Inspired by Mike’s candid and eminently reasonable reassessment of Liz Phair’s recent output (and the e-mails that he and I exchanged when my review of Liz Phair ran in 2003), and Liz Phair’s critic-chastising new web-only release.

In retrospect, yes, I could have done a much better job with this review.  But I still don’t think it’s fair to say that those of us who remain unmoved by Liz Phair are rockists, misogynists, or overall peen-yuses. There are good pop records and bad pop records. To my ears, Liz Phair is a bad pop record.