You, from New York, you are so relevantYou reduce me to cosmic tearsLuminous more so than most anyoneUnapologetically aliveKnot in my stomach and lump in my throat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e271qK1YJQ8
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
I was hoping is 100% badass
― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
posts very much not in character thread here i come
― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Are you still mad I kicked you out of bed?Are you still mad I gave you ultimatums?Are you still mad I compared you to all my 40-year-old male friends?Are you still mad I shared our problems with everybody?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL_0g4onX1k
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
"I was hoping we could be creamy together"
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
What the fuck does that even mean?
Yeah, this is "So Pure"'s to lose IMO - but I really dig "Front Row" and "Thank U" felt super special to me when it landed back in tenth grade. There's a pretty good 11-track album somewhere in this thing, especially if the time spent on the bulk had been spent adding a little more detail to some of the better songs...a lot of these in my memory kind of lean hard on one loop/riff/sound/whatever.
Actually, damn, I'm thinking of voting "Front Row" - I probably get that stuck in my head most of anything on here. Like, okay, on the one hand this is over-worded amateur poetry slam stuff but on the other hand it feels pretty damn real sometimes:
Slid into the ditch - I have this overwhelming loss of ambition, we said,"let's name thirty good reasonswhy we shouldn't be together"I started by saying things like, "You smoke," "You live in New Jersey"You started saying things like "You belong to the world"All of which could have been easily refutedBut the conversation wasHypothetical, I am totally short of breath for youwhy can't you shut your stuff off
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I love how you say "on the one hand this is over-worded amateur poetry slam stuff but on the other hand it feels pretty damn real sometimes" as if it's exclusive to just one Alanis song
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
She writes songs like a precocious 10th grade English student
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
god I FUCKING LOVE THIS WOMAN
haha totally, yeah, it's like 90% of her lyrics yeah but certain songs cut through and hit me more than others.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 December 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
This album is pretty underrated. I think they launched it with the wrong single. I believe people were waiting for a rocker after "Uninvited", and "Joining You" would've been a better choice than "Thank You" as 1st single.I really like "That I Would Be Good".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe true about "Joining You," but I honestly don't think there's anything here that screams "hit single" on the order of the Jagged Little Pill hits. This was sort of doomed to sophomore-slump no matter how you slice it, I think.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
I am amazed by the jjj admission here
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
so far of the three songs I've played off of this, I feel like this album's inspiration point was someone on a lot of drugs listening to "Stay" and thinking "THIS IS TOO DIRECT"
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
The Shakespeare's Sister song?
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
the Lisa Loeb song
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i think the version of i was hoping i was thinking of might not actually be the album version, prob from (gah) that mtv unplugged deal
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Ah! Makes more sense lol (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
the Dave Matthews Band song
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Matthews,I like you a lotand I realize that you're in a relationship right now, and I respect thatI would like you to know that if you're ever single in the futureAnd you want to come visit me in CaliforniaI would be open to spending time with you and finding out how old you were when you wrote your very first song
Dave Matthews,you rocked my world
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Guitar hiss + loud inhales on the flute solo = OUR WINNER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMt3_p04XaQ
― blues bras (Eazy), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Revelation: the reason she's on antibiotics on in ''Thank U'' is that she ignored Dave's advice re: THE WAAATERRRR. Whether or not she was there when the bear ate his head and thought it was a candayyy is unclear.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/#/news/alanis-morissette-takes-rap-works-with-husband-1007982562.story
I just wanted to post this someplace where ppl would care about it
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Thursday, 6 December 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't listened to this album in ages, but UR was my fave at the time, so that.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 December 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots. . .
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 7 December 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
How 'bout me not eating when I'm filled up.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Friday, 7 December 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 December 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
otm. "That I Would Be Good" is on a level all its own here.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 December 2012 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
I don't recognize any of these songs apart from Thank You and That I Would Be Good so I wont be voting. Am I missing on something here? I have the idea that this sort of songs don't make any sense if you listen to them past seventeen.
― Moka, Friday, 7 December 2012 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
I have the idea that this sort of songs don't make any sense if you listen to them past seventeen.
Ha! I say the same thing about Rush.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 December 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
xp I posted some YouTube links for you upthread, hon.
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 December 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
oh crap. meant to vote "unsent," clicked "thank u" instead. this sucks.
― sug life (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 December 2012 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
So Pure>Unsent>Joining You>Thank U
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 7 December 2012 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
this album was my LIFE in high school, i vividly remember stomping around campus listening to it and feeling like i could SO RELATE. which is a bit silly since so much of the album is absurdly specific to alanis's life and career, but i can see why i went for the baby-Buddhism present in "that i would be good" and "would not come" (i never liked "thank u," too ~mainstream~ i think).
i think i rate this album more highly than the songwriting merits because it's the last alanis album to mix self-reflection with anger, bitterness, and blame; after this she gets very new-agey and positivity-focused and the emotions she depicts don't feel as immediate. (she gets around this with "hands clean" by presenting a sordid situation in a deceptively matter-of-fact way, a kind of "just sayin'" that ends up being really unsettling, imo.) anyway i love the angry bits of this album, the petulance in "are you still mad," the fuming at how male anger is allowed to express itself in "sympathetic character," her wrestling with privilege in "i was hoping." and i have a soft spot for "the couch" even though it is basically a high school creative writing exercise set to music.
no idea what i'm going to vote for. in terms of songs i'd relisten to now, i really enjoy "front row" and "baba" sonically.
― a robotic squirrel named RoboSquirrel (reddening), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Don't leave, Stevie D!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Stevie D ;_:
glad my accidental vote wasn't the margin of victory. "unsent" should have won this u philistines.
― sug life (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha shit i failed to vote in this i guess
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
fuck i think i forgot to vote too, cause i was gonna throw one to "front row"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
ugh you dumb shits
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
all 6 of you
that's hurtful man i told u it was a accident
― sug life (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
(ps: 3 t's)
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2012 07:27 (eleven years ago) link
I know I made a oopsie :(
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 December 2012 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
and I was too embarrasssed to ask someone to fix it
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 December 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
How does one follow-up the multi-million unit shifting Jagged Little Pill? With an overlong, overstuffed, over-wordy, far less accessible record that probably wasn't a good idea in a commercial sense, and not all of it hits the mark, and some of the lyrics are more than a bit silly. However, I'm glad that she made this record. Love 'Baba', 'Thank U', 'That I Would Be Good', 'UR', 'I Was Hoping', 'One' and 'Unsent' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
too soon
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 9 May 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
...also, it's the last Alanis album I'll go anywhere near after Under Rug Swept bored the shit out of me.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 9 May 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
That I would be good even if I lost sanityThat I would be good whether with or without you
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
8. "Can't Not" 4:35 0
fuckin no one here knows this is the best alanis song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:44 (ten months ago) link
i adore this album btw
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:46 (ten months ago) link
like just for instance every verse of "unsent" starts off in about the corniest way imaginable and then winds up being extremely real, and that's sort of a microcosm of this album as a whole
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:48 (ten months ago) link
Hmmm I don’t think I’ve ever heard this album besides “thank you”… I’ll listen to it right now
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 June 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
I remember seeing her do "That I Would Be Good" on Charlie Rose in 1999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfm2Q5WhheU
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 9 June 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
the first mp3 I ever downloaded was thank u, I downloaded it from mp3.com (lol) and as I recall it was the first time any major artist offered an mp3 of a new single, for free, to download, mp3.com!
my family was very impressed that we just had the new Alanis single on the family computer somehow? to listen to whenever, it was a pretty big deal please get off my lawn
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 9 June 2023 19:49 (ten months ago) link
I think Bowie beat her iirc.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 June 2023 19:51 (ten months ago) link
Thank u starman
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:17 (ten months ago) link
UR sure is pretty!
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 June 2023 00:48 (ten months ago) link
Well, that's ironic
― Mark G, Saturday, 10 June 2023 11:51 (ten months ago) link
I guess I should hear this album but I'm still haunted many years later by Alfred's suggestion that "you oughta know" has a part where she sings about going down on FLEA in a theater.
― omar little, Saturday, 10 June 2023 14:30 (ten months ago) link
Wrong album I know but still it haunts me!