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| Artist: Alanis Morissette
Label: Warner Brothers Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 906
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 093624993544
EAN: 0093624993544
ASIN: B0014XCMVM
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Condition: Brand new sealed. In stock in our warehouse, and ships right now. 20% chance the case has a crack or two.
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 Seeing Her Live In Concert is Nothing More Than Noise September 23, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Alanis can write beautiful lyrics and melodies and perform them wonderfully on CD. But, don't bother to go see her in concert if you think your going to get that kind of experience. Her concert is noise, noise, noise. Her sound people should be fired for destroying her music. Buy the CD, skip the concert.
 Best CD since Jagged Little Pill September 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, let me say that I love Alanis Morissette. I think she is terrific, a true talent. Jagged Little Pill is one of my favorite CDs of ALL time. Having said that, all of the CDs she's released since then haven't been quite as good. That has now changed with the release of Flavors of Entanglement. This is easily one of the best CDs from Alanis in a long time. I like each and every one of them. An excellent choice.
A little Above Average August 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are some very favorable reviews of this CD and I liked it mostly too but I still expect more from a Morrisette CD.
The first few songs are forgettable - "Underneath", "StraightJacket" and "Versions of Violence".
"Not as We" is about the harsh end of a romantic relationship and it very good and pure:
"Day one day one start over again
Step one step one
I'm barely making sense for now
I'm faking it I'm pseudo making it"
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"From scratch begin again but this time I as I
And not as we"
"In Praise of the Vunderable Man" is much more like Alanis - talking about her relationships with men and it's fun sounding.
"Moratoriam" is back to the techno sounding stuff and I don't like it.
"Torch" is ballad about, again, remembering someone she was romantically involved with (I assuming Ryan Reynolds). It works as it's pure Alanis singing about her emotions.
The last three are good as well, mostly about renewal after the relationship is over and trying to move on, and could of been placed at the start of the CD.
"Tapes" is very good.
"I'm but thorn in your sweet side"
"You are better off without me"
"It'd be best to leave at once"
I find she is at her best writing about emotions - anger, sadness, fondness and love.
Her best since Jagged Little Pill August 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is her best work since Jagged Little Pill. Some her latest stuff has been a little weird, but not this one. It is great!
Delicious Flavors July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probably my favorite album by Alanis and at four years since her last one, well worth the wait. Combining Alanis's rock sensibilities with techno courtesy of producer Guy Sigsworth who has previously worked with Madonna and Bjork, this is a masterful work of art. My favorite tracks include the Mid-Eastern/Indian flavored "Citizen Of The Planet" (sample lyric- "I am a citizen of the planet. My president is kwan yin. My frontier is on an airplane. My prisons: homes for rehabilitating.") which I totally relate to. John Lennon's "Imagine" shares this sentiment in that rather focusing on what country one pledges allegiance to (which is all about division), we instead align with all humanity and love this Good Earth without the boundaries. The strings on this song (arranged by Sigsworth and Fiora Cutler) are incredible, sending an already fantastic song into the stratosphere. "I get giddy" indeed. If you liked "Baba" from "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" and the title track of "So-Called Chaos", you'll love "Citizen". The angst-ridden "Straitjacket" is one of the songs here that you'll want to (in Alanis's words) 'dance your face off' to. Great beat, more great lyrics that are nakedly personal, and I love the treatment the word 'straitjacket' is put through, giving the song just the right touch of insanity. "Versions Of Violence" gives me goose bumps in its depiction of a relationship that could be interpreted as either personal or universal. I love the way Andy Page's synth bass threads through the song.
After a deluge of sound from the first four songs, "Not As We" simmers the album down in just the right place. Basically just Alanis singing with piano accompaniment by Guy, this is perhaps the most personal and heartbreaking song on the album. But it also has a glimmer of hope reflected in the lyric "From scratch begin again but this time I as I and not as we" which makes it all the more touching. More hope and positivity comes in the form of the subtle beauty of "In Praise Of The Vulnerable Man" which also has a glorious string arrangement. Lyrically, "In Praise" seems to be a further exploration into the territory established in songs like "UR" and "So Pure" from "Junkie". "Torch" is another very personal song concerning Alanis's breakup with Ryan Reynolds. It's musically dynamic, going from relatively minimal instrumentation to full bloom and back again. This woman is fearless when it comes to documenting emotions and her art is richer because of this openess. Another ode to positivity and happiness, "Giggling Again For No Reason" follows. It's sort of a sister song to "Knees Of My Bees" from "So-Called Chaos" and allows Alanis to show a brighter side of herself before the intensity of the swirling "Tapes" which includes the priceless lyric "All these thoughts in my head aren't my own wreaking havoc". The song ends with Alanis singing in an upper register that is heavenly. "Flavors" ends perfectly with the upbeat "Incomplete" with swirls of gorgeous background vocals and other nice flourishes of sound courtesy of Andy Page's 'sound design'. I don't know if it will offend many of her fans but I dig Alanis's perception of God as female in this song. In this white male-dominated nation, I find this notion refreshing and share it with Alanis.
"Flavors Of Entanglement" shows Ms. Morissette continuing to grow as an artist. Girlz Rock!
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