Electric Ladyland |  | Artist: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 972
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 75 Minutes
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: July 26, 1999
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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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Amazon.co.uk Review
If it's true that songwriters have a vision in their head of what their dream album would be, IElectric Ladyland/I was the project Jimi Hendrix hoped would be as close to perfection as possible. No longer content with the rush-recorded psychedelic pop-rock of IExperienced/I and IAxis/I, ILadyland/I was an exploration of what could be achieved with time, money and experience. Jimi's soul roots from his session days shine through for the first time with the laid-back groove of the title track and the doo-woppy "Long Hot Summer Night" showing a vocal style reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield. It's hard to pick a standout piece as the quality of the album is so high, but the four-part dream segue of "Rainy Day", "1983", "Moon Turn the Tides" and "Still Raining" is a monumental piece of early prog rock continuing the acid-soaked ideal of extraterrestrials, love, peace and war that he started earlier on with "Third Stone from the Sun". However, it's not all spectacular drawn-out blues jams and sublime soundscapes, IElectric Ladyland/I managed to produce Jimi's only UK No. 1 single, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" plus the timeless classics "Crosstown Traffic" and "All Along the Watchtower" making it arguably the best studio album the Experience produced in their brief career together.--IDavid Trueman/I
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Jimi's Masterpiece - Ten Stars February 27, 2007
Geoffrey Millar (Brunswick Australia)
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
What else is there to say about this album, easily one of the top ten all time great rock records. Are You Experienced is another top ten effort, too, and you should listen to and absorb the earlier album before you try this set.
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br /Electric Ladyland is a sprawling, brilliant display of song-writing, guitar and studio wizardry and features five of Jimi's all time greatest numbers: Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Gypsy Eyes, Voodoo Chile, Crosstown Traffic and All Along the Watchtower, easily the best ever Dylan cover.
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br /It also includes a bit of filler - Little Miss Strange and Come On, for example - but that somehow makes the rest of the album even better.
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br /Rainy Day Dream Away, 1983 and Moon Turn the Tides, which made up the original Side Three of the LPs, are quite unlike anything else Jimi did and are part of what makes this album so special. They're jazzy, experimental, spooky, beautiful and timeless.
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br /This was the only album over which Jim had total artistic control, with the curious exception of the cover: both his US and British record companies ignored his wishes, and he hated the `naked cover' in particular.
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br /Unless you're really in need of looking at slightly distorted women, avoid the double disc set, which was the first issued CD version of this album and featured the 'naked' cover.
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br /Not only was the sound pretty average and full of hiss and noise, but the way the CDs were laid out, sides one and four of the original LPs were put on one CD, and sides two and three on the other! This brilliant strategy mucked up Jimi's careful running order and resulted in `Still Raining, Still Dreaming' appearing before the track which preceded it.
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br /This issue of the album is the one to get.
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The bluesiest record Hendrix released ... in his lifetime January 2, 2004
Gareth Smyth (Beirut)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is almost certainly Jimi Hendrix's best record. It is also - apart from the excellent posthumous 'The Blues' - his bluesiest record.pHendrix was in essense a blues guitarist. Hence this and 'The Blues' are the two Hendrix records to buy if you only buy two. For the rest, we can quibble.pHad he lived ... where would he have gone? Who knows?
Have you ever been? April 2, 2002
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
While credited to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, this is as much Jimi with the "friends and passengers" he credits on the inner sleeve as anything.pThe other thing this album is, undeniably and ecstatically, is a masterpiece. From the Stratocaster-as-flushing-toilet opener "...and the Gods Made Love", to the closing firepower of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", arguably the most incendiary rock performance ever committed to tape, this album uses its seventy minutes frighteningly well. pIt would be untrue to say that this album was a tightly-structured programme of impeccably-planned music, but that really wasn't the point, as Hendrix had proved himself a master of that artform with producer Chas Chandler on the first two Experience records. Chandler having left, Hendrix was free to fill his record with deeply soulful recastings of blues-standards (the fifteen-minute "Voodoo Chile"), psychedelic symphonies ("1983 (a Merman I Should Turn to Be)"), and laid-back jazz musings (the two-sided blow that is "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming").pTaken as a whole, this album covers as much ground as any record you care to name. As well as demonstrating once again that Hendrix was a master songwriter and performer, it features his finest cover version, in the form of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". Not to mince words, this is as good as rock music gets. Your collection has a gaping hole in it if you do not own "Electric Ladyland".
. July 22, 2002
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
One of the greatest double albums ever made, most tracks are stunning. Hendrix was the greatest player who ever has or ever will lift an electric guitar (yes I've said it again!). The friends and passengers are all top class. But what have they done with the cover?! I can't understand why the otherwise excellent Experience-Hendrix team have done a great job of reproducing his hand-written sleeve notes, and then totally ignored them! When originally released the album had poor sound quality, the infamous gatefold ladies, and the title was printed as 'Electric Landlady'! Why can't anyone get it right....brAnd as an aside, why do people insist on doing 'Hey Joe' as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix? He hated the song!!phoweverpWhat I like as much as the music are all the stories that go with it (I would recommend the 'Classic Albums' TV documentary). Chas Chandler walked out during the sessions for 'Gypsy Eyes', fed up that Hendrix had tried 40-odd takes of the song to try and get it 'right'! Certainly it is a total departure from the previous two (mostly) radio-friendly sets. I think one of Jimi's most underrated guitar parts is that of 'Have You Ever Been...', when heard on its own is up there with 'Little Wing' in my opinion!.p'Crosstown Traffic' fades into the long blues jam of 'Voodoo Chile', Hendrix trading riffs with Steve Winwood on organ; apparently Jimi was too scared to ask Steve to start a band with him! Noel Redding's 'Little Miss Strange' provides relief from the heaviness of the other songs.p'1983...' - 13 more minutes of Jimi's unique blend of guitars, drugs and pulp science-fiction, the lyrics crack me up every time! Some of the sounds have not aged that well (eg the 'underwater bells') but the tone of the guitar in the spaced-out part is beautiful. Unbelievably fast drumming from Mitch Mitchell.pWeaker parts of the album for me are 'Come On (pt 1)' and 'House Burning Down', but forget about that because the closing two songs are pure, undiluted genius; 'Watchtower' has perfect guitar solos, 'Voodoo Child' has the best riff ever. The slide parts of the former being played with a cigarette lighter! Jimi also played the bass part on Noel's right-handed bass while Noel was 'pissed off' in the pub! The latter mixed from about six different guitar takes. Yes, this song defines rock. Check out the live version of this from Woodstock, his hands are moving faster than the frame rate of the camera.pIf you are new to Hendrix, buy this or 'Are You Experienced?', also the 'Ultimate Experience' compilation is excellent.pI will not be late!
5 stars? how about 10... April 22, 2004
C. Nation (Bristol UK)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
One evening in 1969 I walked into the bar at my college hall of residenceand heard weird noises SLIDING UP THE BACK WALL AND ACROSS THE CEILING. I was not stoned but I was astounded. I'd walked in on the intro to "Electric Ladyland". I bought the album and yes, the cover does have naked ladies on it and no, it is not, as one review has said, titled "Electric Landladies". That's urban myth #98834.
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br /This album includes some of the best rock music ever recorded. The exception is the truly dreadful Noel Redding track. Those of you who come to this album first in CD form can thank your lucky stars you haven't had 30 years of staggering over to a record player to move the needle on, to skip this abomination.
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br /I've always wondered if Bob Dylan might agree that Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower" is as good as this gothic, haunting song could ever be. If they'd released the two LPs blank except for this track, it would have been worth the money. "Crosstown Traffic" is biting hard rock with smart and bitter lyrics. If this was the result when one of Jimi's ladies upset him, she was better off behaving herself. "House Burning Down" is an edgy response, in a chopping, tango rhythm, to the awful Watts riots of '68. "Let The Good Times Roll" is good ol' r r, not exactly an inspired piece but Jimi Hendrix is playing guitar and Mitch Mitchell's on drums, so can't moan. In the same vein, "Gypsy Eyes" is another modest little rocker from a high class act. The second side opens with "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". It falls short of the imagery of "The Wind Cries Mary" and the grunt of "Purple Haze" but if Noel Redding had written it, he would have reason to be very pleased with himself.
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br /The tracks that form the heart of this album, though, are the two long blues jams. The first will float you away on a melange of trippy sfx and walking blues, one track segueing into the next, sci-fi lyrics here and there, Hendrix gently, sublimely, doodling away on the Strat. The second is the live studio recording of "Voodoo Child". This is mega, a monster. All sorts of A-list musos were part of this track. Everybody had a great time, except at the end when they found the bar had closed. These are the tracks that got Miles Davis interested, prompted his return to blues idiom and got him out of the house to jam with Hendrix and John McLoughlan. Where are those tapes and what's on them? This was Jimi's future, that we were never to hear.
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br /The two most savage piece of music I know are the symphony that Shostakovich produced in response to the death of Stalin and Jimi Hendix's "Voodoo Child [Slight Return]". This is blues guitar as samurai sword and it is in the hands of the supreme, undisputed master. You will hear and you will understand.
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br /A few weeks after the "eureka!" moment that opens this piece, I saw The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Albert Hall. The support band was "Fat Mattress" [lead guitar - N. Redding]. They were simply dreadful. After a lengthy delay, Hendrix came on. He didn't want to be there, played a rubbish set, attacked the back line with his Strat and then started smashing it up, which set off a riot. A squad of police stormed the stage, Jimi was hustled off by two cops whilst a grotesque melee erupted. Woodstock this was not. Sometimes, it is better not to have been there.
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