Alanis Is Back

 It is great to see Alanis Morissette back in the news again, when they come to write the playlist of my life her Jagged Little Pill album will feature because her 1995 offering was huge, in the UK the album spent a total of 221 weeks on the charts and is 13th in the list of best selling albums ever at 33 million Worldwide so that is a lot of people who warbled along to: 'It's like raiiiiiiiiiiin..on your wedding day' and from the Album, Ironic was probably the one people know best although for me, the best song was always 'Forgiven' which starts off a slow ballad type raging against her Catholic upbringing and ramps up during the next 5 minutes to a brilliant crescendo which shows just what an amazing voice she had. It's also an amazing song to play along to on the guitar
The whole Jagged Little Pill album was an angry sounding bitchfest and it turned out to be the high-point in the Alanis career trajectory because she never hit those heights again, her subsequent Albums being much more contented affairs but i guess when you hit such peaks early on, you are never going to climb to the top of that mountain again.
Brilliant to see her back though and being appreciated by a younger generation because her album and the songs from that album really were that good.