“All I Really Want” by Alanis Morissette

"All I Really Want" throws the door open on Jagged Little Pill, the 1995 album Alanis Morissette made with Glen Ballard, and it lays out the terms right away: a restless, talky groove, her own harmonica wheezing through it, and a voice that swings from murmured confession to a full-throated yelp. There's a neat circle in its history, too. It was the last song finished for the record, yet it grew out of "The Bottom Line", the very first thing the two of them wrote together.

Ballard produced it, recorded it and played the guitar and keyboards, and Chris Fogel handled the mix. Maverick eventually sent it out as the record's last single, the sixth, in Britain in November 1996, with Australia following early the next year.

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