Janis (1993 album)


Janis is a compilation album by Janis Joplin, released in 1993. The album features a broad overview of her career from her very first recording in December 1962, to the last songs she recorded during the sessions for Pearl just a few days before her death in October 1970.

Critical reception

Janis was voted the seventh best reissue of 1993 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll; Robert Christgau—the poll's supervisor—called it "a smart, audiowise set that not only gets Joplin's achievement right but helps us understand it".

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" – 2:45
  2. "Trouble in Mind" – 3:03
  3. "Hesitation Blues" – 4:05
  4. "Easy Rider" – 2:24
  5. "Coo Coo" – 2:05
  6. "Down on Me" – 2:06
  7. "The Last Time" – 2:17
  8. "All Is Loneliness" – 2:19
  9. "Call on Me" – 3:37
  10. "Women Is Losers" – 5:08
  11. "Intruder" – 2:32
  12. "Light Is Faster than Sound" – 2:32
  13. "Bye, Bye Baby" – 2:39
  14. "Farewell Song" – 4:24
  15. "Flower in the Sun" – 3:13
  16. "Misery'n" – 4:09
  17. "Road Block" – 6:12
  18. "Ball and Chain" – 8:07

    Disc two

  19. "Combination of the Two" – 5:52
  20. "I Need a Man to Love" – 4:53
  21. "Piece of My Heart" – 4:28
  22. "Turtle Blues" – 4:30
  23. "Oh, Sweet Mary" – 4:16
  24. "Catch Me Daddy" – 4:56
  25. "Summertime" – 4:07
  26. "Kozmic Blues" – 4:24
  27. "Try " – 3:58
  28. "One Good Man" – 4:11
  29. "Dear Landlord" – 2:33
  30. "To Love Somebody" – 5:19
  31. "As Good as You've Been to This World" – 5:27
  32. "Little Girl Blue" – 3:51
  33. "Work Me, Lord" – 6:38
  34. "Raise Your Hand" – 2:17
  35. "Maybe" – 4:07

    Disc three

  36. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 4:49
  37. "One Night Stand" – 3:10
  38. "Tell Mama" – 5:48
  39. "Try " – 8:16
  40. "Cry Baby" – 4:59
  41. "Move Over" – 3:42
  42. "A Woman Left Lonely" – 3:29
  43. "Half Moon" – 3:53
  44. "Happy Birthday, John " – 1:10
  45. "My Baby" – 3:45
  46. "Mercedes Benz" – 2:14
  47. "Trust Me" – 3:17
  48. "Get It While You Can" – 3:25
  49. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 4:29

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