Funstyle is the sixth album

Album

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 by Liz Phair

Liz Phair

Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw and Phair moved to San Francisco together, and Phair tried to become an artist there...

, independently released on her official website on July 3, 2010 (see 2010 in music

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) by Phair. A CD version was released on October 19, 2010 on Rocket Science Records. It includes a bonus disc containing ten songs from her famed Girly Sound

Girly Sound

Girly-Sound is the moniker under which singer-songwriter Liz Phair recorded several self-produced cassettes in 1991. Recorded on a 4-track tape recorder in her childhood bedroom at her parents' house and initially given only to two people by Phair, Chris Brokaw and Tae Won Yu, these tapes became...

 tapes.

Funstyle peaked at #181 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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. This was Phair's lowest charting album since 1993's Exile In Guyville

Exile in Guyville

The album, which was out of print, was again available on CD, vinyl and, for the first time, in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska", "Say You", and an untitled instrumental with Phair on guitar...

at #196 (though Guyville did eventually earn Gold certification five years later in 1998 - one of only two Liz Phair albums to do so, the other being 1994's Whip-Smart

Whip-Smart

Critical reception was generally favorable. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic states that "if there are flaws in this generally first-rate follow-up, they mostly arise in comparison with Guyville, a record of such unexpected impact that most anything Phair could have done may have been found lacking"...

).

Album Information

Funstyle was Phair's first album after leaving Capitol Records. Speaking of this album, Phair posted the following message on her website:

How To Like It.

You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep.

Yes, I rapped one of them. I'm as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but don't mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens.

This is my journey. I'll keep sending you postcards.

-Liz

The lyrics that appear on Phair's arm on the album cover are partial lyrics to the songs "Satisfied", "Bang! Bang!", "Miss September", and "Bollywood".

Track listing

Disc One (Funstyle)

All songs written by Liz Phair, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Smoke" – 3:14
2. "Bollywood" – 2:42
3. "You Should Know Me" – 2:54
4. "Miss September" – 4:24
5. "My My" (Griffin/Phair) – 3:32
6. "Oh, Bangladesh" – 4:39
7. "Bang! Bang!" – 3:44
8. "Beat Is Up" – 3:19
9. "And He Slayed Her" – 3:35
10. "Satisfied" (Phair/Dauer/Frankfort) – 3:31
11. "U Hate It" – 4:38

Disc Two (Girlysound)

All songs written by Liz Phair.

1. "Miss Mary Mack" - 4:30
2. "White Babies" - 3:03
3. "Elvis Song" - 4:55
4. "Valentine" - 4:14
5. "Speed Racer" - 1:41
6. "In Love With Yourself" - 3:56
7. "Wild Thing" - 3:40
8. "Love Song" - 6:19
9. "Don't Hold Yr Breath" - 3:58
10. "California" - 2:41