Alanis Morissette - Flavors Of Entanglement

Ick

Alanis is the bomb, but this album bombs. Her voice is completely buried by an atrociously arranged, synthetic beat. It's sounds like Alanis was asked to create the soundtrack to a Mario Bros game--Super Morisette Brothers. As for the title, Flavors of Entanglement? The only flavor here is cotton candy. Kate Perry's album feels more real, and that's really saying something. November 18, 2008

CD Review

Happy with the product, howvever original shipment was lost in transit and it took three times as long to recieve it as it should of. November 2, 2008

A couple good songs.....

Well, this album definitely did not meet my expectations. "Jagged Little Pill" in my opinion is still undoubtedly her best album ever. Some songs on this album fit in the electronica genre. I think she should stick to the rock genre. I guess this album would appeal to a new group of fans and lose some of her old ones. The good songs on this that are worth a few more listens are:

4. Versions Of Violence
5. Not As We
7. Moratorium
8. Tapes

Love the album cover though....
October 26, 2008

Alanis' New Album

As an accomplished orchestral performer with graduate degrees in music performance, I have always been impressed with Alanis' unique approach to popular music.

It's my personal belief that she is one of the few entertainers in popular music who actually sounds like a musician:) She obviously realizes that with the simpler fundamentals of popular music, she has less expressive musical devices to work with. It is most impressive that she is able to take this limited palette of devices and accomplish so much, in terms of musical expression.

She has an excellent command (and understanding) of the chord progressions, and uses them to her full advantage. It's really nice to hear someone in popular music understand what's she's doing musically, at all times. In my opinion, this is the greatest popular music achievement in a long time. It would be a shame if she didn't win a grammy....I wish that popular music wasn't judged almost solely on the basis of whether it's fun on not.
-Eric October 24, 2008

Reinvented, rediscovered, reengineered Alanis

I think most of the people concerned about Alanis Morissette's music is the deviation from album to album. You definitely won't get the harmonica solos from her CDs after year 2000. On this album Flavors Of Entanglement, Alanis and her manager experimented a variety of sounds. From the gothic rock riffs to piano Ballard, from RnBish to radiohead's experimental.

I appreciate this album a lot. The opening track 'citizen of the planet' is my favorite track. I got the same feeling when I first listened to 'Baba' from her 2nd album. Very loud guitar riffs. But this time it's even louder and meaner. I was jumping on my chair, way too excited :D

Second promotion track is 'In praise of the vulnarable man'. A well laid out song with a message. Lovable chorus, the bridge is a killer. You cannot miss this.

This album has more elements from 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' than any others. I think the majority of the songs are up to her standard. It's not something she wrote randomly. I was little disappointed on her last two albums 'Under Rug Swept' and 'So-called Chaos'. Both CDs got some really boring songs. Now I'm back listening to her music again. It sounds nice and fresh.

Her new band members are not bad. A funkier drummer is replaced. See them play live. You'll be surprised by how the songs sound on s stage. October 6, 2008

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