Alanis Morissette - Live at the MTV Unplugged ...(only the best album review)

1 - You Learn

The explosion of applause that opens the CD always makes me excited, with "You Learn" Alanis opens this concert,, a familiar and intimate set for MTV. In "Jagged Little Pill" (where this song originally figure), this song is played by an Alanis telling her listeners: whenever you learn with your mistakes. In this unplugged, and amazingly without changing a single word the letter, only with a quite different interpretation, Alanis tells us "I went through it, and learned." It's amazing.

2 - Joining You

This song is essentially the pressure that society makes on its members to think according to the same standards. "Free" minds seem to have a tendency or to wither and die sagging under the weight of the standards, or decide to end their lives ... Here Alanis tries to keep an open mind to lose ...

3 - No Pressure Over Cappucino

I can never stop listening to this song without thinking of several people who walked by my life. People who claim to be the masters of reason, these people will always be alone ... that's "No pressure over cappuccino"

4 - That I Would Be Good

What is love?

When two people love each other, that love is dependent on the physical beauty (which is ephemeral), wealth (which is material), the physical distance between two lovers (which is unsurpassed if not by the physical barrier, certainly by force the love you feel)?

"Will you love me anyway?" Alanis sings the question in a hurt tone. Once again the thrill of this lady's voice brings tears to the eyes of any heart.

5 - Head Over Feet

Want to know what women feel when they realize they are in love? "You've Already Won Me Over, In spite of me, and Do not Be Alarmed if I fall head over feet, and do not be surprised if I love you, for All That You Are, I Coudn't help it, it's all your fault. "

More words? for what?

6 - Princes Familiar

This song is a manual for what women look for in a man ...

7 - I Was Hoping

The cynicism and materialism of Western society: those who advocate animal rights and then walk with fur coats, people who say they worry about world hunger and then ride cars that could feed an African village for at least a year, couples who say at church altar "love, respect, until death do us part" and then only if abuse and neglect, leaving by the wayside who exchanged vows supposedly forever ...

8 - Ironic

When you finally think your life is as you wish ... sharannnnn! There is a small (or maybe not) setback to teach you that we have to fight for what we want in life ... the opposite: they think that your life sucks, and that somewhere in the middle of a storm there's always a ray of light to give you hope.

9 - These R The Thoughts

Another song that I identify 100% ... when I'm home alone with nothing to occupy myself, everything and nothing on my mind ... doubts, certainties, memories ...

10 - King Of Pain

Listen to this brilliant cover of the Police ... a delight!

11 - You Oughta Know

The explosion of anger which appears on the debut album for Alanis is here and this interpretation adds some more of "revenge is served cold"-like attitude. Alanis almost whispers the state of agony, anger and pain that is going on, which I think becomes much more effective at getting the message of the song.

12 - Uninvited

Have you ever tried to fight against a feeling that both crave? I have, and I look back on me 100% this letter every time I fall in love. Sometimes it is possible to overcome temptation, others do not ... I draw your attention to the masterful arrangements of this song, which begins a harmless stone to glide gently down a slope, and then becomes an avalanche.

The piano arrangements as well violins, guitars, ethnic instruments do give you even more color and warmth to this fabulous concert available through Alanis Morissette' "Live at the MTV Unplugged".

Alanis Morissette - vocals, guitar, harmonica and flute

Nick Lashley - guitar

Joel Shearer - guitar

Deron Johnson - keyboards, background vocals in "King of Pain"

Chris Chaney - bass

Gary Novak - drums and percussion

Brad Dutz - percussion

David Campbell - musical arranger and viola

Suzie Katayama - cello and string arrangement for "You Oughta Know"

Joul Derouin - violin

Laura Seaton - violin

Erik Friedlander - cello

Juliet Haffner - strings contractor