Alanis Morissette

MTV Unplugged

Please forget the professional reviews...

Review Score:

(8/10)
One thing I could not understand was the bad reviews this album got from professional critics.

Some of them trashed it saying "it is too early for Morissette to do an Unplugged". Why is is so? Sheryl Crow did hers very early in her recording career, and so did the late Stevie Ray Vaughan

I'm not saying here that the album is fantastic. It is not. However, it is a departure from the strange "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" released last year. I am unable to listen to that album too frequently, but her debut release and Unplugged sound fine to me to the point of listening to both of them straight.

Of course, Alanis is no Clapton. She lacks,at 24, the maturity of creating whole new versions to her songs. "Head Over Feet" and "Uninvited" don't sound much different than their studio versions. Only "You Oughta Know" and "Ironic" used the Unplugged 'sound'to enhance it differently for the listening public.

The new songs, are very welcome to the ear. This writer specially loved her version to Sting's "King of Pain" (actually, that's how I learned of the existence of the album), and my wife is an inconditional fan of the lyrically meaningless(but musically rich) "No Pressure Over Cappuccino"

I'd say that this is an Alanis album that surely does a repair job on her image after "Junkie", which few fans were able to enjoy as fully as "Jagged Little Pill". The overall sound is great too, even though it is sometimes hard to understand what she mutters between songs. She was certainly not used to the acoustic setting

Bottom line: A great album, even if the listener is not a fan of Alanis Morissette.

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