I know I'm probably less 'mainstream' in general on here but I wanted to make this as about 92% of the mentions I see anywhere about Alanis is about her huge hit album Jagged Little Pill, which I can understand as it was very impactful indeed! But what about the rest? And this might be because I've been listening to her on some level since I was a kid lol so I'm 'used to' her other albums and I've kinda grown up with them, but it would be nice to see more appreciation for the rest of her work too haha.

I could say a lot but I just think she is a beautiful example of an artist who has gone through a significant personal and artistic evolution, and in the process she lost fans but I also think she has been misunderstood. She was labelled an 'angry woman' but anger is just one emotion that she felt she had to express, she has many songs that are not angry lol.

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is my favourite record of hers, and is actually still one of my favourite albums of all time, although I choose not to listen to it often as it's very intense and long.

I love songs like 'Utopia' which I never see mentioned, where she openly listed some of her beautiful visions for an ideal, empathetic world. For an even more obscure mention, I really love Feast on Scraps, which was leftover tracks from the Under Rug Swept era. For me 'Purgatorying' is easily one of her most interesting and intriguing songs! And nobody ever mentions it haha.

Uninvited, Thank U, That I Would Be Good, Hands Clean, Precious Illusions, Everything, Eight Easy Steps, Crazy and Underneath are all faves of mine

I'm glad she didn't just try to recreate Jagged Little Pill with every subsequent album, I always enjoyed Alanis most for her lyrics no matter what style she was doing.

Underneath was a great single, that’s one of my favourites of hers. My most listened to Alanis tracks are:

Hands Clean

Underneath

You Oughta Know

Thank U

Torch

Crazy

Head Over Feet

Uninvited

21 Things I Want In a Lover

That I Would Be Good

So only a couple from Jagged in there. I do think JLP is her best album, but she definitely has enough gems outside of it to warrant wider investigation

'Crazy' is really good but one of her rare covers!

My lastfm isn't 100% accurate (it used to mess up sometimes and there were a couple short periods where I wasn't scrobbling) BUT, my top 10 scrobbles from her are:

Hands Clean

Surrendering

Thank U

Still

Permission

Spiral

Would Not Come

So Pure

Excuses

Not The Doctor

Yeah... Definitely not the most mainstream person on here. 😆 Only one from JLP ('Not The Doctor') and oh look, we have an obscure b-side in the form of Permission! 👏