Anyone like her? I confess, until a few minutes ago, I was only familiar with her name. I just heard At Seventeen on my Launch player, and loved it. If she's got any fans here, which albums are worth exploring?

She's fucking hot.


(That's about all I know)

At least, she was...Not sure what she looks like nowadays.

FunkMistress said:

Down girl!

RipHer2Shreds said:

As in go? Yeah, I'd like to.

FunkMistress said:

Oooooh, I'm gonna tell mama!

She's gay and she's very anti-RIAA.

More than that, I don't know.

Yeah, I'm hip to her. She wrote a song when she was 15 called "Society's Child" in 1966. It's about interracial love. I first heard the song from this girl I was dating. She had the 45 single. It's good. I used to have it on tape, but the ribbon broke or some shit. Anyway, my mom has the albums "Janis Ian" from 67 and "Between The Lines" which are very good. That's the album that has "At Seventeen" on it. That's her most well known album.

blackguitaristz said:

Also, I have the sondtrack to that movie "Foxes". Yeah, I know. I was a sucker for Cheri Currie from The Runaways and Jodie Foster. Anyway, there's a song on there that Janis did. A disco song "Fly To High".

Hey!

This is sooooo cool. Janis is 1 of my favorite singers/songwriters.
She has so much excellent material that it's a good idea to start with getting her Live-2 cd album "WORKING WITHOUT A NET", where all sound is LIVE! I mean, nothing was altered with computers or anything. Then, any other cd will be a good pick.

Here you have some details of this album I copied/pasted from her website www.janisian.com where she herself talks with her fans

Inside Scoop: Janis started recording her performances back in the eighties; by 2003 she had amassed a huge selection of recordings. When the opportunity arose to release a live album, Janis enlisted co-producer John Leonardini to review and digitally transfer over 400 hours of concert recordings in a variety of formats, looking for the best of the best. Those selections were further filtered down to the 26 songs on this album. Offered as a "Live to 2 track" type recording, the production team eschewed studio "tricks" and instead delivered to the listener the exact experience of the performance

can't say i'm a janis ian fan, but i heard "at 17" on one of those Time-Life compilations and dl'd it and instantly fell in love w/ that song...my teenage years weren't that depressing, but i could really relate...