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Janis Joplin - Pearl Audio CD

A fair review of the Janis Joplin "Pearl" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Janis Joplin reviews here, or go back to the Janis Joplin tabs.

Janis Joplin Band: Janis Joplin
Title: Pearl
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-06-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Move Over 2: Cry Baby 3: Woman Left Lonely 4: Half Moon 5: Buried Alive in the Blues 6: My Baby 7: Me and Bobby McGee 8: Mercedes Benz 9: Trust Me 10: Get It While You Can 11: Happy Birthday, John (Happy Trails) [*] 12: Me and Bobby McGee [*][Demo Version] 13: Move Over [Alternate Version][#][*] 14: Cry Baby [Alternate Version][*] 15: My Baby [Alternate Version][#][*] 16: Pearl [#][*][Instrumental] 17: Tell Mama [Live] 18: Half Moon [Live] 19: Move Over [Live] 20: Maybe [Live][#] 21: Summertime [Live][#] 22: Little Girl Blue [Live] 23: That's Rock 'n Roll [Live][#] 24: Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live][#] 25: Kozmic Blues [Live] 26: Piece of My Heart [Live][#] 27: Cry Baby [Live][#] 28: Get It While You Can [Live] 29: Ball and Chain [Live]

The previously released tracks on disc 2 are...
So, for those who are wondering if they already own some of the Calgary show that makes up disc 2:

Tracks 1, 6, 8, 11 appear on the single-CD remaster of Pearl. The folks at Columbia have been releasing the same Janis material across several different releases.

Tracks 1 and 8 also appear on disc 3 of the Janis box set.

Tracks 3, 8, 12, 13 appear on Janis In Concert.

I think Summertime is previously unreleased, and this second disc is worth it for that alone.


Don't forget the Production Skill -of "Morrison weary" Rothchild
Something to think about-
Morrison would fight and pour drinks on Janis but he said they made up before she died, whether that is true we will never know. I was reading the stellar Doors in depth biography "Break on through : the life and death of Jim Morrison". When Jimi and Janis passed on-Jim would say "you're looking at number 3".

Doors producer Paul Rothchild was fed up with Jimbo and really dug Janis and her band, where the band gave a 100% and Janis a 150% compared to the Doors who were self destructing, unprofessional and uninspired during this time.


The Best Janis
This album is a lovely big feast for any Janis Joplin fan. Well, it's just wonderful. She left us much too soon! What a tragedy, mostly for her but also for what she might have offered to the world. Again, GREAT ALBUM.


Awesome!!
How talents like Janis die so young and hacks like Fred Durst outlive her. You know what sucks? I'll tell ya. And right after this beautiful, amazing album! I mean, this is a fantastic classic album. Every rock fan should own a copy. What's so good about this? Well, for one, her group can actually play (their jam "Buried Alive in the Blues", left instrumental because Janis was dead before she could record a vocal track for it, really proves that). Not to mention the country-rock posthumous #1 "Me and Bobby McGee", still one of her most resonant songs. There are also several enjoyably heavy rockers ("Move Over"; "Cry Baby"; "Half Moon"). Her sarcastic, anti-commercial solo vocal (an early rap!) "Mercedes Benz" is really, really funny; and there's a lot of pure, unbridled belting ("A Woman Left Lonely"; "My Baby"; the Aretha-like "Get It While You Can") that really packs a punch. I couldn't name you a weak track on this album if I tried: the closest is "Trust Me", and even that firmly resonates. Cheap Thrills was great, but this is my favorite Joplin album.


amazing
Amazing- great sound - I own the LP of Pearl and this CD's sound is as good - this is Janis the way she should be heard!.


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