Title: Are You Experienced? [The Jimi Hendrix Experience]
Author: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Publisher: MCA
Copyright: 1967
Pages: Length: 40.12 or 61.24 with bonus tracks
Price: About $15.00 or €20.00
Rating: 9
Synopsis:
The Experience's debut album, which launched their career, and demonstrated Hendrix's guitar mastery.
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Track Listing:
01 Foxy Lady
02 Manic Depression
03 Red House
04 Can You See Me
05 Love or Confusion
06 I Don't Live Today
07 May This Be Love
08 Fire
09 Third Stone From the Sun
10 Remember
11 Are You Experienced?
- Re-release CD Bonus tracks:
12 Hey Joe
13 Stone Free
14 Purple Haze
15 51st Anniversary
16 The Wind Cries Mary
17 Highway Chile
Review:
This has been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest rock albums ever, and I'm not going to argue. It's a very diverse and musical album, and all the members are at their technical peak. A lot of the songs are old-schol blues with a psychadelic tinge. Jimi's voice may not be beautiful, but it's perfect for this style. Others are pure hard rock, replete with wild solos. One or two are nice, mellow breaks in the excitement, and all of this makes for a nice, balanced album. Sometimes, it has to be said, Hendrix loses the plot a bit, and madness takes over musicality , but by and large this is a crazy, brilliant album thats still ahead of its time 40 years on. I still get chills listening to it! Get the bonus tracks version, by the way. It's well worth it!
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