Suppose it's OK... (Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - Alanis Morissette)

Member Name: cswann

Product:	Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - Alanis Morissette
Date:	30/10/00 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: A few very good songs

Disadvantages: Too long, too wordy, too much like she's treating her listeners as her therapist

I am not a huge Alanis fan, and only bought this album because it was reduced to £3.99 or something. I think I was aware it had got some bad reviews, but quite liked the single "Thank you".

My overall impressions of the album are:
1. It is too long. At over 70 minutes, it ought to be good value, but not necessarily, because?
2. there are some pretty bad songs on here.
3. her voice sounds like a mix between Sinead O'Connor, and Margaret O'Hara (mid 80's singer, with amazingly emotional delivery - whatever happened to her?). Which is OK but I'd rather listen to Sinead O'Connor or Mary Margaret O'Hara.

The songs I like:
"Thank you" - catchy hookline, Tori-Amos-style introduction.
"Unsent" - love the tune, the words are less impressive (clumsy unsent love letters)
"Your congratulations" - stark Tori-Amos style ballad with a piano / classical music accompaniment.
"One" - this really could be a Mary Margaret O'Hara song.

The songs I always programme out on the CD player:
"Baba" - screaming / metal sound with choir-like backing vocals. That makes it sound good, but it's awful!
"Heart of the house" - English folk sound with trendy syncopated drum sound, but it just sounds like her voice can't handle it (intentional or not, I find it impossible to listen to)
"Would not come" - dance beat, metal guitars, awful choruses.

There are many Ok songs, too, such as "Joining you" which sounds like it could have been a substandard REM tune.

All in all, it seems to me that much of the album is experimental - something which I certainly would not condemn, and Morissette, perhaps more than many artists, did need to move on.
But I can still understand why I was able to buy the CD for £3.99 !
Only worth getting if you see it at that kind of price.

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