"Eight East Steps" by Alanis Morissette

90s superstar Alanis Morissette got her start in entertainment as a 12-year-old actress on the Nickelodeon series You Can't Do That On Television. She gravitated to music and released two dance pop albums that performed very well in her native Canada, but were virtually unheard anywhere else in the world.

Not to be written off as a teen pop star who once opened up for Vanilla Ice, she reinvented herself for her third album, "Jagged Little Pill." With help from producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, Morissette became a darling of the 90s and the signature voice of a woman scorned. Her blistering rock track, "You Oughta Know," catapulted her to international fame and won the Grammy for Rock Song/Rock Female Vocal in 1995. On the charts, it only hit #13, but set the stage for other hits like "Hand In My Pocket" (#15), "Ironic" (#4), "You Learn" (#6), and "Head Over Feet" (#3 for 6 weeks).

She won another Grammy for "Uninvited," a song recorded for the City of Angels soundtrack that went to #4 in 1998. The wind quickly blew out of her sails, though. Her follow-up record, 1998's "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" sold well, but only generated a single top 10 hit ("Thank U," which went all the way to #2, her best performance on the chart yet). The other singles from this tepid record fizzled. Nevertheless, her impressive string of hits made her the 27th most successful artist of the decade.

Morissette was hard-pressed to even come close to the huge success of "Pill," but I think her 2004 album, "So-Called Chaos," was the rock record that fans wanted. Day late, dollar short I suppose. The lead off track, "Eight Easy Steps" manages to capture some of the magical energy that made her hit songs special, but it didn't chart. Another single from this record, a gorgeous ballad called "Everything," was Morissette's final chart appearance, landing at #76.