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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary
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[Verse 1] / After all the jacks are in their boxes / And the clowns have all gone to bed / You can hear happiness staggering on down the street / Footprints dressed in red / And
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Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train A Comin'
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[Chorus] / Well, I hear my train a comin' / Hear my / Hear my train a comin' / [Interlude] / Ayy ayy ayy yeah-eah / [Verse] / Well, I / Wait around the train station / Waitin' for
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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The final track on Jimi Hendrix’s final album Electric Ladyland. It is a shorter reprise of the lengthy blues jam “Voodoo Chile” from earlier in the album.
The ‘wah-wah’ effect of
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Stone Free
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“Stone Free” is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and the second song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It has been described as a “counterculture anthem, with its lyrics
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Joe
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first single, released in 1966, is the best-known version of the rock standard covered time and again ever since The Leaves recorded it commercially
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
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[Verse 1] / Purple haze all in my brain / Lately things, they don't seem the same / Acting funny, but I don't know why / 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky / [Verse 2] / Purple haze
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Jimi Hendrix – Belly Button Window
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[Chorus] / Well, I'm up here in this womb and I'm looking all around / Mm, mm, mm / Well, I'm lookin' out my belly button window / And I see a whole lot of frowns / And I'm
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold as Love
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The closing track of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album Axis: Bold As Love. It paints a vivid picture of the spectrum of human emotion using colors as its metaphor.
John
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
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The album’s psychedelic title track, which author Sean Egan described as impressionistic in his book Jimi Hendrix and the Making of Are You Experienced, featured the post-modern
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Fire
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One of Hendrix most popular songs, this song was included in both UK and US versions of the group successful debut albums, it was described by Matthew Greenwall from AllMusic as
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile
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The solo heavy 15 minute prequel to “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”, Voodoo Chile is one of Jimi’s most unhinged performances.
The absence of the ’d' in the title has been also
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
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[Spoken Intro] / (Is the microphone on?) / [Intro] / Hey baby where are you coming from? / [Verse 1] / Well she looked at me and smiled / And looked into space and said "I'm coming
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Well she's walking through the clouds / With a circus mind that's running round / Butterflies and zebras / And moonbeams / And-a, fairytales / That's all she
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Jimi Hendrix – 51st Anniversary
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“51st Anniversary” was originally released as the b-side to the “Purple Haze” UK single, and later on the UK version of Smash Hits.
The song was recorded on January 11, 1967 in a
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Jimi Hendrix – Stepping Stone
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[Verse 1] / Well, I'm a man / At least, I'm trying to be / But I've learned before / That other half of me / I said, I'm a man / Look across the deep blue sea / But I ain't gonna
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Red House
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“Red House” was written and recorded in 1966 and appeared on the band’s album Are You Experienced. It is one of the most conventional blues songs by Jimi Hendrix, as it was
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic
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“Crosstown Traffic”, track 3 to Electric Ladyland, uses wordplay and fast/slow innuendos to compare the girl Hendrix is chasing to literal traffic. The song was the third single
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Jimi Hendrix – Burning Desire
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[Chorus] / Burning desire sets my soul on fire / Burning desire sets my soul on fire / [Verse 1] / I feel my body drowning in your sea of love / But in the meantime there's nothing
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Jimi Hendrix – Crash Landing
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[Verse] / Hey / You don’t love me, you just want me / So let’s make it baby, so I can leave / You don’t need me, you just want to bleed me / So take out your dagger, and cut me
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower
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“All Along The Watchtower” is a cover of Bob Dylan’s song of the same name. Hendrix takes Dylan’s lyrics and rewrites the music to expand and highlight the meaning of the lyrics
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – I Don't Live Today
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A song about Jimi’s transparently unstable mental health. As an incredibly sincere and expressive person, massive bursts of energy and personality rain from his guitar and voice
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Spanish Castle Magic
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This song is Jimi’s ode to the Spanish Castle. A club in Washington state just south of Jimi’s native Seattle. Built in 1931, it served as a popular venue for young aspiring
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Jimi Hendrix – Night Bird Flying
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“Night Bird Flying” is a Jimi Hendrix song off of the posthumous album The Cry of Love. Hendrix uses the metaphor of a bird to describe an encounter with an attractive prostitute
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Jimi Hendrix – Crash Landing
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[Verse] / Hey / You don’t love me, you just want me / So let’s make it baby, so I can leave / You don’t need me, you just want to bleed me / So take out your dagger, and cut me
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – House Burning Down
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“House Burning Down” is the 14th track on The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s final studio album, Electric Ladyland.
The song details the confrontation between the main character (
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Jimi Hendrix – Earth Blues
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One of the many previously unreleased tracks from Jimi’s posthumous albums: Rainbow Bridge and First Rays of the Rising Sun, “Earth Blues” is a heavily religious song alluding to
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Highway Chile
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, his guitar slung across his back / His dusty boots is his Cadillac / Flamin' hair just a blowin' in the wind / Ain't seen a bed in so long it's a sin / He left
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Jimi Hendrix – Lover Man
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“Lover Man” is a song by Jimi Hendrix about cheating in a relationship, with this situation being between a woman cheating on her significant other (her “lover man”) by sleeping
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Remember
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In contrast to many of his hits, such as “Purple Haze” and “Stone Free”, “Remember” reveals a mellower, soulful side to Hendrix that listeners across generations have come to
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S.O.D. – Ballad of Jimi Hendrix
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[Verse] / You're dead!
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – One Rainy Wish
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This track, also known as “Golden Rose”, was featured on the 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album. It was written by Jimi Hendrix and the
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
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Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) is the second song off of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland, released in 1968.
In this song, Hendrix introduces the
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Jimi Hendrix – Hound Dog Blues - Anthology Version
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Chorus] / You ain't nothing but a hound dog / Scratchin' all the time / You ain't nothing but a hound dog, baby / Scratchin' all the time / You ain't got no
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Jimi Hendrix – (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
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[Verse 1] / Now the gypsy woman told my mother / A'before I was born / She say "You got a boy child's a'coming / He's gonna be a son of a gun / He's gonna make you girls / Jump and
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Jimi Hendrix – Freedom
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You got my pride / Hangin' out of my bed / You messing with my life / So I bought my lead / You even messin' with my children / And you're screaming at my wife, baby / Get off of
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – EXP
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The funny Alien-related Axis: Bold As Love intro featuring Jimi Hendrix being “interviewed” by bandmate Mitch Mitchell
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Third Stone from the Sun
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[Spoken Intro] / Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position / Over / I am in orbit around the third planet from the star called the sun / Over / May this be Earth? / Over
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Jimi Hendrix – Somewhere
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“Somewhere” is a Jimi Hendrix song recorded in March 1968, with Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass.
Producer Eddie Kramer told Rolling Stone, “[it'] a fantastic
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Jimi Hendrix – Stop - Live at Fillmore East 1/1/70 [First Show]
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[Chorus: Buddy Miles] / Well, stop (Stop) / Baby, can't you see that I can't take it no more? / No, no, baby / Stop / Baby, I'm 'bout to go right on through the floor? / Oh yeah
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Jimi Hendrix & ZAYN – Angel
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[Verse 1: ZAYN] / Angel came down from Heaven yesterday / She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me / And she told me a story yesterday / About the sweet love between the
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Up from the Skies
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The second track off of 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love, “Up From The Skies” was written by Jimi Hendrix.
The lyrics are written from the perspective of a space alien visiting, or
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Jimi Hendrix – Gloria
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[Verse 1] / Well she come around here / Just about midnight / Lord, she make me feel so good / She make me feel alright / [Chorus] / And she spell her name G-L-O-R-IIIIII-A, G-L-O-
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