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Electric Ladyland |  | Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Label: Experience Hendrix
Category: Music
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Rating:  279 reviews
Sales Rank: 1316
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 008811160029
UPC: 008811160029
EAN: 0008811160029
ASIN: B000002P5U
Release Date: April 22, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | ...And the Gods Made Love | | • | Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) | | • | Crosstown Traffic | | • | Voodoo Chile | | • | Little Miss Strange | | • | Long Hot Summer Night | | • | Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) | | • | Gypsy Eyes | | • | Burning of the Midnight Lamp | | • | Rainy Day, Dream Away | | • | 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) | | • | Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away | | • | Still Raining, Still Dreaming | | • | House Burning Down | | • | All Along the Watchtower | | • | Voodoo Child (Slight Return) |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: HENDRIX,JIMI
Title: ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Street Release Date: 04/22/1997
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com 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 I Should Turn to Be"), psychedelic soul ("Crosstown Traffic"), and skyscraping rock ("Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"). In the midst of all this was even a hit song--Hendrix's remarkable reading of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," featuring a series of baton-passing guitar solos, all distinct and brilliant. Seemingly diffuse when first released; in hindsight, kaleidoscopically eclectic. --Billy Altman
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A Testament To One Of Rock''s Biggest Losses March 1, 2010
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This two-disc 1968 recording is a classic. It has to be signature work of Hendrix' short-but-brilliant career. First as an album and then as this CD, I've spent 40 years listening to these songs, I especially never get tired of hearing "1983...(I Should Turn To Be), All Along The Watchtower and Voodoo Child." The last two have been attempted and done well by such great guitarists as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, but nobody - repeat nobody - does them like Jimi Hendrix.
A shame we'll never know what kind of innovative sounds this man could have produced with his guitar had he not overdosed on drugs at the age of 27.
This was one of the biggest losses ever to rock music and this CD is a testament to that.
A really cool album February 26, 2010
Joker (Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Electric Ladyland By The Jimi Hendrix Experience is right up there with Are You Experienced?. This album has a little bit of everything - straight up hard rock, blues, jazz, etc. The song Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) is mellow, then the classic Top 40-ish Crosstown Traffic follows, clocking in at 2:25. Then what's next? The 15-minute Voodoo Chile! This is one thing I like about this album - it's all over the place but retains that Jimi Hendrix feel throughout. The group got some help on some songs by such musicians as Steve Winwood, Jack Cassidy, Buddy Miles, Al Kooper, and others. Bassist Noel Redding sings the song Little Miss Strange. Bob Dylan wrote the song All Along The Watchtower and this group's cover of it is outstanding.
Personal favorites of mine are Gypsy Eyes, Burning Of The Midnight Lamp, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower, Long Hot Summer Night, and Voodoo Chile.
If you wanna rock Hendrix style, then this is your album. A winner all around and very highly recommended.
 Disaster on Disc November 2, 2009
Patrick Mc Kenna
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
A great way to celebrate Woodstock with a CD that went wonkie after one track.
I've noted this supplier; never again. I had to rate this 1 star to comply with sending this review. Zip.
Awesome Awesome!! October 12, 2009
supreme R&B (Greenville, NC USA)
If you are any type of Jimi Hendrix, guitar, or rock music fan then this album is definitly for you. This whole album is great from start to finish. In my opinion it is their greatest studio album. The album starts off in the usual Hendrix, outer space vibe segued into the Curtis Mayfield like, (Have You Ever Been)To Electric Ladyland. Standouts on the album include Crosstown Traffic. The 15-minute long Voodoo Chile which sounds like a live recording but was actually in the studio. Then there's the Earl King Cover "Come On(Let the Good Times Roll). Jimi lets loose on this track. Don't know why other people haven't mentioned this song! Others include the track Gypsy Eyes which Jimi wrote about his mother. Burning of the Midnight Lamp is another standout with its psychedelic sounding guitar work. And arguably the most psychedelic song of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1983. This track is about 13 or 14 minutes long and is another epic like Voodoo Chile. Wonderful! The last two songs are perhaps some of his most recognized songs. All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child(Slight Return). They don't need an explaination! Come on. You should already know. But just in case you don't, buy the album!! You wont regret it. Enjoy.
Go a year without it September 6, 2009
common man
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
EL is the archetypal image of what creative rock or even classical music has to compare itself to. Hendrix created a spacetime hole in the fabric of music. When i first heard it shortly after release, I had no mental schema to even perceive what was happening. This is still a work in progress for me at 57. I will go a year or two without listening to it, and each time i replay it, it is completely eerily hauntingly seductive, as if I had never heard it before - yet I completely feel overwhelmed with its classical familiarity. This album flows as a uni-verse unto itself. I love the other classic Hendrix albums as well, but this one does not project radio hits, one so much isloated from the other; "slight" return becomes a bold launch to musical genius.
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