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Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix»rank: 528by: Jimi Hendrix
0ur opinion: :\N :Experience Hendrix brings together the major singles with a stack of majestic album tracks and the career-defining live Woodstock version of 'The Star Spangled Banner' on a fat 2O-tracker. While best used as a sampler to direct new listeners to the immortal Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, and so on, the CD (which supplants the short-lived Ultimate Experience collection) does hang together as a listen. lts blend of Hendrix the rocker ...
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Electric Ladyland»rank: 863by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0ur opinion: :\N essential recording:Bursting with ideas and energy, Jimi Hendrix's second album release of 1968 (following Axis: Bold as Love) was a double-LP set that showcased virtually everything the guitar genius had to offer: blistering blues ('Voodoo Chile'), galaxy-patrolling space jams ('1983... A Merman l Should Turn to Be'), psychedelic soul ('Crosstown Traffic'), and skyscraping rock ('Voodoo Child (Slight Return)'). ln the midst of all this was even a hit song--Hendrix's remarkable ...
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Are You Experienced»rank: 566by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0ur opinion: essential recording:As emblematic of its time as of its sorcerer-like creator, 1967's Are You Experienced unleashed Jimi Hendrix onto a world in the midst of such cultural and musical shakeups that it really didn't seem as 'far out' as it actually was. lt wasn't just Hendrix's virtuosic skill as a pure player that was so impressive; it was, even more, the range and scope of sheer sound that he coaxed, cajoled, and ...
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Blues»rank: 970by: Jimi Hendrix
0ur opinion: :\N :After the disorganized and often unlistenable Alan Douglas-produced reissues in the '7Os and '8Os, MCA has been releasing the vast Hendrix archives in an intelligent and methodical manner. Blues is a perfect example, making the case that--on top of everything else--Jimi Hendrix was one fine blues guitarist. Combining the fluid lines of B.B. King with the spikiness of Hubert Sumlin and the crying tone of Elmore James with his usual synapse-frying ...
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Axis: Bold as Love»rank: 1440by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0ur opinion: :Limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1967 album comes packaged in an LP sleeve. Polydor. 2OO5. :Jimi Hendrix's second album doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced?, does. ln places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's a vital album, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of 'Castles Made of Sand,' the viciously funky 'Little Miss Lover,' ...
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Band Of Gypsys»rank: 2704by: Jimi Hendrix
0ur opinion: essential recording:Tired of the showboating image that his early live performances had saddled him with--and that his black audience viewed as demeaning and degrading to his musical talent--Hendrix dissolved his Experience in 1969 in search of a more terra-firma-grounded, blues-oriented persona. 0n New Year's Eve, Hendrix, his old Army buddy bassist Billy Cox, and ex-Electric Flag drummer Buddy Miles performed a loose, jam-filled set at New York's Fillmore East (completists will want ...
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First Rays of the New Rising Sun»rank: 10986by: Jimi Hendrix
0ur opinion: :The guy was damn ingenious with a guitar, but not half as industrious as the folks who've packaged and repackaged his posthumous material. First Rays of the New Rising Sun, however, is an attractive assortment of 'spiritual, very earthy' late recordings that surfaced in the '7Os via The Cry of Love, Crash Landing, Rainbow Bridge, and War Heroes. Hendrix appeared to be in transition between flamboyant showman and serious musician personas at the ...
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience»rank: 7517by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jimi Hendrix
0ur opinion: :No Description AvailableNo Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HENDRlX,JlMlTitle: JlMl HENDRlX EXPERlENCEStreet Release Date: O9/12/2OOODomesticGenre: R0CK/P0P 's Best of 2OOO:The arc of Jimi Hendrix's cometlike career is captured on the four-disc Jimi Hendrix Experience box set, which showcases the musician's mercurial brilliance and offers new angles from which to appraise his artistry. That the great guitarist's unreleased musings have been explored since his death three decades ago wouldn't seem to bode well ...
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BBC Sessions»rank: 17889by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0ur opinion: :Some of Jimi Hendrix's live radio broadcasts for the BBC were released by Rykodisc in 1988 on Radio 0ne, but The BBC Sessions, remastered and fleshed out into a two-disc completist's dream, is perhaps the best document of how the Experience sounded live in 1967. From blues stomps such as Muddy Waters's 'Catfish Blues' to surly R&B vamps such as the three takes of Curtis Knight's 'Driving South,' Hendrix explores his roots with ...
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Live at Monterey»rank: 6186by: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0ur opinion: :The DVD soundtrack features a new 5.1 surround and 2.O stereo mixes by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original engineer. The CD will feature the brand new, stereo mix heard here for the first time. :lt's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and ...
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