The Best Alanis Morissette Songs Of All Time

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What is Alanis Morissette's biggest hit? Here are the best Alanis Morissette songs of all time, ranked by fans everywhere. The seven-time Grammy Award-winning musician is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time, receiving Album of the Year at the 1996 Grammys for Jagged Little Pill, as well as Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance ("You Oughta Know"). Morissette has received countless accolades over the past three decades, and her sensational Jagged Little Pill was even composed into a Broadway music adaptation starring Elizabeth Stanley and Kathryn Gallagher. Some of Morissette's top songs beyond the viral "You Oughta Know" include "Hand In My Pocket" (Jagged Little Pill, 1995), "Thank U" (Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998), "Hands Clean" (Under Rug Swept, 2002), "Ironic" (Jagged Little Pill, 1995) and "Uninvited" (City of Angels (Music from the Motion Picture), 1998).

From her new and latest music to her older popular songs, this Alanis Morissette playlist features all of her greatest hits, according to the fans. Do your favorite Alanis Morissette songs crack the top 10? Vote up the best songs by Alanis Morissette, and don't forget to show her underrated tracks love as well.

Most divisive: So Pure

Over 100 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Alanis Morissette Songs Of All Time

1
You Oughta Know
88 votes
Best Lyrics:

And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
2
You Learn
53 votes
Best Lyrics:

I, recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone, yeah
I, recommend walking around naked in your living room, yeah

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles
3
Uninvited
81 votes
Best Lyrics:

Like any uncharted territory
I must seem greatly intriguing
You speak of my love like
You have experienced love like mine before

But this is not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight
4
Thank U
68 votes
Best Lyrics:

The moment I let go of it
Was the moment I got more than I could handle
The moment I jumped off of it
Was the moment I touched down
5
Hand In My Pocket
52 votes
Best Lyrics:

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
Well, I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playin' a piano
6
Ironic
56 votes
Best Lyrics:

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought, it figures

And, yeah, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
7
Hands Clean
61 votes
Best Lyrics:

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
8
Head Over Feet
54 votes
Best Lyrics:

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault
9
All I Really Want
47 votes
Best Lyrics:

It's all I really want, some patience
A way to calm me down
And all I really want is deliverance
A place to find a common ground
10
Precious Illusions
42 votes
Best Lyrics:

These precious illusions in my head
Did not let me down when I was defenseless
And parting with them is like parting with an invisible best friend

11
Guardian
20 votes
Best Lyrics:

I'll be your keeper for life, as your guardian
I'll be your warrior of care, your first warden
I'll be your angel on call, I'll be on demand
The greatest honor of all, as your guardian
12
Everything
25 votes
Best Lyrics:

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here
13
That I Would Be Good
38 votes
Best Lyrics:

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good
Whether with or without you
14
Not As We
15 votes
Best Lyrics:

Day one, day one, start over again
Step one, step one, I am barely making sense
Just yet I'm faking it 'til I'm pseudo making it
From scratch, begin again, but this time I as I? And not as We?
15
Reasons I Drink
22 votes
Best Lyrics:

Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more rip
I go from one lilypad to another to stay lit
16
Forgiven
36 votes
Best Lyrics:

What I learned I rejected but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven
17
Underneath
26 votes
Best Lyrics:

There is no difference
In what we're doing in here
That doesn't show up as bigger symptoms out there
So why spend all our time in dressing our bandages?
When we've the ultimate key to the cause right here
Our underneath
18
Eight Easy Steps
16 votes
Best Lyrics:

How to hate women when you're supposed to be a feminist
How to play all-pious when you're really a hypocrite
How to hate God when you're a prayer and a spiritualist
How to sabotage your fantasies by fear of success

I'll teach you all this in eight easy steps
The course of a lifetime, you'll never forget
19
Unsent
20 votes
Best Lyrics:

I kept drawing you in
And pushing you away
I remember how beautiful it was to
Fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time
You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself
20
Joining You
31 votes
Best Lyrics:

I guess she thought I'd be a perfect resort
Because we've had this inexplicable connection since our youth

21
Wake Up
21 votes
Best Lyrics:

You like snow but only if it's warm
You like rain but only if it's dry
There's no sentimental value to the rose that fell on your floor
There's no fundamental excuse for the granted I'm taken for
22
Right Through You
29 votes
Best Lyrics:

Now that I'm Miss Thing
Now that I'm a zillionaire
You scan the credits for your name
And wonder why it's not there

I see right through you
I know right through you
I feel right through you
I walk right through you, you
23
Not the Doctor
29 votes
Best Lyrics:

I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don't want to be your idol
See this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
I don't want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
24
Perfect
22 votes
Best Lyrics:

Be a good boy
Push a little farther now
That wasn't fast enough
To make us happy
We'll love you just the way you are
If you're perfect
25
Ablaze
19 votes
Best Lyrics:

One became two, and then everyone was out for themselves
Everyone was pitted against each other, conflict ruled the realm
All our devotions and temperaments are pulled from different wells
We seem to easily forget we are made of the same cells
26
Crazy (James Michael Mix)
19 votes
Best Lyrics:

And through a fractal on a breaking wall,
I see you, my friend, and touch your face again.
Miracles will happen as we trip.

But we're never gonna survive, unless
We get a little crazy
27
Smiling
26 votes
Best Lyrics:

Such pretty forks in the road
On this continuum I've been bouncing
Life flashing promise before my eyes
28
So Pure
19 votes
Best Lyrics:

I love you when you dance
When you freestyle in trance
So pure, such an expression

Supposed former infatuation junkie
I sink three pointers and you wax poetically
29
Mary Jane
24 votes
Best Lyrics:

Worry not about the cars that go by
'Cause all that matters Mary Jane is your freedom
So, keep warm my dear, keep dry
30
Reckoning
15 votes
Best Lyrics:

Brace, brace yourself
For this reckoning day
I was once
At a loss
Now I stand at the gate