Under Rug Swept [ECD] - Alanis Morissette

...it turns out. Under Rug Swept, both written and produced by Alanis herself is a more mature album lyrically than those which have come before, but it still focuses upon the same themes and issues which earned her the title "man hater" in the past. It would been 'nice' if she could have moved on a little more to have included new subjects for her songs because she's beginning to sound a little like an obsessive jilted ex-girlfriend, still hitting ...
...an angry female Morrisey and Under Rug Swept is a fantastic album which almost makes up for the dubious mess which preceded it. The more cynical of listeners will listen to some of the lyrics on this album and decide that whilst barbed and poetic these tracks are often little more than the kind of things you'll find gracing the problem pages of some teen magazine. "Narcissus" = "my boyfriend is sooooo vain", "So Unsexy" = "I feel so ugly", "21 Things ...

wampyrii 31.07.2002 (02.08.2002) · Read full review
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...little pill’ Alanis has been under a hell of a lot of pressure to release some kick ass stuff – a newcomer landing the fifth top album of whatever year it was. I know no person who did not love and play this album to its death. It’s immense, catchy and differing from all else that existed at that time. She stood alone. Loud, feisty and angry. The release of her second album ‘Supposed informer infatuation junkie’ led ...
...poppy than the first, showed more of an insight into her soul – I guess people just didn’t like what they saw. Its still angry, angrier, disturbed even. Less catchy than the first but surely not everything has to have a catch. This shows Alanis, her pain, her hatred and her hope. By far the superior album to her first, it just cut the fans from the followers of what’s ‘hip and now’. And now comes ‘Under rug swept’. ...

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Originally signed up as the main profit-maker for Madonna's own record label 'Maverick', Alanis Morissette shot to international fame in the 1990s with some of the most inspiring and awesome songs to graze our land for some time. The soft-rock catchy classics 'Ironic', 'You Oughta Know', '(You Live,) You Learn', and '(One) Hand in My Pocket' were all acclaimed and extremely successful chart-climbers, all of which led to the album 'Jagged Little Pill' ...
...UK. Alanis came back, amid intense pressure for decent music and troubles with her home life, for a second stab at international stardom, over two years after her original album had caused so much of a positive 'she must be a diva/genius to be this good' reaction. The pressure led this album to be weak as a result. The depressing uncharacteristical music with no real emotion led us to believe that she had been driven into something she really didn't ...

craigy_baby_2000 26.03.2002 (25.06.2002) · Read full review
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It can't be easy selling 28 million copies of what is effectively your debut album, just ask Alanis Morissette who in 1995 found herself catapulted into the mainstream collective consciousness with 'Jagged Little Pill'. Neatly filling the role of Courtney Love's more palatable younger sister, Morisette mixed the fury and noise of grunge with neat pop melodies, a pretty face and the classic vulnerability of the best singer songwriters. Along with ...
...the female singer songwriter genre right back to centre stage and spawned an army of imitators, most of whom faded back to obscurity soon after (where are you now Meredeth Brooks eh?). By rights such sudden success shouldn't have gone to her head, Morissette after all had had in effect a trial run as a pop starlet in her native Canada between the ages of 16 to 18. However a series of exhausting world tours and perhaps one too many sessions in intensive ...

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Answering her critics who call her a man hater, on 'Under Rug Swept' Alanis displays a new maturity. Yes, she sings about failed relationships and egotistical men, but she also likes men as difficult as men find that it to believe that! The general tone of the CD is upbeat, although tracks 4 and 7 are slower and more melancholy/pensive. Even the songs that are bitter or sad have a certain calm strength to them rather than a vindictive air a la 'Jagged ...
...the past still affects her ('flinch'). Most people know Alanis Morissette from her debut album 'Jagged Little Pill'(1995). If they did not listen to her subsequent releases ('Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' [1998] and 'MTV Unplugged' [1999]) they will be pleased to hear her voice has developed and strengthened, lost some of its rawness whilst remaining distinctively Alanis. Likewise her lyrics have mellowed somewhat and her songs are much more ...

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After her “first” two albums (she had made two albums before, but they were only sold in Canada and USA) “Jagged little pill” and “Supposed Infatuation Junkie” Alanis made it again and her new album has the title which we can find in one of the eleven lyrics: “Under rug swept”. Her new album has only eleven songs (Supposed.. has 17) with more than 50 minutes of music and she brought us a new sight of ...
...her “first” album. This new album is characterized by wonderful lyrics, but also by unusual rhythmic. It is characterized by her beautiful rode voice, but also by a music which is in some songs very strange. You can find this and other contrasts in this album, but finally you would say that “Under rug swept” is a good album. Alanis starts in her new album with the song “21 things I want in a lover”. This song has ...

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