Girly Sound
XOXO

WTF??? That was AWESOME!! Never heard that one before. I assume from the mysteriously missing 3rd Tape??? Thanks a bunch!! Anymore to share?

Maybe it's not from the third, and all the songs we have heard are out of sequence. Has anyone else realized the songs where Liz plays acoustic guitar have worse sound quality? This is an acoustic song,

Why aren't more people responding to this?!

could someone upload this through a different web site? (like yousendit or something)
megaupload says it doesn't work in Argentina (where i live)
pleeeeaaase!!!!
thanx.

What a wonderful song. I would like to personally thank the socio-archeologist responsible for its preservation. This is a great moment.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks for the song

I love it. Thank you!

awesome:)

atom..... you are the bomb!

thanks for sharing the unreleased girlysound. hopefully we will be hearing more in the future.

to elaborate on a point that six dick made, that is my theory also. I don't think there is a whole separate tape of stuff that was unreleased. I kinda think that Tae Won Yu kinda worked as an editor of the material, cutting the wheat from the chaff, narrowing down whole set into de facto double album of girly material. Maybe atom can clear this up.

WE have at least two confirmed tracks on the third tape, Girls, Girls, Girls GS version and Valentine.

now if you'll excuse me, after listening to this unearthed gem, i've made a mess all over myself and have to go clean up.

double post

damn, download limit's gone. anybody willing to PM me a new link please?

someone upload this in yousendit, pleeeeeeeeeeease!!

It wouldn't let me download it yesterday.

Pm, please, anyone? xxx

http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02P205JDGP77Y1BGF4O1205A9Y

Hope it works for y'all.

wow thanks!

Did you get it yet?

If not, I shall email it to thee.

in case yo send it goes down again, i upped it to my savefile account

http://www.savefile.com/files/9851225

Aww, so sweet. It's Okay, I have it now.

thank you infinity!!

/downloads it now

Thanks very much!!!

........I think Liz was on high for this one.

wow. i love the song. it's a real keeper. man, it makes me wish that liz would write another song like this.

i wrote the lyrics because i have no life.

valentine
if you're rolling over me
i bet the farm
that you believe my mind
scanning through the classifieds
you're on the up and up
do you, do you want it
bad enough to get it
and if you really get it
will you have the foresight to quickly give it up
these guys take getting used to
these guys aren't made like they used to

valentine
if you're gonna bring me one
i'm gonna pay for it every time
there's no getting round it
when you're on the up and up
do you, do you want it
bad enough to get it
and if you really get it
will you have the foresight to quickly give it up
these guys take getting used to
these guys aren't made like they used to
these guys aren't taking chances
these guys are doing what the man says

on the eighteenth pole
you drop it just enough to let me see the dirty stuff
and in my nose
you're almost professional
you're one of them on the up and up
but later in bed
you ask to excuse yourself
you're driven to a creature
what is in your head
you know i'm professional
'cause i know how to give it up
these guys take getting used to
these guys aren't made like they used to
these guys make it their business
these guys collect on the interest

valentine
if you're rolling over me
i'm walking through you to the next in line
and he's gonna tell me baby, i'm on the up and up
do you, do you want it
bad enough to get it
and if you really get it
well, i bet the farm that you wouldn't know what to do

I think its you're driven to increase your wealth.

I love this song so much.

Wow...that's wierd. A random person under the alias ATOM joins just to post a never-before-heard Girlysound tape and never posts again.

Could it be Liz?

No. The GS tapes aren't in Liz's possession, let alone on her computer (they're in her parents' basement). I have a feeling someone is holding out on something, though I have no idea why.

Hmm...now I'm confused.

Anyway, thanks for the song, mystery person. It's good.

If you're rolling over me, I'd bet the farm
that you can read my mind
Skimming through the classifieds



On the 18th hole

(pretty sure this is a golf reference -- anyone else get that? the whole yuppie, "up and up", country club motif?)

no because he's posted before.

Miss Mary Mack

Thank You!

Another gem! Thank you very much!!

I love that song. Kind of Simon and Garfunkle-y. The way she recorded her vocals is really great. Why don't you post Girls Girls Girls next?


"You've been around enough to be
smart enough to stay the fuck away from me"

thank you very much. just amazing, epic.

Thank you!

Good week for girlysound liz phair fans, no?

Thanks much, ATOM. You have quite the collection.

No that was his first post

WOW!!

actually the person who uncovered these tapes presented liz with a burned cd copy of the 3rd tape after one of the shows on her fall tour, so it is theoretically possible that it might be Liz but i doubt it is her. atom is probably one of the regular posters on the board but is posting under a psuedonym to avoid a flood of requests for the whole set.

Not that I know anything, but it's actually the third tape that's still missing. This new stuff is coming from tape #1.

No, it's actually coming from Tape 2.

Thank You!!! More..more...more...please and damn I MISS THAT GUITAR sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stumped...on Miss Mary Mack, what song is she ending it with at the end with her guitar? I know it's classic rock and I know the song, but I just can't get it off the tip of my tongue and it's killing me. And I finally figured out where that Ticket to Ride White Line Highways lyrics came from and that is The White Lines song from Grandmaster Flash.

THANK YOU!! I had no idea such a song existed. I couldn't even make out the phrase "white line", actually.

And the thing she ends with at the end is just the jump-rope rhyme, right? It's either a jump-rope thing or it's a paddy-cake hand-slap thing that little girls do. I don't think it's a classic rock song.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject: let me just go ahead and say that "Miss Mary Mack" is now in my Top 5 favorite GS songs, and probably also in my Top 10 all-time favorite Liz songs. Wicked, wicked cool. There are so many things to say about it, so many reasons why it rules.

It reminds me of Sometimes a Dream in that respect--wending its way all over the place, then eventually spinning an unsettling twist on some childhood song--more than a LITTLE trippy. Love it.

Actually, the ending part of the childhood song is Miss Mary Mack and JE, as for the ending, I'm talking about her guitar playing, it coincides with the ending to the childhood song. It changes into a song that I know (the riff) but I can't for the life of me, figure out the song.

Also, do you all realize that she sings about a Puerto Rican black woman named Miss Mary Mack and that Miss Mary Mack is a tweeker and wants more money for drugs so she asks her mom and then her brother and then she breaks into that White Lines line from that Grandmaster Flash song from the 80s. Everyone who knows that song (and JE I know if you heard it you would recognize it, if you are not too young) or has heard it knows that the song is about cocaine.

Damn, I forgot how fuckin cool and genious Liz is!!!!!!

Anyway, listen to the ending chords, that is a classic rock tune but can't figure it out. It starts right at the point of the Miss Mary Mack riddle at the end.

I agree JE, I love this song and quickly has become a favorite off the GS.

Here are the lyrics that I can make out. I know some of them are wrong so let me know and I'll change em. Now does the second line really say Puerto Rican-Black? That's what I hear...

MISS MARY MACK

Miss Mary Mack
Puerto Rican-Black
Said she'd do anything
to get a check soon
She said a check soon

She asked her mother
for 20 grand
cuz she said her rent
had got out of hand
She said out of hand

She was so high
She touched the sky
She didn't come down
Until she almost died
She didn't come down
Until she almost died

And her mother said
Mary I can't help more than I do
I don't have enough love left for you

Miss Mary Mack
about to crack
cuz she said her man hauled off he up and smacked her
she said smacked her

She asked her brother
for 20 grand
cuz she said her debts
had got out of hand
she said out of hand

she was so high
she touched the sky
she didn't come down
until she almost died

and her brother said
Mary I can't help more than I do
I don't have enough money for you

But Mary said
"Ticket to Ride Whiteline highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way"

"Ticket to Ride Whiteline highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way"

"Ticket to Ride
They can come my way
Tell all your friends
Tell all your friends

Miss Mary Mack
Puerto Rican-Black
Said that she was born down South
Mississippii Jackson
She said Jack

Miss Mary Black
Puerto Rican-Black
said she'd probably die down South
Mississippii Jack

She was so high
She touched the sky
She didn't come down
Until she almost died
She didn't come down
Until she almost died

Mary I can't help more than I do
I don't have enough time left for you

But Mary said
"Ticket to Ride Whiteline highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way"

"Ticket to Ride Whiteline highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way"

"Ticket to Ride
They can come my way
Tell all your friends
Tell all your friends

iss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back.

She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence,

They jumped so high, high, high
They touched the sky, sky, sky
And they didn't come back, back, back
'Til the 4th of July, ly, ly!

It was a lie, lie, lie
It was a lie

The ending (Miss Mary Mack)... where it begins to echo (buttons! buttons! buttons!) reminds me of Don't Have Time. Thank you so much ATOM for posting. I like getting new material, but at the same time I don't want to hear all of the extra Girly Sound material --- I like waiting for it 'cause it's worth it in the end.

You said it!

That's what I hear.

Said that she'd do anything
to get out of Jackson
She said Jackson


Miss Mary Mack, about to crack
'cause she said her man hauled off,
he hauled off and smacked her
she said he smacked her



Miss Mary Mack, Puerto Rican black
said that she was born down south
Mississippi Jack
She said Jack

Miss Mary Mack, Puerto Rican black
said she'll probably die down south
Mississippi shack
She said shack


It was alive!

Thanks so much for the transcription; I actually couldn't make out the phrase "Puerto Rican black" the first 40 times I listened. Hope you didn't mind my nitpicking -- I'm pretty sure the corrections I made to your original transcription are accurate. What a brilliant song.

And all this is to say nothing, of course, of the fantastic rhythm guitar playing (is there another song in her catalog that even compares?), the clipped 7/8 time signature on the verses that switches to 4/4 for various sections, and the way that all of the elements come together to truly make something that is greater than the sum of its quirky, twisted parts.

Hey no, thank you. Now it all makes sense. Yep, this is a great and brilliant song in every which way. I still can't think of the song that the chords she plays at the end comes from. It's driving me nuts because it definitely comes from a classic rock song. I keep wanting to think the beatles but I don't think it comes from one of their songs. When I figure it out I'll let you guys know.
thanks again JE.

OK, just a minor correction, instead the line "and in my nose" I believe it says, "and in my NOTES"

Anyone else hear that?