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- Artist: Janis Joplin
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- Release Date: January 24, 1995
- Total Time: 69:39
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
18 Essential Songs is a one-disc distillation of the triple-disc Janis box set. Running 70 minutes, it is a more extensive best-of than the ten-track 1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits album. But it is denied "first pick" status because, unlike that album, it does not contain the hit version of Joplin's only number one single, "Me and Bobby McGee." (It does, however, contain an alternate demo version of that song.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Trouble in Mind | Richard M. Jones | Janis Joplin | (2:54) |
| Down on Me | Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin | (2:05) |
| Bye Bye Baby | Janis Joplin | (2:38) | |
| Ball and Chain | Big Mama Thornton | Janis Joplin | (8:13) |
| Piece of My Heart | Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy | Janis Joplin | (4:26) |
| I Need a Man to Love | Janis Joplin, Sam Andrew | Janis Joplin | (4:51) |
| Summertime | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward | Janis Joplin | (4:06) |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | Chip Taylor, Jerry Ragovoy | Janis Joplin | (3:56) |
| One Good Man | Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin | (4:09) |
| Kozmic Blues | Janis Joplin, |
Janis Joplin | (4:22) |
| Raise Your Hand | Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, |
Janis Joplin | (2:18) |
| Tell Mama | Clarence Carter, |
Janis Joplin | (5:47) |
| Move Over | Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin | (3:40) |
| Mercedes Benz | Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, |
Janis Joplin | (1:46) |
| Get It While You Can | Mort Shuman, Jerry Ragovoy | Janis Joplin | (3:23) |
| Half Moon | John Hall, |
Janis Joplin | (3:52) |
| Trust Me | Bobby Womack | Janis Joplin | (3:15) |
| Me and Bobby McGee | Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster | Janis Joplin | (3:58) |
