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Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills/Pearl Audio CD

A fair review of the Janis Joplin "Cheap Thrills/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: Cheap Thrills/Pearl
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Release Date: 2008-10-07
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: Tell Mama [Live][*] 12: Little Girl Blue [Live][*] 13: Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live][*] 14: Cry Baby [Live][*] 15: Combination of the Two 16: I Need a Man to Love 17: Summertime 18: Piece of My Heart 19: Turtle Blues 20: Oh, Sweet Mary 21: Ball and Chain 22: Roadblock [Studio Outtake][*] 23: Flower in the Sun [Studio Outtake][*] 24: Catch Me Daddy [Live][*] 25: Magic of Love [Live][*]

From acid rock to soul and pop
The gripping Piece Of My Heart sweeps one along in its maelstrom of sound whilst Combination Of The Two with its hypnotic textures takes you to weird sonic places. Cheap Thrills is an intense and exuberant celebration of life with Joplin's at times desperate, always intensely emotional vocals combined with Big Brother and their overwhelming acid rock/psychedelic roar. Summertime and Ball & Chain are soulful covers of the Gershwin and Big Mama Thornton tunes respectively. At times it seems that there's a huge cosmic battle taking place between Joplin's vocals and the band's deafening onslaught which creates a further element of tension that adds to the overall force of these performances. This is a great show of rock magic.

Pearl has stood the test of time equally well. Here Joplin is backed by the Full Tilt Boogie Band. After all these years, it remains a magnificent listening experience because of the quality of the songs, the band's tight playing and the impressive emotional range of her vocals. Unlike Cheap Thrills, where there is a battle between her voice and Big Brother's heavy metal onslaught, here the voice is the star. My favorites on an album of classics include the moving Me and Bobby McGee, the tender A Woman Left Lonely, the jittery Half Moon, the emotional Cry Baby, the buoyant Get It While You Can and the plaintive/humorous Mercedes Benz. Perfect arrangements, brilliant playing and masterly vocalization combine here to create a timeless masterpiece.

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama

Farewell Song.


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