Electric Ladyland

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Product Details

Artist : Jimi Hendrix Experience
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0008811160029
Label : Universal , Island
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1999-07-26
Running Time : 75minutes
UPC : 008811160029

ASIN : B000002P5U

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. And The Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little miss strange
6. Long hot summer night
7. Come on (let the good times roll)
8. Gypsy eyes
9. Burning of the midnight lamp
10. Rainy day dream away
11. 1983 (a merman I should turn to be)
12. Moon turn the tides...gently gently away
13. Still raining, still dreaming
14. House burning down
15. All along the watchtower
16. Voodoo Child (slight return)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

If it's true that songwriters have a vision in their head of what their dream album would be, Electric Ladyland was the project Jimi Hendrix hoped would be as close to perfection as possible. No longer content with the rush-recorded psychedelic pop-rock of Experienced and Axis, Ladyland was an exploration of what could be achieved with time, money and experience. Jimi's soul roots from his session days shine through for the first time with the laid-back groove of the title track and the doo-woppy "Long Hot Summer Night" showing a vocal style reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield. It's hard to pick a standout piece as the quality of the album is so high, but the four-part dream segue of "Rainy Day", "1983", "Moon Turn the Tides" and "Still Raining" is a monumental piece of early prog rock continuing the acid-soaked ideal of extraterrestrials, love, peace and war that he started earlier on with "Third Stone from the Sun". However, it's not all spectacular drawn-out blues jams and sublime soundscapes, Electric Ladyland managed to produce Jimi's only UK No. 1 single, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" plus the timeless classics "Crosstown Traffic" and "All Along the Watchtower" making it arguably the best studio album the Experience produced in their brief career together.--David Trueman

Description

On ELECTRIC LADYLAND Jimi Hendrix stretched and experimented in the studio, going beyond the power-trio format on what would be his last studio album with the Experience. ELECTRICLADYLAND was revolutionary in its scope and execution. Using New York City's Record Plant as a gateway to free expression, Hendrix traversed an abstract landscape containing compositions as weird and wonderful as "...And The Gods Made Love" and "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)".
Simultaneously looking forwards and backwards, Hendrix mixed in a song reminiscent of his time on the chitlin' circuit (Earl King's "Come On [Part 1]"), a Bob Dylan favourite ("All Along The Watchtower"), and one of his snappiest singles ("CrosstownTraffic"). Although Hendrix produced and wrote most of thismasterpiece, others weighed in with their own contributions. Noel Redding penned "Little Miss Strange", and other guests such as Al Kooper and Buddy Miles showed up to play. Traffic's Steve Winwood and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane also made cameos, appearing on this classic album's spiritual centre, "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)".

Customer Reviews

A masterpiece in guitar playing. (2008-07-21)

The definitive Hendirx cd, brilliantly produced it ranges from low beat blues records such as 'voodoo chile' to upbeat rock records in 'crosstown traffic' to great covers in the form of 'all along the watchtower'.The 'wah-wah' effect on 'voodoo child slight return' is ledgendary and will be remembered until the end of man. The guitar playing on '1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)' is brilliant and really suits the pysecdelic theme of the song.

what a legend the best guitarist ever!! (2008-07-20)

he is amazing this album is one of the best ever!! its fantastic in my opinion he is the best ever guitarist ever!! and this album i love it phycadelic 60s rock buy it you wont regret it!!

If he's looking down on us.... (2008-06-06)

... I reckon Jimi would be saying "no no guys - the stuff I was working on before I left was even better than this stuff!!!".I do feel that the direction Jimi was taking in the first light of the 70s would have solidified him as THE pre-eminent recording artist of his time. As it stands - we are only left with tantalising glimpses of his future, unrealised, creations (i.e. "first rays of the new rising sun").I won't bother repeating all of the superlatives that others have bestowed in these review. Suffice to say - he was inventive, imaginative (wildly so), fabulously talented, charismatic, and peerless. As a recording artist - I think his is the greatest loss of all the 'legends' of yore - as he probably hadn't nearly peaked in terms of his writing skills. Almost everything you hear on this album belonged to Jimi's production and direction, including the fabulous bassline in "All Along The Watchtower", played by Jimi upside down on Noel Redding's Fender Bass.My number 1 album of all time, enough said.

This album changes lives . . . (2008-02-01)

Well, it did mine. Totally blew my mind when I first heard it over thirty years ago, and it still makes it for me now. Definitely one for Desert Island Discs. Buy it and be transported to a million different landscapes of the mind.

his master piece (2007-11-08)

what makes this album really different from the first two is that jimi had more time to spend on recordings.on are you experience there is penny pinching and the sound is rubbish.the tunes are not allowed beyond a certain lenght. i personally think it is unlistenable. the difference is best shown on all along the watchtower. compare the version that he did with dave mason on bass that is on the albums that came out after his death and the same basic track he took with him to america and put on those over dubs for electric ladyland version. the difference is enormous. the chas chandler produced version is a just good song but the hendric version is a contendor for the greatest song ever.I wish he had done same for spanish castle magic and put some overdubs and the result would have the same for spanish castle.the whole lady album is fused with a soulfull sound in the playing and works beautifully all the way through the album until the last track. voodoo chile slight return. this track just destroys anything before it , not just on this album but all the music before that has gone. when it is finished you know music will never be the same. i heard it on the radio at work recently and it was so shocking sonically. how many records can you say that about nearly 40 years later.

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