Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette > Reviews

Advantages: The songs are brilliant
Disadvantages: Mary Jane sticks out like a sore thumb

Alanis Morisette is an angry woman, or at least that is what her debut album portrays her as. She is mad at men who have let her down, intent on revenge and doesn't care who knows about it. She thrust herself onto the music scene after signing to Madonna's Maverick label, and made us all sit up and pay attention with her strong lyrics and even stronger vocals. This is a great anger to listen to and sing until you get rid of all your pent up frustration. ... Read review

Advantages: Diverse, powerful, and emotional.
Disadvantages: Do I REALLY have to fill in this field?

Alanis Morissette was virtually unknown in the United States until she recorded and released "Jagged Little Pill" in the mid-90s. This record was fresh, original, and jam-packed with solid emotions - something I personally had found lacking in the popular music industry of that time. The first single, "You Oughta Know," is obviously the most memorable of all tracks on this record. It is recorded in two versions: The popular "rock" version that ... Read review

Advantages: Great voice, great style, great songs
Disadvantages: A bit whiny

Six years ago, Ms M appeared on the world like a thunderbolt with her odd little berating snatch of venom, blathering on about ‘going down on you in the theatre’. I remember Chris Evans going almost hysterical about it on his Radio 1 breakfast show and it clearly touched his on button. However, he was also clearly very anti what he described as a whinging woman. And therein lies the dichotomy of the depressing Ms M - some great, original, ... Read review

Advantages: the songs
Disadvantages: nothing to report

This is one of the best albums I have. Full of feeling, emotion and truth, it struck me in a way I find it hard to describe. I must admit that I had only ever heard one Alanis Morissette song, the world famous 'Ironic' before I bought this. However my spontaneous purchases (Jewel, Tori Amos) often bring me more joy than many albums by bands I thought I liked but then found I hated even after liking several singles *gorrilaz*, sorry, bit of a sore ... Read review

Advantages: Songs and voice
Disadvantages: Not many laughs

...happily) for her, the album Jagged Little Pill which showcased her material that year was an enormous platinum smash, but she seemed to fade just as quickly from view as she emerged. She is still around and turning out the sort of stuff she produced back then, but has never recaptured the glorious rush of that first album, a blistering collection of tracks and a spawn of hits which had her on every magazine cover, the queen of the MTV generation Morissette ... Read review

Advantages: Every song On The Album
Disadvantages: None

Jagged Little Pill is the debut album from the excellent Alanis Morissette. I’ve always said that Alanis Morissette is not just a rock chick with an attitude, she is one of the best songwriters I have ever heard and a fantastic singer to boot. Jagged Little Pill is also the third highest selling album of all time. The first track on the album is ‘All I Really Want’ a really good rock song to start off, and is followed be ‘You Oughta Know’ ... Read review

Advantages: A great angry album
Disadvantages: Can't be played at a low volume effectively

This was an album that I'd had on my list of things to buy for a long time. I'd constantly been looking for it at a reasonable price (I couldn't look on the internet because I don't have one of those wonderful credit card thingies) and I finally found it at a price that I thought was decent. So I bought it (of corse, then everyone put it into their "specials" section - so that annoyed me). But I digress. "Jagged Little Pill" is a very angry album, ... Read review

Advantages: great long-term fabulous album
Disadvantages: if u dont like it, u probably never will

I define the ultimate album as one that cannot be over-played. They are extremely hard to find, and for some people they do not exist. For me, this is the ultimate album. I will readily admit that there are plenty of people who will not like this album, and most of them will be men or the hoop-earringed, yellow-haired, pink-trousered variety of women. Sorry, that’s a generalisation, but one based on observation. A lot of men don’t like Alanis Morisette ... Read review

Advantages: 12 tracks AND a bonus track
Disadvantages: only 13 tracks

she releases loads of succesful albums but does she smile no god bless because the angry moody tracks make it ok! from sad tunes like IRONIC to kick ass tunes like you outta know (my favorite) good thing about albums like this every tracks worth listening to !!This is NOT an album for anyone who likes smiley music like the vengaboys!! take note. but for anyone with taste its great the ONLY canadian worth listening to and a wicked title. I bought ... Read review

Advantages: The unique Indie/Rock sound
Disadvantages: None.

Through this album Alanis has proven herself to be one of the most talented female artists of all time. "Jagged Little Pill" contains some of the best lyrics I have ever heard, they can sound surreal but yet make perfect sense, to me at least. The language can be stong but there isn't a huge amount of swearing. The quality of the music is also impeccable and the album has a unique sound, largely due to the unmistakable voice of Alanis. This album ... Read review

Advantages: originality and great lyrics
Disadvantages: there are none

Again performing up to the usual alanis style... Jagged Little Pill has to be one of the best and most original sounding albums of recent times, even though it's actually getting quite old now! Apart from having her own individual singing style, the lyrics in the songs are absolutely fantastic. It's one of those albums that, once you start listening to it, you just can't stop. I don't think this one left the stereo since i first bought it ... Read review

Advantages: no bad songs
Disadvantages: none

This is a great album. Even those who don't normally like this sort of music have to admit that this album really is great. Although Alanis Morrissette is always called moany and whiny I think the singing on this album is surreal. Everyone should own this. EVERYONE. With killer songs like "Ironic" and "You Learn" it's got something for everyone and everyone will be able to relate to the songs in some way or another. You can listen to it when you're ... Read review