Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Janis Joplin Title: Box of Pearls: Janis Joplin Collection Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Original Release Date: 8/31/1999 Release Date: 8/31/1999 Album Type: Box set, Original recording remastered Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal Styles: Blues Rock, Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) Number of Discs: 5 SwapaCD Credits: 5 UPC: 074646593721 |
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Janis Joplin was one of the most exhilarating performers of an era blessed with riveting stage artists, but all but her most emphatic champions must concede her recorded oeuvre is problematic. With Big Brother & the Ho... more » |
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Amazon.com Janis Joplin was one of the most exhilarating performers of an era blessed with riveting stage artists, but all but her most emphatic champions must concede her recorded oeuvre is problematic. With Big Brother & the Holding Company she was surrounded by up-from-the-streets cohorts who were spiritually attuned to Joplin, even if they weren't always musically in tune. After one rushed, premature effort for the Mainstream label, Big Brother hit the top of the charts with one of the touchstones of the San Francisco sound, Cheap Thrills. Barraged by critics who believed Joplin's skills as a blues and soul singer were being squandered in a psychedelic setting, the toast of Haight-Ashbury went solo with the up-and-down I Got Them Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama. Joplin was hitting her stride during the 1970 Pearl sessions when she died of a drug overdose at age 27. The album's posthumous release was a critical and commercial smash. Box of Pearls binds the 1999 remastered and expanded versions of the aforementioned albums and tosses in a five-track rarities EP entitled, appropriately enough, Rare Pearls. Much of Box of Pearls is brilliant while portions are badly dated, but it's all Joplin. --Steven Stolder Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsForever the Queen The Expert | New Jersey, USA | 04/09/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is the best Joplin compilation out there. Love each record and the bonus EP. Janis will forever be the queen of rock and roll and every music collection needs this set." Blown away again Amanda Joan Frey | Brooklyn, NY USA | 04/21/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "Wow. What can I say? This is a great box set. It covers all of Janis's career from Big Brother to The Kozmic Blues Band to The full tilt boogie band. Plus all of the extra songs are amazing on here as well. The booklet is informative for people just getting into Janis, but redundant for the rest of us. I would recommend this to anyone who either loves Janis, or just wants to get a full perspective of her." A must have for Janis fans! Anne Rakowiecki | Chicago | 06/05/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "This wonderful, five-disc set includes all the Janis basics; her two albums with Big Brother & the Holding Co (Self-titled and Cheap Thrills), her first solo album with the Kozmic Blues Band (I Got Dem Old Kozmic Blues Again, Mama!), her final studio album with her Full Tilt Boogie Band (Pearl), and a disc of rare, never-before-released tracks (Rare Pearls). All of it is amazing material, in my opinion, from the tamer earlier Big Brother tracks, to the screeching guitars and screaming vocals found on Cheap Thrills, to the soulful blues of Janis's first solo album, to the vocal masterpieces that make up Janis's last album.
I would recommend this set to...well, anyone...but I would most recommend it to just-starting-out Janis fans; this set has, like I said, all the basics, then, if you're just dying to get ahold of every single track she ever recorded (like I am!), there are a lot - A LOT - of Janis "Best of" compilations that each have different live versions of songs, so you can hunt through those and buy single mp3s on itunes or Amazon, then there's Live at Winterland with Big Brother, and finally Farewell Song is a great Janis compilation that's sort of a ragtag collection of rare songs/versions of songs. Also, the three-disc set called "Janis" has a lot of great earlier material as well as her birthday message for John Lennon. And lastly, I would highly recommend going to YouTube and looking up "young Janis Joplin," because there are a bunch of incredible recordings of Janis singing real gritty bluegrass, folk, and blues. ("No Reason for Livin'" is my favorite -- look it up!) At the end of "Bo Diddley" on Rare Pearls, keep listening on because there's a snippet of Janis talking about a particularly good London concert. And we get to hear her laugh! Isn't that the icing on the cake or what. Buy this collection, end of story." |
