Alanis Morisette – Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Another Canadian singer-songwriter, who sprung to fame with this, her third actually, but who is counting, album.  This one sprung her into the stratosphere, half shouted, half sung – and a handful of profanities thrown in, with it’s angry revenge songs like ‘You Oughta Know’ and ‘Right Through You’ – and the slightly quieter ones like ‘Ironic’ (which is in fact an ironic song as most of the examples aren’t irony at all – buy hey, great song anyway) – and ‘You learn’…..it all felt new and a return to a rockier sound in the midst of dance music.  Alanis continues ranting or singing but none of her releases matches the ‘shock’ or success of this one.#