So-Called Chaos - Alanis Morissette
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  • Summary: The Canadian singer-songwriter returns with ten new songs, co-produced by Morissette with John Shanks and Tim Thorney.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. While there's nothing as irresistibly catchy as "Under Rug Swept"'s magnificent "Hands Clean", the overall impression, musically speaking, is one of freshness, optimism and energy. But better still, it's smart, and sussed, and frequently funny as hell.
  2. 60
    Her signature sound -- voice snarling through a tangle of massed guitars -- is here, but so is a softer, more vulnerable tone. The melodies, while radio-ready, have a stomping insistence.
  3. By track three, something awful is apparent.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 33
  2. Negative: 1 out of 33
  1. ixata
    10
    her least interesting album, but still a great album, its just her least... the album starts with the fast-paced 8 easy steps, a really catchy and high energied performance. however, this song really doesnt give you what the whole album is about. this is followed by the mid-tempo, quite poppish Out Is Through. Listenable, but won't hook listeners. the 3rd track, Excuses, regains energy with powerful choruses. the album slows down again with Doth I Protest Too Much. A slow but still good number. Then the album rises it agn(gosh!) with the really-not-rocky Knees Of My Bees. But very enjoyable. The Last Track, Everything, is the hit that will surely be repeated agn n agn. Expand
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  2. izat-
    5
    hmmm.... quite dissapointing but that much. i don't sense the anger in here, maybe cuz it's her 'love' album.. my favrites r 8 easy steps, excuses n everything... n ore more thing... she should've chose EXCUSES to be one of her single instead of Out Is Through...It may propel the album to sell at least five million copies... Ultimately, its her least best album... Expand
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  3. JoeW
    3
    Her worst album yet. The music pretty good, but much of it, both musically and lyrically is a rehash of Under Rug Swept, almost to the point of cover songs ("Excuses" is a lyrical rehash of "Precious Illusions", "Bees of My Knees" is a music rehash of that same song.) It's all so recyled. The only progress seems to be that she cranks up the narcissism to an unbearable degree culminating in the unbearable "Everything" - a quagmire of "I, I, I," and "Me, Me, Me,". Alanis! Nobody, not even you darlin', are that interesting. Expand
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