Song · Alanis Morissette
“Hands Clean” by Alanis Morissette
From the album Under Rug Swept (2001)
“Hands Clean” by Alanis Morissette appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2002. It was first released in 2001 on the album Under Rug Swept. Its best result is #26 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #322 alternative song of 2002.
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"Hands Clean" led the way for Under Rug Swept, the fifth studio album from Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, arriving as its first single in 2002, and it's all hers: she wrote it, produced it, sang it and played electric guitar on it. The track rolls along on a shuffling, mostly acoustic rock frame, with Tim Thorney on acoustic guitar, Nick Lashley and Joel Shearer on guitars, Chris Bruce on bass, Gary Novak on drums, Jamie Muhoberac on keyboards and Mark Stephens on piano, and Chris Fogel mixed it. The easy gait is a decoy: the words reportedly look back on a forbidden relationship she had, at about 14, with a man far older than her.
Critics mostly warmed to it, some picking it out at once as a standout on the album, and it went to number one in Canada and New Zealand.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 75 | Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA | Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 | 105 |
| 2002 | 26 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 | 40 |
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