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Now I'm quite an old boy, but I have always loved Janis.

When she sings you know she means it, I would say that we have not had a singer with her gut wrenching, emotional wrought, vocal talent since.

Am I right?

Yeah she was good, though I have always preferred Nina Simone or Aretha Franklin when I am in the mood for a bit emotional pain.

Yeah she was good, though I have always preferred Nina Simone or Aretha Franklin when I am in the mood for a bit emotional pain.

Yeah Nina was good also, and I just remebered Johnny Cash.

Still though, there is summit special about Janis.

My uncle played me some Joplin when I was about 14 and I was blown away. I always thought he was an old fuddy duddy till he played me that and then told me he saw Led Zep in concert too. Funny how one little thing can alter how you view someone

Just listening to some Etta James - maybe junkies just don't sing as well as they used to, though Amy Winehouse seems to be trying her best.

Just listening to some Etta James - maybe junkies just don't sing as well as they used to, though Amy Winehouse seems to be trying her best.

Hey you may have a point there! Poor old Amy, great voice bloody strange woman.

My uncle played me some Joplin when I was about 14 and I was blown away. I always thought he was an old fuddy duddy till he played me that and then told me he saw Led Zep in concert too. Funny how one little thing can alter how you view someone

I'm trying to remember the first time I heard Janis.... nope can't recall, it's gone in the mist of time.

Might as well place a couple of songs...

This is my favourite, though I don't know why - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISX2oSExIA&feature=related

Though she's probably more famous for this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-TR2tN9Mk&feature=related

For some reason I was reading up on the Beat generation and how it segued into the Haight-Ashbury scene the other day, probably collecting evidence against hippies but it just seems there was originality and culture from those times that have oft been imitated but never quite achieved.

For Nina Simone fans, try find the Remixed and Reimagined album, a great album.

Here's a sample - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxptSqzHGfw

Might as well place a couple of songs...

This is my favourite, though I don't know why - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISX2oSExIA&feature=related

Though she's probably more famous for this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-TR2tN9Mk&feature=related

For some reason I was reading up on the Beat generation and how it segued into the Haight-Ashbury scene the other day, probably collecting evidence against hippies but it just seems there was originality and culture from those times that have oft been imitated but never quite achieved.

For Nina Simone fans, try find the Remixed and Reimagined album, a great album.

Here's a sample - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxptSqzHGfw

Yeah that's one of my faves too.:D Although Ilike this one better http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XsuufxE24X0

Just to imagine being at Monterey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb4t0Mxq3J4&feature=related

Another event I noticed was the Six Gallery readings in '55, where Ginsberg first read Howl but it seemed the apex of the Beat generation.

One of my favourite books remains The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, especially when one's reads through Kerouac, Burroughs and onto Kesey.

Imagine being a Neal Cassady, the whole era is fascinating.

Yeah that's one of my faves too.:D Although Ilike this one better http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XsuufxE24X0

She wasn't a pretty lass...

Just to imagine being at Monterey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb4t0Mxq3J4&feature=related

She wasn't a pretty lass...


Fuck me! Like I said when she sings you know she means it. I've gone all goosebumpy now.

No she was not a pretty lass, awesome, but not pretty at all.

Was that Mama Cass I saw in the audiance with her mouth hanging open there?

Here's another Nina Simone remix, I actually met Felix da Housecat and complained that I'd bought his Playboy House album, which sucked, he was pretty pissed and said Dj's sometimes do these albums for the money, I asked if I could have my money back then.

Anyway, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxTsPYUIvw&feature=related

Oy music...

The best remix ever of an old song, however, is this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhOfC4FOaeE

She is proof that a voice doesn't have to be pretty to be powerful. *nod*

She had soul.

...course, the sound wasn't technically original...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jRX69mxcE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ryQzSYY5pQ&feature=related

Am I right?

Not in the slightest.

Not in the slightest.

Liar!:eek2:

great now i got white rabbit in my head.

Now I'm quite an old boy, but I have always loved Janis.

When she sings you know she means it, I would say that we have not had a singer with her gut wrenching, emotional wrought, vocal talent since.

Am I right?
you dont hear people sing like that because it rips your vocal cords to shreds. if she hadnt died she would have lost what voice she had.

great now i got white rabbit in my head.

* follows the rabbit *

you dont hear people sing like that because it rips your vocal cords to shreds. if she hadnt died she would have lost what voice she had.

Meh!:p

Meh!:p
same to you!

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me, a Mercedes Benz?"

Now I'm quite an old boy, but I have always loved Janis.
So why did you mis-spell her name in the thread title? :p

As Ash said, Joplin was one-of-a-kind largely because what she did was horribly bad for her voice. No one would imitate her today unless they wanted to guarantee themselves a short, if awesome, life as a singer.

Janis is a direct link to the kind of life and emotive power that was first really heard and recorded in Billie Holiday. Those two are soul sisters expressing similar kinds of pain in two very different styles and eras, but the link is unmistakable.

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me, a Mercedes Benz?"

my parents used to sing that on car rides.


I love me some Janis...Kozmic Blues, Try, Bobby McGee...love them

I prefer Ann Wilson of Heart-she has incredible power, range and can be soft or screaming

check it out in this performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W52PP3lYlUs

So why did you mis-spell her name in the thread title? :p

Dyslexic!:p

As Ash said, Joplin was one-of-a-kind largely because what she did was horribly bad for her voice. No one would imitate her today unless they wanted to guarantee themselves a short, if awesome, life as a singer.

I don't think thats the quality I love so much. It the shear emotion in the voice rather than the throat ripping sound she produces.

Janis is a direct link to the kind of life and emotive power that was first really heard and recorded in Billie Holiday. Those two are soul sisters expressing similar kinds of pain in two very different styles and eras, but the link is unmistakable.

*nods*