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Alanis Morissette -- from disco queen to starring on the big screen

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• News Archive
• What You Oughta Know about Alanis
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Awards Alanis has won
• Does She Not Play Dirty When Engaged in Competition? (Top Ten Lists)
• Discography/Lyrics *Featuring ALL her songs, with lyrics and transcripts to over 225 songs, live performances and interviews -- from "Fate Stay With Me" to "Wunderkind"
• Transcript of Intimate & Interactive at MuchMusic 11-01-98
• Transcript of VH1 Storytellers
• Transcript of VH1 Music In High Places
• Transcript of Hallmark Concert Series performance 02-22-02
• Transcript of Intimate & Interactive at MuchMusic 03-01-02
• Read an article about Alanis and Dawson's Creek
• Links

You Oughta Know:

• Alanis is originally from Ottawa, but as a child travelled a lot, and did most of her writing for Jagged Little Pill in L.A.
• Jagged Little Pill was considered her debut album, although in actuality, it is her third.
• She released two albums in Canada first: Alanis, and Now Is the Time
• Her acting debut was in '93 in a movie called (yes three names) "Just One Of the Girls" "Boys Will be Girls" and "Anything For Love"
• Alanis had collaborated with dozens of writers, without success, in Ottawa, Toronto, and eventually L.A. As a result, there are hundreds of unrecorded Alanis songs out there.
• After living and 'gaining experience' in L.A. for a while, Alanis finally met up with Glen Ballard, co-writer of many other artists well-known songs. Glen was the first person Alanis 'clicked' with, and they soon wrote many songs.
• They would write them, then record them, all within the same day. They quickly came up with the material for 1995's Jagged Little Pill.
• Her album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, also co-written with Glen Ballard, was released November 3rd, 1998
• Alanis appeared in the Kevin Smith film "Dogma" playing the role of God
• Her most recent album "MTV Unplugged" was released November 23rd, 1999, and featured four previously unreleased live unplugged tracks as well as eight unplugged versions of earlier songs. It was accompanied by an MTV special.
• See News for more information.

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Alanis Nadine Morissette

Birthdate: June 1st, 1974

Born in: Ottawa, Ontario

Currently Resides: Brentwood (in L.A.), although she is rarely found there, she is in fact travelling too often, and she lends her apartment to friends.

Hair Colour: Dark brown/Black

Eye Colour: Brown

Family: Father Alan, mother Georgia, twin brother Wade (12 minutes older than she), older brother Chad

Entertainment Background: Produced and released a single ('Fate Stay With Me') at age 11 or 12, was on the Nickelodeon show You Can't Do That on Television, competed on Star Search (and lost), been writing poems and songs since a very early age.

Plays these instruments: Harmonica, Piano/Keyboard, Guitar, Flute, and occasionally Drums/percussion

Previous Ambition: Entertainer of some sort, although it was always music first

Dream Date: John Lennon

Favourite Music: Mostly anything, among her idols are Joni Mitchell (...and I played your Joni..) and Madonna, although she appreciates anyone who can put in the time and effort it takes to make music.

Keeps grounded by: Breathing, remembering God

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Awards

Four versions of Alanis in Ironic; winner of many awards.

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Does She Not Play Dirty When Engaged in Competition?

You Learn--Alanis' #2 single, and the #3 Single by a Canadian woman

Thanks to Sara Jones for coming up with the title for this section

All right I bet you're wondering what this section is about. No, it has nothing to do with David Letterman. In actuality, it's based on Russell Ash's "Top Ten of Everything" books. The following are some lists in the most recent version which Alanis is included in.

The 10 Albums with the most weeks at number one in Canada
#	Album, Artist	Year	Weeks at #1
1	Breakfast in America, Supertramp	1979	26
2	Synchronicity, The Police	1983	23
2	Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette	1996	23
Source: The Record

Top 10 Albums of all time in Canada
#	Album, Artist(s)	Release Date	Estimated Units sold
1 (Tie)	Thriller, Michael Jackson	1983	2,000,000
1(Tie)	Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette	1995	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	Come On Over, Shania Twain	1997	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf	1978	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin	1971	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	Rumours, Fleetwood Mac	1977	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	Their Greatest Hits Eafles 1971-1975, The Eagles	1976	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	The Wall, Pink Floyd	1980	2,000,000
1 (Tie)	The Woman In Me, Shania Twain	1980	2,000,000
10	Brother In Arms, Dire Straits	1985	1,000,000

These are almost all the lists Alanis is included on, other than the ones listing Award Winners (i.e. last 10 albums of the year etc.) This information is taken from the 2003 version of the book.

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Alanis Links

Alanis's personal official site * Features snapshots of Alanis on tour, her poems, artists' conceptions of her, live shots, and news. (also at www.alanis.com )

Reprise official Alanis Morissette site * Lots of info about Alanis, SFIJ (with analysis of each individual song on the album), and tons of other similar stuff.

Maverick official Alanis Morissette site * Featuring a small multimedia section and some other stuff. Some good info. Either use Flash 3, or plain old image maps; both have the same information, and are just as hard to use. Also available at www.warnermusic.ca/alanis/

Alanis' official e-mail address -- fyiam@aol.com

Just Alanis Morissette Online (a.k.a. JAM Alanis Morissette) * JAM Alanis Morissette is a really good fansite, with a lot of news, multimedia, lyrics, pictures, and tons of other info

The Alanis Morissette Network *A fairly good fansite similar to JAM, maybe a little less glamourous.

Alanis Infatuation Junkies * A good fansite for news and concert reviews

The Alanis Morissette Discography Guide * a complete listing (complete with cover pictures etc.) of all the songs, albums, singles, and other miscellaneous music Alanis has released, performed, etc.

All I really Want Alanis * Featuring RealAudio, news, and some other information

Yahoo! Alanis Morissette Category * for a listing of a whole ton of Alanis sites

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This site last updated December 21, 2008.

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