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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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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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 – 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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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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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 – 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 – Manic Depression
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“Manic Depression” is a song written by Jimi Hendrix for his band’s 1967 album Are You Experienced. Famed critic William Ruhlmann described the song as:
More an expression of
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
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Off of the Experience’s second album, [Axis: Bold as Love], this song is often interpreted as an “Individualist Anthem” that takes inspiration from the counterculturalist movement
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The Protocol SA – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Hook: / Time is moving super fast i hardly see the day / I need you to be close to me but I push you away / Why I am so hooked on you like special purple haze / I can barely feel
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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 – 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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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – May This Be Love
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[Verse 1] / Waterfall / Nothing can harm me at all / My worries seem so very small / With my waterfall / [Verse 2] / I can see / My rainbow calling me / Through the misty breeze
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
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Several songs from the second half of the 1968 album Electric Ladyland reflect Hendrix’s weariness with the world and his desire to find a better place. “1983” is arguably the most
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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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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Love or Confusion
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“Love or Confusion” is one of the many songs on Jimi’s debut album that discusses love and emotion. Throughout the track, Jimi ponders over whether his relationship is truly filled
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – She's So Fine
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[Verse 1] / She walks with a bell clock round her neck / So the hippies think she's in with time, time / Her hair glistens like robins on a deck / Branches attack me from her neck
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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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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey Lady
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The UK edition of Are You Experienced opened with “Foxy Lady”, a track that, with the exception of a few overdubs, was recorded in one session at CBS. Hendrix wrote the song about
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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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