Gotta love the nineties. I know I do…<\/p>\n
This last weekend I listened to quite a bit of Alanis Morissette<\/a>‘s MTV Unplugged<\/em><\/a>. I bought the album in I think 2004 and listened to it repeatedly, quickly making it a perennial favorite, especially while driving to and from gigs. MTV Unplugged<\/em><\/a> didn’t always work out so spectacularly for the featured artists, but this is one of the show’s true gems. (Alice in Chains<\/a>‘s appearance was rather amazing<\/a> – another great road album. And while I’ve never been a huge Nirvana<\/a> fan, their episode was historic<\/a>. And of course there’s Eric<\/a> Clapton<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Alanis and her band are really in top form here. This concert features a number of, at the time, novel reworkings of her standard catalogue. (This particular song hadn’t yet been officially released in any form.) It was definitely a sign of stylistic things to come, and a live precursor to 2005’s Jagged Little Pill Acoustic<\/em><\/a> – a solid album and an interesting project – the acoustic re-orchestration recorded to celebrate Jagged Little Pill<\/em><\/a>‘s tenth anniversary. (I wanted to attend the 2005 support tour, but Bonnaroo 2005<\/a> took precedence that same weekend. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n “No Pressure Over Cappuccino” is perhaps my favorite song from the album. (If you’re curious, it’s supposedly about her twin brother.) It’s a pretty good representation of the album as a whole, even the more aggressive songs. I’m a sucker for nineties rock and proud of it. For any of you who may also be, you should also get a kick out of this. Even if you’re not, this tune’s worth a try…<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_YfSSq0srfo<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gotta love the nineties. I know I do… This last weekend I listened to quite a bit of Alanis Morissette‘s MTV Unplugged. I bought the album in I think 2004 and listened to it repeatedly, quickly making it a perennial favorite, especially while driving to and from gigs. MTV Unplugged didn’t always work out so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[337,339,344,345,158,343,338],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mthv","tag-alanis-morissette","tag-alanis-unplugged","tag-jagged-little-pill","tag-jagged-little-pill-acoustic","tag-mth-v","tag-mtv","tag-mtv-unplugged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}