Genius Meanings
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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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HANSON – Crosstown Traffic
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You jump in front of my car / When you know all the time / That 90 miles an hour Girl Is the speed I drive / You tell me it's all right / You don't mind a little pain / You say you
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Foy Vance – Crosstown Traffic
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[Verse 1] / You jump in front of my car when you / You know all the time that / Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive / You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Crosstown Traffic (Live)
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / You jump in front of my car / When you know all the time / Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive / You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a
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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 – Rainy Day, Dream Away
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Jimi Hendrix performed only one show at the two day Miami Pop Festival held May 18-19, 1968, as the second one was rained out.
This inspired the musician to write “Rainy Day
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Little Miss Strange
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“Little Miss Strange”, track 5 to Electric Ladyland, alludes to Hendrix' complicated relationship with women in the past. It also continues the theme of curious and magical women
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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 – Long Hot Summer Night
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[Verse 1] / Sure was a long, long, long, hot summer night / As far as my eyes could see (Yeah, yeah, yeah) / But my heart was way down in a / Cold, cold winter storm / Well, my
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Still Raining, Still Dreaming
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“Still Raining, Still Dreaming”, track 13 on Electric Ladyland, provides a continuation of one of the previous tracks, “Rainy Day, Dream Away”. Hendrix has used this process before
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
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[Verse 1] / People talking but they just don't know / What's in my heart, and why I love you so / I love you, baby, like a miner loves gold / Come on, sugar, let the good times
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently, Gently Away
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[Ambience]
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fire
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“Fire” is a cover of a song, of the same name, recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early 1967. The version released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1989 featured Anthony
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M.A.C.C. – Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)
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Hey baby where do you coming from? / Well she looked at me and smiled / And looked into space and said "I'm coming from the land of the new rising sun" / Then I said "Hey baby
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Spin Doctors – Spanish Castle Magic
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[Verse 1] / It's very far away / It takes about a half a day to get there / If we travel by my, dragonfly / No it's not in Spain / But all the same you know, it's a groovy name
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P.M. Dawn – You Got Me Floatin'
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You got me floatin', 'round and 'round / You got me floatin', never down / You got me floatin', naturally / You got me floatin', float to please / Oh, you got me floatin' around
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