Axis: Bold As Love

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Product Details

Artist : Jimi Hendrix Experience
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0008811160128
Label : Universal , Island
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1999-07-26
Running Time : 39minutes
UPC : 008811160128

ASIN : B000002P5W

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain't No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin'
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She's So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

Axis: Bold As Love, Hendrix's second album, doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced? did. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's nonetheless a vital album, containing some of rock's most molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles in The Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover" and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing." Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9", where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes--and "Bold As Love", based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar. --David Stubbs

Description

AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE was the follow-up to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities. Where his live shows continued to showcase the raw rocking power of the Experience, the recording studio gave Hendrix the composer/arranger a broader palette.
There are still plenty of powerful blues/rock-inflected songs, such as the menacing "If 6 Was 9", the rolling "Spanish Castle Magic" and the spatial title tune. But "Up From The Skies" is a jazzy trio romp, featuring Hendrix's bluesy, vocalised wah-wah pedal. And on the ballads "Little Wing"and "Castles Made Of Sand", Hendrix shifts the focus from the band to the silvery chord/melody accompaniments he often employed to complement his vocals. They are an orchestral effect unto themselves.

Customer Reviews

Jimi's Thee Greatest! (2008-04-10)

What can anyone really say about Jimi Hendrix that hasnt already been said?So i'm not gonna bore you with a cornucopia of superlatives or eulogies that would be ssssssso so deja vu, but i will say two things anyway.1) I have the original gatefold vinyl copy of this wonderful second album i bought from a local 2# hand record store in Reading that no longer exists and i paid £3 for it!!! And i aint selling! 2) There are guitar players and then there is Jimi Hendrix. Whether it be The Experience, Band Of Gypsies or any other ensemble to grace his name he was and continues to be the most creative, colourful and bewildering guitarist/singer/composer and force ever. And 40 yrs on theres still no one that can touch him.We miss you so much. JIMI'S THEE GREATEST!

not the first but the best (2007-09-29)

one day i woke and discovered that axis was the best hendrix album.I got fed up with the riff based songs on 'are you experienced'. Most of that album seems really commercial to me,it does not work as whole album but a collection of songs where as axis is cohesive as whole. It opens with a jarring insrumental ipersonationg a flying saucer and seques into 'up from the skies'. It is great song that predicts global warming decades before anyone else. It has superb jazz feel.Next is 'spanish castle magic' with great lyrics and a rocker of amazing frenzy. One song follows another till we reach the masterpiece 'little wing'.The opening by even hendrix standard is superb as well as a great love song . If six was nine is three songs in one and ends with an inredible freak out ending with not guitar but flutes. The energy is maintained on the hard and poppy 'you got me floating'. the song is an amazing feel good song which makes the next song feel so unusal on this album.'castles made of sand' makes you come down to earth with three stories of ironies of life. Noel redding song is another piece which grounds the album. the remaining songs lift it up again particularly 'bold as love' which is one of the great hendrix tracks.What makes this album so special among hendrix albums is that no singles were released. I think it is the greatest hendrix album. buy it.

Let me live my life the way I want to (2007-08-23)

Intriguingly poised between the raw power of "Experienced" and the first two singles, and the sprawling, flawed masterpiece of "Ladyland", this album shows the Experience flexing their muscles and enjoying it. It produced no singles during Jimi's lifetime, other than the rather odd decision by Reprise in the USA to release Up From the Skies and One Rainy Wish (which barely grazed the Hot 100). The stand-out tracks are Little Wing and If Six Was Nine, one of the many inspired selections for the Easy Rider soundtrack. There is real feeling in Castles Made of Sand, a song of broken dreams. However a strong aspect of many tracks is Jimi's sly sense of humour. How many people could write a song with such a dark theme as "Wait Until Tomorrow" and still leave you smiling?The album includes Noel Redding's first Experience composition, She's So Fine - not up to Jimi's standard, musically or lyrically, but more memorable than many songs from other groups of the era. It's not hard to detect the "influences" which were at work during recording sessions, but unlike many bands of the period the Experience don't allow this to dent the quality of their work. Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.Underpinning everything is the smooth, confident drumming of Mitch Mitchell. This album has enough quiet tracks for him to demonstrate his subtlety, and on Up From the Skies he even gets the chance to go back to his jazz roots. As a transitional album, with less pyrotechnics than usual, this may be a surprise to many new listeners, but give it a try - it's well worth it.

Moo (2007-02-10)

The middle of the three Experience albums, 'Axis: Bold As Love' shows Hendrix at his most laid back. Whilst less well-regarded than their other two efforts ('Are You Experienced' and 'Elecric Ladyland') it is a sublime effort, with a wide range of styles that showed Hendrix growing both musically and lyrically.The album kicks off with the unusual 'EXP', with drummer Mitch Mitchell posing as a radio presenter rudely interviewing Jimi posing as Paul Carusoe, an expert on alien life. Hendrix's guitar then takes over, and God only knows how he can make those noises. 'Up From The Skies' is the earlies use of a wah-wah pedal (I think - certainly Hendrix was the first to use it) and is a sublime classic that is far too often overlooked.'Spanish Castle Magic' is a heavier song, showing Hendrix's range, and has some of best lyrics, too. 'Wait Until Tomorrow' bears the influence of soulsters like Curtis Mayfield, and 'Ain't No Telling' is the shortest song in the Hendrix canon (and there are many.)'Little Wing' is beautiful, a true classic, but the solo is far better live. 'If 6 Was 9' is the longest song on the album (over five minutes) and is so cool it's unbelievable.'You Got Me Floatin'' is Hendrix cruising, but 'Castles Made Of Sand' is yet another classic. 'She's So Fine' is Noel Redding's contribution, sounds like Cream but it's better than Cream. 'One Rainy Wish' and 'Little Miss Lover' are good, and the closing 'Bold As Love' has one of the best guitar solos ever. 'Axis: Bold As Love' may take a few listens, but when it hits you, you realise that Hendrix's talent knew no bounds. The solos, the lyrics, the riffs, the mastery of effects pedals - he had it all and more. He really was the best ever.

Fly On Little Wing (2006-04-08)

Although not as aclaimed as either of the other Experience albums ("Are You Experienced?" and "Electric Landlady") this middle installment is as good as their other offerings. Jimi's guitar work is masterfull (as ever), but this album focuses much more on a general funcky groove throughout, rather than building songs around HEndrix's daziling guitar solo's. Jimi's singing is more soulful than ever (it's hard to beleive that he didn't like his own voice).

The album opens with the weird and wacky "EXP", which isn't very good musically (at all), but Hendrix's crazy guitar squeels make up for that as they fly around ur skull as if they were a spaceship of some kind. The next track, "Up From The Skies" is not outstanding, but has a nice groove to it. "Spanish Castle Magic" just simply rocks from the jarring opening riff to the wailing guitars fading out at the end. "Wait Until Tomorrow" is a funkier offering with a nice little story, and u'll be singing the slightly annoying chorus for weeks on end. "Ain't No Telling" is a slightly more up tempo song, with some nice funcky guitar, base and drums. The next track is a masterpeice (and probably Hendrix's best song). "Little Wing" has it all, good lyrics, some of the best guitar work ever (is it lead? is it rythem? who knows) and the solo is just brilliant, it'll raise the hairs on the back of ur neck in the short time it's playing. "If 6 was 9" has a main riff that Black Sabbath would be proud of, and some crazy, provokotive lyrics that lead into a strange psychedelic middle section that circles around ur head endlessly. "You've Got Me Floating" brings the album back to a funkier sound with some real good guitar (strangly). "Castles Made Of Sand" is a brilliant rock ballad with yet again, some far out lyrics. "She's So Fine" is Noel Readings contribution to the album, and so the base is good and the songs quite popy compaired to the rest. "One Rainy Wish" is another brilliant HEndrix ballad. "Little Miss Lover" starts with a good drum beat, and keeps the funcky tempo through out the whole song. "Bold As Love" makes sure that the album ends on a high, with a soreing solo at the end that will give you shivers.

Good album - get if it u love Hendrix. (wear head phones when listening for god's sake!)

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