SupPOLLsed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissettte (1 r, 2 s's, 2 t's)

Ah! Makes more sense lol (x-post)

the Dave Matthews Band song

Dave Matthews,
I like you a lot
and I realize that you're in a relationship right now, and I respect that
I would like you to know that if you're ever single in the future
And you want to come visit me in California
I 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

Guitar hiss + loud inhales on the flute solo = OUR WINNER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMt3_p04XaQ

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.

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

Haven't listened to this album in ages, but UR was my fave at the time, so that.

How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots. . .

How 'bout me not eating when I'm filled up.

How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots. . .

Guitar hiss + loud inhales on the flute solo = OUR WINNER

otm. "That I Would Be Good" is on a level all its own here.

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.

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.

xp I posted some YouTube links for you upthread, hon.

oh crap. meant to vote "unsent," clicked "thank u" instead. this sucks.

So Pure>Unsent>Joining You>Thank U

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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.

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Don't leave, Stevie D!

RIP Stevie D ;_:

glad my accidental vote wasn't the margin of victory. "unsent" should have won this u philistines.

hahaha shit i failed to vote in this i guess

fuck i think i forgot to vote too, cause i was gonna throw one to "front row"

ugh you dumb shits

all 6 of you

that's hurtful man i told u it was a accident

(ps: 3 t's)

I know I made a oopsie :(

and I was too embarrasssed to ask someone to fix it

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' ...

too soon

...also, it's the last Alanis album I'll go anywhere near after Under Rug Swept bored the shit out of me.

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good whether with or without you

8. "Can't Not" 4:35 0

fuckin no one here knows this is the best alanis song

i adore this album btw

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

Hmmm I don’t think I’ve ever heard this album besides “thank you”… I’ll listen to it right now

I remember seeing her do "That I Would Be Good" on Charlie Rose in 1999:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfm2Q5WhheU

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

I think Bowie beat her iirc.

Thank u starman

UR sure is pretty!

Well, that's ironic

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.

Wrong album I know but still it haunts me!