Havoc and Bright Lights - Alanis Morissette

[bat1990]

This album was Alanis' first release after completing her contract with Maverick Records in the late 2000s. It's also been her only studio album this decade

Collective Sounds released it 7 years and 1 month ago in the States and Columbia Records distributed it internationally. Alanis recorded the album in Califonia while raising her newborn son with Joe Chiccarelli and Guy Sigsworth. Many saw the album as a return-to-form for Alanis with the return of hard-hitting guitars, big choruses, and some angry, outspoken lyrics, after the muted, electronic Flavours of Entanglement and the Adult Top 40-chasing So-Called Chaos.

Unfortunately, radio had largely moved on from Alanis at this point. Only the lead single "Guardian" charted much of anywhere and it missed the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 40 in Canada. In the three German-speaking countries, it was a Top 15 hit.

I have been rediscovering the album lately and it's a lot stronger than I remember, except for the awful mixing of her vocals that make is sound like she sings most songs with stuffed up sinuses.



Tracks
01. Guardian
02. Woman Down
03. Til You
04. Celebrity
05. Empathy
06. Lens
07. Spiral
08. Numb
09. Havoc
10. Win and Win
11. Receive
12. Edge of Evolution

Bonus Tracks
Into a King
Big Sur
Guru (f/ SoulEye)
Permission
Tantra
No
Jekyll and Hyde (f/ SoulEye)
Will You Be My Girlfriend?
Magical Child
Naysayers

[Deleted]

Empathy is probabl my fav song on this album
followed by
Lens
Receive


My cd has
Will you be
&
Magical child

and these 2 songs are not good at all

p.s.
Did not know there are so many bonus songs

[bat1990]

She recorded A LOT of bonus songs. I haven't bothered to listen to any of them b/c the standard edition is so strong IMHO.

[JessieLou]

Great album. Guardian was such an excellent comeback.