Retro Spins: Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

In the summer of 1995, Saturday and Sunday in my parents house were signified by my brother waking up the house to a blaring Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. I heard this album so many weekends over the course of the remainder of the year that I wanted to smash it by Christmas.

Even as I type this I can hear that guitar and harmonica intro of All I Really Want.

When the album first dropped, it was actually pretty okay. It was raw, edgy, angry...Everything the opposite of what I said about last week's Arrested Development. However, when you hear the same thirteen songs, sometimes two to three times a day every weekend for twenty-one weeks, it wears thin...Fast.

This Retro Spin is actually the first time I've heard the album since my brother finally retired it - which wasn't for a year or two after getting it. Hopefully enough time has passed that I can find some enjoyment in it...

...I can't. I really honestly can't.

As I start listening to it, I immediately noticed a couple things:

1) The album still grates on my nerves from being overplayed.

2) Alanis Morissette can't sing. She sounds like a yodeling donkey that's been kicked in the head. Her voice cracks and strains left and right throughout each song. It's almost shrill to my ears.

I made it to the one minute thirty second mark of song two before I said, "I just can't. I've had enough." I couldn't take it. I had to shut it off. The songs were coming off as a cross between whining and nagging - Two things I really have no patience for hearing and Morissette's grating voice wasn't helping matters.

It's a shame really. With how many accolades and awards this album has won, I want to feel like there's a solid album in there somewhere. I just can't bring myself to be subjected to finding out. I don't think I ever want to hear Jagged Little Pill ever again. 

I went ahead and let my brother know he'd thoroughly killed this album. He was pleased with himself.

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