Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill Vinyl LP

Why you'll love it

Jagged Little Pill won the Grammy for Album of the Year, spent 12 weeks at No. 1 in the U.S. and has sold around 33 million copies. "You Oughta Know," "Ironic," "Hand in My Pocket" and "Head Over Feet" are all here, from Ottawa's own.

This edition

Maverick / Reprise pressing (cat# 8122797168)
Original 12-song album, co-written and produced with Glen Ballard

About the album

The world outside of Canada didn't really know "Too Hot"-era Alanis, but it seems silly in hindsight that the emergence of the "adult" Alanis Morissette and Jagged Little Pill in the mid-1990s was initially viewed with suspicion by observers on both sides of the border intent on excavating her dance-pop past.

People grow up, losers. And Morissette grew up in spectacular fashion on Jagged Little Pill, a masterclass in three-dimensional femininity (wounded and vulnerable one minute, vengeful and tough as nails the next, honest all around) that's struck a sufficiently deep chord with listeners both male and female to move a whopping 33 million copies worldwide since its unassuming arrival on June 13, 1995. Whatever alchemy she and producer and co-songwriter Glen Ballard were messing with when they made this thing, it conjured nothing but hit after hit after hit: "You Oughta Know," "Ironic," "Hand In My Pocket," "All I Really Want," "Head Over Feet" and "You Learn" are all ringin' through your head right now just from reading the titles and you know it. You can't fight this one.

Katy Perry calls it "the most perfect female record ever made," while no less an authority on top-shelf pop music than Benny Andersson of freakin' ABBA told The Guardian that Jagged Little Pill is one of the top 10 pop albums of his life, "alongside Rumours and Hotel California." Again, you can't fight this one. Just give into it.

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