One of my ultimate favourite artists, she has an amazing and unique voice, writes fantastic and harrowing lyrics! I love all of her albums, she's earned a place in my all-time favourites!

Some of my favourites:

Tapes
Citizen of The Planet
Torch
Orchid
Madness
Not All Me
Excuses
Everything
Are You Still Mad
Front Row
Baba
Narcissus
Flinch
Precious Illusions
Human Touch
Too Hot
Simple Together
Head Over Feet
You Oughta Know
...........

Just too many!!

Who else loves a bit of Alanis!! She's coming back this year apparently too!!!!!

It never got better than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR6mEu5-egA

Precious Illusions is my favourite from Alanis, and I can't wait for the new album.

Was she better when she was sad and angry? Yes.
Is she still focking great? Yes!

Jagged Little Pill

Her best album, and don't think she will ever top it.

Lovelovelove the whole of Jagged Little Pill. Only heard it all last year. Had only heard a few of the singles before that. Every song is so good one of my favourite albums ever.

I also love Uninvited and Hands Clean.

Great Female Artist, love her voice and her songs.
Shame she only had one good album

She's so brilliant. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is one of my favourite albums ever and sometimes it surprises me how much influence her music has had on my own songwriting.

Over-listened to Jagged Little Pill but you can't deny it's class. There's so much power behind some of it's songs like Forgiven. I recommend checking out the acoustic version of that album she did for it's 10 year anniversary.

Huge fan here. I really wish she'd not take so long between albums (I know she's just had a baby). Anyway, can't pick a favourite but I love

Hands Clean
Flinch
Surrendering
Not The Doctor
Wake Up
The Couch
I Was Hoping
Joining You
No Pressure Over Cappicino
Precious Illusions
Wunderkind
Giggling Again For No Reason

agreed! it is a shame. the pressure to follow that up must have been immense.

I had You Oughta Know on repeat last week
Love the song x

And JLP is the second biggest selling album by a female in the history of music, only Shania twain's come on over sold more (40 Million+ JLP 33 Million+).

yeah, there does seem to be a pattern there. the follow ups weren't as good in both cases. i did love both these albums though. they also were also slow burners sales wise.

And both albums still selling now.

i would like to see these artists come back now after a long absence. both have had lots of different life experience now.

Remember though, Madonna was her boss at this stage. Alanis was signed to Madonna's Maverick Lable.

You are right to a degree – I think it was shared management of Alanis with Guy Oseary (Madonna’s long time friend/career guider) and yes she was signed to Maverick for the first 3 albums, then Madonna (ditched) sold Maverick back to Warner and Alanis along with it.

I’m not sure if Maverick is still going actually, but sales dipped for each album. I know there was some fall out as Alanis felt SFIJ wasn’t promoted as much as JLP – however I think it still sold about 16 million copies in the end – JLP was a one off and very hard to top.

In terms of Alanis I do think she is amazing and I have every album – although I am not sure how much influence Madonna had on her career – the whole point of Maverick was to sign raw talent and allow the artist to control the career rather than the label. I know Madonna turned up at some Alanis concerts, MTV unplugged for one.

Still – I’m not complaining – she still has the highest ever selling debut for a female – and the quality of her song writing and voice shines through…

Everyone says this but I can't help but disagree, it's a great album & has some stormers i.e. You Oughta Know etc but I personally don't think it's her best, I prefer both Supposed Former Infactuation Junkie & Flavors of Entanglement and possibly even Under Rug Swept! It's her lyrics that touch me, she writes great songs!

Has anyone seen her joke version of BEP 'My Humps'! LOL it doesn't suit her voice at all but the video is hilarious!

I love under rug swept...

Maverick was set up by Madonna, Freddy Demman and Guy Oseary. Freddy sold his share of the company.

If you look at the credits on Jagged Little Pill, it mentions Madonna and the influence of her all over the CD.

http://www.styletraxx.com/2007/08/ma...ck_records.php

i know Madonna was certainly thanked on the CD, along with Guy, but not sure about any actual influence from her?

^

I will find the interview where Alanis talks about Jagged Little Pill and post it on here.
She says Madonna had a huge Influence on her while making that album.

OK - I believe you...

I dont see any madonna influence at all in Alanis, totally different aritists, totally different music, worlds apart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQj2TvhvGQ

interesting interview where Madonna talks about Alanis, with Alanis watching...still searching for that influence though...

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is great, but I still prefer Jagged Little Pill. It deserved the success.