Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. The Alanis one was just me fooling around with the synths for two hours and then singing into an old microphone.”Ĭheck out more The Land Below on Soundcloud. I love the music of the 90s, and I love doing covers, so these two came easy. “Especially the Jagged Little Pill album, borrowing it from my older sister. “I was born in the mid 80s so both songs were tracks that I listened to a lot growing up,” Lindestad tells us. After Louis Vivet’s dance cover last year, one more will make a trend of synthy Eagle Eye Cherry covers. Still, the far-away vocals and epic build keep a certain dreaminess, even at a faster clip. Once you’ve absorbed that, check out his other new cover, of Eagle Eye Cherry’s “Save Tonight.” It starts off in a similar, spaced-out vein, but ends up getting an actual beat. For even those of us who were not Alanis fans the first time around, this cover is revelatory. For an even better tribute, though, check out The Land Below’s new cover of one of the album’s hit single, “Hand in My Pocket.” Over low synth drones and a slow crescendo, Sweden’s Erik Lindestad sings the haunting melody at about half the speed of the original. American Idol contestant Crystal Bowersox covered the song as a short cut in an early round of her Idol performances.Last year, Alanis Morissette’s monster album Jagged Little Pill celebrated its 20th birthday and, as happens on such occasions, got its own big box set. It was also covered by alt-country band The Cowlicks on their album Psychedelic Service Station. The song has also been parodied by Amateur Transplants on the album Fitness to Practice as part of the song "Snippets". It was parodied by ' Rockin Jock' but credit for this parody, 'Trouble', is usually wrongly accredited to Billy Connolly under the title 'Evil Scotsman'. Cause Ive got one hand in my pocket And the other one is giving a high five I feel drunk but Im sober Im young and Im underpaid Im tired but Im working, yeah I care but Im restless Im here but Im really gone Im wrong and Im sorry baby And what it all comes down to Is that everythings gonna be quite alright Cause Ive got one hand in. The song was covered by Rolf Harris on his 1997 album Can you tell what it is yet. While Morissette does not carry the scheme consistently throughout the song (there are, for instance, no rhymes for "hailing a taxicab" or "playing the piano"), it is, nonetheless, a fairly sophisticated literary device. In the first chorus for example, "fine, fine, fine" is coupled with "a high five", when it should, according to traditional rhyming schemes, be instead set against the "a peace sign" which closes the third chorus, and which is in turn, coupled with a first line ending with the phrase, "a cigarette", which is a clear rhyme with the end of the second chorus: "out just yet". The chorus of "Hand in My Pocket" utilized a poetry technique, "rhyme juxtaposition" (utilized by authors such as Lewis Carroll and musicians such as Bob Dylan and John Lennon), as its primary lyrical structure, as exemplified by the off-set coupling of the first and second stanzas of each chorus. "Hand in My Pocket" served as the theme song in the unaired pilot episode of the television show Dawson's Creek, but Morissette decided not to have it used as the theme after the show was picked up. The single's video features Morissette among a homecoming parade and was filmed in black-and-white and slow motion. single, and its video premiered in July 2005 (see 2005 in music). In 2005, Morissette released Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, an acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill. "Not the Doctor" (live acoustic) – 3:57.
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"Hand in My Pocket" also received substantial airplay on pop radio, reaching the top five on the Top 40 Mainstream chart, but its success in the United Kingdom was limited. Hand in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette adjectives practice. It was released as the album's second single in 1995 (see 1995 in music) and became Morissette's second number-one hit on Billboard's U.S. " Hand in My Pocket" is a song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard for Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995). Template:Extra chronology Template:Extra chronology From the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic