I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
by Janis Joplin
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I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by Janis Joplin on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Janis Joplin is Pearl which is ranked number 613 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,744.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 3/100 | 20 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Top 37 Music Albums of 1969 | 28/37 | 1 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (66), #0201-0300* | 15/77 | - |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Best of The 60s Pt.2 (101-200) | 4/100 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1969 (101 - 200) | 29/44 | - |
| 2026 | zags7000 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 16/100 | 81 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 158 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 994 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/10/2026 11:51 | NowhereMan | 1,494 | 77/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2026 11:22 | Tamthebam | 23,276 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2026 23:49 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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dihansse 04/18/2018 19:30 in My discoveries per yearI Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! comments
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Jboy56Might actually have been better as a Big Brother album; The material was great, the singer of course, but the band maybe not quite what they could have been. Whatever else you want to say about Big Brother, they understood her timing and knew how to support her intonation tricks by this time...
What a voice mama, i ll never listen nothing like you. A rose in the rock sceane...
I feel like this album could have been (and still could be) better received if it had better packaging and marketing, and a better title, which sounds weird maybe, but people weren't prepared for what a change of direction it is. If you tell me something is cosmic blues, I'm expecting loosey-goosey somewhat-psychedelic white-boy blues noodling....like Big Brother. But this isn't that, it's basically urban R&B, what they called Soul back then, and it's a big swerve for her, and it should have been framed that way. I agree it could be a little better mixed and mastered, but I think the arrangements are good...really good. She got away from her "big brothers" and took control of her own sound, and maybe people weren't ready for that. Also, I think there's a lot of "They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band/It ain't what they call rock and roll" reaction to this record. I don't tend to love vocalist-over-studio-band records, but this one is really good, it's not a collection of songs like a lot of those tend to be, but a single work with a nice arc and pace. Underrated as hell, I'd say.
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