Jagged Little Pill

Interesting record cool how huge it got and she has a unique and catchy style of delivery, some of it was less compelling for me but will need to return sometime

fun 90s memory

Surprised myself enjoying this as much as I did. Yes it’s very 90s nostalgia now but it’s super consistent and I think her voice is so original for someone who sold truck loads of CDs.

Many listens. One of my favorite pop albums.

Another case of 'the radio hits do a lot of carrying this album'. Great vocals tho

The og teenage rebellion album. Still holds up, despite it slightly losing momentum in the middle.
Also, why is You Outta Know basically on here twice? I know it’s a different version, but they sound almost identical!

Favorite track(s): You Oughta Know

I was looking forward to this one but it doesn't hold up well. The angsty lyrics and mediocre vocals don't allow Morissette to escape the flat pop songwriting and production that presumably pervaded her first two albums. She once said she was upset that she never got acceptance in the grunge scene; she could've at least tried heroin.

OOOH! Truly one of the best albums in the harrowing, horrible, really annoying genre or Adult Alternative. Before even going into this, I had more than a decade of exposure to the incredible emotional catharsis of “You Oughta Know,” the catchiness and use of melody on “Head Over Feet,” as well as “Ironic” (though less likeable, still an undeniable hit). What I didn’t expect was to like so many songs on this album at a similar level as I did those.

Opener “All I Really Want” at times matches the catharsis of “You Oughta Know,” and Morrisette gives a surprisingly incredible vocal performance. A lot of these sound like that awful Sheryl Crow album if it was really fucking good. It sounds like Tori Amos made that album instead of Sheryl Crow. Her voice? Can sometimes be annoying. Her attitude? Can also be annoying, except for I know and love many women who have this attitude in them; it’s a very “defiant white woman” disposition that I have a soft spot for, for better or for worse.

The musical choices here are really fucking great too. Across the album, there’s the use of these really great downtempo-esque drums, very much in fashion at the time, but truly this album makes them its own. I also LOVE the way everything is mixed; you can hear every single instrument just enough to appreciate everything it does for the song, and Morrisette’s voice is mixed just so that you hear every single word she says, but so that you can’t quite hear the more glaring flaws in her voice enough to complain about them. Please, I beg of you, do not listen to the 2015 remaster; it is one of the worst remasters I’ve ever heard.

Specific standouts other than the big hits are "Perfect," one that, despite its circumstance as a VERY cliché song, hits pretty close to home, I suppose. I truly cannot believe how great "All I Really Want" is. "One Hand In My Pocket" is actually really annoying, but surprisingly Morrisette saves it with the performance and some actually well-written lines. "Right Through You" has that same vibe of catharsis that's so addictive on this album, as does "Forgiven," which I like sort of for the opposite reason that I do "Perfect," in that it's not super relatable to me, but it's a concept I haven't heard much done this well.

So many of these songs feel like the soundtrack to something like Gossip Girl, a show that in the eyes of many, like this album, could and should be very much below someone like me, a seventeen-year-old Arnold Schoenberg fan. But no, this album is actually fucking incredible. Absolutely recommend.
9.5/10
DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: YES
REASON: IMPACT AND QUALITY

A woman scorned makes a damn near perfect album. Gen X guy here and I liked the songs then and now.

Ніколи не слухав альбомами її (як це часто буває в цьому списку - ім'я відоме, але не більш того для мене). В цілому дуже непоганий поп-рок.

На you oughta now одразу ж згадав сцену з офіса, де Кевін в караоке співає цей трек.

Коротше не знаю, є в цьому щось таке приємно-ностальгійне, шо я аж поставлю 4.

4/5. Jagged Little Pill is such an odd album in many regards. A former Canadian teen pop-star and Nickelodeon actor makes a massive musical shift and creates one of the defining alternative rock albums of the 1990’s with genuinely great confrontational lyricism.

Instrumentally this album is solid, though fairly standard by 90’s rock terms. What really sells the whole thing is Morissette herself both vocally and lyrically. The album goes through many different themes from misogyny to control (or lack of control) to not knowing what irony is, etc. And she delivers the lyrics with such a strong sense of emotion that you can’t help but feel some of her anger or joy or sadness. And the whole thing holds up surprisingly well to this day despite sounding very 90’s.

What an album! My major celebrity crush at the time. An easy 5 ⭐️

This was fine. Several well known songs, but the rest were just ok. 3/5

I always forget how much I fucking love this album

I find this album from Alanis sounding like an in-between of two similar singers: A subdued and poetic Avril Lavigne, but a more pop-rock Fiona Apple with anger to boot. Her voice also has some interesting changes in timbre: from yodels, rough-scratching shouts, to softer vocals. Really adds to why the singles are iconic, or should I say "ironic"?

With an album cover like this, I thought it would sound more intense. It's almost ballad-like if not for the harder-hitting instruments. Kind of like Garbage's debut cause there's some bits of dance-pop here (3.5-4).

I knew (and liked) a couple songs of this album. The ones I didn't know turned out to be a great surprise.

The sound of a woman who isn't taking your shit any more.

It's very much of its time with lots of 90s post grundge guitars and production.

But it is extraordinarily angry and crank about a woman dealing with breakup or even just living her life.

Glad I heard it.

Half this album was the mainstay of early alt-rock radio and was played in such repetition that I can't tell if I actually liked it or if I was programmed to. That being said this is still a great listen despite much of that probably being nostalgia.

This album has a ton of singles on it, and they're mostly very good (despite the 90s guitars not aging very well). Unfortunately it still has album tracks, some of which are just woof. "Perfect" is, lets say, less than perfect. "Right Through You?" Yikes. I'm not immune to the Alanissance, and maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but this is mid.

Better than Coldplay