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1.Put your iTunes on shuffle and write down the first 25 songs you get.

2. Take the first line from the first song, the second line from the second song, third line from the third song, etc. and put them in order below to make your scrambled song.

3. If the song doesn't have enough lines, loop back to the beginning; like if you need the 22nd line but the song only has 15 lines, you start counting again with the first line and use line 7.

1. Every Word I Say
2. Love To Love Me Back
3. If I Fail
4. Save Me

5. I Will Come To You
6. Rooftops
7. Mean
8. Thinkin' bout something

9. No Surprise
10. Give It Up
11. Open Arms
12. Freaks In Love

13. Voice in the Chorus
14. Scars
15. Just Like A Pill
16. Invisible

17. Calm Under The Waves
18. Open Your Heart
19. The Way I Am
20. Go

21. Give Me A Sign
22. It's My Life
23. Somebody Kill Me
24. This Time Around

25. You Oughta Know



You feel like liberation
Even piece it together
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Such Indie Pop stylings are usually not Astrolabe's normal cup of tea, but New Zealand's Gotye (like Gaultier) shines on this slice of quirky break up pop, Somebody That I Used To Know

A raw and honest local lyrics about a relationship gone bad, that is subdued on the verses, then goes full out Peter Gabriel on the heart on your sleeve chorus from a relationship that goes from intimacy to icy detachment

Fellow New Zealander Kimbra joins on the second verse.

Think of it as the the adult and mature version of Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know

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As a kind of summary of my listening and reviewing activities of the past weeks, I would like to make a ranking list of the studio albums of Alanis Morissette. Some of the songs and albums are long time favourites, while others are just recently discovered. This list just shows how I think about them today, and may change over time.

1. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
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It was hard to make a choice between this album and the number 2, because I love them both so much. At the moment, this album wins. It is a dark and experimental album with very great epic lyrics.
Best tracks: Thank U, That I Would Be Good, The Couch, I Was Hoping, So Pure, Joining You

2. Jagged Little Pill (1995)
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Her very strong international debut album, of which millions of copies were sold over the past 15 years. A pure and original album about very personal feelings and thoughts. …

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Acoustic

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At first I had some doubts if I really wanted to buy this album, because it contains exactly the same songs as the 'normal' Jagged Little Pill and I thought it made no sense to have just another copy of it. But I am glad I did! I bought it in January of this year (2011). For this album Alanis recorded acoustic versions of all songs of Jagged Little Pill, 10 years after the release of the original album. To record this album she went back to co-writer Glen Ballard and the same studio where she recorded Jagged Little Pill. In interviews published on her website you can see how strange and emotional this was for her, going 10 years back in time, to where it all began. But the result is very good, I really like it. You can hear how her voice has evolved and matured during the past 10 years which brings more vocal variation in the songs. Some of the songs are really much better than the original ones…

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 - Jagged Little Pill

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I think this was the fourth or fifth album I owned, but I am not completely sure. I bought it somewhere around 1998 or 1999 I think. I finally had the money for it, because I started working in a supermarket on Saturdays. My memory of the songs and my love for Alanis Morissette came from the years before. It all began in 1996 when I started listening to the radio more often and recording the songs that I liked on tape cassettes. I fell for that special, unique sound of her voice, so different from the ordinary. Ironic was her most popular song at that time. I really loved that song! It was followed by Head Over Feet. Hand In My Pocket is also a song I remember from that time, but this wasn't such a big hit in the Netherlands I think. These three songs are so connected to that period of time and that part of my live, that they will always be dear to me and give me that nostalgic feeling. …