Good for her.

[@SexyAssDanny4]

i don't remember this song from the 90's & when i was a kid, but it was on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs Of The 90's not a bad song either. Supernova is cool too

[@popartclips]

Happy birthday Guyville!

[@cjmiller3302]

popartclips its Anniversary

[@user-ee4gp9gl3i]

and she’s super gorgeous ❤️❤️

[@armara70]

Love you Liz. You still look amazing.

[@amyn.middleton1456]

So brilliant at the time and still so relevant 25 years later. "It wasn't me, babe." Yeah, sure!

[@OperationPhantom]

Ah... Liz's wardrobe must have been by far the most expensive thing in the whole video! Still, so much more fun and personable than many a big budget video. Nice teaser for the Exile in Guyville reissue as well... works for me.

[@OperationPhantom]

Pitchfork has a double interview with Liz and Lindsey Jordan from Snail Mail, where they also talk about their approach to guitar!

[@unchboy]

Harry Dickus admission to that greenhouse was free back in the day. That's the Lincoln Park conservatory in Chicago.

[@amybeth8829]

OperationPhantom definitely the film and rented cameras used to create this footage was. Film was $$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@withastone]

@@unchboy pretty sure it's Garfield Park ;)

[@xxHouseInMotionxx]

we had it good in the 90's..... God Liz slays.... Yowza

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Hot as it gets in 90s, love Liz ❤

[@All6usto]

Amazing call. It feels great to see this in well deserved quality. Thanks a lot.

[@Kinnakeeter]

Yup, I had a crush on Liz Phair back in the day

[@Glickan]

This is what talent looks like!!!

[@lenore8767]

Sometimes I forget just how mf CUTE this woman is & I gotta watch a few videos to get my fix… she was awesome back in the day & she’s awesome now. ❤

[@CeejayFilmsFanspinePictures]

This is like modern indie

[@senatorkennedy3450]

What an amazing creature !!!

[@denisefreitas6727]

Liz is amazing!

[@TRPD-hb3ui]

I liked the part where she said "IIIIIIIIIIIII never said nothing"

[@VinnMan]

That's funny shit!

[@joshuanathanson8020]

Lol

[@Zizzyyzz]

Me too.

[@cactusflowertime-tw2pw]

hahaha!!

[@hurricanegold9365]

lmao

[@babymoondancer]

The Lady Phair!! I hope Material Re-Issue does another show with her soon!!

[@bradlcnm]

Awesome riff from an epic babe!

[@julieweisberg]

holds up. so good.

[@mikebtko]

She looks like a hot mean girl... Great tune!

[@jamesfrangione8448]

Was…is…and shall remain…AWESOME! 100%.

[@smellylorenny]

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH IM SO HAPPY TO SEE IT IN SUCH HIGH QUALITY! THANK YOU MATADOR AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!

[@clintedwards2034]

This video should have at least been nominated for best new artist, best alternative video, or best female video at the 1993 VMA'S WTF! 😡

[@MelBee128]

I believe this video was filmed in Chicago at Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier where they have an indoor flower arboretum. At least I think that's where it is. It could also be the Garfield Park Conservatory.

[@startervisions]

I was hoping this would be released about a month ago, thank you Matador Records!

[@Techdeckshawty]

I see you everywhere

[@startervisions]

@@Techdeckshawty ;)

[@davesnothere2879]

I Never said nothing, what a great line .

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

Thanks for the remaster! Went looking for this video last month and all the copies were pixelated crap!

[@entertainmentguys1]

Ever notice this is the same progression as "my girl". I was playing along last night. Still a good song.