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Music CD - The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
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Music CD: Electric Ladyland
Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Experience Hendrix
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1. ... And The Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown Traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little Miss Strange
6. Long Hot Summer Night
7. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
8. Gypsy Eyes
9. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
11. 1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12. Moon, Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
14. House Burning Down
15. All Along The Watchtower
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Hendrix,Jimi
EAN: 0008811160029
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Experience Hendrix
Manufacturer: Experience Hendrix
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Experience Hendrix
Release Date: 1997-04-22
Studio: Experience Hendrix
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Summary: New Horizons
Comment: Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist rock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation's mightiest dope music, this is the album they're referring to.
But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix's visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way they're used here. What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound. As an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: "Crosstown Traffic," his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," the spacy "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," a landmark in Hendrix's playing. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons.
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Summary: I'm giving this album 5 perfect stars
Comment: Could this be the ultimate Jimi Hendrix album? I believe it might be.
What you have here is a mixture of different styles that clocks in at just over 75 minutes overall (on one disc, thankfully). You have blues, funk, soul, lengthy guitar jams, a psychedelic atmosphere in a few tracks, and even some nifty party rockers (well, one track at least). My favorite track has to be the dreamy "1983, a Merman I Should Turn to Be". It has a VERY dreamy extended section at the end that's made up of neat guitar tricks that catch my attention. Seriously, there's nothing else like that song. In fact, there's nothing else out there like most of the tracks on Electric Ladyland.
In fact, I'm surprised just how many songs I recognized upon first listen. I think you'll be saying to yourself on a couple occasions "Oh wow, THIS song is by Jimi Hendrix?" because of some guitar riffs that have become famous over the years. You'll recognize a few of them I bet. I think there's even a pleasant light country rocker on here!
When it comes to variety, you simply can't ignore what this brilliant album has to offer. I notice people seem to fall in love with double albums and consider them highlights in the careers of many legendary artists such as the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street) and the Beatles (the Beatles).
Maybe that's the reason people love Electric Ladyland. Me, I just love it for the diverse styles, quality songwriting, and influential guitar playing.
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Summary: . . . being there . . .
Comment: . . . the thing that I love is that for whatever reasons, Hendrix was able to produce this music the way he wanted without a backseat driver or a commercial perspective, which resulted in the best chronicle of the psychadelic era imaginable. I never felt that this recording was diffuse: It has always been and will always be the benchmark for acid rock. By the way . . . I was 14-years old and lived in Germany with my US Military dad, and was a "bad" boy, hanging out in underground rock clubs in 1969 when Hendrix did this album. We all loved it. It still has the effect of impressing listeners with a sense of original and fresh musianship, even stacked against all the cumulative wizardry of today's studio work. Also, the most popular cover in 1969, and the best one to me, was on the LP, and was not the orange Hendrix headshot (which was then the back page), but was the group shot of Mitch Mitchell, Hendrix (seated elevated), and Noel Redding. I am perplexed as to how it happened that the headshot is the most common cover??? Who has been monkeying around with this?
I am happiest knowing that this music came straight to us from the artist and absolutely is not the product of corporate suits. I'm out.
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Summary: A GREAT CD FROM JIMI HENDRIX
Comment: I think that Jimi Hendrix is GOD and he was one of the most talented guitar players ever. He influenced many great guitarists how to play like him, and he was very famous. I was so sad that he died so young too, he was too talented to die. Anyway, to this CD, this CD is great. I like the blues version of Voodoo Chile, that's one of his best. On Rainy Day, Dream Day just before he starts playing he even coughs on it, it doesn't bother me at all. I think that Still Raining, Still Dreaming is one of his greatest songs, and is one of the greatest songs on this CD. Then I love the classics All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child (Slight Return). Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is more hard rocking and metal compared to the earlier on this CD Voodoo Chile which is all blues. Anyway, that's all I feel like commenting it. Buy this CD.
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Summary: The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968, "Electric Ladyland".
Comment: This Hendrix album being the last with the Experience is one of the most tripped out albums he ever did with the song 1983 containing over 10 minutes of weird noises some drums and a guitar solo and having a beginning of three minutes. Containting tons of wah-wah pedal usage in this album its a true classic 60s album. Such songs as House is Burning down represent what was really happening back in 1968. Other songs such as Still Raining still Dreaming show strong usage of the wah-wah pedal. A great all around album and perfect for anyone who loves late 60s music.
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