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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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Jimi Hendrix – Love or Confusion - Anthology Version
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[Verse 1] / Is that the stars in the sky, or is it / Rain falling down / Will it burn me if I touch the sun, yeah / So big, so round / Would I be truthful, yeah, in / Choosing you
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Jimi Hendrix – May This Be Love - Anthology Version
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[Instrumental Intro] / [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
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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 – 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 – 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 – Can You See Me
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[Verse 1] / Can you see me, yeah, begging you on my knees? / Whoa yeah! / Can you see me, baby? / Baby, please don't leave / Yeah, if you can see me doing that / You can see in the
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Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower - Live at Isle of Wight
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[Verse 1] / "There must be some kind of way out of here" / Said the joker to the thief / "There's too much confusion / I can't get no relief / Businessmen they drink my wine
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Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced? - Anthology Version
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / If you can just get your mind together / Then come on across to me / We'll hold hands, and then we'll watch the sunrise / From the bottom of the
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Jimi Hendrix – Castles Made of Sand - Anthology Version
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[Verse 1] / Down the street you can hear her scream "You're a disgrace" / As she slams the door in his drunken face / And now he stands outside / And all the neighbors start to
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Jimi Hendrix – Foxey Lady - Anthology Version
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This version of “Foxey Lady” is a shortened version of its performance at the Fillmore East. Due to the varying lengths, many automated programs do not recognize that the two songs
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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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