Alanis Morissette (Maverick)
Attention parents: Those sounds of tremulous keening you may be hearing from behind your teenage daughter's locked bedroom door are no cause for serious alarm. It's just the new Alanis album. And although the self-lacerating Canadian avenger is unplugged, her vocals are definitely amplified. So there is little chance that kids will be able to keep the grown-ups from hearing the famously bad word on "You Oughta Know," from her 28 million seller, jagged little pill. But there is a price for eavesdropping, and it's exacted with every one of Morissette's vocal contortions. On her otherwise nicely turned cover of the Police's "King of Pain," for example, she spends seven seconds stretching the word "bread" into an unrecognizable knot of nonsense.
Bottom Line: Treat for those with the requisite acquired taste
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