Released November 23, 1993 Label Legacy Recordings | Length 195:50 Release date 23 November 1993 Genre Rock music | |
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Recorded December 1962 – September 26, 1970 Similar Janis Joplin albums, Other albums |
Janis joplins greatest hits best of janis joplin full album
Janis is a compilation album by Janis Joplin, released in 1993. The album features a broad overview of her career from her very first recording in December 1962, to the last songs she did during the sessions for Pearl just a few days before her death in October 1970.
Contents
- Janis joplins greatest hits best of janis joplin full album
- Critical reception
- Disc one
- Disc two
- Disc three
- Songs
- References
Critical reception
Janis was voted the seventh best reissue of 1993 in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll; Robert Christgau—the poll's supervisor—called it "a smart, audiowise set that not only gets Joplin's achievement right but helps us understand it".
Disc one
- "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" – 2:45 (Janis 1975)
- "Trouble in Mind" – 3:03 (previously unreleased^)
- "Hesitation Blues" – 4:05 (previously unreleased)
- "Easy Rider" – 2:24 (previously unreleased)
- "Coo Coo" – 2:05 (previously unreleased)
- "Down on Me" – 2:06 (previously unreleased*)
- "The Last Time" – 2:17 (previously unreleased)
- "All Is Loneliness" – 2:19 (previously unreleased*)
- "Call on Me" – 3:37 (previously unreleased)
- "Women Is Losers" – 5:08 (previously unreleased)
- "Intruder" – 2:32 (previously unreleased)
- "Light Is Faster than Sound" – 2:32 (previously unreleased)
- "Bye, Bye Baby" – 2:39 (Big Brother & the Holding Company 1967)
- "Farewell Song" – 4:24 (previously unreleased**)
- "Flower in the Sun" – 3:13 (In Concert 1972)
- "Misery'n" – 4:09 (Farewell Song 1982)
- "Road Block" – 6:12 (previously unreleased*)
- "Ball and Chain" – 8:07 (In Concert 1972)
^ A different version was released on Janis 1975 * A different version was released on In Concert 1972 ** A different version was released on Farewell Song 1982
Disc two
- "Combination of the Two" – 5:52
- "I Need a Man to Love" – 4:53
- "Piece of My Heart" – 4:28
- "Turtle Blues" – 4:30
- "Oh, Sweet Mary" – 4:16
- "Catch Me Daddy" – 4:56
- "Summertime" – 4:07
- "Kozmic Blues" – 4:24
- "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" – 3:58
- "One Good Man" – 4:11
- "Dear Landlord" (previously unissued) – 2:33
- "To Love Somebody" – 5:19
- "As Good as You've Been to This World" – 5:27
- "Little Girl Blue" – 3:51
- "Work Me, Lord" – 6:38
- "Raise Your Hand" (live) – 2:17
- "Maybe" (live) – 4:07
Disc three
- "Me and Bobby McGee" (alternate version) – 4:49
- "One Night Stand" (alternate take) – 3:10
- "Tell Mama" (live) – 5:48
- "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (live) – 8:16
- "Cry Baby" – 4:59
- "Move Over" – 3:42
- "A Woman Left Lonely" – 3:29
- "Half Moon" – 3:53
- "Happy Birthday, John (Happy Trails)" – 1:10
- "My Baby" – 3:45
- "Mercedes Benz" – 2:14
- "Trust Me" – 3:17
- "Get It While You Can" – 3:25
- "Me and Bobby McGee" – 4:29
Songs
1What Good Can Drinkin' Do2:45
2Trouble in Mind3:03
3Hesitation Blues4:05
References
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