Janis Ian

Janis Ian, född som Janis Eddy Fink den 7 april 1951 i New York, är en amerikansk sångare, musiker, kolumnist och science fiction-författare.^[1] Hon påbörjade sin musikkarriär under 1960-talet och 1970-talet och har sedan dess fortsatt. 1975 vann hon en Grammy för sången "At Seventeen".

Janis Ian, 1981.

Kritiker av RIAA

Janis Ian är uttalat kritiskt inställd till Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),^[2] vilket är en skivindustri som hon menar agerar mot såväl musikernas som konsumenternas intresse. Som en del av sitt motstånd mot RIAA har hon låtit flera av sina sånger bli fritt tillgängliga för nedladdning på hennes hemsida.^[3] Hon var inte bara en av de första artisterna att göra detta, utan också en av de första som visade att fria nedladdningar faktiskt kan öka försäljningen av skivor. ^[4]

Diskografi

Album

• Janis Ian (1967) #29 US (Verve)
• For All the Seasons of Your Mind (1967) #179 US (Verve)
• The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink (1968) (Verve)
• Who Really Cares (1969) (Verve)
• Present Company (1971) (Capitol)
• Stars (1974) #83 US, #63 (Columbia)
• Between the Lines (1975) #1 US, #22 Japan (Columbia, Festival)
• Aftertones (1976) #12 US, #1 Japan (Columbia)
• Miracle Row (1977) #45 US, #26 Japan (Columbia)
• Janis Ian (1978) (Columbia)
• Night Rains (1979) (Columbia)
• Restless Eyes (1981) #156 US (Columbia)
• Uncle Wonderful (1983) (Festival) (Australia only)
• Breaking Silence (1993) (Morgan Creek)
• Simon Renshaw Presents: Janis Ian Shares Your Pain (1995)(not released until 12.09)
• Revenge (1995) (Beacon)
• Hunger (1997) (Windham Hill)
• god & the fbi (2000) (Windham Hill)
• god & the fbi (3 Bonus Tracks) (2000) (JVC Japan)
• Lost Cuts 1 (2001) (Rude Girl)
• Billie's Bones (2004) (Oh Boy, Rude Girl Cooking Vinyl US)
• Breaking Silence (Bonus Track) (2003) (Rude Girl, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Hunger (Bonus Track) (2003) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Stars (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl)
• Between the Lines (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festiva, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Aftertones (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Miracle Row (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Janis Ian (1978) (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Night Rains (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
• Billie's Bones (Bonus Track) (2004) (JVC Japan)
• Folk is the New Black (2006) (Rude Girl)
• Folk is the New Black (With DVD) (2006) (Evasound)
• Revenge (Bonus Track) (2006)(Cooking Vinyl UK 2003) (WEA)

Compilation albums

• Remember (1978) (JVC Japan)
• The Best of Janis Ian (1980) (CBS)
• My Favourites (1980) (CBS)
• Stars/Night Rains (Double Album) (1987) (CBS)
• At Seventeen (1990) (CBS)
• Up 'Til Now (1992) (Sony)
• Society's Child: The Verve Recordings (1995) (Polydor)
• Live on the Test 1976 (1995) (BBC World Wide)
• Unreleased 1: Mary's Eyes (1998) (Rude Girl)
• The Bottom Line Encore Collection (1999) (Velvet)
• The Best of Janis Ian (2002) (Festival)
• Live: Working Without a Net (2003) (Rude Girl)
• Souvenirs: Best of 1972-1981 (US CD) (2004) (Rude Girl)
• Souvenirs: Best of 1972-1981 (Japan CD) (2004) (JVC Japan)
• Souvenirs: Best of 1972-1981 (CD/DVD) (2006) (Evasound)
• Unreleased 2: Take No Prisoners (2006) (Rude Girl)
• Unreleased 3: Society's Child (2006) (Rude Girl)
• Ultimate Best (2007) (JVC Victory)
• Best of Janis Ian: Autobiography Collection (2008) (Rude Girl)
• The Essential Janis Ian (2009)

Singlar

Year	Title	U.S.	U.S.	U.S. A/C	UK	JAP
1967	"Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)"	14	13	–	–	–
	"Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind"	109	–	–	–	–
1974	"The Man You Are in Me"	104	–	33	–	–
1975	"When the Party's Over"	–	–	20	–	–
	"At Seventeen"	3	1	1	–	–
	"In the Winter"	–	97	21	–	–
1976	"Boy I Really Tied One On"	–	–	43	–	–
	"I Would Like to Dance"	–	–	28	–	–
	"Roses"	–	–	37	–	–
	"Love Is Blind"	–	–	–	–	1
	"Between the Lines"	–	–	–	–	90
1977	"Will You Dance?"	–	–	–	–	40
1978	"That Grand Illusion"	–	–	43	–	–
1979	"Fly Too High"	–	–	–	44	–
1980	"You Are Love"	–	–	–	–	10
	"The Other Side of the Sun"	–	–	47	44	–
1981	"Under the Covers"	71	–	–	–	–

DVDs

• Live at Club Cafe (2005) (Rude Girl)
• Janismania (2005) (Rude Girl)
• Through the Years: A Retrospective (2007) (Rude Girl)
• Janis Ian '79: Live in Japan & Australia (2008) (Rude Girl)

Bibliografier

• Who Really Cares: Poems From Childhood and Early Youth 1969 (2002 re-release) ISBN 978-1-930709-37-9
• Songbook 1999 ISBN 978-0-7692-0148-1
• Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003 ISBN 978-0-7564-0177-1 (ed., with Mike Resnick)
• "Prayerville" 2003 (in Women Writing Science Fiction As Men, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg ISBN 978-0-7564-0148-1)
• Society's Child: My Autobiography, 2008, Tarcher/Penguin; ISBN 1-58542-675-X; ISBN 978-1-58542-675-1

Referenser

1. ”Janis Ian: A Life in Song” (PDF). Janis Ian Website. 2006. Arkiverad från originalet den 7 maj 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070507222117/http://janisian.com/press/JanisIan2006Bio.pdf. Läst 9 juni 2007.
2. Ian, Janis (May 2002). ”The Internet Debacle — An Alternative View”. Performing Songwriter Magazine. Arkiverad från originalet den 9 maj 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070509181400/http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html. Läst 9 juni 2007.
3. Free Music Downloads Arkiverad 28 juli 2014 hämtat från the Wayback Machine. on Janis Ian's official website
4. Prime Palaver #11 Arkiverad 2 februari 2007 hämtat från the Wayback Machine. — letter by Janis Ian to Baen librarian, Eric Flint, September 16, 2002

Externa länkar

• Officiell webbplats
• Janis Ian's Pearl Foundation
• Verk av Janis Ian på Project Gutenberg
• Janis Ian interview on Slashdot
• 2006 interview
• Janis Ian archive on NPR Music