Knees of my bees?
― Mark G, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
what is this woman's problem with grammar
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
like, how many of these are poorly constructed "plays" on words/stock phrases
Embarrassingly enough, I think Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is a good title -- the one that makes me giggle is Flavors of Entanglement. Pretty much any metaphorical use of "flavor" beyond the usual one is going to make me laugh, and is also going to make something sound like a badly named, heavily scented bath product
― nabisco, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Flavors" plural is a whole other level of hilarious -- I think I am going to spend a while loading random Wikipedia articles and then putting "flavors of" in front of them
Flavors of Mike WegerFlavors of New York State Route 155Flavors of Jane BealeFlavors of Snail RacingFlavors of List of Roller SkatersFlavors of Tricho-rhino-phalangeal Syndrome
― nabisco, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Flavors of Tricho-rhino-phalangeal Syndrome
btw this was her first choice for the album
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Friday, 12 June 2009 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not to ruin this, but are there credible backstories to these album titles?
Like GNR's The Spaghetti Incident was an actual incident involving spaghetti (but it happened to Motley Crue).
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
all of these titles sound like things she said while having inane conversations about her life and some ridiculous phrase would pop out and she'd stop and go "ooh -- i like that" and write it down
― nitional biscsuh otmpany (some dude), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Alanis was a beekeeper iirc
― loose lobsters (brownie), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Flavors of Snail Racing
ty for this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Alanis's titles reflect why she's better than Jewel, Dido, Tori, etc., etc., etc. -- she risks being far worse.
― Eazy, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
alanis is so dreamy
― bitchtime cowards (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
u are fronting on jewel's crazy, especially her poetry book crazy
― nitional biscsuh otmpany (some dude), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Alanis, to her credit, will likely never write a song like "Pieces of You" or "Fat Boy".
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
no one says "Under Rug Swept"
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
I mean, unlike Pieces of Me and No Angel, she's putting words together that have never been put together before. I think Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is meant to be cumbersome, to do whatever the opposite is of roll off the tongue. 19m in sales gives you that right.
― Eazy, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
lolz cf Tori's "The Beekeeper"
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
19m in sales also gives you the right and/or the confidence to put "antibiotics" in the first line of your follow-up pop single. P.S., I want to marry her.
― Eazy, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
voting Under Rug Swept...what is that?
― horseshoe, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
would you like it better with a comma?
― nabisco, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think yes?
― horseshoe, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
She's harkening to the grammar of English ballads, yes? Would be clearer a "Under Rug Swepte."
― Eazy, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Under, Rug Swept
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Friday, 12 June 2009 19:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Under Rug Swept Comma
― nitional biscsuh otmpany (some dude), Friday, 12 June 2009 19:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
i.e., "And the troubles were under rug swept."
― Eazy, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rob Pollard is unimpressed, knocks all this out in a year tops
― da croupier, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
The "rug" in "under-rug" refers to a toupee, i.e. a merkin
― nabisco, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Between this and the Bryan Adams thread, I feel like I need to apologize on behalf of Canadian educational institutions.
― Sundar, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, it just occurred to me that there are probably a zillion videos from these albums and i've never seen any of them. i think i'm gonna go to youtube.
although i did see her my humps video.
― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
uninvited is still the one and only thing that i love of hers.
this is still really cool:
― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, totally crazy:
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh jeezus:
Indeed I have sucked it up to heights unknown to those outside my body has contained and suppressed and swallowed and abetted Oh I am a stranger to myself beneath altruism dwells a force uncontended a voice that is tempered to boiled and unhindered
Who am I kidding? I am not some Mother Theresa If I don't say something soon I will break from the weight of the high road I take No
Indeed I need my chance to fail some room to unravel I need a chance to blame for two minutes unbridled, unbrazened so I need imaginings of maiming fantasies of outright screaming I need a chance to thrash for minutes uncontained, unforgiving
Who am I kidding? I am not some Mother Theresa If I don't do something soon I will die from restraint As a sick subjugate No
I will move beyond, I'm certain of that the sooner I go the quicker I'll be back I would not threaten or cause you any harm Have to get this out or my light will go out
Who am I kidding? I am not some Mother Theresa If I don't do something soon I will die from restraint As a sick subjugate
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG, I so love this song. I have just moved rooms to the other side of town and the only thing I missed was my Alanis Morissette collection!! So glad to have caught up with this one!! Urbins82 (3 weeks ago) I love her, and have you wondered how wonderfully she could sing "Restless Heart"'s cover of "Bluest eyes in Texas", it would be so cool ;)
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
I completely forgot the hip-hop elements in "Too Hot"!
― Sundar, Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
1. Uninvited totally disarmed me when it came out, especially since I hated the idea of remaking Wings of Desire. It is a very good song. But I have a predilection to dig anything with chromatic-Kashmir-strings.
2. I'm never convinced she's been in an actual psychotic relationship. She just likes the idea of them, the way Nick Cave likes the idea of Appalachia, but couldn't actually live there.
3. I can't figure out if her name is French or Scottish, which makes her the ultimate Canadian.
― bendy, Saturday, 13 June 2009 06:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
she would. she's totally the kind of person who would drop references to blogging and her therapist into a conversation without hesitation.
― casual racism fridays (bug), Saturday, 13 June 2009 06:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
under rug swept wuz robbed
― Won't High (some dude), Sunday, 14 June 2009 05:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Flavors of Entanglement
god this is the worst worst worst name ever
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 June 2009 05:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
idk once quantum bubblegum becomes a reality i'm guessing it won't seem so stupid
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 June 2009 05:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
It seems strange to me that the lyrics on her first album were so comparatively straightforward, almost too much at times (the chorus for "You Learn" used to wear me down). It's odd to think that she kind of deliberately moved to a 15 yr old poetry style. Maybe her co-writers were more interventionist to begin with?
What was the song on the second album with her dancing in heaps of different styles and costumes in the video clip? I liked that. "Thank U" too.
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 June 2009 06:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Stephen Thomas Erlewine's reviews of these albums on AMG are classic "no, this one is the return to form... ignore what I said last time!" bizniz.
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 June 2009 06:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
guys, are you ready to hear the name of Alanis Morissette's upcoming 2012 album?
― some dude, Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm about to drop it on you...are you sure you're ready?
Havoc and Bright Lights
you sure that isn't an Interpol album?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
and a member of Mobb Deep?
― how's life, Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Two members, even...
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol true
― that's why god made kokomo (some dude), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:22 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
lol i was gonna post that i thought 'flavors of entanglement' got way underrated itt but i guess i already stated my case
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
You make the knees of my bees squeakTremble and buckle
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I kinda like "Flavors of Entanglement"
(the name, not the album itself)
― Lee626, Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love how he always wrote lyrics like a high school sophomore who tried really hard to be *intelligent* in English class and whose teacher thought she had tons of potential but still sounded like a precocious 10th grader instead of an actual adult. Like, "you from New York, you are so relevant; you reduce me to cosmic tears / I love you when you dance, when you freestyle in trance; so pure, such an expression"
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
She*
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that an actual lyric? (You got me, I'm searching it)
― poxen, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was looking forward to what "alanis cosmic tears" might turn up, sadly was just lyrics
― poxen, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you from New York, you are so relevant" should be the name of an ilx rolling NYC thread
― some dude, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you are from New York, you are so relevant" sounds sorta like a stephen merritt opening gambit
― thomp, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you from New York, you are so revelant"
― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Indeed I have sucked it up to heights
in a theater?
― da croupier, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd still take Alanis' gnuh-gnuh in 2012 over any other singer-songwriter who peaked in 1996
― poxen, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
even POE?
― da croupier, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
what, Poe is way better than Alanis
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink