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Markus K. Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Dec. 17 2007, 13:36 I'm starting to like Alanis again. Never really disliked, but after enjoying the 1st album didn't care much about, until I recently bought "So called chaos". Anyway...I found this cover of the Black Eyed Peas song both hilarious and beautiful. Hmm...I suddenly feel like listening to Dvorak's 9th...strange... Now how do we get her to make a cover version of "Surfing"? -------------- --- Markus K. Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Dec. 17 2007, 15:41 I was very keen indeed, and thought that the last proper album (So Called Chaos) showed some very interesting new developments. She even had a new haircut, suggesting a kind of reinvention of who she was. But then suddenly she switched back - even started using hair extensions; her performances seemed to revert to a kind of copy of her earlier self, and she made some rather cringeworthy comments about certain marketing deals. Since part of her strong appeal for me had been her openness and sincerity as a singer/songwriter, I quickly lost interest. The acoustic Jagged Little Pill rapidly faded away after a mere two playings - it seemed to lack all the fire of the original. So I'm in a kind of Morissette doldrums at present. Back to top

Velodynamic Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: June 2006 Posted: Dec. 17 2007, 16:18 No offence - I just can't help smiling a bit at the A.M. Thank You parody. http://www.dailymotion.com/relevan....-me_fun Jagged Little Pill was a real slam out of the blue at its time and I have to admit I was really taken by that new sound for one year or so after the release. In her following albums I think she made 1 big hit in each one of them but the rest...   -------------- "...I've never seen a connection between music and politics. It's like trying to connect football with croquet." -M.O. Back to top

Silver Negus Group: Members Posts: 357 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: June 27 2008, 10:56 Alanis Morrisette.  There should be more female singer/songwriters like her. She did some good music videos too. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: June 30 2008, 08:01 I decorated my first house to Jagged.....Brilliant album! We do an Alanis song in my band.Striiped dowm acoustic version though.Check it out on Youtube (go to 1 kaliko1).Must get more thoough cos all i actually have is Jagged Little Pill.What would you recommend? -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: June 30 2008, 08:36 Metaphors & Irony Alan Morris Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: June 30 2008, 08:53 Very good Dirk. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: June 30 2008, 09:40 Aaah I apologise Caveman..Just to prove that Alanis also has a good sense of humour have a look at this. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: June 30 2008, 18:40 Quote (Dirk Star @ June 30 2008, 08:36) Metaphors & Irony Alan Morris I don't think I've ever heard of this guy, but he made me laugh with the "town planner" and "spoons" stuff. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: July 01 2008, 02:59 It was Irish comedian Ed Bryne,and that Alanis Morrissette/Ironic routine has kind of become what he`s most famous for now.There`s a longer version of it somewhere where he refers to her as Alan Morris,hence the name change there.So Alanis was once asked apparently that the Irony of the song Ironic is that it contains absolutely no Irony whatsoever.To which she replied "yes it is"..Although if you look it up on wikipedia they do point out that it contains numerous examples of "Cosmic Irony."..Which maybe in theory is kind of like saying Mike Oldfield`s Music Of The Spheres is a Cosmic Classical album.A little bit of earthbound sarcasm for you there.Or for those people who are perhaps uncomfortable with that kind of base humour:Cosmic Satire. Anyway minus a million points for me here for not seeing that that Black Eyed Peas thing had already been linked...Doh!.I must confess I`m not overtly familiar with a lot of Alanis Morissette`s back catalogue apart from the odd single here and there.Of course even if you`d been living in a cave in the outer hebrides you still would`nt have been able to escape all the airplay the singles off Jagged Little Pill got.I think I quite liked "Ought To Know" the first hundred times that I heard it.Although to be frank I never really took to the way she sang "Thea-taar" Even if it was done "tongue in cheek"   Due to the job I had at the time were the radio was on all day and every day.It felt like that album was getting rammed down my neck for months on end.So I have to admit I`m probably totally biased towards her as a result of that.Kind of ironic really,in a cosmic sort of way. Back to top

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