My original ‘Jagged Little Pill’ CD just about plays, skipping on a few tracks due to the scratches where it has been played so much over the years. One of my favourite albums ever, makes this a hard choice to recommend just one of its tracks. But right now, it’s ‘Forgiven’ and brace yourself cos this one gets real deep.
Producer Glen Ballard, who has worked with such an impressively diverse catalogue of artists before and after working on ‘Jagged Little Pill’ (Katy Perry to The Corrs, No Doubt and Annie Lennox to yes, Curtis Stigers!) creates such a haunting sound to what is so obviously a fragile topic for Morissette.
Alanis’ vocals are incredibly menacing, if ever you wanted to hear someone sing with such pure (and in this case) almost venomous and raw emotion, this is such an example. The winding, twisting barbed wire of a bridge builds to the epic chorus where those famous powerful lungs kick in – right in your stomach.
And as for the middle eight...wow. I don’t think comparisons, clichés or descriptions could even do it justice. Just listen.
Alanis Morissette, how I miss you so.
From the album ‘Jagged Little Pill’ (1995) / @morissette
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