Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (New Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 2012 mono remastered reissue on audiophile 180 gram vinyl. Lacquer cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio. Pressed at Record Technology Incorporated. 

Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, released on August 12, 1968, by Columbia Records. Cheap Thrills was the band's final album with lead singer Janis Joplin before she left to begin a solo career. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noises to give the impression of a live album, for which it was subsequently mistaken by many listeners. Only "Ball and Chain" was actually recorded live in concert, at the grand opening of the Fillmore East on March 8th, 1968.

Cheap Thrills was a critical and commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1968. In 2007, Cheap Thrills was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 338 in its 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It was repositioned to number 372 in the 2020 list.

TRACKLIST:

A1        Combination Of The Two
A2        I Need A Man To Love
A3        Summertime
A4        Piece Of My Heart
B1        Turtle Blues
B2        Oh, Sweet Mary
B3        Ball And Chain