Best Ever, Hands Down

Just for the record, this is the best album of the rock era. Nothing else comes close. If you don't have it, buy it. Then strap on the headphones and listen closely to the flowering of Hendrix's genius: this is his masterpiece.

GREATEST GUITAR ALBUM OF ALL TIME

I can listen over and over to this album! I love Hendrix! I love the cover-songs that he does. I would not call it jazz, - but compared to whining Clapton it is... Great double album! Buy this album, and try The Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". And RadioHead's OK COMPUTER, while you're at it...!

Some of it is Hendrix at his Absolute best

With Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix took psychedelic experimentation as far as he could within the original Experience trio format. That meant pushing the barriers of late-'60s studio technology as far as they could bend, particularly with regard to multi-tracking and effects that could only be achieved through certain treatments and manipulation of the tape itself. It also meant greater freedom and looseness in the playing and the songwriting, which could be both a plus and a drawback, as the compositions became both less constricted and less concise. Not all of the material here is top-of-the-line, but certainly much of this is Hendrix at his best: the dreamy wah-wah guitars of "Rainy Day, Dream Away" were only matched by the dreaminess of the lyrics, and "Have You Ever Been and "Gypsy Eyes" were also standouts. and "Voodoo Chile" were lengthy cuts dominated by jam-like instrumental passages; "Crosstown Traffic" and a cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," by contrast, were two of his catchiest and most pop-friendly tunes. "Voodoo Chile," "Voodoo Child, and a cover of Earl King's "Come On" are three of his most determined forays into the blues, albeit the blues as fed through a nearly avant-garde filter.

The greatest rock album ever

What more can one say about jimi Hendrix? This album to me ecapsulates the history of frican-American better than any other. Primeval jazz, delta blues, r&b, rock and the avant garde. This is the story of a talent so staggeringly original - that he could take virtually any 'old' music form and give it to you newer than tomorrow. And the guitar playing - jeez!



Listen to the mind boggling blues guitar on Voodoo Chile, lightning fast runs on Come on(let the good times roll), the jazzy lyricism of Rainy Day Dream Away and the 4-part guitar harmony on Dylan's All Along the watchtower - the finest cover i have heard ever.