Cheap Thrills
by Big Brother And The Holding Company
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Big Brother And The Holding Company bestography
Cheap Thrills is ranked as the best album by Big Brother And The Holding Company.
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Cheap Thrills track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Cheap Thrills rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of all time (201 - 300) by Acclaimed Music | 35/100 | - |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 32 Music Albums of 1968 | 15/32 | 3 |
| 2026 | downandout | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 30 Music Albums of 1968 | 5/30 | 4 |
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 38/100 | 13 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1968 | 7/20 | 4 |
| 2026 |  serpico | Top 64 Music Albums of the 1960s | 52/64 | 4 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Blues/Blues Rock | 6/45 | - |
| 2026 |  mutley88 | Top 46 Music Albums of the 1960s | 8/46 | 17 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 80/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 431 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,292 | |||
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Cheap Thrills ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/06/2026 21:09 | Pienk | 745 | 80/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2026 09:41 | Johnnyo | 9,846 | 77/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2026 18:29 |  Glitterboiii | 4,956 | 88/100 |
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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 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Cheap Thrills forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 BestEverAlbums 09/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5450): By DeusExMackiaCheap Thrills comments
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/04/2012 19:26 | #49969 | TOP COMMENT
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Janis almost sounds better as part of a band. Here, she sounds a little more focused, even as she wails and belts it out with the best of them. The creation of a legend. (Edited)
A powerful psychedelic album with plenty of edge and energy. Janis Joplin sounds like what Grace Slick might have sounded like if she gargled with Whisky regularly. Love 'Piece of my Heart'. Parts of Joplin's vocal style reminds me of a female version of Robert Plant. (Edited)
Janis erupts. Her backing band, Big Brother, isn't particularly skilled but with Joplin belting away in prime form it doesn't really matter. Infused with unreal amounts of fuzz tone and sloppy hippie enthusiasm, the record is a defining artifact of its era. (Edited)
sheep21 03/28/2013 10:24 | #70297 | TOP COMMENT
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Iconic rock album. Best Janis Joplin record, much better than Pearl IMO. Surprised this webiste doesn't see it in quite a high light as most other music sites do.
This album is pretty average in my opinion with there being just one song that is really worth listening to and the rest feeling like filler. Obviously, the vocal is phenomenal and it makes what would be a very dull album into one that is reasonably entertaining. Once you look past the voice though the music is pretty simplistic and feels very repetitive by the time you get to the end. It also doesn't take any risks and feels like a safe record that blends in with other generic rock releases. Overall, I was quite disappointed revisiting this album as I love the big single and Joplin's voice is fantastic but the rest falls flat in my opinion. (Edited)
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