Tracklist (CD)
| 1-1 | | Down On Me | | 2:06 | | 1-2 | | Coo Coo | | 1:58 | | 1-3 | | Women Is Losers | | 2:04 | | 1-4 | | Bye, Bye Baby | | 2:38 | | 1-5 | | Ball And Chain (Live) | | 8:04 | | 1-6 | | Roadblock | | 5:32 | | 1-7 | | Piece Of My Heart | | 4:15 |
See more tracks| 1-8 | | Misery'n | | 4:10 | | 1-9 | | I Need A Man To Love | | 4:53 | | 1-10 | | Summertime | | 3:59 | | 1-11 | | Flower In The Sun (Live) | | 3:11 | | 1-12 | | Farewell Song (Live) | | 4:58 | | 1-13 | | Raise Your Hand (Live) | | 2:27 | | 1-14 | | To Love Somebody (Live) | | 5:14 | | 1-15 | | Kozmic Blues (Live) | | 5:05 | | 2-1 | | Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) | | 3:57 | | 2-2 | | Maybe | | 3:40 | | 2-3 | | One Good Man | | 4:10 | | 2-4 | | Little Girl Blue | | 3:50 | | 2-5 | | Work Me, Lord | | 6:37 | | 2-6 | | Tell Mama (Live) | | 6:39 | | 2-7 | | Move Over | | 3:41 | | 2-8 | | Cry Baby | | 3:57 | | 2-9 | | A Woman Left Lonely | | 3:28 | | 2-10 | | Half Moon | | 3:52 | | 2-11 | | My Baby | | 3:44 | | 2-12 | | Me And Bobby McGee | | 4:30 | | 2-13 | | Mercedes Benz | | 1:47 | | 2-14 | | Trust Me | | 3:16 | | 2-15 | | Get It While You Can | | 3:25 | | 2-16 | | Mercedes Benz - Remix | | 3:45 |
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Review
Janis Joplin didn't have time to leave a sizable legacy. And aside from her posthumous Pearl, her albums didn't always support the shifting weight of her physically rigorous talent. So The Essential Janis Joplin is accurately named and better than other, similarly titled compilations: Unlike her box sets or her skimpy Greatest Hits, this two-disc, thirty-track anthology gets the balance right for everyone but collectors and completists. Essential combines all necessary album tracks (including almost all of Pearl) with satisfying… Read More live renditions. Capable of both a respectful rendering of George and Ira Gershwin's "Summertime" and a sweaty reworking of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," Joplin remains the ultimate rock interpreter -- the iconoclast who could rewrite songs with a single scream. BARRY WALTERS
(RS 914 â January 3, 2003)
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