STEP TO THE BEAT

Alanis Morissette – Eight Easy Steps (US CD Maxi-Single)

“Eight Easy Steps” was the third single from Alanis’ sixth studio album So-Called Chaos. Released in October 2004, it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play and number twenty-seven on the Adult Top 40.

It was written by Alanis, produced by her and John Shanks, with additional production by Tim Thorney. Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge.

The song may be seen as discussing self-help, with the message that it is the “course of a lifetime”, but the help that is actually “offered” in the song is ironical throughout, with lines like “How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else” or “How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you“.

The release of this single was a landmark in a way, since it was the first to officially include dance remixes from an Alanis song. There had been previous club mixes of her tracks, the most popular probably being “Uninvited”. Although they were great reworks of the song, they remained bootleg versions, not licensed or released by Warner.

Label:

Maverick/Warner

Catalog Number:

42765-2

Track List and Details:

1. Eight Easy Steps (Thick Dick Filter Mix) (6:56)

Remix by Thick Dick (known in the 90′s as E-Smoove)

2. Eight Easy Steps (Jez Colin & Flipper Dalton Remix) (8:40) actual runtime, printed runtime is 6:35

Remix by Flipper Dalton, Jez Colin

3. Eight Easy Steps (The Orange Factory Remix) (6:58)

Remix by Orange Factory

4. Eight Easy Steps (Smitty & Gabriel D. Vine Remix) (7:03)

Remix by Adam Schiff, Gabriel D Vine, Smitty

Rip Information:

Source: CD

Format: mp3

Bitrate: 320 kbps

Alanis Morissette – Eight Easy Steps (US CD Maxi-Single)

Password: steptothebeat