release date: Jun. 13, 1995
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,12]
producer: Glen Ballard
label: Maverick - nationality: Canada
Track highlights: 1. "All I Really Want" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "You Oughta Know" (4 / 5) - 4. "Hand in My Pocket" - 5. "Right Through You" (4 / 5) - 6. "Forgiven" (3 / 5) - 7. "You Learn" - 8. "Head Over Feet" (4 / 5) - 10. "Ironic" (4,5 / 5) - 12. "Wake Up" (3 / 5)
3rd studio album release by Alanis Morissette with new producer Glen Ballard, is what many think of as her debut, which was actually released in 1991. Her first two albums - both produced by Leslie Howe - are rather differently styled as pure dance-pop releases, where this is the album that brought her international fame in a singer / songwriter and more boldly a style of alt. rock or post-grunge that she would hang on to after this. It's a great energetic pop / rock album and it's no wonder why she was lauded after this. I only bought the album a few years ago, as I thought it was fine but also a bit... superficial, somewhat grey, superfluous, or: just too mainstream for my taste at the time of the release. Also, it was really not necessary to buy it 'cause you couldn't go anywhere without being met by this very album at cafés, movie theaters or any non-food stores.
The album and Alanis were nominated to dozens of prizes after the release, and it's one of the best-selling albums of the 1990s. Critics also received the album with nothing but high praises. Allmusic.com hands it 4,5 / 5 stars, and it's enlisted on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 greatest albums of all time".
1995 Favourite releases: 1. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill - 2. The Cardigans Life - 3. The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
