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Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, released in 1968 through Columbia Records. It is their last studio album to feature lead vocalist Janis Joplin, who chose to leave the band to go solo not long after release. The closing track on the album "Ball and Chain" was recorded live at the Winterland Ballroom. This album features the band's Signature Song "Piece of My Heart". The album cover is also famous, being drawn by Underground Comics icon Robert Crumb.In 2013 it was added to the National Recording Registry for being "historically, culturally and aesthetically important". |
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All There in the Manual |
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All There in the Manual: The album cover describes everything you need to know about the track list, the performers, and where the recording took place (mostly; as described below, the location for "Ball and Chain" is wrong). |
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Rule of Two |
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Rule of Two: "Combination of the Two". |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: The whole band, shown as cartoon characters in comic strip panel format. |
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Longest Song Goes Last |
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Longest Song Goes Last: "Ball and Chain" (9:02) is the last song on the album (apart from bonus tracks on reissues). |
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Love Hurts |
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Love Hurts: "Piece of My Heart", "Ball and Chain". |
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Cradle of Loneliness |
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Cradle of Loneliness: "Combination of the Two" and "I Need a Man to Love" |
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Metal Scream |
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Metal Scream: Joplin's trademark. Appears most famously (of course) on "Piece of My Heart". |
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Pep-Talk Song |
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Pep-Talk Song: "Summertime" |
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Non-Appearing Title |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title doesn't appear in any of the lyrics. |
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Singer Namedrop |
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Singer Name Drop: From "Turtle Blues". |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: "Ball and Chain", which runs for more than nine minutes. "Combination of the Two", at a few seconds shy of six minutes long, just misses qualifying. |
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Break Up Song: "Ball and Chain" In "Turtle Blues" it's the other way around. The woman in the song describes herself as someone who treats all men badly. |
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"I Want" Song |
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"I Want" Song: "I Need a Man to Love". |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Oh, Sweet Mary" "Ball and Chain" |
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Something Blues |
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Something Blues: "Turtle Blues". |
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Big Beautiful Woman |
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Big Beautiful Woman: Janis Joplin was drawn by Crumb as this, with her sister recalling that he was admiring her figure. |
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One-Man Song |
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One-Man Song: "I Need a Man to Love". |
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Speech Bubbles |
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Speech Bubbles: On the album cover. |
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Packaged as Other Medium |
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Packaged as Other Medium: The cover looks like a comic strip, justified by the fact that Robert Crumb designed it. |
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Added Alliterative Appeal |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Oh Sweet Mary" |
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Mammy |
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Mammy: Crumb drew the character from "Summertime" on the album cover as the Afro-American woman in Porgy and Bess, despite the white Janis Joplin singing it on the album. The way Crumb drew her on the album cover would not fly that easily today. It's in line with the Afro-American stereotypes in vogue in American culture back in the early 20th century, a period Crumb is interested in, but still very racially stereotypical. |
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One-Woman Song |
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One-Woman Song: "Oh Sweet Mary". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "Rock Bottom" on Eminem's The Slim Shady LP samples "Summertime" from this album. |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: Covers on this album are George Gershwin's "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess and "Ball and Chain" by blues singer Big Mama Thornton. Even "Piece of My Heart", a Signature Song by the band, was originally sung by Aretha Franklin's older sister Erma. |
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One-Word Title |
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One-Word Title: "Summertime". |
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Live Album |
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Live Album: "Ball and Chain" is the only song on the album recorded entirely live, and even though the cover credits assert that the live material was recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, it was actually taken from a concert at the Winterland Ballroom in 1968. |
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Design Student's Orgasm |
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Design Student's Orgasm: Crumb's album cover is so full of Scenery Porn detail that even this TV Tropes page can't do it justice, as it turns out far too pixelated to show in all of its artistic glory. |
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In the Style of |
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In the Style of: The album cover is in the style of a comic strip. |
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