Pearl

Dieses Album sticht definitiv aus den 70er heraus und ist durch die einmalige Stimme von Janis Joplin ein absoluter Hammer.

Standouts: Move Over, Cry Baby, Me and Bobby McGee, Trust Me

The energy captured on this album is a gift. Since we didn't have Janis for a long time, we have to make due with the memory and the music. Classic, funny, deeply sad and soulful.

Si, claro

Day33 - i’ve only heard me and bobby mcgee off this album and it’s not even the best song on the album. her voice is awesome and she can scream like no one else.

Plain and simple: One of the great classics of Rock History - and you can hear why. Everyone should now "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Mercedes Benz", but the rest is just as great. Sweaty, heartfelt blues rock with one of the best and most legendary singers ever.

Stunning post posthumous work that captured a bluesy masterpiece of a life cut short.

You like her voice, her style, her musi. Or you will hate it - any space in between? My opinion: no 🤣 For me it works out very well - five stars

Fully immersive and soulful sound. I love it. Every song is (or feels like) a smash hit. Holy crap what an amazing album. I even loved the instrumental piece.

This album is everything my 6th grade Social Studies teacher raved about. Janis’s voice is powerfully soulful, the songs are dynamic and heavy. Great stuff!

There are so many gems I haven’t listened to and this is one of them!! Love the voice and passion!

Janis Joplin siempre en vinilo. SIEMPRE.

Great listen :)

(Mai ascoltato prima) SPACCA. Super divertente, interessante, voce pazzesca.

Loves me some Janis.

love!

Iconic voice.

Janis is Queen

Damn girl

Wow. This was so much more than I was expecting. I'd always thought Janis Joplin was a folk\rock artist - and perhaps there are other albums of hers that are more in tune with that stance - but this album was incredible. So much funk and soul filtering through. I listened to it 3 times back-to-back and fell in love a bit more every time. I've been on this site for a few months now, and the one abiding lesson I've learnt is (in general) do not judge a book by it's cover (and don't believe your preconceptions about any artist).

Great blues and rock album. She's one of my favorites.

Classic album with the big hits. Very tight, a little departure from Bug Brother and the Holding Company

Great classic with famous tunes, but prefer the legacy edition.

Fantastic, didn't know I was a Joplin fan but she just has so much emotion

I’m so sad I was too busy all day to listen. I love Janis Joplin!

brill!

Rock and blues. Cry baby, masterpiece

Amazing voice.

When I think of bright lights and candles burning at both ends, Janis will always be the first one I think of. Psychedelic gospel ballad queen. The amount and quality of sound, the sheer power of emotion she conveys on Cry Baby— have I ever given that much of myself, not just in a way that even one other person can feel, let alone the millions that have because of these recordings, but at all? To have been that close to it, whatever you wan to call it, god, the source, the beating, vital heart of existence—what a gift, what an unbearable, painful gift, and the voice to go with it, and the courage to use that voice, to be the vessel, the conduit, the megaphone, to recognize your access and allow for it, not to deny it, or tamp it down, or seal it off, but to expose yourself to the full and raw power of human existence and let it flow through you, it’s just a shattering thing to hear sometimes. And at the same time, ruthless as it is to say, the unbearableness of it, for her, herself, probably spared her, and the rest of us, from decades of her music not being like this. I don’t wish death on anyone and I would never wish death on a young performer, anyone, whether they had access to the source or not, but in this world, and that industry at that time, knowing what happens to people, knowing what happened to me, late in my 20s, and then out of my 20s, past that age where one stops acting completely intuitively, when the invincibility of youth wears off, and one starts to recognize the cost of life. It’s a truism they put on the headstones of children who die, “too pure for this world“ but I think there’s some truth in it. Not too pure for reality itself, for God‘s creation, but very possibly for what we’ve done with it. Impossible to go on in life having been Janis at 23. Anyway, I’m fucking glad she existed.

Whenever I hear her voice, it feels like it’s registering in the middle of my spine - like some kind of sonic electrocution. The shock is too strong for this to be to be an everyday kind of listen for me, but it’s nice to touch the wires and feel that jolt every now and then.

No albums on the weekend! Un auténtico descanso.

👍🥰 Get It While You Can A Woman Gets Lonely Cry Baby Me and Bobby McGee Piece of My Heart Kozmuc Blues

Love all Janis Joplin. One of the best of all time blues singers.

Todella kova. Kaikki hyvii biisejä ja Joplinia kovempaa fiilisyelijää saa hakea

Pure kunst

Janis Joplin was a musical force, who burned brightly, but burned out quickly. This is the 4th of her studio albums, released 3 months after she passed away. It is also the high-point of her discography. This album includes several masterpieces: "Cry Baby", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Mercedes Benz" and "Move Over". The rest of the album is just very good. The least compelling song is "Buried Alive In The Blues", which is notable as an unfinished piece. It is an instrumental, because Joplin died before recording the vocal tracks. All in all, this is a great record, and an important record in the history of rock. Easy 5/5 .

I was epecting some hippie music but man this kicked ass. Janis Joplin went hard and it's a shame we didn't get more music from her.

Fantastisch

I liked, I really liked .. Janis Joplin is really amazing, what a woman, she is for sure one of the best to ever do It, and this record does not have a single bad song. It is just... Good. A classic She deserves a 5.

She emerged damaged from the psych rock hippie scuzz and US middle school. Too ugly, they said, too try-hard, too white, too much. Constantly condescended to by talentless scabs riding her coattails, abused by cracker America for her soul orientation and never taken seriously by a record industry that couldn't understand the source of her particular, magnetic charisma. I love Janis. Some is a touch corny but her voice is rough, raw and soulful as a bleeding throat. She was vulnerable at a time that was considered a weakness and America destroyed her but she is American through and through. Tacky and sincere simultaneously, erratically sincere and flippant but ultimately rock, roll and soul. If anyone gets the chance listen to her version of Little Girl Blue in the Tom Jones show. She must have been 26 but embodies the world-weary, gentle patience of some ur-mother cradling a weeping child, perhaps cradling herself. Glorious woman, extraordinary talent, excellent album.

Great album

Soft 5

"I'd like to do a song of great social and political import..." What a legend. I've never straight up listened to "Pearl" but I know almost all of these songs. Her voice was so insane. I love to hear singers straddle the line of control and she rides that wave this whole album, emoting to the max, crooning growling roaring and howling out these jams. The band is tight, supplying bluesy funky grooves for her to excorcise her demons over. She sings with the blood. "Half Moon" and "A Woman Left Lonely" were the only new songs to me and I was digging them even more than the classics from the canon of Janis. "Me and Bobby McGee" what else can you say, Kris Kristofferson himself would tell you it's a Janis Joplin song now. The unfinished "Bury Me in the Blues" is a haunting inclusion, she died the day before she was scheduled to lay down the vocal track. Reading her wiki and jamming to this today made me want to rewatch the Festival Express doc and get into some Janis deep cuts just to hear more of her raw power. But seriously, folks, don't do heroin!

Absolute masterpiece.

One of the all time great voices. Honestly, the album doesn’t quite feel finished, but it doesn’t really suffer because of that.

An amazing voice backed by an incredible band.

Amazing

I guess you cant transport more emotions through music than JJ does on thos album

Me and Bobby McGee and Cry Baby- such classics!! Amazing album

absolutely glorious. easiest 5*s of the week

I really enjoy Janis's sound, very unique. I knew a couple songs by her but great to be introduced to new ones ❤️

I really really enjoyed this. I’d heard of Janis Joplin, but didn’t know any of her music other than a little piece of my heart, but this album blew me away. Absolutely superb from start to finish, so bluesy and cool with Joplin’s incredible singing. This has been the first album that’s caught me off guard so much and will be the first album I rate 5 that I didn’t know, but it thoroughly deserves it. 5/5

Belíssimo disco

Janis Joplin siempre en vinilo. SIEMPRE.

Super good, bunch of absolute hits. Little too short.

Really good music - good blues is just so great, and this is good blues. Good bass guitar (interesting to listen to it), good piano parts, good guitar. Singing is really good too, almost a little screamy but actually just perfect - fits the vibe perfectly. It's probably not revolutionary, but all of the pieces coming together in this way is unique and makes for a great listen. The album has slow, it has fast, and it's soulful. Chef's kiss Oh man there's organ here too. It has some blues brothers vibes which is amazing. I feel like I would want my band to sound like this.

All time classic

So many classics in one album. Love that the generator is reminding me of such amazing artists who I haven't listened to in years!

What a set of pipes. Such raw emotion and vulnerability. Half Moon is a rocking standout, along with My Baby. Brilliant singer.

Just love that voice, unique and soulful. Lost way too early

Another classic album, one that admittedly I'd never listened to in its entirety. Half Moon is a great song I'd somehow never heard before. Her voice wasn't the greatest, but she's got the blues spirit and vibe to her like no other.

Soft 5

Very fun

Not an album I knew before, though obviously I was aware of her work and her extraordinary voice. This is a full throated, literally, blues album that absolutely blasts through the speakers. This is going to be the first 5 star that I hadn't heard before. It's a hell of an experience of sound and emotion.

Absolute perfection.

4.5 for the album, 5 for the voice

Next time cleaning I will hear this album and sing along and dance with it, good momentum to these songs

Brilliant album with a fantastic vocal from Janis. Particularly liked the opening track ‘Move Over’. There wasn’t a song that I didn’t like! 5/5 ⭐️

Pretty good overall. There are a lot of similar sounding songs, but a few standouts that make this a great album. Also Janis Joplin's voice is gorgeous and I love her energetic delivery

Exciting

10/10

What an album. Top to bottom just solid. Listening to this makes me sad as to what else she could have given the world if she had been alive longer. Amazing vocals, lyrically solid. Top to bottom great album.

Wow, Janis! What a voice. I think some are covers. I like the vibes, blues/rock some gospel (mercedes benz). A shame you leave us so young.

Very surprised by this one. I always thought Janis wasn’t a great singer, but this album showed me that her range wasn’t just about vocals. This album evokes a feeling and has a timeless quality.

A beautiful oldie

Loved listening to it again

Definition of a 5 star. Solid all the way through. Greats include: Bobby McGee, Get It While You Can, Mercedes Benz, and Half Moon. Need to buy the vinyl.

Album 159 of 1001 Janis Joplin - Pearl Rating : 5 / 5 Favorite Track : Me and Bobby McGee I grew up with this one. It was in my home soon after its release and I'm grateful for that. Just a wonderful album. Usually I would go for her Greatest Hits album, so some of the deep tracks here are sadly overlooked, from time to time. I enjoyed it this morning as much as I ever. Easy to rate this one.

I FUCKING LOVE JANIS JOPLIN

Excellent album, really showing the range of Janis Joplin.

An all time iconic voice!

Love Janis, and this is a great album from top to bottom. My favorite songs on it are probably "Cry Baby," "Trust Me," and "Get It While You Can," but honestly there's not a bad song on here.

This shit rocks.

Amazing voice. Great album. Legendary

I love Joplin’s fuzzy vocal virtuosity. I also loved learning that Mercedes-Benz was the last thing she recorded before she died. This album is part of the sad mystique of rock and roll excess.

Beautiful.

A singular voice.

She was taken too soon from us. To me, Cry Baby is the stand out on this album.

Lekkere krijsblues uit de oude doos, uit de tijd dat een beetje artiest zich loungend op een vintage stoel van de kringloop liet fotograferen. Is zoiets nou overschat omdat de zangeres in kwestie op jonge leeftijd het leven heeft gelaten? Dit is toch eigenlijk prima muziek en er staan meerdere klassiekers op. Dikke blues met een knipoog, dat waarderen we.

God DAMN. Maybe it’s a stretch, but I could argue that Joplin had the single greatest voice in rock n roll history. Everything on this record is packed with undeniable soul and rawness that it’s impossible to look away from. It’s a shame that this album is loaded with such an awful story, and I fucking hate the industry for what they did to her. I dare you to listen to Cry Baby and tell me you’re not impressed.

What a Rock album! What a Blues album! Although any judgement is inevitably obscured by the knowledge that this was Joplin’s last, released posthumously, the quality is unquestionable. Some of the songs are probably not in their intended final form, but the rawness and the nude emotions just drip out of them, they are soaked in the stuff. 5 unavoidable stars! Fab tracks: Cry Baby, My Baby

A shame she died before this album was finished. Such a great album.

This is a masterpiece.

Великолепный классический американский рок 70ых с налетом кантри

Powerful vocals backed by great band. There is real blues inside her. Hard to believe she’s been gone for more than 50 years.

This is a perfect album from a great voice.

This is not the most remarkable when I think of a Janis Joplin album, but of course, it's a 5-star.

absolute bangers especially love my baby and cry baby

I love this one!

One of the best to ever do it. Fantastic album.

Before this, I only knew Janis Joplin by name and maybe Me and Bobby McGee and Mercedes Benz. I expected another mediocre 70s blues rock album with a rating of maybe 2/5. But this... After the first listen of the album I immediately had to listen again. This is exceptionally good. I was acquainted with Joplin's voice; but the songs are unbelievably well put together, too. It's such a shame that Joplin died before finishing this album, so that she couldn't even sing the vocals of Buried Alive in the Blues, which remains an instrumental. And a good one at that. This album comepletely hit me out of the blue, as I wasn't expecting this to be 5/5. But it is.

I've heard this album a few times, and thought of it as a 4-star album. On this listen, however, I've had hard time finding fault. Janis has such an incredible, raw, powerful voice, and the songs covered here are almost uniformly fantastic. The Full Tilt Boogie Band are perfect accompaniment, bringing smooth style to the arrangements. And it doesn't outstay its welcome at just over half an hour. I love this.

RIP Janis, gone before her prime and such a shame that this album was released after she was already dead. Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. I've listened to this album in the bar booth where she had her last drinks (screwdrivers) before she died in LA. Her initials are still carved in the table from that night.

I have never picked up Janis and I regret that after today. This album is incredible. Cry Baby, A Woman Left Lonely, and Buried Alive in the Blues were all incredible. I immediately listened to this album a second time after finishing. It's not often you listen to an album for the first time and it becomes a favorite; Pearl did that.

Holy hell what a powerful voice and amazing sounding guitar to go with it. I was never the biggest fan of the song Me and Bobby McGee, but after listening to it in the middle of the whole album my mind has been completely changed. This album was amazing. Move Over and Cry Baby were such powerful songs to start it off and set the tone for the whole album and Get it While You Can ended it perfectly.

This album really blew me away. I was not prepared for it. The raw emotion in her voice is something I've never heard. Amazing.

*****

This album is so bittersweet because it was Janis finally getting in with a great band and a great producer and who knows what the follow up could of been like. The instrumentation is A tier and her voice is just so uniquely hers that anytime you hear it you have to go for a Joplin binge. Brilliant album.

Wonderful album. I loved Janis voice throughout the record. Mercedes Benz is stunning. I understand that was the last thing she recorded. I had the impression that Janis work was always a little dated, like in the Big Brother and the Holding Company albums, but here the production was flawless, the sequencing pleasing, and the songs outstanding. It changed my perception and make me understand why she is widely considered a critical character in the rock Pantheon.

This album is THE BEST. It's the perfect mainstreaming of Janis and her music to the pop world.

First time hearing much from her. I've been missing out. Her voice is so raw and rough, but still beautiful. Like soul come to life. Wish she could've made more.

Janis, Janis, Janis. What a talent! Her voice was just incredible, and her music is timeless. Beyond the amazing songs, what stands out here is the potential. Imagine this being released three months after her passing at 27 years old. What music could we have gotten throughout the decades! Standouts are Move Over, Half Moon, Me and Bobby McGee, and Mercedez Benz.

Great album by a great singer. One of the all time best.

Songwriting and Joplin’s ability to emote on this album warrant the 5 star rating

Everything that is said about Joplin's talented career can be summed up in one word. Pearl. This album hits the sweet spot in raw R&B/Soul that you feel in your chest every time you listen to it. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

Excellent album and one I've listened to probably 20+ times in my life. Janis was a shooting star. Just an incredible talent.

Haven't listened to Joplin properly for 20-odd years, incredible.

Virkilega flott og heilsteypt plata, vissulega minna þekkt lög inn á milli hitteranna en enginn filler. Og þvílík rödd.

Exceptional, one of the best voices of all time

I haven’t heard much by Janis Joplin as far as I’m aware. I certainly know Piece Of My Heart (which isn’t on this album), but beyond that, I’m not so sure. I know she is somebody that tragically died very young, and she is seen as a legendary singer, so I’m excited to hear an album in full. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Cry Baby, Me And Bobby McGee, Mercedes Benz Truly, I’m quite blown away by this album. After the final track finished, I immediately pressed play again because I wasn’t ready to stop listening. I knew she was considered an excellent rock singer, but I didn’t expect her to sound so soulful. Heartbreakingly, I read online that the instrumental track Buried Alive In The Blues was intended to have vocals included, but Janis passed away before they could be recorded. If you haven’t heard much be Janis Joplin before, as I hadn’t, I’d really encourage you to give her a listen.

Già conosco questo album, 6 stelle!

An unforgettable classic. Incredible songs and performance.

yup

The band name works! What was with that holding company nonsense? When driving up the coast of California on vacation we took a detour to have lunch in Salinas just cause it was where Bobby McGee slipped away. It's interesting that Janis changed Bobby's gender. I expect she would have been comfortable singing it with Bobby being a woman - as the song was written. Janis added the words "I'm gonna call him my lover . . ." and, since she was bi-sexual, she probably would have sung that just fine too but this would have been a little too risky for radio at that time. I read that this is one of the first or second posthumously released songs to hit #1. I always said I prefer Chris' original version but listening to it again I'm not sure. The playing and production on the album is excellent. In addition to Bobby, there are two other monster hits. I think Cry Baby is my favourite Janis song.

I love Janis. She was an amazing talent gone too soon.

Excelente

She is a God in my book

so close to being a perfect album. I was not expecting to love it this much. the dead do a better Bobby Mcgee and it could use a little dynamic variety but otherwise a fucking masterpiece

It was great! What a wonderful voice :)

Oh just fantastic, What a voice, what a sound, what a Joplin

Pure 70s blues funk rock. The whole band was hitting it out of the park on this one. I can def picture Janis and Co. wailing on these songs at a festival back in the day. Loved the funky riffs on Half Moon.

Quite the album to get for Valentine's Day. Warm and saucy and bluesy with an ever-present undertone of heartache. That's Janis. There are very few artists who have the power to grab you from the first note like Janis Joplin does. If you've ever watched recordings of her performing live, you can see how she physically threw herself into her singing. She put everything out there until there wasn't anything left. It's always a little bittersweet listening to her, because we know how her life was tragically cut short and you can hear her struggles in her music. Haughty, gritty, heart wrenching, vulnerable, songs of longing and passion. That's Janis. Pearl is probably Janis' most polished, perfectly realized album. Three or four of the best songs of her career reside on this album, some of the great songs of that era. The album gets just a little soft in the middle, but the best songs more than carry the weight of the whole work. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Me and Bobby McGee, Move Over, Cry Baby, Get It While You Can, Trust Me, Mercedes Benz, A Woman Left Lonely, My Baby, Half Moon, Buried Alive in the Blues

The raw emotions Joplin brings us here are so ridiculously well put together. The writing sinks to the core of the message and Joplins voice is just AS raw. Beautiful record.

Man I'm thinking a 5

Great singer with a wonderful voice. Great musicians. Greaaaaat album overall

What a start to my new project. Is there a better voice in rock? Love how frequently piano makes an appearance.

Love Janis. Sf represent.

Got shit to do, so keeping this short: Janis Joplins had an amazing voice and this album is fantastic. Brava.

Janis is one of my favorite vocalist & she nailed the Southern blues-rock genre. This album's got great story telling & all the feels. Cry Baby shakes me to my core every time hear it, Mercedes Benz makes me wish I could sing like her, and Bobby McGee nearly makes me cry every time I hear it. Love love Janis.

Such a voice. Such a shame we lost her so soon. Incredible music. Just all around a solid album from start to finish.

What a tragic, beautiful, wonderful album. Can't fault her.

Una maravilla!!

This is rock!! This is music!! Wow!! I had a fucking ball listening to this album. Janis Joplin the woman you are. This is music that makes you feel things. No bullshit, I feel a stir in my heart after listening to this album. Just electric. Wow. This shit right here, this means something to me man!!

Every song had a lot of feeling and movement to it. I found the song without lyrics a bit daunting having just recently learning why it has no lyrics. Made the second half of the album a bit eerie at times. Overall I loved it.

Janis is a top 5 female artist for me. As a kid Pearl and Cheap Trills were played often on my parents record player. On that old Sansui skipping tracks wasn't really a thing, but with Pearl you wouldn't want to; absolute perfection front to back. I know most of the tracks are covers, but it's like Jimi covering Dylan, sublime. Me and Bobby McGee may be the greatest song of all time. If you haven't seen the documentary Little Girl Blue, check it out tonight.

Super album d’une legende. J’aime beaucoup ! 5

Move Over!

Janis Jopli's final statement is a rock and blues classic. I love the way it starts with hard charging Move Over. The rest of the album is a study in how to sing the blues in a rock context. Every collection of rock albums must include Pearl. 5 stars

Classic and powerful, she was.

Superb. She's amazing.

Discazo de la Bruja Cósmica. Además de que amo su voz, toda la música es excelente y la acompaña perfecto. Además de Bobby McGee, Cry Baby y Mercedes Benz, Buried Alive in the Blues y A Woman Left Alone sobresalen. ¡Clásico!

Discazo, no hay más. Las rolas famosas son rolones, y las que no son tan conocidas, la neta es que también son muy buenas. Qué bandota traía Janis: grandes músicos que se adaptaban muy bien a su voz y estilo. Me hace pensar a dónde hubiera llegado y cómo sería la historia de la música (especialmente para las mujeres) si ella no fuera del Club 27. 5 estrellas facilito.

One of the greats

Classic album without a doubt, each song with that powerful and unique voice. Move Over, Half Moon, Me and Bobby Magee are favorites. Easy 5

In this case, dying young may not have been the savvy career move it so often is, but one has forgotten how great this posthumously related record was/is. One always thought Janis too much of a screamer but on this record, she stays just inside the line of control, while still unleashing ample passion. Plus, the band knows its role, keeping it tight and playing to set up and complement the vocals. A cohesive sound throughout adds to the experience, and every song holds up – all filler cuts should be as original and endearing (and silly) as "Oh Lord." "Bobby McGee" will live forever (and should). One's not sure he'd go as far as editors in ranking her with Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, but those comps aren't way off and overall this is awfully good. Personal bonus points for being reminded of one's own long forgotten, college-era girlfriends who didn't necessarily turn one on to this record, but played it a lot (thinking that it equated to feminism). 4.5/5

I was expecting to only know "Me and Bobby McGee", but there were other familiar songs, too. "Move Over", "Cry Baby" and others are standouts. Much more rockin' than I had expected, frankly. The band is great!

"Cry Baby" is played in "Look Who's Talking," one I my favorite movies that I grew up with. Also the rest of the album was just wonderful. All of the love.

Great Album, always loved her raspy voice and hug personality that comes through her music

incredible

Such outstanding music and, of course, the vocal performance by the inimitable Janis is just wonderful. She always draws me in. I do like her other albums, but this one I like in particular because things (the writing, arrangements, performances, recording, all of it) overall seem more clear and well put together. I don't mean that in an over-produced way; I genuinely like the way it all sounds here. I feel like it lets us (or at least me) hear much better just how incredible she is. Such superb songs on this amazing album. Rest in power, Janis. Shine On!

Classic and soulful jewel of the South, infused with R&B, folk and gospel into an unmatched voice. Gone too soon.

Shits a bop, definitely added to the album to on collection

First listen. Awesome such a powerful and unique voice.

Joplin is in top form. Sadly her band can’t keep up with her energy for every song and felt overshadowed during the first two songs. Still a 5 star album.

All around amazing, have always loved.

hell yeah, man fuckin amazing - 10/10 she just has such a beautiful, powerful voice I love it

Ooh. Power. Not usually into blues, but this is amazing. So sad that she was nit alive to see it released. I always though janis joplin was a folk singer songwriter. I have now been corrected.

This album made me sad. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because it really is a shame that Joplin died so young. The enthusiasm and soul that she can sing on a track is absolutely unparalleled. I don’t think there was a single song I didn’t enjoy. The opening track “Move Over” is a perfect introduction to the album. The vocals missing “Buried alive in the Blues” is haunting. Then “Me and Bobby McGee” plays like a Dolly Parton song and I love country shift and the lyrics freedoms just another word for nothing left to loose. 5/5

Ah, one of my first albums, definitely one of my favorites!

One of a kind talent.

10/5….excellent album..became a fan year before she died..wish I had attended a concert…what a voice, gets right in your soul

What a powerful and legendary voice! Proved that woman can rock and make classics for all pub bands to play for the rest of time. Great run time, sounds great, the grooves are amazing.

Janis Joplin was a great singer. In this album his better songs are "Move Over", "Cry Baby", "Half Moon", "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Trust Me". In every album she mades there's a hits.

I skipped the live bits because I'm not a huge fan of live recordings. But other than that a great album. Love Janis Joplin, so this is a great listen. With maybe an exception of only few songs from this album that are just -too country- for my personal taste. Great listen though.

My wife hates it, I love it - 5/5

A mastapiece

An all-time favorite. Tragedy that we lost her so young.

Raw and authentic as Janis always was, but more polished and tighter than other of her records (especially those with overly loud Big Brother). Lots of winners here, including "Bobby McGee," a classic among classics, and really no losers on either side. There's also a touch of sweetness to these blues that belies the early death.

Janis Joplin siempre en vinilo. SIEMPRE.

Ah Janis, 3rd member of the 27 Club, whats not to love about the co-star of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel" Her perfectly raw blues voice was a gem of the 60's and an inspiration to so many. Favourite tracks on Pearl have got to be "Mercedes Benz" "Me And Bobby McGee" and "Get It While You Can" A great album which is rightfully on the list imho

Amazing, startling, arresting, wonderful, complex, emotional, and brilliant.

Excellent. Love her energy and her songs are fantastic

Janis Joplin is good as always.

Prachtige stem. Topalbum van een vrouw die veel te vroeg is komen te gaan

cool

I grew up with my parents listening to that album. It's great!

This really felt like a personal experience with Janis Joplin. This is a voice that's raw and real. I listened over and over today.

I was already very familiar with about half of this album and the rest was filled with newly discovered gems.

Its only flaw is that it is too short. Power, vocal agility, and so fucking much heart.

FIVE STARS An all-time classic As is usually the case with those five-stars albums, I won't write a full-blown review here, because others have already written wonderful stuff about this record and there's not much I can add that I feel could be relevant and interesting. This album is just a gem. Go and listen to it a.s.a.p. [Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 994 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 1 (starting with this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 4 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (as I think many others are more important): 3 ]

I have never really listened to a Janis Joplin album before, strangely enough. I knew some of the 'hits,' but nothing really more than that. I now know I was missing out. This rocks!

"I can't take it no more baby And furthermore, I don't intend to" (Move over) "You said you'd try to look for the end of the road You might find out later that the road'll end in Detroit" (Cry baby) Ojalá molar alguna vez la mitad de lo que molaba Janis Joplin <3

PEARL A beautiful, precious, little gem from the sea (where Janis Joplin - oh! such a powerful voice! - rests now). I don't even know who Janis Joplin is, but this posthumous album blew my mind. Just a standard soul album, but with a great band and a passionate voice. The Full Tilt Boogie Band's performance slaps. Setting aside the haunting context of "Buried Alive in the Blues" (what an ironic title), the band's bluesy beats here are irresistibly moving, not undermining the energy of the rest of the album. Her voice is of course, incredible. This album is a great showcase of her voice's vigor (perhaps not, but the empty space in "Buried Alive in the Blues" might give us an idea of what more she could possibly achieve). It's a lasting final statement. It's possibly one of the best soul albums of all time. It's a pearl.

I love this album. All of my favorite Janis songs are on here.

Awesome

Forget the Beatles, This is the sound of the 60s.

The most iconic blues of the women blues.

This is a HEAVY ROTATION album in the Spence house. Her voice. Jesus. And the band is so damn good. I remember one time an 80's hair band shredder that I worked with at a guitar shop said something like "Yes, Janis is a great singer. You'd think she would've had a decent band that was at least proficient..." F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-uck you! This band has it all. Technical chops, feel, groove, psychedelia. I love this record and it really bums me out that Janis was in a better place when this record was made and had plans to be on the up-and-up, given her past addictions. It's a sad story. She was treated horribly as a kid in Texas. Lots of self medicating happening. Which is interesting because her voice and songs are like medicine, in a way.

Classic. 5/5

Love this album, love Janis. I can’t believe I haven’t listened to this album before.

Awesome album

This was an amazing album. Loved it

Great. Jazzy but heavy at times. Love it.

Janis Joplin was a troubled person that left us way too early. She bared herself and put it all out when she sang. Very soulful and heartfelt album. 5 all the way on this one.

Janice has a great blues voice. A Woman Left Lonely is a wild tune, transcending the genre. Half Moon Comes in with this funk rock intro and I'm all for it. Wow what a back half of an album.

Nice

just great

Loved it.

When I bought my first iPod back in 2005, this was the first album I downloaded and basked in the irony of listening to “Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedez Benz” on the then biggest symbol of conspicuous consumption. Anyways, I love this album so much. Janis’s voice is just one of the most powerful forces on earth. Favourite track: “A Woman Left Lonely”

i loved mercedes benz and the opening track. really good

This album is pure GOLD. She’s incredible

Really enjoyed it

Day-um.

SOUUULLL!

What a voice!

What a voice! Blues rock genius released after she died. What a waste...: Best Tracks: Move Over, Half Moon, Me and Bobby McGee

great album, makes me wish I was around in the 60s

Fabuloso. I and Bobby McGee es increíblemente buena canción.

Great album.

very nice listen, reminds me of simpler times and drugs. lots of drugs.

klasika, 5/5

Some great, classic songs here

Excelente, Janis inigualável

uma deusa uma louca

What a voice

Classic Janis.

Voz incrivel, musicas boas!

Amazing.

Holy Shiitttt!!! Legend

Großartig. Kannte ich bis auf 'Booby McGee' und 'Mercedes Benz' natürlich wieder nicht. Wahnsinn.

Great album!

Très sympa

Ah, Janis Joplin ! Bien entendu qu'on allait avoir au moins un album. Ce que je retiens de cet album, c'est Janis Joplin en elle-même. J'ai trouvé les composition très cool, mais pas forcément très marquante. Par contre, cette voix ! Je connaissais déjà la voix de Janis Joplin, avec son côté cassé et ses interprétation intenses. Mais écouter un album entier, c'est une toute autre expérience que d'entendre des extraits çà et là. Elle est très versatile, souvent à fond et elle a une personnalité et un charisme que beaucoup pourraient lui envier ! Je comprends sa popularité et même si j'accroche pas autant que je le voudrais (rapport à l'aspect musical en lui-même), je pense qu'avec d'autres écoutes, je ne ferais qu'accrocher davantage. Mais bon, 4/5 quand même, parce qu'elle est quand même phénoménale.

W sumie to fajne. 4

bra

Janis Joplin was one bad ass bitch, and she had an incredible set of pipes to match. Perfect example of rockstars living their lives fast and dying way, WAY too young. One year she’s the lead singer of Big Brother & The Holding Company having a modest but passionate fan base. The next, after a few years with the band she breaks out into stardom in a huge way, goes solo, and releases a solo album. Finally, she writes one more, Pearl, which releases after her death. Drugs, obviously. Her dealer gave her as well as others a dose way stronger than they were used to. At age 27, she could have been the biggest name in music, but tragically, she died instead. This mirrors so many others who either died of a drug overdose, suicide, or any other reason really at the exact same age. I’m sure you’re familiar with the 27 club popularized by Kurt Cobain, but Janis was a founding member of said club. It’s so weird how patterns can form like that and then become the stuff of haunting urban legends. Now, there is a reason I’m mentioning all of that, and it’s because the knowledge of Janis’s death at a young age is felt when listening to this album, knowing she wasn’t even alive to hear it when it released herself. Pearl is full of raw energy, and it once again proves that if she was still alive, Janis would have only risen higher and higher in popularity. The parallels between her and Kurt are very easy to see. This is the second and final album featuring Janis that I’ve listened to for this project, following her work in the previously mentioned Big Brother & The Holding Company with the album Cheap Thrills, which I gave a 4 star review. Now, I’m going to do the same thing with Pearl, because her singing and the guitar playing are something truly special. There was only one Janis Joplin because no one else could possibly sound like her, and match the electric energy she provided. My one downside to this album is her final song “Mercedes Benz” is pretty bad. It’s not the last song on the album, but it was the last thing she recorded, which does make it special in a messed up sort of way. My personal favorite song on this album was the opener, “Move Over”. I think the album opens on such a badass note that it gets you hyped for the rest, and you probably will remain hyped if you like that first song too. To wrap this one up, Janis lived and died as a rockstar. She was here and then she wasn’t, and that’s probably the way she would have wanted it. Just look at that album art. Look at that cool legend just hanging out, not having a care in the world. That is one bad ass bitch!! Great album, I’m going to give this one 4 out of 5 stars. More of this type of sound would be very welcomed.

Tätä on tullut jo kasarmilla kuunneltua ja on hyvä levy. Joplinin rouhea ääni pääsee oikeuksiinsa.

I didn't know much about Janis Joplin before listening to this record, although I knew one or two of her songs and was aware of her reputation as a tragic character. I've been interested to learn a little more about her as a consequence of listening to this album...and I was blown away by her voice. Absolutely extraordinary tone, emotion, range, and delivery. The style isn't necessarily my cup of tea, but her vocals elevate the material. Not sure I would go on a deep dive, but I can respect the quality.

What a voice she had. Solid folk-jazz album from back to front with some really classic songs on it.

Joplin was definitely an artist on top of her game when she passed. It's a shame that the world lost her so young.

This is a beautiful yet tragic release, being one of the most siginificant posthumous albums of it’s time, if not ever. You can hear the incompleteness in Mercedes Benz, which she recorded the vocals for days before her passing, and in Buried Alive In the Blues, which she was supposed to record them for that day. Something about this makes the record an even more special, yet more tragic, tribute to a young star who had so much ahead of her. Every time I hear Janis I adore what I hear. Her energy and power, to go along with the creative, bluesy rock instrumentation, is a combination for the ages. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: Cry Baby, Me and Bobby McGee, Move Over, My Baby, Get It While You Can

What a voice! I hadn’t listened to that in a very long time and also probably never in full. It’s a good album but the memorable Mercedes Benz but tons of good rock and blues tunes. Solid.

Love it! JJ had so much energy, those tunes are just brilliant.

I go back and forth with Janis, but she shed light on some great tunes and was authentic as a person can be.

Janis </3 Such a powerful voice, such a short life. The story behind Buried Alive in the Blues always makes my heart clench but I'm glad they included it in the album.

cry baby changed my life. i wish janis joplin was my girlfriend and also my mum and my friend and my aunt and voice of a chain smoking angel

A great voice and a great rough bluesy sound. Almost gave it 5* but some of the weaker songs are a bit of filler.

Muito bom, gostei bastante de cry baby

Fantastic stuff. A great voice and catchy, toe tapping blues.

I liked it a lot; her music still feels modern fifty years later.

She's great. Even where you have heard it a million times, there is one moment where she will get to you.

A reminder of what a talent she was. Joplin is in fine voice on Pearl and the material is strong and suits her talents. Never knew that "Buried Alive" was meant to include her vocal track; luckily it works as an instrumental as well. Alongside Hendrix, who also died in 1970, it's interesting to ponder where her musical career may have gone had she not flamed out.

Janis Joplin, a rock-goddess!!

Me gustó mucho. Canta increíble Janis. Ya conocía Me and Bobby McGee y hasta terminé agregando uno a mi playlist, Cry Baby creo. La verdad lo disfruté.

this is where the mercedes Benz song comes from, janis is really good, I like rock in this format, not when its men shrieking about little girls. the accent does wear you down a little, but I like it

I kind of love her rawness in her voice. Just clicks with me for some reason.

That's pretty sick Insane voice

I’ve never sought out Janis Joplin records before but this was lovely as expected. I particularly liked Mercedes Benz and of course Cry Baby.

Loved this, lot of absolute classics

I’m no fan of hippie nonsense, but this album is really good.

I'm always pleasantly surprised with Janis. Her and dusty are top tier "white girls doing black music" Enjoyable and bluesy. I find that I enjoy the instrumentals just as much as her vocal performances.

Me and Bobby McGee is an all time great song, written by Kris Kristofferson. Love the blues rock, hippie vibes.

Joplin's vocals are so iconic and recognizable. Sound is a mix of Elvis and Led Zeplin.

4.3 Really good album from janis joplin

First song is stuck in my head now.

I'm inlove with Jenis and that album!!! so bad she died so early ): my beloved

Amazing album from an amazing singer. So much power and passion in her voice.

Another good vibe album. While nothing here stood out to me as something amazing per se, the album had a lot of great songs and really no misses. Janice Joplin is a legend and it’s collections like this that show why. Favorites: Me and Bobby McGee, Get it While You Can

Our first entry from the 27 Club. A posthumous album from a fellow Texan, but that's about all the context I had going into this album. I should look more into it after this listen though. Drugs and musical talent usually make for a hell of a Wikipedia page. This album was really well produced! The Full Tilt Boogie Band earns its namesake here, especially on Buried Alive In The Blues, but never overpowers Janis. The keys add such a bright color to the entire album, piano or Hammond, and the bassline stays lively throughout. The songwriting is top-notch as well, really tender lyrics but I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. The real attraction here is Janis Joplin's singing. Wow! That raspy mezzo soprano is captivating, and that wildness belies a disciplined control of her vibrato. She's got a voice like a lit cigarette in a barrel of fireworks. It's raunchy, full-throttle, hard-charging, and BIG! The vocal affectations on Mercedes Benz are a bit over the top, but you can tell she put her soul on the track here. 7/10, will round up to a 4 star because of that great voice Favorites: - A Woman Left Lonely - Half Moon (FUNKY) - My Baby - Me and Bobby McGee - Get It While You Can

3,5/5

Really fun, jovial, energetic album. Never went beyond a couple well known songs with Janis Joplin, so this was my first full listen of an album of hers; gotta say, I kinda loved it. Such a unique, powerful voice, and the music was a lot more heavy 60s-style rock than the hippie stuff I was led to believe. A couple songs I was lukewarm on, but the record overall was a damn good one. Strong 4/5

Funkier that I was expecting. A good funk rock workout with one of the most iconic female rock vocalists of all time. The only woman I ever knew who could scream softly. There are also a few slower numbers, like her take on Me & Bobby McGee. She slightly overeggs the pudding trying to improvise and make it her own, but a fine performance of a great song all the same.

Favourites:Me and Bobby McGee, Cry Baby and Mercedes Benz.

Really fun! 4.5

One thing about me is I love a singer with a unique voice. Janis Joplin, with her distinct scratchiness, was certainly one of those singers, and she used it to great effect on this album. On tracks like Cry Baby and Get It While You Can, she shows a great mastery of how to use intensity to sell emotion, practically screaming on the choruses but scaling it back down on the verses. Her voice is the main appeal here, but she's also a solid songwriter, although the standout track for me is her excellent cover of Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee, where she transitions from the bluesy soul of most of the record into a more country adjacent sound. The band here does a solid job as well, with some particularly catchy organ sections. It does suffer from some lack of variety, but when you have such a passionate singer at the center it's hardly even an issue.

INCREIBLEEEE, LA AMOOOO! Su voz es única y hermosa, su música acogedora y cálida, lejos de cómo percibí la música de los Stones. Me encantó!!!! Lo amé demasiado Fue una propuesta indudablemente extraordinaria para la época

Probs more like a 3.5. Decent though

Quite good. Such a unique voice gone too soon.

super energetic album! Really great throughout honestly

Really liked this album and finding out more about her life

This was so fun and I just love her voice. The Mercedes-Benz song was great. She has great energy. This is another artist who I've heard so much about but have never really listened to. I really enjoyed it.

Somehow I kinda enjoyed this album, even though I am not all that keen on blues and soul music. Perhaps it is the fact that the vocals reminded me of a lot of other female singers from later rock bands such as Debbie harry, Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde and Lzzy Hale. I feel like they were heavily influenced by Janis Joplin's rough and wide ranged vocal style that would be popular in female fronted rock and metal bands. So there's no way I could bring myself to hate this album.

Janis is always an incredible listen, though her voice is so intense I don't usually want any more at the end of the record. Has some classics like Bobby McGee.

Powerful voice; not really my cup of tea but enjoyed it.

🫡

😃

Amazing album. Never listened to it before, and I loved it. Had no idea it was a posthumous release. Every track is solid.

It's a really enjoyable listen. Amazing vocals and blues. It's funny as I only had the Cheap Thrills album earlier in the week. This is more polished and professional sounding but I actually prefer the 'rough around the edges' Cheap Thrills album. Same rating though I think whereas that was a high 4 stars this is a low 4 stars.

I was actually looking to get into more female rock artists so I loved this as my first must able to listen to !! Favs definitely move over ! but I will have to let it simmer a few more times before truly ranking any song.

God i fucking love her voice. Why don’t I listen to her literally ever? Cry Baby omfg. Me and Bobby McGee. So good. This snowballed into me having Piece of My Heart stuck in my head for a good 5+ hours (performed by me, driving home from the ferry, in gibberish)

Is this song (Bobby McGee) about the trials of pre-cellphone relationships? I didn't think I would enjoy this, her voice is not my favorite. I ended up really liking it, much mellower than I thought.

RIP Janis. It's nice to hear some less-played tracks. Inevitably there's a sense of what-could-have-been. The a capella Mercedes Benz is heartbreaking.

No hay nadie que pueda replicar ese tono de voz tan único y especial. Realmente artistas de las que ya no hay. Igual he de admitir que en un punto se vuelve un poco cansador siempre el mismo recurso vocal, pero es que como no presumirlo.

dang Janice from the Muppets sure has some pipes

Such talent. RIP.

Very cool

Didn't know what to expect going in to this one but loved it, the music is wonderful it's funky at times and other times rock or folky or country all while getting hit with Janis and her powerful voice

Awesome stuff, but not much variety.

I mean, who doesn’t like Jackie Jormp-Jomp?

Yknow, you sorta think Janis Joplin is an overrated anomaly until you hear 1) Ball and Chain, and 2) Cry Baby. The latter is here, obviously. What a goddamn torch song, what a belter. It's the little bit of extra sauce that helps paint Joplin as more than the hippie-dippy stereotype that even many of her fans revere her as. That's sorta the magic of Pearl. It's the sort of icon that lots of people haven't really delved into. Sure, we all know Bobby McGee, so well that the song has almost become meaningless. Fewer of us know Mercedes Benz, a (presumably) ironic consumerist prayer. But are we familiar with the funk of Half Moon, where her voice smooths out into a surprising timbre nothing like that brazen rasp that defines our collective notion of her? What about the hedonistic yet chilling prescience of bluesy “Get it While You Can”? The ache of “A Woman Left Lonely”? We probably should be. Janis was a bigger loss than I think most of us realize. This album clicked for me before I was in my vinyl era. A good relisten and this is on the list to get on proper wax. Strong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️