Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (1968)
Genre: Psychodelic/Blues Rock | FLAC+CUE | 200MB
Genre: Psychodelic/Blues Rock | FLAC+CUE | 200MB
Cheap Thrills is the second album from Big Brother and the Holding Company and their only studio album with Janis Joplin as primary lead vocalist. Though the album sounds like a live recording, most of it was in fact recorded in a studio with audience sounds overdubbed. In 2003, the album was ranked number 338 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. It is number 9 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest album covers. The album was released in late August 1968 and reached number one on the Billboard charts in its eighth week in October 1968. It kept the number one spot for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks while the single, "Piece of My Heart," also became a huge hit.
