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Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Image
Metascore
40

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6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings

  • Summary: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut, 'Jagged Little Pill,' the Canadian singer-songwriter has re-recorded all of that album's songs using acoustic instruments. (It's certainly easier than writing new songs!)

Top Track

Ironic
An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a death row pardon two minutes too... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 14
  2. Negative: 6 out of 14
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Though pretty, the stripped-down treatment... is mostly free of innovation, softening rather than sharpening the originals' enjoyably jagged edges. [17 June 2005, p.79]
  2. Q Magazine
    60
    A nice enough idea, but being much quieter and more pastoral, it is also somewhat anti-climactic. [Aug 2005, p.128]
  3. For a woman who once used lyrics to shock listeners, there's nothing terribly shocking about this new CD.
  4. Mojo
    40
    A second rate version of the original. [Sep 2005, p.102]
  5. Like Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II and Meat Loaf's Back Into Hell, it doesn't so much play as fall out of the speakers with a flump: the sound of a towel being thrown in.
  6. Uncut
    30
    It was the anger and angst of a jilted 20-year-old that gave the original songs their edge--something entirely absent from these blandly matured acoustic versions. [Aug 2005, p.90]
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    0
    In the end, this can't even make you feel angry; just desperately sad. [16 Jul 2005, p.50]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 37
  2. Negative: 17 out of 37
  1. PatrickK
    Jul 28, 2005
    10
    Everyone is on here saying "oh, Alanis lost her edge", but that isn't the point, it is acoustic, it is calm, and it is showcasing the Everyone is on here saying "oh, Alanis lost her edge", but that isn't the point, it is acoustic, it is calm, and it is showcasing the music and the past. Expand
  2. mark
    Oct 27, 2005
    10
    A classic.
  3. Apr 18, 2022
    10
    Uno de los mejores álbumes de la historia. Alanís se convirtió en leyenda.
  4. Bna
    Sep 16, 2005
    6
    I was a HUGE Alanis fan of "Jagged Little Pill". I love Alanis' easy to relate to music and her bitter, angry edge. I wasn't overly I was a HUGE Alanis fan of "Jagged Little Pill". I love Alanis' easy to relate to music and her bitter, angry edge. I wasn't overly impressed with the acoustic version at first. Right when she would hit an edgy part, she would almost immediatly soften it. Her voice has matured, as she has, and you can appreciate her wanting to show that.....But why touch a classic??? The original will remain in my cd player. Expand
  5. Drub
    Jul 27, 2005
    3
    wow, not good.
  6. KingInk
    Sep 14, 2005
    2
    Why did I listen to this utter drivel? It intrigues me that people give Alanis any credit for anything at all - ever - given that fantastic Why did I listen to this utter drivel? It intrigues me that people give Alanis any credit for anything at all - ever - given that fantastic artists such as PJ Harvey and Kim Gordon, let alone Marianne Faithful, were doing everything this whinger tries to do but does not even come close to doing. All of her albums are crap and boring, and now she's added a new one to her list. Expand
  7. rauljulia
    Sep 27, 2005
    0
    It was derivitive & pathetic the first time around and even worse now.

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