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It was 13 years ago, but when I spin Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill I realize just how classic an album it really is. A classic album can be identified when its sound really defines a time in our lives. Whether or you liked Jagged Little Pill or not, there’s no denying it provided the soundtrack to 1995, 1996 and some of 1997 and beyond based on its big singles alone.
It was positively monumental in its success. Only Thriller and Falling Into You (that’s Celine Dion) managed to stay in our fickle imaginations long enough to keep an album in the Billboard Top 10 for more than a year. A year. Think about all the great songs and albums that burned brightly for weeks or even months and then faded away as quickly as the rose. Jagged Little Pill was a Top 10 album for longer than it takes to conceive and give birth to a child. According to the Wikipedia (citing Media Traffic), the album is the tenth best-selling album of all time and through 2005 has gone 30x platinum (that’s U.S. platinum, or one million units sold). This album swept across the world like a virus before the Internets.
There are many noteworthy tracks on the album. Let’s bring the memories back with “All I Really Want,” one of my favorite.
Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
Filed under: Classics, Music Tagged: | Alanis Morissette, Rock
