Reviews (page 13 of 13)
Good Lord, people like the sounds of a dying cat???
it's just not for meeeeeee
Depressing
This is one of those "classic" albums that really gets on my wick. No doubt fabulous misicians but the constant noodling is tedious to my ears. I completely hate this version of Summertime too. Janis Joplin's voice is raw and pwerful but the only redeeming feature. I couldn't make it all the way through.
A tortured soul’s tortured voice is torture to me.
no lo pude escuchar :(
off to a bad start... has gotten worse somehow. i can't even make it through the full songs. this is one of the worst collection of songs I have ever heard. ball and chain was the least bad one.
Just sounded like noise and instruments being bashed together, and I did not prefer the vocals in any way shape or form.
Nothing about this grabbed me. Not even the classic track.
I knew a guy named Zorro. His real name was Michael Gregory, but his Dad was Spanish and so early 70's blokes naturally named him Zorro. He's still that. I like that fact. He could surf too, still can. I like that. He had this record. I fucking hated it then and I really fucking now. At least in 1974 I was stoned out of my gourd. This bog ordinary, shit band. And her voice. I'm still on medication after that Anthony and the Johnsons voice (why did I mention that..) but putting Joplin back on after all these years, cripes. A fucking overrated shit record that really grinds my gears. That said I hear they speak highly of me.
Nope
Janis Joplin is super important to rock history and women's role in it. However. I don't like this album. This is like, music that plays while you're using the bathroom at a gas station on the way to L.A. Music to get lectured to. It sounds like home but not in a good way.
A story. In the mid-90s, I was at Washington State University. I walked along the Glen Terrel Mall through campus many times a day over those years. Holland Library is on one end of the mall. A small family of evangelicals appeared frequently near Holland, preaching things that one would likely think of as evangelical: premarital sex, substance abuse, and abortion all as sinful, devilish behavior. One of their shticks involved the preacher’s wife, Sister Cindy Smock (why can I remember their names 30 years later when I can’t remember why I walked into the kitchen?), pushing her fingers hard through a condom to show how easily they break. Persuasive. I stopped occasionally to listen to the Smock family but usually just brushed them off. One day, Brother Jeb and Sister Cindy were out railing against the influences of popular culture, music especially. This is when I won myself a personalized copy of Brother Jeb’s jeremiad, _Who Will Rise Up?_, when I correctly answered the name of Big Brother & the Holding Company’s first album. _Cheap Thrills_ is the answer. He gave me the book and went on to preach against the influence of an album that was almost 30-years old at that point. It's probable that Brother Jeb thought I was a soul lost to the hippie drug culture that his mind still fixated on. The reality was that I had worked at music stores for the previous seven years and had sold and stocked thousands and thousands of albums, including albums by Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin. I had never heard the album, only knowing “Piece of My Heart,” the classic rock radio staple from the album, until today. _Cheap Thrills_ is today’s 1001 albums to listen to. It’s . . . a snooze. Joplin’s vocals and the music are old hat by now, white people making money from black music’s past.
god this cunt is insufferable
Could've done without listening to this, another album that I have no understanding why is in here.
I was able to make it exactly 2 1/2 songs through before I wanted to rip my ears off. Janis Joplin sounds like a fucking Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. Her voice was like nails on chalk board. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put this dying woman with her scraggly raspy ass voice as the lead vocalist but they should be shot. Shame as the musicians sounded good but man I just wanted Janis to shut the fuck up anytime she would start with the death rattle wailing. Fuck. 1/10
Not for me. Piece Of My Heart was ok.
I will never get the appeal of Janis Joplin but yeah 27 club and ""soulful voice""(for people who wont listen to soul) or whatever 🙄🙄🙄
I don't know, it's not really for me, summertime is amazing tho
im Bett, abends Freitag, 02.01.2026
Sucked balls bro, can someone explain the hype?
More 1960s bullshit
Not for me
Combination of the two: 3/10, i feel this song is too "i hit my children with a belt and im happy about it" 60s type of song. too much wooooooaaaahhh wowowowowah. i enjoy the guitar tho so it gets a 3 I Need A Man To Love: 7/10, i think Janis Joplin being in this song makes it immediately better, i love her vocals and the softness of the start adds more levels and sounds to the rest of the track. Summertime: 0/10 This is lowkey ass if im being honest. its too repetative in a way im not sure how to explain, but its just too "neownnn...", too augh for my liking. Piece Of My Heart : 2/10, again, its too repetative, and sounds like all the other songs on this album.. Turtle Blues: 5/10, i really enjoy the piano on this track, and its different from the other tracks which i like. this is giving country pub saloon vibes in a way. Oh, Sweet Mary: 0/10, IT SOUNDS LIKE ALL THE OTHER SONGS ON THIS ALBUM GODDAMMIT!!!!!! CHANGE YOUR MUSIC DUDE. Ball And Chain: 3/10, not bad, not as repetative as the other songs but still somewhat repetative, which is why its a 3. i feel like they are overusing her vocals for the yelling. Roadblock: 3/10, i love this, but after 0:55, it just gets too loud for my brain and too much for me to comprehend. the drums are definately the best part about this. Flower In The Sun: ?/10, i cant really rate this one, its just eh. i dont like it but i also dont hate it, but i have no comments on this other than good drumming and electric guitar. Catch Me Daddy + Magic Of Love: WHY WOULD YOU PUT LIVE MUSIC IN AN ALBUM?? ITS SO REPETATIVE AGAIN LIKE UGHHHHHHHH WTF.
Nope
It's not that I hate Janis Joplin - I like some of her most famous songs. But this album? I felt nothing.
I know I’m going against the grain but I can’t stand this music. To me her voice is shrill and out of control. She destroys any sense of melody.
I'll pass.
Generic and bad
Another trashy Janice Joplin blues record with the same tired progressions and riffs your parents have nodded off too drunk in the nasty den. For the time, the performances are fine, but this sound is depressing and stale
Embarassing.
not my cuppa
Gave Janis her start. But, Janis made the band. Even though she had a very unique voice, she died too early.
I've done over 100 of these reviews and this singers voice was the most annoying by far.
Glad Janis is in the 27 club
This album sucks
That I can’t sing (or scream) along in the shower so not for me. 1/5 💥
Mag ich nicht
I did listen to this album. That’s about it.
Janis Joplin's screeching voice... annoying.
No. I keep getting trash albums. I refuse to listen to an hour of this
Racist cover, boring music. Janis Joplin sounds like Marge Simpson.
Não curti tanto, mas é porque não curto Rock Psicodélico. Achei a faixa de abertura do álbum insuportável kkkk Nota zero pro meu gosto
I learned today I can't do Janis Joplin
I genuinely had no idea that Janis Joplin released music under a band, rather than solo. It took me until the fourth track to actually recognize anything on this record. I have to say that I don’t particularly care for this record. The instrumentation is fine, if not a bit over distorted for what it is. There’s definitely some Beatles influences that are very prominent throughout, that “Heiter Skelter” sound is clearly borrowed. I don’t enjoy Janis Joplins singing on this record, it reminds me of a screeching cat. This one is not for me. 1*
I do not like Janis Joplin and I do not like this record. There are some parts on "Ball and Chain" were her vocals are pleasant and sounds like she is really expressing some genuine sentiment, but it mostly sounds like affected screeching to me. There are also some fun drumming interludes, but it's mostly pretty uncreative run-of-the-mill blues rock. Also, apparently a lot of people thought this album was a live album because the producers added in crowd noises though it was all recorded in a studio. So lame. Who does that??? The cover art also suggests this with "live material recorded at [venue]" even though only one song is actually a live recording. There's some really unnecessary racist caricatures on the album art as well. The vibes are awful. 3/10
W. T. F. I guess yesterday's review fell on deaf algorithms... And now I wish I were deaf...
I’ve tried to like Janis Joplin but her voice is just too much for me. Have listened before but just don’t like it.
idk the doors' self-titled album came out the year before this and was way better. I guess I don't get all of janis Joplin's singing, although in some songs she was very cool. this album didn't do it for me.
I feel like i should like Janis Joplin more but I just cant
I just can't handle her voice, it really grates. A personal view of course, I know that millions of other folk are fans.
UGH
nicht gut bzw. absolut nicht meins
Echt nicht meins
Janis is clearly an icon and has an incredible voice but this band isn't really my thing. If I were on acid in Haight Ashbury in 1967 I'd probably think it was cool.
This music itself was mid, but honestly I question the judgement of any group that would give the o.k. to have several instances of blackface/Black caricatures on the cover (even in the 60s). I mean, that puts forward a pretty clear statement about what audience they'd like to listen to this. And I guarantee that audience is not the Black audience that revolutionized blues music and rock. 1/5
*mostly screaming and screeching vocals, some calm instrumental tracks, but many screaming guitars.
can’t stand joplin…
Nah
blorgbp NNN
Flabby old Rock nonsense. And that's before we even look at that rather, er 'dated', cover. Just say no, kids.
Bloody awful racket. Dull. With a capital D.
I'm just not a Janis Joplin fan
had one song that was good, but appart from that not great
Second album with Janis Joplin. For her short time on this earth her terrible voice sure managed to inflict a disproportinate amount of misery on it. Music is just as terrible. Why is this on any top xxx list?
The most overrated American singer of all time.
Sorry did not like the AAAEEAaaeEaaAe🦅🦅🦅🦅
The instrumentals are like a hot plate of biscuits and gravy. Janis Joplin's singing is the hippopotamus muckspreading all over it
This was a chore to get through. Psychedelic rock is not for me. I don't usually have much of an opinion on Janis Joplin's voice...but I noticed while listening to this that she sounds like Marge Simpson when she sings in her upper register. So...no thanks. 1/5
Not my thang!
Janis Joplins voice sounds like someone strangling chickens.
Geschrei
Didn't get into it. 1/5
Janis Joplin has a really neat, gravelly voice that's rad when she's in her mid-lower register; when she's in her comfortable pockets she sounds great. But when she tries to belt her upper register to hit some of those high notes... yikes. It's like Laryngitis came alive for a record contract to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and not in a good way. Still, can't see myself choosing to listen to much from here again
Das ist gar nicht mein Ding. Kann es auch kaum einordnen. Janis Joplin ist dabei, die finde ich ja eh nicht gut. So Hippie Folkkram vielleicht.
Ugh.
Shite
live album.. slow jam band with no rhythm and doesn't take me anywhere.
Best part of this album is R Crumb’s contribution (sorry, Janis).
ne bih rekla da mi leži ovaj hešberi hipi ton, plus stvarno imam osećaj kad dženis džoplin peva da je to mardž simpson
Inte alls min typ av musik. För skrikigt och alldeles för mycket dissonant gitarr. Tyckte typ ingen låt var bra, men Turtle Blues och Roadblock var okej
Not for me…
I didn't enjoy this album. I realized I don't like Janis Joplin's voice about 5 songs in.
This was terrible. I don't see the appeal of Janis Joplin.
Just not a fan of Janis Joplin
Racist album cover. And headbangingly dull to boot.
Definetly nothing for me. Very irritating vocals
just not for me, im sorry
New artist! Not for me! 1/5
A couple good songs. Most of it sounds the same.
Painfully overrated.
I can't stand Janis Joplin's voice.
Nah, pillows desk
awful. can’t believe this made any list
Annoying hippie blues based rock complete with "jam parts" and Joplin's annoying as hell vocals. Why she's considered such a legend is seriously beyond me. The only good thing about this album was the cover art.
bleh
Not very good
The 60's
A ono, nije moja šalica čaja.
Aburridísimo Sólo desde una perspectiv anglo céntrica pollaviejista puede considerarse este disco entre lo más relevante de la historia musical
Nope!
On a shit run.