Alanis Morissette Discussion

[mj]

How could she not put All I Really Want on there???? It's easily one of my favorite Alanis tracks (probably right behind Uninvited)...Also, no So Pure either? That's another good one...Maybe she just has too many great songs...Although I knew it would not happen, I was hoping she'd put "21 Things" on there too...I love that song, and it never got any credit!

[When I Ruled the World]

"Thank U"
"Head Over Feet"
"Eight Easy Steps"
"Everything"
"Crazy"
"Ironic"
"Princes Familiar"
"You Learn"
"Precious Illusions" instead of"Simple Together"
"You Oughta Know"
"That I Would Be Good"
"Unsent" instead of "Sister Blister"
"So Unsexy"
"Hands Clean"
"So Pure" instead of "Mercy"
"Still"
"Uninvited"
"21 Things I Want In a Lover" instead of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"
"Hand In My Pocket"

I think this would be lots better.  How could she leave off "Precious Illusions"?

[JJ]

What about King Of Pain? I really like it... But yeah, some of these songs really don't deserve to be there. Princes Familiar? Nah. So Unsexy?? WTF?

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I LOVE 'Princes Familiar'! W00t!

I'm not a fan of 'So Unsexy'. 'Joining You' deserves a placing her 110% times more! Either way, I'm getting this.

[Chickenshit]

Two remixes of these have been made for the Crazy single. The James Michael one has been chosen.

www.alanismorissette.info/viewtopic.php?t=25228&start=0

What ya think?

[soulster]

Release Date: November 15

[tortuga]

So Unsexy?? WTF?

[Be My Last]

Interesting cover. :) I just want a new studio album!! :( She was amazing when I saw her in April.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

The cover looks amateurish. I don't like it.

As for the tracklisting, Alanis is the type of artist to me that no matter what the tracklisting is, I wouldn't be overly happy because certain times I'm in the mood for certain Alanis songs so no 80-minute-disc collection would satisfy me. I can't even make a CD of my own. I'm glad 'That I Would Be Good' isn't on it.

If I had to, it would prolly look like this:
(in no order)

You Oughta Know
Hand In My Pocket
Ironic
You Learn
Head Over Feet
Uninvited
Still
Thank U
Joining You
Princes Familiar
No Pressure Over Cappuccino
Utopia
Hands Clean
Precious Illusions
Sister Blister
Symptoms
Everything
So Called Chaos
Crazy

And a DVD with all of her videos, including both versions of 'You Learn'.
All applicable songs would be radio edits.

I think Alanis' voice is at its best in 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love' but that song sticks out like a sore thumb on this CD.

As for new material, apparantly she'll have a new album out next Summer. I'm in no rush though because I'm still into 'SCC' so the acoustic JLP and the GH will tide me over for a bit longer.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

k, I just noticed 'That I Would Be Good' IS on it..

[soulster]

Video for "Crazy", directed by Meiert Avis, debuts on AOL Music - 10/14 and VH1 - 10/15!

[MusicMan88]

music.aol.com/artist/main.adp?artistid=144717

watch the new video!

[MusicMan88]

OMG I just watched it!!! One of her best videos ever, and holy crap the end is a huge surprise!

Wow, makes me love the song even more too. REALLY hope this is a big hit for her.

[Be My Last]

Awesome video!

[sleepy time]

Wow... the ending was kind of shocking. Very "Smack my Bitch up".

I have no idea why, but this reminds me of different elements of every Avril video ever made, all wrapped up into one video.

[helios79]

I LOVE it!

Awesome video!! I really hope "Crazy" becomes a hit.

[soulster]

sleepytime said:

Wow... the ending was kind of shocking. Very "Smack my b**ch up".

I have no idea why, but this reminds me of different elements of every Avril video ever made, all wrapped up into one video.

OMG! LOL, seriously... especially the Im With You video.
And the cliches of music videos...
- walking down a street path
- barging through a crowded club
- being hauled off from a fight LOL.

And so what's going on... Alanis' lesbian lover/sister is bonkin' a man/Alanis' boyfriend? ???

[ZRocka85]

I loved the video...and I love this version of the song a lot!!! It's very electro...maybe that's the new direction Alanis is going in for her next album??? That would be sweet!!

[THE LEGEND]

can't wait to get this!...........I liked alot of her songs but never bought a CD of hers.......Most of those songs i know and i like very much.......man i'm gonna be broke this and next month.....So much CD's to buy :o

[soulster]

ROFL @ the "new look"

[soulster]

The Collection: Limited Edition

[PT08]

soulster said:

ROFL @ the "new look" 

Is that Alanis? What happened

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I went to three CD stores and couldn't find The Collection. Is it this Tuesday or next Tuesday?

[MusicMan88]

NEXT Tuesday :)

[Be My Last]

Picked up my CD single of "Crazy" might not bother with The Collection though. What's on the limited edition? ???

^^^She doesn't always looks that frumpy! She looked great at some event the other day:
fabulousfreak.com/gallery.php?cat_id=3682

[Deleted]

It's not like Alanis was ever sexy. Atleast she looks clean now.

[MinusName]

That's a pretty funny CD cover, it looks like something Jojo or Ashlee Simpson would've done, very teeny-bop.

[JJ]

The bangs dont suit her at all. She looks 50.

EDIT: She looks So Unsexy! Maybe that's part of the promotion!

[Deleted]

All Music Guide gave it 4/5 stars.

Alanis Morissette had hits after her 1995 blockbuster Jagged Little Pill — she also hits before it, but those Canadian teen pop hits have been effectively written out of her official biography to no great loss — but after that album's nearly three-year reign on the charts in the second half of the '90s, she never dominated radio, MTV, and popular consciousness again. She was always a presence, and each of her records received a flurry of attention upon its initial release, with both 1998's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and 2002's Under Rug Swept both debuting at number one on the Billboard charts, but once it became clear to her millions of fans that she was pursuing a weirder, introspective direction in the wake of Jagged Little Pill, they started to slowly drift away and Alanis' status faded with it. She still made good music (even if the albums themselves could be uneven), but she stopped having genuine pop hits. Of course, she kind of stopped making pop music, as the sober nature of her first hits album, 2005's The Collection, proves. This generous 18-track collection has the great majority of her charting singles and it's understandably heavy on Jagged Little Pill songs; there are five here, including "Hand in My Pocket," "Ironic," and "You Oughta Know," but not the radio hit "All I Really Want." Most of the remaining big hits are here, including the non-LP "Uninvited" from the City of Angels soundtrack, "Thank U" (here retitled "Thank You"), and "Hands Clean," but there are several charting singles from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie that were overlooked ("Joining You," "Unsent," and, most regrettably, "So Pure," the liveliest song on the LP), which suggests that Alanis now also sees that album as an awkward growing period between the angst-ridden adolescent of JPL and her self-consciously mature work of the 2000s. In their place are a hodgepodge of non-LP rarities, largely soundtrack contributions, including "Still" from Dogma and a very bad version of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" from De-Lovely; there's also "Sister Blister" from her overlooked 2002 rarities CD/DVD Feast on Scraps, plus a new cover of Seal's "Crazy" that's startlingly close to the original. All these relative rarities dilute The Collection, making it seem something less than either the hits or the best of Alanis Morissette; it doesn't help that they're clustered together in the second part of the compilation, slowing the momentum of the hit-heavy first half quite a bit. Also, the overall tenor of these songs, whether they're hits or rarities, is just a shade too self-serious; the songs crawl along under the weight of the heavy, atmospheric keyboard and guitars, which may give Alanis plenty of space to run wild lyrically but never quite amount to being as catchy or immediate as any of Jagged Little Pill. As a result, The Collection isn't nearly as a satisfying listen as it should have been, even if it functions reasonably well as a sampler of Alanis' biggest and best post-JPL work. It may have more than its fair share of dull patches, but it does have most of the big songs, which should be enough for many fans who have liked various Alanis songs they've heard on the radio since Jagged Little Pill but never bothered following her after the muddled Supposed Former.

[bubblepop15]

When I first looked at that pic it reminded me of Elaine from Seinfeld.