Big Brother & The Holding Company - "Cheap Thrills" Mono style_Black Metal uniquely merging the organic with

uniquely merging the organic with the electronic

among a great many other things

Only the third of these charted

from the opening salvoes of "Columbia" and "Acquiesce

arena-filling sound the band has become beloved for worldwide

Big Brother & The Holding Company - "Cheap Thrills" Mono style_Black Metal uniquely merging the organic withCheap Thrills was the last album Janis Joplin recorded with the band before going solo. The album was released in the summer of 1968, one year after their debut album, and reached #1 on the Billboard charts in it's eighth week in October. It kept the #1 spot for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks while the single, "Piece of My Heart", also became a huge hit. By the end of the year it was the most successful album of 1968, having sold nearly a million copies.