“Cheap Thrills” was the last album that featured Janis Joplin as lead vocalist. “We’re just a sloppy group of street freaks,” Janis would say, but this album was their most coherent, even coming out with “Piece Of My Heart” which was one of her greatest recordings of all time.
The album cover is actually #9 on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 album covers of all time. Its funny because originally this was actually intended to be the back of the album and what they wanted on the front was a naked picture of the band which was denied by the recording company. Same was said about their original intent to call it “Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills”.
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