my life has been very very hard in the past 8 years.....when you say "too much fun was had" back then.....i know what you mean. I would so, so love to go back watching her on 120 minutes with all the innocence to be had.
I saw Liz perform live for the first time ever in Sydney last weekend. After being a fan of her wonderful music for more than two decades, I couldn’t miss the opportunity of seeing her live when she came to my hometown. She was fantastic! Engaging and charming with the crowd throughout. Liz Rocked!
This is one of the most "realistic" love songs! It doesnt try to be overly dramatic or go into sexual fantesies. It just all the little details about loving someone that anybody can relate to!
I remember discovering Liz (and PJ Harvey) when I was 15, from reading about their music in Rolling Stone and Spin magazines... the days when MTV played actual videos on fantastic programs like 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation...
Go to archive.org and check out a show called Beyond the Wall of Sleep. It is like a modern-day answer to 120 Minutes, but on the radio out of Idaho Falls. Devon (the host) cancelled it last January when Bowie died. I keep emailing him to resurrect it, but so far...no luck. Still, we have 8 years of back log that we can enjoy!
@@shanewilson398 92-94 were special, that doesn't include the two disks by the Tragically Hip the most Americans don't even know about- Day for Night is up there with Ten and Nevermind.
Hey, do you have any idea of how Liz created that "muffled" sound of her guitar? Did she use a pedal of some kind? I've never heard that sound other than in this song
And pure 90s angst! I was 15 when this came out, and heard it on X96 - the "alternative" music station in Utah where I grew up. What a great time to be young and free!
@@fin8glr Other than her guitars, a Fender Duo-Sonic and Fender Mustang among others, her foot pedal and amps can do a lot for the sounds she's looking for. ✌️
INDIE CHICKS,,,,,,,,, SO TALENTED AND GORGEOUS,,,, WHO DO WE HAVE THESE DAYS ????? Thank god, Liz,juliana, veruca salt,, etc are still around... GREAT TALENT.
Nowhere close to this level though. And we had many.many.many. Girls/women today were raised to care about having a super fat ass, learning to twerk and immulating no talent, rich reality show tarts. Its really sad. I take no pleasure in saying that.
Ms Phair put out one of my all time favorite songs from the 90's! She really knows how to paint a portrait with words and the band really puts the icing on top her wickedly well baked cake. Thank You Liz Phair! You ROCK!
Oh my God the song takes me back to the 90s I was partying my ass off I was in my early twenties the 90s were awesome I had great years in this whole house has been relevant love the song wish it was louder
Liz's work from 1993-1995 was some of the best. I dig the white tennis and skirt...hilarious and I could totally see my 26 yr old doing this look in 2023!
it's 2017 and still listening to this, I was 15 back then, the 90s, the time when all great music started to come out, proud to have been be a part of it!!
When all great music started to come out? What do you think of the decades before? I like 90’s music too, but some might argue that was the beginning of the end of good music.
Unless you had call waiting. Then, you had to deal with the lost connection, wait until the end of the call, and attempt to reconnect. The initial dialup procedure took at least 30 seconds before you were "in" and could do anything. I can remember a 30 seconds video took about 15 minutes to download. Kids today couldn't live under those conditions.
I remember this was like 1994 and this song and Jen Trynin's Better Than Nothing were two of my favorite radio tunes when I switched over to 106.3 (central jersey modern rock at the jersey shore, lol). I was going back and forth between early 90's hip hop and poppy guitar rock (still two of my favorite types). Also, I used to subscribe to Details magazine, and they'd send out compilation CDs all the time... pretty sure both Supernova and Better than Nothing were on one of them.
I had the Details CD with Better Than Nothing, You Oughtta Know, and "Drown" by Son Volt. That magazine introduced me to cool bands, and gave me style tips.
Lyrics: I have looked all over the place But you have got my favorite face Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass And your lips are sweet and slippery Like a cherub's bare wet ass 'Cause you're a human supernova A solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A flying, giant friction blast You walk in clouds of glitter And the sun reflects your eyes And every time the wind blows I can smell you in the sky Your kisses are as wicked as an M-16 And you fuck like a volcano And you're everything to me 'Cause you're a human supernova A solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A flying, giant friction blast 'Cause you're a human supernova A solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A flying, giant friction blast
I loved this song and Liz Phair all through my high school and college years of the 90's. Funny that now I'm studying to be an Earth & Space Science teacher and my old friend Liz Phair is helping me remember some of my cosmology terms. :) Thank you Liz
I absolutely Love You Liz Phair. Man. Your sound is always right on. Your lyrics always calles questions within day to day thoughts. Brillant. Amazing. Of course Fabulous! So many years and so much coolness growing and evident. How the hell ya do it? Thank you. Cheers. Hugs and Love.
LOL, I just heard this on the radio for the first time in like 25 years and said outloud exactly what you just said! Wasn't sure if it was liz phair or the group who did "cannonball" , so I youtubed it... Seriously sounds incredibly "90s alternative" (Q101ish if you're from Chicago, heh). Sounds like Jr High to me, lol.
She had a unique sound so different from what was going on. the critics focused on the lyrics and how "no woman has ever been so blunt about sex" or whatever (and whoa, the critics were always men, who knew?). But I honestly she created a new sound. i always thought they were really incredible pop songs disguised as rock with an edge. And i listen to these new women....Tone Lo or Sia or whoever.....Phair influenced SO MANY artists, male and female who started being aware of pop songs in a different form. I miss 93/94 so much. But Phair has survived, many have not. all love to her.
Christy Spencer Because they demand that women be demure and not talk about sex or apparently have orgasms. If they do, they're perceived as not being classy.
Haha..song has absolutely no sexual references or innuendo at all!! Amazing!!! Seriously I'm not kidding..the volcano reference is about zits the kisses references is about guys macho pride in muscles and how anyone can match it as long as they have a tongue to gag themselves with...the song is about her her her her...celebrities are known to be slyer than the wiser...aka LIE TO SELL RECORDS AND MAKE LEGENDS!!! People don't believe in anything at all...and yet they totally believe absolutely everything they DO NOT HEAR!!!
She literally did not inspire anyone...its all make believe...you know how many artists have never been exposed and yet theres tons of similar if not identical acts that are exposed? Its seriously almost a race of invention to create original music because of how limited the expression and message can be...this song us absolutely not what you promote at all...what has liz phair ever aspired to or achieved related to superman..men's health or rights..men's sexual liberation...or even womens...shes a lesbian...why..she can't liberate herself from her gender so sincerely she has to consume from it? Incest isnt legal and once upon a time lesbianism wasnt either...now suck my toe and let your brain turn back into jelly and stop acting all informed and formally casual about your narcissistic interpretations of ear born slaughterhouse floor scum.
How come I never heard of this... Loved the 90s in my twenties, king of the 🌍 As we all are but I never heard this song before I watched Yellow jackets
She was an interesting innovative songwriter and I always liked her guitar playing. Interesting open tunings. And her lyrics were also intriguing. I don't know her current music though.
Liz Phair makes me remember what I missed most about the 90s...all the beautiful and talented women who emerged out of that decade.
and onto the next britney avril liz kelly to name a few GReat ones :)
nad yet I found her later a bit more
Who are you to believe you? Idiot!
They all kicked ass.
Iiss my 90s chicks!!!!
Pre-teen and teenage me modeled my style and mannerisms on Liz Phair. She was the epitome of cool to me in the 90s. I still adore her.
Well stated❤
Now look at you.
And now teens emulate the Kardassian sisters, or some other trash tv bimbo.
Impossibly cool. Like... reincarnation of Anne Boleyn... but with more cowbell.
She is quite alluring and electrifying.
This is so 90’s for me.
Liz Phair deserves to be young forever.
Yes she mostly certainly does :))))))))))))
Liz is in her very own lane of coolness on rock’s superhighway.
Was anyway
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@@scott7521 Is. History doesn't die.
I was 25 when this came out....it was a great time to be alive in the 90s....and of age.....too much fun was had.
I WAS 45.
I was 14
mistresselyria
Awwww...
my life has been very very hard in the past 8 years.....when you say "too much fun was had" back then.....i know what you mean. I would so, so love to go back watching her on 120 minutes with all the innocence to be had.
I agree, I was in my 20's in the 90's, living in Austin, and I 2ould live that decade over again for eternity, if I could.
Still rocking to this some 20 years later. Love being Gen-X. Our music kicked ass!
1994
Still does!
The music was and is so raw and awesome and so many types from dee lite to beck to rock to grunge. Its probably nostalgia but I miss the 90s.
You're getting so old that you can't even remember the timeline!
Sure did, wish I had a chance to witness it.
Kind regards,
Jealous Millenial
The 1990's were generally a very good decade for female lead singers, and rock artists. There were many
the early 90s yes, the late 90s, not so much.
@@kosterix123 I agree. The best years of the 1990's for music were 1990-1996.
hell yeah, Liz, Aimee Mann, PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, Alanis, Veruca Salt , of course eveyone from Riot Grrl etc (Bikini KIll..)
The Breeders were cool.
Remember you're not John lewis
Happy 53rd Birthday Liz. Apr 17, 1967. And many more. You carved the way for present and future female singers/performers.
I'm a year older than her. Perfect age of my dream wife. Love Liz!
The Grunge and Alternative era of early to mid 90s will always be my fav era ☺
It was good. The Americans certainly boxed it off well. Great era.
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Songs and artists like this, are what killed that era! 😢
@@a7n7t7o7n7y+ 1.
I saw Liz perform live for the first time ever in Sydney last weekend. After being a fan of her wonderful music for more than two decades, I couldn’t miss the opportunity of seeing her live when she came to my hometown. She was fantastic! Engaging and charming with the crowd throughout. Liz Rocked!
This is one of the most "realistic" love songs! It doesnt try to be overly dramatic or go into sexual fantesies. It just all the little details about loving someone that anybody can relate to!
Yes
I remember discovering Liz (and PJ Harvey) when I was 15, from reading about their music in Rolling Stone and Spin magazines... the days when MTV played actual videos on fantastic programs like 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation...
Without 120 Minutes how can we find new music now?
Oh, it's out there, trust me. Keep searching.
Let me know when you find out...
Go to archive.org and check out a show called Beyond the Wall of Sleep. It is like a modern-day answer to 120 Minutes, but on the radio out of Idaho Falls. Devon (the host) cancelled it last January when Bowie died. I keep emailing him to resurrect it, but so far...no luck. Still, we have 8 years of back log that we can enjoy!
Steve Grogan
Thanks!
she's devastatingly, ridiculously & stunningly cool & drop dead hot. killer tune!
with or without your best intentions
This sums it up pretty well.
Douglas Bell absolutely my friend!!!!!
There are few hotter qualities in a man than being a fan of feminist artists like Liz Phair.
That sold more records than the songs themselves, its a modern phenomena
She is gorgeous & has a equally gorgeous voice.
As a 80's and 90's kid, I was so happy to hear this and other 90's classics on Yellowjackets
This one got played a lot on the radio here (in NZ) in the mid-1990s but never gets played today.
The 90's ruled. You know it, I know it, We all know it !
Yes we do!
The world knows it
Great time to be a music fan, that's for sure!!
Lindsey Summers for me 1994 was the last great year for music...
@@shanewilson398 92-94 were special, that doesn't include the two disks by the Tragically Hip the most Americans don't even know about- Day for Night is up there with Ten and Nevermind.
These lyrics are surely amongst the finest words ever written describing how it feels to be infatuated. The song is also great.
Oh man the 90's are never coming back but as long as we have epic songs like this on CZcams, I can be cool with it today. Epic track.
No gimmicks, no heavy make-up, or flashy costumes.
Just raw talent and natural beauty.
I long for those days.
Hey, do you have any idea of how Liz created that "muffled" sound of her guitar? Did she use a pedal of some kind? I've never heard that sound other than in this song
And pure 90s angst! I was 15 when this came out, and heard it on X96 - the "alternative" music station in Utah where I grew up. What a great time to be young and free!
@@fin8glr No, but she wrote all the songs and did all the guitar work by herself.
No Botox.
@@fin8glr
Other than her guitars, a Fender Duo-Sonic and Fender Mustang among others, her foot pedal and amps can do a lot for the sounds she's looking for. ✌️
This album is so underrated
It’s rated exactly where it belongs.
I know right
Whitechocolatespacegg, will always be my go to album of hers. But this one isn’t too bad either.
INDIE CHICKS,,,,,,,,, SO TALENTED AND GORGEOUS,,,, WHO DO WE HAVE THESE DAYS ????? Thank god, Liz,juliana, veruca salt,, etc are still around... GREAT TALENT.
Juliana... Hatfield?
jedi on board there's literally of dozens of female artists making cool rock music
Nowhere close to this level though.
And we had many.many.many.
Girls/women today were raised to care about having a super fat ass, learning to twerk and immulating no talent, rich reality show tarts. Its really sad. I take no pleasure in saying that.
@@danabella29 "immulating"?
@@lindseysummers5351 Of course, who else?
One of the most talented women in music, then and now. Long live Liz!
Fifteen-year-old me was in love with Liz Phair.
48 year old me is in love with liz phair.
She looks like my ex gf sarah
Daniel Dougan
I also enjoyed Liz P. Hair.
36yr old me is still in love with Liz Phair.
She still looks great all these years later at 50. The years have been kind to her.
Ms Phair put out one of my all time favorite songs from the 90's! She really knows how to paint a portrait with words and the band really puts the icing on top her wickedly well baked cake. Thank You Liz Phair! You ROCK!
Oh my God the song takes me back to the 90s I was partying my ass off I was in my early twenties the 90s were awesome I had great years in this whole house has been relevant love the song wish it was louder
Bought the CD when it came out. Still have it.
she is simply the most attractive human being i have ever seen in my whole entire life
A 10... take away the guitar and turn down the volume and she’s still a 10... let me revise that... she’s an 11.
I have seen the top of the mountain, and it was good.
She goes all the way to 11, man!
This song and video is great. You can listen many times in a row without getting bored.
Liz's work from 1993-1995 was some of the best. I dig the white tennis and skirt...hilarious and I could totally see my 26 yr old doing this look in 2023!
I was in the army when I first heard this sometime in 95 I think. I bought this CD fast, never gets old.
All these years and I still can't tell her and Juliana Hatfield apart.
Are you blind AND deaf? 😂 I’m a fan of both but have never mixed them up for even a moment.
I’m an 18 year old born in 2005 and I absolutely adore this song…
Haha. That’s awesome
where have you gone Liz Phair?......I miss the 90s so much....
Eric Theriault she basically sucked live so people lost interest.
Eric Theriault She made 8 studio albums
ayr1225 She sang about their eyes? I remember "Lets do it backwards so we can fuck and watch tv" lolz
+Django Plimpton She was terrible live. Just a terrible performer.
+demonhoopa lolol
it's 2017 and still listening to this, I was 15 back then, the 90s, the time when all great music started to come out, proud to have been be a part of it!!
When all great music started to come out? What do you think of the decades before? I like 90’s music too, but some might argue that was the beginning of the end of good music.
Seems every GENERATION has their "Beef", huh?
Absolutely my favorite Liz Phair song ... She's Great !
1994 called, but i was on the modem, so i missed the call.
I love this comment because its so true
Back when most music was made by humans, even the shitty music.
Don't u have caller id?
Modem in 1994 ??? bit early for the tinterweb that like !!!
Unless you had call waiting. Then, you had to deal with the lost connection, wait until the end of the call, and attempt to reconnect. The initial dialup procedure took at least 30 seconds before you were "in" and could do anything. I can remember a 30 seconds video took about 15 minutes to download. Kids today couldn't live under those conditions.
Jesus, what a throwback in my recommended 😊 talented girl 👍
Fell in love with her songs, the touch of pop accelerated just enough!
I remember this was like 1994 and this song and Jen Trynin's Better Than Nothing were two of my favorite radio tunes when I switched over to 106.3 (central jersey modern rock at the jersey shore, lol). I was going back and forth between early 90's hip hop and poppy guitar rock (still two of my favorite types).
Also, I used to subscribe to Details magazine, and they'd send out compilation CDs all the time... pretty sure both Supernova and Better than Nothing were on one of them.
I had the Details CD with Better Than Nothing, You Oughtta Know, and "Drown" by Son Volt. That magazine introduced me to cool bands, and gave me style tips.
What an amazing song. Such a great songwriter.
1994:smoke show
2024: smoke show
This woman doesn't age
she looks absolutely stunning in the thumbnail holy shit
Girl you rock. I had this album.
Such a catchy song, what a riff!, and brilliant lyrics, cute, honest, and fun.
Nice song from Liz Phair. The good effects to the guitar and it takes me back. Thanks.
Definitely my favorite Liz Phair song ... So Cool !
Everything about this song is fun. The riff the video and of course Liz. I'm 90's hungry again.
Damn, I haven't heard this since the 90s. Such great music back then.
She is the definition of stunningly talented and drop dead beautiful
I saw Liz Phair at Lilith Fair '99, and she was _FANTASTIC!!!!!_ 💖💖💖💖💖
Lyrics:
I have looked all over the place
But you have got my favorite face
Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass
And your lips are sweet and slippery
Like a cherub's bare wet ass
'Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings of fire
A flying, giant friction blast
You walk in clouds of glitter
And the sun reflects your eyes
And every time the wind blows
I can smell you in the sky
Your kisses are as wicked as an M-16
And you fuck like a volcano
And you're everything to me
'Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings of fire
A flying, giant friction blast
'Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings of fire
A flying, giant friction blast
It's an F-16 not an M-16
@@jeandenver1020 It's M-16, which is the name of the rilfe
@@hh-hq2tv pretty sure it's F-16 like the jet
M-16 would make sense then cuz of the preceding “wicked.” Thanks for clarifying!
Also, it's gilded "brass", not grass.
Damn good memories of the 90's. This production is weird and cool, whole album is crazy good.
Uuuuuuh❣️I miss the 90s. We had so much awesome music. Being a teen during this time was amazing ✨✨🥰
Still Jammin' This Song in 2015 ! Hell Yeah!
Phenomenal song, singer, and video!!!!
I loved this song and Liz Phair all through my high school and college years of the 90's. Funny that now I'm studying to be an Earth & Space Science teacher and my old friend Liz Phair is helping me remember some of my cosmology terms. :) Thank you Liz
I absolutely Love You Liz Phair. Man. Your sound is always right on. Your lyrics always calles questions within day to day thoughts. Brillant. Amazing. Of course Fabulous!
So many years and so much coolness growing and evident. How the hell ya do it?
Thank you. Cheers. Hugs and Love.
I just got into Liz Phair and she has changed my life.
I'm STILL in love with her.
The 90's were amazing! ❤️
Love Liz Phair!
2021 still listening!!!
I FINALLY found this song!!! I've loved this ever since hearing it on ⭐️Sabrina The Teenage Witch ⭐️...I had to Shazam the episode yesterday lol ☺️
the best of the 90's. KILLER
Wicker Park in the house!!!🥰🥰🥰💯
Still rocking to this in 2019! A classic in Woodstock's Jukebox ☮️❤️🤘🖖♒😘 Rock on!
she has a GORGEOUS. VOICE
I was my best self in the 90s, or so I like to think. What a great song
Amazing song, love the hooks.
She is so brutally honest about herself in her songs
One of my favorites! I always hated how it sounded muffled though. I wish there was a remastered version
1:45 Liz Phair is the STIG!!
From another Gen-X. Our music still kicks ass!!!
Liz absolutely rocks🤟🏻
I dig when she's go-go dancing in the space helmet.
I thought I was the only one!
I imagine that motorcycle riders will be surprised to learn that they're riding with space helmets on.
God damnit. this is arguably the most 90s sounding song ever.
LOL, I just heard this on the radio for the first time in like 25 years and said outloud exactly what you just said! Wasn't sure if it was liz phair or the group who did "cannonball" , so I youtubed it...
Seriously sounds incredibly "90s alternative" (Q101ish if you're from Chicago, heh). Sounds like Jr High to me, lol.
lol apparently you havet listened to Veruca Salt recently
Yes, I have years ago and I don't like the band much.
That title has to go to either Tubthumping by Chumbawumba or Lovefool by The Cardigans.
The funny thing is that if this came out today people would be like "woah, what a fresh sound man!" or some other bullshit.
I LOVE Liz!!!!!!
It's refreshing just seeing an artist without tattoos
She had a unique sound so different from what was going on. the critics focused on the lyrics and how "no woman has ever been so blunt about sex" or whatever (and whoa, the critics were always men, who knew?). But I honestly she created a new sound. i always thought they were really incredible pop songs disguised as rock with an edge. And i listen to these new women....Tone Lo or Sia or whoever.....Phair influenced SO MANY artists, male and female who started being aware of pop songs in a different form. I miss 93/94 so much. But Phair has survived, many have not. all love to her.
i dont comprehend why ppl get up in arms when a woman talks about sex when men sing about it too. seems really silly.
Christy Spencer Because they demand that women be demure and not talk about sex or apparently have orgasms. If they do, they're perceived as not being classy.
Haha..song has absolutely no sexual references or innuendo at all!! Amazing!!! Seriously I'm not kidding..the volcano reference is about zits the kisses references is about guys macho pride in muscles and how anyone can match it as long as they have a tongue to gag themselves with...the song is about her her her her...celebrities are known to be slyer than the wiser...aka LIE TO SELL RECORDS AND MAKE LEGENDS!!! People don't believe in anything at all...and yet they totally believe absolutely everything they DO NOT HEAR!!!
She literally did not inspire anyone...its all make believe...you know how many artists have never been exposed and yet theres tons of similar if not identical acts that are exposed? Its seriously almost a race of invention to create original music because of how limited the expression and message can be...this song us absolutely not what you promote at all...what has liz phair ever aspired to or achieved related to superman..men's health or rights..men's sexual liberation...or even womens...shes a lesbian...why..she can't liberate herself from her gender so sincerely she has to consume from it? Incest isnt legal and once upon a time lesbianism wasnt either...now suck my toe and let your brain turn back into jelly and stop acting all informed and formally casual about your narcissistic interpretations of ear born slaughterhouse floor scum.
Lance Love Schizophrenia got you down bud? That was an interesting word salad that almost made sense.
This song....man. Nothing like getting tugged back in time.
Except vietnam...getting tugged back in vietnam...those were some soft hands...mmmhmm...
The Bear, opening night episode, which is in the background, perfect!
I gotta see her when she’s home… damn, so glad she is still rocking it 🎉
she is like a cross between Meg Ryan and Sheryl Crow
Alicia Silverstone, but better
You nailed it.
megs lips
She's a dead ringer for. . .oh who's that gal on The Drew Carey Show? NO, NOT MIMI!! Oh yeah. . . Christa Miller.
Only better.
One of the first of my "go to the store at midnight" to get an album early habit.
Liz is awesome. I love love LOVE this song! :-)
loved this song!
this song rocks.
25 years later, still hot, still rocks
So insanely gorgeous. Love Liz Phair.
How come I never heard of this...
Loved the 90s in my twenties, king of the 🌍
As we all are but I never heard this song before I watched Yellow jackets
Liz made rock cool in the nineties
The epitome of the '90s on so many levels.
Always had a crush on Liz Phair! Her best song here!!
She was an interesting innovative songwriter and I always liked her guitar playing. Interesting open tunings. And her lyrics were also intriguing. I don't know her current music though.
Let's bring back the 80s and 90s please!She's 50 years old.
And she's still a babe.
She's 50 !!!?!?!? 😮😮😮
I can't get enough of her grungy and fuzzed guitar work...
Timeless and gorgeous
I knew I was going to love Yellowjackets when this song came on.