Society’s Child/Go ‘Way Little Girl/Hair Of Spun Gold/Then Tangles Of My Mind/I’ll Give You A Stone If You’ll Throw It/Pro-Girl/Inter Generational Blues/New Christ Cardiac Hero/Lover Be Kindly/Mrs McKenzie/Janey’s Blues
Folk singer and songwriter Janis Ian shot to fame in 1967 as a precocious sixteen year old with her US No. 14 hit single Society's Child dealing with interracial romance. (US:29)
"Janis Ian's self titled is nothing like her albums in the 70s. This gem is full of cool psych/pop riffs and great harmonies. All coloured in by some great songwriting. A great album."
"A folk album, more pop oriented than not, with excellent period flavour and some fuzz guitar on it's best cut - Janey's Blues. Her early albums had some psych influences and are worth investigating by fans of the genre."
"Despite being a complete folkie her voice is an astounding mix of teenbeat styled pop starlet and desperate, chain smoking insomniac. The beginning of a serious career in songwriting.”
"I'm not saying that this album is amazing, but it's worth owning because Janis Ian has a lovely voice, the lyrics are highly intelligent and spiritually aware, especially for a precocious 16 year old, and Society's Child and New Christ Cardiac Hero are among the best songs of the 60s."
"Janis Ian has a wonderfully powerful and melodic voice and can really carry a song. This, her first album is a fine example of that. She seems so passionate about what she’s doing here, there doesn’t seem to be time to sit back and question anything, and maybe that’s what makes Janis Ian so great. This set of mostly controversial folk-rock/pop songs have mixed results, full of angst and humour."
"Musically, this is not much more than an average folk and folk-pop album with a few mildly memorable tunes, but lyrically and historically this is quite remarkable. For a 16 year-old Janis Ian wrote some incredible lyrics with a pretty advanced sense of social critique. The overriding impression is that of a precocious, self-consciously intellectual girl drawn to non-conformist ideology at an unusually young age. While her roots are decidedly folky, her material traverses a number of genres."
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