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Alanis Morissette - The Collection

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As I am planning to review all of the albums I own, I see no reason to skip the compilation albums, although it is hard to compare them to the 'normal' studio albums. I bought this album in March of this year (2011) to complete my own collection (!) of Alanis, but I already knew most of the songs. The album consists of 18 songs of which 13 were released on earlier albums, 4 came from soundtracks and other albums and 1 is the cover of Seal's Crazy, which was released as a single. I think it is always difficult to compile a 'best-of' album, especially when an artist have had many hits, like Alanis. According to Alanis (in the booklet) these songs are her favourites, at that time at least. Personally I would have chosen differently, I think.

The album doesn't contain any songs of the time before Jagged Little Pill.

From the album Jagged Little Pill, it contains the following songs:
Head Over Feet
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Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged

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One of the earlier albums in my collection. I bought it somewhere back in the year 2000, I think. I already had Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and I was very eager to hear more from her! For a long time these 3 albums were the only albums of Alanis I owned, because I didn't like her later work that much (at that time). I still consider these first 3 albums as her best work. MTV Unplugged is her first live album, consisting of songs of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, together with 3 new tracks (No Pressure Over Cappuccino, Princes Familiar and These R the Thoughts), a song she wrote for the soundtrack of the movie City of Angels (Uninvited) and a cover of The Police's King Of Pain (King of Pain). The songs were performed on the television program MTV Unplugged. Not the complete concert was included on the album, several songs were left off. …

Pure, crude love, in all its wildness and possessiveness - and, why not, violence?

How does it feel
To know that you are loved so much
How does it feel to be accepted
So completely
How does it feel to know that you
Mean everything to someone
How does it feel to know that
You're exactly what i wanted

How does it feel
To know that you are loved

I love you more than you can see
This is everything you are to me

Halou I'll carry you
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Listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide
voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time
the night is my companion, and solitude my guide
would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?

and I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
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