Janis

Janis Joplin - Janis

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Artist: Janis Joplin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. What Good Can Drinkin' Do [Live][#]
  2. Trouble in Mind [#]
  3. Hesitation Blues [#]
  4. Easy Rider
  5. Coo Coo
  6. Down on Me
  7. Last Time
  8. All Is Loneliness
  9. Call on Me [Live][#]
  10. Women Is Losers [Live][#]
  11. Intruder
  12. Light Is Faster Than Sound
  13. Bye Bye Baby
  14. Farewell Song [#]
  15. Flower in the Sun [Live]
  16. Misery 'N [Alternate Version][#]
  17. Road Block [Live][#]
  18. Ball and Chain [Live][#]
Music CD 2
  1. Combination of the Two
  2. I Need a Man to Love
  3. Piece of My Heart
  4. Turtle Blues
  5. Oh, Sweet Mary
  6. Catch Me Daddy [#]
  7. Summertime [Alternate Take][#]
  8. Kozmic Blues
  9. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
  10. One Good Man
  11. Dear Landlord [#]
  12. To Love Somebody
  13. As Good as You've Been to This World
  14. Little Girl Blue
  15. Work Me, Lord
  16. Raise Your Hand [Live]
  17. Maybe [Live]
Music CD 3
  1. Me and Bobby McGee [Alternate Version][#]
  2. Me and Bobby McGee [#][Version]
  3. Tell Mama [Live]
  4. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live]
  5. Cry Baby [#]
  6. Move Over
  7. Woman Left Lonely
  8. Half Moon
  9. Happy Birthday, John (Happy Trails) [#]
  10. My Baby
  11. Mercedes Benz
  12. Trust Me
  13. Get It While You Can
  14. Me and Bobby McGee

Free Music Notes for Janis

Free Music Review: Ultimate Janis-To-Go...well, almost
Hit: 4 Stars

Janis listeners Karen and Gregor (below) have already pointed out the flaws and inconsistencies of this compilation but I can only concur with both of them on the indisputable fact that this boxed set with its accompanying booklet is a must have for all die-hard Janis fans, who will already have their personal libraries stocked with every CD or VHS/DVD that's available of, with and about Janis. I have been traveling around a lot and this boxed set - along with "Kozmic Blues" and "Pearl" to complement where I feel it lacks - has always traveled with me...from the US to Europe and back and finally to China. I must admit that at some point, the actual box was getting a bit difficult to carry around and so, with a heavy heart, I had to relocate the CDs to a more mobile CD book...but the set is still traveling with me and always will.

Janis Poster

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008.
A host of contradictions--the insufficiency of her collaborators, the spectacular potential of her voice, the inconsistency of her efforts--have left Joplin's historical legacy a tangled mess. The new 3 CD box set, Janis, captures that mess in all its glory but does little to untangle it. Typical of compiler Bob Irwin's decisions was his choice to replace the familiar version of George Gershwin's "Summertime" from the "Cheap Thrills" album by a weaker but unreleased alternate take. There are too many examples of strangled singing by Joplin's male partners in Big Brother and not enough examples of her incendiary live performances. The album begins with Joplin's first-ever recording, a vocal-and-autoharp version of "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" taped in a friend's living room in Austin in '62. That's followed by two unreleased blues recorded with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen in a San Francisco living room in '65 and eight songs from the controversial (and hard-to-find) 1966 debut album, "Big Brother & the Holding Company." "Cheap Thrills" is represented by five cuts, four outtakes and one live version; "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!" is represented by seven cuts, one outtake and two live versions; and "Pearl" by eight cuts and three outtakes. Other rarities include a longer spoken introduction to "Mercedes Benz" and two live performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

The 48-page booklet features nude photos of Joplin on the outside and feminist essays about her on the inside. Ellen Willis compares Joplin's self-created image to Madonna's, ignoring the crucial fact that Joplin was a brilliant singer while Madonna is hardly any kind of singer at all. Ann Powers addresses the music itself and correctly points out that Joplin's art was not merely unmediated emotion but a premeditated mix of gambles and craft, of Bessie Smith's open-throated wails and Otis Redding's gruff shouts. She was some kind of singer, and that's what she should be remembered for. --Geoffrey Himes

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