10 Best 1990s Alt-Rock Albums You Need To Hear

One of the highest-selling albums of all time, Jagged Little Pill was unavoidable in the 1990s. Written by a woman just shy of 21, the album crams decades of experience, heartbreak and life lessons into one perfect package. At the centre of everything is Morissette, a woman with a powerhouse voice, incredible songwriting skills and a penchant for channelling all of her unadulterated rage into stunning compositions.

Yes, Jagged Little Pill is a singer-songwriter pop album, however it intercepted rock crowds mainly due to the amount of venom in which Morissette speaks her story. She spits out lines such as “It was a slap in the face / How quickly I was replaced / And are you thinking of me when you f**k her?” eloquently enunciating every single word. There’s so much to be taken away from this album every time you listen but she wants to make sure nothing is missed from the get-go.

This album is equally angry as broken apart, its hit singles may have been gigantic songs such as ‘Ironic’ or ‘You Oughta Know’, however Morissette lays out her heart on ‘Forgiven’ as she belts with heavy force about the way that religion breeds regret.

So much feeling swarms around Jagged Little Pill, it’s all killer and it rewrote the framework of what women making music could do.