I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
by Janis Joplin

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! by Janis Joplin
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 1,736th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 178 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1969 (48th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (170th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,736th)

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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 624 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,735.

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Overall rank: 1,736th | 1960s rank: 170th | 1969 rank: 48th
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2026 paladisiactop 65r albums (66), #0201-0300*15/77 -
2026downandoutTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s92/1002
2026 TamthebamTop 100 Music Albums of 196933/1003
2026JohnnyoMost listened to albums female (2 B deleted)16/84 -
2026 imacgillTop 61 Music Albums of 196928/613
2026joathomeTop 49 Music Albums of 196943/491
2026matterhornriderTop 80 Music Albums of 196928/803
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s100/1000
2026Exist-en-cielTop 80 Music Albums of 196954/802
2025JamieTop 37 Music Albums of 196915/373
2025albumcelesteTop 55 Music Albums of 196940/551
2025replacementlevelTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s74/1005
2025 paladisiacTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s91/1002
2025mikepenTop 33 Music Albums of 196922/332
2025 neilgeeTop 100 Music Albums of 19697/1005
2025 MetalMan67Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s72/1006
2025lanadeleswiftTop 45 Music Albums of 196926/452
2025replacementlevelTop 50 Music Albums of 196917/503
2025 seb7Top 45 Music Albums of 196916/453
2025 ExTeaSeaTop 57 Music Albums of 196940/572
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 155
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 977
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79/100 (from 178 votes)
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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 78.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.

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85/100
From 09/02/2022 11:41 | #289212
Little Girl Blue rocks
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From 03/04/2022 04:45 | #282241
Might 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...
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From 11/28/2020 17:28 | #261578
What a voice mama, i ll never listen nothing like you. A rose in the rock sceane...
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85/100
From 07/18/2020 01:55 | #255753
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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75/100
From 06/01/2020 17:20 | #252671
Classic Janis!
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65/100
From 05/10/2020 00:12 | #251151
Gotta concur with Coconut on all counts. “Work Me, Lord” is probably the best song here, but the backing is a little dim-witted and somehow, everyone sounds buried in the mix. How odd.
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90/100
From 09/08/2018 04:06 | #220722
This is gorgeous... 'Perfection' defines what this woman could make with her voice.
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From 09/28/2016 03:22 | #175921
Voice sounds better than ever. Electrifying performance
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75/100
From 03/28/2016 20:56 | #162879
The production of this album is muddled to me. The choice of the material is just OK, some of it just doesn't seem well suited to her unique voice.
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85/100
From 07/17/2013 03:38 | #81693
Amazing voice!
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