POOK said:

IN 00'S GRAMMAR NOT SUCH GREAT AS BEFORE

Early Alanis

ernestsewell said:

he's a monkey. he does pretty well.

ernestsewell said:

don't tell me my eyes just saw ernestsewell grammar-checking POOK

I like her stuff. I found her East-meets-West approach to songcrafting nice before it became hackneyed after "Uninvited." Her sophomore effort was the bomb. Imago, I blame you for the Alanis marathon this thread will surely start me on.

And, for all the seriousness usually associated with her, Alanis doesn't get enough credit for her sense of humor: "On the Tequila" from "Flavors..." was one of the coolest gag songs I've ever heard.

lastdecember said:

I couldn't agree with you more!

ThreadBare said:

I think 1992's Now Is The Time is her worst.




Although at the time I really liked "An Emotion Away".


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Cinnie said:

Man, I meant her "popular"/reinvented sophomore effort, "SFIJ." Loved that album when it came out.

Cinnie said:

I do not have this one.

EmeraldSkies said:

Don't bother. It's all about her 1991 album "Alanis"

My name is Alanis.

I'm a white chick singer.

The drums are a-smokin' and so's the bass!

Cinnie said:

Never heard this before. It's kind of almost not awful, huh?
Could be a B-side from Graffiti Bridge.....

Cinnie said:

Ha Ha! Totally forgot about that track. I'm gonna go grab my CD and play it tonight at the club!!!

DJ506 said:

I would lose it if I heard that at a club!

MendesCity said:

I love it! Sounds like the drums to LL Cool J's "Smokin' Dopin'".

My favorite Alanis song:

Not only my favorite Alanis songs, it's one of my favorite pop songs ever.

The lyrics resonated so strongly with me in 2007.

i'm puzzled how so many of you can stomach hearing her 'sing'

sounds like a dying cow to me

i love "an emotion away"!!

Cinnie said:

I remembered one other song from this album, a ballad called "No Apologies"

Militant said:

Cinnie said:

A related Youtube I haven't seen this video or heard this song since 1993! "Real World"



This video is mental!

AlexdeParis said:

That's a great-ass song.

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Okay, first the bad news. The great Alanis Morissette is currently without a record deal. Incredible when you consider just how huge Jagged Little Pill was. That and Unplugged were two of the best albums of the 90s by a mile. In the 00s she made the mistake of trying to produce herself and seemed to lose it completely. Last year she corrected the problem and hired Guy Sigsworth to produce Flavors of Entanglement. He did a great job. The album features 5 of the best songs of her career. Unfortunately the album only had one potential hit single on it ("In Praise of the Vulnerable Man") and the fools didn't release it. The single they chose instead ("Underneath") actually misled me into thinking the album would be another disappointment. A shame.

So commercially it's over, but she'll always be able to tour I think. Her music can be so great that I really hope there's more to come. Preferably with a great producer like Guy Sigsworth. I don't want her to go back to the bad production that marred her previous efforts.

Alanis is definitely one of a kind and probably the most underrated artist of her age group (at least that I'm aware of).

she opened for Vanilla Ice on her first tour

so i would say she is doing pretty well now

I loved it when she came for Fregie & The Black Eyed Bunch



Spunk is too lil' of a word to describe this chick

I actually love her voice,,,,,very expressive, thats what art should be about to begin with, right?
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expressive is one thing
annoying is another

Dewrede said:

And "annoying" is subjective

She's far from annoying to me though,,,,,I'd settle with her instead of these phony wannabes.

midnightmover said:

I'm saying!!!! Since jump I thought that that song would be a commercial hit and was expecting them to release it. It's a great song and would have done well on radio.