Alanis Unplugged [Live]

 

 

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Alanis has out together a nice Unplugged CD. It's a great recording - has the real open ambience of a live performance.

Some thoughts on the tracks:
1. You Learn -A nice version, but not significantly different from the studio version.
2. Joining You - Beautiful vocal performance.
3. No Pressure Over Cappuccino - An interesting new song.
4. That I Would Be Good - GREAT song, very heartfelt. This song pulls you in and doesn't let go.
5. Head Over Feet - A nice version, but again, not significantly different from the studio version. I still think this song has one of the funniest harmonica parts ever.
6. Princes Familiar A song left off of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. I LOVE this song. Possibly my favorite song on this album.
7. I Was Hoping -Great performance.
8. Ironic A nice version, but again, not significantly different from the studio version
9. These R The Thoughts A song left off of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie . Alanis thoughts while alone. Haunting.
10. King Of Pain - A nice version, but Alanis doesn't really make the song her own,. I was hoping for more out of this one.
11. You Oughta Know A nice version, but again, not significantly different from the studio version
12. Uninvited - Heartbreaking. Beatuful.

I love No Pressure Over Cappucino after her rousing performance on Alanis Unplugged. You Learn, Head Over Feet, Uninvited and Ironic are excellent live. The only thing that irks me is that sometimes her voice doesn't hit the notes we hear on the album versions. Besides that, it's a great CD.

I started my Brazilian Valentine's day, 6/12/2000, by walking on my 50,000 inhabitants city streets all by myself. So I went to a CD store about 3 kilometers from my house and saw that red album with strange words, with a white-skin colour wrote on the singer's face. So I remembered her form all his success in 1995-1996 here in Brazil. All her videos on MTV were exaustively played here, in Brazil. Her studio version to That I Would Be Good was played more than 3 times in a morning on our main radio station. I recognized her face, her single and then other musics as the so-commented You Oughta Know. I bought that CD intuitively, without knowing how good it could be. So I brought it home, and I didn't have a cd player. My sister made me lend it to her and then lended it to another one, a friend of her. Twenty months later I could get it finally. So I started to listen to it as it was the world's only cd. Everytime. I got alanis.com and so all its lyrics, translated them into Portuguese, sent it to relatives and friends. Alanis' poetry, voice and mainly the marvelous unplugged songs (as Joining You, No Pressure Over Cappuccino and Uninvited) made me stay wondered by that magnificent kind of art. Alanis' unplugged was my first real contact with her opus. I think unplluged version of Joining You is the world's best song. I think this album is accessible to everyone, because heavy rock songs are translated into acoustic ballads, as the ones we would like to listen to when we are with our girl or boyfriend. Alanis' unplugged has been one of the most ones: perfect songs, perfect lyrics, philosophy, music, formal perfection in arrengements, feminism, percussion, violoncello and violins (...) and relationships turned into art. A perfect piece of art. Joining You (the second track) let its grunge form to become a perfect ballad song. The problems Ms. Alanis Morissette writes in that song are perfectly showed in unplugged version. She sings with extreme pain. When we listen to the studio version of the music, we think she is talking about someting she read on the newspaper. When we listen to her singing the unplugged version, we can experience the problem by ourselves. I can say it for every one of that tracks, but I stayed much time listening to the strange and exquisite Uninvited, one of the best ones, strong, fierce. Listen everyone to Princes Familiar, strange and full of good surprises, like Chinese food. You have to listen to to experience it. Listen accurately to Alanis' voice, try to realize her tessiture and her lyric singer's performance in No Pressure Over Capuccino, or the reshaping form of her big sucess, Ironic. You have to pay attention to her voice, it sounds like pain, happiness or funny things. She says that she spilled water over her clothes, she thanks her fans, and mainly she interacts with all her fans. More than a singer, Alanis is a kind of philosopher, not by trying to make new laws or explain things, but she analyses everything and shows us a own and important world. Thanks for reading.
Enjoy it so much!!!!!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Once of the better unplugged albums around for Alanis
"Alanis Unplugged" is one of the best of these stripped down live albums that have become more common in the last couple of decades. Read more

Published on Mar 1 2004 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

5.0 out of 5 stars Alanis at her best (possibly)
Unplugged is Alanis at her best. The more I listened to it the more I liked it. I was used to some of the songs sounding different from the studio recordings of them, but I... Read more

Published on Feb 15 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for any alanis fan
I find Alanis' lyrics to be humorous, thought inspiring, and the perfect combination to her individual songs. This cd was not one to disapoint. Read more

Published on Jan 14 2004 by Laura

5.0 out of 5 stars Alanis Morissette MTV Unplugged - Elegantly beautiful!
As Alanis was contemplating an Unplugged session she was thinking that 'You Learn' so much in life that in 'Joining You' I feel 'No Pressure Over Cappuccino' in this setting and... Read more

Published on Jan 1 2004 by K. Wyatt

4.0 out of 5 stars normally, i don't go for live discs, but...
I just downloaded this off Itunes (hey, it's cheaper and no shipping). The tracks I've listened to are just phenomenal -- the quality of the acoustics is really high and... Read more

Published on Dec 7 2003 by huntergrayson

5.0 out of 5 stars The best acoustic perform
First of all, I might say that this album is surely the best made of Alanis Morissette. She performs many songs fron the success "Jagged Little Pill" and many new songs... Read more

Published on Dec 6 2003 by Juan Sanchez

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome!
alanis can REALLY REALLY sing. u can't argue with that after u listen to this album. my mom thought alanis as a "hanus b*tch" (cuz of jagged little pill) lol. Read more

Published on Nov 12 2003 by Gimpster

5.0 out of 5 stars Alanis Live is a unique experience!
I'll first start by saying that I am an enormous fan of Alanis Morissette. She is one the greatest female singers of all time, her songs are superbly melodic, her vocals are... Read more

Published on Sep 12 2003 by Busy Body

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome cd!
This is such a great album - All the tracks are more than amazing!! My favorites are "Pricess Farmiliar", "These R The Thoughts", "You Learn", and... Read more

Published on July 12 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
The proffesional review was very unfair, this is a stunning album, with some amazing songs. Every alanis fan should have this album, each song has something different to offer,... Read more

Published on May 18 2003 by Theo

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