Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill was
Canadian singer/songwriter
Alanis Morissette's third album, released on
June 13,
1995 (see
1995 in music). Morissette's confessional lyrics and emotional vocals helped
Jagged Little Pill dominate the year's sound in music. It spawned six massively successful hit singles:
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You Oughta Know"
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Hand in My Pocket"
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All I Really Want"
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Ironic"
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You Learn"
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Head Over Feet"
Playing bass on this album is the
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Michael "
Flea" Balzary. A former member of the Peppers',
Dave Navarro, also features on guitar.
Jagged Little Pill won
Grammy Awards for
Best Rock Album and
Album of the Year. The record has sold 30 million copies worldwide (up to January 2006). Selling 14.5 million copies by 1999 in the United States, it is the third best-selling album by a female solo artist of the
Nielsen SoundScan era, behind only
Whitney Houston's
Bodyguard Soundtrack and
Shania Twain's
Come on Over. It spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the
Billboard 200 and 69 consecutive weeks in the top 10. This makes it one of only three albums to remain in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 for one full year (along with
Falling Into You by
Celine Dion and
Thriller by
Michael Jackson).
In 1998,
Q magazine readers voted
Jagged Little Pill the 19th greatest album of all time.
In 2005, Morissette re-released an acoustic version of the album,
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, on the tenth anniversary of the original album's date of release. This album was originally sold through
Starbucks' successful
Hear Music brand in an exclusive six-week deal that ended on
July 26,
2005. For the duration of this partnership, music retailer
HMV boycotted the sale of all of Morissette's catalogue.
(all songs written by
Glen Ballard &
Morissette)
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All I Really Want" â€" 4:44#"
You Oughta Know" â€" 4:09#"Perfect" â€" 3:07#"
Hand in My Pocket" â€" 3:41#"Right Through You" â€" 2:55#"Forgiven" â€" 5:00#"
You Learn" â€" 3:59#"
Head Over Feet" â€" 4:27#"Mary Jane" â€" 4:40#"
Ironic" â€" 3:49#"Not the Doctor" â€" 3:47#"Wake Up" â€" 4:53
Additionally, the CD version contains two unlisted 'bonus tracks'. At index mark #13, there is another version of 'You Oughta Know' with a heavier bass guitar, followed immediately by an un-indexed vocal-only recording of 'Your House'.
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Michael Thompson - Organ
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Glen Ballard - Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
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Taylor Hawkins - Drums/Percussion
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Benmont Tench - Organ
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Ted Blaisdell - Engineer
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Francis Buckley - Mixing
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Flea - Bass
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Basil Fung - Guitar
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Michael Landau - Guitar
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Lance Morrison - Bass
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Dave Navarro - Guitar
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David Schiffman - Engineer
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Gota Yashiki - Rhythm
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Alanis Morissette - Harmonica, Vocals
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Rob Ladd - Percussion, Drums
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Matt Laug - Drums
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Joel Shearer - Guitar
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Jolie Jones Levine - Production Coordination
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Chris Bellman - Mastering
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Tom Recchion - Art Direction, Design
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Victor McCoy - Engineer
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Chris Fogel - Engineer, Mixing
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Rich Weingart - Engineer
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John Patrick Salisbury - Photography
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
*1995 - The Billboard 200 - No. 1
*1995 - Heatseekers - No. 2
*1996 - Australia Top 40 - No. 1
*1997 - Top Canadian Albums - No. 7
| Billboard 200 Chart trajectory | | Week | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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| Chart position | 117 | 90 | 43 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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| Billboard 200 chart trajectory | | Week | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
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| Chart position | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
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| Billboard 200 chart trajectory | | Week | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 |
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| Chart position | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 29 | 29 |
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| Billboard 200 chart trajectory | | Week | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 |
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| Chart position | 37 | 42 | 42 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 79 | 73 | 83 | 81 | 85 | 94 | 87 | 84 | 90 | 81 | 95 | 97 |
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| Australia | 14x Platinum | | Austria | 2x Platinum |
| Brazil | 2x Platinum |
| Canada | 2x Diamond |
| Europe | 7x Platinum |
| Finland | 2x Platinum |
| France | Platinum |
| Germany | 2x Platinum |
| Netherlands | 4x Platinum |
| Norway | Platinum |
| Poland | Gold |
| Switzerland | Platinum |
| UK | 10x Platinum |
| US | 16x Platinum |
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