Best song on Jagged Little Pill

tough one.

You can say that again.

i mean, it comes down to: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know and Hand In My Pocket.

i'm not sure i can vote for anything besides You Oughta Know...

I'm a big fan of Head over Feet.

"All I Really Want" makes babies bleed.

why are you so petrified of silence? here, can you handle this?

did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines?
or when you think you're gonna die??
or did you long for the next distraction?

easiest poll ever, "You Oughta Know" obv.

yea...

will she go down on Dave Coulier in a theater?

I mean seriously "You Oughta Know" is a killer single, such an exciting beginning. The song is like Jock Jams for the Lilith Fair set, which sounds a totally awesome genre. Some of the other songs are good (e.g. "Hand In My Pocket" is catchy) but...

i remember when got the sparse beauty of hand in my pocket. it was like whoa.

but yea, you oughta know was KILLLLLER. when i frst heard it, i saw the video, and i was just mesmerized.

I remember these as my favorites, although it's been a while since I've listened to this one straight through:

All I Really Want
Hand In My Pocket
Right Through You
You Learn
Not The Doctor

I think I'm gonna have to break with the pack and go for "You Learn" just over "All I Really Want" - it's probably the most exciting track on the record. "The smo-oo-oke clears!"

"Hand In My Pocket" is a sweet tune.

"You Learn" was my pick too, but it's still really hard for me to decontextualize this album from the summer of 1995, when I worked at a chain record store and had to hear it over the store speakers about 2000 times.

I can't even put into words how much I HATE "You Oughta Know."

All of it is indefensibly sanctimonious shit and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Yes, god forbid someone doesn't share your taste.

-- Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:27 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This isn't about taste, this is about crime and punishment.

"jagged little poll", surely

Bahaha

wow

Is there a track of silence before the hidden track?

That one.

Not even close. "You Oughta Know" one of the decade's best hit singles; the rest of the album is safely missable.

The War Against Silence reviews the record in 1995:

Three things immediately caught my attention about her now-Buzz-Clip video for "You Oughta Know": first, parts of the song reminded me nostalgically of the Bee Gees (something about the parallel downward scales of "'Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn't able..." and "Feel the city breaking and everybody's shaking..."); second, the confidence and power of Alanis' vocal delivery stopped my channel-changing finger in mid-punch; and third, the pain and vitriol evident in the lines "Does she know how you told me you'd hold me / Until you died, 'til you died / But you're still alive" caused me to toss the remote control aside in sudden enraptured fascination, a laudably enthusiastic response that I nonetheless came to partially regret later, when I discovered the remote suspended in a half-full glass of water unaccountably abandoned in a corner of the living room that I guess I need to scan for stray dishes more often.

Wow, that's awful.

Pretty bad.

hahahahaha... that song

yea

see, it's on threads like this one where alex in nyc really earns his keep

fuck this cd and fuck alanis and her strangled chihuahua voice i'm voting ironic

i distinctly remember owning this cd when i was 8 or 9 but i couldn't imagine sitting through this ever

i mean I KNOW i jammed this on the portable cd player on the bus and shit but she makes me shudder now

Hand In My Pocket is just about bearable I suppose.

yea that becomes the bearable one over time.

the harmonica solo isn't bearable.

Don't you people like songs about vengeful ghosts? What's wrong with you?

I didn't think I could like an artist less than her, but then I kinda liked the song she did for the Wings of Desire remake. I'm a sucker for Kashmir rip-offs.

How about "the going down on your poll in a theater"?

"Ironic" is the best song, so it would be ironic if it doesn't win this poll.

omg

WOW BOB WOW

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

lol geir's comment really takes the cake here. either that one or roxy's "jagged little poll." not sure.

lol and jordan your omg afterward cracked me up

"Ironic" for the boldness in which the word was misused for an entire song.

but yea she sucks.

"Hand In My Pocket" will never fail to fascinate me for its complete and utter refusal to rhyme. First 3 choruses she pairs up "fine fine" with "high five", "all right" with "cigarette", and "just yet" with "peace sign". The first and third lines of the chorus never change, which means that if she'd wanted to (or tried), she could've switched a few lines around and gotten "fine fine/peace sign", "just yet/cigarette" and "all right/high five", all without changing the essential meaning of the song - whatever that is - but she didn't. Ironic...

"Ironic" for the boldness in which the word was misused for an entire song.

/english teacher who handed out 'ironic' lyrics bcuz to show what an irony isn't and lol i'm a fun teacher lol

The first and third lines of the chorus never change, which means that if she'd wanted to (or tried), she could've switched a few lines around and gotten "fine fine/peace sign", "just yet/cigarette" and "all right/high five", all without changing the essential meaning of the song - whatever that is - but she didn't.

I quite like it when songs do this. But not when they're by Alanis Morissette.

My two best friends in high school spent many hours discussing how amazing the album was. I wonder what they think of it now. They taped it for me to try to convert me but I already found her kind of unbearable and the tape must have warped so it sounded positively nauseating.

"Ironic" for the boldness in which the word was misused for an entire song.

FUCKING HELL I HAD NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE

The bit where the man who never flew says "Isn't this nice?" while unknown to him, the plane is crashing.

That bit gets "Ironic" right. The rest, no.

FUCKING HELL I HAD NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE

She is quite tall looking.

omg guys

what alternate internet do i live in where ppl are still debating the correctness of 'ironic'?

"see this tower here in pisa... well... it isn't exactly straight"

~Well, that's ironic!

>_<

omg

I had not thought of this album in a very long time and I went into a shoeshop this lunchbreak and "Mary Jane" caterwauled out at me! This is the kind of coincidence I do not much care for. Is it critical reevaluation time already? Should I be placing money on a Meredith Brooks revival next? Maybe a bassline remix of that Joan Osbourne song will be this summer's zeitgeisty smash?

Err. As you were.

wow i just voted for All I Really Want. i don't know what came over me i just really needed to do that.

lol meredith brooks

i hate this album

Yay!

I quite like it when songs do this. But not when they're by Alanis Morissette.

Yeah, Kool Keith does quite a lot of this kind of fucking around with rhyme schemes. But he's rather better than Morrisette.

omg

-- Surmounter, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 15:16 (3 hours ago) Link

hahaha. that one's comin in useful on this thread

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

hot off the press: 'you oughta know' wins in landslide.

did you guys know that song was about full house funnyman, dave coulier?

that's what i hear

i'm into the top 4 results tho, 3 of those were my top 3 pix.

I used to think that Alanis Morissette was related to Morrissey. How they were related, I don't know.

cosmically. cosmically they may be related.

woulda been more entertaining if it were "You Oughta Fart"

^:(

bo :( :( :( :( :( :(

i'd swap 2nd and 3rd place but i think these results more or less put the singles from this album in the correct order of quality. jesus, though, 6 big singles (5 with videos) for such a terrible terrible artist.

was All I Really Want a single? shoulda been i s'pose

i dunno if i agree with the Head Over Feet result... i mean it's a little BLA

yeah the videos were BIG!!

esp. the Ironic video. haha

"All I Really Want" didn't have a video but it was a big modern rock hit.

The best song on the album is down at number five. Isn't it ironic?

I'm unpleasantly surprised by all this Alanis hate. She's written some great songs.

And as good as this album is, the second one is even better.

irony <> fibbing.

justice is served

really?? the second one??

Yeah, SFIJ is great.

alanis' second record unfortunately has a title that turned me off ever giving it a chance

I grew to like "Thank U" but don't remember one single thing off the rest of this record, despite owning it. So I vote "Thank U" in the surely-never-to-happen SFIJ poll.

I'm glad they blurred out Alanis's naked body in that video. If they hadn't, lunches would have been lost across America.

cuz I'm Lucas with the lid off.....

yeah the decision to blur out the naked woman's body was in no way forced by television executives but was totally made by alanis's people so props to them cuz it totally could have gone on air full frontal and what a disaster that would have been.

you thought janet jackson was bad?!

anybody remember that MTV commercial back around that time with that black dude that's driving through and sees Alanis (actually a goofy looking actress pretending to be Alanis) singing the song and he says something like "ahh hell no" and at the end tells her to put some clothes on or something.

The first and third lines of the chorus never change, which means that if she'd wanted to (or tried), she could've switched a few lines around and gotten "fine fine/peace sign", "just yet/cigarette" and "all right/high five", all without changing the essential meaning of the song - whatever that is - but she didn't.

Holy shit!

Also, holy shit is the harmonica soolo on that song hilarious or what?

The reaction to SFIJ was really bizarre and annoying. Essentially, people hated the Thank U video (or thought it was stupid), and then didn't bother to notice that all the other singles (and their videos!) were awesome. Thank U got huge airplay on MTV, and then the rest of the videos got ignored (this was back when MTV affected the music business).

haha this poll is so otm. i remember these singles coming out so long after each other i thought they were from separate albums? (lol 15).

some girl from my mormon religious association played 'you oughta know' at a ward dance! so shocking at the time ('f' word and all!) i really ought to find her and give her a post-hoc congrats. it's a great song as is everything else that placed. (i never heard anything that didn't cuz i never owned the cd but i sure heard all of those singles.)

i'm lost but i'm hopeful baby

im broke but im happy

first time Alex in NYC have ever been aligned.

*and I

woulda been more entertaining if it were "You Oughta Fart"

― Bo Jackson Overdrive

totally never remember posting that but it makes sense...

no luv for "perfect"

My love for "You Oughta Know" has not dimmed since original poll

Good album! OK, who else had never heard of Dave Coulier or Full House before “You Oughta Know” came out and couldn’t care less who it’s about? Kiss-off relationship lyrics, confident singing, an f-word here or there, no wonder teenage girls went absolutely apeshit for it at the time. I may still find Yoko Ono’s Live Peace in Toronto screeching unbearable but for some reason when Ms. Morissette does it I can’t help but sing along. “All I Really Want” sets the tone nicely: “All I really want… is some justice… Rrrrraghaghuuuahuuahuuahhhhhhhhhhh!!!” If you don’t like that then you’re not gonna like the rest of the album. I like it!

But my God is “Perfect” one of the all-time momentum killers. The ballads on this album suck.