18 Essential Songs

18 Essential Songs
Compilation album by Janis Joplin
Released January 24, 1995
Recorded Various Recording Dates
Genre Rock, blues
Length 69:39
Label Columbia
Producer Jorma Kaukonen, Bob Shad, John Phillip, Lou Adler, Elliot Mazur, Gabriel Mekler, Paul A. Rothchild
Janis Joplin chronology
This is Janis Joplin
(1995)		 18 Essential Songs
(1995)		 The Collection
(1995)

18 Essential Songs is a collection of songs recorded throughout Janis Joplin's career (in both career and with Big Brother & The Holding Company), released in 1995 on Columbia. It reached gold RIAA certification on April 12, 1999.

Reception

The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "18 Essential Songs is a one-disc distillation of the triple-disc Janis box set. Running 70 minutes, it is a more extensive best-of than the ten-track 1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits album. But it is denied "first pick" status because, unlike that album, it does not contain the hit version of Joplin's only number one single, "Me and Bobby McGee." (It does, however, contain an alternate demo version of that song.)".[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing

  1. Trouble In Mind (Richard M. Jones) – 2:54
  2. Down On Me (trad., arr. Joplin) – 2:05 (from "Big Brother and the Holding Company")
  3. Bye Bye Baby (Powell Saint John) – 2:38 (from "Big Brother & The Holding Company")
  4. Ball And Chain (Big Mama Thornton) – 8:13 (recorded live 6/17/67 at Monterey Pop Festival)
  5. Piece Of My Heart (Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Russell) – 4:26
  6. I Need A Man To Love (Joplin, Sam Andrew) – 4:51 (from Cheap Thrills)
  7. Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:06 (from "Cheap Thrills")
  8. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Ragovoy, Chip Taylor) – 3:56 (from I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!)
  9. One Good Man (Joplin) – 4:09 (from "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!")
  10. Kozmic Blues (Joplin, Gabriel Mekler) – 4:22 (from "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!")
  11. Raise Your Hand (Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) – 2:18
  12. Tell Mama (Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Wilbur Terrell) – 5:47
  13. Move Over (Joplin) – 3:40 (from Pearl)
  14. Mercedes Benz (Joplin, Mike McClure, Bob Neuwirth) – 1:46
  15. Get It While You Can (Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) – 3:23
  16. Half Moon (Johanna Hall, John Hall) – 3:52 (from "Pearl")
  17. Trust Me (Bobby Womack) – 3:15 (from "Pearl")
  18. Me And Bobby McGee-alternate demo; recorded in mono (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 3:58 (from "Pearl")

Personnel

Production

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Sales certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[2] Gold 500,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, W. Allmusic Review accessed 2October 27, 2011
  2. ↑ "American album certifications – Janis Joplin – 18 Essential Songs". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
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