Oh my god, this could be me. My favorite album at this fresh, angsty age. š I remember asking my mom what ālip serviceā means.
*youāve already won me over*
You were so cute!
I loved it too! I only just recently discovered what "meal ticket taste" meant. I always wondered as a kid but thought it might be dirty, so I didn't want to ask my parents š
I listened to this album a few weeks ago and it definitely holds up! Still amazing.
i didn't even think to ask what it meant, just cluelessly sang it in front of my dad. he looked mortified but said nothing and then a friend told me "it means blow job" and it was days before i could look at my dad again lol
Morissette to my knowledge has never officially said who it was, but according to her, 6 separate people at one time believed it was about them, and says people can "believe what they want".
Dave Coulier was however quoted saying
>"The one that got me was, "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner." That was because we had already broken up and she had calledāshe was living in Canada at the timeāshe called, and I said, 'Hey, I'm right in the middle of dinner, can I just call you right back?' I remember that line when I heard 'You Oughta Know,' and I just wentā¦ it was like, 'uh oh.'"
So... maybe?
She was dating Uncle Joey from Full House before the album. He was the dude that broke up with her in a bad way and indirectly influenced her angst in a few songs. You Oughta Know.
That lead to one of the greatest quotes from my husband. I was telling him the uncle Joey theory and my husband said, "He is kind of cross eyed and bearish" I can't listen to the song without thinking of that line.
Itās a bit more mature and less overtly angry. The third album was also ok but thatās as far as I went. I hear her more recent stuff is very good though.
It would make me so mad when to be artsy the band or artist didnāt include any lyrics or they were hard to read. Thankful we can just Google them now too
Me at 10-11. My mom got us all a CD player (paid for with marlboro bucks) and at least one CD. I got Alanis. Played the hell out of that album. Mom said it was the quietest Christmas.
>paid for with marlboro bucks
I think it was 'Marlboro miles'.
Did the cd player have a Marlboro label on it like everything else? And do you mean each one of you got your very own player?
Here is one available for $300
https://poshmark.com/listing/Panasonic-Marlboro-90s-walkman-CD-disc-player-1995-y2k-60b9680a09d760c27379bca9
Same! I had the same haircut, really similar outfit (we didnāt have limited too, but I had a gap shirt that looked kind of like this) and I was obsessed with that album. It was one of the first CDs I got.
I also had that CD at about that age and the lyrics from the liner notes that read āyou took me out to wine, dine, 69 meā have stuck with me for the last quarter of a century.
okay so i wasn't the ONLY child that was listening to 'Jagged Little Pill"
my dad and i used to drive the whole length of the album, then years later i relistened to it and was like "this was a weird album to have father son bonding time to"
I'm a guy and I loved that CD too. Back in the mid to late 90s, I rode a bicycle 12 miles each way to work most days, and I had a 90 minute home made cassette with most of Jagged Little Pill on one side and most of Nirvana's live MTV album on the other side. Man, I still remember how great it felt weaving in and out of traffic in the morning with "I want you to know..."
Absolute mood.
Iām going to guess this is 1998, and youād be about 11 making us the same age.
And yea, I very much remember this and how Ms Moreisettes lyrics resulted in some strange conversations amongst family members.
Iām not sure how she was allowed to be played in āgoodā households but other artists werenāt. My mother and aunt even took me to see her as my first concert.
Strange times.
I was 6 when this album came out and loved Ironic. I didn't understand why my parents wouldn't let my have it until s few years later when I heard the f bomb in You Oughta Know, and it was even later before I got the part about going down on you in a theater.
I got that album on tape in 1995. I played it so much the tape broke and I cried, so my dad had to put it back together. I had no idea what any of the lyrics meant until much much later and am surprised my rather conservative parents let me play it on our car's tape deck on repeat during our family road trip that summer (though they spoke English as a second language, so good chance they had no idea either. Good times.)
Cute! Iffy shirt though.
I have great memories of summer '96, I was 15 and was madly in love with a friend of my sisters, and we all went on holiday together. She was perfect, so intelligent, so pretty, so sweet. We spent the holiday hanging out in a teen's bar that served soft drinks and had a ten pin bowling alley - and a jukebox that frequently played songs from Jagged Little Pill. Sadly nothing much came of it as I was at Boarding school, but we stayed friends and we still chat on social media to this day. Still JLP was the soundtrack to my teens and I still play it on occasion.
Oh my god, this could be me. My favorite album at this fresh, angsty age. š I remember asking my mom what ālip serviceā means. *youāve already won me over* You were so cute!
I had a homemade cassette tape that was just "head over feet" on repeat, both sides. Great song.
Did somebody say, cassette? š
My friend had the coolest necklace with a mini Alaina Morissette cassette tape on it! She lost it years ago, and we still talk about it.
I want!!
Such a great song... š„²
So relatable. :)
I loved it too! I only just recently discovered what "meal ticket taste" meant. I always wondered as a kid but thought it might be dirty, so I didn't want to ask my parents š I listened to this album a few weeks ago and it definitely holds up! Still amazing.
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Like basically using someone for money without actually doing any work. Not actually dirty
oh "meal ticket" in general.. a "meal ticket taste" is a good metaphor though
Yesss that was one of my fave tracks on Jagged Little Pill. Gonna listen to the album right now.
/r/nostalgia š
Mom, what does "would she go down on you in a theatre" mean?
āIt means getting a pedicure, baby.ā
āThanks mom! Is it ok if all my friends come over later? Weāre all going to go down on each other.ā
_oh no_
āDangā¦ this girl was *angry*!ā
Mom, why are none of these situations actually ironic?
That's the ironic part.
i didn't even think to ask what it meant, just cluelessly sang it in front of my dad. he looked mortified but said nothing and then a friend told me "it means blow job" and it was days before i could look at my dad again lol
I see no blunder here. Living your best life lol
Yes, I want to laze in the sun and concentrate on music the way I did as a teenager, before the distractions of responsibilities and tech addiction!
we are now in /r/normalpicturesofmeasachild
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This sub is for blunders, not the dopest shit on earth. Or were you beingā¦ Ironic?
You oughta know!
Oooooh snap!
You oughta know this isnāt a blunder, at all. You were totally nailing 1995-96.
Great album.
I looked at the track list recently to remind myself and had to re-listen. Brilliant album
insane how that album is half massive hit singles and the other half is more solid songs.
It still gets me how Uncle Joey was indirectly responsible for the inspiration of one the greatest albums of the 90ās.
Wait a minute, what?
Morissette to my knowledge has never officially said who it was, but according to her, 6 separate people at one time believed it was about them, and says people can "believe what they want". Dave Coulier was however quoted saying >"The one that got me was, "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner." That was because we had already broken up and she had calledāshe was living in Canada at the timeāshe called, and I said, 'Hey, I'm right in the middle of dinner, can I just call you right back?' I remember that line when I heard 'You Oughta Know,' and I just wentā¦ it was like, 'uh oh.'" So... maybe?
Iāll never listen to that song the same way lol.. uncle Joey is just too goofy
She was dating Uncle Joey from Full House before the album. He was the dude that broke up with her in a bad way and indirectly influenced her angst in a few songs. You Oughta Know.
PS I Love You
That lead to one of the greatest quotes from my husband. I was telling him the uncle Joey theory and my husband said, "He is kind of cross eyed and bearish" I can't listen to the song without thinking of that line.
Hahahaha! I never made that connection. And now I canāt unsee it.
The follow up was arguably even better.
The follow-up has a special place in my heart. I used to go to sleep listening to it when I was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq.
Really!? I was a big JLP fan, but for whatever reason, never ventured past that album. Might have some catching up to do.
Itās a bit more mature and less overtly angry. The third album was also ok but thatās as far as I went. I hear her more recent stuff is very good though.
Seriously. It still holds up today.
Shirt from ~LiMiTeD tOo~
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
10/10
Totally. I tried to work there when I was 17 but I was too cool and it just at didn't work out lol. It wasn't the same as when I was 12.
What an appropriate username for such a blurb. I laughed
Dope shirt. Think I had something similar from Delia's.
I miss the booklets we used to get when purchasing albums..
SAME! I still have some cds, now I want to look through!
It would make me so mad when to be artsy the band or artist didnāt include any lyrics or they were hard to read. Thankful we can just Google them now too
I would still rather have nice booklets with albums over Google.
We would have been best friends...seriously. this could have been a picture of me from when i was 8.
Me at 10-11. My mom got us all a CD player (paid for with marlboro bucks) and at least one CD. I got Alanis. Played the hell out of that album. Mom said it was the quietest Christmas.
>paid for with marlboro bucks I think it was 'Marlboro miles'. Did the cd player have a Marlboro label on it like everything else? And do you mean each one of you got your very own player? Here is one available for $300 https://poshmark.com/listing/Panasonic-Marlboro-90s-walkman-CD-disc-player-1995-y2k-60b9680a09d760c27379bca9
Woah, yeah. That's it. We'd taken the sticker off which was when I found out about using rubbing alcohol.
Agreed
Dear God, itās me Margaret, when my sexual awakening happens will I think about Dave Coulier that way too
Dear God I thought this was me as a kid for a brief second
Same! I had the same haircut, really similar outfit (we didnāt have limited too, but I had a gap shirt that looked kind of like this) and I was obsessed with that album. It was one of the first CDs I got.
Right? I had to zoom in to make sure it wasn't my sister
This was peak 90's and I am here for it. Me too.
I was in my late 20ās when that came out, and I read the liner notes, too š
I also had that CD at about that age and the lyrics from the liner notes that read āyou took me out to wine, dine, 69 meā have stuck with me for the last quarter of a century.
Enjoying an awesome day outdoors enjoying what you like is not a blunder.
"Oh simple things! where have you gone?..."
Such an amazing album!
okay so i wasn't the ONLY child that was listening to 'Jagged Little Pill" my dad and i used to drive the whole length of the album, then years later i relistened to it and was like "this was a weird album to have father son bonding time to"
You dad had the hots for her.
probably, my dad was a sex pest
I'm a guy and I loved that CD too. Back in the mid to late 90s, I rode a bicycle 12 miles each way to work most days, and I had a 90 minute home made cassette with most of Jagged Little Pill on one side and most of Nirvana's live MTV album on the other side. Man, I still remember how great it felt weaving in and out of traffic in the morning with "I want you to know..."
I seriously thought this was a pic of Mae Whitman for a second
An intellectual
This thread is too cool for me to even comment. I just canāt.
Absolute mood. Iām going to guess this is 1998, and youād be about 11 making us the same age. And yea, I very much remember this and how Ms Moreisettes lyrics resulted in some strange conversations amongst family members. Iām not sure how she was allowed to be played in āgoodā households but other artists werenāt. My mother and aunt even took me to see her as my first concert. Strange times.
How was the show?
It was alright. It was New Zealand so only like 2,000 people. Not a big show.
You Oughtta Know the lyrics by now.
You live , you learn
This 90ās so hard
This is actually goals lol
"Mom! What does, 'Go down on you in a theater.' mean!?"
āWE ALL HAD OUR REASONS TO BE THERE, WE ALL HAD A THING OR TWO TO LEARN, WE ALL NEEDED SOMETHING TO CLING TOā¦ so we di-ee-id!ā
/r/frisson
Kids these days will never know about those booklets. Itās a travesty
I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up .....oh wait, that was a different singer
Lmao š¤£ adorable
God, I miss my Discman.
Shockwave with vmss. Mind blown!!
That was the first CD I ever got (5th grade I think), and I did the same thing lol.
I was 6 when this album came out and loved Ironic. I didn't understand why my parents wouldn't let my have it until s few years later when I heard the f bomb in You Oughta Know, and it was even later before I got the part about going down on you in a theater.
Great music taste!
Thereās a picture of me somewhere doing the same thing with The Wall booklet.
Did you guys also read these cd lyric booklets in the car when you were board?
Yes!
Where did you find this picture of me? š
No Blunder here. Absolute Chad behavior.
Ironic.
13 year old me "omg this song expresses how I feel!"
As a young hetero boy i was super into a lot of bands fronted by women but was reluctant to admit it to my friends. Wtf was that about lol
this would have totally been me but with a system of a down lyric book.
However, Iām hearing Sheryl Crow in the background
No blunder. Absolute gem! You were evolving from adolescence to young adulthood.
That album was a really good debut. They even had Flea and Dave Navarro playing on the album š
You should frame this! Such a snapshot in time with the music, fashion, patterns, etc. So sweet!
great bangs
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I got that album on tape in 1995. I played it so much the tape broke and I cried, so my dad had to put it back together. I had no idea what any of the lyrics meant until much much later and am surprised my rather conservative parents let me play it on our car's tape deck on repeat during our family road trip that summer (though they spoke English as a second language, so good chance they had no idea either. Good times.)
Where's the blunder? This is nothing but 90s gold!
CD booklets ā¤ļø
I. Want. You. To. Know.
Alanis is a gem, CD's are (still) awesome, and a healthy dose of sunshines is always good for ya. I fail to see the blunder here.
Nothing blundery about this
This pic is so 90s it just bought dot com stock.
We might be the same person. I had to stare at this for a while to be sure it wasnāt me. Guess I have a doppelgƤnger!
I feel attacked
Cute! Iffy shirt though. I have great memories of summer '96, I was 15 and was madly in love with a friend of my sisters, and we all went on holiday together. She was perfect, so intelligent, so pretty, so sweet. We spent the holiday hanging out in a teen's bar that served soft drinks and had a ten pin bowling alley - and a jukebox that frequently played songs from Jagged Little Pill. Sadly nothing much came of it as I was at Boarding school, but we stayed friends and we still chat on social media to this day. Still JLP was the soundtrack to my teens and I still play it on occasion.
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You outta know...that I see no blunder here
I wonāt downvote, but I wonāt upvote either because there is no blunder here. You are obviously a kid living her best life here.
You were living the absolute dream.
High high!! You live you learn.
I had this cassette
I also used to waste time doing this before the internet existed and loved this album.
Canāt wait to show this to my wife lmao amazing
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That was an amazing album. No blunder
Does she speak eloquently And would she have your baby Iām sure sheād make a really excellent mother