Jagged Little Pill

Awful

horrible album

A bit cringy that THIS was a sort of soundtrack of a time

1/5 graphic design Choons aren’t much better

Not my cup of tea if I'm honest. Didn't dislike the instrumentals but the vocals and lyrics were not particularly appealing.

Didn’t make it through, too whiny

Ugh, just no.

Trash

Неслушабельный трэш

HOLY SHIT I LISTENED TO THIS YESTERDAY AND HAD THE THOUGHT: “lol what if jagged little pill is my album tomorrow since I’m listening to it today?” Anyways this is an all timer, Morrissette’s voice and lyrics are so perfect for this album. The composition is criminally underrated, with baselines that go so hard. I love Jagged Little Pill!!! 5/5

This album was released a few days before my seventh birthday, and it quickly received heavy rotation in our household as my mum, a young single parent of two, found a huge amount of emotional release within. I remember thinking that this was a very angry lady, and I couldn’t understand why she was singing about “cross-eyed bears”. But I liked it. Thirty years later, the edges have softened and the confusion has cleared, and I consider it a near-perfect record.

This album is probably the reason Alanis is canonically the godhead

perfection what can i say! Raw and real with lessons to understand about living life. Poetry put to rock.

I may have listened to this album once or twice when it came out, but probably didn't. Why would I have to? So many of the songs became singles and were everywhere on the radio, just right to make fun of. So many years later, sitting down listening end to end for possibly the first time, I was amazed at how coherent a statement it was and how much I enjoyed it.

Komischerweise steckt hier irgendwas grundgiges mit drin, was nicht sofort einen absoluten kotzreiz auslöst! This gives an enormous sense of well-being

REINA ABSOLUTA!!

it's a 10 from me.

It is quite remarkable how many hits one can have on one single album. Even the deep cuts are excellent songs. Ironic to me is an absolute stand out song, it's so good.

The album that first made me pay attention to pop music after seeing her play “Hand in My Pocket” on SNL when I was 10 years old. Still hits. Even deep cuts like “Not The Doctor”, “Forgiven” and “Right Through You” are great. I went to the belated 25th anniversary tour and she was still amazing.

This is one of those albums where I can't be objective, I just love it too much, it's one of the anthems of the 90s and one of my favorite albums. I own it on vinyl and CD. It's got six certified banger hits and a bunch of underrated deep cuts ('Right Through You' being the best of those). 'Not The Doctor' I'm kinda lukewarm on, but that is not gonna stop it from being perfect in my ears. This is a great album about relationship angst, and the dichotomy of happiness and anger. I am unashamed about loudly singing these songs with all the windows down yesterday. A fantastic record that deserves my highest praise, Alanis Morissette will rise to the top and be my twentieth 5/5

I feel like I just read her diary

Immediately teleported to college when the angsty girl in the dorm room next door blasted this album on loop for the entire year, scream singing it so loud that I could hear it clear as day through the wall. That soured me on the whole album and I have avoided most of Alanis since then. But this was really good, emblematic of the music at the time and full of songs that most people know. I actually thought some of the unreleased songs were the best on the album.

Awesome album, not a bad song. Banger after banger, yes it is slightly dated it is of its time, but I still love it.

Listening to this at 12 I thought I knew what she was talking about and then relistening to it at 35 I definitely did not. What a transformative listen and honestly should be required listening for any young woman. Watching Alanis perform this album live was a religious experience. She's a living goddess.

Rate: 10/10.

Really good album

Jagged Little Pill is such a classic 90s breakup record, it’s angry, spiteful, petty, and totally raw. Putting it on takes me straight back to driving around in the mid 90s with the radio cranked all the way up. Even though the alt-rock sound and drum loops feel pretty dated now, the emotion still hits just as hard. Songs like "You Oughta Know" are the perfect scream-along therapy, which balances out nicely with the softer stuff like "Head Over Feet". Yeah, some of the lyrics are a bit dramatic, and I’ve learned to just ignore that almost nothing in "Ironic" is actually ironic, but the songwriting is still top tier. I get that Alanis’s vocal style, all that yodeling and aggressive phrasing, can be a bit annoying sometimes, and the production is definitely heavy handed in spots, making a few of the deeper tracks feel like filler. But honestly? Despite all the 90s cheese, I still think this album is a huge deal. It’s a messy, passionate, and catchy time capsule of when venting your ugliest feelings over a pop rock beat was the absolute best way to let it all out.

Great Stuff! Caught lightning in a bottle with this one! One of the best albums of the decade!

Die heb ik grijs gedraaid 🙃

This is in my top 5 favorite albums of all time. Every song is good. There's some catchy melody or badass lyric or awesome guitar part in every song. I forgot about Wake Up and how good of a song it is. Obviously 5 stars.

It's a fantastic pop rock album from start to finish. Loads of catchy songs, great singing, and wonderful storytelling. Alanis Morissette getting cheated on ended up being such a net positive for society, weirdly.

It's easy to forget how gigantic this record was when it came out. So many songs were hits off this album, and it felt like it seeped its way through all of society, whether you loved this, or (being a man) a lot of the women in your life loved this. The music, while very much a 90s sound, still holds up today, and all these songs are great. I didn't think I'd like this album quite this much, but yeah, absolutely a 5.

Very good album

An all time great. Huge for my people (intense women). She ran so Avril Lavigne could also run. Christ- she was 21 when this came out!! Literary references coming thick and fast. It’s just an incredibly well put together, cohesive album that is at once fun and serious. Longing for ‘intellectual intercourse’. I love this woman. The big hits have not lost their impact: ‘and every time I scratch my nails down someone else’s back I hope you feel it.’ THAT’S REAL VENOM. THAT’S GREAT SHIT. ‘I’m high but I’m grounded. I’m sane but I’m overwhelmed.’ The songs that are not huge hits deserve to be - You Learn, Forgiven (‘You know how us Catholic girls can be’). Head over Feet is, for me, one of the most relatable love songs I’ve ever heard - being sort of angry that someone is nice to you and that you have fallen in love with them. ‘I hear you’re losing weight again, Mary Jane, you ever wonder who you’re losing it for?’ FUCK YES. Send it into space. Transcribe it, bury it, carve it into stone a thousand times, we have to let humans in 2000 years find this.

An absolute banger from the 90s. Despite owning this album as a teenager, I never listened to it all the way through.

my queen un cinco porq estoy hasta los huevos de poner 3 o 4

> the Beatles

Head over Feet

First five. Listened to it for a second time later the same day. So many great songs I knew from growing up but never knew they were Alanis Morissette

In 1995 I was 17 entering my senior year in high school and I cannot explain how much of an impact it made on every single girl at my school. We played this CD full blast until it was so scratched it skipped. My first beater car's radio did not work so I had a boom box in my car that all the passengers in my car passed around skipping songs and screaming our heads off singing along to this CD. To say this CD is nostalgic for me is an understatement, it's a time capsule of a moment in my life that shaped who I was becoming. Is it the greatest album on this list? No. Is it dated? Yes. Did it have a cultural impact? Absolutely fucking yes. For that reason I can never give it less than 5 stars

A fantastic album overall with 5 A/A+ songs. Probably an effect of growing up in this time period, everything comes together for me and any comments critiquing the voice/music ... or the distinct 90s of it all ... are more nitpicking than anything. Bumping up due to the sheer amount of fantastic songs and to drown out the idiots complaining about the feminism. 4.5+

absolutely

это шедевр, то что мне было нужно

Absolute classic! A perfect album!

Woah. Like genuinely woah. Big three of super hits don't even do the album justice. Electric front to back, easily my favorite so far!

Forgot how awesome this was - so many great songs and it seems like you never hear any of them anymore. Among the greatest of musical mysteries: The song "Ironic" is itself a nearly ideal example of irony in that not one of the examples of "irony" in the song is actually ironic (they're all just coincidences and/or things that would really suck), which is the opposite of what one would expect in a song that purports to be about irony. The question/mystery is whether Alanis was aware of this when she wrote it, which would give the song an extra really fun meta-layer. I'm going with yes.

Verrassend veel bekende nummers in dit album

Classic

I'm pretty confident that this was one of the best albums to come out of the 90s. Just banger after banger after banger, all on the same record.

GOAT 5 star

I've had multiple false starts with this album over the last week, starting it but something would get in the way so I couldn't quite finish the album before I could rate it. On my first partial-listen I appreciated it, but wasn't going to come back. Second and third listens, I restarted from the beginning of the album again. Today, I found myself wanting to listen to Alanis Morissette, like she's been in my rotation for years, and today happened to be the day I finally finish. This album is awesome.

Lots of hit songs

Awesome

5/5 favourite angry album

Strong voice, even better songwriting. Sone of the lyrics give me the good kind of goosebumps.

YES THERES AN ACCORDION LETS FUCKING GO

Love this album!

Great album. Every song hits it out of the ballpark. I love the subject matter Alanis sings about because it's personal and speaks to feelings everyone has, but also doesn't fall into the lyrical tropes of love and heartache.

i love this album

Great album

The lyrics still sear.

You Oughta Know is a great song! Great album with 4 all-time great songs. A+

Fair bit to say about this one: Alanis, off a couple of folksier/softer albums took a different path with new production towards an edgier alternative rock/pop sound for Jagged Little Pill. The album title is drenched in irony, as is most of the album: describing both her, and the situation she’s in. She also follows a bit of a journey throughout the tracklist; the first few are very bitter breakup songs, later she sings about finding love again, ending on a happier if perhaps bittersweet note. It’s a well constructed album, not super front loaded, and not a ton of fat either. Maybe 1-2 filler songs. It’s sexual, it’s charged. It’s cathartic, emotive in a way that was a new expression for female singer songwriters of the time. You can draw a line of confessional pop from Joni Mitchell in the 60s to Alanis in the 90s, who then paved the way for your adult contemporary pop singers like Michelle Branch a bit later, and following the line even to the 2010s with Tove Lo- who really brought confessional pop back after the very dance centric 2000s. The album was a smash hit immediately also- universal praise, 17 million sales, 5 Grammies and diamond status cement it in the pop canon, and deservedly so. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sempre sólido, agressivo e suave, cima e baixo

Good album. I liked it! some songs I knew already because of childhood but I've never listened to all of it.

Loved it! Love her voice on this album, can’t wait to listen to more of her! Favourite song on the album has to be Ought to know.

Alanis es icónica

Excellent album, was in the 90’s and still is now.

"The production sounds dated" ☝️🤓 stfu

an album by alanis morissette, and probably her most famous. it’s intense, emotional rock music from an artist who doesn’t hold back with what she says. i really like how this album sounds. the drumloops stand out, paired with wide guitar strums and big, expressive vocals... it gives the whole thing a fresh, stylish edge for the genre. absolutely not an album you want to skip, especially if you’re a fan of 1990s alternative.

The exceptionally rare album that genuinely has no bad songs. Top-to-bottom bangers with fantastic singing, strong musicianship, cool lyrics, unforgettable melodies, a unique perspective and voice, and just damn good songs. I'm not one of those people who think they stopped making good music when they were a teenager, but I can't help but envy 1995, when THIS was what defined popular music. Masterpiece.

Another one I don't need to listen to but I will.

I was 12 and I rode my bike to media play to buy my first album on CD with my paper route money. This album has aged like fine wine. Still excellent.

This and the Blue Album were the first albums I knew/liked as a kid. Must be the harmonica.

It's an automatic five stars. No pretender in the decades since has come close to how powerful, visceral, intelligent, and brilliant it is, including Alanis herself.

a fantastic album. i do own this one (along with fourty five million other people). there are about six or seven singles off this album, including "Ironic", "You oughta Know", "You Learn", "Hand in my Pocket". truthfully, i listen to this album quite a lot. IMO i dont think there's a bad song on it. and if you havent really paid attention to the lyrics of "You Oughta Know", listen to it again. lesson is to never scorn a woman musician, or you are then fair game for lyrics. some notes on the song "You Oughta Know" 1) the song is about her relationship with Dave Coulier (the annoying guy from "Full House"). 2) Flea and Dave Navarro provided bass and guitar on the track. you know Flea from the Chili Peppers and Dave Navarro, guitarist from Jane's Addiction (early on, you listened to the album Ritual de lo Habitual) for me, two five-star albums in a row. Friday's Oasis album and today's.

Vuonna ysiviis katottiin kun Morissette esiintyi livenä Jyrkissä ja nais-rage oli sillon uutta ja hienoo. Mutta kyllähän se vaan toimi ja toimii edelleen, hyviä biisejä levy täynnä.

Jagged Little Pill is one of my favorite albums of all time, and there isn't a single bad song to be found here

I LOVE THIS ALBUM!! Reading through other reviews there seems to be a lot of sexism built into them- describing it as 'teen aged girl music' as if thats a justifiable reason to instantly dislike something. It's very bad faith critisism- you forget that screaming teenage girls were the first beatles fans. People also complain about her 'vocal flair'... You mean emotion? Many of these people seem to be missing the point of music- enjoy it... If you try singing along, try it at karaoke, you might find that the repetative drum beats give a perfect anchor, the vocal flairs make it fun to sing and that emotion is a pretty important part of music. And for those who reduce the whole album to 'being angry at men' and claim it thus has no musical merit- just admit that you're afraid of women. The album is interesting and a stand out from the 90s perfect for blaring in the car or on a run and what a part of my childhood.

No notes!

maravillo album de todo mi gusto

I am transported to another place in time where I sit in the back of my parents’ Jeep listening to music I don’t understand. I am happy. I am safe.

Excellent album, n'aborde pas des thèmes super complexes et n'est pas techniquement révolutionnaire mais l'ensemble de l'album le rend extrêmement agréable, très très bonne découverte

It's been a minute since I listened to the album front to back, but it still slaps. Alanis really front loaded the bangers, but it's still a great listen. Favorite Track: All I Really Want

so fucking good

all the best songs i know of her are in this album, unbelivable

Classic, a time capsule of the 90’s. Excellent collection of memorable and great songs.

I don’t know why but I listened to this a little when I was a young teen. But this isn’t nostalgia, beyond all the hits this album is long and it’s great the whole way through.

I’ve been curious about this album for so long. Sorry it took until today to give it a listen. I wasn’t disappointed. I love her supple voice, her rage and her wit. I added “Head Over Feet” to my Generator playlist.

I really loved this album when I was in college, but I was afraid it was going to sound dated. And in a way it did, but not in the "this is super cheesy how did I ever like this" kind of dated. But the kind of dated that comes from an album being amongst the few that defined the sound of that entire era of rock. The hits hold up. They're iconic. Of the songs I wasn't as familiar with my favorite was "Not the Doctor."

An amazing album by an artist who showed up at just the right moment in time. Alanis has that rare ability to sing with passion, energy, and CONTROLLED anger. Somehow the raw jagged imperfections in her voice perfectly complement the raw emotion in the songs. Not a bad song on the album and definitely has stood the test of time. Favorite deep cut: "Mary Jane"

All I really wanted was an album that reminds me what it was like to be a young adult member of Generation X. You oughta know this is the one. It’s almost a perfect album. With one hand in my pocket and the other one playing air guitar, you’d be forgiven for thinking I’m crazy. You learn that this is a great album: it sends me head over feet. I’m no Mary Jane, but I love this music. Not being ironic here… who could possibly improve this album? Not the doctor - Wake Up! Jagged Little Pill? More like You Can’t Say That On The Radio… 5 stars

On va encourager nos canadiennes.

Wow cette fille est un walking red flag! A moins qu'elle soit ironique... Bien aimé le blend des grosses guits, la voix complètement arrachée et l'harmonica. J'aime aussi le côté irrévérencieux et amer complètement désinhibé des paroles, d'après moi y'a du Dylan là-dessous (positively 4th street, like a rolling stone, ballad in plain D, ...). Ou du Joni Mitchell quand elle a dit de Dylan: oh my God, you can write about anything in songs.

Hometown perfection

Lot of hits and they’re all so good

I've heard it before, and i love it.

I love her rage so so much.

So good

Clasico indiscutido de los 90s

Holy shit, what an absolute banger of an album. Alanis Morissette is crazy good

It was brilliant then, it is still excellent now.

Notable Textzeile: Oh, hello, Mr. Man You didn't think I'd come back You didn't think I'd show up with my army And this ammunition on my back and isn't it iconic (Ja, ich weiß, naheliegend) Ein Album das biographisch genauso wichtig ist wie in der Popmusik. Behaupte ich jetzt einfach Mal. Musikalisch deutlich rockiger als ich es in der Erinnerung hatte, ich mag diese Produktion zwischen Garage und Mainstreamradio sehr gerne. Fast durchweg wirklich gute Songs und ganz überwiegend Texte die man entweder als ihrer Zeit voraus oder immer noch wichtig verstanden werden können. Auch wenn es einer ganzen Generation falsch beigebracht hat, was eigentlich ironisch ist.

me da vibras de female rage. Leyendo los comentarios me doy cuenta de lo que habla wow. Perfect me gustó "be a good girl, try a little harder, wasn't good enough to make us proud..."... IRONIICC

5 stars, because, yes.

Unexpected masterpiece.

Exceptional. No bad songs and some Stone Cold classics

Ka kan æ si? Æ elska det da, æ elske det nu, æ har elska det i hvert bidige år mellom de to.

i didn’t expect to like it as much as i did. some great deep tracks in addition to the hits

Alanis Morrisette taught the world what “irony” is, though some it was examples that weren’t ironic, just circumstantial. This album was huge when it came out. I realized I had never heard the entire thing, but as it played I realized I knew almost every song on here. I wasn’t “angry woman” enough to appreciate this when it came out (…not being sexist but there were a lot of rightfully angry women with albums then-e.g. Harvey; Brookes; Amos, Lilith Fair, et al—and I was an ignorant teenage dude with no context why). Now being a father of daughters, an husband and a teacher, I get it. Alanis was talking about experiences I had not had yet…or ever, but she did so with such raw conviction it was hard not to pay attention and respect it. This time around, three new songs caught me: No A Doctor; her vocal chops on Mary Jane were siren-like; and Forgiven was just beautiful. Since most of these songs are still on radio rotation and there is even a Broadway musical of this album, scoring is a no brainer….

Random thoughts: * Is this the most 90s album ever? It feels really 90s. Maybe just because I lived it. * I remember this being an album where there were so many hit songs that it was well worth the $18 purchase in 1995. * I definitely had quite a bit of nostalgia listening to this one. Maybe "Head Over Feet" was the biggest blast of nostalgia as it is one you don't hear often anymore. * Is "You Oughta Know" the most nuclear of breakup songs? It is burn your house down vicious. I forgot how raw that is. It might be number one of the list of best break up songs. I'd like a countdown of breakup songs with "Since You've Been Gone" "Happier Than Ever", "Good 4 U" and other ranked with Alanis at numero uno. * While this is a great album it is definitely not in my rotation. It feels like one you need to be in the right mood for. Still a classic!

Fabulous!

Fantastic Album, spun this one a lot back in the day...good fun

This is a perfect album for me. Love it!

The soundtrack to my ‘95. To my ‘95 and ‘96, actually.

Minha tia curte ela pra caramba, e eu conhecia as mais famosinhas antes de entrar de cabeça no álbum. A voz dela é bem marcante, tanto quanto o violão muito presente, e a eventual participação da gaitinha de boca. Acho um baita nome da participação feminina na década de 90. Bem a vibe de "I don't want your money, I want a guitar and my voice". Vibe boa, lembra uma tarde pré-festa de sábado, quando o sol começa a se pôr. 8.5/10

She’s the You Oughta Know lady!!!

Ho ho ho, snobboek. Nu gaan jullie echt de fout in. Het kan niet zo zijn dat er in de lijst een album staat dat a) iedereen in zijn kast heeft staan b) meerdere hits bevat c) geen debuutplaat is d) lekker klinkt. Hier is iets mis gegaan! Waren de platen van Morrissey en Pere Ubu op? Want we weten het nog goed, in 1995 meldde Alanis zich met deze stevige maar toch lekker in het gehoor liggende nummers, met wel 5 hits erop, commercieel, bah! Goed gemaakt, afwisselend, zinnige teksten, het kan nooit de bedoeling zijn dat zoiets in die top-1001 van jullie belandt. OK, met een niemendalletje als Ironic was ik op een gegeven moment wel klaar, maar You learn is een nummer dat een leven lang meegaat. Van Hand in my pocket krijg je altijd weer vrolijke energie, en You oughta know blijft een rockklassieker. Sorry hoor snobs, dan moet je het zelf maar weten, nou moet ik gewoon een 5 uitdelen!

Aan dit album heb ik goede herinneringen, ik had namelijk de compact-disc. Betaald met mijn eerste zuurverdiende centen, toen ik 2 weken bij de ECI heb gewerkt. Dat was ook wel een bijzondere ervaring: vooraf moest je in Vianen met 100 man in een bedompt zaaltje een soort toelatingsexamen doen, dat bestond uit een testje waar je 2 rijen cijfers naast elkaar kreeg te zien. Vervolgens moesten de kandidaten, zo noem ik het maar, aanvinken of de cijfers gelijk aan elkaar waren, of verschillend. Je werd dus getest of je snel al die cijfertjes uit elkaar kon houden. De 10 die dat het beste en snelste deden, die kregen een vakantiebaantje. Tja, dat is kat in het bakkie natuurlijk. Vervolgens heb ik van de 2 weken, maar 3 dagen hoeven te werken, want meer werk hadden ze uiteindelijk niet. En heb ik geen cds en boeken hoeven sorteren, maar heb ik stapels karton in een dozenvouwmachine lopen laden. Wie weet was dit een vroege aankondiging dat de ECI later failliet zou gaan. Ach, zo hebben we allemaal onze luizenbaantjes gehad. Ik ken verhalen van mensen die bij het ook inmiddels niet meer bestaande Betonson wekenlang alleen maar eens in de zoveel tijd op een rode knop moeten drukken. Anyway, door die nostalgie ronden we een prima 4 sterren natuurlijk af naar 5. Fijn album om weer eens te luisteren!

Considering the number of singles and the amount of airplay that this got, I ought to be sick of it but, nope. Perfect still cuts through me 🥲

Hadn't listened to this for a while but still love it. Her early stuff is nostalgic, important to me and still just as good after 31 years. Really set my music tastes as a teen, the angst goes hard. You Oughta Know is my go-to karaoke song.

Classic of my youth

The album of the 90's and the anthem for troubled suburbia. Cutting edge, lyrical, sardonic and one of the 100 greatest albums of all time. Ironic I can not rate it a 10.

didn't expect it to be as great as it was. Every track was solid.

Brilliant album. Strong and memorable pretty much the whole way through. Excellent production, loads of emotion and heart in the songs. Absolutely classic.

JAAAAA eines meiner liebsten alben OF ALL TIME!! geile lyrics geile musik geile stimme sehr relatable

geil

Simply, completely, perfect.

Masterpiece

Listens: 4 Standout Tracks: You Oughta Know, Hand In My Picket, You Learn, Ironic This album is literally, figuratively, metaphorically, categorically peak 90s, and dear lord I somehow recognize almost every damn song despite never having listened to this album. Like 5 or 6 songs on the albums were blasted out on the radio as singles. And, I cannot lie: This is a great 57 minutes. It's bitey, it's seductive, its relatable. The music is interesting and diverse. Alanis even plays God in Dogma! What's not to like?

I've never actually sat down and listened to this album before, but I've heard several of the hit songs from it. I would describe this music as 90s pop rock with the occasional harmonica thrown in (which was kind of off-putting to me, as I felt it threw the style of the music off a bit). What makes this album unique, however, are the cutting lyrics and brutal honesty Alanis Morissette brings to the songs. She's not scared to say what she wants to say and if she must convey those words through grating vocals, moans, and wordplay, she will. The music itself has enough dark undertones to mesh well with the lyrics, but there's plenty of pop sensibility to make everything catchy and accessible to listen to. I enjoyed pretty much the entire album, especially after a second listening. Standouts for me included "Forgiven", "Not the Doctor", "Wake Up", and "Your House" (a hidden song).

Alanis is God.

Excelente

This album was huge in high school. It’s also tied to one of my favorite memories - a road trip with some of my high school buddies to see our soccer team play in the state championship in Austin. We listened to this the whole way. It’s dated but is still great. I don’t know any of her other music. This and only this. Lyrically, she’s amazing on this album. Don’t not forget that Taylor Hawkins was her touring drummer! It’s a 5.

Great album also love that I knew one of the songs because of legally blonde!

Didn't realize how many radio hits were on this. Plus the songs I hadn't heard are just as good. 90s banger after banger.

Love it

Legendary! Angsty for sure, but also with reminders that “everything is gonna be fine, fine, fine” — even when life gives you “ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.”

dios otra vez, que hpta intro, aparte la verdad me pareció que hpta álbum, me lo disfruté, supe chimba

Great album full of very diverse songs, that can be funny, angry, loving, aggressive or sad. Not one song seems unnecessary and although the production is pretty dated in part I still like the album as much as when I heard it first as a teen. Maybe even more, because now I get most of the lyrics.

A very powerful album with a lot of heart. While not my usual style I still really enjoyed this

Like nearly every kid in high school in the late 90s I owned and played this album consistently. Stepping out of grunge and leading the way into female lead alternative rock, this album hits all the marks. Glen Ballard's partnership on song writing and production really showcase Alanis Morissette's range. At times raging and powerful and at other sensitive, but always strong. The lyrics tell clear, strong stories. The light moments are uplifting and fun. The dark moments bring out the teen angst and anger I still feel decades later. Zero regrets on buying this CD when it came out. I would burn singles off this and give it to a crush tomorrow. Note: At the end of my listening notes/review I list for myself the tracks I was already familiar with. This is limited to the specific release of a track, so live albums may have songs I know but would not consider myself familiar with that rendition. Familiar for me doesn't even mean I could sing every lyric, name the song, etc. but it clicks in my brain. I know that song. For this album: Every damn song.

Such an amazing amazing album!

Was very excited this one popped up! Nothing like 3am afters blasting You Oughtta Know but first time listening to it front to back. Classic 90’s rock album great mix of tempo within the album too, Big Alanis fan

Highlights: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know, Hand in My Pocket, Right Through You, Forgiven, Head over Feet, Ironic, Wake Up Lowlights: -------------------------------------- Another great album. Alanis has a great voice that works really well with the sound this album has. Leaning more towards a 5 than a 4. If this site keeps giving me good albums early, I'm in trouble when I get to the backend of this list.

I’m not justifying this

This seems kind of a Boston first album situation. Every song is great...most of them became hits and still hold up. Also, reap what you sow Dave Coulier. 🤷‍♂️

The hits all brought me back to the mid 90s. I don't remember tracks like "Perfect" which really captured how she must have struggled against the e weight of the music industry and other expectations on her. I wish her career would have been ten or twenty years later so she could have had an easier path to success. But maybe Alanis's success with this album is what have others the opportunities.

I know every word

crazy good

Wow. So insanely good. Only two skips for me: You Learn and Not the Doctor. Hand in My Pocket was a little boring but 🤷‍♂️. Forgiven literally had my jaw dropped, insane song. That + Head Over Feet were definitely my favorites. Very very good album, I’d say 8 or 9/10. I really like her lyricism and her voice. Okay, looks like this is a 1-5 stars kind of deal - I don’t know if this allows decimals in ratings, but until I know, I’d give it 4 ⭐️.

Brings back so many wonderful memories of my teens!!! What a great singer. She‘s one of my heroenes.

Legendary, eh? One of the most popular albums of the 90s for a reason. She exploded on the scene and became a one-name icon with hit after hit. Music videos, car sing-a-longs, and cross-generational appeal.

Una maravilla!

A powerful, solid album. No wonder she was cast as God...

This has been one of my favorite albums for almost 2 decades, one of the best albums ever! Yay!

phenomenal album !!!!!! so so so being in ur 20s vibes, i always come back to this album

All time fave

Gave me a nostalgic feeling I really appreciated the creativity!

I knew all of the hits (meaning about half the album - this album had a ridiculous number of hit singles), and they're brilliant as long as you can handle Morissette's very distinctive vocal delivery. But it's some of the hidden tracks that really hit me - "Perfect" is an AMAZING meditation on parental pressure, for instance. Fantastic production throughout, and even if you don't like the way she sings, you have to admire the ridiculous amount of vocal control she exhibits. Morissette writes great lyrics, and while all songs are about something, these songs are really *about* the things they're about, if that makes any sense. I really like this album, is what I'm saying,

90's feminist icon<3 all the feels. bring me back.

queen alanis!!!!!!!!! one of my fav albums, don't have to tell me twice!!!!!

I’m lucky enough to have seen this album performed live for the 25th anniversary, well a little later as it was delayed due to Covid - what a time, ey? Anyway, this album holds a place in my heart for sure. I always think of it as a 5* album with no skips but actually there are a couple of songs I’m less obsessed with. However due to the restrictive nature of no .5*s, the INSANE amount of iconic singles on this album plus the gorgeous hidden track I always forget about (can we bring that back pls???) I had to go 5* and I think I’m okay with that.

If any album perfectly catches the spirit of the mid 90s, it's this one. Angsty lyrics meet Post-Grunge arrangements, and they are having a party with absolutely catchy hooks - almost the entire album was in the MTV heavy rotation at the time. It's really that iconic. Or even Ironic? Who knows ... 4.5/5

i’ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other one’s giving this 5 stars

Stunning

Freaking love this album. No skips required.

Great '90s pop album, can definitely see why this was nominated so much back in the day. Great hits such as You Oughta Know and Hand in my Pocket, but the rest of the album also sounds completed and amazing. Good stuff, definitely one of the albums you must hear before you die. 9 / 10

What a masterpiece from Alanis. This album is almost perfect.

I knew of this because of its reputation and the singles from it. Brilliant album, I can see why it was one of the biggest albums of the 90’s.

It's a masterpiece and there ain't no doubt about it -- but holy crap, the Dave Culye thing still rocks my mind

Overall: 9/10 Oh my Canadian queen, I love you so much. The songs on this album are so incredible that I barely care that the production is so incredibly dated. I can't imagine it would sound even remotely similar if it was made a decade earlier or later. I blame the drums mostly. But oh my god, those songs! The lyrics! I love me some vulnerability in my lyrics and you don't get more vulnerable than telling the world you blew Dave Coulier in a movie theater. How ironic it is that the song ironic gets irony wrong so often. One hand in my pocket, and the other one [redacted]. You la-hooooooz yaler. God, I love this album. Almost perfect. Too bad she never made another good album. Fav Song: You Oughta Know

I listened to the shit out of this when it came out. We listened to it on repeat at a sleepover inside my junior high school. I pressed play on this album and was surprised how many of the words I remembered. A hugely impactful album on me as a teenager. It's production value might be a bit dated but I still love it and it gives me all the feels.

I made love to my wife listening to this album!

Super solid album!

So much pissed off angst!

Rating: 9/10 Short Review: It only took 11 days, but we finally got an album by a woman!!! Half jokes aside, what an iconic album. You can really hear how much influence this album had on alt rock.

love this album. always makes me think of my friend. have listened many times and will listen many times more

yeeeess

Classic 90’s album, I must have listened to it before as I know all the songs. Would listen to it again!

A little screechy at points but I thoroughly enjoyed this!

This album came out when I was 14, I own(ed) it and I really liked it for songs like Ironic, Head over Feet, Hand in my pocket ... But listening to the entire album as an middle aged adult .. Wow! It is so much deeper and emotional than I realized

Love it

I don't think I've had a more cathartic concert experience than singing "You Oughta Know" at the top of my lungs with 20,000 other people. Favorites: You Oughta Know, Head Over Feet Would I listen to it again: Yes

5 star such a good album

The best album for a weekend!

One of my very favorite albums 😌😎🔥

1: All I Really Want 2: You Learn 3: Head Over Feet

Easily in my top 5 albums of all time.

If I don't give this a five, my wife would never forgive me. It's good. Don't know if it's really a five. But five it is.

Fun listen. I forgot how many hits she had just on her first album. I love her style of writing, her voice is incredible. Very impressive and cohesive album in my opinion.

Bonafide classic...was in every bedroom as a teenager loved it

I knew the mega hits from this album but have never listened to it through. Ironic is one of those songs that I've heard in the context of being a single so many times its actually kind of jarring in the album but it does still flow well. I thoroughly enjoyed this and found myself running it through twice back to back then listening to a few stand out songs again right after. Playlist track: You Learn

Listened to the entire album in 2024. Still holds up, great album from its era and arguably her best.

WELL THEN - this is an absolute favourite and never fails to catapult me back to the halcyon teenage days of feeling free and riding around in my friend's first car. I think I know it by heart at this point and I've yet to find a Millennial that doesn't know and love most of the songs. It really is banger after banger. I especially love the light touch of world music, religious themes, angsty elements and alt rock. She's got a penchant for the descending, galloping rhythms and themes ('Wake up', 'You oughta know') which makes her tracks instantly recognisable. At uni, so many of my peers were already writing about "the death of the album" - streaming services were already killing album sales and people's attention spans. Thankfully JLP was released early enough to escape that fate - it was released in 1995 and we were still singing it at the tops of our lungs throughout the 2000s and beyond. 'Mary Jane' is the sleeper hit for me - not the most famous track but I have a soft spot for it.

Love Alanis!!

As a teen boy in the 90's I was obliged to hate this album and anger 3 at people that liked it. Which just does that teenage boys are idiots. So many great songs and a genuinely good singer. Her backstory is interesting and with checking out, although depressing how little has changed in the industry

Listen to this all the time.

Classic

easily a 5-star album for me - one of my favourite albums of all time, getting it as my "album of the day" was so fun! i got to re-listen to some of my favourite songs and came to realization why i love this album so much. it's perfectly raw, honest and unfiltered. angsty both in music and lyricism and yet so fun! i listen to "jagged little pill" everytime i want to revive emotions which were swept under the rug and this listen truly grounded me in my perception of the album as just a phenomenal piece of music!!

Not the most diverse or well-flowing album imo, but there's far too many bangers on this one disc not to give a 5/5. Faves: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know, Hand in My Pocket, Forgiven, You Learn, Head over Feet, Ironic

Banger

One of my favorite albums. Such an amazing voice.

No notes

Loved it! Amazing melodies. She has a wonderful voice and this was such a creative leap forward for her. Banger of an album!

A raw 90’s grunge sound. Very kat Stratford, very grunge rock, very teenage girl

Incredible album, so replayable, makes me feel like I’m the main character in a early 2000s movie

This album is like letters your therapist told you to write… but didn’t expect them to be made public. I think it’s also one of the best and most interesting albums of the 90s, an unleashing of emotion, a protest against abuse, and sometimes the sound of being set free. So many famous songs here but don’t miss the (few) deeper cuts, especially: “Perfect” — “We’ll love you / just the way you are / if you’re perfect” “Not the Doctor” — “I don’t wanna be the glue that holds your pieces together / I don’t wanna be your idol / See, this pedestal is high and I’m afraid of heights” 5/5

she is an icon!! I love her

A very important album for so many people. Raw energy, anger and a sincerity that rings through

Amazing

I've listened to this album many times before, love you oughta know so muchh

Good memories, always loved this album!

Such a forever relevant album. So raw, honest, and connected. No skips.

Iconic for a reason. Raw, emotional, and catchy.

Alanis Morissette – *Jagged Little Pill* (Maverick/Reprise, 1995) In-depth review – lyrics, music, production, themes, influence, pros & cons -------------------------------------------------- 1. Snapshot -------------------------------------------------- Released 13 June 1995, the 32-million-selling blockbuster that turned a 20-year-old Canadian ex-dance-pop singer into the poster-child for post-grunge female rage. Written with producer Glen Ballard in a lightning 20-day burst, recorded mostly live in a bungalow in the Hollywood Hills, mixed by Chris Fogel, mastered by Ted Jensen. 12 tracks, 57 minutes, zero filler, one hidden acapella (“Your House”). Won 5 Grammys (including Album of the Year), stayed in the Billboard top-20 for 72 weeks, and is still the best-selling debut by a female artist worldwide. -------------------------------------------------- 2. Lyrics – the diary that became a generational mirror -------------------------------------------------- Voice Morissette writes in a stream-of-consciousness that is half confessional poet, half hyper-verbal teenager. She stacks internal rhymes, bends syntax (“It’s a black fly in your chardonnay”), and lets sentences spill over bar-lines until they feel breathless and unsafe. The effect is that every song sounds like it was written minutes after the event it describes. Themes - Betrayal & rage (“You Oughta Know”) – the song that re-claimed female anger from the “crazy ex” cliché and handed it back as high art. - Spiritual hypocrisy (“Forgiven”) – Catholic-school PTSD set to a 7/4 riff. - Irony of modern comfort (“Ironic”) – a meta-joke that lists situational bummers while literally mis-defining irony, thereby becoming a pop-culture case-study in irony itself. - Self-sabotage & perfectionism (“Perfect”, “All I Really Want”) – the first major-label album to articulate high-achieving-girl burnout. - Codependency (“Hand in My Pocket”) – a balancing act of opposites that became a Gen-X self-help mantra. - Survivor’s guilt & empathy (“Mary Jane”) – a lullaby to an anorexic friend that never moralizes. Language She swears, but never gratuitously; the profanity is always at the exact moment the wound opens. She also coins phrases that felt new in 1995: “You scan the credits for your name and you’re surprised when it’s not there” – a line that predicted influencer culture 20 years early. -------------------------------------------------- 3. Music – grunge chords, yoga breaths, hooky as Motown -------------------------------------------------- Harmony Most songs are built on four-chord loops (I-IV-vi-V or variants) but Morissette modulates keys upward (“You Learn”, “Head over Feet”) to mimic emotional escalation. Modal mixtures (♭VII, ♭VI) give the progressions a darker, post-grunge edge without ever abandoning pop cadences. Rhythm Ballard drags the click track slightly behind the beat, so even the rockers swing. “All I Really Want” is in 6/4 but feels like a skipping hip-hop groove; “Forgiven” toggles 7/4-4/4-6/4 without the listener noticing. Drummer Gary Novak plays rim-click verses that explode into full-kit catharsis – the sonic equivalent of swallowed rage finally vomiting out. Melody Verses sit in a low, speech-like register; choruses leap an octave or more, mirroring the lyrical move from rumination to scream. The interval of a minor 7th (“You-ou-ou-ou oughta know”) becomes the album’s signature hook – dissonant enough to sting, singable enough to stay. Dynamics Ballard’s rule: no cymbals in verse 1, no doubled guitars until chorus 2. The result is a natural crescendo that makes every chorus feel like the top of a roller-coaster you didn’t realize you’d climbed. -------------------------------------------------- 4. Production – expensive dirt -------------------------------------------------- Gear - Glen Ballard’s 1956 Gibson Les Paul through a cranked 1968 Marshall plexi – the guitar tone that defined “You Oughta Know”. - Mellotron flutes on “Mary Jane” to fake an orchestra without sounding like 1970s prog. - Shure SM57 on Alanis’s vocals even in the studio – the same mic she would later use on stage, so the record already sounds like a concert. Technique Tracks were cut live with bass (Lance Morrison) and drums (Novak) in the same room; guitar overdubs kept to two passes maximum. No autotune (didn’t exist), no quantizing. Ballard mixed vocals 2 dB hotter than contemporary rock records, forcing radio stations to broadcast every sibilant breath – intimacy as rebellion. Sonic signature Mid-range forward, almost no sub-bass below 60 Hz, hi-hat slightly dark. The master bus was pushed to −0.1 dBFS, giving the CD the loudest average level 1995 technology allowed; it clipped in places, but the distortion reads as passion, not incompetence. -------------------------------------------------- 5. Themes – a feminist bildungsroman in 12 chapters -------------------------------------------------- Side A (tracks 1-6) 1. All I Really Want – sets the bargaining stage: “I’m angry but I still want connection.” 2. You Oughta Know – rage as valid data. 3. Perfect – the seed of anger = impossible parental expectations. 4. Hand in My Pocket – provisional truce with chaos. 5. Right Through You – media / music-industry gas-lighting. 6. Forgiven – institutional religion as first betrayer. Side B (tracks 7-12) 7. You Learn – the pivot: pain as curriculum. 8. Head over Feet – first glimpse of non-toxic love. 9. Mary Jane – compassion for the other woman. 10. Ironic – acceptance of cosmic randomness. 11. Not the Doctor – refusal to be anyone’s savior. 12. Wake Up – integration: “I’m responsible for my own liberation.” The arc mirrors trauma therapy: hyper-arousal → narrative construction → meaning-making → agency. That a 20-year-old sketched the whole map in public makes the album feel prophetic rather than merely confessional. -------------------------------------------------- 6. Influence – the ripple that became a tidal wave -------------------------------------------------- Immediate - Opens the door for Meredith Brooks, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair’s white-label move into the mainstream, and later Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Halsey, Olivia Rodrigo. - Forces radio formats to retire the phrase “female rock” as a token category; post-1995, women are simply in rock. Business - Maverick Records – the Warner-affiliated label co-owned by Madonna – becomes viable solely on the back of this album, bankrolling The Prodigy, Deftones, Candlebox, and the *Matrix* soundtrack. Cultural - “You Oughta Know” is cited in at least three academic papers on third-wave feminism; the phrase “would she go down on you in a theatre?” enters the OED of pop slang. - The white tank-top / baggy pants / long hair aesthetic becomes the Halloween costume for “angry girl” for the next decade. Musical - Every post-1995 rock producer keeps a “Jagged Little” template: verses sparse, first chorus no drums, bridge goes half-time, final chorus double the guitars and add backing-vocal counter-melody. - The octave-leap chorus hook is cloned by Max Martin for Britney Spears (“…Baby One More Time”) – proving the technique works even in pure pop. -------------------------------------------------- 7. Pros – why it still rewards repeat listens -------------------------------------------------- 1. Unified emotional arc – rare for a multi-platinum record; no obligatory love song or radio jingle thrown in to placate the label. 2. Zero songwriting fat – every track has at least one melodic or lyrical hook that detonates on first contact. 3. Vocal performance – Morissette’s voice cracks, giggles, growls; you hear the body in real time. 4. Production choices age well because they are minimalist, not trendy – no gated-reverb snares, no 1980s synth pads. 5. Cultural durability – the lyrical concerns (imposter syndrome, spiritual deconstruction, online persona vs. private self) feel more 2025 than 1995. 6. Gateway drug to feminism – an album teenage boys stole from their sisters and later cited in women-studies papers. -------------------------------------------------- 8. Cons – the jagged little pills that are hard to swallow -------------------------------------------------- 1. Monochromatic dynamic range – every song ends louder than it begins; 57 minutes of perpetual crescendo can exhaust rather than uplift. 2. Ballard’s guitar tones – intentionally grunge-rough, but the mid-range congestion becomes fatiguing on earbuds or in the car. 3. Over-exposure – radio played six singles to death for five straight years; casual listeners can no longer hear the songs, only the nostalgia. 4. Privilege blind spots – a white, middle-class, thin, conventionally beautiful woman venting rage from a Hollywood bungalow can read as “first-world problems” to listeners facing systemic oppression. 5. Lyrics sometimes mistake volume for precision – “I recommend walking around naked in your living room” hasn’t aged into wisdom. 6. Lack of sonic variety – no ballad stays truly quiet, no experiment leaves 4/4 or diatonic harmony; after a decade of genre-hopping pop, the palette can feel small. -------------------------------------------------- 9. Verdict -------------------------------------------------- *Jagged Little Pill* is not a perfect album, but it is a perfect lightning strike: the moment when a private diary met a mass audience and rewrote the rules for how much truth commercial radio could handle. Its musical vocabulary is simple, its emotional vocabulary is not; the tension between the two created a new language for female anger that still hasn’t been exhausted. If you came of age after 1995, you have danced in its fallout whether you know it or not.

Recuerdo muy bien el momento en que salió “Ironic” de single, su vídeo y cómo no paraban de emitirlo y radiarlo. Me gustaba, pero no tanto como para seguir la carrera de Alanis desde ese momento. La cuestión es que siguió sacando singles de este álbum y yo incluso hubiera apostado por un par más de canciones. Yo pensé que sería una cantante de un solo disco y me equivoqué. Carisma y estilo propio tiene. Pero no le puedo poner el 10 porque he de reconocer que su voz me acaba poniendo algo de los nervios escuchándola de seguido. Artistaza, no obstante.

Iconic

Lives up to the hype, DEMOLISHES the hype even.

lowk fore, added like 3 songs to my playlist

Love

How can so many radio hits make up such a good concept album??

Nice

Día 3: DISCAZO de alanis morrissette, qué voz que tiene por favor, obsesionada con you oughta know

10 /10 . played this a lot .

I enjoyed this album for what it was. I knew about 3-4 songs off the album. I showed Erick “Hand in my Pocket”, that songs always makes me laugh. All in all very 1995. I don’t think I will listen to the full thing again but I can now say I’ve heard a full Alanís Morissette album!

Man, Alanis was angry. So angry. Probably the top break up album of all time. Not a single track isn't good, and quite a few of them are great.

Loved it.5/12 added to the playlist. Don’t know why, somehow the songs gave me Déjà vu. Really enjoyed all the songs and my personal fav was ‘you oughta know’ and ‘perfect’ 8/10

Allow me, stranger on the Internet, to share a personal story - When this album came out in 1995, it instantly became my mum's favourite. She had struggled with her mental health all throughout her teenage years and has always said that this album helped her through it. I believe she called Alanis Morisette her 'muse' at one point. Fast forward to my teenage years and I also struggled with my mental health, not to the detriment she did but it was still a struggle. I wished I had taken the time to listen to this album back then, I really think it would have helped me to work through all the emotions I was feeling. This album is raw and honest. It goes from upbeat anger to melancholy and then back to anger again with a few sort of happy songs. I love albums and artists like this and im happy to say that this album will be on repeat for the foreseeable. In a way I feel closer to my mother after listening. I can try and put myself in her shoes back in '95. Im a little annoyed it took me this long to listen but I'm glad I did. I do understand why people don't like it but perhaps, stranger whose reading this, you might think a little different if something similar occurred in your life.

I'm more of a Sarah McLachlan kinda guy but c'mon. Great album.

Je n’avais jamais écouté un album entier, mais je savais que c’était une artiste réf ! J’adore le côté pop rock folk un peu musique irlandaise par moment Sa voix a du caractère j’adore Plusieurs hits dans cet album

Timeless album

Love it! Discarded lovers; Carley Simon only had a song for Warren Beatie, whereas here Alanis had a whole album. Surely for her ex, it just Wrexham.

As a kid sharing a room with my younger brother who loved this - I “hated” it. But as a 43 year old Dad this hits different. It still slaps.

Wished I’d listened sooner. The only song I knew was You Oughta Know & Ironic.

makes me feel like an angsty teen again but also like I am the shit bc I am a woman and I have the audacity to live and exist

A long time favorite

Genre defining

Love. This. Album.

I find myself incapable of breaking down each track today, which is a shame because this album is incredible. I was a fan of what little I had heard of Morissette's work for years, but to spend intentional time with this album has further solidified that. Sometimes cited as the "teen of queen angst", it's a notion I agree with. This album feels like it is indicative of the 90s zeitgeist, a generation of people breaking away from their traditional 'boomer' parents and rigid way of thinking to experience something better, something that represented more freedom. Although considered alternative rock, it feels like there are shades of grunge in here too, carried beautifully by her voice throughout each track. "Ironic" has been picking me up for years, but I give that same love now to "Forgiven" and "Right through You". Amazing album, I want to listen to more Alanis Morissette. ******************************************************************************* With this album and the reviews of it, I've also realised that people that review albums negatively on this site never have anything to constructive to say. It's just rude and sometimes even hateful. Confusing, to show real distain for someone 95% of us have or will never even meet and get to know as people.

I have listened to this album a million times over the years. I bought a signed vinyl copy of jagged little pill at her concert, which started my vinyl collection!

Are you kidding me? I was 23 when this album was released. It was my life. This is the energy 2025 and beyond needs.

LOVE

One of my favorite albums of all time. No skips.

love, lots of hits

My mom would yell at me if I didn't give it five stars.

This album was so big it formed a good part of the soundtrack to my early teens, I probably listened to Alanis before I heard Janis or Joni so this would have been the first female singer songwriter I really listened to. For that reason I'm probably unable to be objective in any way but this is a straightforward 5

This album has so.many iconic songs that not only defined an artist, but an era and genre. The album has distinct phases from beginning to end all around the same theme of relationship. The vocals are amazing

Excellent.

I did not own this album back in the day, though like everyone, I knew each of its many hits. But I was really kind of blown away by how strong this is all the way through. Her voice is a wonder: it can do all kinds of things and she’s not afraid to make it really flawed, like, appropriately, on “Perfect.” The album is a template for the singer songwriters who came in her wake. No Taylor Swift without Alanis.

was für ein album! tolle songs, ironische texte - tolle stimme!

This seems like a moment in time where Morisette was able to connect up unlikely musical currents and create something really wonderful. Some songs start like typical coffee shop singer songwriter fare and then gain an unexpected edge by infusing pop grunge and raw female anger that borders a bit close to rap. It all feels very radio ready yet it also pushes some edges. I give her a lot of credit when for me the worst song on the album, Ironic, is a big hit. One of may hits the rest of which hold up really well. You Learn is incredibly beautiful to me.

Pretty epic

Easily one of the top 5 albums of the '90s, and it ain't 5th. While the rest of the women in music were singing Kumbaya at Lilith Fair, Alanis was pioneering bitch rock. The strength here is very obviously the lyrics, but the music was by the likes of Glenn Ballard and some weirdos named Dave Navarro and Flea. Never has a woman scorned been so eloquently conveyed through music. That's not hyperbolic: name one other female artist to lay all the emotions of a bad relationship so bare before Alanis did it. Now, check your list - weren't they all after this album? You don't get Adele or Taylor Swift without Alanis. And I still don't know of anyone waxing poetic about a bj in a movie theater. To the detractors in this project (and there are a frightening number of you): go eat a bag of dicks. I'm dismissing the children that can't be bothered to use capitalization and the incels who feel threatened by . . . well, everything. I'm mostly surprised by and disappointed in the Brits. There is a ton of hate in many of the review sections here for '90s American music (especially grunge); you call it whiny, depressing, and somehow both over- and under-produced. This hate is matched in volume only by the stains on your pants when reviewing bands like Radiohead, Oasis, and The Cure - which are exceptionally whiny, depressing, and somehow both over- and under-produced. Influence 5. Hits 5. Quality 4. Intangibles 4. I freaking loved and love this album 5.

There was a really beautiful 2 month period in the summer of 1995, before this album became the background soundtrack for any bar with an element of hipness, where it wasn't overplayed or a punching bag. This album rocks in ways very few do. It's a victim of it's own success and anyone who was around for it's rise and eventual 'fall' can attest to that. It's honest and revealing and sounds like the feeling of being a young adult in 1995. It's still fucking great.

*1995. *I love this album. Pretty much perfect. RATING - 9/10

Ótimo do início ao fim e extremamente característico dos anos 1990. Um clássico, apenas com pontos altos.

Love it

Pleasant surprise! I didn’t realize how many of these songs I’d heard before

Peak 90s music. This is music your mom would listen to, what you would hear in most 90s movies, etc. masterpiece of the era

Divorce anthem

Clever, emotional, dramatic, and an earfull.

Was a great album when it came out and it's still a banger today.

Top album now, top album in the mid 90s. Her top tracks all here. I remember buying this album, I remember loving it and I know I still love it now. "You Oughta Know" remains my favourite from this album.

5/5, absolute banger. Alanis's music before this is entirely unrecognizable and Jagged Little Pill is so catchy, well-produced and such a departure from what came before as to obliterate it. It also represents a milestone in popular music -- her idiosyncrasies and directness spawned countless similar artists that record companies would try (sometimes with success) to match the appeal of one of Morissette's singles. The instrumental work backing the record is also spectacular, transcending the template-matching work of many pop sessions.

This album is just front to back hits with epic vocal performances over the top of some great 90s alt rock. Picking the best track is difficult, but I'll say All I Really Want. Out of the songs I didn't know, Not a Doctor and Wake Up were my favourites.

OMG, I absolutely loved listening to this album and knew it word-for-word despite not hearing it for perhaps 20 years! I saw Alanis Morisette in concert back in the day and still feel embarrassed thinking about the way she moved around the stage. She dances like someone with cerebral palsy stepping on a thumbtack.

Fabulous !

I mean come on. It's a classic!

Alanis Morissette was pretty ahead of her times in my opinion. Women, much less 20 year old women, didn't challenge the system. Her eff-the-patriarchy songs and style were revolutionary. Oh, and the album is pretty fantastic too.

I would argue without a doubt that this is one of the most important albums of the 90s, and the hit rate on this record is actually absurd. This is a perfect encapsulation of that incredible 90s angst, and Alanis’s voice is one of a kind. Best Track: You Learn

A much better Album than I remembered. Some really good songs, full of rage and emotion. The shouty lady did well.

Isn't it ironic that it's impossible to rate this album without the influence of my past relationship with it? A younger me heard her strong, angsty voice and lyrics and found powerful female anger and strength that was in opposition to what I felt society generally presented as acceptable. <3 Alanis

What a monster of an album. I know so many of these songs and this record was the background to my childhood.

several stand out songs and extremely good floor

If your playlist don’t got Alanis Morissette’s hit album Jagged Little Pill, then I don’t want to hear it

She's very clearly an angry, angry woman who has produced something brilliant. It's a 90's classic which probably needs to stay in the 90's.

Awesome album

ironicly iconic

It's fun to sit down and re-listen to this nugget of the 90's in full again. All the jokes about her music (remember the Alanis Morissette song generator websites?) are well deserved, and yet the album is filled with ear worms with great pop hooks. Hitting hard to begin and slowing down with Perfect, then lightening things back up with Hand in My Pocket. They thought about carefully about the album flow and not just making a collection of singles. She might have taught a generation to misunderstand irony, but she became some popular that I believe now she has made the word irony morph to her definition. How many popstars have redefined a common word to a new meaning? I posit Alanis stands alone with this feat. And for that, 5 stars.

Great album, no complaints

listening to Alanis Morissette will always make me think of my primary music theory professor. he loved her music and played songs from "Jagged Little Pill" a number of times in class. I have a vivid memory of him singing (in his heavy Brooklyn accent) and pantomiming along to "One Hand in My Pocket", doing the peace sign and everything. I think when the line about playing piano came up, he walked over to the piano in class and played a bit, too.

Definitely a fan

still a banger top to bottom

5 sterne

This album is everyone who was alive in the 90's and full of a bitterness poured into a sonic mold. The Ironic song that is not even about Ironic things is the weakest song on the album and that says a lot since it was a FUCKING hit. 5 Stars.

What can you say about this album - still sounds as fresh as the day it was released

It got overplayed at the time, but it's still a favourite. Powerhouse of an album! (I'm blissfully ignoring the harmonica parts)

This album is kind of ridiculous, but I can't help but love it. Alanis Morissette's vocals make this album stand out Favorite Songs: All I Really Want, Hand In My Pocket, You Learn,

So catchy

forgot how deep and good this record is, bought a vinyl copy after listening to it

To me, this is a pretty monumental statement of an album (turns out it wasn't actually her debut though) that captures such a wide range of emotions with a pile of pretty great songs. Part of this may be nostalgia for hearing so many of these songs ALL the time on the radio growing up (at least 6?!) but I do thing there is actually a lot going on musically that I love as well. You Oughta Know is such a behemoth vocal performance, but I think what really sets it apart are the quite/loud dynamics and Flea's awesome bass lines. On a full listen though, I think Forgiven might stand out as the best song on the album, both lyrically and musically, just a stunning song, even though it was never a single. My wife pointed out that there was a hidden track on the original CD that was just acapella and it's amazing as well. This album inspired a generation of female artists and has a well deserved place on many all-time best of lists.

An album very well known by me and my generation. The singles from this were everywhere. First time listening to the whole thing, though. She's got real range and a truly unique voice. I like some of her later material better, FWIW. Interesting to learn that she was more of a pop artist for two albums before this one. I guess angst sells! Truly groundbreaking album, all told. Earworms aplenty on this one.

Love this album. Already had half the songs downloaded!

I absolutely adore this album. It’s one of the few I’ve gotten on here that I own on CD. Something about this album perfectly encapsulates the 90s, I love everything about it. I know that Alanis is not the best singer, but it gives her music a distinct sound that I’ll never get tired of. Standout Songs: All of them!!!

This album goes so fuckin' hard. Probably the goat of the pop grunge-rock genre. Several iconic hits, and it has a consistent mood with a distinct artist sound.

I bought this when it was originally released solely for You Oughta Know. It is a great song. It's been a while since I listened to the whole thing and I had forgotten how great this album is. An hour of music that seems to take 15 minutes to listen to. A textbook example of catching lightning in a bottle. Exactly the right music released at exactly the right time. This is a masterpiece.

This album was of course ubiquitous in 1995 my freshman year of college, yet I only listened to the whole album for the first time fairly recently after getting into a latter-day Alanis kick. I liked the hits back then and I like them even more. I think I saw her as an industry plant back then, and maybe she was, but I don't give a shit now. Also I remember for a weekend in 1995 there was a widespread rumor that she died that I think made it across the whole country - ah life before the internet.

my god!!!!!

Sounds like freshman year. The angst hits different at 44. Stared at the wall for a solid 5 minutes after Mary Jane. I didn’t get it in ‘95.