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The Best Ofby: Etta James September 25, 2000 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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Etta James is one of my all time favourite female singers and this album is brilliant and it just so happens it is a bargain. For those more dedicated fans I would suggest the complete chess recordings, however, you cannot go wrong by having this in your collection and for those unfamiliar with Etta James, this is a great introduction, which could get you hooked!
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Greatest Hits: Remasteredby: Janis Joplin August 31, 1999 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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Although Janis Joplin's genius shines through all of these tracks, the selection is inadequate. An album with a title like greatest hits needs to contain Combination Of The Two (from Cheap Thrills, with Big Brother and the Holding Company) and Joplin's version of the Bee Gees' To Love Somebody (from Kozmic Blues). Luckily there are more comprehensive compilations available, and this album would do as an introduction to the Joplin novice. It contains the impressive acid rock onslaught of Piece Of My Heart, the original version of the timeless Me And Bobby McGee (a huge posthumous hit for her in 1971), the wrenching Maybe from Kozmic Blues and her popular novelty song Mercedes Benz. Most of the tracks are from Pearl and while ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Very Best Of Etta James: The Chess Singlesby: Etta James May 30, 2005 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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Etta James was with Chess for over fifteen years (appearing initially on their subsidiary labels Argo and Cadet) between 1960 and 1976, adapting and rolling with the times, trying out new ideas, never selling out, and making a heap of great blues and soul records. If squeezing fifteen years of material onto just three discs seems a tall order, imagine the absurdity of trying to compile The Best Of Etta James, which is a single CD of her Chess years. This box set represents far better value and is fully recommended, with just a couple of small caveats.
Firstly, there are too many mono mixes, even from the nineteen-seventies when stereo versions were prepared as a matter of course and are available elsewhere, and secondly, there is too little ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Pearl: Remasteredby: Janis Joplin August 30, 1999 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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For me Janis's albums (not bootlegs or compliations) split down the middle - those with Big Bro & the Holding Co and those without. Those with are the better, the happier, where she felt part of something. They're guitar based psychedelic rock at its best. They're raw, earthy, exciting, naive and bursting with energy. Cheap Thrills is best (live) and the studio Big Brother & the Holding Company an interesting, quirky innocent debut album.
Those without, Pearl & Kozmic Blues, are the unhappy Janis, full production, no band, orchestrated, brass and keyboard albums. They lack the passion and excitement and raw energy. I still play them often and love them dearly but they're not the best. The spark has gone. That said, Pearl is the better ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Cheap Thrills: Remasteredby: Janis Joplin August 30, 1999 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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This is generally accepted as one of the top 500 albums of all time. Listen to it and find out why. Not only that, but the live album captures the band at it best.
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Her Bestby: Etta James March 20, 1999 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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My mother has been a fan of Etta James for many years and has most of the songs featured on this album, on different LPs lying about the house. It's so brilliant to have them all on the one disc - it's handy. I am getting married at the end of june and we have decided to use "At Last" as our first song. Perfect start to a perfect day by a perfect singer.
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Come a Little Closer [Us Import]by: Etta James September 01, 2004 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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This album was recorded while on day release from the Tarzana Psychiatric Institute where she was sent for offences including heroin addiction. At it's best it is truly wonderful. Out On The Streets Again is a funk/R&B masterpiece that was written for this album, while 'Feeling Uneasy' was recorded on the very worst day of heroin withdrawal, so bad that she simply couldn't manage to sing any words, just moan, except for the final line 'I'm Feeling Uneasy'. Damn, but she moans so well!!! 'Let's Burn Down The Cornfield' is a Randy Newman song that took me a few listens to get to like, but it's been one of my favourite tracks of all time for the last 25 years. Quite apart from the mildly sexually suggestive lyrics, the sexual energy she puts into singing this puts it in ... Read More:
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Hound Dog - The Essential Collectionby: Big Mama Thornton July 05, 1999 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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This album was recorded while on day release from the Tarzana Psychiatric Institute where she was sent for offences including heroin addiction. At it's best it is truly wonderful. Out On The Streets Again is a funk/R&B masterpiece that was written for this album, while 'Feeling Uneasy' was recorded on the very worst day of heroin withdrawal, so bad that she simply couldn't manage to sing any words, just moan, except for the final line 'I'm Feeling Uneasy'. Damn, but she moans so well!!! 'Let's Burn Down The Cornfield' is a Randy Newman song that took me a few listens to get to like, but it's been one of my favourite tracks of all time for the last 25 years. Quite apart from the mildly sexually suggestive lyrics, the sexual energy she puts into singing this puts it in ... Read More:
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Stickin' To My Gunsby: Etta James February 01, 2002 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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This is a very strong album, one of her best, especially if you like the bluesy side of Etta. Actually, it isn't ALL blues - she gets a rapper called Def Jef to do a bit on one track, which personally I find spoils that track a lot.Many good tracks though, and several outstanding ones such as 'The Blues Don't Care' & "You're Real Good Thing (Is About To End)' There are more great tracks as well, I just can't be bothered to list them all. Sorry to be a little cynical, at least in the title of this review. In her autobiography, Etta wrote that she was a bit surprised that white people saw her as a BLUES artist. Since I've been a fan of hers for nearly 40 years, and have never seen her as anything BUT a blues artist, I was a bit surprised by this, though perhaps ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Very Best of Janis Joplinby: Janis Joplin July 07, 2003 Best Selling > Music > Classic Female Singers |
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My if you have never heard Janis' voice, you have never heard anything! I had heard of her name but never actually heard HER : then they played "Try" on the radio and I was entranced by her electric voice, it comes from so deep inside the soul I was in another world right from the first tearing-soul-drenching sound of this incredible and inimitable voice. On this album, some of her greatest sounds, the soul in such a voice plays havoc with your soul and you find there the enthralling "Try", her soulfull and passionate rendition of "Piece of my heart", her bluesy-gutsy version of "Me and Bobby Mcgee", just about everything to discover, rediscover or simply enjoy for the empteenth time the extraordinary voice ... Read More: >>More Details |
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