Cheap Thrills

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共11首歌曲

艺人: Big Brother & the Holding Company
语种: 英语
厂牌: Columbia Records
发行时间: 1968年08月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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在《Cheap Thrills》之前，Big Brother & the Holding Company这只乐队根本就属于一只二流的稍微有点名气的地方乐队，只在旧金山地区有着响亮名声，但是却没能写出什么博得除铁杆歌迷外的人们欢心的歌曲。已经几乎放弃自己歌唱事业并且有了结婚打算的Janis Joplin的意外加入改变了乐队的这种情况，当然，这也改变了Janis Joplin自己的命运。大家都被Janis Joplin源自内心那股脆弱和苦痛的情感所打动，她感情强烈的，近乎绝望的，崩溃塌陷般的演唱征服了无数人的心。以上这些加上乐队的两个本来的灵魂人物James Gurley和Sam Andrew一应一和的精彩的Blues吉它弹奏，最终演变成了这张《Cheap Thrills》。

这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第338位。

by William Ruhlmann & Bruce Eder

Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums of 1968. Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company had earned extensive press notice ever since they played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, but for a year after that their only recorded work was a poorly produced, self-titled album that they'd done early in their history for Mainstream Records; and it took the band and the best legal minds at Columbia Records seven months to extricate them from their Mainstream contract, so that they could sign with Columbia. All the while, demand continued to build, and they still faced the problem of actually delivering something worthy of the press they'd been getting -- Columbia even tried to record them live on-stage on the tour they were in the midst of when the new contract was signed, but somehow the concert tapes from early March of 1968 didn't capture the full depth of their work. So they spent March, April, and May in the studio with producer John Simon and, miraculously, emerged with something that was as exciting as anything they'd done on-stage. When Cheap Thrills appeared in August 1968 -- sporting a Robert Crumb cover on its gatefold jacket that constituted the most elaborate album design ever lavished on a rock album from Columbia Records, as well as a pop-art classic rivaling the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's jacket -- it shot into the charts, reaching number one and going gold within a couple of months, and &Piece of My Heart& became a Top 40 hit and helped to propel the LP to over a million sales. Joplin, with her ear- (and vocal cord-) shredding voice, was the obvious standout. Nobody had ever heard singing as emotional, as desperate, as determined, or as loud as Joplin's, and Cheap Thrills was her greatest moment. Not that everything was done full out -- there were relatively quiet moments on the album that were as compelling as the high-wattage showcases; her rendition of George Gershwin's &Summertime& was the finest rock reinterpretation of a standard done by anybody up to that time (though, in an incident recalled in his autobiography Clive, when Columbia Records president Clive Davis played it to Richard Rodgers to give him an example of some of the sounds that younger audiences of the late '60s were listening to, the 66-year-old Rodgers stomped out of the Columbia corporate offices in fury, vowing never to write another song); and Joplin's own &Turtle Blues& showed that she and the band could turn down and do credible acoustic blues, in something like an authentic period Bessie Smith (or, more properly, Memphis Minnie) sound. Big Brother's backup, typical of the guitar-dominated sound of San Francisco psychedelia, made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in precision. But everybody knew who the real star was, and Joplin played her last gig with Big Brother while the album was still on top of the charts. Neither she nor the band would ever equal it. Heard today, Cheap Thrills is a musical time capsule and remains a showcase for one of rock's most distinctive singers.

Cheap Thrills

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