Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged

Alanis Unplugged is the fifth album and first live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 9, 1999 (see 1999 in music). It comprises songs performed by Morissette on the television program MTV Unplugged. Twelve tracks were included on the album, but Morissette performed several others, including "Baba", "Thank U" (both from 1998's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie) and "Your House" (the hidden track on 1995's Jagged Little Pill), during her Unplugged concert. The first single, "That I Would Be Good", was moderately successful, and two other tracks, "King of Pain" (a cover of the song by The Police) and "You Learn" were released as singles outside North America. As of September 2008 the album has sold 646,000 copies in the U.S.[1]

In addition to material from Morissette's first two U.S. albums, Alanis Unplugged featured performances of three previously unreleased songs from her tours: "No Pressure over Cappuccino", "Princes Familiar" and "These R the Thoughts". Morissette has stated that "Princes Familiar" in particular is one of her favourite and most vocally challenging songs. She performed it on her 2005 Diamond Wink Tour, where she dedicated it to "all of the Dads in the audience". The ballad "No Pressure over Cappuccino", one of the first songs she wrote following the release of Jagged Little Pill, is presumably about the singer's twin brother, Wade.

Released	November 9, 1999 (1999-11-09)
Recorded	September 18, 1999 (1999-09-18) MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Genre	Alternative Rock, acoustic rock
Label	Maverick, Reprise
Producer	Alanis Morissette

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Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album (and the first to be released internationally) by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette. The album made a sharp turn in genre and style for Morissette from her previous dance pop sound. The title is a metaphor for lessons of life that are hard to accept and is taken from a line in the fifth single, "You Learn".

The album garnered great success, spending twelve non-consecutive weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart, and became one of three albums – along with Thriller by Michael Jackson and Falling into You by Céline Dion – to remain in the Top Ten for over a year.

The album had a slow rise up the charts, but four million copies were shipped in the U.S. during 1995, and in 1996 it became the best-selling album of the year, with ten million shipments. On July 29, 1998, the RIAA certified it 16× platinum.

It was the second-best-selling album of the 1990s, behind Shania Twain's Come on Over,[1] with twenty-eight million copies sold by 2000. By January 2005, the album had sold 30 million units worldwide.

In October 2002, Rolling Stone ranked it number 31 on its Women In Rock - The 50 Essential Albums list, and in 2003 the magazine ranked it number 327 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Released	June 13, 1995
Recorded	1994–1995 at Westlake Studios and Signet Sound, Hollywood
Genre	Post grunge Alternative rock Pop
Length	49:11
Label	Maverick, Reprise
Producer	Glen Ballard

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