Whats your Favorite Hendrix Album

[-Analog-]

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Electric Ladyland for me :)

[bjjp2]

Axis: Bold as Love

[Suproman77]

Are You Experienced for me. They're all great, but that one holds a special place in my heart.

[geetarboy]

I know it's not a proper album, but I find myself listening to First Rays of the New Rising Sun a lot.

[jimmyj]

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Electric Ladyland for me :)

+1 :dude

[jjboogie]

Tough question!!!

I might have to say right now that Band Of Gypsies is my favorite but that is really a tough question since they are all so different and absolutely earth shattering!

[pickaguitar]

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[fenderball]

tough one..."electric ladyland" is great, as are several, but "are you experienced" just blew everybody's brains out

[Suproman77]

I know it's not a proper album, but I find myself listening to First Rays of the New Rising Sun a lot.

Same here! I've had it in my car pretty much the whole summer because I just can't stop listening to it...pretty amazing stuff.

[GregoryL]

Axis has always been my fave.

[big mike]

Axis: Bold as Love

Word. +1

[Hendrix99]

I have to also go with Axis: Bold as Love. It is my go to album.

[davecan]

Electric Ladyland

[shredtrash]

Axis: Bold As Love.

[5soulmates]

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Electric Ladyland for me :)


+1 :dude

+2 :dude

[Mr Savage]

Axis: Bold As Love

Band of Gypsys has the best guitar playing though.

[Texas_Blues]

Electric Lady Land I dont really like his other studio albums, they seem to hold back.

[hucklebee]

just ask the Axis baby

[Frankee]

Axis

[telecopter]

Cry of Love :hide

[daveS]

Band of Gypsies.

Live Hendrix just kills :dude

[Hal71]

I listened to "Blues" (Jimi blues comp from '94) earlier today. First time in years. It's spectacular.

[mikem]

http://www.poster.net/hendrix-jimi/hendrix-jimi-photo-jimi-hendrix-6229641.jpg

Electric Ladyland for me :)




+2 :dude

:dude+3

Mike

[freedom's door]

Axis

[rob2001]

Cry of Love :hide

I'm with you on that one! I have to admit I haven't listened to all of his work so maybe i'm missing somthing. But that album holds a lot of meaning for me and it's really quite a lesson in modern recording techniques. Not to mention some great writing.

[Scott Auld]

Band of Gypsies.

Live Hendrix just kills :dude


This is my vote also

[barkingpumpkin]

Electric Land Lady

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[telecopter]

I'm with you on that one! I have to admit I haven't listened to all of his work so maybe i'm missing somthing. But that album holds a lot of meaning for me and it's really quite a lesson in modern recording techniques. Not to mention some great writing.

Yep, Angel and E-Z Rider are GREAT tunes.

[shngn7]

Band of Gypsies

[gtraddict]

I hate to say it since it is not really an album, the BBC Sessions double disk set
but if it was a pure album it would be Electric Lady Land

[CharAznable]

Axis, definitely. Coolest cover, too.

[Solomon]

You should have done this as a poll. It would be interesting to see if there was any kind of consensus. I bet it would be pretty mixed with all receiving a good many votes. Pretty impressive that EVERY album he made could legitimately be considered his "best".

[Teleplayer]

Really dig Axis.

But have been listening to Band of Gypsies a lot lately - for the first time in about 25 years (no lie).

IMHO, BOG has a certain groove and soul that goes much deeper than Jimi's studio stuff or playing with Experience. The first 57 seconds of Who Knows is killin' - Buddy and Billy provide such a great platform for Jimi's playing. When the bass and drums kick in, it's a "holy cr@p" moment for me.

I liked Mitch's drumming overall. But there is something about Buddy's and Billy's playing that simply go places Experience never went for me. Again, just my $0.02.

[re-animator]

axis is unbelievable. my favorite piece of wax from any artis.

[GDking]

:dude+3

Mike

+4 Electric Ladyland


WONT BE OUT OF STYLE

[dumbell78]

BOG for me, the groove is just so GOOD!

[Redbell]

I believe Hendrix only released 4 albums in his lifetime:
Are You Experienced, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland and Band Of Gypsies (which was to settle a legal conflict.)
They are all amazing on so many levels, the man was insanely talented!

[CAJUN]

Axis

[Sub City]

Experienced / original British release with 17 songs, including Red House. That's the one that started it all. With Axis/ELL a close 2nd. BOG is great, but not a big Buddy Miles fan.

[trisonic]

Axis, definitely. Coolest cover, too.

My favourite too.
I have a "lunchbox" sitting on my desk here with the Axis: Bold as Love artwork covering it (full up with picks and slides).....

Best, Pete.

[homerayvaughan]

Band of Gypsys. And Axis.

[bluntage]

Axis: Bold as Love! :banana

[johntoste]

That's like asking which is your favorite testicle. I have multiple copies of each record released in his lifetime and Cry of Love/First Rays. The one I play most for people with low Hendrix awareness (yes, they exist) is Electric Ladyland. I do love the Axis cover the best. I've got the poster and the T-shirt.

[Mark McPheeters]

Axis.

[chaz_vibrato]

I like his concert recordings. Bootlegs. My faves are: Baltimore 6/13/70, Boston 6/27/70, Norman, OK 5/8/70, Seattle, 7/26/70, Gothenberg 9/1/70, Copenhagen 9/3/70, San Jose, 5/25/69, San Diego 5/26/69. Jimi did his best playing in that spring - summer 70 tour. If you can stand some crackly tape and hiss you'll hear some amazing playing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/chz999

Michael Fairchild has written some interesting stuff about Jimi's live gigs. It really was a prehistoric era as far as live sound reinforcement and music technology.

Studio Lp's? EL, he was really stretching on that one.

[Tonefish]

Experienced, but man, so many others so close.

[Mr Savage]

Axis, definitely. Coolest cover, too.

Yeah, cool cover. Jimi didn't like it though. He had asked for it to represent his Indian heritage and being in England they thought that he meant Indian Indian and not American Indian.

[crzyfngers]

the one where he plays guitar and sings.:banana

[PedalFreak]

Axis: Bold As Love

[Mike7]

I don't know if it is my fav but "Loose Ends" had some really interesting stuff on it, l always liked that solo in "Stars that play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

[lalaland]

BoG

[JimmyD]

I don't know if it is my fav but "Loose Ends" had some really interesting stuff on it, l always liked that solo in "Stars that play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

Loose Ends is awesome, one of my favorites. I remember grabbing that on vinyl close to 30 years ago and just being blown away by the tone and off the cuff funkiness of it all. "Where's that grass, where's that god@#$# grass!"

I believe I also heard more from those sessions several years back on the net.

Jim

[otaypanky]

Band of Gypsies.
Electric Lady Land is certainly amazing, and I listened a thousand times when it came out ~ But that New Years Eve recording of Band of Gypsies was spot on. Just an incredible vibe, raw, no studio embellishments.

[Soapbarstrat]

Cry of Love :hide

Same here.

Like the guitar work in 'Night Bird Flying' quite a lot.

Sounds more like 50/60 watt Bassman heads on the that album than Marshalls to me.

I don't know off-hand which album(s) have 'Purple Haze' and 'Foxy lady', but I've heard those tunes just too many times. Need to wait 20 years before I can handle "re-discovering" them.

[TD_Madden]

Smash Hits

[wrxplayer]

1. Electric Ladyland
2. Band of Gypsies

[BlueHeaven]

B.O.G. STILL blows my mind!
Greg

[jrigg]

Ladyland

[SteveGaines]

Electric Ladyland....Band of Gypsys and Smash Hits...Live in the West..And some of the Live Stuff that was unearthed in the early 80's....And I found a couple of albums in a "BARGAIN BIN" years ago...It is Jimi playing with Curtis Knight.....A STRAT or MUSTANG through a FENDER AMP....ON ABOUT 10..."Sweet Little Angel".was worth the 50 cents I paid alone..:banana

[M Hossa]

Are You Experienced.

[Strat58]

Hi I realy like Jimi Hendrix In The West with the best Red House ever !!!!!!!!!!
Peace Strat58

[robelinda2]

Axis:Bold As Love.

Its Kylie Minogue's fav Jimi album too.

[fenderball]

ever hear the G3 Live red house?
Satriani/vai/eric johnson??
incredible....

Hi I realy like Jimi Hendrix In The West with the best Red House ever !!!!!!!!!!
Peace Strat58

[57tele]

ever hear the G3 Live red house?
Satriani/vai/eric johnson??
incredible....

That performance is a lot of fun, but those guys are really far removed from what Hendrix was doing. That live Red House from In the West (San Diego Sports Arena) is arguably the best thing Hendrix ever did live. For me, it's between that and the live Hear My Train A Comin' from Berkeley.

Both of these are marked by Hendrix in this sort of trance-like flow, ideas and sound just pouring out of him.

[Marc Roy]

Band of Gypsies for me.

[traviswalk]

Axis...could listen to that over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...well, you get my point.

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

Axis or maybe Cry of love.

.... His stuff was pretty good, but never really was a big fan ....

[michael patrick]

Are You Experienced... where it all began.

The first time I heard it was when an older cousin played it for me. We were down in his basement, and he had smuggled some beer down. He said "You have to hear this album!" I was floored by what I heard... and that experience looms large in why I play guitar.

[StompBoxBlues]

If it was like a desert island "you only get to bring one Hendrix" I would be hard pressed. Whatever I took I would need to hear another also...I need the whole library of his stuff.

But even though it would be cruel and unusual to make me pick one, I think probably it would be "Band of Gypsys"... I love all his stuff, but I love the live stuff best when it was really cooking.

[heavysoul]

Axis. sounds as fresh today as it did back in '67...

[JrMaFia]

Live at the Filmore. Machine gun is like something not human

[KBR]

Electric Ladyland
Band of Gypsies

[B_of_H]

band of gypsies

I tend to generally (with regards to rock music) prefer raw but tight stuff and this instance is no exception. There is something really great about how 'fresh' and enthusiastic the band performs. I've always assumed the band was giddy in just playing with each other and free of drama. Maybe things were really just starting to fully click, I wouldn't know but that is what the mood the band seems to have here. That's what I mean by 'fresh' yet tight. I may be wrong but this is one of those recorded moments where a unique brand of magic happens the raw enthusiasm meets familiarity. Most bands go through this phase only once as far as I can tell, unless they change styles or lineups and material.

(woah, sorry about that ramble..I decided just to post it without editing. Pure stream of conciousness. srsly :) )

[rotren]

Band of Gypsies for sure!

[todd richman]

Electric Ladyland-you gotta listen with headphones, especially the beginning.
Band of Gypsies-blues, funk, the power of soul and the guitar tones galore.

[Balok]

ELL
and that title song has been givin' me goosebumps for 40 years
"... I wanna show you..."

[rh]

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By the time I was 20 I'd listened to the others so many times I can't sit through them any more -- but Cry of Love still amazes me.

[rwe333]

Band of Gypsys w/ Electric Ladyland and Axis damned close...

[notyalcer]

Obscure but I listened to it relentlessly: Nine to the Universe

[Gibson62]

Electric Ladyland.

[Rumblefish]

I love 'em all and still hear something new every time I listen to any of them after 40+ years now.If I have to make a choice,it's "Are You Experienced" because of it's raw kinetic energy and above all the impact it had on everything in my world.I remember where I was.What I was doing.What the day was like before and after I heard Purple Haze on my transistor pocket radio.