Pearl
 | By Janis Joplin Sony, 1999, Audio CD Customer Rating: 31 reviews Recommend |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: JOPLIN,JANIS
Title: PEARL
Street Release Date: 08/31/1999
Genre: ROCK/POP
Janis Joplin made the blues her own. Though she didn't live to finish this album before her 1970 death from a heroin overdose, her intense passion and frantic cries of pain and ecstasy were enough to make Pearl one of the most memorable recordings of her era. Her band does fill up some vinyl with the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues," but it's the vocals that make this album worth hearing these many decades later. Listen to the tortured heartbreak of "Cry Baby" or the hopeful declarations of Kris Kristofferson's "Me & Bobby McGee" and understand why Joplin remains an essential, if tragic, figure in pop. This reissue of Joplin's final album includes four live bonus tracks recorded during the 1970 Canadian Festival Express Tour. — Steve Appleford
- Move Over
- Cry Baby
- Woman Left Lonely
- Half Moon
- Buried Alive in the Blues
- My Baby
- Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band
- Mercedes Benz
- Trust Me
- Get It While You Can
- Tell Mama [Live][#][*]
- Little Girl Blue [Live][#][*]
- Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live][#][*]
- Cry Baby [Live][#][*]
Title: Pearl
Sales Rank: 2385 in Music
Artist: Janis Joplin
Label: Sony, 1999-08-31, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
Item Dimensions: 1 pounds
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches, 0.2 pounds
- a great talents last work.
- THis woman was talented in a way that most modern singers can't even come close to.
And this was a great disc from her and more would have followed if she hadn't blown it all to the grave with drugs. Hard Drugs suck and I don't buy the argument that hard drugs made rock great , most… More reviews
- Still shines
- Joplin's songs on a sadly sole solo release groove hard enough on their own to warrant embrace then and now; the songwriting itself aids Pearl's good fortune even more than those overly-blused vocals, providing the rare complimentary apparatus for such a soulful scratching. More reviews
- So glad to hear Janis Joplin again!
- I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed this "album", now a CD, in my younger days. So excited to hear Janis again...what memories this brought back! More reviews
- Janis at her best
- I've always been a HUGE Janis fan. This
CD is so good, I've had it in every format
they've put it on. LP, 8-track, cassette and
now CD. You won't be disappointed.… More reviews
- A Rare Pearl
- I own the Box of Pearls which includes all of the recordings that Janis ever made. I especially like the Pearl album because it is a large part of her history. She died before the album was ever released, hints the name Pearl (her nickname). It may not have been the same as her other albums, but still I find it interesting… More reviews
