Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept/Feast On Scraps sync listen (Sunday 7 March, 6PM)

[Beverley]

You go back.... To your friends who will LICK YOUR ASS

 

[RJN]

I'M HERE

and freshly showered

 

[Beverley]

and freshly showered

V freshly

 

[Beverley]

If it weren't for your maturity, none of this would have happened.

 

[jivafox]

and freshly showered

You could say Bev's hands are...clean

 

[straightorbroken]

So Hands Clean is hands down my favourite of the album.

 

[Beverley]

You could say Bev's hands are...clean

 

[RJN]

3. Hands Clean

Her best song and lyrics

What a unique and uncomfortable subject for a song

 

[Beverley]

So Hands Clean is hands down my favourite of the album.

Same - just so effortlessly melodic

 

[Iguana]

A #metoo song before it was fashionable. GO LANI!

 

[jivafox]

I find Hands Clean so easy to sing along to. Like, I'm not saying I sound GOOD, but I can keep up.

 

[straightorbroken]

It's like she's outgrown overblowing her emotions and downsizing them. It's a beaut.

 

[Iguana]

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

 

[Beverley]

I find Hands Clean so easy to sing along to. Like, I'm not saying I sound GOOD, but I can keep up.

The amount of times I have TRIED to record this!

 

[straightorbroken]

Totally rug munching this one.

 

[Tisch]

There's definitely a fragility behind the harshness in the lyrics here. It makes it what it is.

 

[Beverley]

Such complex storytelling

 

[RJN]

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

I fortunately can't relate to the actual subject of this song, but can to these lyrics
I think most people can

 

[Iguana]

I remember the fanz being worried people would think she was singing the verses from her own perspetive rather than the man's, and think her a massive bitch

 

[jivafox]

I've more than honoured your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

 

[Iguana]

In fact, no-one cared.

 

[straightorbroken]

The grandeur is how subtle and mature she's blowing it all off as. This is so relevant.

 

[Beverley]

Do we know who it was about? A music exec?

 

[Iguana]

I've more than honoured your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

Love that little switch-up!

 

[RJN]

Do we know who it was about? A music exec?

I read somewhere it was about a man she had a relationship with when she was a teenager (in a way that wasn't fully consensual)

 

[Tisch]

Do we know who it was about? A music exec?

I read somewhere it was about a man she had a relationship with when she was a teenager

Yes both of these. Same guy Right Through You is about I THINK

 

[RJN]

4. Flinch

 

[Iguana]

I have a complicated relationship with Flinch. I find it drags the album down a bit, and is over-long, but the lyrics are devastating and rather brilliant. The melody took years to creep up on me but I do love it now

 

[straightorbroken]

I remember the fanz being worried people would think she was singing the verses from her own perspetive rather than the man's, and think her a massive bitch

She was famously booed off Loose Women performing it of course. Linda Bellingham threw an Oxo cube at her. Harrowing stuff for feminism.

 

[Tisch]

Yes Flinch is overlong, but it's really quite CHILLING and I do love it.

 

[RJN]

They way she says "you effect me like you are my dad" kind of sounds like "you feck (fuck) me like my dad" and I did mishear it as that the first few times I heard it

 

[Beverley]

I love how sad it is - and the chorus is just again, so singular, so clean

 

[Iguana]

Yes both of these. Same guy Right Through You is about I THINK

No, RTY is just about a shitty music exec. Not the same guy. I think it's the YOK guy

 

[jivafox]

I'd be paralyzed if I ran into you
My tongue would seize up if we were to meet again

 

[straightorbroken]

The least Alanis song so far. I'm a sucker for jangly 90s esque stuff like this. Gorgeous.

 

[Beverley]

Yeah, I do prefer this albam to SFIJ

 

[Beverley]

How looo-ng can a girl be tortured by you?

 

[straightorbroken]

How long can a girl be tortured by you? 6 minutes it seems.

 

[Beverley]

How long can a girl be tortured by you? 6 minutes it seems.

Meanie!

 

[jivafox]

I love the last verse. Always picture her running to her car and speeding off