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This reminds me yet again that I need to listen to more Janis. Sad knowing the context, but the music is so so good.
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This reminds me yet again that I need to listen to more Janis. Sad knowing the context, but the music is so so good.
This is a great album, very bluesy, with distinctive elements from that time (Hammond organ, but wisely used), and her voice. What a voice! All killers no fillers, and the highlights of the album are just stellar. Move Over, by itself, deserves more than 5 stars.
In one of those ironic twists that this list throws up, after yesterday’s album about how lovely drugs are, today’s is from someone who died after a heroin overdose. Janis Joplin had an amazing voice, but on this posthumously released album you can already hear it cracking in places and she sounds much older than her 27 years. The highlight is Mercedes Benz where her prayers gradually get scaled back from a new car to the next round of drinks. RIP Janis.
When Joplin (supposedly) said to Leonard Cohen "we are ugly but we have the music", I'm not sure she was right about the former, but she definitely was about the latter. This is my first time hearing her at all, and holy shit she's incredible. This is the first album I'm gonna give 5 stars to on my first listen.