alanis morrisette - hands clean

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this is a great, great song

― $$, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

with a great chorus!! and the video

― $$, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Trife? You okay?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ned have you heard it!!

― $$, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree, except actually i would replace 'great' with 'quite good'

and in fact, replace 'hands clean' with 'so pure'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I admit I'm dubious given who it is but maybe a miracle occurred. So this is her new single/whatsit?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Unexplained Mysteries and Phenomena - S/D

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's awful.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it's scary how many Alanis songs i'm cool with actually (about four)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Alanis mostly, although I don't really listen to her at home or anything, but I usually like her singel...this song in particular was pretty great.

not maybe as great as the one where she talked about all her ex-boyfriends and listed them off though.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem OTM, "So Pure" is great. And does have a great chorus and video.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a good song. it was good to see alanis back writing pop songs - her debut album had plenty of those, then she indulged her tuneless stream-of-consciousness side which was less good. i never liked her voice much, though.

i remember one party where my g/f's twin and this creepy guy we used to hang out with played this song on repeat for most of the night. then they got really drunk, and she asked him to go to her debs, but then she sobered up and realised he was creepy, so she pretended to have a boyfriend to get out of it. heh.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a great song. Maybe even her best to date.
Other: You Oughta Know and the live version of I Was Hoping on the Unplugged album.

I can't stand any of her other stuff tho...
How is this possible?

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the Dave Coulier factor, Roger.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

trife in self-immolating-his-own-street-cred shockah

next trife thread: "modest mouse, severely underrated"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

John, don't make me have to come into a trife thread and try to *dissuade* him from liking a rock band.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought her second album for really cheap, it was being thrown out and it was a 2 CD set and I wanted the 2-CD box to replace a broken one and I'd loved "So Pure". It's not all bad, "Can't Not", "Would Not Come" and "That I Would Be Good" I still like quite a lot.

"Hands Clean" itself is almost a very good song, yes, the chorus is lovely but that half-spoken verse just doesn't work. I don't think I can identify with it enough, either. The album it comes from is trash.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

She's ripping off Avril

― Jole, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

trife in self-immolating-his-own-street-cred shockah

You must have missed the thread where he liked a Bob Dylan song!
i do not know who is responsible for my two favorite songs on oldies radio

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hands Clean" is great.

― ara, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Theory: if Alanis had never recorded You Oughta Know and Ironic she would not nearly have been as much maligned.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Decent beat and hook and whatever, but I just can't sympathize with a woman who can't get over the shit Dave Coulier put her though. Cut it out!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and the video is like 18 types of vile

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

She's damn presumptuous about the song's potential popularity in Karoake bars.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's the song supposed to be about, btw?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the same guy all her songs are about, some way older guy who used her when she was Canada's Tiffany. I just assume it's Dave Coulier (who she did date at that time) because it's fun to imagine somebody being obsessed with Dave Coulier. The stuff she claims he said about her is so harsh that I'm kind of annoyed she's admitting she tolerated that shit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Hm. I was sorta hoping that she'd have more than one bête noire she could write songs about.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that song "Unsent" is dedicated to more than one ex-chappy. But supposedly all the HATE-hate songs are about some Humbert Humbert out there.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh! Don't you just love how her fucking voice cracks after every single goddamn line she sings?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I always imagined that You Oughta Know was about her early producer Leslie Howe (who later was in underrated Canadian alt-grunge-pop act Artificial Joy Club).

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost bought the album for the song. A step too far, though.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that song "Unsent" is dedicated to more than one ex-chappy.

I dunno why I just read this as "Usenet."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

this was one of maybe five tracks played round the clock when i went to iceland a few years back, and so every half hour i was forced to remember that i actually kind of liked it. i haven't heard it in a while now, but i think i probably still feel the same way.

i'm also pretty sure it's not about dave coulier.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i didnt remember what this song was until i downloaded it but now its all clear! and suddenly i also remember that we were forced to watch the video of this in a cultural studies class i took in '02 and the lecturer ws all disgusted with it because the video ws trying to make alanis seem like an authentic person and not the record industry automaton she actually is!!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Actually, Morissette admitted to "US Weekly" that that song was about a guy she was with when she was 14 and he was 29. And they were together for 5 years, so it had to be Dave Coulier. And it's a good song, as she manages to express both the situation and the way both parties felt about it. It's excellent.

― WhatYouKnow, Friday, 26 March 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

I haven't thought of this one in years, and, yeah, it's pretty good.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

i dont even remember starting this wtf

― dat dude delmar (and what), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

sorry for bumping two alanis threads within one hour but can i just say the lyrics to this song are INCREDIBLE

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:53 (two years ago)

not sure i registered the song's subject at all when i was hearing it more or less constantly on vh1 when i was a kid

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:54 (two years ago)

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