Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (w/ guest Devon Moore)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Singer, songwriter, ukulele player Devon Moore from folk/pop/reggae band Fun While You Wait (fwywmusic.com) joins Bill And Brian to discuss Alanis Morissette's landmark international debut Jagged Little Pill (1995, Maverick). Alanis started her career as a Canadian teen pop idol, but shed that image, incorporating rock, grunge, and folk song styles into the confessional and starkly honest music on this album. Thanks to the success of several hit singles, the album sold over 16 million copies in the US. Devon relates how she discovered the album amidst her elder siblings' CD collection when she entered her early teen years, while Bill and Brian compare and contrast their own experiences hearing Alanis Morissette as a ubiquitous radio presence during their time in middle school. Brian, Bill, and Devon also discuss novice harmonica playing, grunge pop, supposed image-making, Flea being in his own world, Dave Coulier, a bit of a lesson on gating and comp'ing vocals, how Bill doesn't understand references to masturbation, the origins of Buddhism, why Brian's 7th grade was the worst, what irony really is, and a track by track review!

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0:00.0	I'm broke but I'm happy. I'm poor but I'm kind. I'm short but I'm healthy.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	I'm high but I'm grounded. I'm sane but I'm healthy, yeah. I'm high, but I'm grounded.
0:22.6	I'm sane, but I'm overwhelmed.
0:25.6	I'm lost, but I'm hopeful, baby.
0:29.6	And what it all comes down to,
0:33.6	you said everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine.
0:40.7	Because I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving a high-five.
0:49.6	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:53.4	And I'm Brian.
0:54.5	And today, as you just heard right there, what are we talking about, Brian?
0:58.4	We're talking about 1995's Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette.
1:03.7	That's awesome.
1:05.0	Yeah, it's about time.
1:07.4	So if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do hear every week is we take a different album of music and just talk about what makes it great.
1:15.2	We're going to talk a little bit about our personal connections with the music, and we're going to talk a little bit about the history of the artist and the production of the album before we get to a track-by-track review.
1:25.4	That sounds good to me.
1:26.7	Let's do it. But we're not going to do it alonetrack review. That sounds good to me. Let's do it.
1:27.9	But we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
1:29.9	Oh, no?
1:30.7	No.
1:31.1	We actually have a third person in the room with us right now.
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