Alanis, Morissette / Jagged Little Pill (1LP)

Jagged Little Pill is the sound of a 21-year-old Canadian former teen-pop star ripping her own heart out in real time and making the entire world sing every single wound. Recorded in one explosive six-week stretch at Glen Ballard�s home studio in Los Angeles, the album is 57 minutes of pure catharsis. Alanis�s voice is a hurricane (sometimes a whisper, sometimes a scream that could peel paint), the guitars are crunchy and unapologetically mid-90s, the drums hit like therapy sessions, and every lyric is a diary entry written in blood.