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Janis Joplin

Chorlton said:
you ever see that film "office space" there is a guy explaining how it doesn't get any better than when michael bolton belts out 'when a man loves a woman' to an aghast colleague


that feeling of aghast-ness is my where i'm at right now.
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No


And good :p You can take purism too far you know
 
I like her and her passion, but she couldn't really sing tbh. I like her power, but sometimes her lack of control makes me wince.

If you're a big Janis fan it's well worth tracking down a recently released film called Festival Express. Janis and a host of others, including The Grateful Dead, on a special train travelling from festival to festival. Plenty of entertaining drunk moments and singalongs* as they wend their way along, not least the incident when - after running out of booze - they stop the whole train mid-track and a crowd of rock stars literally empty the nearest liquor store.

Good fun. She may not have been anywhere near the world's best singer, or even a very good singer, but you can't fault her spirit.


* Warning: this film contains some very bad singing and some terrible hair
 
Yes, I want to see this film too.
Janis was a unique lady, I like a lot of her music though sometimes her voice was a little too shouty for me.
She was a great performer but her life was rather sad.
 
I think her voice fits in a broad 'blues shouter' category, except she's more country blues.

I like raw sounding music: the sparse sufferer's quality that brings together gypsy flamenco singing, good roots reggae and real blues.

Here's a cool blues shouter you don't hear so much of these days. And a bonus of James Earl Jones doing the 'Jazz Club' intro....:cool:

 
blossie33 said:
Yes, I want to see this film too.
Janis was a unique lady, I like a lot of her music though sometimes her voice was a little too shouty for me.
She was a great performer but her life was rather sad.
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Put atune on of hers you like bossie please :)
 
thats a tune for sure

this is very cool and is sounding great
san fran 68 :cool: (ETA: youtube nerds say April 25, 1967)


not saying she doesnt deserve to have gone solo, but her voice works really well within the rest of this band - in smaller doses
 
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danny la rouge said:
I know you said this ten years ago, but it's a strange comparison. You know, to come up with out of the blue.
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"It's like that, but different".

What sort of monster would compare two famous female singers of the late 60s/early 70s? Who on earth would do such a thing?
 
You don't get out if it that easily. I demand that you remember exactly what was going through your head ten years ago!

Why didn't you compare Janis with say, Elkie Brooks?
 
I love Janis - and she was a fucking great singer - she projected raw emotion like few others- tearing her heart out. You cant help but feel the pain, yearning, excitement, desperation and passion in her singing - and big brother were a fantastic band for her as well.
I love this one - because it could be an assertive, confident statement of someone expressing their sexuality on their own terms - but in her hands her own desperate insecurity, yearning and vulnerability make it almost unbearably poignant and sad.

 
I went through a phase of really liking her, but I don't identify so much with the emotionalism of her music these days. Kozmic Blues was the best.

 
I've always loved Cohens love song to Pearl.I can imagine them both going up and down in the lift and their joy about conquering technology:

 
sojourner said:
God I fucking hate it when you get bumps this old. I re-read what I posted and just think 'you TWAT' :facepalm:

Ftr, I still love her though ;)
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I know. There's 14-year-old thread that's been active lately and I cringe every time I see it resurface. I'm not telling you which one though.
 
saw Little Girl Blue last night.

It's very well done, there aren't any particular surprises, or previously unheard interviewees, but it's very well put together. I was a bit worried about it having the likes of Pink sharing their reflections on JJ's influence, but fortunately they only crop up right at the end, for a dew seconds each, so weren't too annoying.
 
belboid said:
saw Little Girl Blue last night.

It's very well done, there aren't any particular surprises, or previously unheard interviewees, but it's very well put together. I was a bit worried about it having the likes of Pink sharing their reflections on JJ's influence, but fortunately they only crop up right at the end, for a dew seconds each, so weren't too annoying.
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No quotes from Bono then ;)

Thanks - that's interesting, I'd like to get to see it if possible.
 
How many cigarettes did she have to smoke and how many bottles of whiskey a day did she drink to to get a voice like that? Music for the homeless or suicidal, and she looked like her voice .
 
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Kesher said:
How many cigarettes did she have to smoke and how many bottles of whiskey a day did she drink to to get a voice like that? Music for the homeless or suicidal, and she looked like her voice .
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Couldn't disagree more,as someone said up thread she was from a long line of blues shouters.The only other white woman I'd say in that class was Streatham's Jo-Ann Kelly:

 
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