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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Janis was complete when she was playing with Big Brother, whatever the tensions and insecurities. It is a marriage of mutual dependance and both contribute enormously to the relationship. The later albums, Kozmic Blues and Pearl, without Big Bro, lack this passion, naivety, excitement and raw energy. This first tentative album does not have the power of Cheap Thrills but it is beautiful none-the-less. It's embryonic, not just for Janis but of the whole San Fransisco mid-sixties music scene. This is an album at the birth of psychedelic rock. 'Light is (indeed) Faster than Sound'. Then you have 'Coo Coo' and 'All is Loneliness' - only in the summer of love could these tracks blossom.
Did I say naive? This is naive in spades and gains much from being rushed, fresh and under produced. 'Down on Me', 'Call on Me' and 'Women is Losers' are archetypal Janis tracks. For the techies and pefectionists this album isn't. It's flawed, innocent, tinny some say and recorded in a hurry, straight off the street, to satisfy the band's live audiences craving for a record of their show. For me this is a landmark, coming of age album and one that fits perfectly into its unique niche in rock history. Rest your Soul Janis - this was your sanctuary if only you could have realised it.
Did I say naive? This is naive in spades and gains much from being rushed, fresh and under produced. 'Down on Me', 'Call on Me' and 'Women is Losers' are archetypal Janis tracks. For the techies and pefectionists this album isn't. It's flawed, innocent, tinny some say and recorded in a hurry, straight off the street, to satisfy the band's live audiences craving for a record of their show. For me this is a landmark, coming of age album and one that fits perfectly into its unique niche in rock history. Rest your Soul Janis - this was your sanctuary if only you could have realised it.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Don't expect Big Brother's acid-rock roar. This is completely unlike their classic Cheap Thrills, with a much thinner sound but still an interesting mixture of blues, folk-rock, and psychedelic rock. I like Janis' vocals on Call On Me although she doesn't sound quite as desperate as usual; my other favorites include the bluesy, droning "All Is Loneliness" where Joplin sounds like nowhere else (but it's too short!), and "Women Is Losers" where she demonstrates the seeds of her genius that would fully flower on albums like Kozmic Blues and Pearl. It's a solid rock album, but not as memorable as "Cheap Thrills". I think the band were still finding their feet here. Only for Joplin/Big Brother completists.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is Janis at her earliest and she rocks! Although the material on this album is not so fraught as her later works (Ball and Chain being the classic in my view), it makes great and relaxing listening, bluesy yet mellow. In my view this album is a appetiser of what was to later come from Janis, you hear this and you know she was going to go somewhere from there. Sad that her later masterpieces were so obviously tied in with her fraught personal life and her impending death, but the same can be said of most great rock and roll heroes.
Janis lives!
Janis lives!
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Janis Joplin in her beginning with Big Brother and The Holding Company, her band.
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